Fwd: Special student luncheon Fri 3/14 noon with John Underkoffler; 1:00 p.m. Conference on Science Fiction & Entrepreneurship
Nate Beard
From: Brad Bernthal <brad.b...@colorado.edu>
Date: Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 5:13 PM
Subject: Special student luncheon Fri 3/14 noon with John Underkoffler; 1:00 p.m. Conference on Science Fiction & Entrepreneurship
To: Brian Pignanelli <brian.pi...@colorado.edu>, "john....@gmail.com" <john....@gmail.com>, Nate Beard <nateb...@gmail.com>
Below is a draft email that you can send out to your groups. Of course please edit / tweak as appropriate. Thx! Brad
From 12-1 on Friday March 14, John Underkoffler (https://www.ted.com/speakers/john_underkoffler.html ) will lead a student event in the Law School. Lunch will be served. John Underkoffler is an entrepreneur who founded Oblong and, additionally, is the technologist behind The Minority Report. This event is jointly presented by the Silicon Flatirons Student Group, Leads Entrepreneurial Alliance, and Innovate CU.
The luncheon is free for students. To RSVP, please alert Cactus Flower Woodworth-Lies cac...@colorado.edu by end of day Friday 3/7.
Following the 3/14 luncheon, please join CU-Boulder's Silicon Flatirons Center 2014 Entrepreneurship Conference at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, March 14th, 2014. More information and free student registration is available here.
The 2014 Conference analyzes the relationship between science fiction and entrepreneurship. Sci-Fi writers and entrepreneurs both imagine futures that do not yet exist. For entrepreneurs, the future is often one in which technology solves problems. Yet for sci-fi writers, the future is often one in which technology generates novel problems and tensions. Silicon Flatirons' Annual Conference, Sci-Fi and Entrepreneurship: Is Resistance Futile, will explore the relationships, similarities and synergies between the two disciplines.
The 2014 Conference is free for CU faculty, students, and staff. The line-up mixes entrepreneurial leaders and science fiction thinkers. Participants include entrepreneur and the technologist behind The Minority Report, John Underkoffler , science fiction author William Hertling, leading venture capitalists Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson of the Foundry Group, CU-Boulder Assistant Professor Lori Emerson, MIT researchers Dan Novy and Sophia Brueckner, CU-Boulder Instructor Benjamin Robertson, and others.
I encourage you to join us for a fun and stimulating set of discussions on March 14!
Associate Professor of Law
Colorado Law School
Director of Silicon Flatirons Center’s Entrepreneurship Initiative
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