tbd2

tbd2

tbd2 is a joint series of strategy & vision sessions initiated by the U.S. Russia Center for Entrepreneurship and O Collider. tbd2 twice stands for Technology, Business, Development and to be defined. The main idea of tbd2 is to get broad vision on how forthcoming technologies impact businesses and society going forward.

The format is

  • to invite experts who see opportunities and risks of specific technological innovations or social and cultural changes
  • to create platform for discussion between experts and business leaders who build their strategies based on emerging global trends
  • to involve a broad audience represented by students and professionals in engineering, economy, culture into discussion
  • to build a vision for the future based on consideration of the following points: what has already been or might be researched and developed soon, how it can be introduced to markets and to society, and what will be the consequences of its adoption in the nearest 4-8 years.

Seminar #0: How the Web will Transform Education

April 22nd, 2011

co-located with NёrdCamp 2011

Zelenogorsk (Smolyachkovo), Vostok-6

NёrdCamp tbd2 is a pilot-run session with a topic ‘How the Web will Transform Education’ by Yury Lifshits who is a guest speaker.

"The future of education is already here. Hundreds of startups

are working on every aspect of the ecosystem: content, online

degrees, assessment systems, analytics, online tutoring, education

funding, computerized classrooms, mobile learning apps and

educational games. In the first part of this talk we cover the key

trends in ongoing education transformation.

In second part we focus on innovation in educational video".

To get better prepared for the seminar please have a look at

Preliminary Materials

Schedule

15:00 Opening. 'About tbd2 concept', Igor Egorov, Sergey Dmitriev

15:10 Main talk 'How the Web will Transform Education', Yury Lifshits

15:40 Comments and questions from experts

16:00 Questions from audience

16:10 break

16:20 Case: 'Innovations in educational video', Yury Lifshits

16:35 Comments and questions from experts

16:55 Ideas from audience

17:10 Closing. Igor Egorov, Sergey Dmitriev

17:15 End of the seminar.

Experts

    • Vladimir Aluferov, Business Analyst at Exigen Services and Curator at IT Industry Course
    • Yakov Somov, Founder and Director at Lektorium.TV
    • Aleksey Knorre, Student at St.Petersburg State University, Fac. of Sociology

Social Media

Please use: #tbd2 for twitter

Video

Keynote

Discussion

Case: Video Lectures