TE15: Re-Humanizing Society
Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing robots, and innumerable business models being destroyed.
TE15: Re-Humanizing Society
Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing robots, and innumerable business models being destroyed.
We believe tech holds enormous promise for society’s advancement. But to advocate for tech means also to take responsibility for the maintenance of values–how can we remain, or become, a people-centered world of amity and brotherhood as tech transforms everything around us? Yes, we see the risk of people dehumanized, reduced to numbers, becoming interchangeable cogs on an ever-more-efficient assembly line of production and output. But we think more likely, if we work for it, is that we are on the cusp of an era of tech-enabled empowerment, connection, triumph and imagination, a time when tech asserts itself as a truly re-humanizing force.
A key challenge today: With so many creative entrepreneurs and every company trying to become a tech company, how can we insure the resulting innovation benefits people rather than just helping businesses find new ways to make money?
Our conference program integrates a number of different formats, allowing for engaging dialogue and discussion throughout.
Professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Purisima Creek Redwood Preserve Hike
Coastal Bike Ride
Golf Clinic on the Old Course at Half Moon Bay
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
A troop of Techonomists ignite our conversations with downloads of their biggest concerns and best ideas about tech's potential and perils.
Chief Economist and Executive Director of Global Market Insight, GE
Congressional Candidate for U.S. Congress, Forde.com
Co-founder and President, Impassion Afghanistan
Executive Chair of the Board, Kiva
Executive Director on Innovation and Co-founder, UNICEF Innovation
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
Three minutes. One idea. Reimagine. Reconsider. Rethink.
Co-founder and CEO, NewMe Accelerator
Co-founder and Chief Executive, Modern Meadow
President, Americas, Google Inc.
Chief Executive, Daily Mail and General Trust Plc (DMGT)
Managing Director, Head of Digital Business for Europe, Africa and Latin America, Accenture Digital
Director of Product, Facebook
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
Co-founder and CEO, Magisto
Chief Scientist, Yahoo!
Co-founder and Executive Chair, Socos
Partner, Accompli
Hosted by McKinsey & Company
Hosted by Ericsson
Medicine, Economic Policy, Activism, and the Future: A Conversation with Sean Parker
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
Coastal Bike Ride
Sunrise Yoga
Co-founder and President, Impassion Afghanistan
Chairman, Re:Imagine Group
President and CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology
Chief Strategy Officer, Local Circles
Researcher, Facebook
Co-founder, eParachute
In association with Omidyar Network
Congressional Candidate for U.S. Congress, Forde.com
President and CEO, Cignifi
SVP, Financial Services Alternative Data, TransUnion
Founder and Chairman, Lenddo
Partner, Omidyar Network
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
Three minutes. One idea. Reimagine. Reconsider. Rethink.
Deputy Director, Democracy Program at Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law
Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce
Founder and CEO, JC2 Ventures
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce
CEO Connected Care & Health Informatics, Philips
Hosted by Steelcase
Professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
Co-founder and CEO, Magisto
Professor and Laboratory Head, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Digital Science Editor, Wall Street Journal
Chief Executive Officer, Darktrace
President and CEO, BSA | The Software Alliance
Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Chief Security Officer, Rackspace
Head of Global Information Security Strategy and Implementation, Barclays
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Collaboration and IoT Technology Group, Cisco
President and CEO, D-Wave Systems
Advanced Technology Consultant, Berberian & Company
Senior Manager, Physical Sciences, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Chief Information Officer, Ziff Brothers Investments
Co-founder and CEO, NewMe Accelerator
Co-founder, eParachute
Chief Technology Officer, Mindjet
Founder and CEO, Unitive
Partner, McKinsey & Company
Hosted by Ford
Chief Economist and Executive Director of Global Market Insight, GE
Senior Vice President and Director of Fidelity Labs, Fidelity Investments
Global Head of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, Visa
SVP, and Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Medtronic
Founder, The Progress Network
Senior Vice President, Product Management, Quantcast
Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Sentient Technologies
Chairman and Founder, Rocket Fuel
Founder and CEO, Betterment
Senior Writer, Wired
Independent Director & Advisor
Vice President and CMO, Johnson Controls
Group Chief Executive, Accenture Digital
Executive Vice President, Technology, Visa
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
Three minutes. One idea. Reimagine. Reconsider. Rethink.
Founder and CEO, Decoded Fashion
Creative Director, Ginkgo Bioworks
Principal Investigator and Director, Open Agriculture Initiative, MIT Media Lab
Google DeepMind
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
Three minutes. One idea. Reimagine. Reconsider. Rethink.
Head of Digital Development, Boliden
SVP and Global Head of Marketing & Digital, Hilton Worldwide
Chief Technology Officer, Ericsson
Partner, McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey & Company
4:30pm: Futurist, scientist, author and musician Jaron Lanier will offer his opinions on tech’s continuing role in driving humanity forward.
4:50pm: Steve Jurvetson of DFJ and Colin Blakemore of the University of London join to discuss what, from art to AI and from farming to pharma, they’re most excited about and what keeps them up at night.
5:20pm: Q&A
Hosted by Accenture Digital
Hosted by Visa
An interview with and performance
Musician, Producer and Independent Artist
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
Sunrise Yoga
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
Special Advisor, Silver Lake
Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente
Three minutes. One idea. Reimagine. Reconsider. Rethink.
Founder and CEO, Open Source Robotics Foundation
CEO and Co-founder, Efficient Power Conversion
Senior Manager, Physical Sciences, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University
Executive Director, Biomimicry Institute
Director, Hardware and IoT, O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Chairman, The Hidary Foundation
Co-founder and CEO, Leap Motion
Vice President, Sales and Business Development, DAQRI
Rear Admiral USN (RET), United States Navy
Founder and CEO, Openwater
Chairman and CEO, Salesforce
Executive Vice President, IoT Cloud, Salesforce
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
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