Cucalorus Connect /// A future for everyone
November 14-15, 2019
Brooklyn Arts Center (BAC), 516 N. 4th Street
Cucalorus Connect explores the intersection between creativity, technology, and humanity. This two-day gathering brings people together to discuss what kind of future we could build if we use innovation and technology to expand our sense of humanity. This year’s conference features leading thinkers on health, finance, startups, coastal resilience, racial justice, and so much more. Join us for two days of difficult conversations, playful interactions, and friendship. And help us build a future for everyone.
Connect Pass: $120
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2019 Connect events ::
Blockchain Technology What’s Hot vs What’s Hype
Girard Newkirk (moderator), Rich Spuller, Mathias Sundin, John Tuman
Blockchain is widely considered as a key technological component that will enable the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It is poised to fundamentally change the way machines, people and businesses interact. Most...
Brews ‘n Bytes: Connect Speakers Party
Join us as we celebrate the visionary humans who share their stories at the Cucalorus Connect Conference - A Future for Everyone! This social hour sponsored by NC TECH featuring...
Building Resilient Coastal Companies
Jake Kheel
How can companies can become engines of environmental innovation? Companies can be disruptive agents of change and innovation, breaking paradigms and transforming industries. However, the destructive creativity of companies is...
Digital Humans in Healthcare
Marie Johnson
Cardiovascular disease and health illiteracy is a deadly combination affecting many millions of people globally. Disadvantaged communities, people with disability, and women suffer disproportionately. Marie will talk about what she...
Housing Segregation, Poverty and Justice
Angela Tucker (moderator), Randall Dottin, Cedric Harrison
Since the early 1900’s Housing Segregation policy has had the most enduring affect on American cities - quarantining black and brown people to confined areas, cutting them off from opportunity...
Idea Bounce
Judges: Diane Durance, Tobin Geatz, Kevin Carlson
Are you one of those humans who get your best ideas in the shower? Ever wonder how to make it happen? They say it's hard to know a good thing...
Influence of Design
Colin Allen, Erin Kennedy, Gon Kim, Stephanie Jarrett
How can design influence the experience of a product? The product design team at nCino, a cloud-banking software company, shares their wisdom of how storytelling is vital to the design...
Keynote: The Power of Connection
Nick Adkins
Everyone craves connection. It’s hardwired in our DNA as humans. Let’s explore the power of connection. Explore the positive benefits of being open, willing, and present - to saying “Yes!”...
More Than Words: How visuals can help us heal healthcare
Katie McCurdy, Dr. Anita Ravi
The culture of healthcare is built on words: spoken, written, and typed words. But in many cases, words don’t work. They can’t efficiently explain bodily sensations or lifetime journeys; they...
New Age Marketing: Martech
Jennifer Manocchio
“Martech” is the latest buzzword in the marketing industry. It refers to any technology that a marketer can use to reach a potential customer…from social media scheduling platforms like Hootsuite...
Ready, set, headset!; the VR Salon kickoff
Emma Jaster, Sara Fenton, Matt Pearson
Join us for Ready, set, headset! The VR Salon kickoff, with filmmakers, entrepreneurs, and experts in ARVR, gathered to blow your mind with possibilities. Join us Thursday at 9:30am for the Salon...
Regenerative Medicine in the film Five Minutes
Peter Gilbert, Dr. West Paul
Baptiste Touissant’s dreams of opening a Cajun restaurant ended when a suicide bomber detonated only feet from him in Afghanistan. Baptiste, terrified of surviving his devastating injuries, begged his buddy...
Reparations and Reconciliation in the US South
Jackie Olive, Bree Newsome Bass
Join Sundance Award winning filmmaker Jackie Olive and Bree Newsome Bass for an in-depth discussion about lynching, memory and truth.
Startups: 10×10 Challenge Screening and Rocket Pitch
10x10 Challenge: 10 entrepreneurs are paired with 10 filmmakers and challenged to make a three minute promo video in five days. A Norwood Cheek original, the 10x10 Challenge originally paired...
The Art of the Requirements Workshop
Craig Zdanowicz, Daniel O'Sullivan, Brett Dooies, Blake Fortier
How do you squeeze creativity from your customers who may be similar to and not unlike stuffy bankers in suits from a century old industry? In this interactive UX design...
The Great Capitalism Debate
Malaika Paquiot (Moderator), Maurice BP Weeks, Dr. Adam Jones
As the U.S. economy continues to break records in multiple measurements, several questions are being asked by politicians, the news media, and everyday people. Who really benefits from capitalism in...
You’re in The Matrix, You Just Don’t Know It
Dr. Curry Guinn, Dr. Julian Keith
Are we living in the paradigm developed in the The Matrix movie franchise? As we interface with technology on a daily, if not hourly basis, we influence technology. In turn,...
PRESS:
- Cucalorus Festival Gets State Economic Development Funds
- Cucalorus Connect Forms Executive Board, Names President
- 2017 CEA Winner In Film: Cucalorus Connect
For more information or to get involved, contact:
- Rachel Taylor, Programming Director: programming@cucalorus.org
- Jennifer Salter, Connect Coordinator: connect@cucalorus.org
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