Conference News: Joining Forces for New AI Courses; CloudNativeCon CFP
Summer Entertainment Soiree: DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group has held its EnTech Fest for content distribution and marketing executives, platform partners, technology enablers, trend trackers, connected device/display developers and all innovators across the digital entertainment ecosystem for the past three years. And this summery DEG is adding a new event to the EnTech brand, with EnTech Fest Summer Symposium on 30 July at the Skirball Cultural Center. This symposium will build on the success of EnTech Fest but offer a “more compact and collaborative working conference than “big” EnTech.” Attendees will hear technology use cases and networking, concluding with a 40Under40 cocktail reception recognizing 40 rising stars in the industry.
Joining Forces for New Courses: Ai4 2024, which is self-described as the world’s largest gathering of artificial intelligence leaders in business, recently announced a partnership with General Assembly that will offer AI Trainings to conference attendees. The event takes place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas from 12 – 14 August. On the first day of the event, attendees can sign up for 2-hour courses for non-technical business leaders and 4-hour trainings for the more technical audience. The courses will cover topics such as Generative AI, AI Ethics, AI for Workplace Productivity, Machine Learning, and more. Note that these opportunities are only offered to registered attendees and cost an additional fee to participate.
Submission Opportunity: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference will bring professionals from leading open source and cloud native communities together in Salt Lake City, Utah from 12-15 November 2024. The conference committee is accepting speaker suggestions through 9 June following their detailed guidelines. After listening to attendee feedback, they made some updates to the conference content and tracks, so be sure to read through their helpful (Call for Presenter) CFP tips before submitting your idea via the online form.
Lunchtime Learning: Milken Institute’s Global Conference – held earlier this month at The Beverly Hilton in LA – may boast an invite-only guest list and tight security, given the world and business leaders who attend. Luckily, anyone with an internet connection can stream every public session from the agenda for free. This year’s theme “Shaping a Shared Future” addressed critical issues ranging from geopolitical challenges to the transformative power of AI. Tune in here to learn about the future of food retail; here to listen to CEOs from Google Cloud, IBM, and Motorola address the GenAI revolution; here to learn about curing neurodegenerative diseases; and here to discover how efforts are elevating women in key job sectors globally.
Coming Up Next Week: Money 20/20 Europe kicks off 4 June in Amsterdam, offering a convening for the European fintech ecosystem to meet “where money does business.” Shoptalk Europe (3-5 June; Barcelona) offers insights into the ever-evolving European retail ecosystem, focusing on the rapid evolution of how consumers discover, shop, and buy across all retail verticals. Held virtually, DeveloperWeek Europe runs 4-5 June, providing engineers and developers with educational sessions on topics like cloud, DevOps, AI & ML, and containers/Kubernetes. Global ICT and IoT leaders from 150 countries head to Computex (4-7 June; Taipei) to hear how emerging technologies are impacting the computing supply chain and ecosystem. Landmark Ventures Social Innovation Summit runs 4-5 June in Chicago, spanning the corporate, philanthropic, investment, policy, cultural, civil society, and innovation landscape. And on 5 June, US News State of Equity in America Conference is held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC to pose the question: How far have we really moved toward erasing disparities and building an equitable foundation for all in the economy, the education system, and health care?