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A Curator Of What’s Next.
A Cynicism Evaporator.
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What’s up?
Dear PopTech Friends and Family,
Feeling stalled in the present? Experiencing possibility deficit? We have the cure!
Come hangout with a bunch of optimists, hackers, designers and puzzle-solvers at PopTech 2025: Enigma. There is no time like the present to create a better future!
Announcing new topics/amazing speakers!
– A possibilist’s guide to the future – Pablos Holman
– AI: In service to human(ity) – Sandra Matz and Laurie Segall
– Vibe coding for human rights – Craig Vachon
– So, your creative partner isn’t human? – Jay Dixit
– Fresh look at justice reform – Nick Gillespie, Lyn Ulbricht and Leonard Pickard
– Building more life in our lives – Abdul El-Sayed
– Tibet: The third pole – Logsang Sangay
– The Difference Engine – Ehsan Zaffar and Meymuna Hussein-Cattan
Near-final playbook for PopTech 2025:Enigma Check out an amazing roster of catalytic speakers, our new campus and the partners who make so much possible! We’re busy putting the finishing touches on small group interactives and randomized lunches. Watch for updates in next week’s newsletter and on PopTech.org.
Engage with PopTech Year-Round via a Vanguard Membership! An Individual Vanguard provides a +1 registration to PopTech 2025 and much more! The Vanguard Catalyst is ideal for businesses and organizations looking for exposure in the PopTech network and team building experiences for their teams.
If you’re a student, just starting your career or working for an NGO/EDU/GOV, reply to this email for a discount code. We like investing in your future!
We can’t wait to see you at PopTech 2025: Enigma.
Stay in touch, stay in tune,
The PopTech Team
Enigma captures the complexity of the time in which we find ourselves. A sustained moment informed by disequilibrium and unpredictability that is difficult to understand and interpret – a mystery. By nature, an Enigma lends itself to code-breaking and complex problem solving – the very qualities that define the PopTech community. Come ready to delve into AI, robotics, creative expression, human potential, climate resilience and so much more! PopTech 2025 is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend, the amazing musician, Jill Sobule.
Worth a Watch
It’s so inspiring to share a couple of pieces from our arts archive.
Art Evolution – Artist Shantell Martin provides a tour of her unique, flowing, ever-evolving style, expressed through a simple black pen.
Give Back to the World – French-Tunisian artist eL Seed‘s thought-provoking graffiti and Arabic calligraphy, produced during PopTech 2011. The calligraphy depicts Einstein’s quote, “Give back to the world at least what you’ve received.”
View the entire archive of amazing and timeless PopTech content on the PopTech YouTube Channel.
Reading Corner
What if reading the news could make you feel more capable, not more anxious? What if there was a way to stay informed without addiction or outrage?
The Signal is a new publication that approaches current events in a spirit of curiosity—free of ideology and with a globally diverse slate of contributors. Each week, expect explorations of urgent questions in democracy, science, tech, business, education, and more. The newsletter is free and enjoyed by 100,000+ readers around the world.
Best of all, The Signal is PopTech 2025: Enigma’s media partner! We clearly keep good company!
March 2
1230 — 115 PM EST
Reading Corner: The Hype Handbook.
Michael Schein will read from and discuss his recent book, The Hype Handbook: 12 Indispensable…
March 2
1230 — 115 PM EST
Reading Corner: The Hype Handbook.
Michael Schein will read from and discuss his recent book, The Hype Handbook: 12 Indispensable…
March 2
1230 — 115 PM EST
Reading Corner: The Hype Handbook.
Michael Schein will read from and discuss his recent book, The Hype Handbook: 12 Indispensable…