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Premier: Tools and Weapons: The Promise and Peril of the Digital Age: An Evening with Microsoft President Brad Smith

September 16, 2019

Monday, September 16, 2019

Tech companies have moved fast to manifest the great promise of digital transformation, chasing rapid growth and sometimes disruption as an end in itself. The world has turned information technology into both a powerful tool and a formidable weapon, and today we are at an inflection point. Enormous challenges such as privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of AI, big tech’s relationship to inequality, and effects on democracy, come with no existing playbook.

Microsoft’s Brad Smith believes that when your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you played a part in creating. Tech companies and governments must work together to address the challenges and adapt to the changes technology has unleashed. And governments will need to regulate technology by moving faster and catching up with the pace of innovation that is impacting our communities and changing the world.

Don’t miss this provocative, compelling conversation that addresses some of the thorniest issues faced by industry and society today. How can the hopes technology offers be protected against the very real threats it also presents?  Each attendee will receive a complimentary first edition of Smith’s new book, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and Peril of the Digital Age.

Speakers

Brad Smith, President, Microsoft
Interviewer: Ina Fried, Chief Technology Correspondent, Axios

Event Details

Agenda
  • 5:00 p.m. Registration and reception
  • 6:00 p.m. Dinner
  • 7:00 p.m. Program begins
  • 8:15 p.m. Event concludes
Location

Pullman San Francisco Bay
223 Twin Dolphin Dr.
Redwood City, CA 94065

Event Tickets

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Corporate and Individual Members:

Passes are not accepted for this event. You can register at the member rate.

Thank You

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Special welcome to:

Avanade
CIO Professional Services
Citrix

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