Excited to announce the @poptech has announced its theme for its 30th anniversary conference, which will be held in DC in October and will include speakers like @twtrdtcm @srsiskind, @JMchangama, @leethafilderman. Learn more at civil.poptech.org/

“The future of development will depend on how well we connect evidence to investment and investment to outcomes.” — FHI 360 CEO Tessie San Martin Today Tessie joined leaders hosted by InterAction and PopTech to explore new business models for development. #WorldBankMeetings

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What are the factors driving the boom in Dubai’s PopTech? What does it mean for India? From policy initiatives to funding, mentoring, and skill-building, here’s a deep dive into the forces behind the surge in the emirate’s prop-tech space. Discover the digital innovations fuelling this surge and what would it take to build in Dubai and scale to the region. Read more: economictimes.indiatimes.com…

Photo of Unity Dow / by Kris Krüg for PopTech / CC BY-SA 2.0

India's worst logistics company is @delhivery My parcel from POPTECH B2C with Awb #31109330210831 has been stucked in Delhivery nearest hub! For the last two days, delhivery mark my parcel as failed without any attempt to deliver my parcel! Pls don't ship with @help_delhivery

February 7th marks one year since we lost our dear friend and colleague, Dickson D. Despommier. He was a scientist, innovator, author, and professor. He was also a founding member of our organization, Parasites Without Borders, and a staunch advocate of accurate science communication. Dickson spent 38 years as a professor of microbiology and public health in environmental health sciences at Columbia University, where he won the Best Teacher Award six times. In 2003, he received the American Medical Student Association’s National Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence. He was the author of The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century. He spoke at the TED Conference, PopTech, and the World Science Festival. He was invited by the governments of China, India, Mexico, Jordan, Brazil, Canada, and South Korea to work on their environmental problems. “One of the biggest contributions Dickson made was co-authoring the textbook, Parasitic Diseases, which our organization has given away thousands of hard and digital copies to educators and medical professionals around the world,” says Dr. Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD, co-founder and president of PWB. “When we recently published the Eighth Edition of the textbook, we renamed it Despommier’s Parasitic Diseases.” We miss Dickson dearly, but are honored to continue some of the great work that he started. Photo Caption: Dickson Despommier in The Sun Works Center greenhouse at Manhattan School for Children. (Jorg Meyer)

Hadiya “Hema” Masieh passed away last week. She was my friend. Two lines from Tolkien have been sitting with me. One is when Galadriel says to Frodo: “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” The other is Tolkien, describing Éowyn: “Then the heart of Éowyn changed… and suddenly her winter passed, and the sun shone on her.” The first a reiminder to have courage, and the second a promise of hope. Hema and I met in an unlikely place, and that “unlikely” rippled through the next eight years of our lives. What sense does it make that a Kenyan-American and a British-Indian would become family friends? And yet… Scottish camping trips, safari drives in Kenya, pancakes swapped for curries at each other’s tables. Our families connected together in the way that good friendships do. Back to that little seaside town in 2018, at PopTech. After spending a weekend at the conference, I found myself inspired by her abilities and offended on her behalf. Affronted even. Because Hema’s spark to do something important was being crushed by life, indignities and petty voices. Before she left the US for the UK, we had formulated an idea to create a new organization, called “Groundswell”. And then Groundswell was builit! An organization created to build empathy in communities. To help neighbors realize that they are more the same than they are different. A reminder that when we understand each other it becomes harder to mock, detest and hate and easier to band together on the things that matter in life for all of us. Groundswell is a reminder that we succeed when people see each other as people, when communities are strong because of shared humanity despite their differences. Groundswell continues, and I can’t wait to see how the team carries that legacy of Hema forward. But her legacy isn’t just found in her work. It’s also found in her children, her husband, parents, cousins, family and friends. And my deepest hope is that each of us carries that little ember of magic that made Hem special into our own world, and uses it to bring joy, love, and peace to those we might differ with.

Last fall at @poptech in DC, I interviewed @lyn_ulbricht, mother of @RealRossU and head of @CruelSentencing, and drug researcher and convicted LSD chemist Leonard Pickard about the brutal realities of punitive, counterproductive federal prison sentences. youtu.be/XVknLLed6pQ?si=11Rt…

A few weeks ago I returned to the PopTech stage the place where Ecovative first took shape almost twenty years ago. I talked about the through-line from mushroom packaging to MyForest Foods. The wins, the failures, and the lesson that stuck: good isn’t good enough. Millions of units of compostable packaging feel meaningful until you remember the world makes hundreds of billions of pieces of styrofoam every year. If you want to change the material flows of Earth, you have to find the trim tab : the point of maximum leverage where biology, culture, and business align. For us, that trim tab turned out to be bacon. Organic. Five ingredients. Grown at mushroom economics, sold at meat prices. Today it’s one of the fastest-moving products in its category because the fundamentals are sound, not because of the story attached to it. I offered a provocation: The largest corporations of the last century, Saudi Aramco, Exxon, call themselves energy companies. In practice, they are geoengineering companies that deliver energy. We’ve been reshaping this planet for thousands of years, starting with agriculture and accelerating through fossil fuels. The real question was never whether we geoengineer, it’s whether we do it deliberately, transparently, and well. Most days my feet are on the ground with the fungi: foods, leathers, foams, medicines, sensing, mobile factories, analog computation, and the deeper biology that connects them. But nights and weekends I’ve been thinking about the sky. About shade. About reversible atmospheric infrastructure. About what it might mean to link human comfort directly to planetary albedo. Every degree of extreme heat can swing a city like Phoenix by 100 MW. Targeted shade drops a district by 1°C, erasing megawatts of AC demand. Lower it by more and you’ve effectively created a power plant, without building a power plant. That's Sundial: A negawatt from the sky. not climate change, but climate control. What are the tools that make Earth more habitable, locally and globally, with precision and reversibility? I love working with people who want to build along this trajectory. People who care about which ideas hold up, which ones fail, and which ones might actually matter for the long journey ahead. We’re not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We’re engineers. youtube.com/watch?v=vPgqNygK…

You guys have heard some of the same stories from me a few times. Lots of the videos online are from when I’m speaking to a new audience, so I have to do some of my hits from the 80s. My favorite thing to do is speak to an audience that already knows me so I do some new things. At PopTech this year, I got to do that! youtu.be/2llj-RejcCc?si=5OsK…

Advice for Parents, From Engineers: “Garbage in garbage out.”  (Parents matter) “Ship it.” (you gotta let them go) Advice for AI Engineers, From Parents: “It takes a village” (Diversify your data) “They grow up so fast” Agree? From my talk at @poptech youtu.be/QXb3M1PBLpg?si=PyMx…

I trained my Fetus and an AI on the exact same data. What's the first word: Data or Dada? Meet #FetusGPT built with @thecodingtrain @elevenlabs @PlaudAI a fetus. Human Fetus Collaborator: @nickgillespie 👶🤖 Shot at @poptech Full talk 🎥: youtu.be/QXb3M1PBLpg?si=iyzY…

.@srsiskind trained her Fetus and an AI on the exact same data. What's the first word: Data or Dada? Meet #FetusGPT — built with @thecodingtrain @elevenlabs @PlaudAI a fetus. Human Fetus Collaborator: @nickgillespie #TeamBaby vs #TeamBot… who learns faster? 👶🤖 Shot at @poptech 🎥 Full PopTech talk: youtube.com/watch?v=QXb3M1PB…

Hey, fauxtech boomercrat doesn't understand how his own government works. But be sure to trust his poptech prattle, lol.

Check out my awesome debrief / integration about @poptech 2025 with @dblums and Kwaku Aning! Thx to @leethafilderman Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1H2… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

At @poptech, with @RAHZELTHELEGEND and @MarthaMooke

Mushroom packaging, Mycelium Bacon, and Shade- as a service? Nice to be back @poptech after 15 years— sharing our progress so far and my next dreams for spaceship earth

@colossal - Beth Shapiro presenting at @poptech. Love connecting w my friend @BenLamm’s company. And love learning that Colossal’s mission has evolved to making extinction a thing of the past, preserving the biodiversity continuum