Nov 14 2016
Nicholas Negroponte
Leading IT Specialist and Chairman, One Laptop per Child Foundation
Nicholas Negroponte is a world-renowned technology visionary with the keenest understanding of technology and its impact on business and society. He is a pioneer of visionary technology, and the driving force behind One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organisation that seeks to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves via computers. To date, OLPC has two million laptops committed and one million already in the hands of children in 19 languages and 31 nations including Haiti, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Palestine.
“A pioneer in the field of computer-aided design”
An original investor in WIRED (and the magazine’s “patron saint”), for five years he penned a column exploring the frontiers of technology — ideas that he expanded into his best-selling book Being Digital. An angel investor extraordinaire, he’s funded more than 40 startups and in the private sector, Nicholas Negroponte served on the board of directors for Motorola, Inc. and as general partner in a venture capital firm specializing in digital technologies for information and entertainment.
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An exceptional speaker, Nicholas’ broad range of experience and thorough understanding of digitization and its effect on industry make him the foremost authority on transformations that define our future.[/expand]
Nicholas is a brilliant speaker who brings great depth to his immaculately researched presentations. Highly engaging and fluid, his style is nonetheless very well punctuated allowing time to absorb his powerful messages.[/expand]
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Topics
One Laptop per Child
The Future of Telecommunications
Where New Ideas Come From
Perceptual Computing
Learning and Common Sense
Publications
1996
Being Digital
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