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Story Building, Enhancement and Potentialisation
Peacemaking through projects which info and transform imagination.
Locations where we have worked with (and lived):
* Los Angeles, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Chicago.
* Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Halifax), Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Chile, Peru.
* London, Scotland, Guernsey Channel Islands Tax Free Zone (TFZ), France, Spain, Italy, Romania
* China/Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), Beijing Zhongguancun Haidian Technology Special Zone (STZ)), Shenzhen Technology & Special Economic Zone Zone (STZ/SEZ), Hainan Island Technology Park Free Trade Zone (STZ/FTZ), Jilin (STZ), Changchun and Hunchun (STZ)
* Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand
* India, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Pacific Island Nation States
* Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Ethiopia, South Africa
Participations
* 2024 Participant in "The Global Story Pilot Project" founded by Technology Leadership Lab partnered with Unanimous.AI and Thinkscape
* 2024 Mentor at UCLA Extension XR Immersive Experience Design.
Mentoring the Student Graduation Projects in XR immersive design program taught by Jacki Morie
* 2024 Participant at "Hollywood Climate Summit"
The Hollywood Climate Summit community encourages the making of films, TV/streaming shows, songs, games and art which educates and focuses on climate change. Annual conferences, events, creative labs and community gatherings all help build relationships with thousands of story professionals who also care about the social impact of storytelling.
* 2024 Speaker at "The Irreplaceable Essence of Artistry: Exploring the Limits of AI in Creative Processes" at AI Global Summit
* 2024 Speaker at "Crafting Authenticity: The Symbiotic Relationship between AI Artistry and Wellness" at SHE Global Summit
* 2024 Research and Advisory Panel of Technology Leadership Lab
Global community of change-makers, purpose-driven, united by a shared perspective and commitment to create, build, grow a robust ecosystem to accelerate the achievement of our world's climate change sustainable development goals (SDGs).
* 2024 Video Interview "Storytelling using Foresight and Futurism" for Technology Leadership
* 2024 Speaker at "The Intersection of Climate, AI, and Humanity at Tech Leadership Lab Global Summit 2024
* 2024-2004 Jury/Voting Committee for BAFTA International Student Film Awards. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards are international in scope, thereby receive submissions from over 250 film schools worldwide in 2024 over 800 films were submitted for awards. BAFTA provides additional awards to Children & Young People content, as well as Student Scholarship Program.
* 2024 Participant in "Climate Security" ~ Harnessing Transformational Technologies Symposium hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory with the U.S. Committee on Science and, Technology and Law (CSTL) and the U.S. Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy (STEP) of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine with national, state and private industry ThinkTanks, academia and governmental agencies.
* 2023 Moderator/Speaker at "Explore AI Innovation" Production Summit LA
A Multi-Day AI-Enhanced Immersive Experience for entertainment professional of tech, media and entertainment industries, with a special focus on AI applications. Talks and sharing of direct experiences among industry professionals regarding emerging technology and knowledge of contemporary tools, AI-driven techniques, and strategies for project integration. Sponsored by Microsoft and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices).
* 2023 Participant at Google Cloud Leadership Forum Summit: The Future of Media, Entertainment & Games
- Invitational event for Leaders in Media, Entertainment and Games, Immersive Experiences and Next-Gen Storytelling. Learning from each other. Thought leaders and visionaries share predictions and explore ways to partner across industries.
* 2023 Participant at AI Earth Summit hosted by AI.LA
- Environmentally conscious technologists, researchers, investors and Los Angeles Climate Action Plan sustainable policy officials engaging in like-minded constructive exchanges to partner resources and collaborate on innovative ideas for climate solutions. Includes Climate Moonshot X, SEED (Sustainable Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development), Hydrosat, Coalition to Clean Air, Carbon Mapper, Braid Theory, Starburst Aerospace, EarthOptics, BlackSky, Planet Labs, stealth, etc...
* 2023 Participant at The New Age of Art & AI hosted by AI.LA
- gathering of arts using AI and Web 3 technologies in their businesses and how they envision these technologies impacting the future of art and entrepreneurship.
* 2023 Participant in United Nations Global Digital Summit of the Future
- the UN Secretary General's report Our Common Agenda with technology track leading to a Global Digital Compact created a public space to collect inputs and views. Interact here and reach out to the office of the UN special envoy on technology digitalcompact@un.org
* 2023-2024 Participant at Responsible AI Symposium
- Annual AILA (Artificial Intelligence Los Angeles) academic, industry experts, community members exploring the ethical landscape of artificial intelligence. As individuals what can we do united as a diverse community. The questions AI raises are discussed such as bias, ethics, and privacy.
* 2022-2022 Judge/Mentor at Otis College of Art and Design
- Digital Media Graduation Student Projects focused on advanced digital media technologies for storytelling using concept art, storyboards, animatics, animation, virtual reality, augmented reality and other immersive tech.
* 2018-2017 Judge/Mentor for VR Grad projects at UpLoad VR.io
- Mentoring and judging Student Graduation Projects for story, concept art and final XR experiences created for 360 immersive experiences.
* 2023-2016 Digital Mentor for State of California including collaborations and outreach mentoring in under-served areas in Los Angeles through the (British / American) Academy of Film & Television Arts film studies and digital production mentorship for high school, college and university students studying film making, new media technology and 360 immersive.
* 2022 Participant in "Inside Look at China's and California Carbon Markets”
- UCLA Emmett Institute (Los Angeles California), Tsinghua University (Beijing China), and The California-China Climate Institute (Berkley California).
- China and California's carbon Emission Trading System (ETS) are two of the world's largest. China and California's cap-and-trade programs are important policies aimed at meeting its 2045-2060 carbon neutrality goals.
* 2022 Participant in 7th Annual United Nations Mulit-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation
- creating a roadmap for sustainable development, sustainable economy, sustainable social development and sustainable education for all. Encouraging technology investments to invest in humans. Technology and Innovation for the SDG's and a sustainable recovery from COVID pandemic related education gaps and problems. Global Digital Equality of Access for All including digital content creation not just the tools.
- Innovation for Emergency Connectivity, Digitalization to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, Global Digital Public Goods, Digitization, Artificial Intelligence, and Connecting the World by 2030
- Roundtable discussions on Emerging Science, Frontier Technologies and Sustainable Development Goals
* 2022 Participant at UCLA Space Institute
- launch of Space Science and Exploration at UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) including faculty research from UCLA Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; UCLA Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences; UCLA Samuel School of Engineering; UCLA College of Physical Sciences. More than imagining the future of space exploration: doing, being, becoming the future of space exploration.
* 2023-2022 Participant at AI Earth Summit hosted by AI.LA
- Artificial Intelligence Los Angeles interactive hybrid event for Climate Change action was focused on sustainable development at the forefront of innovating decision making with climate tech, and protecting earth's ecosystem. Using and developing technology for interplanetary, space, and terrestrial transformation to solve climate change challenges and social growth.
- Also included were competitor presentations and first place winner judging for the AI LA Open Innovation Challenge Spring 2022
* 2021 Participant in United Nation's Secretary-General's Roadmap for “Digital Cooperation to Leave No One Behind”
- President of the UN General Assembly hosted High-level Thematic Debate on Digital Cooperation and Connectivity organized by The UN Office of the Envoy on Technology
* 2021 Participant in United Nations 6th Annual Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Forum for Sustainable Development.
- Organized by UN Inter-agency Task Team on Science Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
- Promoting coordination, coherence and cooperation for global economic and social sustainable development for all
* 2020 Participant in United Nations "Digital Cooperation: Action Today for Future Generations"
- Convened by UNICEF, Generation Unlimited, ITU (UNDP, UN OECD, UN Youth Envoy's Office and the UN Office of the Special Adviser). Opened by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, this UN High-Level event focused on concrete actions to safeguard the technological era for future generations through dynamic discussions on the Global Roadmap's themes of "Connect, Respect, Protect".
- Participants included Heads of States and Governments, CEOs of technology companies such as: the X Prize Foundation, HOS/Gs of Ethiopia, Swiss, New Zealand, Norway and Bangladesh delegations, European Investment Bank, Freedom of Expression Belief, the ICRC, Access Now, plus technology companies Google, Ericsson, Microsoft, Vodafone, Bharti Enterprises, Red/Africa, Facebook and Fujitsu.
*2020 Speaker: Digital Civilization Conference China Student Bootcamp
Organized by Oxford-Hainan Blockchain Research Institute at Hainan Island Free Trade Zone Technology Park / Hainan Resort Software Community Park.
- These DCC pre-conference events aim to support young talents, increase their knowledge of cutting-edge technologies and trends, and share the concept of digital civilization.
- Focused specifically on the value of blockchain, other conversations emerge around Digital Civilization.
- Data science topics include digital-virtual ethics, the future of trust : values and justice systems for the internet of everything and World Wide Web, big data (virtual society), health data (virtual medicine), privacy and security on blockchain, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, commerce and trade.
- Fifty-one student applications were received (within two days of posting student applications online) from world-class universities including Cambridge University, Oxford University, MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Carnegie Mellon University etc.
- Nine outstanding students were selected and invited to Hainan Island to visit RSC smart city, experience Hainan Island Free Trade Zone, and to learn about Blockchain (and it's value).
- Other online virtual interactive events provide sessions for students and mentors/speakers/experts/practitioners, from all over the world, who cannot join the on-site gatherings.
* 2023-2020 Participant at "AI Life Summit" hosted by AI.LA
- Virtual content to help the world "Reflect, Recenter and Reimagine" science in the age of COVID-19.
- Discussions: Hackers Without Boarders, Global Pivot with XPRIZE, Mental Health Support with AI, LA’s COVID-19 Response, Telehealth, Health Systems Stressed, Robot-assisted Surgery, Deep Learning, Investors Roundtable, High Performance Computing, AI Applications in Ophthalmology, AI in Healthcare, Fighting Cancer, AI Wet Labs, Quantified Self, Biohacking, Synthetic Biology, Programmable Molecular Robots, Sustainable Living Systems
* 2021-2018 Participant in Transformative Technology Academy
(TTA Silicon Valley Lab and Cohort) and Transformative Technology Los Angeles Chapter (TT.LA)
- As a cohort and Lab member in the Silicon Valley based Transformative Technology Academy Lab, this learning-cohort-Think-Tank consists of Entrepreneurs, Innovators and Investors sharing, educating and funding wellness technology for personal-use and self-care. Using personal digital devices, Apps, Internet, AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) to facilitate and expand personal wellness, mindfulness and conscious-awareness. Organized by the Transformative Technology Academy in Palo Alto California, this initiative was the 1st and is the largest 'global community meeting-of-the-minds' for entrepreneurs, innovators and investors developing or using technology to expand the currency of human wellbeing and consciousness potential.
* 2020-2015 Participant at ICM Cambridge Consortium for Bioethics Paris, France.
ICM (Institut du cerveau et de la moelle épinière / Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord).
- Seminar themes for include: The moral status of human brain orgonoids. Ethical considerations in human-animal chimeric research.
Ethical and social issues in the use of biomarkers in neurodegenerative disease. Mental disorders, moral responsibility.
- These sessions consist of round-tale discussions with leaders in science and ethics lending their multiple perspectives along with Open Forum group participation.
- In addition to the seminars there are scheduled laboratory meetings with ICM researchers to observe current projects.
* 2020-2015 Participant at Association for Bioethics and Humanities annual conference.
- The Society is an educational organization whose purpose is to promote the exchange of ideas and foster multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and inter-professional scholarship, research, teaching, policy development, professional development, and collegiality among people engaged in all of the endeavors related to clinical and academic bioethics and the health-related humanities.
* 2017 Participant in The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): Session of Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee, UNESCO HQ, Paris, France.
- This session was devoted to examining the work done by the International Bioethics Committee (IBC) of UNESCO in the 2016-2017 biennium: the bioethical response to the situation of refugees, and big data and health. The IGBC examined the draft reports of the IBC on these two topics.
* 2020-2017 Participant at International Neuroethics Society annual meeting.
- The INS annual meeting brings together diverse global perspectives and voices from academia, industry, health care, regulators, law experts, and people with lived experience that are needed to tackle global challenges at the intersection of ethics, law, philosophy and neuroscience.
* 2020-2018 Participant at Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.
- The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) now has more than 36,000 members in more than 95 countries.
- SfN exists to Advance scientific exchange; Support the neuroscience community; Educate and engage the public; and Advocate for the field. The Society’s home for learning and discussion; science advocacy and public policy engagement including annual Capitol Hill Day; and a variety of engaging public outreach efforts.
* 2020-2008 Participant in World Building Forum at University of California 5D Institute at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
- World Building is founded on Storytelling, that storytelling is the most powerful system for the advancement of human capability due to its ability to allow the human imagination to precede the realization of thought.
- All stories emerge logically and intuitively from the worlds that create them.
- New technologies powerfully enable us to sculpt the imagination into existence.
- 5D Institute's network of preeminent World Builders transcends borders and boundaries in new media, mixed media, film, animation, virtual reality, augmented reality, immersive 360, fashion, gaming, theatre, television, music, architecture, science and more.
* 2018-2010 Jury Invitational Artist The Peace Project "Peace" USA touring Art Exhibition
* 2018-2010 Jury Invitational Artist The Peace Project "Peace" USA touring Art Exhibition
- published in Peace Project books
- Peace Museum built with the support of the United Nations
- Jury receives worldwide online submissions from Artists.
- participating Artists are showcased in the nationwide traveling Peace Project art exhibition and book publication. All proceeds are donated to peace and wellbeing projects including rehabilitation of war wounds, war refugees and child-soldiers kidnapped then trained to fight wars.
* 2014-2012 Mentor "Tz'utujil Mayan Indigenous Art of Guatemala"
- cooperative in the Mayan community of San Pedro la Laguna, Solola, Guatemala.
- "Profit-Sharing Life-Opportunities for Mayans Program"
- "Mayan Children's Education Fund"
- created by local Mayan craft-artisan single-mothers to benefit their children's education funding, and so the mothers can work from home.
* 2012-2004 Co-Founder / Chief Technology Officer / Compliance Officer / Board Member of Low Carbon Accelerator, Low Carbon Investors and Low Carbon Holdings (2004-2022)
- World's first series of investment platforms initially launched on the London Stock Exchange : Alternative Investment Market.
- Conceived and created to raise funding for start-up technologies and tech companies focused specifically on lowing carbon creation on the planet to ease climate changes caused through limited imagination.
- we targeted creating funding to stimulate the human imagination to brainstorm invention of seed-to-market Carbon Reduction Technologies to transform existing pollution and create nonpolluting technology
- we created new sustainable fund management models, user-host relationships focused on understanding natural power of solar, lunar, earth, wind, water and fire.
* 2001-1999 Mentor/Judge for Short Film Contest for California Higher Education's Annual Sustainability Conference.
* 2001-1999 Mentor/Judge for Short Film Contest for California Higher Education's Annual Sustainability Conference.
- Jointly organized by independent/private colleges, California Community Colleges, California State Universities, and the University of California.
- The conference focus was building sustainable communities.
- Partners who collaborated with California Universities include: U.S. EPA Partnership for Sustainable Communities, the City of Long Beach, Port Technology of Los Angeles, Long Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach City College, U.S. Green Building Council–Los Angeles, Urban Land Institute–Los Angeles, International Town Gown Association, and the Alliance to Save Energy.
* 2001 Invited Mentor/Workshop Leader for the MIT Global Startup Workshop (GSW) in Seoul, South Korea.
* 2001 Invited Mentor/Workshop Leader for the MIT Global Startup Workshop (GSW) in Seoul, South Korea.
- The MIT-GSW is organized annually, in different global locations, to bring together entrepreneurial leaders, financiers, students, professors, government agents and private parties to build a global support network for sustainable-smart entrepreneurship ~ bridging boundaries across different sectors and nations to stimulate discussion, generate ideas and share best-integrity sustainable entrepreneurial practices. - Founded in 1998, the MIT Global Startup Workshop is a flagship event of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology run by a student group in association with Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, and the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program.
* 2000 Mentor/Moderator for Stanford University Graduate School of Business conference "Digital Futures"
- first of it's kind graduate program gathering with industry leaders in the digital work space and next gen technology pioneering
The Nature of Solitons
Solitons are of peaceful permanent form, localized, and interact with other solitons to emerge from change unchanged ~ except for a phase shift. Solitons are peaceful, placid, still, self-reinforcing solitary waves of creation eg: a pulse of light. Solitonic creation maintains its shape while it travels at constant speed. Solitons arise as the solution to a widespread class of weaker systems lacking integrity. Life models itself from waves of creation that emanate from source. Truth reflects in the wholeness within all life.
