Media

Public Talk on Inspiring Innovation: Creating the Future at MIT Media Lab

16 Nov 2011

 

How do you successfully innovate and inspire others to invent the future? Steve Jobs clearly knew the secret, and so does famed Internet pioneer Joichi Ito. Come and hear about his pioneering role in some of the world's most innovative Internet companies, including PSINet Japan, Twitter, Flickr and others.   See for yourself how he views the future of research and development in the age of networked social media.

Speaker : Joichi Ito（伊藤穰一), Director of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab,  Chair of Creative Commons
Date : Monday, 28 November 2011
Time : 5pm to 6:30pm
Venue : Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, HKU
 Free admission, all are welcome. No registration required.

About the speaker: 
Joichi Ito is the director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also general manager of Neoteny Labs, a start-up  fund focusing on Asia and the Middle East, and chair of Creative Commons, an international copyright licencing system. He is affiliated with research institutes in Japan and the United States, and on the board of such non-profit organizations as The Mozilla Foundation and Global Voices

Ito has been recognized by magazines from Time, which named him as a member of the "Cyber-Elite" in 1997, to Businessweek, which in 2008 called him one of the "25 Most Influential People on the Web." He was selected by the World Economic Forum in 2001 as one of the "Global Leaders for Tomorrow." In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oxford Internet Institute in recognition of his role as one of the world's leading advocates of Internet freedom. The talk is organized by Journalism and Media Studies Centre, HKU.

For enquiries, please contact Ms Velentina Ma, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, HKU tel: 2219-4012/9123-0252 / email: velentinam@hku.hk