Una Song, Program Manager at the Environmental Protection Agency, presents at last year’s Heartland Greenup. Photo from heartlandgreenup.com
The Technology Association of Iowa will be holding its second annual Heartland Greenup next Thursday, June 2, at the Meadows Events Center (1 Prairie Meadows Drive) in Altoona.
Billed as an “opportunity for executives, technologists, entrepreneurs and thought-leaders to converge and discuss new clean technologies and their implications for improving business and bottom-lines,” the event will once again feature both national and local speakers, including keynote presentations from Harris Warsaw, a vice president with IBM, Andrew Winston, the founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, and Tim Dwight, owner of California-based solar company iPower and former University of Iowa athlete.
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Mindful of the event’s impact on the environment, organizers have once again provided an option for attendees to participate in the conference both in person and virtually.
A new draw this year is Watson, IBM’s super computer that made news by recently beating out human competition to win the television show Jeopardy!.
“Watson’s computing system rivals a human’s ability to quickly and accurately answer questions posed in natural language,” Scott Cook, external communications for IBM North America, told the Des Moines Register (see their article ‘Jeopardy!’ supercomputer coming to Iowa) recently. “It could be used for a range of purposes, such as assisting in medical diagnoses and improving self-service help desks.”
“What we’re trying to demonstrate with Watson is that ‘Jeopardy!’ was great and wonderful, but the reality is that this is more than just a computer that can answer questions. We’re continuing to try to demonstrate Watson has real-world application in multiple industries.”
To register for The Heartland Greenup, see technologyiowa.org. Tickets to participate virtually are free for a limited time.
