PopTech: Lisa Servon

PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Lisa Servon. Lisa explains how working in a check-cashing facility in the Bronx informed her efforts to improve financial services for poor Americans. ‘Poor people know […]

PopTech: Nicole Stubbs

PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Nicole Stubbs. Learn how Nicole is reducing lending and borrowing costs across the developing world through cloud technology by aggregating big data and producing recommendations about […]

PopTech: Olivia Chaney

Check out a performance at PopTech 2013 by singer, songwriter and performer Olivia Chaney, complete with Indian harmonium.

PopTech: Raj and Josh

PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Josh Nesbit and Raj Panjabi. Learn why a collaborative project between Josh and Raj is the first to receive support from PopTech’s Impact Fund. Their plan […]

PopTech: Scott Barry Kaufman

PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Scott Barry Kaufman. Cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman unravels some of creativity’s mysterious origins with the help of brain scanning equipment. ‘Depending on what you are […]

PopTech: Shantell Martin

PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Shantell Martin. Breakthrough artist Shantell Martin invites viewers on a tour of her unique, flowing, ever-evolving style, expressed lately through just a simple black pen. ‘I […]

PopTech: Charlie Todd

PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Charlie Todd. Charlie shares his hilarious improvisational projects that invite random New Yorkers to participate, like conducting an orchestra on a city sidewalk. ‘This is about […]

PopTech: Anushka Ratnayake

PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Anushka Ratnayake. Learn how Anushka is using mobile technology to help poor farmers easily save money for seed and fertilizer.

PopTech: Adam Magyar

PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Adam Magyar. Adam talks about using industrial cameras and computers to photograph and process urban images that capture a moment of time and then visually expand […]

PopTech: Alex Hornstein

PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Alex Hornstein. Alex says that simple systems that use mostly existing infrastructure can power rural homes that lack electricity. ‘What I’m interested in is how to […]