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Tuesday September 27, 2016

Robert Scoble - Futurist UploadVR at CopenX, September 2016

Going Beyond Mobile. Augmented Reality is coming. Virtual Reality will take entertainment minutes away. Over the next decade we will look at our smartphone screens less and less as we use things like Magic Leap more and more. In this eye-opening keynote you will: - Discover the companies that are bringing futuristic technologies to you today, including those in airports, football stadiums, and shopping malls - Demystify cloud - We will discuss how cloud is everywhere in this new world and the trends that are soon to be hitting us, whether in self driving cars or augmented reality glasses - Learn what your business can do now to keep up and ahead of these coming trends.

Robert Scoble is a Futurist at UploadVR. As entrepreneur in residence at Upload VR, formerly Rackspace's Futurist, Scoble travels the world looking for what's happening on the bleeding edge of technology and brings that learning to Facebook and other places like his newsletter and blog.

He's interviewed thousands of executives and technology innovators around the world and co-authored "The Age of Context" and “Naked Conversations” with Shel Israel, and they are working on a third named “Beyond Mobile” expected to be published November 2016. Scoble engages with his one million strong following on social media. As entrepreneur in residence at Upload, he'll be spending 2016 working with the virtual reality ecosystem to figure out what media and conference businesses Upload needs to build next. He'll also be assisting startups in the Upload Collective (a co-working space) in their efforts to get to market.

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