Tech Talk:

technology and the future of power

august 31, 2020 10am PT / 1PM ET

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How is technology changing the ways humans acquire, wield and experience power? In the second installment of our new virtual conversation series Tech Talks, we will hear from three leading experts in the field — all of whom have published books on power — about how technology is changing power dynamics in our society.

Topics we’ll address include:

• How people gain or lose power and status in digital contexts.

• The ways in which new platforms and algorithms are changing how ideas are spread.

• The implications of the changing power landscape for leadership, politics, business and societal well-being.

• Wherever else the conversation takes us!

more about the speakers:

• Adam Galinsky: Adam is the chair of the Management Division and the Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. He has published more than 200 scientific articles, chapters, and teaching cases in the fields of management and social psychology, and his research has received numerous national and international awards from the scientific community. His research and teaching focus on leadership, power, negotiations, decision-making, diversity, and ethics. He is the co-author of the critically acclaimed book Friend and Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both.

• Deborah Gruenfeld: Deborah is a leading social psychologist and the Joseph McDonald Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Gruenfeld’s research has been featured in many scholarly journals as well as in The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, O Magazine, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. Gruenfeld co-directs the Executive Program for Women Leaders at Stanford and teaches courses on power and leadership for a wide variety of audiences around the world, including young company founders and senior executives in large, multinational companies.  She sits on the boards of the LeanIn.Org Foundation and Stanford’s Center for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership. She has a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois. She is the author of recently released book Acting With Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe.

• Jeremy Heimans: Jeremy is the Co-Founder and CEO of Purpose, a social business that builds movements and ventures that he says, “uses the power of participation to bring change in the world.” He is a world-renowned expert on building social movements, a pioneer of purpose-driven marketing and business models, and co-author of the internationally best-selling book New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World - and How to Make it Work for You. He also has a TED talk on the topic called What New Power Looks Like.