Join us for a Fireside Chat that offers a glimpse into the State of Everything, Blockchain Technology, Industry 4.0, and the future Machine State. The discussion, led by Bettina Warburg and Dean Eric Meyer will take place on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 from 3:30 to 5:00 PM CST at The University of Texas at Austin, School of Information, 1616 Guadalupe St., Austin, TX 78701, UTA 1.208 (LOCATION).
AGENDA:
3:30 PM
Bettina Warburg will give a thought-provoking presentation about The State of Everything, Blockchain Technology, Industry 4.0, and the future Machine State.
4:00 PM
Bettina Warburg and Dean Eric Meyer will continue the conversation about The State of Everything.
4:30 PM
Question and answer session; Bettina Warburg and Dean Eric Meyer will answer additional questions.
5:00 PM
Reception
ABOUT:
The shift towards a decentralized economy is in full swing. Blockchain, AI/ML, and IoT are radically changing the way we engage with the economy. In this lucid explainer of complex (and confusing) technologies, Bettina Warburg describes the often-overlooked principles of Blockchain Technology, its current state, where it’s going, and how it’s paving the way towards something she calls, "Machine Trust" --a new path that will transcend age-old models of commerce, supply chain, finance, and governance to create something far more interesting: a distributed, transparent, and autonomous machine state for the decentralized exchange of value; a technological foundation that will trigger the rise of a new consumer class and alter the relationship between humans and machines well into the future.
BIO:
Bettina Warburg is co-founder and managing partner of Animal Ventures, a boutique prototyping firm and venture studio that builds and invests in tech startups, educates executives, and designs new ways for fortune 500 companies to commercialize and leverage emergent technologies. She is one of the first speakers at TED to unpack the topic of blockchain, and her talk, How the Blockchain will Radically Transform the Economy, seen by over 5 million people, is to date, the most viewed TED talk on the topic of Blockchain. Bettina’s collaboration with Wired Magazine to help explain blockchain at 5 levels of difficulty has also been seen by over 2 million people. She is co-author of Asset Chains: The Cognitive, Friction-free, and Blockchain-Enabled Future of Supply Chains, a board member of The Frontier Center, a non-profit focused on education and advocacy at the intersection of technology and public policy, executive producer of a show called On The Front (Previously Tech on Politics), and on the board of Flow Media Ventures, a media company that organizes summits with senior executives to discuss technological advancements in industry 4.0 and beyond.
iSchool Dean Eric Meyer:
Eric T. Meyer, Mary R. Boyvey Chair and Louis T. Yule Regents Professor, is Dean at The University of Texas at Austin School of Information. His research examines the changing nature of knowledge creation in science, medicine, social science, arts, and humanities as technology is embedded in everyday practices, as described in his 2015 book with co-author Ralph Schroeder, “Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities.” Previously the Professor of Social Informatics at the University of Oxford, and Director of Graduate Studies at the Oxford Internet Institute, Dean Meyer's research has included both qualitative and quantitative work with marine biologists, genetics researchers, physicists, digital humanities scholars, social scientists using big data, medical doctors, theatre artists, librarians, and organizations involved in computational approaches to research.
RSVP:
Although attendance is free, space is limited! We encourage you to RSVP (register) for the event. For more information, and to register for this Fireside Chat, click on the link below:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-state-of-everything-tickets-52615686936...
Nadina Sandlin; nadina@ischool.utexas.edu