Keynote Speaker
We are currently finalizing this years content. Here is what we had last year:
Brian David Johnson
Futurist, Author, Professor
Topic: How to Think Like a Futurist
3:30 p.m. - Congdon Hall
Overview:
Artificial Intelligence. Microtargeting. Transitive Data Systems. How do you navigate a shifting and uncertain future riddled with emerging opportunities,
threats and vulnerabilities? How can you prepare for not just the next "big thing" in technology and security but also the "thing" that comes after the next
big thing? The applied futures methodology gives practitioners and decision makers a data driven perspective on a range of possible and potential futures over
the next decade. Brian David Johsnon (BDJ) will explain the The Applied Futures Method, Futurecasting and Threatcasting, along with case studies for where it has been used in government, military and private industry
Bio:
Brian David Johnson has made the future his business. From 2009 to 2016, Johnson was Intel Corporation's first-ever futurist. Currently,
he is a professor at Arizona State University's Global Futures Laboratory and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society.
He also works in a private practice with a broad range of groups, including governments, militaries, corporations, nonprofits and start-ups,
to help them envision their future. Johnson holds over 40 patents and is the best-selling author of both science fiction and fact books
(A Threatcasting Textbook [Morgan and Claypool], The Future You [Harper], WaR: Wizards and Robots [Penguin], and 21st Century Robot [Make]).