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Science, Technology & Innovation
Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 12:00 p.m.
Building Blockland: What's Next?
Last summer, Bernie Moreno began publicly sharing his vision to make Cleveland a leader in blockchain, a disruptive technology that has the potential to impact banking, real estate, manufacturing, and countless other industries. Progress has been swift. In August, Blockland...
Science, Technology & Innovation
Friday, July 13, 2018, 12:00 p.m.
From Steel City to Smart City: Fostering Community through Open Data
During his campaign for Mayor of Pittsburgh, Bill Peduto made government transparency and accountability two of his top priorities. During his first year, the Department of Innovation and Performance was established. Out of it came the Burgh's Eye View app,...
Science, Technology & Innovation
Thursday, May 24, 2018, 12:00 p.m.
Creating a Digital Poorhouse: Technology, Human Rights, and Economic Inequality
When we hear the phrase "disruptive technologies," we often think of tools upending the status quo - companies like Uber or Airbnb or innovations like artificial intelligence or driverless cars. However, the algorithms and software architecture that powers these innovations...
Science, Technology & Innovation
Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 4:00 p.m.
TechStars Communities: A Look at Startups in Greater Cleveland
This forum has reached capacity. For more information, please call the City Club at 216.621.0082. When it comes to startups, Cleveland has been playing catch up since the mid-1990s. It wasn't always that way. A hundred years ago, Cleveland was an...
Science, Technology & Innovation
Friday, October 13, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
The Future of Imagination: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and How We Shape Our World
Last summer, U.S. cities found themselves overwhelmed with thousands of people disrupting public spaces while playing Pokémon GO, an augmented reality (AR) game which overlays digital images onto what is seen in real life. Virtual reality (VR), which places the...
Science, Technology & Innovation
Tuesday, August 01, 2017, 6:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes on the World: Space, the Final Frontier - for War?
The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 provides the basis for international space law. Its focus is on preventing the weaponization of space - from restricting nations' ability to claim celestial resources to prohibiting the testing of weapons of mass destruction...
Science, Technology & Innovation
Friday, November 20, 2015, 11:30 a.m.
The City Club of Cleveland is excited to have our Friday Forum as part of the TEDXCLESalon event celebrating 100 years of the theory of relativity! Albert Einstein is widely-regarded as one of the greatest physicists of the modern era....
Science, Technology & Innovation
Monday, March 30, 2015, 7:30 a.m.
Hubble@25: Rewriting History Yet Unwritten
The famous Hubble Space Telescope marks 25 years of observations in April 2015. In orbit since 1990, Hubble has provided scientists and the public with remarkable and spectacular images of deep space. One of the most technologically advanced pieces of...
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