2013 Conference | 2013 Social Innovation Fellows | Financial Inclusion Lab | The Resilient City | Full PopTech Collection 2004-2013
Held every October, in the beautiful seaside village of Camden, Maine, the PopTech Conference brings together 700 influential participants for one of the world’s best thought leadership events: a shared exploration of the issues, trends and technologies that will shape the future of our businesses, economy, society and world. Since 2004, Peter Durand of Alphachimp has created on-site paintings live during each presentation. These are the results. Enjoy!
Christina Agapakis: Toe cheese
Esther Wang: Measure impact
Zach Lieberman: Creative Teaching
Zach Liebermann talks about teaching creativity in the information age at his School for Poetic Computation. More at: www.sfpc.io |
Nicole Stubbs: Lending data
Shantell Martin: Art evolutions
Donnel Baird: Energy financing
Jessica Richman: Citizen Science
Jessica Richman shares the importance of crowdsourcing scientific research, such as to explore the human microbiome. More at: ubiome.com |
Prabhjot Singh: Mobile health
Prabhjot Singh is the co-chair of the One Million Community Health Worker Campaign, an initiative that designs and tests how community health workers can be more effective using mobile tools in the developing world. More at: 1millionhealthworkers.org |
Rodney Mullen: Getting back up
Rodney Mullen is widely considered to be the most influential skateboarder in skateboarding history. Mullen is a professional skateboarder, company owner, inventor, and public speaker who practices freestyle and street skateboarding. Mullen is credited with inventing numerous skateboarding tricks, including the flatground ollie, kickflip, heelflip, impossible, and 360-flip. More at: rodneymullen.net |
Jim Olson: Tumor Paint
Jim Olson invented a potentially revolutionary “tumor paint” that locates and lights up tumor cells to show surgeons exactly what to excise. More at: www.fhcrc.org |
PopTech 2013 Science & Social Innovation Fellows
Juan Enriquez: Reframe & rethink
Kelly Benoit-Bird on How Sea Creatures Make a Living
Associate Professor, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University Kelly Benoit-Bird applies acoustics to the study of ecosystems in the open ocean. She has helped develop several new optical and acoustical instruments and has made fundamental acoustical measurements of species ranging from zooplankton to fish, squid, and marine mammals. people.oregonstate.edu/~benoitbk/ |