DETROIT – With Labor Day
past, get ready for Techonomy Detroit next Tuesday at Wayne State University – the fourth annual deep dive into the many ways tech is changing everything in
our companies, our work, our cities, and our country.
Today the changes come
too fast for us not to study them constantly. So we’ve curated an extraordinary
group of thinkers and leaders from tech and business to help.
Aetna CEO Mark
Bertolini, compellingly profiled this week in USA Today,
will explain why we need a new kind of capitalism, and how he’s trying to build
an “Uber for healthcare.” (He’s paying about $35 billion for Humana
to do it.) Tech guru Esther Dyson will detail her own vision for a
tech-infused American healthcare system. Mayor Mike Duggan and his CIO Beth
Niblock will both update us on Detroit’s progress in technologizing itself
as part of its own revival. Autodesk CEO Carl Bass will talk about the
importance of craft, and how biology promises big breakthroughs for
manufacturing. And executives from Google, IBM, Microsoft and many other
companies will join foundation leaders, startup entrepreneurs, and
crowdsourcing masters in an all-day mashup of cutting-edge ideas about the
future of our economy, and your company.
We’ll launch a $250,000
startup challenge for Detroit transportation, sponsored by veteran incubator
IdeaLab. Then we’ll close our day with business strategist John Hagel explaining how Detroit could go beyond being just an interesting revival story
and become a movement. Detroit leaders on stage and our audience throughout the
hall will brainstorm how to make that happen faster.
You can sign up here. But even if
you can’t come, please tweet with hashtag #techonomydetroit your thoughts on
what makes Detroit great. We’ll retweet the best ones and post them onstage
during our closing Detroit-as-movement discussion.
