Julie Lofton
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Julie Elise Friedman May 15, 1977 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Other names | Julie Lofton, Julie Friedman Steele |
Julie Friedman is an American social entrepreneur, public speaker and futurist. She is Chairman of the Board of the World Future Society, as well as CEO and founder of The 3D Printer Experience. Julie is also the Primary Contributor to Encyclopædia Britannica's "3D Printing: Year in Review 2013".
Friedman opened The 3D Printer Experience in April 2013. It is the first 3D printing retail outlet of its kind in her hometown of Chicago. Already it has received national, international, and local media coverage for its unprecedented business model and unique, consumer-focused approach. It was nominated for the 2013 Chicago Innovation Awards. The 3D Printer Experience and is focused on introducing 3D printing technology to a mainstream, consumer audience by helping to educate anyone who is interested about the technology and future value involved with printing objects for personal and community-based needs.
Julie Friedman is social entrepreneur and an investor in Real Estate, Restaurants, and Nightclubs in Chicago, through her family's business Friedman Properties, Ltd., "one of the city's most successful real estate development firms, with a River North-based empire that encompasses millions of prime square feet."
In her capacity as a Social Entrepreneur Julie is:
After graduating from Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Friedman moved to Los Angeles where she spent most of her adult life to physically producing, encouraging, and investing in media to create social change. She won the Genesis Award for her documentary Best Friend Forgotten with David Duchovny on Pet Overpopulation that aired nationally and internationally, which spurred the Pedigree Shelter Dog ad campaign.
Friedman went on to create and develop the Animal Content in Entertainment division for The Humane Society of the United States, which awards grants to filmmakers, encourages mainstream media to incorporate animal story-lines, and garner distribution. It was during this time that Friedman focused heavily on "filmanthropy", while working with MPEG to develop MPEG-M (2010): MPEG eXtensible Middleware (MXM). (ISO/IEC 23006) (e.g., MXM architecture and technologies, API, MPEG extensible middleware (MXM) protocols) an international standard for "coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information", where she served as the first Ad Hoc Chair of the JTC 1/SC 29 Working Group 11 for the "Coding of moving pictures and audio" standard, which would change how video search technology worked for factual based content.
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