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Innovation | June 18, 2013 Jay Shuster on Innovating at Pixar: "Pain Is Temporary, Suck Is Forever"
— How does Pixar keep creating some of the most inventive films, year after year? According to innovation speaker Jay Shuster, it takes "relentless[ly] keeping an eye on everything that ensures quality." (Considering every Pixar film since Toy Story grossed an average of more than $500 Million in worldwide box office sales, it seems their perseverance pays off.) At
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Environment | June 18, 2013
Design For A Sustainable Future, Today: Alex Steffen & Mitchell Joachim
— Cities are the solution for a sustainable future, according to planetary futurist Alex Steffen. He recently paired up with fellow Lavin speaker Mitchell Joachim to discuss the future of urban planning at the Futuregreen Hospitality Forum in New York. In an in-depth Google Hangout, the...
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Big Data | June 11, 2013 Justin Fox: "What Are the Rules of the Game For the Big Data Revolution?"
— Corporations and governments are playing games with our data, but nobody's defined the rules. Economics speaker Justin Fox recently weighed in on the National Security Agency controversy in a post for The Harvard Business...
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Authors | June 11, 2013 Carl Hiaasen's Bad Monkey: Great Fun From Today's Funniest Novelist
— Fresh off the presses, bestselling author Carl Hiaasen's new book Bad Monkey is creating quite a buzz. Bad Monkey is the latest in his lineup of satirical novels; it addresses the ecological and social ills of Florida with scathing and hilarious accuracy. With twelve other bestselling novels and four bestselling children's books under his belt, Hiaasen is one...
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Cities | June 11, 2013 2013 Creativity 50: Cities Speaker Candy Chang Makes The Top 10
— Cities speaker Candy Chang proves you don't need expensive, high-tech devices to transform public spaces. That's why she made the 2013 Creativity 50 list this year. Creativity is a website that features the best in design, advertising, and digital creativity. Chang made it into the...
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Digital and Social Media | June 10, 2013 Social Media Won't Consolidate: Alexandra Samuel Has Five Reasons Why
— Digital media speaker Alexandra Samuel writes about a contemporary quandry. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Vine: Why can't we have one social media site that does it all? In The Harvard Business Review she refers to our current "embarrassment of riches [which] has given marketing, communications and customer relations...
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Rishi Desai's goal at the Khan Academy is to generate a wealth of content about pediatric infectious diseases and public health that is easy to access—and easy to understand—for anyone, anywhere. In talks like this one, he stresses the importance that open source, high-quality education can have in society—especially in the field of medicine. He explores this idea in-depth on stage where he shares the history of the Khan Academy and explains why self-pacing, open access education is so effective.