GP Dinner #186 | Technology Will Not Save Us

WHAT: GP Dinner #186

WHERE: To be announced soon.

WHEN: 6:00 to 10:00pm on January 29th, 2024

PLEASE NOTE: ATTENDANCE LIMITED TO FIRST 40 PEOPLE WHO SECURE A TICKET HERE. YOU'RE WELCOME TO GIFT OR TRANSFER YOUR SPOT TO A FRIEND IF YOUR PLANS CHANGE. JUST LET US KNOW IN ADVANCE.

Please join us for our 186th dinner on January 29th at a TBD location in Berkeley.

Expect cocktails at 6:00 and our speaker around 6:45 with a family style feast introduced around 7:00, prepared by our professional chef. Wines will be thoughtfully paired with the menu.

ATTIRE: Attire is relaxed and informal.

About Good People Dinners: GP Dinners is a community built around meaningful ​conversations and delicious feasts, a moveable social club for those who value authenticity, a better way to connect with each other. We are also an event production business and regularly create tailored dinner series for a wide range of companies and organizations.

Our dinners are hosted at a variety of venues in the Bay Area, at Camp Earnest near Yosemite NP and around the country and the world. Every dinner includes a speaker on a wide range of topics and a chef prepared feast.

Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

OUR SPEAKER:

Our friend Sheila Warren has served as in house council at Tech Soup, then as Deputy Global Head at the World Economic Forum and recently as the CEO of The Crypto Council for Innovation. She began her career as a deeply techno-skeptical lawyer, eventually transitioning to a techno-optimist. For some time, she believed that decentralized tools online would be "distributive by design," returning wealth and power to everyday people. Today she has a far more nuanced and complex assessment of the terrain of AI and other pioneering and exponential technologies.

In her opinion, technology will not save us from our excesses, from processes that are destabilizing our world. Better tools only amplify the systems in place.

If not better tools, what can we collectively do to manifest our brightest future?

How do we constructively engage with, learn and teach our children to use technology, with all of its promise and pitfalls?

Tonight we'll discuss how to be savvy futurists, how to wade into both disruption and promise, and how each of us can become good neighbors, citizens, parents and business people in light of recent developments.

OUR CHEF:

Our friend Nora Vitaliani is executive chef and owner of Just Eat It. She has been cooking in California since 1999 and trained as a pastry chef at The California Culinary Academy. Her resume includes time at a variety of restaurants from Italian-Asian fusion to the best vegan restaurant in the US.

Nora brings this breadth of experience to creating menus of many styles and cuisines. She started Just Eat It! in 2012 and has been nourishing retreats from 20 -300 attendees with her style of California Comfort cuisine ever since.

Below: Chef Spencer's farro salad.

OUR MENU:

To be announced soon.

Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

Below: Chef Jamil Peden's beurre blanc salmon.

Drinks at 6:00, dinner at 7:00. Though a cocktail and some wine will be provided, guests are welcome to bring a bottle of wine to share.

Menu update will come soon to help you choose your bottles. We always make sure vegetarian friends will have plenty to eat. Please contact Raman or Karin in advance if you have any other dietary restrictions.

If you are wondering how you were included in this invitation, or would like to be removed, please contact [email protected]

To sign up for future events, please register at

www.gpdinners.com

To learn more about the former summer camp we've purchased and refurbished near Yosemite, please visit us here. Camp Earnest is available for a campus buyout for groups from 15 to 75 guests at a time.

www.campearnest.com

Below: Chef Matt Garcia offers up a gorgeous salad with watercress, pickled shallots and watermelon.

Host or Publisher Raman Frey