Nametags and agendas at the ready for the inaugural Houston 2035 conference.
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The Texas Medical Center's Bill McKeon welcomes attendees at a VIP reception.
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Attendees gather at Houston 2035's VIP reception at the Texas Medical Center.
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Lindsay Dennault at TMC chats with Gray Hancock, co-founder of Decisio Healthcare.
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Guests enjoy drinks and canapes at the VIP reception kicking off Houston 2035.
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Xconomy Texas Editor poses with Xconomist Gaurav Khandelwal, founder of Chai One and Start Houston.
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Kristin Weikel at J-Labs and Deborah Mansfield at the Houston Technology Center.
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The Texas Medical Center's Bobby Robbins and Xconomy's Bob Buderi round up attendees to start the conference.
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Stephen Klineberg at the Kinder Institute illustrates Houston's future through its demography.
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Bill McKeon at the Texas Medical Center and BioHouston's Jacqueline Northcut talk about efforts to boost healthcare entrepreneurs.
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Ferran Prat at MD Anderson joined Atul Varadhachary at Fannin Innovation Studio and Charles Tate, founder of CRG.
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Katie Mehnert, founder of Pink Petro, speaks about ways to support women in the energy industry.
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The Mercury Fund's Blair Garrou speaks about Houston's other strength: IT.
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Rice's Rebecca Richards-Kortum speaks of innovations that save babies in rural Africa---and in the Texas Rio Grande Valley, too.
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Nick Slavin with EES Ventures speaks with Niel Golightly at Shell about creating a Houston-based fellowship to spark homegrown innovation.
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Simrit Parmar, founder of Platform Houston, says Houston should focus on its strengths: space, medicine, technology, and energy.
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UT's John Holcomb talks about how "small data" in healthcare could lead to better outcomes.
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More than 300 people registered to attend the inaugural Houston 2035 conference.
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The Texas Medical Center's Bobby Robbins kicks off the inaugural Houston 2035 conference.
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Allison Lami Sawyer speaks of her company, Rebellion Photonics.
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Houston 2035 was held at TMCx, the Texas Medical Center's Innovation Insitute
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MIT's Bill Aulet attracts a crowd after his talk on disciplined entrepreneurship.
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Sue Siegel at GE Ventures and healthymagination meets Houston audience members.
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Rich Baraniuk describes his company, OpenStax, which creates online and customized textbooks for students.
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Bonnie Dunbar, a former NASA astronaut who now leads STEM education efforts at the University of Houston, describes mentors who helped her through education and career.
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Kerri Smith of OwlSpark, the student accelerator at Rice University, was one of the attendees.
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George McLendon, provost at Rice University and founder of edtech companies, describes bringing engineering to life for young students.
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Jorge Barrero at Gensler speaks of 3-D printing technology that could create less expensive housing faster.
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Healthcare and energy, edtech and urban design. Those were among the topics at hand at the inaugural Houston 2035 conference last Thursday, which brought together leaders from Houston and nationally to speak about how Houston can both leverage its assets and prepare for future challenges as an innovative city of the future in the decades to come.
For a more detailed look at the discussions, please see our story here. For a Storify-ed look at the proceedings, click here.
Once again, we’d like to extend special thanks to our sponsors who made this event possible, including our event host the Texas Medical Center; our platinum sponsors, GE, Gensler, Rice University, Shell, and Texas Medical Center; our gold sponsors, Luna Data Solutions and MD Anderson Cancer Center; our silver sponsor, DPR Construction; and our event supporters, BMC and Microsoft. Thanks as well to photographer Nick de la Torre.
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