We’ll Drink To That: The Future of Women and Tech in the Wine Industry

09/30/20 • 54 min

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

The buzz: Although they comprise more 50% of the population, women hold far fewer positions in the wine industry, fewer leadership roles, and fewer ownership roles. Wine expert and The Wine Bible author Karen MacNeil’s Second Annual Report on Women in the Wine Industry reveals an estimated 10% of winemakers in California are female, 7% in Washington, and 5% in New York. She closed her keynote at the 2019 Wonder Women of Wine (WWOW) inaugural conference with this advice: “My friends, men are not going to fix this. Many of them don’t even think a problem exists. The situation is ours to change, and the time is now. So, move forward unwaveringly and ambitiously...Be supportive of other women...And help create a new terroir of wine feminism.” We’ll ask Susie Selby at Selby Winery, Sharon Cohn at Breathless Wines, Jane Uttley at Unfiltered Unfined Wines and Karen Maley at Robert Young Estate Winery for their take on “We’ll Drink To That: The Future of Women and Tech in the Wine Industry.”

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“It's All In Your Head: Technology for Remembering Your Dreams"

The buzz: “We’ve all been there — woken up from a night’s sleep thinking about a dream from the night before. Why did the dream happen? What does it mean? (Jean-Marc Emden, DreamsCloud. www.wired.com/insights/2014/10/dreaming-innovation) Finally, answers! The Aurora headband from iWinks gives us the opportunity to control our dreams and access lucid dreams – awareness that one is dreaming – by prompting them in our sleep. The headband measures brain wave and eye movement activity, while tracking body movements to figure out when a user is in their dream state. Using Bluetooth technology, personal dream data is transferred to a mobile app, allowing us to analyze our sleep patterns over time. We’ll ask Roberta Moore at EQ-i Coach, Therapist Scott Schenck, Licensed Counselor Dr. Francesca Ferrentelli and Psychiatrist Leonard Cruz, MD, ME, for their take on “It's All In Your Head: Technology for Remembering Your Dreams.

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What’s So Funny?!? The Future of Humor and Technology

The buzz: “Over the centuries human beings have always loved to laugh. We can imagine jokes being shared by our cave dwelling ancestors about the two woolly mammoths. Today comedy is shared with vast audience by world-famous arena-filling comedians. Comedy is part of human culture. “There seems to be more comedy than ever. There are local comedy clubs, the Edinburgh Fringe, YouTube, comedy series and Hollywood movies – however you like your comedy served up, there is probably a source catering to your taste. “Still some key challenges...for all but the very top tier of acts to make a living...comedy has always lingered slightly in music’s shadow in terms of new media – lagging behind embracing digital platforms.” (Sarah Henley, co-founder of NextUp, www.tvbeurope.com/features/what-impact-might-technology-have-on-comedy We’ll ask Eddie Sarfaty, Lori Hammel, Peter Michael Marino and Karen Bergreen for their take on “What’s So Funny?!? The Future of Humor and Technology.”