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Center For Humane Technology’s Tristan Harris And Aza Raskin Launch Humane: A New Agenda For Tech

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SFJAZZ Center –– Over 300 people, representing a broad and influential spectrum of leaders, decision makers and scholars from in and around the technology industry, gathered today at San Francisco’s SFJAZZ Center to hear Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, Co-Founders of the Center for Humane Technology (CHT), launch Humane: A New Agenda for Tech – a powerful, more hopeful path for technology. Human downgrading is a systems-level explanation for how we ended up in the middle of a technology-driven existential crisis due to increasing the extraction of human attention. CHT’s new agenda calls on all technology creators to approach innovation to protect a deeper understanding of our basic human nature and focus on benefitting rather than “downgrading” humanity.

To help catalyze this Agenda with urgency that matches the globally accelerating scale of the issue, CHT announced a number of steps to engage the technology community in a positive direction forward:

  • A new and shared “systems-level” language and diagnosis that accurately describes the entire surface area of the global crisis connecting issues such as information overload, addiction, social isolation, outrage, polarization and election hacking, which downgrade our attention spans, relationships, children’s development, mental health, civility and democracy.
  • Public events leading up to a Humane Technology conference in the next year.
  • Design guides to facilitate assessment across human sensitivities and social spaces to help guide designers in redesigning their products.
  • Launching “Your Undivided Attention” –– a new podcast hosted by Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin with interviews from some of the most sophisticated experts in human nature, giving us all new insight into how to diagnose and accurately address human downgrading.

Human Downgrading

While our technology has been feverishly and profitably upgraded, humanity has been downgraded

While most conversation around technology and AI was concerned with when it would surpass human intelligence, we forgot to think about what would happen when it surpassed human weakness. We are in that moment today. CHT’s New Agenda for Tech posits that all human beings are born with the same root vulnerabilities and that when they are exploited across billions of people over decades, the result is widespread systemic failure: addiction leading to depression and suicide, polarization leading to isolation and radicalization, election hacking leading to untrusted results, loss of attention, loss of ability to think critically, sleep disorders, etc. This is human downgrading.

A system-level understanding of the problem brings unified language to set a new course across every discipline informing tech and human interaction:

  • Policymakers — create policies that incentivize humane technologies, recognizing the limits of human nature and protecting citizens from human downgrading.
  • Designers — instead of extracting attention by exploiting human sensitivities, design to protect our minds from manipulation and repair our shared social fabric.
  • Technologists — hold their employers accountable for human downgrading.
  • Media — create surround-sound public pressure to discuss and reverse human downgrading.
  • Researchers — accelerate a unified study of how attention extraction and human downgrading harm society.

“As a lone Product Manager and Design Ethicist at Google in 2013 trying to get a few people to pay attention, I had very little hope,” said Tristan Harris, Co-Founder of CHT. “Thanks to people like CHT Advisors Roger McNamee, Sandy ParakilasRenee DiResta, our Co-Founder Aza, brilliant storytellers like Max Stossel, scientists like Guillaume Chaslot, and far too many others to name who’ve come forward with similar knowledge and experience, the conversation has dramatically shifted to holding tech’s feet to the fire of its deep accountability. The Center for Humane Technology is very excited to move beyond the cacophony of minor product grievances and to build a broad movement of concerned technologists setting a positive, hopeful path forward.”

Humane: A New Agenda for Tech was live-streamed on CHT’s newly-updated website humanetech.com, and was attended by icons, founders, VCs, CEOs, designers and innovators from across the industry. A replay of the event will be available on CHT’s website soon at humanetech.com. For more information about how you can get involved in our Humane Agenda, go to humanetech.com.

 

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Five Senior Executives from the Online Industries to Participate in the Executive Outlook Keynote Panel in Tech Conference Europe

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Five Senior Executives from the Online Industries to Participate in the Executive Outlook Keynote Panel in Tech Conference Europe

One of the most expected panels in Tech Conference Europe will be Executive Outlook 2021, which shall host on the same stage, amazing and inspirational executives, leading the Tech, Fintech and Gaming industries. Speakers shall include Ms Gali Bloch-Liran, who is working with Israeli’s top tech start-ups and is a sought-after speaker, radio host, coach and consultant; Mr Marius Galdikas, CEO of Lithuanian based EMI ConnectPay which grows rapidly on the online markets; Mr Motti Peer, CEO of ReBlonde, a PR agency working with tech and fintech famous brands; Mr Tal Itzhak Ron, Chairman and CEO of Tal Ron, Drihem & Co., Law Firm, the top tech attorney who works with the biggest names in the online industries, and Mr Jens Podewski, CEO at Hamburg and Malta Based FinXP, a specialist in the international credit card and payment processing market. The panel will be moderated by Ms. Emily Helmer, Head of Compliance and e-Merchant Services at Tal Ron, Drihem & Co., and Mr. Genia Gurevitz, Head of Banking and Payments Services at the firm.

This special event shall discuss the topics that are relevant to the day to day executive workflow. How CEOs manage their day-to-day challenges, develop their leadership skills and balances required to scale an online venture sustainably? What leadership methodologies perform best and what makes a service provider excel in its performance, service, effectiveness and response time? All this and more in a panel which you cannot afford to miss.

Check out the full agenda, all the speakers or register here!

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PICANTE MARKETING Summit Speaker Profile: Maayan M. Dana (HEAD OF CONTRACT LAW AT TAL RON DRIHEM AND CO.)

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#PMS2020 – The Virtual (Digital) Edition of PICANTE MARKETING Summit will take place on the 5th October and is part of Hipther Festival.

We are happy to provide you with the opportunity of attending the conference for free thanks to our Registration Sponsor, Altenar.

You can register here and explore the latest marketing techniques adopted in this interesting year, which we all call 2020!

The event gathers 30 experts who share their knowledge around compliance-related matters and updates to the +500 participants! Make sure you are one of them!

Today, we are introducing you to one of these experts whom you can hear present or moderate at PICANTE MARKETING Summit, which is now a virtual event due to the 2020 year’s challenges.

Advocate Maayan M. Dana-Nir, a seasoned e-commerce lawyer and entrepreneur has been involved in the online industries for years. Prior to pursuing her legal career with Tal Ron, Drihem and Co. 7 years ago, she has been working with Tadmor-Levy– one of Israel’s largest law firms, where she dealt with Israel’s largest payment institutions.

As a senior hi-tech and gaming attorney, she heads the Contracts department at Tal Ron, Drihem and Co., handling complex corporate matters, website compliance, drafting agreements and providing ongoing consulting to the firm’s clients. Maayan has been a speaker in Sigma Conferences, ICE, Go Gaming, DMIExpo, Affiliate Summit and iFXExpo, and advises many of the leading players in the iGaming, FX and ad-tech worldwide.

For further sponsorship/speaking and marketing inquiries, make sure to reach out to Andrada Bota (B2B Sales Executive at Hipther Agency).

For media-related inquiries, please contact Alexandru Marginean (Marketing Specialist at Hipther Agency).

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FINTECH AND AI DURING COVID19 (panel discussion) to be joined by representatives from Nasdaq, Western Union, Bankera and more at TCE2020VE

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THE PUSH FOR MORE FINTECH AND AI DEVELOPMENT DURING COVID19, A KEY DISCUSSION AT TECH CONFERENCE EUROPE VIRTUAL EDITION.

Europe – 25 May 2020 – #tce2020ve Money is an overwhelming subject, even more so during a pandemic. Compulsive spending is a common feature of bipolar disorder and many of those who suffer from anxiety and depression use shopping to deflect negative feelings. While overall payments are being shrunk, the pandemic is giving a boost to long-delayed fintech advances. The world economy is also in danger and it seems that now more than ever, Fintech and AI are being put to good use.

At the virtual edition of TECH Conference Europe, Fintech and AI experts will join a panel discussion and highlight some of the recent developments in the fields and how these technologies are changing the status quo.

On the 9th of June at TCE2020VE, you have the opportunity to hear more about these subjects and the plans that being implemented as you are reading this news from the top experts in the field.

The “FINTECH AND AI DURING COVID19” panel discussion will be joined by Kamilė Valatkaite (Manager of General Counsel Office at Western Union), Erja Retzén (Senior Managing Director, Global Listing Services at Nasdaq), Steven Jacobson (CEO and Founder at Appinium) and Craig Grant (VP Strategic Partnerships at Bankera), and will be moderated by Stefania Barbaglio (Founder and Director at Cassiopeia Services).

Registration is free and the seats are limited, so make sure to register in time on the following link!

Visit www.virtualedition.techconference.eu for more details!

For further inquiries about the speaking/attending/sponsoring options, make sure to send an email to Andrada Bota (B2B Sales Executive at Hipther Agency)

For media-related inquiries, please contact Alexandru Marginean (Marketing Specialist at Hipther Agency).

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