BIL 2008

Speakers

Adrian Cockcroft Netflix (in 2010) Aileen Mapes Choreographer and filmmaker Alexander R. Gorbis Alexandros Pagidas TheGlint Andrew Mello Aubrey de Grey SENS Research Foundation Bill Erickson BIL co-founder Boris Galitsky Kango Brad Templeton Electronic Frontier Foundation Brooks Cole Chris Heuer Founder, Social Media Club; founder, Alynd Chris Phoenix Christine Peterson Co-Founder & Past President, Foresight Institute Cody Marx Bailey BIL Conference Cofounder Craig Sim Webb Executive Director, The DREAMS Foundation Daniel Kraft Stanford University / UCSF Dick Karpinski Dylan Tweney Wired.com Erica O'Grady Gabriel Kent Garrett Lisi Theoretical Physicist Ilsa Bartlett Jason Youn Professional photographer Jonathan Sheffi Harvard Business School Class of 2011, BIL:PIL 2009 organ... Justin Orkney KV Fitzpatrick University of Southern California (graduate student, Neur... Kai Chang BID.IO Lisa Galarneau Mark Fitzsimmons Beekeeper and Aerospace Engineer Martin Codrington Texas A&M University (graduate student, Nuclear Chemistry) Nick Ernst Nikhil Nilakantan President & CEO, Social Span Media LLC Pat Reilly IP Society (ipsociety.net) Praveen Paritosh Quinn Norton Wired.com (journalist) Rand Fitzpatrick Reichart von Wolfsheild Prolific Publishing, Inc. Rion Snow Stanford University (PhD Candidate, Computer Science) Ryan Plesko Shannon Clark MeshForum (founder) Todd Huffman CEO, 3Scan Tom Munnecke Uplift Academy Tyler Emerson Singularity Institute (Executive Director, Singularity Su...

Talks

• Advancement of the TED Prize — Bill Erickson
• Always the Next Human — Quinn Norton
• An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything — Garrett Lisi
• BIL: Brainstorming Next Steps — Tyler Emerson
• Breathing and Other of Life's Little Secrets — Ilsa Bartlett
• Copying Minds + Patternism — Brad Templeton
• Coworking to Coliving — Digital Utopia? — Cody Marx Bailey
• Dare to be wise! - Reclaiming Philosophy from the Anatomists of Thought — Alexandros Pagidas
• Darknets: fascist gated associations, or intentional community? — Reichart von Wolfsheild
• Don't cry for me, Google: Semantic Analysis of Travel Reviews to Understand Feelings — Boris Galitsky
• Dyslexia: From Vicious Cycle To Opportunity — Chris Phoenix
• Experiment on and with Children — Dylan Tweney
• Flexibility, Openness and Consensus: Keys to your Destiny — Mark Fitzsimmons
• Free Isn't Communist — Chris Phoenix
• Friends Guide to Social Media — Erica O'Grady
• Growing Up Gifted: The State of the Art of Raising Brilliant Minds — KV Fitzpatrick
• Hacking the Human Fantastic — Todd Huffman
• HoloGenesis and the Geometry of Meaning — Brooks Cole
• How to Be a Successful Heretic — Aubrey de Grey
• Innovation Killed the Radio Star — Ryan Plesko
• JustGo - Really easy site navigation — Dick Karpinski
• LIST: Local Intelligence is There — Alexander R. Gorbis
• Life Extension Personal Strategies — Christine Peterson
• Lucid Living™: Consciously Harvest the Power of Dreams to Boost Success & Life Mastery — Craig Sim Webb
• Millicomputing: The Future in Your Pocket — Adrian Cockcroft
• Molecular Manufacturing: Fantastic Fabrication, or Fantastic Fabrication? — Chris Phoenix
• Motivation Psychology. Learning Optimism. — Kai Chang
• Networked Economics - modeling economics AS a network — Shannon Clark
• Open source journalism — Dylan Tweney
• Open source-style security for the physical world — Christine Peterson
• Outsourcing Survivability - The Disconnect Between Basic Human Needs and Us — Justin Orkney
• Photography for the Common Man? — Jason Youn
• Procedural Lifestyle Hacking — Rand Fitzpatrick
• Reflections on Resilience: Summary of a recent Uplift Academy Workshop on Resilience — Tom Munnecke
• Short Film Festival — Aileen Mapes
• SmoothFlow - A GPS enabled traffic calming system — Dick Karpinski
• Social Bonding — Jonathan Sheffi ▶ video
• Stem Cells: Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid to Ask — Daniel Kraft
• Telephone Pictionary and the Future of Computational Semantics — Rion Snow
• The Anti-Tipping Point — Andrew Mello
• The BIL Social Graph Experiment — Nikhil Nilakantan
• The Cause of the Cambrian Explosion — Chris Phoenix
• The Computer is the new Sewing Machine: benefits and perils of a global information marketplace — Praveen Paritosh
• The Evolving Social Contract of IP Rights — Pat Reilly
• The Future of Airships — Nick Ernst
• The Genocide of the Curious Mind — Martin Codrington
• The Rise of the Machines and the End of Transit — Brad Templeton
• The Smart Utility — Gabriel Kent
• TheySaid - A cheaper, faster way to learn what's in expensive academic journals — Dick Karpinski
• Transforming the Heart of Business - Is there room for the concept of 'love' @ work? — Chris Heuer
• VibrantHealth - Making HEALTH matter in our non-system — Dick Karpinski
• Why Virtual Worlds are Good for the Soul — Lisa Galarneau

Organizers

• Cody Marx Bailey Co-founder
• Bill Erickson Co-founder
• Todd Huffman Co-founder