Events
Julian Lion Boxenbaum – The Hyperloop, Inspiring Innovation & The Future of Transportation
Julian Lion Boxenbaum was the faculty advisor for the Carnegie Mellon Hyperloop team and an invited judge at the SpaceX sponsored Hyperloop competition in 2016. He is an award winning,
Gretchen Rubin – Practical Steps to Happiness
Gretchen Rubin is the author of several books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, Better Than Before, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home. She has an enormous readership,
Greg Simon – The Future of Health Research. . . Crowdfunding
Greg Simon is the Executive Director of the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot Task Force. Greg returns to the White House after serving as Vice President Al Gore’s Chief Domestic Policy
James George: Hack existing electronic products to create something revolutionary in media-arts
James George addresses the emotional response to science fiction technologies as they become reality. Developer of the DepthKit, a volumetric cinema system, James has created a new medium for cinematic
Dan Burkholder: iPhoneography, Best Practices from a World-leading Expert
Dan Burkholder was one of the first photographic artists to embrace digital technology in the early 1990’s. True to his love of the traditional photograph, Dan uses digital technology to build
Joseph Robertson: How Citizen Volunteers are Changing the Game on Climate Policy
Joseph Robertson is Strategic Coordinator for the non-partisan non-profit Citizens Climate Lobby.
Inder Singh: Creating the World’s ‘Smartest’ Thermometer, Stop Outbreaks in Real-time
Inder Singh is the founder and CEO of Kinsa, a venture-backed startup creating the first real-time map of health, and formerly served as the Executive Vice President of the multi-national
Gray Scott, The Future Is Now
Gray Scott is a Futurist/Techno-Philosopher, speaker, artist, and writer. Gray is a contributing writer for THE FUTURIST magazine
Arthur Brutter, Earthquake-Proof Table
“At any given time, more than 300,000,000 pupils worldwide are facing impending danger since their schools are not build to withstand an earthquake.” Arthur Brutter is an Industrial Designer creating
Dr. Ken Kamler – “How to Fix a Broken Astronaut”
Kenneth Kamler, M.D., is an orthopedic microsurgeon trained at Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center who practices surgery of the hand in New York, but practices extreme medicine in some of the
Michael Karnjanaprakorn – Founder & CEO of Skillshare.com, Education and the Internet
Michael Karnjanaprakorn – Michael is the CEO/co-founder of Skillshare, a community marketplace for classes. Skillshare is a community of teachers and students driven by a passion to share real-word skills through collaborative
Ayah Bdeir – The Best in DIY Arduinos & Modular Electronics
Ayah Bdeir is an interactive artist and engineer and the founder of littlebits http://littlebits.cc/about , an open source kit of pre-assembled modular circuits that fasten together with tiny magnets.
Ken Kamler, “How Do You Fix A Broken Astronaut”
Kenneth Kamler, M.D., is an orthopedic microsurgeon trained at Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center who practices surgery of the hand in New York, but practices extreme medicine in some of the most remote regions on Earth. He has treated bear bite in the Arctic and frostbite in the Antarctic. He has set fractures in the Andes and cared for out-of-breath scuba divers in the Galapagos. He has performed surgery in the mud of the Amazon rainforest and in a NASA undersea analogue space capsule. He has flown in zero-gravity aboard NASA’s C-9 “Vomit Comet”, testing robots for eventual use in emergency surgery on the International Space Station or on Mars.
Heather Berlin Explores Unconscious Decisions
Dr. Berlin conducts research to better understand the neural basis of impulsivity, compulsivity, and emotion with the goal of more targeted treatment. She employs neuroimaging and neuropsychological and psychopharmacological testing
Dr. Stuart Firestein – How Ignorance Drives Science
Chair of Columbia U. Biological Sciences Department, leading authority on olfactory research, and author of the highly popular groundbreaking book, ‘Ignorance: How it Drives Science’. Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance–not knowledge–that is the true engine of science.
Dave Arnold: Molecular Gastronomy & The Perfect Gin & Tonic
Dave Arnold, the Intentional Culinary institute’s chief mad scientist in residence talks food, technology & the molecular cuisine while explaining how to mix the best gin tonic ever.
Jason Silva: Ecstatic Futurist and Techno-Philosopher
Jason Silva is a Futurist, filmmaker and techno-philosopher, Jason Silva has been described as “a digital DJ, a re-vitalizer and remixer of optimism, and above all a curator: of ideas,