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On Our Agenda ANTICIPATING THE UNEXPECTED FiRe 2019 is all about helping you anticipate pivots, trends, and tipping points in an increasingly volatile and unexpected world. How will the future of genetics and the climate crisis impact the global economy and the future of your business? How and when will general AI evolve? And what's the real story about the future of 5G? You'll find all of this - and more - at FiRe 2019, including: China's Economic Strategy o Kim Stanley Robinson, Science-Fiction Author o Mark Anderson, Chair, Future in Review; Founding CEO, Pattern Computer Inc. Teaching Cars to See: Sensor Tech in the Autonomous Industry o J. Augusto de Oliveira, EVP & CTO, Cypress Semiconductor o James Barrese, Strategic Advisor & Investor, Altos Group; Former CTO, PayPal What the Federalism: The Election Machines Are Broken o Harri Hursti, Founding Partner, Nordic Innovation Labs o Jody Westby. CEO, Global Cyber Risk; Professional Blogger, Forbes Reinventing Personal Health Through Circadian Rhythms o Larry Smarr, Founding Director, Calit2 (a UCSD/UC-Irvine Partnership) o Satchin Panda, Professor, Regulatory Biology Department, Salk Institute o Pam Taub, Assoc. Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UCSD Learn more about FiRe 2019 and see the latest agenda here.
FiRe 2019 Speaker Spotlight: Osh. Agabi on Computing with Lab-Grown Neurons
Osh. is the founder and CEO of Koniku, a company that combines lab-grown neurons with FPGA chips to create machines that can sense volatile organic compounds (VOCs). A form of chemical data both human-made and emitted by plants and animals, VOCs can be found in breath, the microbiome, and sweat glands, as well as urine and other bodily wastes. And Osh. is using Koniku's iPhone-sized sensing machines, known as Konikores™, to identify trends that aren't currently trackable by traditional silicon chips alone. Koniku has already landed customers in the aviation and pharmaceutical industries, including AstraZeneca, the UK-based pharma company. Boeing signed a letter of intent to use the tech in chemical-detecting drones. One customer, a drone company, hopes the processors will prove superior in detecting methane leaks in oil refineries. Another aims to use the processors to model the effect that certain drugs will have on a human brain. In July, Koniku inked a long-term collaboration with Stuttgart's Fraunhofer Institute IPA, with funding from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs, to help build out manufacturing for Konikores and to establish the institute as a synthetic biology manufacturing base. We're delighted to welcome Osh. to Future in Review 2019 for a conversation about the future of computing. Learn more about FiRe 2019, see Participant bios, and register here. Register by September 5 to receive (Does not apply to discounted tickets)
Publisher's Note: There are times when a techno disaster is coming, everyone knows it, we all discuss it, and yet still it arrives. In the world of IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) and critical infrastructure, that time was already a few years back. As you'll see below, last week I had the pleasure of joining a panel on theCUBE, Silicon Angle's podcast series on this subject, together with well-known China IP-theft expert Evan Anderson and Phillip Lohaus, similarly qualified on the government side and now at the American Enterprise Institute. As I'm doing here, it seemed the right idea to switch the conversation early on from "What if," with regard to enemies in our infrastructure, to "What's next?" Anyone who thinks, given China, Russia, and the US (throw in Iran and NK for good measure) and their proven APT abilities, that all of us are not already embedded with logic bombs in all of our critical infrastructures, is just not paying attention. If true, and I believe it is, then why hasn't anyone taken down a whole country yet? The answer is simple: the knowledgeable experts on all sides fear this kind of "Cybergeddon" more than they fear a limited nuclear exchange. Why? Because the latter would be limited, with predictable death and destruction rates. The former would not. In other words, we are now facing a new global security problem: in a world of infrastructure quickly dominated by machine-to-machine network communications, and with billions to trillions of completely insecure IIoT devices embedded therein - well, what could possibly go wrong? In this week's issue, Jeff Hussey, CEO of Tempered Networks who earlier founded the amazing F5 Networks, talks about how to respond to this threat. To all of our members who use electricity, drink water, or want to sleep at night, I know you'll be interested in what he has shared with us in this week's discussion. - mra.
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Nigeria-born Osh. [Note: period not a typo] Agabi has lived in six countries across three continents and speaks five languages. But that's far from the most impressive thing about him.