March 2, 2009 - Monday
Senior Fellow Michael Cushman to present "Next Generation Learning Technologies" with a panel of experts on hand to help expand the thinking
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Simulation and Blended Reality for the Masses
No one has ever questioned the power of simulation: a fabulous training tool affordable only to the elite: pilots, military engineers, and Olympic athletes. Until now, simulation has been prohibitively expensive as industry pioneers struggle to recoop development and operational costs. But we are on the verge of a new era as a confluence of technical trends are poised to wash away barriers to mass adoption.
In the past, simulators made "simulated realities" drawn by artists. With next generation simulation, the real world is sucked into a digital format using input devices like laser scans and precision photography. High resolution images, precise spatial relationships, accurate attributes and behaviors will all combine to radical transform tomorrow's experience.
Just as Google maps cover the earth, the earth will be digitally scanned to create a parallel digital world. Not just the outside world, but the inside of the local Starbucks, the Louvre and The Playboy Mansion - all will become our 3D playground. Need a 1962 red corvette? Drag it into your shopping cart and plop it into your digital driveway. Not only will it be an exact replica, but you will be buying its performance and behavior too.
Real-time bio, neurological, emotional input and communications are coming. So when you smile, your simulated self smiles too. When you feel angry, so does your simulated self. There's almost not difference between actual and digital experience. Not only will this change how richly we communicate with one another, but also how we learn about learning. What is the ideal state for cognitive learning? What learning strategy works best for a learner's personality? What is the best way to teach after a learner shifts to doubt or confusion? What is more important, the emotional intensity or the number of repetitions over time?
Gaming and simulation technologies will merge. Learning will soon become a fun experience that turns learning into a sport, and the ease of practice translates into a far more durable form of understanding. Reality and digital reality will blend to form better real-time decisions and experiences. Digital training will click on whenever you need a refresher or an instant lesson (at Home Depot).
Join us as we push far beyond the limits of today's learning technologies to build the fertile minds of the future.
EVENT: Night with a Futurist
DATE: March 2, 2009 - Monday
TIME: 06:30am-09:00am
WEBSITE: http://www.davinciinstitute.com/events/466/night-with-a-futurist-monday-september-13-2010
LOCATION: MADCAP Theater, 10679 Westminster Blvd, Westminster, CO 80020
DIRECTIONS: Driving Directions
COST: $20, Members: Free, SuperMembers: Free
PHONE: 303-666-4133
TOPIC: Senior Fellow Michael Cushman to present "Next Generation Learning Technologies" with a panel of experts on hand to help expand the thinking
SPEAKERS: Michael Cushman, Allison Taylor, Michael Sitarzewski, Raymond Hutchins
SPEAKER: Michael Cushman
President of Key Change Institute and a Senior Fellow at the DaVinci Institute
Michael Cushman is a Senior Fellow at the DaVinci Institute who loves helping others create the future. Over a 30 year career, as an executive, management consultant and thought leader, Michael has proven results in leading operational excellence. Michael's expertise is in human development, advanced learning technologies and techniques, as well as business effectiveness. He specializes in creating award-winning products, successfully introducing profitable technology and process improvements at over 50 companies, including Fortune 500 companies such as Verizon, BT, Revlon, and Chevron. In his role as an executive, Michael served in leadership positions at several startup companies on their way to market success.
Michael is the President of Key Change Institute. He often speaks on the future of learning, career management, nonverbal communications, and advanced change techniques. He is a sought out expert and has appeared as a spokesperson on local and national TV.
MODERATOR: Allison Taylor
Business Consultant
Allison Taylor is a Business Consultant specializing in relationship selling, referral marketing, customer and employee retention and non-traditional sales training. Through her business, Paravox, she offers innovative marketing and performance tactics to significantly improve business growth and profitability.
PANELIST: Michael Sitarzewski
Founder and CEO of HyperSites.com
Michael Sitarzewski is a veteran entrepreneur with a specific focus on web based software and services. His internet startup career began in 1994 by co-founding an internet apartment search product, and continues today with companies in the web based website development and podcast streaming spaces. He understands the intricacies of the technology industry and considers helping people understand and leverage that technology his life's work. Michael is currently President of HyperSites (winner of the 2006 Colorado Inventor Showcase Software Company of the Year Award), and CEO of Callisto.fm. He also hosts several podcasts on technology and social media. You can find Michael at http://msitarzewski.com.
PANELIST: Raymond Hutchins
President of the SimGame Exchange and the Interactive Gaming and Simulation Alliance
Raymond Hutchins: Ray is a thirty year entrepreneur with deep, operational experience in a wide variety of businesses and industries. He has successfully built and sold multiple companies from the ground up.
As President of the SimGame Exchange (simgameexchange.com) and the Interactive Gaming and Simulation Alliance (IGSA.biz), he is a leader in the interactive media industry in Colorado. He is a specialist in the use of interactive gaming technologies to improve business performance. Leveraging off his extensive hands-on experience, Ray provides companies, both large and small, with creative, cost effective turn-around solutions via his business consulting company, RH & Associates (raymondhutchins.com).
As an active stock trader for over twenty years, Ray advocates that now is the opportunity of a life-time to make money in the stock market. He shares his trading knowledge via his newsletter and trading seminar at TraderPlus.info. In addition, Ray serves as Chairman of the award-winning TiE-Rockies Mentoring Program, which is responsible for helping entrepreneurs of all kinds launch and grow their companies Colorado.
