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GOLD Session Sunday, October 21, 2012 7:30pm to 9:30pm Visions Lounge, 28 th Floor Big Data and the Coming Golden Age of Humanity Byron Reese, Chief Innovation Officer, Demand Media We are entering an age where more data will be collected every minute than has been collected in the whole of human history. "Today we are connecting people digitally, and we are also beginning to connect the data their lives generate as well. The universe is full of non-obvious causal relationships invisible to both the eye and intuition. For example, why do Academy Award winners live longer than the other nominees, and first basemen outlive other players on the team? Why do children in schools with fluorescent lighting get fewer cavities than those in incandescent-lit schools? How might a sophisticated computational answer engine of the future help us find these relationships and thereby cure disease, end poverty, and usher in a new golden age for humanity? Moore's Law, big data, and cheap sensors will bring about this great new future. Now, why does this matter to companies today? Because it is actionable today. We start by looking at new kinds of data in behavioral targeting, how we can roll in new data sources such as real-time weather, concepts trending in Twitter, etc. In other words, think of accessible data sources that might not have traditionally been used before. Everything is connected to everything else in the world of information, we just have to figure out the relationships. Byron Reese Chief Innovation Officer, Demand Media Byron Reese employs his profound understanding of technical data to illuminate how the technology of today can solve many global challenges. Byron started his first business as an undergraduate at Rice University. He later founded and sold two companies: Hot Data, ultimately to Pitney Bowes; and PageWise, the parent company of ExpertVillage.com, to Demand Media. He currently serves as Chief Innovation Officer for Demand Media. The company holds and has filed numerous patents on Reese's work in disciplines including crowdsourcing, content creation, and psychographics. Byron has just completed the forthcoming book Golden Age 2.0: How The Internet Will End Ignorance, Disease, Hunger, Poverty, And War. An entrepreneur, inventor, technologist, public speaker and historian, Byron speaks and writes about the intersection of history, technology and philosophy. Visit Byron's website at www.byronreese.com. 2012 GHTC Page 27
2012 GHTC Page 28 Monday Opening Plenary Monday, October 22, 2012 8:00am – 10:00am Madison Ballroom, 2 nd Floor Keynote Speakers: �� Dr Gordon Day, 2012 IEEE President �� Gretchen Kalonji, Assistant Director General for National Sciences, UNESCO �� Knut Aanstad, Advisor, UN Sustainable Energy for All Monday Dinner Reception Monday, October 22, 2012 6:30pm – 9:30pm Courtyard Ballroom, B Level - Engineers Without Border (EWB) Display - Photo and Short Video Contest Awards Presentation (Judges: Mike North from ReAllocate, Kasmore Rhedrick from Engineering For Change, Inessa Pearce from GHTC) Keynote Speaker: �� Robert A. Freling Executive Director, Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF)
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