Separating Myth From Reality
March 20, 2012, Over-the-top TV Conference, Santa Clara, CA—a panel considered the on-going commentary on the demise of cable and broadcast. Jeremy Toeman from Dijit Media moderated the panel. Panel...
View ArticleUSAF Human Sensor Needs
April 11, 2012, Flextech Alliance Workshop, San Jose, CA—Joshua Hagen from the US Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Patterson AFB described the programs and changing needs in their work. They need to...
View ArticleFord Futurist Notes Shift in Industry
August 20, 2012, Palo Alto, CA--We talked with Sheryl Connelly, a futurist at Ford Motor company who focuses on trends, scenario, and understanding buyer behaviors related to brands and technology. She...
View ArticleChurchill Club Awards
September 13, 2012, Churchill Awards, Santa Clara, CA—The second annual Churchill Club awards presentations on are those people and companies who inspired others by highlighting excellence and...
View ArticleSpend Shift
October 15, 2012, CEA Industry Forum, San Francisco—John Gerzema from Brand Asset Consulting talked about changes in values in consumer space since the great recession, and how these changes affect the...
View ArticleFive Technologies to Watch
October 15, 2012, CEA Industry Forum, San Francisco—Jeff Joseph moderated a panel on technology trends. Panel members were Rachel Metz from Technology Review, Scott Steinburg from TechSavvy Global, and...
View ArticleEngineers Without Borders
November 13, 2012, A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders' Conference, UC Berkeley—Bernard Amadei from Engineers Without Borders and the University of Colorado, Boulder proposed engineering...
View ArticleBuilding Trust – Churchill Club 2013
February 11, 2013, Churchill Club Forum, Mountain View, CA—A panel discussed the many facets of trust. Peter Burrows from Bloomberg Business Week moderated the panel. Panelists were Eric Channing Brown...
View ArticleBuilding Aadhaar: Indian National ID at RSA2013
February 26, 2013, RSA Conference, San Francisco—Srikanth Nadhamuni with the universal ID project in India described the efforts and challenges associated with providing unique and secure IDs to 1B...
View ArticleChurchill Club Looks at Disruptive Technologies
June 17, 2013, Churchill Club, Santa Clara, CA—The Churchill Club held a panel session on economically disruptive technologies. Michael Chui from McKinsey distributed McKinsey's report on disruptive...
View ArticleSiggraph Production Session, The Yellow Brick Road
July 23, 2013, Siggraph, Anaheim, CA—The production of "OZ, the Great and Powerful" involved a lot of visual effects work to merge the live and CG characters. Visual effects supervisor, Scott Stokdyk...
View ArticleSeven Billion Personalized Futures
September 12, 2013, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Genevieve Bell, director of interactivity, described one view of the future that differs considerably from the clean, high-technology look of...
View ArticleChurchill Awards 2013
September 26, 2013, Churchill Club, Santa Clara, CA—Geoffrey Moore acted as the master of ceremonies and occasional interviewer for the awardees at this event. Following some light entertainment, the...
View ArticleInfinity and Chashu Ramen Review
This film depicts the encounters of a pair of other-world spirits in San Francisco. Kerwin Berk directed the film and stars Hiroshi Kashiwagi as Tenshi, an obnoxious 400-year-old spirit from old Japan...
View ArticleNAMM Honors Smokey Robinson
January 23, 2014, Anaheim—the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) honored Motown artist Smokey Robinson with the “Music for Life” award. Robinson is recognized for his five decades of...
View ArticleAR in Art and Museums
May 28, 2014, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—A series of speakers talked about implementing or adding AR to art projects. The people had to overcome both technical and artistic challenges to...
View ArticleWhat is the Metaverse?
May 7, 2015, Neurogaming Conference, San Francisco—Phillip Rosedale from High Fidelity talked about the changing nature and perceptions of the VR and real worlds, and the things happening at their...
View ArticleDiversity Panel
August 19, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—A panel discussed the issues and implications of diversity in the workplace. Roz Hudnell from Intel acted as moderator with panelists Tim Bajarin...
View ArticleChurchill Club Magical Team Award
September 24, 2015, Churchill Club Awards, Redwood City, CA—The Churchill Club presented their magical team award to Pixar Animation Studios for collaborative breakthroughs that resulted in an...
View ArticleChurchill Club Game Changer Award
September 24, 2015, Churchill Club Awards, Redwood City, CA—The Churchill award for game changer: for indispensable technology and business innovation was presented to LinkedIn. Susan Lund, Partner,...
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