2015 Schedule
Interactive: March 13–17  •  Film: March 13–21  •  Music: March 17–22

Identity In the Future Of Embeddables and Wearables

Saturday, March 14
11:30AM - 11:45AM

Austin Convention Center
Ballroom B
Austin Convention Center

Stemming from the rapid prototyping maker movement, technology has taken a huge leap forward to begin true integrations with the human body. As the human body becomes a natural extension of technology itself, ways of identifying a person to the technology around them is shifting from antiquated external body definitions, to internal body functions. From using heartbeat and vein recognition to uniquely identify a person, to embeddable and injectable body modification to enhance natural body identification, the future of how we interact with technology is vastly changing. We'll explore this movement and see where the future of identity in the human body is going.

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Presenters

Jonathan LeBlanc

Head of Global Developer Evangelism

PayPal/Braintree

Jonathan LeBlanc is an Emmy award winning software engineer, author of the O’Reilly book "Programming Social Applications", and the Head of Global Developer Evangelism at Braintree and PayPal. Spec...

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Type
Future15
Theme
Intelligent Future
Level
Beginner

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