Every city has its neighborhoods, cliques and clubs, the hidden lines that join and divide people in the same town. What can we learn about cities by looking at what people share online? Starting with his own home town of Baltimore, Dave Troy has been visualizing what the tweets of city dwellers reveal about who lives there, who they talk to — a...

In a powerful and wide ranging discussion, Congressman Elijah Cummings implores Americans to hold a mirror to ourselves and ask if we like what we have become. He argues that we should throw out the labels that divide us and focus on being Americans, and that it is our duty to leave our democracy in tact for future generations. The video is take...

After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, chef José Andrés traveled to the devastated island with a simple idea: to feed the hungry. Millions of meals served later, Andrés shares the remarkable story of creating the world's biggest restaurant -- and the awesome power of letting people in need know that somebody cares about them.

Can we trust in our privacy and data security or are the risks of data harvesting widely misunderstood? David Troy shares how combining advanced micro-targeting with artificial intelligence poses particular risks, how this can affect the future of our fragile democracies, and why we now need stronger, moral and ethical leadership from companies ...

Dave Troy is a serial entrepreneur and community activist in Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently CEO and product architect at 410 Labs, maker of the popular email management tools, Chuck and Mailstrom. He has been acknowledged by the founding team at Twitter as the first developer to utilize the Twitter API, with his project “Twittervision,” wh...

Many countries, including the United States, are ongoing targets of election interference, but it’s difficult to know how to respond to this threat. In this talk, disinformation and social media data researcher Dave Troy offers some new ideas about how we are likely to be manipulated — and what we might be able to do about it. He posits that cul...

Recently we have seen that disruptive new technologies like social media and disinformation can have a big impact on our democratic processes. But this is just the latest incarnation of a larger pattern: disruptive geopolitical events, like the fall of the Soviet Union, played out in a similar way, with some of the same players. Dave Troy call...

How we can use history to fight information warfare Bitcoin, Conflict, Cryptocurrency, Culture, Cyber, Data Science, Energy, History, Internet, War

What is the role of social media in our society nowadays? How can governments and groups of interests take advantage of them? What have we learnt about recent lessons such as Brexit and Trump's 2016 election? Dave Troy poses excruciating questions, and probably the most important are what is our responsibility as citizens, and what kind of world...

Cryptocurrencies and web3 were born from a long tradition of reactionary responses to the New Deal and the abandonment of the gold standard. We trace that history and discuss the implications it has on design, intent, and future of cryptocurrencies and web3.

Dr. Westenberg demonstrates in a friendly way, how microbes are all around (and inside) us and why we should care.

From a man who says that Bengaluru will be unlivable by 2020, we hear solutions to the water worries of not just today, but also of tomorrow. Dr TVR, has been constantly working towards the well being of the people and of the ecology simultaneously. This talk aims at empower and enlightening everyone that ecology and people need to go hand in ha...

In the 1970's IBM was the big, bad computer giant that built huge mainframes with all their own hardware and software. Yet in 1981 it introduced an open, personal machine priced for everyone, using commercial, off the shelf components. How did they go from Big to Small?

In German, Lebenshilfe means Life Help. At Lebenshilfe India, intellectually impaired children from the poorest segments of society are becoming happy, independent adults through a unique synthesis of special education methods from around the world, specialized training in local folk arts, and a distinctive program using the arts as therapy.

He explained about the experiences in ISRO ,wherein he explained about his various work assignments and the virtues that he picked up from it.

Dr. Sargam Dev Soni is a versatile, compassionate human who is a perfect example of Beauty with Brains and a Heart to match. She spoke on the lines of “Winning through Enlightenment”. Her views were rather motivational and much needed for this generation.

A humanlike AI teacher teaching everyone globally is an exciting, yet scary and innovative idea. This is a talk about how one piece of technology can solve one of the biggest social development challenges of modern society - solving the education and skills gap. Most talks out there are about the negatives of AI, especially in education. This ta...

Through this dance piece, the dancers depict the different idioms and metaphors of life. The complexities of different human relations are portrayed through these metaphors. Through Sasvatha the limitlessness of different complexities of human relations is portrayed