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Using Crowdsourcing to Drive Radical Innovation This moderated panel discussion features innovation leaders from the public and the private sector who are leveraging the power of the crowd in order to identify opportunities for radical change, whether it's how autonomous vehicles will impact infrastructure or how blockchain can be applied at an organization. Speakers from Graybar, IOHK, and the Virginia Department of Transportation will talk about the challenges of collaborating with the crowd and share best practices about how to engage and act on ideas at scale.

A Fireside chat with Michael Nelson ​As we move into the digital future, there is a greater need to build policies that support and address greater digitalization. The adoption of digital business and possibly even digital government are necessary to achieve greater equality between social classes. At the same time, forces are taking advantage of the digital platform to shape our future. Censorship and media control have a broad influence. In this two-part question and answer discussion, Michael Nelson will address issues around who is shaping our digital future and steps that we need to take to safeguard our [...]

Paul Preiss interviews Jeanne W. Ross with a talk on Architecture Jeanne W. Ross conducts academic research that targets the challenges of senior level executives at CISR's nearly 100 global sponsor companies. She studies how firms develop competitive advantage through the implementation and reuse of digitized platforms.

The Immersive Technology Frontier We're all familiar with technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and the recent exponential increase in wearables to track our vitals, our movement, and even our sleep. The application of these technologies in our personal and professional lives is starting to become a daily occurrence for so many of us. The question being posed in this thought-provoking session by Poppy Crum, Chief Scientist at Dolby Laboratories and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, is "What's next?" In this informative discussion, Poppy speaks to advancements in sensors and AI, that can use the space [...]