Philly New Technology Meetup #27 - July 2016 - The Future
Details
This special event takes our heads into the cloud and looks at the future of technology, communication, and mobility. Futurist Shara Evans is travelling from Australia to speak with us.
6:00 Networking and food
6:30 Welcome and sponsors
6:35 Demo: Microsoft HoloLens
6:50 Guest speaker: Shara Evans
7:35 Community discussion followed by Networking
7:40 Happy Hour
Sponsored by Duane Morris (http://www.duanemorris.com/attorneys/richardlcohen.html), EisnerAmper (http://www.eisneramper.com/), Kopelman Foundation, Ben Franklin Technology Partners (http://www.sep.benfranklin.org/).
Demo - Microsoft HoloLens (https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us), Amanda Lange (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandajlange), @HoloLens (https://twitter.com/search?q=hololens)
The HoloLens is a mixed reality device that brings holograms into your world and allows you to interact with gesture, gaze, and voice. Amanda will explain development for HoloLens in Unity 3D, do a demonstration of the HoloLens emulator, and tell you how you can get started right away developing in mixed reality, even if you don’t have your own HoloLens device. Microsoft will be here to demonstrate the development pipeline for Microsoft HoloLens.
Guest Speaker - Shara Evans (http://marketclarity.com.au/about-us/sharaevans/), @Shara_Evans (https://twitter.com/shara_evans)
Life in the Software-enabled World of Tomorrow
In this keynote speech, technology futurist Shara Evans paints a vision of the future in a software enabled world, where Robots as a Service are offered by innovators in a range of industries, autonomous vehicles + drones communicate with each other and the cloud, where anything can be 3D printed on demand, and humans become increasingly integrated with the ‘net.
Topics covered include:
• Smart Cities — Bringing infrastructure to life with sensors, IoT connections, 3D visualization and robots
• Self Driving Cars + Cars of the Future
• The Drone Revolution — Will our cities have highways in the sky?
• Augmented and Virtual Reality - Changing the way we interact with our environment
Shara Evans is internationally acknowledged as a cutting edge technology futurist, keynote speaker, commentator, strategy advisor and thought leader, as well as the Founder and CEO of Market Clarity, an award-winning technology analyst firm that provides insight, intelligence and advice on all aspects of the telecom and emerging technologies markets.
Fusing an engineering background with an intuitive understanding of how society is likely to respond to new technologies, Shara is widely regarded as one of the world’s top female futurists.
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