Futures Literacy for Cultural Relevance and Organizational Leadership

The 2021 Global Innovation Leadership Program asks, How might we imagine the future? That we might be confident enough to innovate radically in changes that invest in tomorrow’s sustainable well-being and prosperity.

Reimagine Collaboration

Renate Fruchter is the founding director of the Project Based Learning Laboratory (PBL Lab), lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Senior Research Engineer thrust leader of “Collaboration Technologies” at the Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering (CIFE), at Stanford. She leads a research effort to develop collaboration technologies for multidisciplinary, geographically distributed […]

Quantitative Predecessors to Human Actions

Carla Pugh is Professor of Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also the Director of the Technology Enabled Clinical Improvement (T.E.C.I.) Center. Her clinical area of expertise is Acute Care Surgery. She is the first surgeon in the United States to obtain a PhD in Education. Her goal is to use technology […]

Drop Dead Happy

In this session, after being read his last rights, Davis Masten shares his perspective and personal insights as he explores longevity as an artist and the importance of being available to himself-in the time he is has left. Seeking presence and choices in most every moment.

Can Consistent Trust Decisions Bring People Back to Work?

Bringing people back-to-work is a grand challenge that requires more than wearing masks, and conforming to hygiene, screening, and distancing. A key component of reopening the economy will be more Testing to establish trust and inform safer behaviors. Ajay Madhock dives into this issue.

Drop Dead Happy

The mediaX webinar series "Sharing Personal Journeys" continues with mediaX Distinguished Visiting Scholar Davis Masten. In this session, after being read his last rights, Davis shares his perspective and personal insights as he explores longevity as an artist and the importance of being available to himself-in the time he is has left.

Can Consistent Trust Decisions Bring People Back to Work?

Bringing people back-to-work is a grand challenge that requires more than wearing masks, and conforming to hygiene, screening, and distancing. A key component of reopening the economy will be more Testing to establish trust and inform safer behaviors. Ajay Madhock looks at this issue in the next “Thinking Tools for Wicked Problems” webinar.

Robotics and AI for COVID Resilience

From the mediaX webinar series “Thinking Tools for Wicked Problems”, Neil Jacobstein will cover some of the current uses of AI in addressing COVID-19, focusing on large scale collaborations such as the XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance, the Kaggle COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge, and many team efforts to develop drugs and vaccines.

Robotics for Human Resilience

mediaX Distinguished Visiting Scholar Neil Jacobstein addresses the importance of using robots during the COVID-19 pandemic period and beyond as bobotics can be framed as a useful set of tools for seamless extensions of our ability to do local work remotely.