Ttc 2018 Speaker Summary
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TTC 2018 SPEAKER SUMMARY Speaker Name:- Nichol Bradford Title:- Co-Founder & Executive Director, Transformative Tech Lab Talk Title:- Market Overview: 2018 Overview of the TransTech Market Speaker Bio:- Nichol Bradford is fascinated by human potential and technology. She is the CEO & Founder of the Willow Group and the Executive Director and co-founder of the Transformative Technology Lab, Conference, and TT200 List. Prior to becoming a leader in Transformative Technology, Bradford was a senior executive in video games with responsibility for strategy, operations and marketing for major brands that include: Activision Blizzard, Disney, and Vivendi Games -- including operating World of Warcraft China. Speaker Linkedin:- https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholbradford/ Speaker Website:- http://nicholbradford.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speaker Name:- Dr. Bashar Badran Title:- Research Assistant Professor, The City College NY; Postdoctoral Fellow, Army Research Lab; Co-Founder, Bodhi NeuroTech 1 Talk Title:- Bio-Stimulation: The Many Wanderings of the Vagus Nerve Speaker Bio:- Dr. Bashar Badran earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Medical University of South Carolina, and holds a dual-appointment in Neural Engineering at the City College NY and the U.S. Army Research Laboratories. Dr. Badran is an expert in invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation techniques, specifically transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders and vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) to augment human performance. Recently, he has pioneered several non-invasive alternatives to conventional VNS and is the inventor of E-meditation, a neurostimulation-enhanced meditative practice. He is also the co-founder of Bodhi NeuroTech, an early stage technology company developing neurostimulation and BCI wearables for meditation, human performance, and psychiatric disorders. His research program revolves around championing novel, non-invasive techniques that modulate the central and peripheral nervous systems with outcomes focused on improving mental performance, accelerating post-stroke rehabilitation, and treatment of mood disorders. Speaker Linkedin:- Speaker Website:- https://www.neuralengr.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speaker Name:- Dr. Ben Goertzel Title:- Chief Scientist, Singularity.net Talk Title:- AI: Using Distributed AI & Blockchain for TransTech Speaker Bio:- Dr. Ben Goertzel is Chief Scientist of robotics firm Hanson Robotics and financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings; Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society and the OpenCog Foundation; Vice Chairman of futurist nonprofit Humanity+; Scientific Advisor of biopharma firm Genescient Corp.; Advisor to the Singularity University and Singularity Institute; Research Professor in the Fujian Key Lab for Brain-Like Intelligent Systems at Xiamen University, China; and general Chair of the Artificial General Intelligence conference series. His research work encompasses artificial general intelligence, natural language processing, cognitive science, data mining, machine learning, computational finance, bioinformatics, virtual worlds and gaming and other areas. He has published a dozen scientific books, 100+ technical papers, and numerous journalistic articles. Before entering the software industry he served as a university faculty in several departments of mathematics, computer science and cognitive science, in the US, Australia and New Zealand. He has three children and too many pets, and in his spare time enjoys creating avant-garde fiction and music, and exploring the outdoors. Speaker Linkedin:- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bengoertzel/ 2 Speaker Website:- https://singularitynet.io/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speaker Name:- Dr. Deborah Rozman Title:- CEO HeartMath Inc Talk Title:- Group Flow and the Global Coherence Project Speaker Bio:- Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., is President and CEO of HeartMath Inc. She is also a behavioral psychologist, educator, and author. HeartMath develops scientifically validated training and coach certification programs for emotional self-regulation, energy management and resilience to improve health and well-being and optimize performance. HeartMath also develops scientifically-validated technologies, such as the award winning emWave and the Inner Balance technology to optimize heart-brain synchronization for higher performance, better decision-making and leadership. See http://www.heartmath.com. Deborah is a key spokesperson for the HeartMath system, giving media interviews and keynote addresses throughout the world on how heart rate variability coherence training can accelerate personal growth and expand consciousness. Deborah has penned a dozen books, and co-authored with Doc Childre the Transforming book series, published by New Harbinger. The series includes four titles, including Transforming Stress, Transforming Anger, Transforming Anxiety and Transforming Depression. She also co-authored the HeartMath Brain Fitness Program and Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart. Deborah is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council and is on the Advisory Board of the Transformative Technology Lab. She enjoys hiking in the redwood forest where she lives, tending her rose garden of 40 vintage roses, and exploring fun new apps. Speaker Linkedin:- https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahrozman/ Speaker Website:- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speaker Name:- Dr. Poppy Crum Title:- Chief Scientist, Dolby Laboratories Talk Title:- Immersive Technologies: Leveraging Human Physiology and Perceptual Realities to Enhance Experience 3 Speaker Bio:- Dedicated to developing immersive technologies that leverage human physiology and perceptual realities to enhance our experiences and interactions in the world. Speaker Linkedin:- https://www.linkedin.com/in/poppy-crum-9792298/ Speaker Website:- https://www.dolby.com/us/en/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speaker Name:- Dr. Jeffery Martin Title:- Co-Founder & Research Director, Transformative Tech Lab Talk Title:- Psychology & The Human Mind 2.0: Extraordinary Wellbeing and Advancement in Stimulation Speaker Bio:- Dr. Jeffery A. Martin is a founder of the Transformative Technology space, serial entrepreneur and social scientist who researches personal transformation and the states of greatest human well-being. He spent the last 10 years conducting the largest international study on persistent non-symbolic experience (PNSE), which includes the types of consciousness commonly known as: enlightenment, nonduality, the peace that passeth understanding, unitive experience, and hundreds of others. More recently, he has used this research to make systems available to help people obtain profound psychological benefits in a rapid, secular, reliable, and safe way. Speaker Linkedin:- https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjefferymartin/ Speaker Website:- http://drjefferymartin.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speaker Name:- Nanea Reeves Title:- CEO & Co-Founder, TRIPP, Inc. Talk Title:- AR/VR: Building Mood-Altering Virtual Reality Experiences Speaker Bio:- Nanea brings over 15 years experience in digital distribution, video game technologies and mobile application development. Prior to founding TRIPP, Nanea was President & COO of TextPlus, one of the top mobile communications applications on iOS and Android platforms. Before joining TextPlus, Nanea was the COO of Machinima, an online video network focused on video games. Nanea has also 4 served as Chief Strategy and Product Officer at Gaikai, a cloud gaming company acquired by Sony Playstation. SVP/COO, Global Online for Electronic Arts, and SVP of Enabling Technologies of JAMDAT Mobile, a mobile games company that EA acquired in 2006. Nanea is very committed to supporting the evolution of the technology sector in Los Angeles and has worked as an Advisor and Angel Investor with many exciting So-Cal start-ups including Oculus, Haku, and Saucey. Speaker Linkedin:- https://www.linkedin.com/in/naneareeves/ Speaker Website:- http://tripp.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speaker Name:- Philip Rosedale Title:- Co-founder & CEO, High Fidelity Talk Title:- AR/VR: Social Emotional Connection in VR -- Restitching the Social Fabric of Connection Speaker Bio:- Philip Rosedale is CEO and co-founder of High Fidelity, Inc., a company devoted to exploring the future of next-generation shared virtual reality. Prior to High Fidelity, Rosedale created the virtual civilization Second Life, populated by one million active users generating US$700M in annual transaction volumes. In addition to numerous technology inventions (including the video conferencing