{"id":3713,"date":"2021-01-04T12:48:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T17:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2022-08-22T16:36:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T20:36:50","slug":"a-look-back-at-nexttech-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/2021\/01\/04\/a-look-back-at-nexttech-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back at NextTech 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking back on 2020 and how the Spark! community rallied together, one of the highlights is easily NextTech. The two-day event allowed our student innovators and technology\u2019s most influential leaders to come together and explore how emerging technologies can help solve real-world problems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether it was through panel discussions, mini-workshops, or the networking opportunities, students walked away with project ideas that have meaning, how to start-up those ideas, or a better sense of preparedness for the Spark! Fellowship application.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you missed out on all the inspiration and support, catch up on the wise words from our speakers here:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1sVZFQLeXIQq_XKkREG8XFqH84L5ZwTBN\/view?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phil Libin, Co-Founder and CEO of All Turtles and mmhmm\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1sm9yx_u7-jvKXNgHMYW1NiGU78NsrBdj\/view?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Hernandez, Software Engineer with Caravan Studios<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1cr0C__GacYVKUFa94PR_xX4JrhZYgRjp\/view?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kade Crockford, Director of the Technology for Liberty Program at ACLU of Massachusetts\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1o6mmnwiVS4TJ4fvnXCF2wiUdmZEYXsMc\/view?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hakan Satiroglu, Co-Founder and President at XR Terra<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1RH1e6tnrcqvMEuJ7KD8B4sVhtSbHs9Qw\/view?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexis Alston, Senior Associate at Lightship Capital <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on 2020 and how the Spark! community rallied together, one of the highlights is easily NextTech. The two-day event allowed our student innovators and technology\u2019s most influential leaders to come together and explore how emerging technologies can help solve real-world problems.\u00a0 Whether it was through panel discussions, mini-workshops, or the networking opportunities, students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18463,"featured_media":3717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,37],"tags":[57,56,59,55,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3715,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/3715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}