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Thanks to the generosity and partnership of the diverse group of leading technology companies and local Austin companies, the Austin Forum on Technology & Society maintains a strong tradition of presenting inspiring, informative events that are free and open to everyone–in the heart of the most creative technology city in the world. Partner with us to enable the Austin Forum continue to help people connect, collaborate, and contribute on technology issues that matter to every member of our community and beyond.
The Austin Forum on Technology & Society is a 501(c)3 organization. Partnership donations are tax deductible.
The Austin Forum on Technology & Society is a 501(c)3 organization. Partnership donations are tax deductible.
Founded in 1969 as a Silicon Valley start-up, the AMD journey began with dozens of employees focused on leading-edge semiconductor products. From those modest beginnings, AMD has grown into a global company of 10,000 people, achieving many important industry firsts along the way. AMD today develops high-performance computing and visualization products to solve some of the world’s toughest and most interesting challenges. There has never been a better time to be in the semiconductor industry, and we are ready to tackle the next 50 years with high-performance computing and graphics solutions that transform all of our lives.
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Arm defines the pervasive computing shaping today’s connected world. Realized in 100 billion silicon chips, our device architectures orchestrate the performance of the technology transforming our lives — from smartphones to supercomputers, from medical instruments to agricultural sensors, and from base stations to servers.
The foundation of a global ecosystem of technology innovators, we empower the world’s most successful business and consumer brands. Every day our thousands of partners embed more than 45 million Arm-based chips in products that connect people, enhance the human experience, and make anything possible. Extensible, scalable, and ever evolving, it is a foundation that confirms how we lead by design — to serve today, anticipate tomorrow. |
Atchley & Associates, LLP (A&A) is an Austin-based full-service certified public accounting firm, offering services such as attestation, tax, accounting, business consulting, political campaign reporting and litigation support services. We serve clients in both the public and private sectors.
Our commitment is to provide quality services to our existing clients and create opportunities for new clients. To gain a better understanding of the type of firm we are, we invite you to check out our website. You will see that in addition to being a professionally dedicated CPA firm, we also realize the importance of maintaining a balance in our lives. |
Austin Energy is the nation’s eighth largest publicly-owned electric utility and a department of the City of Austin. Our mission is to safely deliver clean, affordable, reliable energy and excellent customer service.
Our utility provides electricity to more than 448,000 customers and a population of almost one million in the City of Austin, several neighboring cities, unincorporated areas of Travis County, and a portion of Williamson County. Austin Energy is recognized for achieving some of the highest performance standards in the industry. These standards include aggressive renewable and reliability goals and demonstrated efforts to promote new clean energy technologies and a sustainable environment. The City of Austin’s goals for use of renewable energy are some of the most aggressive in the United States. We are leading the effort to study the impact of electric vehicles on the electric system while promoting increased market share in the automotive industry. |
Brad Englert Advisory is a technology planning and consulting services firm that provides leadership for the continued development of innovative, robust, and secure information technology environment for institutions and organizations. Englert brings more than three decades of experience in governance and policy, resource allocation, and information technology protocols.
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Data Vortex Technologies designs and produces revolutionary, congestion-free switch technologies and software to enable large scale, fine grained, advanced parallel computers to solve the hardest problems in science and industry. The patent-protected network switch enables efficient communication among multiple processors.
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Dell Technologies supports industry, research, government and education with market-ready HPC solutions that enable more innovation and discovery. Our scalable, flexible solutions readily handle compute and data-intensive research workloads, helping drive faster breakthroughs.
Every day, Dell is pairing technology with innovation to make a positive social and environmental impact – building a Legacy of Good. We are committed to putting our technology and expertise to work, where it can do the most good for people and the planet, making possible today what was impossible yesterday. Every team member at Dell shares this commitment because being a good company is the right thing to do, but it is also right for our business. We’re creating real value for our customers, employees, and partners while driving social and environmental good in the community. |
Good Systems is a campus-wide, interdisciplinary research grand challenge at The University of Texas at Austin focused on designing ethical AI technologies that benefit society. This research effort brings together humanists, social scientists, and technologists to define, evaluate, and build AI systems driven by broadly accepted values such as transparency, agency, trust, equity, and justice. Together with partners in academia, government, industry, and nonprofit sectors, Good Systems works to address pressing societal issues through six core research projects in the areas of AI and the future of racial justice, privacy and surveillance, smart cities, disinformation, smart hand tools and the future of work, and living and working with robots.
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KUNGFU.AI is a leading AI consultancy that strategically partners with clients on large cycles of change and innovation to help them compete and lead in the age of AI. We provide strategy, engineering, and operations services to achieve AI-centric transformation.
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Optiver is one of the oldest market making firms in the world, Optiver has been improving financial markets since 1986. By providing liquidity to markets across the globe, Optiver makes markets more efficient, transparent and stable. Powered by technological innovation, they continuously provide competitive, two-sided prices for thousands of financial instruments on all major exchanges globally. Their world class teams of highly skilled professionals come from a broad range of disciplines but are bound by one simple purpose: improving the market.
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South By Southwest dedicates itself to helping creative people achieve their goals. Founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas, SXSW is best known for its conference and festivals that celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries. The event, an essential destination for global professionals, features sessions, showcases, screenings, exhibitions, and a variety of networking opportunities. SXSW proves that the most unexpected discoveries happen when diverse topics and people come together.
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