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Techonomy 15
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.
Techonomy 15
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.
Speakers
Sir Colin Blakemore
Professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Business + Innovation
180 Shift: Liz Bacelar- Fashion vs. Tech
November 12, 2015
Fashion vs. Tech: Who Will Come Out on Top? A traditional industry needing “saving” has become a leader for bytes, bricks and silicon.
Business + Innovation
180 Shift: Liz Bacelar- Fashion vs. Tech
Business + Innovation
180 Shift: Angela Benton
Business + Innovation
180 Shift: At the Crossroads of Tech and Identity (Benjamin De Kosnik)
Business + Innovation
180 Shift: Cultured Meat – Imitation or Innovation? (Andras Forgacs)
Business + Innovation
180 Shift: Brian Gerkey on open source robotics
Climate + Sustainability
180 Shift: Bugs, Brains, and Business (Deborah Gordon)
Business + Innovation
180 Shift: Material Miracles (Alex Lidow)
Government + Policy
180 Shift: Tony Marx of NY Public Library
Ethics + Responsibility
180 Shift: How Much Is Your Vote Really Worth? (Lawrence Norden)
Business + Innovation
180 Shift: Mark Ritter on Quantum Computing
Climate + Sustainability
Hunger, Health and the Future of Food
Business + Innovation
The Imitating Nature Game
Business + Innovation
Facebook’s Adam Mosseri
Business + Innovation
A Conversation with Sean Parker
Business + Innovation
DARPA’s Arati Prabhakar
Business + Innovation
Salesforce’s Benioff & Bosworth
Business + Innovation
John Chen & Bernard Tyson – Optimus Prime: The CEO As Transformer
Business + Innovation
The Digital Economy
Business + Innovation
The Digital Economy: Laying the Groundwork
Business + Innovation
Catch Me If You Can
Media + Marketing
Incumbents and Upstarts: Media
Business + Innovation
Beyond Silicon Valley
Business + Innovation
Change Is a Corporate Asset
Business + Innovation
The Right Now Movement
Business + Innovation
The Future of Reality
Business + Innovation
Human Values for a Technologized Age
Business + Innovation
Gods in Boxes: Vivienne Ming
Business + Innovation
Jaron Lanier: Are We Optimizing the Future?
Business + Innovation
Tech + Innovation – Intentionality = Inequality
Business + Innovation
The Economic Impact of Digital Innovation
Business + Innovation
Qiming Venture Partners on the Potential of Tech in China
Ethics + Responsibility
Jessi Hempel on Tech and Empathy
Business + Innovation
Privacy, Cybersecurity and Freedom of Expression
Ethics + Responsibility
Social Media in a Low Tech, High Conflict Environment: Afghanistan
Government + Policy
Fusion 2015
Business + Innovation
John Hagel: What Business Can Learn from Social Movements
Business + Innovation
Do a Moonshot: Jack Hidary
Business + Innovation
Next 3 Billion
Business + Innovation
180 Shift: Liz Bacelar- Fashion vs. Tech
November 12, 2015
Fashion vs. Tech: Who Will Come Out on Top? A traditional industry needing “saving” has become a leader for bytes, bricks and silicon.
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Business + Innovation
180 Shift: Liz Bacelar- Fashion vs. Tech
Business + Innovation
180 Shift: Angela Benton
Business + Innovation
180 Shift: At the Crossroads of Tech and Identity (Benjamin De Kosnik)
Business + Innovation
180 Shift: Cultured Meat – Imitation or Innovation? (Andras Forgacs)
Business + Innovation
180 Shift: Brian Gerkey on open source robotics
Climate + Sustainability
180 Shift: Bugs, Brains, and Business (Deborah Gordon)
Business + Innovation
180 Shift: Material Miracles (Alex Lidow)
Government + Policy
180 Shift: Tony Marx of NY Public Library
Ethics + Responsibility
180 Shift: How Much Is Your Vote Really Worth? (Lawrence Norden)
Business + Innovation
180 Shift: Mark Ritter on Quantum Computing
Climate + Sustainability
Hunger, Health and the Future of Food
Business + Innovation
The Imitating Nature Game
Business + Innovation
Facebook’s Adam Mosseri
Business + Innovation
A Conversation with Sean Parker
Business + Innovation
DARPA’s Arati Prabhakar
Business + Innovation
Salesforce’s Benioff & Bosworth
Business + Innovation
John Chen & Bernard Tyson – Optimus Prime: The CEO As Transformer
Business + Innovation
The Digital Economy
Business + Innovation
The Digital Economy: Laying the Groundwork
Business + Innovation
Catch Me If You Can
Media + Marketing
Incumbents and Upstarts: Media
Business + Innovation
Beyond Silicon Valley
Business + Innovation
Change Is a Corporate Asset
Business + Innovation
The Right Now Movement
Business + Innovation
The Future of Reality
Business + Innovation
Human Values for a Technologized Age
Business + Innovation
Gods in Boxes: Vivienne Ming
Business + Innovation
Jaron Lanier: Are We Optimizing the Future?
Business + Innovation
Tech + Innovation – Intentionality = Inequality
Business + Innovation
The Economic Impact of Digital Innovation
Business + Innovation
Qiming Venture Partners on the Potential of Tech in China
Ethics + Responsibility
Jessi Hempel on Tech and Empathy
Business + Innovation
Privacy, Cybersecurity and Freedom of Expression
Ethics + Responsibility
Social Media in a Low Tech, High Conflict Environment: Afghanistan
Government + Policy
Fusion 2015
Business + Innovation
John Hagel: What Business Can Learn from Social Movements
Business + Innovation
Do a Moonshot: Jack Hidary
Business + Innovation
Next 3 Billion
Agenda
10:00 am
Registration Opens
- 3:00 pm
Recreation and Mind-Clearing Activities
Purisima Creek Redwood Preserve Hike
Coastal Bike Ride
Golf Clinic on the Old Course at Half Moon Bay
3:30 - 3:40 pm
Welcome
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
3:40 - 4:10 pm
Fusion
A troop of Techonomists ignite our conversations with downloads of their biggest concerns and best ideas about tech's potential and perils.
Marco Annunziata
Chief Economist and Executive Director of Global Market Insight, GE
Brian Forde
Congressional Candidate for U.S. Congress, Forde.com
Eileen Guo
Co-founder and President, Impassion Afghanistan
4:10 - 4:50 pm
Human Values for a Technologized Age
Julie Hanna
Executive Chair of the Board, Kiva
Erica Kochi
Executive Director on Innovation and Co-founder, UNICEF Innovation
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
4:50 - 5:00 pm
180º Shifts
Three minutes. One idea. Reimagine. Reconsider. Rethink.
Cultured Meat: Imitation or Innovation?
Andras Forgacs
Co-founder and Chief Executive, Modern Meadow
5:00 - 5:20 pm
Incumbents and Upstarts: Media
Margo Georgiadis
President, Americas, Google Inc.
Martin Morgan
Chief Executive, Daily Mail and General Trust Plc (DMGT)
Narry Singh
Managing Director, Head of Digital Business for Europe, Africa and Latin America, Accenture Digital
5:20 - 5:40 pm
Algorithms and Values at Facebook
Adam Mosseri
Director of Product, Facebook
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
5:40 - 6:15 pm
Gods in Boxes: Almighty Algorithms and Hidden Values
Oren Boiman
Co-founder and CEO, Magisto
Ronald J. Brachman
Chief Scientist, Yahoo!
Vivienne Ming
Co-founder and Executive Chair, Socos
Stratford Sherman
Partner, Accompli
6:15 - 7:00 pm
Opening Night Reception
Hosted by McKinsey & Company
7:15 - 8:45 pm
Dinner
Hosted by Ericsson
8:45 pm
Medicine, Economic Policy, Activism, and the Future: A Conversation with Sean Parker
Medicine, Economic Policy, Activism, and the Future: A Conversation with Sean Parker
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
7:00 am
Registration Opens
7:00 - 8:15 am
Morning Activities
Coastal Bike Ride
Sunrise Yoga
7:00 - 8:15 am
Breakfast Sessions
Self-Assembling Societies: Organizing for Action
Eileen Guo
Co-founder and President, Impassion Afghanistan
Peter Hirshberg
Chairman, Re:Imagine Group
Nuala O’Connor
President and CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology
Yatish Rajawat
Chief Strategy Officer, Local Circles
Sarah Vieweg
Researcher, Facebook
Gary A. Bolles
Co-founder, eParachute
A More Equitable Distribution of Wealth: Smart Data, Better Credit
In association with Omidyar Network
Brian Forde
Congressional Candidate for U.S. Congress, Forde.com
Jonathan Hakim
President and CEO, Cignifi
Mike Mondelli
SVP, Financial Services Alternative Data, TransUnion
Jeff Stewart
Founder and Chairman, Lenddo
8:15 - 8:30 am
Switch Break
8:30 am
Welcome to Day Two
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
8:40 - 9:05 am
Brainworks I: Man and Machine
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
9:05 - 9:15 am
180º Shifts
Three minutes. One idea. Reimagine. Reconsider. Rethink.
How Much Is Your Vote Really Worth?
Lawrence Norden
Deputy Director, Democracy Program at Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law
Bugs, Brains and Business
Deborah M. Gordon
Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University
9:15 - 10:30 am
9:25am: The Government’s Perspective
Penny Pritzker
Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce
9:45am: The Corporate View
John Chambers
Founder and CEO, JC2 Ventures
Penny Pritzker
Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce
Jeroen Tas
CEO Connected Care & Health Informatics, Philips
10:15am: Q&A
10:30 - 11:00 am
Break
Hosted by Steelcase
11:00 - 12:00 pm
Techonomy Labs
Brainworks II: Senses and Sensibility
Sir Colin Blakemore
Professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
Oren Boiman
Co-founder and CEO, Magisto
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Professor and Laboratory Head, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Catch Me If You Can
Nicole Eagan
Chief Executive Officer, Darktrace
Victoria A. Espinel
President and CEO, BSA | The Software Alliance
David J. Johnson
Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Brian Kelly
Chief Security Officer, Rackspace
Rowan Trollope
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Collaboration and IoT Technology Group, Cisco
Quantum Computing: Fast Forward to the Next Frontier
Vern Brownell
President and CEO, D-Wave Systems
Bryan Jacobs
Advanced Technology Consultant, Berberian & Company
Mark Ritter
Senior Manager, Physical Sciences, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Michael J. Miller
Chief Information Officer, Ziff Brothers Investments
Scouting for Talent, Digging for Diversity
Gary A. Bolles
Co-founder, eParachute
James Gardner
Chief Technology Officer, Mindjet
Laura Mather
Founder and CEO, Unitive
Lareina Yee
Partner, McKinsey & Company
12:00 - 1:15 pm
Lunch
Hosted by Ford
1:30 - 2:15 pm
In Parallel
Beyond Silicon Valley
Marco Annunziata
Chief Economist and Executive Director of Global Market Insight, GE
Sean Belka
Senior Vice President and Director of Fidelity Labs, Fidelity Investments
Jim McCarthy
Global Head of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, Visa
Ken Washington
SVP, and Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Medtronic
Zachary Karabell
Founder, The Progress Network
Brainworks III: Intelligent Business Machines
Jag Duggal
Senior Vice President, Product Management, Quantcast
Babak Hodjat
Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Sentient Technologies
George John
Chairman and Founder, Rocket Fuel
Jon Stein
Founder and CEO, Betterment
Jessi Hempel
Senior Writer, Wired
2:15 - 2:30 pm
Switch Break
2:30 - 3:10 pm
Change Is a Corporate Asset
James Barrese
Independent Director & Advisor
Kim Metcalf-Kupres
Vice President and CMO, Johnson Controls
Mike Sutcliff
Group Chief Executive, Accenture Digital
Rajat Taneja
Executive Vice President, Technology, Visa
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
3:10 - 3:15 pm
180º Shifts
Three minutes. One idea. Reimagine. Reconsider. Rethink.
Fashion vs. Tech: Who Will Come Out on Top?
Liz Bacelar
Founder and CEO, Decoded Fashion
3:15 - 3:55 pm
Hunger, Health and the Future of Food
Christina Agapakis
Creative Director, Ginkgo Bioworks
Caleb Harper
Principal Investigator and Director, Open Agriculture Initiative, MIT Media Lab
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
3:55 - 4:00 pm
180º Shift
Three minutes. One idea. Reimagine. Reconsider. Rethink.
4:00 - 4:30 pm
The Right Now Movement: Mobility Transforms Industry
Peter Burman
Head of Digital Development, Boliden
Geraldine Calpin
SVP and Global Head of Marketing & Digital, Hilton Worldwide
Erik Ekudden
Chief Technology Officer, Ericsson
Michael Chui
Partner, McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey & Company
4:30 - 5:30 pm
Are We Optimizing the Future?
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
6:15 - 7:00 pm
Reception
Hosted by Accenture Digital
7:15 - 8:45 pm
Dinner
Hosted by Visa
8:45 pm
Evening Performance with Chuck Prophet
An interview with and performance
Chuck Prophet
Musician, Producer and Independent Artist
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
7:00 am
Registration Opens
7:00 - 8:00 am
General Breakfast & Morning Activity
Sunrise Yoga
7:30 - 8:45 am
Breakfast Session
What We’ve Learned
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
8:45 - 9:00 am
Switch Break
9:00 - 9:10 am
Welcome Back
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
9:10 - 9:40 am
9:50 - 10:00 am
180º Shifts
Three minutes. One idea. Reimagine. Reconsider. Rethink.
Open, Sesame
Brian Gerkey
Founder and CEO, Open Source Robotics Foundation
Material Miracles
Alex Lidow
CEO and Co-founder, Efficient Power Conversion
Quantum Leaps
Mark Ritter
Senior Manager, Physical Sciences, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
10:00 - 10:25 am
The Imitating Nature Game
Deborah M. Gordon
Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University
Beth Rattner
Executive Director, Biomimicry Institute
Jon Bruner
Director, Hardware and IoT, O’Reilly Media, Inc.
10:25 - 10:30 am
Do a Moonshot
Jack Hidary
Chairman, The Hidary Foundation
10:30 - 10:35 am
10:35 - 11:15 am
The Future of Reality: Will Seeing be Believing?
Michael Buckwald
Co-founder and CEO, Leap Motion
Glen Fields
Vice President, Sales and Business Development, DAQRI
James Robb
Rear Admiral USN (RET), United States Navy
Mary Lou Jepsen
Founder and CEO, Openwater
11:15 - 12:00 pm
Customer Connection is the Heart of the Internet of Things
Adam Bosworth
Executive Vice President, IoT Cloud, Salesforce
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
12:00 pm
Closing Remarks
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