BodyHackingcon 2016

from Friday, February 19, 2016 9:00AM to Sunday, February 21, 2016 7:00PM

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TICKET TYPE TOTAL REMAINING SALES END PRICE QUANTITY
$60.00
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Conference

A Con as Unique as Its Attendees

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Bodybuilders, tattoo enthusiasts, tech folk, and every other group out there has their own conventions focused on precisely what they’re already into. BDYHAX is a little different. By bringing everyone together we want to expand horizons, create new connections, and, hopefully, encourage new frontiers to be explored. Join us as bodyhackers from all walks of life share philosophies, technologies, and maybe the occasional cocktail, all in the name of altering the human body as its owner sees fit.

What to Expect Besides Everything.

The 2+ days of BDYHAX include conference sessions and discussions focused on everything from information security in wearable tech to the sense of touch being integrated into prosthetics. You’ll have the opportunity to meet biohackers augmenting the human sensory experience in their DIY labs, hear debates on ethics in human augmentation, and build your own tDCS device for at-home brain hacking. Check out the cutting edge of cosmetic surgery, the latest buzz in tattooing, and far more amazing things than we could ever hope to possibly write about in a single paragraph.

Featured Speakers

If you think the mix of bodyhackers on the expo floor is going to be exciting, wait until you see who will be standing behind the podium. BDYHAX is inviting researchers from major universities, the top minds of cutting-edge corporations, independent biohackers, futuristic artists, and real life cyborgs for shop talk and brain picking. For a complete list of booked speakers, check out our schedule.

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Neil Harbisson

Neil Harbisson, of the popular TED talk “I listen to color,” was born into a greyscale world with total colorblindness, but, with the help of Adam Montandon and after a journey of many years and many doctors, Neil had an antenna osseointegrated into his skull that lets him hear and identify colors. After a struggle with the UK passport office to have his antenna included in his passport photo, he co-founded the Cyborg Foundation with Moon Ribas in 2010 to help defend cyborg rights and promote cyborgism as a social and artistic movement.

Twitter: @NeilHarbisson
Facebook: Neil Harbisson

David Webster from IDEO

David Webster

IDEO Palo Alto Partner David Webster is an engineer, tinkerer, designer of human experiences, and inventor of tools to make our lives more pleasurable and meaningful. Early on in his career, David came across a simple definition of what design is about: person + machine + soul + energy. That’s the formula he uses to seek the most substantial design challenges and to transform lives, businesses, markets and nations. Recent favorite projects at IDEO Palo Alto include a pilates machine for Balanced Body, a light-and-motion sculpture for Joie de Vivre Hotels, helping Ekso Bionics as they enable paralyzed people to stand up and walk, a needle-free vaccine system for Iomai, and a set of apps that allow kids to talk directly to Elmo!

Twitter: @dwbstr
LinkedIn: David Webster

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Dr. Rita Paradiso

Rita received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering in 1991 with research focusing mainly on molecular electronics, biosensors, biomaterials for biomedical applications and e-textiles. She joined Smartex in 2000 as R&D Manager, and has been the CEO since 2011. With over 70 scientific publications and conference presentations since 1989, she has worked at Queen Mary College, at the Molecular Chemical Laboratory in Saclay, France, and as a post doctor fellow at the University of Trento.

 

Sponsored by IEEE EMB Society

 

If you want to speak at BDYHAX, there’s room for you still. Reach out at [email protected]

Partners in What’s Possible

Two groups make BDYHAX possible: passionate individuals on their journey to whatever they consider to be their ideal self and companies who believe in those individuals and their journeys. Whether they provide funding, air time, or other consideration for the event, we count ourselves extremely fortunate to work with such amazing partners and hope that you’ll form your own relationship with many of them soon.

February 19-21, 2016

Austin Convention Center
500 E Cesar Chavez St
Austin, TX 78701

 

BodyHacking Con’s official 2016 home is Exhibit Hall 5 in the Northeast corner of the Austin Convention Center. Conferences will be held in the North side of 4th floor in Ballrooms F&G, and Meeting Rooms 12A and 12B.

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As testament to the legendary friendliness of Texas, the Austin Convention Center has complimentary wifi throughout the building. True to Austin’s progressive digital nature, the wifi actually works really well.

 

Hotel

Rooms are available just across the street from Austin Convention Center at Hilton Austin, for an event rate of $239/night. Just use the the discount code.

https://resweb.passkey.com/go/Bodyhacking2016

 

Airport

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is the closest public airport to the venue. Shuttles are available to both Hilton Austin and the Austin Convention Center via Super Shuttle and CapMetro.

Location
Austin Convention Center
500 E Cesar Chavez St Austin, TX 78701

https://bodyhackingcon.com/

Type: Conference