Techonomy 17

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Techonomy 17

Nov 5, 2017 ET

“The idea that fake news on Facebook…influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea,” said Mark Zuckerberg onstage at Techonomy 2016. He has subsequently recanted, but there is a reason his notorious words were uttered here. We are probing.

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Techonomy 17

November 5, 2017

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This conference, unlike others, puts the change-making leaders and thinkers on stage and pushes them to go further, so business and social leaders can gain deeper understanding. It’s where leaders come to explore how tech changes everything, and get answers. If you’ve never been to Techonomy, click here to view the four-minute video about our conference, or request an invitation to Techonomy 2017, November 5-7 at the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay.

Techonomy events are a unique blend of highly curated programming and room-wide dialogue, in combination with lots of networking. We bring together the top thinkers, executives, and entrepreneurs. It’s a fertile environment for collaboration and discussion, all focused on tech’s shocking and unassailable impact on business and society. How can any leader not be worrying about that these days? Our events are highly interactive. We don’t believe in a broadcast format. We want discussion. To ensure great dialogue, we curate who we invite and end up with a uniquely diverse, extremely stimulating group.

This year’s theme, The Convergence of Man and Machine, offers a framework to explore artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, robotics, and global connectivity, among other topics. The program includes probing onstage interviews, short talks, thoughtfully curated panels, and interactive breakout sessions.

You’ve heard about speakers like Verizon’s Lowell McAdam and Cisco’s John Chambers, but here are more unique elements in our deeply-considered, highly-curated program:

the chief scientist at Amazon’s Alexa group joined by an interface expert who left Facebook to work on brain interfaces, plus a top sociologist, on people vs. machines
the biological technologies chief at DARPA
multiple discussions about the “new hegemonists”—Amazon, Facebook, and Google—the world they create, authority, privacy, and fake news
A session on The Blockchain Economy
Beth Comstock of GE with former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker
CEO Mark Bertolini of Aetna, on Obamacare and American health (plus author Dean Ornish, Oscar CEO Mario Schlosser, and others driving that topic further)
Campbell Soup CEO Denise Morrison on the future of food
Journalists Steven Levy of Backchannel and The New York Times’ Nathaniel Popper & Katie Benner
A session on autonomous vehicles, both cars and drones
Rolling Stone‘s Jeff Goodell on climate change and the coming world of water
Can AI Save Democracy? plus more on elections, government, & tech

Our participants represent all aspects of our society. From CEOs to university chancellors, business and engineering school deans to corporate Chief Innovation and Information Officers, Techonomy’s audience is as diverse as it is deep.

Speaker submissions for Techonomy 2017 are closed. If you would like to suggest a speaker for Techonomy’s 2018 events, please email speakers@techonomy.com.

Speakers

Lowell McAdam

CEO, Verizon

John Chambers

Founder and CEO, JC2 Ventures

Beth Comstock

Vice Chair, GE

Mark Bertolini

Dean Ornish

President and Director, Preventive Medicine Research Institute

Mario Schlosser

Co-founder and Co-CEO, Oscar

Denise Morrison

President and CEO, Campbell Soup Company

Steven Levy

Editor-in-Chief, Backchannel

Nathaniel Popper

Reporter, The New York Times

Katie Benner

Writer, The New York Times

Jeff Goodell

Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone

All Sessions

Play all 41 sessions

Business + Innovation

Rethinking Food Tech

November 13, 2017

Session Description: Climate change and population growth are ratcheting up pressure on food producers for smart-ag innovations to address problems that lie ahead and redress past mistakes.

Business + Innovation

Rethinking Food Tech

Business + Innovation

Metagenomics: Ensuring Food Safety & Supply

Government + Policy

The New Reality for the Future of Work

Business + Innovation

The Cybersecurity of Sports: How Technology Interferes With Game Integrity and Fan Safety

Business + Innovation

Want Truly Intelligent Machines? Better Study the Brain.

Business + Innovation

Understanding Government in the 21st Century

Business + Innovation

Voice is the New Touch

Business + Innovation

Ingenuity vs. Innovation: The Rise of the Human Element

Business + Innovation

Nowhere to Hide

Business + Innovation

IBM’s John Kelly on AI, Cognitive Computing & Security

Business + Innovation

A Conversation With Beth Comstock and Penny Pritzker

Media + Marketing

A Conversation with MAX

Business + Innovation

Campbell Soup CEO Denise Morrison on Food, Tech & Nutrition

Business + Innovation

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam on 5G & Digital Inclusion

Business + Innovation

Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost on the Obligation of Business

Business + Innovation

C-Sky Microsystems CEO on A View from China

Business + Innovation

Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini on Healthcare & Capitalism

Business + Innovation

The Future of Brain-Machine Interfaces

Business + Innovation

Can We Handle the Coming Convergence of Man and Machine?

Media + Marketing

Retail’s Rubicon

Business + Innovation

The Path to Autonomous Mobility

Business + Innovation

Extending Reality

Ethics + Responsibility

Should Data Ownership be a Civil Right?

Ethics + Responsibility

Advancing Global Health With Tech

Business + Innovation

How Connectivity, Community, and Diet Transform Your Health

Business + Innovation

3-D Technology is Advancing Personalized Health

Government + Policy

What Can Be Done About the Rising Cost of Care?

Climate + Sustainability

Eat Well, Move More, Stress Less, Love More: The Healing Power of Lifestyle Medicine

Business + Innovation

The Uncertain, Unstable, Changing Nature of Work

Reckoning With the New Hegemonists

Ethics + Responsibility

What is Authority in a Networked, Artificially Intelligent World?

Business + Innovation

The Internet Under Attack

Business + Innovation

The Blockchain Economy

Business + Innovation

Can Tech and Government Save Democracy?

Business + Innovation

Leadership Breakfast Session

Business + Innovation

How AI Can Save Democracy

Business + Innovation

The Topsy-Turvy World of Media

Ethics + Responsibility

Confronting Net Content Manipulation Head-On

Climate + Sustainability

The Climate: Water Will Rise Worldwide

Business + Innovation

How Tech is Remaking the Construction Industry

Business + Innovation

Disrupting Cities: What We Can Learn From Past Attempts at Urban Innovation

Techonomy 17 Highlights

Agenda

Day 1 (Nov 5, Sunday) Day 2 (Nov 6, Monday) Day 3 (Nov 7, Tuesday)

10:00 am

Registration Opens

11:00 - 2:00 pm

Social + Networking Activities

Coastal Bike Tour, Golf Clinic

2:45 - 5:50 pm

Opening Sessions

2:45 pm

Welcome

Josh Kampel

CEO, Worth Media Group

David Kirkpatrick

Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy

Simone Ross

Co-founder and Chief Program Officer, Techonomy

3:00 pm

Can We Handle the Coming Convergence of Man and Machine?

Benjamin H. Bratton

Professor, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego

Mary Lou Jepsen

Founder and CEO, Openwater

Tessa Lau

CTO and Chief Robot Whisperer, Savioke

Rohit Prasad

Vice President and Head Scientist -- Alexa Machine Learning, Amazon

David Kirkpatrick

Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy

3:45 pm

The Future of Brain-Machine Interfaces

Justin Sanchez

Director, Biological Technologies Office, DARPA

4:00 pm

A Conversation with Beth Comstock and Penny Pritzker

Beth Comstock

Vice Chair, GE

Penny Pritzker

Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce

David Kirkpatrick

Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy

4:25 pm

Reckoning with the New Hegemonists

Mark Mahaney

Managing Director, Internet, RBC Capital Markets

Dave Morgan

Chief Executive Officer, Simulmedia, Inc.

Joyce Vance

Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Law, The University of Alabama

David Kirkpatrick

Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy

5:05 pm

How Connectivity, Community, and Diet Transform Your Health

Dean Ornish

President and Director, Preventive Medicine Research Institute

5:15 pm

180° Shift Talks on the nexus of tech & food

Rethinking Food Tech

Amanda Little

Professor - Journalism, Vanderbilt University

Metagenomics: Ensuring Food Safety & Supply

Jeff Welser

Vice President - IBM Research, IBM

5:25 pm

Feed Me

Denise Morrison

President and CEO, Campbell Soup Company

Amanda Little

Professor - Journalism, Vanderbilt University

5:50 pm

Opening Sessions Wrap

6:00 pm

Reception

Hosted by Verizon

7:00 pm

Dinner

Hosted by Accenture

8:45 pm

What is Your Biggest Hope or Fear for the World?

A room-wide dialogue

Yvonne Cagle

Chief Scientist / Astronaut, NASA

Dan’l Lewin

Board Advisor

Xiaoning Qi

CEO, C-SKY Microsystems

Rangu Salgame

CEO and Chairman, Princeton Growth Ventures

7:00 am

Registration Opens

Johnson & Johnson Well-Being Workout

A new holistic training experience for your mind, body and spirit. This 30-minute class will build physical fitness, mental resilience, and a sense of calm and optimism.

7:15 am

Breakfast Session

Eat Well, Move More, Stress Less, Love More: The Healing Power of Lifestyle Medicine

Dean Ornish

President and Director, Preventive Medicine Research Institute

8:30 - 10:45 am

Morning Sessions

8:30 am

Welcome

8:45 am

Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness, and America's Challenge

A conversation

-Break-

11:15 am

Lunch

1:30 pm

Switch Break

2:45 - 5:45 pm

Afternoon Sessions

2:45 pm

Good Afternoon

3:00 pm

Afternoon Sessions Conclude

6:00 am

Reception

Hosted by IBM

6:45 pm

Dinner

Hosted by Philips

9:00 pm

Evening Performance and Interview with singer/songwriter MAX

Max

Singer and Songwriter

7:00 am

Registration Opens

Johnson & Johnson Well-Being Workout

A new holistic training experience for your mind, body and spirit. This 30-minute class will build physical fitness, mental resilience, and a sense of calm and optimism.

7:45 - 8:45 am