Hacked: Festival lineup features Ryan Bethencourt, Renee Black, and more

by Stephen Hui on July 4th, 2014 at 10:38 AM

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Vancouver's first “disruptive innovation festival” has announced some of its speakers.

Hacked: Festival will take place August 11 to 14 at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre. It will feature a conference, an arcade, exhibits, a film night, hackerspaces, a market, parties, and workshops.

Earlier this week, the festival revealed that its "first round of programming" includes:

Ryan Bethencourt, Sr. Director (Life Sciences) Prize creation at X Prize Foundation and Co-Founder at Berkeley Biolabs (San Francisco)
Renee Black, Executive Director at Peace Geeks (Vancouver)
Eric Hersman, Founder BRCK, Ushahidi Project (Nairobi, Kenya)
Tim Pool, Hacker Journalist, VICE Magazine, Creator of Tagg.ly (New York)
Shaharris Beh, co-founder of HackerNest Tech Socials (Toronto & Kuala Lampur)
Amal Graafstra, founder Dangerous Things (Seattle)
Aaron Hilton, CTO at Conquer Mobile (Vancouver)
Kharis O’Connell, Experience Design Director at Global Mechanic, Founder Cyborg Camp (Vancouver) Jay Giraud, Co-Founder and CEO, MOJIO (Vancouver)
Nik Badminton, Founder From Now Conference, Principal at DesignCultureMind (Vancouver)
David Vogt, Urban Opus (Vancouver)
Michael Bidu, Founder at Sanotron, Executive Producer at Interface 2014 (Vancouver)