20 Reasons Why Virtual Conferences Are the Future

Con­fer­ences have long been a sta­ple of the pro­fes­sion­al cal­en­dar. Now, after a reces­sion that has slashed trav­el expen­di­ture, the land­scape for events is chang­ing. Sophis­ti­cat­ed dig­i­tal plat­forms are enabling vir­tu­al envi­ron­ments that sim­u­late the ben­e­fits of real events, and atten­dees are begin­ning to shift to access­ing sub­ject mat­ter experts and indus­try net­work­ing online. But…

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Four New Speakers Confirmed — 2011 SharpBrains Summit

We are hon­ored to announce four new con­firmed Sharp­Brains Sum­mit Speak­ers: Nigel Smith at AARP, Peter Kissinger at the AAA Foun­da­tion for Traf­fic Safe­ty, Kei­th Wesnes at Unit­ed BioSource, and Ken Kosik at UCSB Neu­ro­science Research Insti­tute. Nigel Smith, AARP Strat­e­gy and Inno­va­tion Direc­tor, is respon­si­ble for devel­op­ing decen­tral­ized inno­va­tion mod­els for AARP and for…

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Talk @ UCLA Technology & Aging Conference

Quick note: I will be speak­ing at the UCLA Tech­nol­o­gy & Aging Con­fer­ence on Fri­day, Octo­ber 29th, in Los Ange­les. Please drop me a line or intro­duce your­self if you are plan­ning to attend. The Sched­ule fea­tures many good ses­sions, includ­ing one on Brain Fit­ness: Descrip­tion: Grow­ing sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence sug­gests that such strate­gies as physical…

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Ontario Innovation Summit: The Business of Aging

MaRS (a Toron­to-based inno­va­tion cen­ter) has just announced the Ontario Inno­va­tion Sum­mit: The Busi­ness of Aging to “fea­ture some of the world’s top experts focused on the many issues that the aging of the glob­al pop­u­la­tion pos­es for com­mu­ni­ties, gov­ern­ments, aca­d­e­m­ic and health­care insti­tu­tions, and businesses.”

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Agenda: ASA Brain Health Day, Powered by SharpBrains

The Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging and Sharp­Brains have part­nered to co-pro­­duce a pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment day for pro­fes­sion­als in the field of aging. The day is themed “New Tools, New Part­ner­ships”, and will take place on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 11th, 2009, dur­ing ASA’s West Coast Con­fer­ence on Aging, in the Oak­land Mar­riot City Cen­ter, Oak­land, CA. “Giv­en aging…

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