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Digital technologies are opening up a new paradigm for the future world and fast transforming our society. Intelligent Homes, Smart Buildings, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Autonomous Cars and Automated Factories are opening up new possibilities for how we interact with the world in our daily lives.
Future Worlds will connect Smart Cities, Autonomous Cars and Autonomous Worlds, Virtual Reality, AI and Machine Learning, Human Computer Interfaces, Internet of Things, Drones and Robotics, Cloud, Data Analytics and Cybersecurity.
The 1st Future Worlds Symposium, fire-starter event, was held in 2018 on Aug 2nd at Sacramento City Hall, City Council Chambers, with the Keynote by Dr Vint Cerf, Chief Evangelist at Google, also known as one of the “Founding Fathers of the Internet”, and Welcome by Sacramento Mayor, Darrell Steinberg, other keynote speakers - Sean Harrington, Vice-President, Products and Engineering, City Solutions, Verizon and Maria MacGunigal, CIO, City of Sacramento, with the decision of Verizon to make Sacramento the first city to roll out its 5G technology, with a $100 million investment, and Volkswagen’s initial $44 million investment in electric vehicle technology.
We had a very interesting Q&A moderated by Louis Stewart, Chief Innovation Officer, City of Sacramento.
Further, we had talks from Intel Worldwide Communities Head, Robert Duffy, on Democratization of Innovation, Prof Bebo White from Stanford SLAC, on BlockChain and IOT for Future World, Prof Sven Koenig from USC and Chair SIG AI, on an AI World, and many other speakers and Innovator demos presented and supported with gracious sponsorship from Google, Verizon, Intel, SMUD, Impact, R Systems, SymSoft, Glocol Networks and other organizations, led by ACM Sacramento Chapter.
The 2nd Future Worlds Symposium was held at Sacramento Public Library on September 26th 2019 with the opening keynote by Michael Wilkening, Special Advisor on Innovation & Digital Services, Office of Governor and Technical Keynote by Mighael Botha, CTO, N America, Software AG and a panel of the CIOs from Sac County, State of California and SMUD as well as poster sessions from students.
A very interesting panel on Innovation in Government - How would IOT and AI accelerate Digital Transformation? included panelists Scott Gregory, Chief Digital Innovation Officer, California Department of Technology, Rami Zakaria, Chief Information Officer, Sacramento County, and Stephen Clemons, Chief Information Officer, SMUD moderated by Dr Harsh Verma, Chairman, ACM Sacramento Chapter, Intel Innovator and Vice-President, R Systems.
We did well to continue our collaboration virtually and we successfully organized the 3rd Future Worlds Symposium, with the event being held on Zoom, and very interesting keynotes, speakers and panels from around the world.
It was exciting to hear from our morning keynote by Bill Person, Vice President, IoT Group, Intel Corporation, co-sponsored by Intel Corporation and afternoon keynote by Dr. Josiah Dykstra, Deputy Technical Director for Cybersecurity Operations, National Security Agency (NSA), with distinguished speakers and panelists from around the World – US, Canada, Austria, UK, Singapore, India, Australia to talk about AI, Machine Learning, IOT, CyberSecurity, Robotics, Healthcare.
The 4th Future Worlds Symposium held virtually, again, last year on Oct 8th and 9th, 2021. Moving on from Sustainable Innovation, this year’s theme was Computational Sustainability. We had some great speakers - workshop keynote by Walt Fehr, Principal Technical Advisor, US DOT Volpe Center and Asfand Siddiqui from Caltrans, Ajay Gupta, Chief Digital Transformation Officer, California DMV and Industry Keynote by Stefan Schwab, CEO, Siemens Comfy. The virtual format, like in 2020, allowed a wider variety of speakers and subject matter experts that would have been feasible in-person.
We are now starting the planning sessions for the 5th Future Worlds Symposium. This year, maybe we finally have an in-person event after two years of meeting virtually on Zoom. It could be hybrid. We are planning to hold the symposium on Friday, October 7th and Saturday, October 8th of 2022!We are happy to inform you that we have a confirmed and accepted keynote speaker-featuring the famous Grady Booch .
Grady Booch is an American software engineer, best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language with Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh. He is recognized internationally for his innovative work in software architecture, software engineering, and collaborative development environments.
Booch served as Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation from its founding in 1981 through its acquisition by IBM in 2003, where he continued to work until March 2008. After this he became Chief Scientist, Software Engineering at IBM Research where he leads IBM’s research and development on embodied cognition and originated the term and the practice of object-oriented design.
A founding member of the Agile Alliance, and a founding member of the Hillside Group, Grady has published six books and several hundred technical articles, including an ongoing column for IEEE Software and IEEE Spectrum. Grady is also a trustee for the Computer History Museum. He is an IBM Fellow, an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, has been awarded the Lovelace Medal and given the Turing Lecture for the BCS, and was named an IEEE Computer Pioneer for his work in software architecture.
Grady has served as an architect or architectural mentor for a multitude of complex software-intensive systems across many domains around the world, including finance, transportation, defense, commerce, productivity, government, medical, gaming, animation, software development, artificial intelligence, and many others.
Grady is currently developing a major trans media documentary for public broadcast on the intersection of computing and the human experience: Computing.
