Hear how four “real” writers were able to overcome their distaste for “clickbait”and embrace the viral landscape to succeed in creating meaningful content that reaches a massive amount of people. Explore how you optimize social engagement, but also responsibly engage with your audience. The panel will feature tips and tricks used to make content more shareable.

Embracing Virality Without Selling Your Soul

This sessions answers the questions, what are the implications of a daily commute that is both driven by digital demand and electrified by battery technology? What will the "street of the future" look like?

The Street Of The Future

Fred Kent, the founder and president of Project for Public Spaces, discusses the ideas and new directions for the future of Placemaking, and with exciting new opprtunities for leveraging this convergence. Fred will share examples from his practice of what communities can accomplish with successful Placemaking. He will also discuss the strategies for advancing Placemaking locally and globally

The Future Of Placemaking Is The Future Of Cities

Get a sneak peek at ARPA-E’s upcoming programs from the Agency’s Director, Dr. Ellen Williams. The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) advances early stage high-potential, high-impact energy technologies with the goal of innovating a future in which the clean energy we need is provided sustainably and economically.

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