Innov8: A Speaker Series brings together industry leaders, ASU faculty, staff, students and researchers to highlight innovative, cutting-edge topics across many domains in the technology space. Hosted by Executive Director of Digital Initiatives Timothy Summers, Ph.D., each quarterly virtual event will focus on a unique theme for the featured speaker panel to discuss, followed by an open Q&A discussion with our online audience.
2022 Quarterly line up
April 13
Finance
Working smarter not harder when it comes to personal finances
| Delivery or rideshare driver, grocery shopper, dog walker, virtual assistant, freelance writer – these are just some of the gig jobs that are increasing in popularity. According to Gallup and Statista, about 36% of U.S. workers are part of the gig economy, either through their primary or secondary jobs. But with extra money coming in, do you know how to manage your personal finances? Just in time for tax season, Adiraj Gupta, Sanin Mody and Henry Barclay, co-founders of Pallo, will join Innov8 host Timothy Summers on Wednesday, March 16 to share how their new personal finance app helps self-employed – and anyone who needs help organizing their money – take control of their dollars so that they can spend more time following their passion instead of balancing their checkbook |
August 10
AI Reality
The Future of Robotics: Automation vs. Augmentation
During our June installment of Innov8, USC Vice President of Research and longtime artificial intelligence (AI) expert Maja Matarić will join host Timothy Summers for a fireside chat on socially assistive robotics and the role of AI. Together, Summers and Matarić will talk about timely topics in AI, such as automation versus augmentation, the current landscape of AI and robotics, and what the future holds for the relationship between humans and socially assistive robots. Learn more about Matarić, a robotist, researcher and computer scientist, who is changing the way that humans interact with robots – her work on human-centered artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics has been featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
October
Cybersecurity
In celebration of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’ll share the latest trends and information to help keep you safe online.
November
Blockchain
Digital wallets, cryptocurrency, NFTs – oh my! We’re diving deep into the blockchain world to share the latest innovations in this ever-growing technology space.
Previous Installments
Whether you missed a session or just want to rewatch it, you will find all previous installments on our YouTube Playlist!
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As a monthly series of speaker spotlights, ASU’s Innov8 addresses new topics in the technology space that are imminently shaping the future. May’s installment was no different, as Adiraj Gupta, President of Impact Launchpad, shared his insights on…
In a time when data security breaches, cookie workarounds and advertising browser tracking take place every day, how much trust do you have in organizations to keep your information safe online? Moreover, how much trust do you have in institutions,…
Editor's note: The image above was taken at March's Innov8 installment and features, from left to right: John Wolpert, Group Executive, Enterprise Mainnet Products and Technology of ConsenSys, and Timothy Summers, ASU Executive Director of Third…
Ever walked past a surveillance camera in a public space and wondered just how private is your image and data that has been captured? During the January installment of Innov8: A Speaker Series, Dr. Dijiang Huang, Associate Professor of Computer…
During the December installment of Innov8: A Speaker Series, seasoned software engineer and tech entrepreneur Igor Artamonov spoke about cryptocurrency in “Unbank Yourself: What Does It Mean to Be Crypto-Self-Banked?”
ASU UTO’s monthly speaker series, Innov8, always brings the cutting edge technical and social ideas from bright minds in their fields, and November’s installment was no exception.
Has the potential of blockchain been realized, or has the idea behind the technology garnered more hype than its actual application? That was the question defining October’s installment of Innov8: A Speaker Series with Jim Nasr, CEO of Acoer and…
On August 19, 2020, more than 50 participants gathered virtually to hear Aditya “Adi” Challa, AWS Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services (AWS), carefully walk through how to build and automate a modern serverless data lake on AWS as part of…
While the topics differed, virtual summer sessions of ASU and UTO’s monthly speaker series, Innov8, were alike in that they looked forward to the broadening of communities and service to them. Whether the subject was smart cities or the value of IT…
The ever-evolving world of cybersecurity encompasses a multitude of threats and potential ways to respond to them. Navigating the newest methods, like “Zero Trust” architecture and automated threat detection and response, is a high priority for many…
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term encompassing an ever-growing number of devices that connect us to each other and the world. Smartphones, smart cars, smart fridges; the intelligence of previously limited items has been upped exponentially to…
UTO’s second installment of Innov8, a speaker series bringing thoughtful and outstanding voices to share their insights, was held February 19th and featured Andre Pech, Assistant Vice President in Software Engineering at Arista.
UTO’s first installment of Innov8, a speaker series bringing thoughtful and outstanding voices to share their insights, was held on Wednesday, bringing the expert knowledge of Jisheng Wang to the ASU community.