Cultivating audacity with Courtney Hohne
Many of the most urgent and ambitious problems we face today require bold leaps of imagination and courage to tackle. But often, systems and institutions demand something familiar, incremental, and likely to yield near-term financial payoff.
How can we cultivate audacity, as individuals and in organizations? What conditions are necessary to protect inchoate ideas and intrepid imagination from premature legibility and discouragement? When should you practice patience, and when should you take the leap?
Join Courtney Hohne and Ashley Zhang for a fireside chat and an evening of spirited conversation. There will be small bites and libations; just come with an inquisitive mind.
This is the third event in The Art of Being Human, a series by Imbue for the shared exploration of human questions in our technological age.
Courtney Hohne is the founder of un/owned, a new kind of innovation lab and strategic consultancy tackling “ownerless problems” that fall between the cracks in organizations, industries and types of capital. She spent 10+ years building Google X, the world’s first moonshot factory. As Chief Storyteller for Moonshots and an architect of X’s unique culture of radical creativity, she launched X’s most iconic technology projects, including self-driving cars, delivery drones, and Google Glass.
Ashley Zhang is the Storyteller at Imbue, where she works on articulating a humanistic vision for our technological future. She hosts the Art of Being Human event series and writes the blog Soft Power, exploring what it means to live a flourishing human life in the age of AI.
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Imbue is an AI company building tools to empower humans in the AI age. We’re building toward an open agent ecosystem where you can understand, modify, and verify agents—so they only work in your interest. Learn about our work and what we stand for: https://ideas.imbue.com
Event details:
5:30-6:30 Doors open + mingling
6:30-7:30 Fireside chat + audience Q&A
7:30-8:30 Mingling