Kathleen McGivney
Kathleen McGivney is the Director of Customer Success for Gather, an innovation consultancy in New York City. She has 25+ years of experience in technical consulting and project management, customer relationship management, data analytics, and digital strategy. Current clients include IBM and Bloomberg.In addition to her consulting work, she is also the CEO of RedBar…
Cesar Harada
Cesar Jung-Harada (FR-JP, 1983) Designer. Director of MakerBay, Scoutbots, and Senior Lecturer in Design and Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. TED Senior Fellow, former Researcher & Project Leader at MIT, Ars Electronica Golden Nica Award winner. He holds a Master in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art and sailed around the…
Andrea Polidori, Ph.D.
Dr. Andrea Polidori is the Advanced Monitoring Technologies Manager at the South Coast AQMD in the Science and Technology Advancement Division. His primary responsibilities include the overall management of all South Coast AQMD special monitoring programs and related projects. He has been leading the design, development and implementation of the Air Quality Sensor Performance Evaluation…
Douglas Rushkoff
Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Team Human, based on his podcast, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus. He…
Mark Frauenfelder
Mark Frauenfelder is a research director at Institute for the Future, and is the founder of the technology and culture website Boing Boing. He was the founding editor-in-chief of Make magazine and Wired.com. He designed Billy Idol’s CD covers and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Popular Science, Business Week, The…