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CIT Sponsors The New Yorker Conference: 2012: Stories From the Near Future

The New Yorker Conference – Stories from the Near Future
 

The bold visionaries of today share the bright ideas of tomorrow at the second annual New Yorker Conference – newly expanded to two days of forward thinking and eye-opening innovation.

The following highlights from the conference provide insight into the future, with emissaries from science, design, politics, medicine, technology, business, music, art, and more.

For more conference videos, please visit the New Yorker website.
 

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Stories From the Near Future

Humanitarian Engineering
Amy Smith talks with Rebecca Mead about applying new technology in the developing world.

Reinventing Invention
Malcolm Gladwell on the challenge of hiring in the modern world.

The Knockoff Economy
Scott Hemphill and Kal Raustiala talk with James Surowiecki about the effect pirated goods have on the fashion industry.

Saving the World Through Game Design
Jane McGonigal talks with Daniel Zalewski about alternate-reality gaming.

True Stories
Sheila Nevins and Jeffrey Toobin discuss the art of documentary filmmaking.

The Green City
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom talks with Dana Goodyear on what it means to be green in politics and in the world.

The Tanning of America
Steve Stoute talks with Kelefa Sanneh about marketing to a new generation of consumers.
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About the New Yorker Conference

The conference which was held in May, was sponsored by CIT for a second year in a row in a groundbreaking setting – the IAC building in Manhattan designed by Frank Gehry.  During the two day event, more than thirty-five designers, artists, entrepreneurs, architects, scientists, writers, musicians, and politicians presented ideas that will be making a difference in the coming years.