Pod: in nature - a container holding seeds; in science and technology -a space craft containing travelers or AI; in science fiction - an egg from which an alien being is born.

Podference: in High Risk Baby - a conference which is based on pods, people who are like seeds disseminating new ideas, or like space travelers, or like aliens. A Podference is an event where ideas are created, presented, debated, and disseminated to a live flesh audience and worldwide international interactive audience.

Podmaster: the seminal visionary, the cyber-culture cult master, who has dared to spread word about their ideas concerning the future of us! Podtheme: the high risk cyber space theme selected by the podmaster Podsters: exciting practitioners and theoreticians of cyber space or the particular theme in hand invited by the podmaster to discuss the podtheme.