MPI Talkfest 2021

MPI TalkFEST 2021: Think Like a Start Up

To register for both keynote and braindates, please go to registration page: www.mpi.org/events/mpi-talkfest-2021 

Join your peers from around the world for a day and a half of learning, laughter and connections during MPI’s first ever TalkFEST digital experience. We’ll kick off mid-day with a keynote on the start up mindset before adjourning to the Braindate platform, where you can create and join hundreds of knowledge-sharing conversations—one-on-one or in small groups (via video chat).

20.00-00.00 CET (1 p.m.-5 p.m. CT) Feb. 16

16.00-00.00 CET (9 a.m.-5 p.m. CT) Feb. 17

About the Keynote- Feb 16^th from 18.00-19.30 CET (11am – 12:30pm CST) followed by instructions and a tutorial on how to sign up for the Braindates the next day.

Inventing the Future
Hacker Mindset – Pablo Holman

Innovate or Die Trying  ….From the Mind of World Renown Hacker, Inventor, Futurist - Pablos Holman

How many taxi companies could have made their own iPhone app but didn’t?  Everyone knows they had better innovate or die, but what does that really mean?  How do you know if Silicon Valley is going to come after your industry?  Can we learn to innovate faster than our competitors?  If computers can do the job of a truck driver, what about a factory worker, or a chef, or a doctor, or you?

Pablos is one of the rare technologists who can both understand and explain these new technologies and their potential.  Working with them every day at his lab, his team has taken on problems ranging from hurricane suppression to brain surgery & disease eradication to nuclear energy.

A futurist, inventor, and notorious hacker with a unique view into breaking and building new technologies, Pablos works on invention projects that assimilate new technologies – making wild ideas a bit more practical and vice versa. He helped create the world’s smallest PC; 3D printers at Makerbot; spaceships with Jeff Bezos; Mosquito zapping lasers with Bill Gates; artificial intelligence agent systems; and the Hackerbot, a Wi-Fi seeking robot.  He is also an advisor to the biggest crowdfunding campaign in history, raising $27 Million in 30 days, for the 3D printer – Glowforge. 

Take Aways:

§  Get into the mindset of the words most innovative people.

§  Glimpse into the next generation technologies nobody has seen yet.

§  Understand how to have a practical relationship with innovation.

About Braindates

Virtual braindates are knowledge-sharing conversations that you book with others to have one-on-one or in small groups (via video chat), on the Braindate platform. They’re the best way to connect with, learn from and have terrific conversations with new people—all virtually. Using the Braindate platform, you can share your interests in the form of topics that lead to interactive virtual discussions, and you can browse the topics of other attendees and join them in one-on-one or one-on-few conversations. Braindate is a marketplace of ideas, a means to crowdsource the knowledge of other participants and share your own.

Watch this video to see how it works.