If you can’t make it to San Francisco, you can watch the plenary addresses via Livestream here. Use #ythlive to chat about it and ask questions of the speakers.
Here’s the Schedule:
Sunday, April 7th 4:00 – 5:00 pm PT
Opening Plenary: Teen Characters & Idols: Depth, Relevancy, and Opportunity
Moderator: Michele Noonan, PhD, Co-Founder and COO, Sexpinion, Reality TV Star, @PhD inSexy
Today’s youth learn about sex, relationships, and navigating their daily lives through TV, film and book characters, story arcs, and tabloids.
Listen in on a conversation with young adult authors, screenwriters, digital media makers and young adults themselves about the whys and hows of character development and the interactions between media, scripts and real life.
Participants: Amy Rardin, Supervising Producer of CW’s “The Carrie Diaries”, ABC Family’s “Jane by Design” and “Greek”
Erica Lorraine Scheidt, YTH Board Member, Author, Uses for Boys
Katie Elmore, Population Media Center, East Los High
Malinda Lo, Author, Adaptation, Ash, and Huntress
Ebony Section, Anthony Sis, Cindy Le, Max Kamin-Cross, YTH Youth Board
Sunday, April 7th 5:00 – 5:30 pm PT
Welcome
David Goldsmith, Dossia, YTH Board Member
KEYNOTE: What’s New, Now and Next in Youth + Tech + Health
Deb Levine, ISIS Founder, YTH Board President
Monday, April 8th
2:30-3:30 pm PT
Big Data: Interpretations for Youth + Tech + HIV
Moderator: Susannah Allison, PhD, National Institutes of Health, Division of AIDS Research
Panelists:
Patrick Sullivan, AIDSVu
Fard Johnmar, Enspektos
Matthew Holt, Health 2.0
Everyone’s talking about big data. While there is a tremendous amount of data being collected these days by the likes of Facebook, Google, and large corps, epidemiologists have been amassing data sets about population health for years. Hear from the experts at AIDSVu about managing national HIV/AIDS data; Health 2.0 about new ways to integrate data into health tools; and Enspektos a marketing firm that speaks to the need for accurate handling of data to inform, educate and improve our nation’s health.
Tuesday, April 9th Noon – 1pm PT
Closing Plenary: Secrets by the Educational Theater Group at Kaiser Permanente
Stanford West
It’s senior year, and the future holds no bounds for Eddie, Monica, and their friends. Eddie is a star athlete already being recruited by several colleges; Monica is a popular honor roll student, strong in her convictions, including her commitment to abstinence. When Eddie realizes that a past experience has put him at risk for HIV and STIs, he knows that the smartest thing he can do is get tested. As secrets are revealed, a chain of strangers become forever linked—and none of them will be the same again. etnortherncalifornia.kaiserpermanente.org/secrets/
tags: sxtech, teen conference, teens and tech, YTH Live 2013.
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