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SUMMARY:AI Amplified Career Navigation\, at UCLA Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Session Overview\n\n\n\n\nThe job search has changed faster than most people realize. AI tools\, resume-screening software\, and higher application volumes now shape how roles are discovered\, filtered\, and filled—often before a human ever reviews a resume. \n   \nDr. Gigi Johnson (’88) explores what’s really happening in today’s job market and how professionals can use AI thoughtfully to explore new career directions\, strengthen resumes\, interview preparation\, improve visibility\, and network more effectively—without getting overwhelmed or sounding generic. \n \nThis 60-minute session is practical\, accessible\, and designed for Anderson alumni at all stages of career transition. No technical background is required. \n\nThis event is for UCLA Anderson Alumni Only. If you are not an Alumn\, please sign up with Rethink Next for future versions of this event for a broader audience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Description\n\n\n\n\nAlumni Career Services  offers a comprehensive set of resources to support UCLA Anderson alumni career development. No matter what stage you are in your career\, take advantage of the benefits exclusive to UCLA Anderson alumni to ensure your continued professional success.   \nThis event is organized by David Cooley\, Director\, UCLA Anderson Alumni Career Services.
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/ucla-anderson-ai-amplified-career-navigation/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Digital Tools,Education,Rethink Next,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Designing a Bigger Life in an AI-Enmeshed World\, at NerdFest 2026
DESCRIPTION:Session Overview\n\n\n\n\nSession Title:  AI + Me + Others + Experiments: Designing a Bigger Life in an AI-Enmeshed World \n\nJoin Dr. Gigi Johnson for a fast-paced\, delightfully nerdy keynote that re-centers you in the age of AI. In this session\, you’ll explore what it means to live and create in an AI-enmeshed world\, where your biggest accelerant isn’t the model you use—it’s how you combine your curiosity\, your collaborators\, and your willingness to run small\, bold experiments. \n\nYou’ll discover practical ways AI can help you spot meaningful signals\, design quick experiments\, and expand your creative\, entrepreneurial\, or academic projects. You’ll leave with a take-home AI Answer Card and the confidence to design your future with AI. \n\nCome curious. Leave superpowered.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Description\n\n\n\n\nNerd Fest is a three-day celebration of the boundless world of curiosity\, exploring and connecting across an ever-expanding definition of “nerd”—from AI and the natural sciences to gaming\, media\, arts\, and culture.
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/nerdfest-2026-designing-a-bigger-life-in-an-ai-enmeshed-world/
LOCATION:Hub 101\, Cal Lutheran\, 31416 Agoura Road\, #105\, Westlake Village\, California\, 91361\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Conferences,Futures Events,Keynotes,Rethink Next
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SUMMARY:AI and Hollywood Webinar\, at Alumni Ventures
DESCRIPTION:Join Alumni Ventures for a deep dive into the intersection of Hollywood and Artificial Intelligence! In the ever-evolving tale of Hollywood\, a new protagonist has taken center stage – Artificial Intelligence. Explore the transformative impact of AI on the film and music industries\, from scriptwriting to post-production\, marketing\, and beyond.\n\nTheir webinar\, curated by Alumni Ventures’ AI Fund\, brings together Gigi Johnson\, futurist and Founding Executive Director of the UCLA Center for Music Innovation\, a16z Partner Robin Guo\, and Jaeson Ma\, Media Executive and CEO of op3n.world to illuminate the Hollywood AI revolution.\n\nDon’t miss this exclusive opportunity to unravel the future of Hollywood through the lens of AI. Reserve your spot now and be part of the conversation shaping the next chapter in cinematic innovation!\n\n\nAgenda: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 	Introduction to Hollywood AI: Explore the impact of AI on scriptwriting\, casting\, production\, visual effects\, and more.\n 	Technological Enablers: Uncover the technologies driving Hollywood AI\, including GPT-4\, generative diffusion models\, and real-time rendering engines.\n 	Pioneering Startups: Spotlight on venture-backed startups transforming Hollywood with AI solutions in scriptwriting\, editing\, visual effects\, and beyond.\n 	AI’s Double-Edged Sword: Discuss the challenges and opportunities AI presents in the industry\, from job displacement to the rise of virtual actors and deepfake technology.\n 	Q&A Session: Engage with our panelists and get your burning questions answered.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy Attend? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 	Gain insights into the latest AI innovations reshaping Hollywood.\n 	Connect with industry leaders and experts.\n 	Discover the future of AI in content creation and its potential impact on storytelling.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNote: You must be accredited to invest in venture capital. Important disclosure information can be found at av-funds.com/disclosures. 
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/ai-and-hollywood-webinar-alumni-ventures/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Futures Events,Panels,Rethink Next,Technology
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SUMMARY:Music Futures Barcelona
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with ANIMA\, Sweet Bird\, and ESMUC\, out of Spain\, to build a series of events and workshops on innovation\, creativity\, and community growth.
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/music-futures-barcelona-2023/
LOCATION:ESMUC\, Barecelona\, Spain\, Edifici de L'Auditori\, C/ de Padilla\, 155\, L'Eixample\, Barcelona\, 08013\, Spain
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Futures Events,Keynotes,Music Conferences,Music Events,Panels,Rethink Next,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Co-Creating Futures
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Gig Johnson has given intensive workshops for three days to small groups of researchers from UIC Barcelona on new teaching methodologies: innovation\, artificial intelligence\, and creativity. The Co-creating Futures days\, in which Johnson participated\, were promoted by the Aula de Calidad e Innovación Docente de UIC Barcelona with the collaboration of the Puig Foundation\, which provides resources for scholarships and grants for teaching innovation. The Aula de Calidad e Innovación Docente was born with the aim of responding to the interest of teachers to implement innovation initiatives and projects in the classroom\, and to promote the continuous improvement of the teaching processes of all the teachers of UIC Barcelona. To this end\, dynamics are generated in the classroom that favor teaching innovation or that foster the concern for research in teaching innovation. \nFacebook Reels: https://www.facebook.com/reel/731409002184226 
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/co-creating-futures/
LOCATION:UIC Barcelona\, Immaculada\, 22\, Barcelona\, 08017\, Spain
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Education,Educational Technology,Futures Events,Higher Education,Keynotes,Panels,Rethink Next,Workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231118
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SUMMARY:Music Futures Navarra
DESCRIPTION:This event is the first common initiative between the Innova Program\, promoted by the Caja Navarra Foundation and the “la Caixa” Foundation\, and the Navarra Music Commission\, a music office integrated into NICDO and promoted by the Government of Navarra.\n\nThe Navarra Music Commission\, a music office integrated into NICDO and promoted by the Government of Navarra\, and the Innova Program\, of the “la Caixa” Foundation\, and the Caja Navarra Foundation jointly organize the activity.  Navarra Music Futures was a debate on the present and future of the creative industry open to companies or professionals dedicated to the musical and audiovisual field in all its aspects\, as well as any creative company related to the cultural fabric of the Foral Community of Navarra.\n\nThe appointment will take place in the Corona de Baluarte room this Friday\, November 17\, at 5:00 p.m.\, and the star will be Gigi Johnson\, founder of the UCLA Musical Innovation Institute (University of Los Angeles\, California)\, co-founder of Amplify Music.org\, president of the Center for Creative Futures in the US\, and doctor in Leadership for Change.\n\nNavarra Music Futures is an annual event that seeks to bring together companies and agents from the music sector and creative industries in Navarra to discuss the present and future of the local cultural industry to promote innovation\, development\, and creativity in this field.\n\nDuring the day\, dynamic discussion and learning opportunities are offered to help implement new skills and strategies for success in the music industry. The event features the aforementioned international mentoring to provide a global perspective and help advance and improve the local creative industry community.\n\nThis meeting represents the first collaborative experience between the Innova Program (promoted by the Caja Navarra Foundation and the “la Caixa” Foundation) and the Navarra Music Commission (integrated into the public company NICDO and promoted by the Government of Navarra). It is an alliance that provides experience and knowledge\, as well as the ability to generate a network of entities\, professionals\, and companies in the sector.
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/music-futures-navarra/
LOCATION:Corona de Baluarte\, pl. del Baluarte\, Pamplona\, Spain
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Futures Events,Keynotes,Music Conferences,Music Events,Panels,Rethink Next,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Place — at EPIC International Summit
DESCRIPTION:EPIC: The Event\nThe 2023 EPIC International Summit is next month! Join us in Santa Barbara\, CA on April 27-29 to DISCONNECT from devices\, DISRUPT the status quo and DISCOVER how to become a stronger creative leader in your field.  Learn from some of the most inspiring thought leaders\, educators\, executives\, entrepreneurs\, and artists from around the globe through a program that is dynamic and engaging.  Leave with innovative and application-based tools\, strategies\, and insights to effectively solve complex challenges in your professional and personal life. \nOur Session: April 29\, 2023 – Part of main ticket\nFuturing – Rethinking Place\nThis is a hands-on workshop to rethink the role of space and place in your work and clients’ work. In our virtual and in-person era\, Pandemic recovery has challenged the questions of where we work\, live\, perform\, collaborate\, etc. We’re going to use concepts from game design and experience design to rethink what role place and space can make in future business arenas and how challenging those assumptions can offer new opportunities and combinations.Space is limited.
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/2023-epic-international-summit/
LOCATION:The Music Academy of The West\, 1070 Channel Dr.\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Futures Events,Rethink Next,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Organizations and the Future of Work — at Academy of Management
DESCRIPTION:Going to AOM – remote or in Seattle — August 2022?\nTranslating Theory into Practice: Organizations and the Future of Work (session 411)\nSession: We’ll be collaborating on a hybrid interactive session for 2 hours.  You must be an AOM member for the year and registered to the conference to attend. \nSession Links and World Cafe Table Links here \nBackground: The framing of the “future of work” has grown in visibility and scope over the past few years. Researchers have been positing deep change impacts from the data- and machine-enmeshed transformations in work for many years (Keynes\, 1930; Zuboff\, 1988; Adler\, 1992; Rifkin\, 1995; Brynjolfsson & McAfee\, 2012; Susskind & Susskind\, 2015; Hodgson\, 2016; Frey & Osborne\, 2017\, Daugherty & Wilson\, 2018; Hirschi\, 2018\, Tschang & Albiral\, 2019; Raisch & Karkowski\, 2020; Schulte et al\, 2020). Large consulting organizations have taken up the challenge\, building full practice and research areas (PWC\, 2014; Illanes et al\, 2018; Schwartz et al\, 2019). This PDW will be held as a hybrid session. It will be a collaboration between scholars and practitioners at both the in-person and virtual versions of the Academy of Management (AOM) Conference for 2022. We will examine the accelerating changes impacting three frames of work – the work\, the workplace\, and the people/systems — from different points-of-view. Using the World Cafe framework\, participants will explore emergent change\, frictions\, and our own organizations. During this era of unprecedented instability\, our core question will be how organizations and leaders can thrive in this changed landscape by embracing the future of work through new insights and capabilities.
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/academy-of-management-pdw-organizations-and-the-future-of-work/
LOCATION:Seattle Convention Center\, 705 Pike Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Education,Futures Events,Higher Education,Rethink Next
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SUMMARY:Changing Ecosystems of Creative Work — at SyBER
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Gigi Johnson was the virtual plenary speaker at Westcliff University’s 6th Annual SyBER Symposium: “Staying Ahead of the Curve: Innovation in Action.”  This event was open to Westcliff students\, alumni and faculty. \nChanging ecosystems of local and creative work in this Pandemic era and beyond\nWithin days in 2020\, we moved our creative and professional works “home” and exploded our sense of place and work.  How have we Reimagined Place?  How can we change our local creative work systems and how are they changing as the nature of “place” is being rethought?   \nPromo:\n \nSession\nSession:
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/virtual-keynote-changing-ecosystems-of-creative-work/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Education,Futures Events,Higher Education,Keynotes,Rethink Next,Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140311T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140311T133000
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SUMMARY:Pixelating Reality: Smartphones Shift Now — at SXSW
DESCRIPTION:Session Description\nMany of us carry smartphones wherever we go. Increasingly\, we are leaning on them as active and passive gathering devices of data and images. Google Glass and other recording devices bring the question further front and center—how is our recording and perpetually digitally checking in affecting our everyday lives? How are those check-ins and recordings shifting our being “present” in our shared Now and Here? Are we increasingly taking the opportunity to be digitally Elsewhere and not Present?\nReflection\nWe enjoyed sharing insights at SXSW Interactive 2014 on this question — How is smartphone use pixelating reality\, blowing it up and turning it into shiftable bits of data so we are making different decisions with its Time and Place?\n\nWe are experiencing a massive change in social and personal behavior\, catalyzed by the increasing penetration of smartphones.  We have had digital cameras and cell phones for many years.  The intriguing shift stems from both (a) casual photography with no lag time to distribute and immediate connectivity\, and (b) instant connecting with small screens wherever we go.\n\nWhat has shifted?  This direction of thought looks at how this affects our Here and Now\, as well as the question of being Together.\n\n 	How are we Present if we are always checking in to other information and places?\n 	Are we shifting our energies to auto-documenting our activities through pictures and other actions to the detriment of the activity and connections that we are experiencing live?\n\nYou can enjoy two elements of the presentation below.\n\nFirst\, this video outlines some of the questions we examined:\n\n\n\nSecond\, here’s the SlideShare of the presentation from SXSW\, without any audio.\nPixelating Reality: How Smartphones Shift Now @SXSW from Gigi Johnson
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/pixelating-reality-smartphones-shift-now/
LOCATION:SXSW\, Austin\, TX\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Digital Tools,Futures Events,Rethink Next,Technology
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