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Dr. Allen previously served as the Vice President for clinical informatics strategy for OptumInsight. Dr. Allen has held a number of positions in the healthcare technology industry. She has worked on a variety of health information technology (IT) initiatives, including solutions directed to physicians. Dr. 2013 Speakers. MIT Technology Review. The Golden Age Of Management Is Now. Sandra Blakeslee : Science Writer. Jeff Hawkins. Hawkins also serves on the Advisory Board of the Secular Coalition for America and offers advice to the coalition on the acceptance and inclusion of nontheism in American life.[3] Early life and career[edit]
Gear Analytics - Who we are. Xavier Conort is the Managing Director and founder of Gear Analytics.
Xavier is a Fellow of the French Institute of Actuaries with more than 12 years’ working experience in France, Brazil, China and Singapore for CNP (Life Insurance) and AXA (General Insurance). Prior to moving to Singapore in 2009 Xavier was the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Actuary of Sino-French Life Assurance, the joint venture between CNP and China Post in China. Xavier has extensive knowledge in Predictive Modelling and hands-on experience in a variety of projects (risk management, strategic planning, product development, M&A, Embedded Value calculation, financial and management reporting and tenders for Business Intelligence and Accounting software) and held key roles in international bancassurance partnerships and acquisitions.
His research on Extreme Value Theory techniques was published in the French Actuarial Journal in 2010. Author. Speaker. Consultant. Professor Nigel Shadbolt. Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt FREng FBCS Nigel Shadbolt is an academic and commentator who studies and writes about open data, artificial intelligence, computer and web science.
Looking for top tech talent here in NZ. Jesse Thomas, the rising US entrepreneurial star with his digital creative agency, JESS3, is looking to set up a New Zealand office, most likely in Auckland.
"When I started the agency, I always thought of NZ as a place to have an office," says the American who has dual citizenship with New Zealand, thanks to Hamilton-born parents. "Auckland has always been my number one location for an office," says Thomas. His parents are hoping to retire to Waiheke Island from Washington DC in the next couple of years. Thomas, with his co-founder, was named in 2012 as Inc.'s 30 Under 30 America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs. Kenyan Women Create Their Own 'Geek Culture' : All Tech Considered. Hide captionKenyan Susan Oguya created an app to help farmers in her homeland.
Shown here in the office of her company, M-Farm, she also belongs to the group Akirachix, which seeks to bring more Kenyan women into the tech world. Gregory Warner Kenyan Susan Oguya created an app to help farmers in her homeland. Shown here in the office of her company, M-Farm, she also belongs to the group Akirachix, which seeks to bring more Kenyan women into the tech world. When a collective of female computer programmers in Kenya needed a name for their ladies-only club, they took their inspiration from the Japanese cult film Akira. Minds at Work : What Is Minds At Work ® : What We Do. Social Innovation Generation. Frances Westley joined the University of Waterloo as the JW McConnell Chair in Social Innovation in July 2007.
In this capacity she is one of the principle leads in a Canada wide initiative in social innovation, SiG (Social Innovation Generation), a cross sectoral partnership to build capacity for social innovation in Canada funded by the J.W McConnell Family Foundation, University of Waterloo and the Ontario government. At University of Waterloo she leads a research team dedicated to understanding social innovation, and has designed both graduate and undergraduate curricula in social innovation. Dr. Westley is a renowned scholar and consultant in the areas of social innovation, strategies for sustainable development, strategic change, visionary leadership and inter-organizational collaboration.
Her most recent book, Getting to Maybe (Random House, 2006) focuses the dynamics of social innovation, and institutional entrepreneurship in complex adaptive systems. Explore the full Wired 2012 agenda - PDF download. Wired 2012 will explore the ideas, innovations and people that are reshaping our world and will be an amazing two-day programme of inspiration, discovery and knowledge sharing.
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CAL Entertainment. Digitak immersion: Inventing the Future with Robert Tercek, Transmedia storyteller. Robert Tercek is one of the world’s most prolific creators of interactive content. He has created breakthrough entertainment experiences on every digital platform, including satellite television, game consoles, broadband Internet, interactive television and mobile networks. His expertise spans television, telecommunications and software. In 2009, he was named one of the “25 Executives to Watch” by Digital Media Wire. Variety has named him one of the “Digital Dozen” most influential players in new media. The Industry Standard dubbed him a “TV Anarchist”. MediaShift Idea Lab . Authors. The Most Innovative Digital Coverage of Superstorm #Sandy. Updated Nov. 5, 2:15 p.m. EDT. Big History at Macquarie - Macquarie University.
What is Big History Big History is the attempt to understand, in a unified and interdisciplinary way, the history of the Cosmos, Earth, Life and Humanity. Big History is ambitious - it seeks understanding by bringing together and linking the knowledge available in many different scholarly disciplines. Alexander von Humboldt sought a synthesis of nature and history more than 150 years ago, but was restricted by the limitations of scientific knowledge in his time.
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Todd Watson - Walter Isaacson: The Stuff of Great Innovators. Shanghai President's Lecture with Harry C. Hui. About the Lecture Join the Berlin School of Creative Leadership for an exciting President’s Lecture on Monday, May 14th with one of China’s most impressive media leaders, Mr. Harry Hui, Founder and Managing Director for CP Equity Partners, a brand management and private equity firm specializing in bringing international brands to Asia.
Mr. Mr. Harry C. Hui. Harry Hui: Executive Profile & Biography. Brainstorm Tech 2012. To view select sessions from 2012 Fortune Brainstorm TECH on demand, click here. Front End of Innovation 2012. Yvonne Cagle (6/2007) Yvonne Darlene Cagle, M.D. (Colonel, USAF) Space and Life Sciences Directorate Johnson Space Center. Ex-Apple Designer Creates Teaching UI That "Kills Math" Using Data Viz. Dr. Astro Teller - Entrepreneur, Author, and Scientist. Nielsen, M.: Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science. University of Maryland - Academia.edu.
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