Agenda subject to change
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10:00 AM
TE16 REGISTRATION OPENS
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12:00 - 2:15 PM
SOCIAL & NETWORKING ACTIVITIES
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3:00 PM
Welcome to TE16
David Kirkpatrick – Techonomy
Josh Kampel – Techonomy
Simone Ross – Techonomy -
3:15 PM
Fusion
Techonomists ignite our conversations with their biggest concerns and ideas about tech’s potential and perils.
José-Marie Griffiths, Dakota State University
Andrew Lowery, RealWear, Inc.
Marlin Page, FCA Fiat Chrysler Automobiles & Sisters Code
Roger Pilc, Pitney Bowes
Gary Rieschel, Qiming Venture Partners
Shunee Yee, CSOFT International, Ltd.
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3:35 PM
We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: People, Power and Politics After the Tornado
Join business and government leaders as they analyze and evaluate the political revolution of 2016 and predict its implications for the future of the United States and the world.
Dave Morgan, Simulmedia, Inc.
Tony Scott, Office of Management and Budget | The White House
Moderator: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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4:30 PM
180° Shift Talks
180 seconds to turn 180 degrees.
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Seeing Tomorrow From Space
We’re in an era of agile aerospace, when a satellite the size of a shoebox can show us things we’ve never seen before. From agriculture and forestry, to business intelligence and defense. How will monitoring everything, every day impact how we live?
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The SneakerNet: Back to the Future and Back Again
In places with limited connectivity, innovative ways to share information, via CDs, USB, and Bluetooth are changing personal communication, politics, entertainment and commerce.
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Is the Future of Wearable Health Tech...Tattoos?
What happens when low-cost biosensors embedded in tattoos can detect blood alcohol, sugar, or biomarkers related to diseases like malaria or zika? How will that impact not just the health and wellness of individuals, but the healthcare ecosystem?
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4:40 PM
Toward a Sentient Ecosystem
How might humans, machines and the network evolve together, forming an ecosystem that responds, adapts, adjusts and intuits our every move? This is the promise of an interconnected, intelligent world, stitched together with IoT, monitored and controlled by AI. The impact on our nations, political parties, and modes of behavior will be vast. Will the biggest challenge of building a connected and networked world be technologies, industry cooperation, or societal response?
Babak Hodjat, Sentient Technologies
Ken Washington, Ford Motor Company
Moderator: Michael Chui, McKinsey & Company
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5:25 PM
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5:40 PM
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6:15 - 7:00 PM
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION
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7:00 - 8:30 PM
DINNER
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8:45 PM
The Evolution Revolution
Futurist Ray Kurzweil, UCSD’s Benjamin H. Bratton and neuroscientist entrepreneur Vivienne Ming discuss where AI, biology and machines that learn by themselves are taking us.
Ray Kurzweil
Vivienne Ming, Socos
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7:00 AM
REGISTRATION OPENS
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7:00 - 8:00 AM
Morning Activities
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7:15 - 8:15 AM
Breakfast Roundtable
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When Planetary Scale Computation Meets Geopolitics
Scientist philosopher Benjamin H. Bratton on the cultural implications of computing and globalization: new forms of sovereignty are emerging as digital and urban infrastructures fuse. How can we meet the challenges these intersections pose to national borders, architectural partitions and deep cosmopolitics?
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8:30 - 8:40 AM
Welcome to Day Two
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8:40 AM
How Vast an Internet of Things?
As the IoT connects more and more, business and industry will reshape products and services to create a more intuitive and efficient world. What products and services become possible? What are the wildest ideas that may emerge? Where will the benefits appear? Is there anywhere the IoT can’t reach?
Sara Gardner, Hitachi Insight Group
Eric Topol, Scripps Translational Science Institute
Interviewer: Emily Chang, Bloomberg Television
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9:25 AM
The United States of Data I: The Economic Impact of Data Convergence
Two different kinds of data are converging—increasingly comprehensive and granular data about people; and vast, data sets about how industry and the economy are functioning. How will these two kinds of knowledge come together to change companies and society?
Diana Farrell, JPMorgan Chase Institute
Moderator: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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9:50 AM
New Rules I: Government Engagement
With tech changing business and societal norms, where does that leave government? Will it exist as we know it in 20 years? Can governments become as agile as businesses? What should evidence-based policy and data-driven government look like?
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10:00 AM
180° Shift Talks
180 seconds to turn 180 degrees.
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The Fallacy of Exporting Tech Solutions to the Middle East
Regional innovators are bucking the notion that Western imported tech is the solution to the Middle East’s problems. Music, creative ways to bypass censorship, and grassroots literacy are the real paths to change, and are being forged by innovators already in the region. Esra’a Al Shafei tells how you can help.
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10:00 AM
Emotions Are The Future of Chat Conversations
Founders of this digital library of human expressions began by building software to help people choose better words to communicate. They ended up creating a new social network of visual content based on chat expressions.
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10:10 AM
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10:30 - 11:00 AM
BREAK
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
TECHONOMY LABS:
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1. Can the Internet of Things be Secured?
When the entire internet can grind nearly to a halt because IoT devices have been harnessed for a denial of service attack, we have a problem. As we move to secure the vast network of connected devices, what are the biggest threats? As humans increasingly work in symbiotic relationships with powerful machines, how do we define security? Should our digital identity be connected to the “things” around us?
Betsy Cooper, UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
Nicole Eagan, Darktrace
Chris Rill, Canary
Moderator: Stacey Higginbotham, The Internet of Things Podcast
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2. The United States of Data II: The New Knowledge Trust
Data is transforming not only our institutions, but our relationship to them. It’s also transforming our relationship to each other. Access to data and its interpretation will inform our notions of injustice, inequality, fear, want, need and our perceptions of our abilities to address them. How should we be approaching the issue of access, ownership and value of data? Do we have the institutions we need?
Brett Hurt, data.world, a Public Benefit Corporation
Priya Kumar, University of Maryland College of Information Studies
Sarah Telford, United Nations
Moderator: Katie Benner, The New York Times
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3. The Modernization of Currency
Crypto currencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin, Peercoin and Ripple generate ever more enthusiasm. Blockchain is said to pose the potential of platforms for nearly all data. Will central banks be able to reassert control? Will a digital fiat currency, backed and minted by those banks, be the future of digital money?
Jonathan Dharmapalan, eCurrency Mint
Lex Sokolin, Autonomous
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12:00 - 1:15 PM
LUNCH
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1:30 - 2:30 PM
SESSIONS IN PARALLEL:
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1. New Rules II: Business Engagement
How will the structure and management of businesses, industries and institutions change as technologies and the social landscape shift? No organization will exist in its current form in 20 years. How dramatically will IoT, VR and AI force a reimagining of business models? What kinds of companies, industries and organizational structures will emerge?
Lorraine Bolsinger, General Electric
Blake Irving, GoDaddy
Moderator: Josh Kampel, Techonomy
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2. Genetically Modified Everything
Tech allows us to modify every thing: our plants, our animals, and our selves. Will hunger become a thing of the past? Will gene editing technology like CRISPR eradicate rare diseases? Will genetically modified mosquitoes wipe out Zika, Malaria and Dengue? Should they? Is GME the solution as we look to reap benefits in everything from agriculture to healthcare or will the public’s fear and confusion delay these developments?
Antony Evans, TAXA Biotechnologies
Paul Knoepfler, UC Davis Health System
Pete Shanks, Center for Genetics and Society
Christina Smolke, Antheia
Moderator: Meredith Salisbury, Bioscribe
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2:30 - 2:45 PM
Switch Break
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2:45 PM
Welcome Back
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2:50 PM
Toward A Self Aware City
How smart are “smart” cities really? Can they guarantee safety? Carbon neutrality? Resilience? Better services? Democracy?
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3:00 PM
Is Data Really the Solution to Better Urban Environments?
The smart use of data is important to cities and the citizens that reside in them. But what are the pitfalls as we navigate the economic, social and environmental stresses that affect cities? Who decides what data to rely on? What rights will citizens get to that data? Can we arrive at collectively acceptable policies for how data should alter our lives and help run our urban environments?
Mrinalini Ingram, Verizon
Martin Powell, Siemens Global Cities Centre of Competence
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3:45 PM
180° Shift Talks
180 seconds to turn 180 degrees.
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From Learning to Unlearning
In marketing, the old mental model of targets, funnels, and campaigns has become outdated. In strategy, value is now created with platforms and ecosystems. In organizations, one needs to master new models of networks and communities. Leadership today requires the ability to unlearn, so we can get beyond viewing the new through the lens of the old. It’s a shift in mindset from incremental to exponential.
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Emotional Contagion
Emotions are contagious between people’s minds and bodies. With new technologies, could our sentient ecosystem quantify and monitor these shared emotional experiences, allowing us to connect and empathize with people very different from ourselves? Washington State University researcher Sara Waters imagines a world in which the most vulnerable and voiceless among us grow up safe and secure.
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The Change To EVs is Coming Faster Than You Think
The switch from gas guzzlers to electric vehicles will be faster and easier than anyone realizes. The infrastructure is scaling, cars are getting better and more varied, and IoT connects the dots. Fast charging remains a challenge, but that’s not the main way to re-fuel. It’s not just the fuel that’s different; the way we re-fuel will completely change.
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3:55 PM
Adrift at Sea: When will Shipping Get Smart?
In a world in which we are drowning in oceans of data, the ocean itself is a data dead zone. Ships carry 90% of global trade, but when they move out to open sea we basically lose them. Now tech and connectivity is transforming the 71% of the planet not covered by land. What does this mean for trade, defense, fishing, piracy, the environment and even human trafficking? Will tech and geospatial intelligence bring transparency to what happens at sea?
Anthony DiMare, Nautilus Labs
John Kao, Thayer Mahan
Peter Platzer, Spire Global, Inc.
Moderator: Simone Ross, Techonomy
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4:35 PM
Can These Taboo Techs Solve Climate Change?
What raises hackles like the phrase “GMO”? Geo-engineering and nuclear of course! But what if these are the two technologies that can best solve climate change and our growing energy needs? Is it not incumbent on us to fully explore technologies that could most affect climate change mitigation, the economy and global development?
Gernot Wagner, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Moderator: Stratford Sherman, Accompli
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5:00 PM
Circuits of the Mind: Biology is the Model for The Ecorithm Era
Neural interfaces between human and digital worlds will soon allow machines to learn through an evolutionary process similar to but more efficient than nature’s. Neuroscientist Dr. Justin Sanchez (head of DARPA’s Biological Technologies office) and Harvard Computer Scientist Leslie Valiant explore the complex mechanisms of how humans and machines are learning to communicate.
Leslie Valiant, Harvard University
Moderator: Daniela Hernandez, Wall Street Journal
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5:30 PM
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6:15 PM
RECEPTION
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7:00 PM
DINNER
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Lolo, Songwriter and Musician
A performance and conversation with singer-songwriter Lolo Interviewer: Josh Kampel, Techonomy
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7:00 AM
REGISTRATION OPENS
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7:45 - 8:45 AM
The AI Breakfast Roundtable
Our homes, industries, livelihood, toys, robots, even our wars are being shaped by rapid advances in AI. Will machine bias surface too quickly to control, further entrenching existing inequities? How do we ensure that the resulting system connects these advances equitably to the benefit not just of business, but also of society?
Mark Patel, McKinsey & Company
Francesca Rossi, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Shivon Zilis, Bloomberg Beta
Moderator: Stratford Sherman, Accompli
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8:45 - 9:00 AM
SWITCH BREAK
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9:00 AM
Welcome Back
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9:10 AM
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9:45 AM
New Rules III: Social Engagement
As an increasingly interconnected sentient ecosystem evolves and grows, what new rules of social interaction may evolve with it? How will these new rules, standards, codes and manners affect life, trust, respect and societal “norms”?
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9:45 AM
In Pursuit of the Ethical AI
Given the inevitable, growing impact of AI on all aspects of society, how do we facilitate responsible AI? How do we even define it?
Interviewer: Jennifer Schenker, The Innovator
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10:00 AM
What Hello Barbie said to Alexa and Siri
Talk, talk, talk. Not only are our devices talking back, but using AI and cloud-based systems, they remember, record, transcribe and even email. And they are doing that as much with children as with adults. Animated and “cognitized” objects are increasingly entering our homes. When combined with personal assistants such as Echo and Siri, interactions, inquisitiveness and simple play are being transformed. What are the safety, security and privacy issues? And what will all this digital stimulation do to our brains and the development of our children?
Genevieve Bell, Intel Labs & Intel Corporation
Oren Jacob, PullString, Inc.
Moderator: Jennifer Schenker, The Innovator
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10:35 AM
Why the U.S. Government needs an IoT Strategy
The economic potential of IoT is unquestionable. But what priorities, policies, and implementation structures are required? Why does the U.S. only have “recommendations” while the UK has a national IoT strategy, and other countries are making it a priority? What are the implications for national competitiveness and business?
Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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10:45 AM
Why Starting Companies Is Great Foreign Policy
A growing job crisis in oil-producing lands rocked by lower prices risks creating more disenfranchised young men. A group of institutions has come together with a plan to create 10 millions jobs in those countries by fostering entrepreneurship and a tech-centric mindset. It could play a big role in reducing terrorism. Meanwhile, many countries in the Middle East and Africa are already welcoming to startups.
Moderator: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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11:05 AM
Is Combating Climate Change IoT’s Killer App?
Monitoring, metering, measuring, and controlling the world with the Internet of Things may mark a tipping point in combating climate change. Sensors monitor fugitive emissions of methane and other pollutants, smart grids help manage energy demand, and connected electric vehicles not only mean less-polluting transportation, but can double as energy storage on demand – facilitating a faster switch to variable renewable energy sources like wind and solar.
Diane Regas, Environmental Defense Fund
Moderator: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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11:30 AM
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11:50 AM
Internet Giants and The World
An unprecedented new kind of company is gaining a new breadth of influence. Facebook has data on about two billion and its algorithms guide everything what those people see. Google’s impact is similarly vast. And companies in all sorts of industries entrust their most precious systems and data to Amazon’s AWS. Commerce, communication, and to a good extent our economy now depends on these companies. We trust them, more or less, but as they command so much data, many wonder about oversight. The EU is already seeking restrictions on how a person’s data can be used. How should society best balance this great power against the public welfare?
Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Hemant Taneja, General Catalyst
Moderator: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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12:30 PM
CONFERENCE CONCLUDES
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Coastal Bike Tour
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Golf Clinic
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Purisma Creek Redwood Preserve Hike
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Techonomic Tasting
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