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Wisdom 2.0—Living with awareness, wisdom and compassion

February 21-24, 2013
Concourse Exhibition Center, San Francisco, CA

Attend this conference to discuss ways to apply technology in order to stay connected to one another and benefit our well-being, work, and world.

 
  

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This 4th annual conference will bring together staff from Google, Facebook, and Twitter, as well as entrepreneurs, mindfulness practitioners, and technology leaders to explore what it means to live with mindfulness, wisdom and purpose in our 21st century world. This conference seeks to merge the best of wisdom and technology by presenting attendees with talks, panels and smaller discussion groups of people with shared interests.

For more information and to register for this event, visit http://www.wisdom2summit.com/.

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