Toshi Anders Hoo
Principal, Possibility Spaces
Former Senior Research Director, Institute for the Future
October 28–30 · Vancouver
A picture of what collaborative intelligence between people and AI could look like, from someone who spent a decade researching what comes next.
Thu 29 · 12:10–12:30 PM
The Model is the Medium: The Future of Collaborative Intelligence
Session details →Vancouver time · Times may change
About Toshi Anders Hoo
Toshi Anders Hoo is a futurist, technologist, researcher, and the founder of Possibility Spaces, a design strategy studio that helps organizations work through transformational change. He spent a decade as Senior Research Director at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, where he founded the Emerging Media Lab. He also served as a media technology advisor to Ray Kurzweil, co-producing and directing Kurzweil’s documentary The Singularity Is Near. His work has been featured at the United Nations, TED, SXSW, Intel, Google, and the Dubai Future Forum. At IFTF he led a W.K. Kellogg Foundation study of what community-centered AI needs, down to local AI and computing sovereignty, the same ground BC builders are arguing over now.
Where to find Toshi
- Thursday · October 2912:10–12:30 PM
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9
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The Future of Collaborative Intelligence. What collaborative intelligence between people and AI looks like when it works, from a decade of futures research.
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