August 7 at Austin Forum: Gene Editing
The Forrest Four-Cast: August 2, 2018
On the evening of Tuesday, August 7, the Austin Forum explores “The Promise and Perils of Gene Editing.” The last decade has ushered in biotechnological breakthroughs that now allow us to edit and rewrite the genetic fate of all living organisms. This free-ranging discussion will focus on both the technologies and the societal impacts of genome engineering.
Speakers for this August 7 session on include Ilya Finkelstein (Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas) and Sahotra Sarkar (Department of Philosophy, The University of Texas).
The Austin Forum is free to attend, but RSVP here to reserve your spot at the event. Doors open at 5:45, the presentation begins at 6:15 and post-presentation networking starts at 7:30. The location of the Austin Forum is the Central Library at 710 W Cesar Chavez Street.
Get a preview of the issues that will be discussed at the August 7 Austin Forum event by watching Jennifer Doudna’s keynote at SXSW 2017. And speaking of March Magic festivities, one lucky August 7 attendee will win a free badge for next year’s event. Download sli.do on your smartphone so that you can have a chance to win the free badge for SXSW 2019!
More Austin events for the week of August 6
August 6: Intro to the Austin Media Scene / Media ATX
August 6: Austin Virtual League Meet Up
August 6: Design Jam
August 6: What Engineers Love About Great Product Managers
August 7: Intro to Fundraising in Austin
August 7: Interpretability and Intentionality in Data Science
August 7: Epic Office Hours at Capital Factory
August 7: The Promise and the Peril of Gene Editing
August 7: Learn to Code: Intro to jQuery and DOM
August 7: Austin Advanced Deep Learning Meet Up
August 7: New Worlds Space
August 7: iPhone Developers Meet Up
August 8: How to Spark an Innovative Culture
August 8: Female Founders Meet Up
August 8: Health Tech Austin
August 8: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart
August 8: Our Decentralized Future with Dhruv Bansal
August 8: Austin Python Meet Up
August 8: Founders Institute Recruitment Event
August 8: Austin Hispanic Hackers Meet Up
August 9: Go Together | Austin
August 9: User Experience Design Info Session
August 9: Digital Marketing Info Session
August 9: Team Austin Summer Startup Pitch
August 9: Austin PHP Monthly Meet Up
August 9: Internet Marketing Party
August 9: Galvanize & Hackreactor HH
August 9: Video Game Makers Unite!
August 9: IBM Watson Cognitive Tech Meet Up
August 9: WordPress Meet Up Group
August 10: Growing a Publicly-Traded Company
Aug 10–12: Iron Dragon Action Fest
August 11: National Day of Civic Hacking
More Upcoming Austin Events:
August 15: MassChallenge Texas Awards Ceremony
August 16: American Hate Survivors Speak Out
August 22: Snap Judgement LIVE!
August 23: Profiles in Power
August 29: Scale Up
August 30-Sept 2: Babes Fest 2018
September 4: Austin Forum Cybersecurity Session
September 13: Design Sprint Bootcamp with Jake Knapp
September 13–15: Online News Association (ONA) Conference
September 15: DeRay McKesson Book Reading
September 20–22: Creatives Meet Business Experience 2018
September 27–29: 2018 Texas Tribune Festival
October 2: InnoTech Austin
Oct 5–7: ACL Fest, Weekend #1
Oct 9: Texas Voter Registration Deadline
Oct 12–14: ACL Fest, Weekend #2
Oct 25-Nov 1: Austin Film Festival
October 27–28: 2018 Texas Book Festival
November 6: 2018 Midterm Elections
November 9: SXSW Pitch Entry Deadline
November 9: SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards Entry Deadline
November 27–28: Solar Business Festival
Deadline to register to vote in Texas for the November 2018 general election is Tuesday, October 9.
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Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW, the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.
