Arizona Technology Council Presents: Cultural Computing: Novel Intellect and Future Markets Oct. 12, 2006 Council Connect Event.

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Technology shapes our world and links our thinking. People, process and technology have merged to develop a new culture. Cultural Computing is the most important and profound generational shift and will have extraordinary impact on your life and your business.

How this new genre affects every part of who we are and what we do is the subject of the next Council Connect.

Last month, the Arizona Technology Council presented a Council Connect dedicated to the changing workforce. Attendees of the event learned about the new generation workforce: "the millennial worker," how they impact Arizona business, and how to make them efficient and effective in their careers. Millennials (people under the age of 25) are culturally comfortable with this way of life -- computing. Donna Kent, president and CEO of the Arizona Tech Council, stated that "understanding this type of intellect is the key to understanding the growth and retention of your business ... the people who will bring your company to the next level of innovation and success."

The next Council Connect will delve further into the current cultural shift. "Cultural Computing" is the most important and profound concept to impact your business for it involves the way we learn, live and interact. People do this every day but none of them realize the dichotomy they are living.

Cultural computing is all around and we must nurture it in schools and businesses. The integration of computing and digital media in our lives is changing the way we think, learn, apply knowledge, communicate and produce. The emergence of a hybrid physical-digital human intelligence:

--establishes dynamic, hybrid networks of people and technology as the main processing and production mechanism

--transcends the current notion of intellectual property

--devalues the role of competition in growth

--establishes concurrences as a powerful knowledge generation mechanism

--integrates embodied and intellectual understanding

Dr. Rikakis will present specific examples of these emerging changes and discuss the effects these trends are having on society, technology and the economy. He will provide suggestions for the kinds of infrastructure and models that can prepare the state of Arizona to aggressively embrace this generational genre.

The Arizona Technology Council is pleased to present our signature knowledge-sharing event -- Council Connect, featuring Thanassis Rikakis, professor and director of the Arts, Media and Engineering Program at Arizona State University. Sponsored by OneNeck IT Services, this event will change your understanding of the development of the present world in order to overshadow your competition. Please join us as we begin the dialogue that will probe this present-day cultural shift known as Cultural Computing.

For more information about the Arts, Media, Engineering Program at ASU, please visit http://ame.asu.edu.

Opportunities to sponsor and hold a booth are still available. Questions can be sent to [e-mail]

WHERE:      Tempe Mission Palms
            60 East 5th St
            Tempe, AZ 85281
            http://www.missionpalms.com/
            480-894-1400
            Complimentary Valet Parking Available!

WHEN:       Oct. 12, 2006
            7:00 a.m. - 7:30 a.m. (Registration & Networking)
            7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. (Breakfast & Introduction)
            8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. (Presentation)
            8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Q & A)

COST:       $35-Members / $55-Non-members
            At the Door: $40-Members / $60- Non-members

REGISTER:   www.aztechcouncil.org

SPONSOR:

OneNeck IT Services: OneNeck IT Services Corp. is the leading ERP outsourcing services provider to mid-market manufacturing and distribution companies. OneNeck supports a variety of ERP applications, including Infor/SSA Baan and BPCS, JD Edwards and Microsoft Dynamics AX and offers a wide range of services including application, database and network management, data center management, 24 x 7 customer support, disaster recovery and desktop support. OneNeck's global solutions enable customers to improve ERP system performance and leverage their enterprise applications to deliver measurable business benefits. For additional information, visit the OneNeck IT Services home page at www.OneNeck.com.

SPEAKER BIO:

Thanassis Rikakis is professor and director of the Arts Media and Engineering (AME) Program at Arizona State University. His research work and publications are in the areas of computer mediated arts and experiential systems, pitch perception, auditory feedback for rehabilitation, computer music tools for arts education, multimedia composition algorithms, and interdisciplinary graduate education.

His educational background is in music composition and computer music. He has composed works for acoustic ensembles, works for computer as well as music for film, theater and television. He studied composition and computer music with Chou Wen Chung, Brad Garton, Roger Reynolds, Karel Husa and Theodore Antoniou. He attended composition seminars with Ianis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez and Olivier Messiaen.

He is principal investigator of a recently awarded NSF IGERT grant for interdisciplinary research and education in experiential media, Co-PI of a current NSF CISE Research Infrastructure grant for motion analysis, and PI for the motion e project that premiered at ASU and Lincoln Center in April 2005 and has received an NEA Technology: Resources for Change grant.