Dawn or Doom has a battery of great national and Purdue speakers, but we also want attendees to engage with the topics discussed, to touch and interact with the technology, and to think and reflect on ideas through more than listening to a talk. 

Here are seven ways to engage @ Dawn or Doom.

Cities play an important role in shaping the future climate because they can affect the regions around them. Purdue professor Dev Niyogi is using technology to help us better understand cities’ climate impacts how we can use this information to mitigate harmful effects, such as the increase extreme events being witnessed under changing climate conditions. Niyogi will discuss his work at Purdue’s Dawn or Doom conference on the risks and rewards of emerging technologies.

The robots are coming for your job. Can they be stopped? George Anders, author and senior editor at LinkedIn, says yes. Regardless of how easy it will be for robots to fulfill many jobs, there will always be a need for humans behind the screens.

Veterinary Medicine Professor Audrey Ruple will talk about the rapid spread of infectious diseases like Zika virus from animals to humans and what we can do to stop it, or at least slow it down, during Purdue’s Dawn or Doom conference on the risks and rewards of emerging technologies.

Purdue computer science professor Dan Goldwasser is teaching computers to better understand the ideology behind social media posts and in news articles by combining machine learning with models of social relationships and behavior. Goldwasser will discuss his work at Purdue’s Dawn or Doom ‘18 conference on the risks and rewards of emerging technologies.

The rise of smartphone apps, and the distractions they cause, caused an increase in vehicle crashes in 2016 – an unexpected consequence of technology that will be discussed at Purdue’s Dawn or Doom conference on the risks and rewards of emerging technologies, set for Nov. 5 and 6.

For the fifth annual conference, the Dawn or Doom team wanted to showcase Purdue students’ involvement in the realm of technology, so we are excited to announce the first Dawn or Doom Student Organization Expo. The expo will take place in Stew 302 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 6.

Bikes that track your movement, an entirely virtual company and the most important survival skill for the next 50 years. This week, we're looking at how emerging technologies affects our everyday lives.

Best-selling author Nicholas Carr, whose book “The Shallows” says the internet is making us stupid, will be the keynote speaker at Purdue’s 2018 Dawn or Doom conference on Nov. 5-6.

We are looking forward to hearing about AI at the conference, but first there are big moves in the world of AI being made right now. 

This week we're reading about robot jellyfish, cashierless stores and Keurig cups.

What’s for dinner? #Milk and #eggs, according to Twitter. A Purdue researcher is using social media and big data for deeper insight into the world of agriculture and food systems.

Leading up to the fifth Dawn or Doom conference, the Dawn or Doom crew of writers, marketers, and interns will be sharing some of their favorite dawn or doom-esque stories that both inspire and scare us.

Drones and autonomous vehicles may make our lives easier in many ways, but they’re also likely to be used as weapons intended to terrorize. Eric Matson, a professor and co-founder of Purdue’s M2M lab, will discuss the technologies’ potential for good and evil at Purdue’s annual Dawn or Doom conference in November.

Technology lets predators troll for kids online, but a technology developed by a pair of Purdue professors analyzes conversations between minors and offenders and determines which adults are most likely to make physical contact. The researchers will discuss the tool at Purdue’s Dawn or Doom ‘18 conference on the risks and rewards of emerging technologies.

When high school students from Danville, Illinois, began studying the high number of traffic accidents along their local stretch of interstate, they knew they needed to think broadly about the topic.

A trip to Purdue’s Dawn or Doom conference gave them insight they needed.