Did you know California's entire research network of educational institutions, kindergarten through college, now empties directly into Amazon's cloud storage system? From data generated by thousands of Web 2.0 companies every second to terabytes of data generated by government at every level; this may be the golden age of data set collection. In this presentation Werner Vogels defines Big Data, examines the challenges that big data creates, and invites everyone to consider the types of innovation necessary to handle them.

Does pizza taste better than broccoli? If you're like most people, you're going to answer pizza. It should come as no surprise then, that many health experts point to our preference for unhealthy food as a leading cause for the obesity problem in the United States. Clay Johnson suggests that a similar trend is happening in the way we consume content. In this keynote, Clay illustrates how our web preferences are impacting the type of content media companies produce and what we can do to combat our information over-consumption.

John Resig, Dean of open source and head of JavaScript development at Khan Academy, looks at how performance is treated in jQuery projects. He explains the need to consider the varied components that make up a project and ensure that they are balanced to provide the most effective outcome for users of different browsers. He calls this a holistic approach and emphasizes the need for quality control as well as team member support to produce the best product and cleanest code.

Dr. Moira Gunn learns more about the perspective of flows from Duke professor Adrian Bejan, author of Design in Nature.

Dr. Moira Gunn discusses generic drugs in the biotech space called biosimilars with Group Commercial Director for Eden BioDesign, Roger Lias.

If Moore's Law is the basis of your religion, Johnny Lee of Google warns that you might find what he has to say heresy: Convergence won't happen in consumer electronics. In fact, he says the darwinism of free-market competition drives diversification among device species. The mouse and keyboard remain the stalwarts of the productive machine, while computer capacity increases the function of devices large and small.

Leading a panel of several investing experts, James Enck points out several challenges the telecommunications value chain faces after the recent recession. Several problems might mirror the dot-com bubble, but investors and entrepreneurs also have new obstacles, including the increasing importance of online businesses and infrastructure, the varying need for capital and smaller profit margins, and the continued instability of the credit market.

A primary goal for developers has been to attract eyeballs and create "addictive" experiences. Kelly Goto advises against encouraging addictive behavior in development and innovation. According to Goto human-to-machine communication is presently the standard. As machine-to-human communication and innovation becomes more common, Goto wonders if this will begin a new phase for enhancement of the user experience.

Dr. Moira Gunn goes on the set of the Oscar-nominated short film, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore with Co-Director Brandon Oldenburg and Executive Producer, Lampton Enochs.

Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Director Orin Levine from The International Vaccine Access Center at Johns-Hopkins School of Medicine about The Gavi Alliance and vaccines for the poor.

Many ask, "What is the future of gaming?" The future is more difficult to determine without knowing the past. Sven Oliver "Svolli" Moll takes a step back in time to review and analyze the development, intricacies, and specifications of one of the most monumental gaming systems in history; The Atari 2600.

As more household appliances can be controlled remotely, major companies are developing new ways for consumers to use their products. Jonathan Thompson discusses how General Electric uses the Nucleus Energy Manager to monitor and control power usage and cost. In addition to describing the Smart Energy Profile standard, he reviews how appliance and electricity usage is monitored, as well as how privacy issues in particular are controlled and considered in the manager.

We are sharing more than ever. We're sharing so much that we're struggling to understand what to do with the data. We've become data rich, but information poor. It is estimated that we're sharing more than five exabytes of data every two days; roughly the same amount of online data that the world generated until 2003. In this keynote address Hilary Mason introduces some of the challenges of the new age of the exabyte. She offers what she sees as the opportunity to make the world a better place, by converting data into information.

Dr. Moira Gunn talks about an exciting breakthrough in the treatment of trauma to the brain with the President and CEO of Edge Therapeutics, Brian Leuthner.

Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Stanford professor, Cliff Nauss about his journey into the female response to the personal technology boom in his new book, The Man who Lied to His Laptop.

From 40 million users in 2007 to more than 500 million today, Facebook's growth has thrown up enormous challenges in scaling of its computing infrastructure. Jonathan Heiliger, the Vice President of Technical Operations at Facebook, discusses web performance, operations and the evolution of Facebook's computing architecture over the last several years. Amidst various other topics, he focuses on the company's transition from PHP to HipHop for PHP (HPHP) and the Open Compute Project.

With the recent "REP-OCALYPSE" that happened over the weekend, we thought it was a great time to do another podcast - so come join Joel, Jarrod, and Josh as they talk about some of the recent changes to the site and the motivations behind them.

Eric Ries, serial entrepreneur and author of "The Lean Startup", achieved failure before achieving success. Seeing conventional management practices as incapable of guiding high-uncertainty projects, Eric reframes the startup as an ongoing scientific experiment, and provides a glimpse of the management strategies he uses to distinguish between impending insolvency and the brink of breakthrough.

Open Sen.se is a platform for experimenting with the interconnectivity of worldwide devices. Vahé Kassardjian, the company's co-founder gives an overview of the project, from its initial development to specific examples of its application. Describing the process as "going from the mental all the way to the metal", he shows how Open Sen.se is meant to do more than just track data and Vahé reviews how it can be implemented.

Dean Bubley exposes the obstacles and politics surrounding development of the 3GPP LTE effort for optimizing radio access architecture. LTE is being held hostage by the telephony industry and the mobile world is being overlooked, but this must change. Several possible solutions exist, such as IMS voice and Circuit Switch Fallback, but they pose excessive call setup times and compatibility issues. The best resolution is a collaborative effort by carriers and third party VOIP vendors to produce a test vehicle.