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Crowdsourcing saved lives after the Haiti earthquake. Part of the reason I’ve been so behind in planning BIL is I’ve been in Miami collaborating with members of the open-source / open culture community (Sahana, Ushahidi, OpenStreetMaps) and the US Government (USSOUTHCOM, US Coast Guard) to respond to the crisis in Haiti. I’ll give an inside look on how these two cultures worked together in ways that have never been seen before.

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Hello my name is Todd Huffman, and these are the things that I do… toddhuffman.pbwiki.com

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There is very little in our world that is actually impossible – it’s just that a lot of the time, we are missing one of 4 key elements: attitude, approach, action plan or accountability. This talk addresses each of these elements in turn, suggesting methods that will guarantee success on virtually any goal! Time permitting, the talk will focus on bonus topics: dealing with procrastination and staying motivated.

About the Speaker
I am a professional multi-tasker and am passionate about what I see as the two “extremes” of humanity: surviving (grand human challenges) & thriving (innovation, technology and creativity), and how we can use the latter to address the former.

As to how that translates into “what I do,” depending on when and where we meet, that answer could be Chief Medical Evangelist for CiviGuard Technologies, lead for partnerships development with the TEDx Silicon Valley Media team, co-founder of Space Without Borders (using space technology for global development), motivational speaker, Singularity University & International Space University Alumnus, Canadian medical student gone rogue, martial artist (1st degree black belt in taekwondo), musician (piano, singing/song-writing), writer or expert in a field I like to call “rocket surgery” – the point at which space tech and medicine converge.

Previously, I have completed degrees in neuroscience and space studies, and am halfway through a medical degree. I have served as VP Research for an inner city free-clinic for high-risk youth, VP Research & Development for a national organization promoting youth involvement in space exploration and development and Co-founder/Director of a community-wide anti-bullying program for school-aged children.

Published works include papers on telemedicine for the developing world, a book chapter on space spin-off technologies for medical benefit and clinical neuroscience. I also conducted pre-clinical and early clinical testing for neuroArm, a neurosurgical robotic arm based off CanadArm technologies and worked with the Crew Medical Support Office at the European Astronaut Center in Germany.

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Exploring the idea of using a variation of economic strategies, operating simultaneously, to give economics the strength of biodiversity.

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This talk introduces the kubernetes, his ancient tasks, and their relation to Plato’s Divided Line and Ship Of State metaphors. Norbert Weiner provides the following etymology of “…’Cybernetics,’ which I derived from the Greek word kubernetes, or “steersman,” the Greek word from which we eventually derive our word “governor.” Incidentally, I found later that the word had already been used by Ampere with reference to political science…”; Cybernetique. Weiner “ hoped that machines would release people from relentless and repetitive drudgery in order to achieve more creative pursuits. At the same time he realized the danger of dehumanizing and displacement.” Meanwhile, spirituality has long since been removed from philosophy and science. My work acknowledges and re-infuses the spiritual underpinnings of Plato’s Republic into Political Science, and the etymology of Cybernetics.

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Ross Bochnek is a InterActivation artist, designer, writer, alchtevist, educator, and original member of Lightning Temple and Disorient collectives. He develops Platonist Alchemist Cybernetic theory: an organic, esoteric alternative to clockwork Cyborgs, Cyberpunk Non-Fiction, wearable computing, video, Mixed Reality, GUI, and information visualizations.

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Please join us for a presentation explaining how we developed a full service international booking and promotions organization representing speakers, films, and performers based on lessons learned in the Do-it-Yourself punk scene of the 1990’s.

Evil Twin Booking Agency does booking and outreach for people like The Yes Men, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Dr. Mitchell Joachim, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Dead Prez, Alex Grey, Daniel Pinchbeck, and many more. www.eviltwinbooking.com

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Scott Beibin is the host of Scientists Are The New Rockstars and Lost Film Fest stage shows.

Liz Cole is a writer who has published articles in diverse publications from Wired to Filmmaker Magazine.

The are both the co-founders of the Evil Twin Booking Agency.

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TrialX is a web-based platform that combines the most powerful aspects of decision engines (algorithms) and social networks (the power of the community) to help patients find clinical trials that match their health conditions and connect with investigators conducting trials quickly and effortlessly. Our goal is to create a unique online ecosystem that enables patients, investigators and researchers to securely and privately find and connect with each other. This will not only help facilitate the development of new treatments, but also make biomedical research more efficient. Towards this goal, we have integrated with Google Health and MS HealthVault. TrialX also has a Twitter application. We have been featured on Nature BioTech, USA Today and other leading publications. We were awarded the first prize in the International Semantic Web Challenge open Web track.

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Karthik Gomadam is a researcher at the University of Southern California, with research interests in social computing and middleware systems. He works in the application areas of healthcare and energy informatics. He graduated with a Ph.D in Computer Science in 2009. He is a problem solver at TrialX. He can be reached at karthik domain trialx.com