Poppy Crum
Presented as a keynote during the Fall 2021 Convention, Poppy Crum's talk deals with how the increasingly sophisticated world of interaction, personal data and internet technology intersects with human nature, ethics and needs. How is technology going to shape us, where and how should we apply our development efforts? she asks. Technology has the power to know more about us than we know ourselves, it's proposed. The plasticity of our brains is remarkable, and technology may help us to hear more acutely or see more see more sharply, but we should take a more proactive stance about who and what we want to become.
Poppy Crum, PhD, is a neuroscientist and technologist. She is currently Chief Technology Officer for Trimble Inc. and was previously Chief Scientist at Dolby Laboratories. Poppy is also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics and the Program in Symbolic Systems where her work focuses on the impact and feedback potential of modern technologies including gaming and immersive environments such as Augmented and Virtual Reality on neuroplasticity and learning.
