Thursday, September 20
8:30 pm - 9:45 pm
(Theater)

Join David Williamson one of the world’s most talented magicians for a unique performance and journey deep inside the fascinating realm of magic. David who has been featured on ABC’s Champions of Magic and has hosted the United Kingdom’s television series The Magic Comedy Strip  will dazzle everyone with his heart-stopping style of magic and then engage the audience in an informal conversation about the history, art and science of magic. This all takes place inside Louisville own unique ….”magic’ Theatre.

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Considered to be one of the world's most talented magicians, David Williamson knows the secret of capturing the imagination of any audience. A born showman and an unusually accomplished sleight of hand artist, David dazzles audiences with a unique and delightful brand of entertainment, blending heart-stopping magic with sidesplitting hilarity.

His best-selling magic book, Williamson's Wonders, has been translated into three languages. His instructional DVDs "Sleight Of Dave", "Dave 2" and "Magic Farm" are bestsellers worldwide.

 

Thursday, September 20
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
(Kentucky Center)

Rosalind Picard, Sc.D, Professor, MIT Media Lab, Co-founder, Chairman, Chief Scientist Affectiva

Picard will take the IF audience through a journey into the future of the exciting new field of Affective Computing....which uses technology to help measure and communicate emotion. Dr. Picard who is recognized as the creator of this field has along with her students has invented a range of novel technologies including small wearable biosensors, to ordinary webcams with software that can read your heart-rate, respiration, and facial expressions. 

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 Rosalind Picard is a professor at the MIT Media Lab, best known for writing the book Affective Computing, which launched what is now an internationally recognized field with that name.  She and her students have invented a variety of technologies to help people measure and communicate emotion.  The technologies range from small wearable biosensors, to ordinary webcams with software that can read your heart-rate, respiration, and facial expressions.  Picard is also co-founder, chairman, and chief scientist of MIT spin-out company Affectiva, which has commercialized the Q sensor for reading autonomic data comfortably 24/7 and Affdex facial analytics for recognizing facial expressions

Picard is author or co-author on over 200 scientific publications.

She is a popular speaker and storyteller and her work appears also in WIRED, The New York Times, the London Independent, National Public Radio, Vogue, New Scientist, USA Today, Popular Science, BBC, Forbes, and more.

Presented by Humana and Humana Vitality.

Speaker: Maurice Ashley

Thursday, September 20, 2012
08:00 AM - 08:45 AM
(Kentucky Center)
ALL-ACCESS PASS HOLDERS, SPONSORS AND PRESENTERS ONLY

Chess grandmaster Maurice Ashley follows his event at Thrivals 5.0 with an IF Mash-Up on the relationship between chess, business strategy and success.

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 Maurice Ashley lives his passion. Through his love for chess, he not only made history as the first African-American International Grandmaster in the annals of the game, but he has managed to translate his love to others as a three-time national championship coach, two-time author, iPhone app producer, puzzle inventor, DVD creator, ESPN commentator and motivational speaker.  He has traveled the world as an ardent spokesperson of the character-building effects of the game, going from the rough and tough streets of Kingston, Jamaica and Brooklyn, New York, where he grew up, to the crime-ridden neighborhoods of Detroit, the townships of Cape Town, South Africa and the poverty-stricken jungles of Belize, Central America. His book, Chess for Success, (Broadway Books, 2005) crystallizes his vision for the character-building effect of chess, particularly for at-risk youth, and he continuously spreads his message of living one’s dream to universities, businesses, chess clubs and non-profit organizations around the globe. His app, “Learn Chess! with Maurice Ashley,” has been sold in over 30 countries, and he has received multiple community service awards from city governments, universities, and community groups for his work. His drive and enthusiasm always has him on the go: for the fall of 2011, Maurice toured six Caribbean nations bringing chess, books and technology to children in the region.

Speaker: Peter Sims

Thursday, September 20
9:00 am - 10:00 am
(Kentucky Center)

Entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author Peter Sims explores how small discoveries and actions of “experimental innovation” can lead to breakthroughs ideas.

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Peter Sims is a best-selling author and entrepreneur.  His latest book is Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries, which grew out of a collaboration with faculty at Stanford’s Institute of Design (the d.school), a hub of creative thinking and doing, and his previous work in venture capital with Summit Partners, including as part of the team that established Summit’s European Office in London.  He was also coauthor with Bill George of the best-seller True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership, is a member of G.E.’s Innovation Advisory Panel, and is a Co-founder and Director of Fuse Corps, a social venture that places entrepreneurial leaders on year-long grassroots projects with mayors and governors to tackle some of America’s most pressing problems. 

Speaker: David Kaiser

Thursday, September 20
10:30 am - 11:30 am
(Kentucky Center)

The title of MIT’s David Kaiser recent book speaks for itself. Kaiser tells the story of how a group of talented young physicists immersed in the counterculture movement of the late 60s and 70s helped chart a course to fresh and bold scientific thinking.

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David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Department Head of MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and a Senior Lecturer in MIT's Department of Physics. His physics research focuses on early-universe cosmology, working at the interface of particle physics and gravitation.

His latest book, How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival (W. W. Norton, 2011), charts the early history of Bell's theorem and quantum entanglement.  He is presently completing a book entitled American Physics and the Cold War Bubble (University of Chicago Press, in preparation).

Thursday, September 20
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
(Kentucky Center)

As one of its first ten employees Kevin Colleran helped build Facebook into a global phenomenon. At IF he will provide an “insiders” view on the success of the company as well as his hard won insights on new media and reimagining and reenergizing companies and brands.

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As one of the first ten employees at Facebook, Kevin Colleran intimately understood what made the social networking giant so successful: a focus on user experience that was unhampered by intrusive ads. An engaging storyteller with an infectious sense of humor, Kevin offers an enlightening presentation on sales, marketing, and branding in the digital age. He offers corporations the hard-won insights for reimagining and reenergizing their sales and marketing strategy and, ultimately, improving their bottom line.

Thursday, September 20
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
(Kentucky Center)

Cynthia Lowen is the co-filmmaker of Bully, a feature documentary following a “year in the life” of America’s bullying crisis, which she developed, produced, and wrote in partnership with Emmy and Sundance Award-winning director Lee Hirsch. Filmed over the course of the 2009-2010 school year, Bully opens a window onto the pained and often endangered lives of bullied kids, revealing a problem that transcends geographic, racial, ethnic, and economic borders. It documents the responses of teachers and administrators to aggressive behaviors that defy “kids will be kids” clichés, and it captures a growing movement among parents, youth, and educators to change how bullying is handled in schools, in communities and in society as a whole.

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Drawing from Bully’s success, Cynthia Lowen and her team of filmmakers created The Bully Project Social Action Campaign, a collaborative effort in partnership with multiple organizations, foundations, brands, and corporate sponsors that aims to equip parents, kids, educators, and advocates with the tools to transform their communities. Partners include JPMorgan Chase & Co., Sears, The National Center for Learning Disabilities, Bing, the United Federation of Teachers, Autism Speaks, BBYO, Ashoka, and many others. This spring, The Bully Project announced the 1 Million Kids to See Bully campaign, which makes the film available to students in theaters, free of cost, with a wraparound educational program. The campaign will continue to expand through the 2012-2013 school year.

Through her work on Bully, Lowen has lectured extensively on bullying and school climate, as well as the social impact of documentary films and the future of trans-media projects, speaking at The Open Society Foundations, the International Conference on Human Values, the Producers Guild of America, New York Women in Film and Television, Colorado College, the University of Northern Iowa, the Tribeca Film Festival’s Tribeca Talks series, and Silverdocs, in addition to numerous Q&A’s for groups such as the National Center for Learning Disabilities, the United Federation of Teachers, student groups, and many others.

Speaker: Richard DeMillo

Thursday, September 20
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
(Kentucky Center)

Former Chief Technology Officer at HP, Computing Dean at GA Tech and now head of The Center for 21^st Century Universities, Rich DeMillo details how the rapidly changing dynamics of learning, technology and economics are conspiring  to reshape the very nature and destiny of American Colleges and Universities.

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Richard A. DeMillo is Distinguished Professor of Computing and Professor of Management, former John P. Imlay Dean of Computing, and Director of the Center for 21st Century Universities at Georgia Institute of Technology. Author of over 100 articles, books, and patents, he has held academic positions at Purdue University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Padua. He directed the Computer and Computation Research Division of the National Science Foundation and was Hewlett-Packard's first Chief Technology Officer.

Thursday, September 20
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
(Churchill Downs)

Features two hours of unlimited food and spirits provided by more than 30 of the region’s most creative chefs, restaurants, brewers. Baristas, distillers and mixologists with musical entertainment from Jordan English and DJ Ryan Cox at the legendary Churchill Downs, Millionaire’s Row 4. 

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Sponsors: Humana Vitality, Atria, Brown-Forman, Churchill Downs, Winston Industries, York Management, Inc. Xstreme Media, Barry Wooley Designs and University of Louisville Alumni Association.