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What’s up?
Dear PopTech Friends and Family,
Summer is upon us, and PopTech 2024: Uncharted Territory is taking shape! Having just returned from the Oslo Freedom Forum, we’re reminded of the amazing power of in-person convenings. They provide an opportunity to engage in ways that Zoom can’t replicate. They provide a hall pass from daily routines. They deliver new friends and good book recommendations. Added bonus – screen time goes down over those few days!
Now’s the time!
Give yourself the gift of PopTech at a discount—the Midterm Registration at $1250 ends on June 30th. Take advantage of a $350 saving off the full registration rate of $1600.
What’s in store
Here are a few topics we’ll be exploring and speakers who will lead the conversations:
+ Where we go from here: Maurice Mitchell
+ Geopolitics: Dmitri Alperovitch
+ Transforming how we deal with conflict: Beatrice Fihn and Shamil Idriss
+ Decoding complexity through creativity: Marian Goodell, Vince Kadlubek, and Brian Collins
+ New horizons in psychedelics: Sarah Rose Siskind, Kat Lakey, and Leonard Pickard
+ The amazing thing about technology: Pablos Holman
+ Whistleblowing – duty to report and expose wrong-doing: Libby Liu
+ Abundance: Nick Gillespie
Join us live October 8-10, 2024, at The REACH at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, for a program filled with talks, debates, field trips, and more! Additional highlights and announcements are coming in July.
Group Rates & NGO Discounts
PopTech is a wonderful way to celebrate with friends and family or to plan a collegial offsite. We’re happy to help you with group pricing and planning. Work in the nonprofit, education, or government sector? Contact us for a discount. Reach out to [email protected].
Stay in touch, stay in tune,
The PopTech Team
PopTech 2024: Uncharted Territory
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Worth a Watch
Resuscitate: Nuanced Thinking – Maurice Mitchell’s closing talk of PopTech 2023. In a new tradition, the closer will become the opener! We look forward to Maurice’s reflections on the past year and his thoughts on the future.
The Dangers of Nostalgia—Stephanie Coontz gets real about nostalgia, history, and modernity, warning, “There’s a reverse side of historical nostalgia, and that is an equally airbrushed, romanticized vision of modernity and innovation.”
Like these talks? Visit the PopTech YouTube Channel – home to a treasure trove of timeless content.
Reading Corner
World on the Brink: An Essential Blueprint for the Future by Dmitri Alperovitch, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin’s intention to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine months before it took place, lays out the case for why China’s Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan in the coming years and the dire stakes for America and the world if he is not deterred. We are honored to welcome Dmitri to PopTech 2024!
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…