The MPS Branding Alumni Network presents the third annual Brandstand, which will bring together several luminary speakers from diverse backgrounds to discuss and examine the pervasive nature of technology and its implication for our society. RSVP here.

Expect a rapid fire set of cultural, creative and economic opinions designed to provoke discussion and debate. Through a series of talks and panel discussions, speakers will investigate the question: Are we customers, products or pawns to tech companies today?

Speakers include:

Ian Bogost: author, contributing editor at The Atlantic, game designer, and professor of media studies and computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Emerson T. Brooking: expert on social media and conflict, co-author of Like War: The Weaponization of Social Media
Cynthia Pratomo: creative director and design coach at Wolff Olins, New York City
Debbie Millman: Chair of MPS Branding, writer, artist, educator, brand consultant and host of Design Matters podcast
Anthony Ha: senior writer at TechCrunch covering media and advertising, co-host of the Original Content podcast
Mike Murphy: deputy technology editor at Quartz, focusing on machines with brains and consumer electronic

More speakers to be announced soon. Debbie Millman will also announce the "Brand of the Year" at the event.

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Brandstand 2018: Techlash

SVA Theatre