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What We’re Watching: Top 3 Conference Videos on Technology
Check out our top 3 videos on technology from our fall conference in San Francisco–click on the speakers’ names to watch. Steven Levy Senior writer at Wired; Author of In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives Steven Levy: “The most prominent leaders in the technology world today believe that the first step in Read more…
Tagged Africa, Aleksandr-Alain Kalanda, and Shapes Our Lives, Banking on Africa, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Kevin Compton, Malawi, Microfinance, OIC2011, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Opportunity Malawi, Steven Levy, Technology, Trust Group, videos, Wired magazine, Works
Breakout Session: From Silicon Valley to Sub-Saharan Africa: Innovations Shaping the World
Rob Meloche, Opportunity’s VP of marketing and communications, got the afternoon breakout session started by asking the members in the panel to place the conversation about innovation and technology in the context of the developing world. Each of the members in the panel contributed interesting reflections. Here are the highlights: Steven Levy, senior writer of Read more…
Tagged Africa, Aleksandr-Alain Kalanda, Ben Chelf, Bill Draper, OIC2011, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Poverty, Rob Meloche, Steven Levy, sub-Saharan Africa, Technology
Conference LiveBlog: Steven Levy, Senior Writer for Wired Magazine
Kicking off this second Friday plenary session of the morning, Steven Levy, Senior Writer for Wired magazine, and author of In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, talks about technology and how innovative thinking in the technological sector can truly offer solutions to the biggest global issues. Highlights from Steven Levy’s Read more…
Watch it Live! Opportunity International Conference Video Stream Starts Friday 8:30 a.m. PST
Unable to join us in person for the Opportunity International Conference? No problem. Just tune in tomorrow-Friday, Oct. 14 at 8:30 a.m. PST–as we stream live video from the conference until Saturday, Oct. 15 at 12:00 p.m. Go to opportunity.org/live to watch it live. Here are just a few of the plenary and breakout session Read more…
Tagged Africa, Alliance to End Hunger, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Draper, Board of Advisors, Daryl Collins, Dikembe Mutombo, dikembe mutombo foundation, Feed the Future Guide, Jeffrey Spector, John Ortberg, Julie Howard, Laura Pincus Hartman, OIC2011, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day, Reeta Roy, Steven Levy, The MasterCard Foundation, Tony Hall, videos
