May FEW Meeting Emerging Technology Panel 7 PM

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Emerging Technology and what it will mean in our lives.

The May meeting will feature a stellar panel of Emerging Tech Pioneers and Prognosticators, Michael Sheetal,  Kris Tate, and Fumi Yamazaki.

Mike Sheetal is Founder/Director of UltraSuperNew Inc., a Tokyo based interactive creative agency. He has been living and working in Japan since 2002 and since 1994 has been active in a large variety of digital projects ranging from advertising to performance art.

Kristopher Tate is widely known for single-handedly competing with Flickr / Yahoo! Inc. at scale via his work on Zooomr and is also jump-starting the Web industry in Japan through his company BlueBridge.Multiple books and magazines have been written about him including Jon Swartz’s Young Wealth: Trade Secrets from Teens Who Are Changing American Business

Fumi Yamazaki is a bilingual traveller / researcher / consultant / journalist, a guest researcher at The University of Electro-Communications, and a researcher at Joi Ito’s Lab. She formerly worked for NTT, Internet marketing research company Interscope, and Digital Garage where she was involved in VC investment, incubation of startups and hosting conference and events. She was the founding member of Technorati Japan, involved in various free culture movements including Creative Commons Japan and iCommons.

 

Time:

19:00 PM

Venue:

Tokyo City Club, Canada Embassy B1F, 7-3-38 Akasaka

Price:

3000 yen for members and 6000 yen for guests

EMERGING TECH; •The next billion people will come to the Web via connected mobile devices. Currently, many of these devices are humble dumb clients, but
the iPhone, Google, and Nokia are bringing smarter clients to the masses with open platforms. How will these mini-computers change our lives? Will we be able to use the third screen to view an augmented world? What data will be collected and who will have access to it? Is the Web ready for the Next Billion? What will their web apps look like?

•Digital savvy mothers and fathers are starting their own families. How is that changing home technology? Education technology? What does
the future geek home look like and how does it function? Or how should it function?

*Web2.0 generation- Young people today socialize, plan and communicate online with comfort and skill- how do you see this web-generation
changing the demands and interactions between companies and consumers. Orgs and members? School and Students?

*Clay Shirky’s book Here Come Everybody http://www.amazon.com/Here-Comes-Everybody-Organizing-Organizations/dp/0143114948/ref=ed_oe_p

—talks a lot about the crowd sourcing and crowd power that is changing the web. What do you think about the new power of the crowd?
What are the positives and negatives, and what should business do to prepare and participate?

•Objects are beginning to socialize. A new era of low-bandwidth, low-power wireless networks is enabling a revolution in device communications that could change our homes, cars, and clothes