Techonomy 12

Nov 11, 2012

Insurgency and Opportunity: Companies, Countries, and Communities

Techonomy focuses on how the exponential pace of technology progress makes possible a new world. A wave of accelerating change driven by technology’s advance is washing over our lives, bringing great potential for business and social progress.

We believe business in every industry has the potential to grasp hold of the transformative changes happening because of the network and other tech innovations. And we know the world requires transformation–that a planet with billions of uneducated, malnourished, unhealthy, disenfranchised people cannot be sustained. Tech-driven innovation, driven by business, can help address those inequities.

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Techonomy 12

November 11, 2012 - November 13, 2012

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Insurgency and Opportunity: Companies, Countries, and Communities

Our goal at Techonomy is to help leaders and innovators better understand how to anticipate and harness this power rather than be blindsided by it. Tech-driven change demands different ways of thinking, different kinds of management, and new pathways to profit and wealth.

Social, mobile, and cloud technologies, along with a vast accumulation of measurable and actionable data, are opening new arenas of human endeavor. Meanwhile, we see an unstoppable empowerment of the individual, with implications for government, business, product development, education, and even finance. The Techonomy conference convenes discussions among leaders about these challenges and opportunities. We believe every leader must focus on the implications of technology change.

We gather a diversity of expert voices for a multidisciplinary dialogue about creating a better future. We encourage active participation by all.

Speakers

Linda Boland Abraham

Chief Marketing Officer, comScore

Pam Alexander

Matt Anchin

Vice President and Chief Communications Officer, Consumer Reports

Mark Anderson

Founder and CEO, Strategic News Service

Ryan Anderson

Director of Future Technology, Herman Miller, Inc.

Dana Beth Ardi

Managing Director, Corporate Anthropology Advisors

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Business + Innovation

Gordon Bell: The Uploaded Life

November 13, 2012

Gordon Bell, principal researcher at the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Laboratory, talks with Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick about his work on “lifelogging.” Read excerpts from the conversation below, or download the full transcript. Kirkpatrick: Gordon has done so many things in the technology industry and shown an uncanny ability to stay in the present. He worked at the National Science Foundation and played a major role in the development of the early Internet itself. But particularly in the last decade, he’s really focused in on this issue of how we as individuals take advantage of technology. So I want to just ask you, as a way of getting at that, to describe the device that’s hanging around your neck, Gordon, and then we can maybe get into what you’ve been up to. Bell: OK, this is a thing called a SenseCam, and it was invented or developed by Lyndsay Williams, who was at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. And I’ll say she was an inventor, and had the idea of having this camera that she’d wear all the time so that you would be able to say where did I put my glasses or my keys or something like that. Kirkpatrick: Sow often does that take a picture? Bell: Every 20 seconds. Then you upload the series, so you get this sort of frames of what you did during the day. Of course I look at it as a software sponge, because it takes so much software to get to do all of the things you...