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July 27-29, 2012 • Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

Preconference Courses: July 26-27, 2012 • Professional Members’ Forum: July 30, 2012

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WorldFuture 2012 Sci/Tech Sessions

Code Hero: Games Make Humans Make Games

Code Hero is a game that teaches us how to make games that will teach everything else. In a world where we can code the games we wish to see, we have the power to make all knowledge playable. Games that teach and inspire can do more than gamify skill acquisition. Inspirational games can also help us role-play new career paths and discover new personal aspirations for ourselves.

Alex Peake is the creator of Code Hero. He is the founder of Primer Labs and co-founder of HackTheFuture.org, San Francisco, California, USA

Innovative Entrepreneurs Execute Big Ideas

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Entrepreneurs play an unmatched role in our world, and they each share at least one distinguishing characteristic. Entrepreneurs don’t just recognize problems and come up with ideas to solve them—they execute those big ideas. It is a differentiating quality that merits recognition — and one that will be addressed.

Naveen Jain is a founder of World Innovation Institute for Innovation, Moon Express, Intelius, and InfoSpace. He received a “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the Red Herring Global 2011 Conference for his continued leadership in the technology industry and his support of other entrepreneurs.

Technology and Ideology: Its Effects and the Future

This session will look at the role of technology on ideology as not only an accelerant but also the instigator of a new ideology born out of the creation of the Internet. Drawing in elements of psychology, emergence, philosophy, networks, economics, and politics, the talk will look at the intersections and influence of each in the fracturing of society as we see it currently.

Sasha Grujicic is a media, marketing, and technology executive working with Fortune 500 companies (Toyota, adidas, Diageo, Citi Bank, Disney, Target, etc.) to understand media, technology, and their inherent connections to their businesses. He has actively developed product, service, marketing, and sales solutions for his clients based in London, New York, Paris, Boston, and Toronto since 2004. He is a writer, speaker, and technology evangelist, contributing to many publications, Toronto, Canada

Singularity University: Team Projects to Positively Change the World

Singularity University is a new interdisciplinary university whose mission is to “assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies in order to address humanity’s grand challenges.” With the support of a broad range of leaders in academia, business, and government, Singularity Univer

José Luis Cordeiro is founder of World Future Society Venezuela Chapter; chair, Millennium Project Venezuela Node; and faculty member, Singularity University, NASA, Ames, California, USA

Nikola Danaylov is a graduate student at Singularity University, NASA Ames, California, USA

Antony Evans is a graduate student at Singularity University, NASA Ames, California, USA

The Hackerspace Movement: Hacking the Future

In 2007, there were a handful of hackerspaces. Now there are more than 900 existing or forming throughout the world. All this has happened without a central organization and with very little money. This growing movement has exploded because individuals started these supportive communities where people can explore and do what they love.

Mitch Altman is a San Francisco-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone remote controls, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places. He is one of the co-founders of Noisebridge, a San Francisco hacker space, and president and CEO of Cornfield Electronics, San Francisco, California, USA

The Future of Crime Prediction

Predictive analytics has received a substantial amount of attention in the media. However, it is only recently that predictive analytics in policing has gone mainstream.

John Jarvis is chairman of the Futures Working Group and serves the FBI as the chief criminologist, Behavioral Science Unit, FBI, Quantico, Virginia, USA

Tom Dover, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Quantico, Virginia, USA

Andreas Olligschlager, Freedom, Pennsylvania, USA

Amanda Terrell-Orr is a member of the Colorado Springs Police Department, Colorado Springs. Colorado, USA

Cyberbullying and Privacy Issues in Social Media

Social media have exploded in influence in the past decade, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, along with weblogs and wikimedia. They reflect the dream of close and immediate contact with individuals worldwide, a form of personal broadcasting.

Jo Ann Oravec is an author and an associate professor at the College of Business and Economics, University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Chemical Brain Preservation: How to Live "Forever"

About 57 million unique and precious human beings die every year, or 155,000 people every day. The memories and identities in their brains are permanently lost at present, but may not be in the near future.

John M. Smart is founder and president of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, Mountain View, California, USA

Hackerspace Movement: Hacking the Future

In 2007 there were a handful of hackerspaces. Now there are over 900 existing or forming throughout the world.

Mitch Altman, co-founder of Noisebridge, a San Francisco hacker space, and president and CEO of Cornfield Electronics, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone remote controls, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places. He was also co-founder of 3ware (a Silicon Valley RAID controller company), did pioneering work in virtual reality at VPL Research, and created the Brain Machine, one of MAKE Magazine's most popular DIY projects, San Francisco, California, USA

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