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  • Completed: November 14, 2019 PST
    Physical Event, Health, Politics, Technology, Global

    A Path to Humane Technology – with Tristan Harris

    Series: What's Now: San Francisco

    Tristan Harris believes that many technology companies have gone too far. They are tapping into base desires and fears hardwired into our primitive animal brains to keep people hooked on social media. The result is what he calls “human downgrading” which is leading to a wide range of social ills, from depression to political polarization. Harris is a world expert on how technology steers us all, the former Design Ethicist at Google who left to co-found the Center for Humane Technology, and he was our featured guest at What’s Now: San Francisco in November.

    Participants: Tristan Harris
  • Completed: May 30, 2018 PST
    Politics, Technology

    The President and CEO of New America Discusses a Better Way to Solving Civic Problems

    Series: The Future of Sharing

    Ann-Marie Slaughter heads the nearly 20 year old New America – a think tank that considers itself “a civic platform that connects a research institute, technology lab, solutions network, media hub and public forum.” Her wide-ranging and energizing conversation touched on many of the challenges and downsides of the new era of tech as as well as her optimism relating to how communities throughout the US are finding solutions.

    Participants: Ann-Marie Slaughter
  • Completed: December 20, 2017
    Politics, Technology, Economics

    California is the Future—of American Politics

    At the inaugural TEDxOakland event in October, Reinvent Founder Peter Leyden explained how California sets the precedent for what happens in the rest of the nation—only 15 years early. From anti-immigrant backlash to corporate tax cuts, California has experienced many of the challenges and missteps that now face the United States as a whole, and…

    Participants: Peter Leyden
  • Completed: December 2, 2017 PST
    Politics, Economics

    The Macro View on Transitioning to the Next Economy

    Series: The Future of Work

    In early December, the Berkeley Work and Intelligent Tools and Systems (WITS) working group hosted a conference to discuss working, earning, and learning in the age of intelligent tools. A number of conference participants sat down with Reinvent to talk about how they would explain the moment we’re in, what challenges we face, what solutions…

    Participants: Laura Tyson, Lenny Mendonca, Susan Lund, Stuart Feldman, Brad DeLong, Andreas Schleicher, Niels Nielsen
  • Completed: December 1, 2017 PST
    Politics, Economics

    In the Wake of the Senate’s Tax Bill, What Does Our Economic Future Look Like?

    Series: The Future of Work

    Laura Tyson, Faculty Director of the Institute for Business & Social Impact at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, took some time out of her day at a conference hosted by Berkeley and the OECD titled “Working, Earning, Learning In The Age Of Intelligent Tools” to share her thoughts on the future of work.

    Participants: Laura Tyson
  • Completed: October 17, 2017 PST
    Physical Event, Politics, Technology

    The Treaty of San Francisco (1/4): Can California Model the Future of Work?

    Series: The Future of Work

    America today desperately needs a 21st-century model that enables companies and increasingly independent workers to thrive together in our new high-tech, global economy. A polarized, paralyzed government in Washington D.C. won’t lead the way anytime soon. Is it time for a “Treaty of San Francisco” which replicates the 1950 “Treaty of Detroit?”

    Participants: Gavin Newsom, Jennifer Granholm, Peter Schwartz, Natalie Foster, Ahmad Mansur, Cassie Divine, Catherine Bracy, Roy Bahat, Peter Leyden
  • Completed: October 17, 2017 PST
    Physical Event, Politics, Technology, Economics

    Treaty of San Francisco Event (2/4): Jennifer Granholm, Natalie Foster & Ahmad Mansur

    Series: The Future of Work

    In the first hour of our Treaty of San Francisco event, we focused on the historical Treaty of Detroit, and what the future of work might look like for the labor side of the equation.

    Participants: Jennifer Granholm, Natalie Foster, Ahmad Mansur
  • Completed: October 17, 2017 PST
    Physical Event, Politics, Economics

    Treaty of San Francisco (3/4): Gavin Newsom on California’s Potential to Model the Future of Work

    Series: The Future of Work

    When it comes to modeling the future of work, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom believes his state has a long way to go.

    Participants: Gavin Newsom, Peter Leyden
  • Completed: October 17, 2017 PST
    Physical Event, Politics, Economics

    Treaty of San Francisco (4/4): Peter Schwartz, Cassie Divine, Roy Bahat & Catherine Bracy

    Series: The Future of Work

    The third and final hour of our Treaty of San Francisco event focused on the world of tech, and tech companies can help proactively build a better future of work.

    Participants: Peter Schwartz, Cassie Divine, Catherine Bracy, Roy Bahat
  • Completed: September 21, 2017
    Politics, Economics

    Resurrecting the Idea of Government as the Steward of Public Good

    Series: The Future of Work

    Carmen Rojas, CEO of The Workers Lab, founded the workers lab because she wanted to help ensure that upward mobility remains a possibility in the American economy. Rojas spoke about the experience of her immigrant mother, who was offered workplace training, benefits, a living wage, and a no-interest loan to buy a house through her job cleaning an office building, all of which allowed her “a footstep into the middle class.”

    Participants: Carmen Rojas
  • Completed: September 6, 2017
    Politics, Economics

    Using Cities to Pilot New Initiatives for Independent Workers

    Series: The Future of Work

    In the United States and around the world, public policy is increasingly outdated for today’s workplace realities. In the face of a federal government often paralyzed by partisanship and gridlock, it’s time to start focusing on policy innovation at the local level, especially in cities. Given the seemingly endless list of problems that need fixing, where should an innovative mayor start?

    Participants: Michael Tubbs, Trebor Scholz, Melissa Netram, Todd Rufo, April Rinne, Donnie Fowler
  • Completed: June 28, 2017
    Politics, Global

    The Reinvention of America – Peter Leyden Keynote Presentation

    In this keynote presentation at the American Planning Association (APA) conference, Peter Leyden makes the case for how the chaos and disruption of the early 21st century will yield a more digital, global, sustainable world.

    Participants: Peter Leyden
  • Completed: January 19, 2017
    Physical Event, Politics, Learning

    Reimagining the Digital Reform of Government in the Trump Era

    Series: What's Now: San Francisco

    The Bay Area tech community, like much of the rest of the country, is still grappling with what Trump’s election will mean for the future of the United States. The future of many digital efforts—including the United States Digital Service, created by President Obama in 2014 to encourage people with tech expertise to do a tour of duty improving government—is one looming question.

    Participants: Jen Pahlka, Tim O’Reilly
  • Completed: December 15, 2016
    Politics, Learning

    The New Way Forward After Trump

    One way to read the election of Donald Trump is that Americans want the current system – the way our economy, society and government work – to undergo a fundamental transformation. What is the beginning of a political grand strategy that plays off Trump and creates a more transformational way forward that actually solves the challenges of our times?

    Participants: Joe Trippi, Becky Bond, Simon Rosenberg, Ruy Teixeira, Peter Leyden
  • Completed: December 12, 2016
    Politics, Economics

    Harvard’s Resident Millennial Expert Talks Politics & the Sharing Economy

    Series: The Future of Sharing

    John Della Volpe, Director of Polling at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and Founder and CEO of SocialSphere, has been studying Millennials since 2000. It all started, said Della Volpe, with two Harvard students who wanted to survey Millennials and find out why they were volunteering but not voting. Della Volpe has been polling and analyzing this generation—which he defines as people born between 1980 and 2000—ever since.

    Participants: John Della Volpe, Peter Leyden
  • Completed: November 15, 2016
    Physical Event, Politics, Technology

    The Election’s Impact on Innovation with Gavin Newsom

    Series: What's Now: San Francisco

    The results of the 2016 election will have many repercussions for the San Francisco Bay Area, the tech sector, the innovation economy, California, not to mention the nation and world. One week after the election, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom analyzed what really happened, what opportunities have now opened up, and what the best strategies are going forward.

    Participants: Gavin Newsom
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