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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
It’s been a busy week at UP! We hit 100 followers on Facebook this week, posted so many past UP talks on YouTube and dove into all the details that need to be ironed out with The UP Experience just over a month away!
We imagine our UP alumni and UP 11 speakers have also been busy, here are some of their activities making headlines this week:
Learn how to improve your memory skills from expert Ron White at UP 11. Image courtesy of Flickr/therichbrooks
UP 11 speaker and memory expert Ron White was featured in SUCCESS Magazine this week. White had an MRI taken at the University of Texas this week, while he memorized information. The results showed that White uses 35 percent more of his brain when memorizing than the average person! Don’t miss him at UP 2011 when he shares his tips and tricks!
UP 08 speaker Craig Kielburger took to the Huffington Post to talk about the incredible difference education can make for a child in their article, “An Education Takes Kids from Slums to Schools.”
On a light note, UP 10 speaker and New York Times tech columnist David Pogue took some time to help us all get up to speed on the latest cultural references in his guide, “Internet Memes 101: A Guide to Online Wackiness.”
Labels: Craig Kielburger, David Pogue, Education, Facebook, Huffington Post, internet memes, memory, New York Times, Rob White, SUCCESS Magazine, The UP Experience, University of Texas, UP 11, UP Alumni, YouTube
Categories: 2008 Speakers, 2010 Speakers, 2011 Speakers, Current events, Speakers, UP Speakers In The News, Uncategorized, What is UP?
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
We hope everyone had a great long weekend! The week might have just started but it’s already Wednesday and time for UP Alumni In The News!
This past week:
UP 10 speaker and New York Times tech critic David Pogue reexamined previous advice to never unsubscribe from spam emails.
Kevin Kelly recommends his book on paperback over ereader. Image courtesy of Flickr/edwc
September marks the month when Pogue’s fellow UP 10 speaker and technology writer Kevin Kelly releases the paperback version of his book What Technology Wants many of you may have read it as all of last year’s UP attendees got copies in their gift bags. Kelly has some surprising thoughts on the advantages of buying the book versus reading it on an ereader and highlights some unconventional interviews he’s done lately.
UP 09 speaker Michio Kaku was featured in the latest edition of “Symphony of Science” on CBS News. This series mixes some of society’s greatest current scientific minds including Kaku and Stephen Hawking with the entertaining world of viral internet videos.
Don’t forget, our full speaker lineup for UP 2011 has been announced and posted. Check it out!
Labels: CBS News, David Pogue, ereader, Kevin Kelly, Michio Kaku, New York Times, paperback, spam emails, Symphony of Science, The UP Experience, viral video, What Technology Wants
Categories: 2009 Speakers, 2010 Speakers, Current events, Speakers, UP Speakers In The News, Uncategorized, What is UP?
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
This past week, UP 10 speaker, David Pogue featured a guest post on his blog from Nasahn Sheppard, director of industrial design at Smart Design, the company that designed the Flip cam. As many of you know, Cisco discontinued the Flip cam a few months back and many, including Pogue, were quite upset about it. In Sheppard’s post he examines the elements of a “hot product” and makes a compelling case for “single-purpose” gadgets in our lives.
image courtesy of Flickr/AJC1
Many of you probably saw the four-page ad in the New York Times this past week commemorating IBM’s 100th birthday. The ad generated sharp commentary from UP 10 speaker Kevin Kelly on “long-termism” , which then drew additional comments from Steve Denning at Forbes. There’s no doubt “short-termism” is a dominant force in many companies, but what are the lessons to be learned from “long-termism?”
The press continues to be filled with stories on the end of Nasa’s space shuttle program. UP 09 speaker and astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson spoke with NPR on the end of the shuttle program and its achievements including, “the largest global collaboration outside of waging war.”
Sir Ken Robinson, one of the speakers during the first UP Experience in 2008, is in the press again for the release of a new edition of his book, Out of Our Minds: Learning To Be Creative. He spoke with Fast Company recently to share his thoughts on the changing climate of business and the expanding value of creativity.
Labels: Cisco, Creativity, David Pogue, Fast Company, Flip camera, Forbes, gadgets, IBM, industrial design, Kevin Kelly, long-termism, NASA, Nasahn Sheppard, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, New York Times, NPR, Out of Our Minds, short-termism, Sir Ken Robinson, Smart Design, space shuttle, Steve Denning, The UP Experience
Categories: 2008 Speakers, 2009 Speakers, 2010 Speakers, Current events, Speakers, UP Speakers In The News, Uncategorized, What is UP?, conference
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
Time to come clean. Did anyone guess Chef Jeff Henderson would be our fourth announced speaker for The UP Experience 2011? We hope you’re excited as we are to hear the incredible story of this speaker, we believe he has important lessons about life, change and human potential to share.
Henderson grew up on the tough streets of Central LA and San Diego. By the time he was 19, he was running a $35,000-a-week drug operation. At 24, he spent 10 years behind bars. It was while incarcerated that he discovered a passion for cooking and committed himself to turning his life around. His story has been captured in his New York Times best-selling memoir, Cooked.
Chef Jeff is an award-winning chef, best-selling author, and popular public speaker. He has received widespread national attention on TV, radio, and in print publications, including: The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, The Montel Williams Show, CNBC, NPR’s All Things Considered, People, and USA Today.
In 2001, Jeff made history in Las Vegas when he became the first African-American named “Chef de Cuisine” at Caesar’s Palace. He eventually became an executive chef at several top restaurants, including Café Bellagio, where he worked until 2006.
Register now to join us and Chef Jeff on October 27th!
Labels: All Things Considered, author, Caesar's Palace, Cafe Bellagio, chef, Chef de Cusisine, Chef Jeff, CNBC, Cooked, cooking, Good Morning America, incarcerated, Jeff Henderson, Las Vegas, Montel Williams, New York Times, NPR, Oprah, People, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The UP Experience 2011, USA Today
Categories: 2011 Speakers, Speakers, conference
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Image courtesy of larryjthorson/flickr
Happy first Wednesday in May! We hope you caught yesterday’s latest speaker announcement – we are particularly proud to be bringing Dr. Anthony Atala to Houston.
As always, UP speakers past and present continue to make news. Below are some of this week’s biggest stories.
With gas prizes on the rise and summer vacations looming, U.S. News took a look at “Why $4 Gas Makes Consumers Freak Out” and cited a fantastic New York Times op-ed from way back in 2008 authored by UP 09 speaker Dan Ariely that is suddenly very timely again.
UP 08 speaker Malcolm Gladwell explained to The Atlantic why he is almost always 24 hours behind the news cycle. It was also announced that Gladwell’s work will be featured in a new sports and pop culture website being launched by ESPN’s The Sports Guy, aka Bill Simmons.
Also from The Atlantic, they’ve announced thatUP 10 speaker Richard Florida’s position as a senior editor there is expanding. Atlantic Media is now launching a website based on his work and vision, and if you’re in the job market, they’re looking for an editor.
UP 10 speaker David Pogue closed out the news cycle on Apple’s “Locationgate” in a write up on his blog.
Luis Von Ahn, another UP 10 speaker and inventor of reCAPTCHA has announced his next venture. A new site called Duolingo that will work on translations and help users learn new languages.
Labels: Apple, Atlantic Media, Bill Simmons, Dan Ariely, David Pogue, Dr. Anthony Atala, Duolingo, ESPN, gas, gas prices, Houston, language, Locationgate, Luis Von Ahn, Malcom Gladwell, New York Times, news cycle, Recaptcha, Richard Florida, the Atlantic, The Sports Guy, The UP Experience, translations, UP 08, UP 09, UP 10
Categories: 2008 Speakers, 2009 Speakers, 2010 Speakers, Current events, Speakers, UP Speakers In The News, Uncategorized, conference
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Beginning next week, if you’re on our email list (join by visiting www.theupexperience.com and entering your email in the box on the right side of the page) you’ll get a note each Tuesday announcing the next extraordinary speaker lined UP for our October 2011 event. You can also check back here for the news!
Rather than just reveal the name, we’d prefer to make our announcements a little more interesting. After all, The UP Experience is all about “tickling the mind” – so we’ll start with some trivia each week as a prelude to our Tuesday speaker introduction. This gives you the weekend to mull over our teaser, maybe do a little research on your own, and then see if you’re correct when we announce the next speaker to take the UP stage.
Our first 2011 UP Speaker is someone who…
Has written numerous books, the most recent of which is currently a New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and Los Angeles Times bestseller…as well as a national bestseller in Japan and the U.K.
Graduated from Yale law school, but never practiced law.
Spent several years working in many facets of politics and government, including two years as chief speechwriter to an “inconvenient” Vice President.
llustrates through 50 years of behavioral science and research that, when it comes to human motivation, traditional rewards aren’t nearly as effective as previously believed.
Do you know who it is? Share your guesses below and we’ll reveal the name on Tuesday!
Labels: behavioral science, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, movtivation, New York Times, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, The UP Experience, UP 2011, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Yale
Categories: 2011 Speakers, Speakers, UP Speakers In The News
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
Our UP Alumni continue to make headlines this week and we’d love your feedback on their activity. Are you reading any of our UP alumni’s new books? Have you used the Blackberry PlayBook? Thinking about raising money with ProFounder? Please share your thoughts below!
And, don’t forget we love suggestions! If you’ve come across a story we didn’t post please add it via the comment section below.
This week, UP 2010 speaker and New York Times tech critic David Pogue was on top of some of the week’s hottest news stories, logging comments on both Cisco’s decision to kill the Flip camera and the launch of Blackberry’s PlayBook
Also at UP 2010, Kiva founder Jessica Jackley gave us a preview of her new venture ProFounder. This past week she was interviewed on the details of Profounder on Benzinga and Daily Br!nk.
If you’ve had it on your list to get UP 2009 speaker Peter Sheahan’s new book, Making It Happen, wait no more! He’s a launched an enhanced version that includes seven in-depth videos feature Peter sharing his words of wisdom.
David Eagleman continued to conquer the media with a profile in The New Yorker and Houston Modern Luxury (check out page 79 of the digital edition from that link)
And, Shawn Achor, continued work on his latest book The Happiness Advantage, launching a preview of The Happiness Advantage DVD from his Facebook page.
Labels: Benzinga, Blackberry PlayBook, Cisco, Daily Br!nk, David Eagleman, David Pogue, DVD, Facebook, Flip, Houston Modern Luxury, Jessica Jackley, Kiva, Making it Happen, New York Times, Peter Sheahan, ProFounder, Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage, The New Yorker, The UP Experience, UP Alumni
Categories: 2009 Speakers, 2010 Speakers, Current events, Speakers, UP Speakers In The News
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
**update** We got so excited to announce our first speaker that we got ahead of ourselves! As it turns out we’ll be sending out our email announcement on our first speaker next Tuesday, April 26th! Sorry to leave you in anticipation for one more week. Does anyone have any guesses yet?
Beginning next week, if you’re on our email list (join by visiting www.theupexperience.com and entering your email in the box on the right side of the page) you’ll get a note each Tuesday announcing the next extraordinary speaker lined UP for our October 2011 event. You can also check back here for the news!
Rather than just reveal the name, we’d prefer to make our announcements a little more interesting. After all, The UP Experience is all about “tickling the mind” – so we’ll start with some trivia each week as a prelude to our Tuesday speaker introduction. This gives you the weekend to mull over our teaser, maybe do a little research on your own, and then see if you’re correct when we announce the next speaker to take the UP stage.
Our first 2011 UP Speaker is someone who…
Has written numerous books, the most recent of which is currently a New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and Los Angeles Times bestseller…as well as a national bestseller in Japan and the U.K.
Graduated from Yale law school, but never practiced law.
Spent several years working in many facets of politics and government, including two years as chief speechwriter to an “inconvenient” Vice President. I
llustrates through 50 years of behavioral science and research that, when it comes to human motivation, traditional rewards aren’t nearly as effective as previously believed.
Do you know who it is? Share your guesses below and we’ll reveal the name on Tuesday!
Labels: behavioral science, bestseller, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, The UP Experience, trivia, UP 2011, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Yale
Categories: 2011 Speakers, Speakers
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
Before we dive into this weeks links we want to say thank you to everyone who joined us for last night’s Mini UP. Ankit Fadia and Matthew Knowles each brought a unique perspective to the stage. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Photos and highlights will be posted here and on our Facebook page soon.
And, very importantly, we announced our very first speaker for UP 2011 last night, drumroll please . . . . Dan Pink! Pink is the highly acclaimed author of several books, the most recent of which is Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Pink focuses on businesses, technology and helping us make the most of ourselves in our day-to-day lives. We are so excited to bring him to UP this year.
Here are this week’s UP alumni making headlines:
Two big announcements for all of our Houston readers!
David Eagleman has won a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. The Houston Chronicle says this is the first time a professor at Baylor College of Medicine has received the award.
And TONIGHT UP 09 speaker Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson will be giving a free lecture at the University of Houston. Let us know if you attend.
UP 08 speaker Ray Kurzweil is in the news again. The much talked about futurist is nominated for the 2011 TIME magazine TIME 100 list. Voting closes April 14 so vote now!
Another inaugural UP Experience speaker, Steve Wozniak, was in the news this week when he said he would consider returning to a larger role at Apple if they asked him.
For the social media users out there, are you suffering from FOMO? That is “Fear of Missing Out?” The New York Times detailed the phenomenon in an article referring to UP 09 Dan Ariely’s work.
Labels: Ankit Fadia, Apple, Baylor College of Medicine, Dan Ariely, Dan Pink, David Eagleman, Drive, Facebook, Guggenheim, Houston, Matthew Knowles, Mini UP, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, New York Times, Ray Kurzweil, Steve Wozniak, Time, University of Houston, UP 2011, UP Alumni
Categories: 2008 Speakers, 2009 Speakers, 2010 Speakers, 2011 Speakers, Current events, Mini-UP's, Speakers, UP Speakers In The News
