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  <city>Chicago</city>
  <country>USA</country>
  <end-on type="date">2008-09-12</end-on>
  <full-description>Two days.
17+ presentations.
One incredible experience.

Cusp Conference 2008 will bring together thinkers, innovators, skeptics, believers, visionaries and explorers from the arts, sciences, technology, business, design and government. They'll share their passions and stories and help you create new ones.

Speakers to date include:
Chef Homaru Cantu / Moto / Cantu Designs
Justine Ezarik / iJustine
Douglas Gayeton / Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey
Dr. Carl Hodges / The Seawater Foundation
Adam Kalkin / Architecture and Hygiene
Robert F Kennedy Jr / Environmental Attorney
Quinn Norton / Body Hacker
Paul Polak / D-Rev: Design for the Other 90%

Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Theater
$1500 until July 31
$1750 August 01-September 09

Seating is limited.
</full-description>
  <id type="integer">453</id>
  <region>IL</region>
  <short-description>Cusp Conference 2008 is about the design of everything. If you believe in the power of ideas, the value of imagination and the strength of the human spirit, this conference is for you.</short-description>
  <start-on type="date">2008-09-10</start-on>
  <title>Cusp Conference 2008</title>
  <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
  <website>http://cuspconference.com</website>
  <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/453</url>
  <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/453/cusp_ba_2.gif</logo-url>
  <tag-string>architecture, body hacking, cantu, climate change, design, energy, environment, film, food, gayeton, hodges, kalkin, lifecasting, music, polak, second life, social activism</tag-string>
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