Visions of the Future: the Manifestos and Moral Philosophies of Big Tech Companies and Their CEOs (workshop)

Instructor, Oriana Medlicott (AI Ethics Strategist and Research Facilitator), will review the corporate manifestos of big tech companies including Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Mozilla and Google and several tech CEOs including Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Satya Nadella, Steve Jobs and Tim Cook and correlate them to philosophical schools of thought. Learn the crucial elements of creating a successful corporate manifesto and why some manifestos miss the mark. Explore how the most powerful CEOs in the world communicate their philosophies to the world through their corporate manifestos, what those philosophies are and how they define product development and customer service. Create your own powerful manifesto. Instructor: Oriana Medlicott (AI Ethics Strategist and Research Facilitator) Guest Speaker: Ge Wang (Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, author of Artful Design: Technology In Search of the Sublime (a comic book manifesto)