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Pulitzer Congrats!
Congratulations to PopTech 2022 speaker, Robert Samuels on winning this year’s non-fiction Pulitzer Prize! Robert and co-author Toluse Olorunnipa won for their book, His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Robert’s PopTech talk this past fall, helped us better understand Mr. Floyd’s life.
Save the Date and Register for PopTech 2023 this fall in Washington, DC. October 24-26, 2023. We have an exciting new venue! Details to follow in mid-June. In the meantime, access special Early Bird Rate now! Act now – the bird flies south on June 30! Contact [email protected] for special group discounts.
A taste of what’s to come! Explore our archive of evergreen content. You can find all of our talks on The PopTech YouTube Channel. Over the next couple of months we will be doing some time travel, pulling up recent and historical talks that shed light on current day possibilities and challenges. We kick off with two climate talks from 2022:
Ethan Zuckerman delivered a visually stunning PopTech 2022 talk recapturing a road trip he and his wife, Amy, took through legacy cities around the Eastern Great Lakes during the pandemic. Packed with insights into the rises and falls of these iconic places, it was a really a climate talk – a prediction of the human migration that will accompany increasingly severe storms, droughts, flooding and heat index rises.
Zack Parisa, CEO and co-founder of NCX is committed to innovating the way forests can be measured, valued, and managed to benefit climate. His PopTech 2022 talk provides a window into high-tech forest surveillance, the convergence of tech and trust, and the notion that a carbon marketplace is key to creating a just transition to carbon neutrality.
Be an Early Bird!
We have an exciting new venue! We’re kicking off the evening of Tuesday October 24th with an all community dinner. Then we have two days of curated provocative talks, interactive sessions, field trips and debates. No passive talking head fest here! All the details will be shared in mid-June. In the meantime, we’re offering a great Early Bird Registration rate. Act now – the bird flies south on June 30th.
Worth a Watch
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word HOME? At PopTech 2022 we explored the notion of home from three beautiful perspectives. Don’t miss these heartfelt stories. Mobile/Home: Jason Rzepka; Creating Home for Social Movements: Katherine Lo; and Envisioning Home in Space: Ariel Ekblaw. Enjoy the entire session, moderated by Christie Nicholson.
Like these talks? Visit the PopTech YouTube Channel – home to all PopTech 2022 talks and a treasure trove of timeless content.
Reading Corner
A half century after its original publication, Diet For A Small Planet (50th Anniversary Edition) by Frances Moore Lappe remains an inspiring guide to the personal impact of changing how we eat a half-century after its original publication.
Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration by Laura J. Martin provides a meditation on what it means to be wild and a call for ecological restoration that is socially just.
Community Spotlight
Rachel Bronson – Counting the seconds to global catastrophe.
Rachel Bronson is the president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. She oversees the publishing programs, management of the Doomsday Clock, and a growing set of activities around nuclear risk, climate change, and disruptive technologies. She joined us for PopTech 2022 with a fantastic talk on the dynamics of setting the Doomsday Clock, a metaphoric predictor of human-caused catastrophe. We first met Rachel through our work on nuclear risk reduction with the N Square Collaborative. Her commitment to utilizing creative expression as a pathway to engagement on complex issues led to a unique collaboration between Rachel, The Bulletin, and two members of the PopTech community, the art curator Pedro Alonzo and the sculptor Pedro Reyes. Together with Times Square Arts, they produced Amnesia Atomica which featured Pedro Reyes’ mushroom cloud sculpture ZERO NUKES.
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…