TEDx Silicon Alley

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Date

Mon Dec 3, 2012 10:30am EST — Mon Dec 3, 2012 8:00pm EST

About

Headlining the event will be inventor and futurist, Ray Kurzweil and biotech venture capitalist and futurist, Juan Enriquez. Ray's new book, How to Create a Mind, was just released this past week, his first since his New York Times bestseller, The Singularity is Near. Keynotes will be given by Bre Pettis (Founder & CEO of Makerbot, Co-Founder of NYC Resistor hardware hackers' collective), Francesca Ferrando (Philosopher of Posthumanism & visiting scholar at Columbia University, doctoral candidate at University of Rome), Jincey Lumpkin (Attorney, CEO and Chief Sexy Officer of lesbian erotica brand, Juicy Pink Box and sex columnist for The Huffington Post) and Ken Segall (Adman to Steve Jobs, Creative Director of Apple's "Think Different" campaign who coined the name "iMac," author of Insanely Simple).