Cities as a Platform for Developing Frontier Tech
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David Wallerstein, cited as ‘The Man Who Bets Tencent’s ‘Moonshot’ Money’ by Wall Street Journal, is the Chief Exploration Officer at Tencent and behind the company’s futuristic investments in flying cars and the future of food. David will join the stage with the Mayor of Helsinki Jan Vapaavuori, and together they will discuss the role cities can take by serving as a testing platform for the most bleeding edge of novel technologies. David and Jan will be interviewed by Larry Madowo, Business Editor at BBC Africa. -- In 2018, Slush brought together 20,000 attendees, including 3,100 startups, 1,800 investors and 650 journalists from over 130 countries. The cold and dark Helsinki welcomed these tech-heads to celebrate on Dec 3-5, 2018 with hundreds of side-events and activities around the city. Slush 2018 in pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushmedia/albums Website: http://www.slush.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slushHQ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slushHQ Instagram: http://instagram.com/SlushHQ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/slush Slush Tokyo: http://tokyo.slush.org Slush Shanghai: http://shanghai.slush.org Slush Singapore: http://singapore.slush.org Intro videos by: VAU (http://vau.company) VELI.fx / Veli Creative (http://velicreative.fi) Slush is a non-profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students and festival organizers. Slush has grown from a 300-person event to become the leading event of its kind in the world. The philosophy behind it has remained the same: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies forward.
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