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11:00 AM Austin Convention Center: Room 9abc Digital Identities: Modern Underground Currencies Ever wonder what your SSN is worth on the dark web? What about your driver's license or health record? Every day, hackers are buying and selling consumers' stolen data and raking in hundreds, even thousands of dollars. Join CSID's Adam Tyler for an inside, real-time look at how cybercriminals collaborate and exchange ideas on the dark web, and walk away with tips to keep your identity safe. Adam Tyler Solo • Advanced 12:30 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 6ab Autonomous Cars Will Make Us Better Humans Could self-driving cars and the networks that power them have the same seismic im- pact on society that networking PCs did? Auto, design, energy and tech experts discuss the pros, hazards and ethics of autonomous cars, how machine- and people-driven cars can coexist and mind-blowing new technologies for living faster, safer, cheaper and in greener ways. Stefan Heck, Mark Platshon, J Christian Gerdes, Danny Stillion Panel • Advanced 12:30 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 8abc In-Car Entertainment in an Autonomous Future Autonomous vehicles will completely change our conceptions of what it means to drive. No longer will commuting be time wasted spent in traffic – it could be time spent working, communicating, watching movies – or even catching up on our sleep. What should we expect? What are the opportunities? Alexander Mankowsky, Tim Stevens, Vera Schmidt Dual • Advanced 12:30 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 9abc Face Recognition and Online Identity Facebook and Google use face recognition to help users organize and tag photos. Sur- prisingly, these algorithms are able to process images considered extremely challeng- ing for traditional face recognition systems. This session will discuss how well online face recognition algorithms perform, their vulnerabilities and limitations and what online face recognition means for privacy and security. Olga Raskin Solo • Advanced 3:30 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 5abc Build a Global, Open, Crowdsourced IoT Network RSVP REQUIRED. With technology just a few months on the market, you can build an Internet network for things without 3G or WiFi. The Things Network is on a mission to provide this technology globally through crowdsourcing. They managed to launch a network covering Amsterdam in six weeks. Soon cities around the world followed. This workshop will tell you all about setting up this IoT network. Wienke Giezeman, Johan Stokking Workshop (2 hours) • Beginner 3:30 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 6ab How Data Science Can Help Avoid the Next Recession When will the next recession hit? The best guess to this question often comes from lagging data. But now, with vast information from search engines, social media and even satellites, economists can help identify this and other questions earlier. Hear from analysts working to make this opportunity a reality at Indeed, Google and satellite imaging company SpaceKnow. Fabien Curto Millet, Pavel Machalek, Tara Sinclair Panel • Advanced 3:30 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 8abc Robot Cars and Sharing: Road Rage or Smooth Sailing? Transportation thinkers unpack the impact of autonomous cars, gig-economy-driven fleets and car sharing: convenience for many but hot button issues with urban planners and lawmakers. Will "robot" vehicles and car-sharing ease up traffic and pollution and save on fuel? Or will they clog up already overtaxed roads and the environment? Shad Laws, Marianne Wu, Frederick Soo Panel • Advanced 3:30 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 9abc Talking DNA: Programming a New Life Language We use DNA to cure diseases, pinpoint genetic disorders and create new materials. To do this effectively, scientists must be able to design and concisely specify collections of changes to DNA for in-lab testing. To empower these users, what's needed is a declarative language that allows people to express DNA design constructs in a more human-readable way. Aaron Kimball Solo • Advanced 5:00 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 6ab Crowdsourced GPS Data Means Smarter Cycling Cities During the past decade, bike share programs have proliferated, and bike commuting has increased by sixty percent, yet cities build infrastructure for bikes based on an- tiquated data. What if we could harness the power of crowdsourced, user-generated data from mobile tracking apps to map how people truly get around? How might we use this data to make cities better, safer places for more people to ride? Mark Shaw, Andrew Vontz, Tim Johnson Panel • Advanced 5:00 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 8abc The Linguistic Secrets Found in Billions of Emoji Are there hidden linguistic patterns in our quickly-dashed-off emoji utterances? Do emoji represent a fundamental shift away from old-fashioned word-based language or a return to a more flexible, pre-modern style of textual communication? McCulloch and Medlock have billions of data points from people's real emoji use – join them as they share these never-before-seen insights. Ben Medlock, Gretchen McCulloch Dual • Beginner 5:00 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 9abc Will AI Augment or Destroy Humanity? The era of the assistant that began with Siri has dominated the way people interact with mobile devices, computers, cars, wearables and appliances. But the next par- adigm in AI will do more than just change how we interact with computers; it will fundamentally change technology, acting as a new web fabric that orchestrates the world of information and services as we know it. Dag Kittlaus, Steven Levy Dual • Beginner SUNDAY, MARCH 13 11:00 AM Austin Convention Center: Room 5abc Happy Little Tingles: Exploring ASMR RSVP REQUIRED. Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a perplexing tingling sensation not felt by all. Join this session and attempt to demystify these con- troversial tingles. By the end you will have evidence that supports for or against ASMR and maybe even feel it. Bring headphones, a pen and a streaming device (cell phone, tablet or laptop) for wifi and to watch and listen to videos. Darshana Tuladhar, Tom Columbus Workshop (2 hours) • Advanced 11:00 AM Austin Convention Center: Room 6ab Get Your Goods: Unmanned Systems and 3D Printing Technology is redefining how we get what we want – exactly when we want it – with the advent of three delivery innovations: autonomous cars, unmanned aerial vehicles (also called drones) and 3D printing. This session will explore the latest innovations in these groundbreaking delivery methods. Doug Johnson, Gur Kimchi, Ping Fu, Richard Pelletier Panel • Intermediate 11:00 AM Austin Convention Center: Room 8abc Testing Your (Artificial) Intelligence The shot heard 'round the world, Siri entered the mobile industry and created a mar- ket demand for natural language technology. Now, consumers require the ability to interact with technology and industries are responding, leveraging natural language to enhance their digital platforms. This panel will explore the power of natural language and discuss how it will shape our world in the future. Alex Lebrun, Dror Oren, Dimitra Vergyri, Raj Singh Panel • Advanced INTELLIGENT FUTURE AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER; WESTIN AUSTIN DOWNTOWN FESTIVAL SESSIONS 1 3 6 I N T E L L I G E N T F U T U R E S X S W. C O M