Haisong Tang discusses the future—and past—of business, fashion, technology and the military in China, France, Israel, the United States and points in between in this wide-ranging and incisive talk.

Haisong Tang

Innovation Advisory Board

Kering

(China & France)

VR+... AND BEYOND

Julian Dibbell followed developments in technology and society for Wired Magazine for years.

Founder of Techonomy, David Kirkpatrick is a journalist, commentator about technology, and author of the bestselling book “The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World,” published in 32 countries. He spent 25 years at Fortune, and founded and hosted its Brainstorm and Brainstorm Tech conferences. In addition to writing for Techonomy, he contributes to Forbes and Vanity Fair. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Julian and moderator David Kirkpatrick will help us put current VR+ developments into context. Sam Glassenberg and Rosario Casas are bringing VR+ technologies to the worlds of entertainment, gaming, healthcare and beyond.

Rosario Casas

Founder & CEO

VR Americas (Colombia)

Julian Dibbell

Mayer Brown LLP

Former Contributing Editor

Wired

Sam Glassenberg

CEO & Founder

Level Ex

MODERATOR

David Kirkpatrick

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Techonomy

From real-time health monitoring to cybernetic enhancements. Being human will never be the same.

Brad Chedister

Warfighter Systems Architect

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

This talk was filmed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in chicago on Thursday, September 27th, 2018.

Dante Lauretta is principal investigator of the OSIRIS-REx mission and a professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. His research interests focus on the chemistry and mineralogy of asteroids and comets, and he is an expert in the analysis of extraterrestrial materials, including asteroid samples, meteorites and comet particles. Dr. Lauretta heads a research team at the UA working on this mission, which has included more than 100 undergraduate and graduate students.The mission was selected in 2011, launched in 2016, and returns samples back to Earth in 2023. Sample analysis continues until 2025. This project will help ensure that the University of Arizona remains at the forefront of planetary exploration for the next decade.

NASA’s OSIRIS-RExMission

The OSIRIS-REx mission will be traveling to Bennu, a carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid. The spacecraft launched on September 8, 2016, and is

scheduled to rendezvous with Bennu in 2018 and ultimately bring samples of the asteroid back to Earth. These samples will be the first for a U.S. mission and may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the organic molecules that may have seeded life on Earth. The University of Arizona leads the mission for NASA, and it is also providing the science operations team and the spacecraft’s camera system. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center provides overall mission management. Lockheed Martin Space Systems built the spacecraft. United Launch Alliance built the mission’s Atlas V launch vehicle. The mission is in an exciting phase right now as the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft is on its outbound journey to Bennu.

This conversation was recorded at TWIN Global on Monday, September 25th, 2018, at Marshall's Landing, Merchandise Mart in Chicago.

What are corporations responsible for when it comes to automation and the future of work? What role should they have? How do workers and leaders relate with one another as they navigate the reinvention of work? Join us for the TWIN Global 2018 discussion on the future of work in the face of massive change.

About the panelists

Gary Bolles

Chair for the Future of Work

Singularity University Partner, Charrette LLC

John Bremen

Managing Director

Willis Towers Watson

Ravin Jesuthasan

Managing Director

Willis Towers Watson

Stephanie Pace Marshall

Founding President Emerita

Illinois Math and Science Academy

INTERLOCUTOR

Chris Gebhardt

CEO

Stir Strategy

Steen Rasmussen is one of the world’s pioneers in artificial life, applying materials and information technology to generate living, evolving entities. It’s closer to reality than you might think, and Steen and his daughter, Kristina Korsholm, explore what this might mean for how we live and understand our lives.

Steen Rasmussen

Professor of Physics

Director, Center for Fundamental Living Technology (FLinT) University of Southern Denmark

External Research Professor

Santa Fe Institute (Denmark)

Kristina Korsholm

Actor, Author & Online Show Host

(Denmark)

We were blessed to be joined by three of the world’s most purposeful, values-driven leaders. Phil Kotler, a founder of the field of modern marketing, and Harry Kraemer, former CEO of Baxter and an Executive Partner with one of America’s largest private equity organizations, have been with TWIN for years. Welcome Denise Young Smith, formerly worldwide head of talent for Apple.

Philip Kotler

SC Johnson Professor of Global Marketing

Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern University

Harry Kraemer

Executive Partner

Madison Dearborn Partners

Clinical Professor of Leadership

Kellogg School of Management

Denise Young Smith

Executive-in-Residence

Cornell Tech

Former SVP for Talent

Apple

INTERLOCUTOR

Anna Catalano

Independent Director

Willis Towers Watson, HollyFrontier & Kraton Corporation

TWIN Co-Founder & Board Member

This panel was filmed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago on Thursday, September 27th, 2018.