Leadership Summit on Technology & Applied InnovationJanuary 17-18, 2018 | Hotel La Valencia, La Jolla, California

“If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.” Richard Clarke

“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted and it would give you the right thing. We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we’re working on.” Larry Page (in 2000)

COMING SOON

For Sustainability Champions

DFC Action Forums on Resilience &

Environmental Stewardship

March-May, 2018Boston, New York, Chicago, Seattle

and other cities TBA

“To me, the most terrifying form of warfare would be if there was some simultaneous cyber attack on our grid, on the banking system, and on our transportation system. That would be quite a devastating thing, and yet in theory, absent some real protective measures, that could happen.” Wilbur Ross

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DFC Leadership Summit

on the Future of

Architecture… Preparation, Practice, Posture

October 9-11, 2018VENICE, ITALY

Centered on the Biennale Architettura 2018Sponsored by the European Cultural Centre

“Threat is a mirror of security gaps. Cyber-threat is mainly the reflection of our weaknesses.” Stephane Nappo

“Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.” Ray Kurzweil

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For talent leaders &

design educatorsJune 20, 2018

DFC Leadership Forum on Design Education & Talent

NEW YORK, NY

“Cyber hygiene, patching vulnerabilities, security by design, threat hunting and machine learning based artificial intelligence are mandatory prerequisites for cyber defense against the next generation threat landscape.” James ScottSenior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.” Ray Kurzweil

“As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.” Preet Bharara