Name: The World in 50 Years
Start: 2019-10-22T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Quartz

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The World in 50 Years

Today, society feels like it's changing faster than ever—and technology has consistently been at the cutting edge. As that pace accelerates, we've invited some of the world's most brilliant thinkers to give us their best predictions about what kind of technology will have the biggest impact on society, and what that impact will be.

In 50 years, the world will reach a tipping point. Join the Quartz community as we predict, debate, and explore what happens next.

Tuesday, October 22

6:15PM: Check-in
6:30PM: Program

8:00PM: Covert Cocktail Club happy hour

Quartz HQ

675 Avenue of the Americas

New York

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Speakers

SOPHIA DOMINGUEZ

Sophia Dominguez is the CEO & Co-founder of Svrf, the search engine for AR and VR. She also founded AllThingsVR, a weekly newsletter that highlights the best AR and VR news and content. Previously, she was the Entrepreneur in Residence at Rothenberg Ventures and was also the first person to travel the world with Google Glass and document how people reacted to seeing and experiencing it for the first time. Sophia graduated from NYU Gallatin in 2013 with an individualized B.S. degree in “How Technology Impacts Human Interaction."

KATHY BAUGHMAN MCLEOD

Kathy Baughman McLeod is the director of the Adrienne Arsht–Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center at the Atlantic Council. She creates and executes the center’s strategy to help one billion people be more resilient to the challenges of climate change, migration, and security by 2030. Baughman McLeod is the former senior vice president, Global Environmental and Social Risk, for Bank of America.