Michell Zappa is a London-based technologist and designer originally from Stockholm, who has spent part of his life in S‹o Paulo and Amsterdam. He holds a BA in Social Communication and has worked for advertising agencies and the trend forecasting bureau trendwatching.com.
His true interest lies in thinking about the future of technology and how society adapts to its rapid change. In 2008 he presented a keynote about (then) emerging technologies in S‹o Paulo, and the idea of professionally thinking and writing about emerging technologies and accelerating change stuck with him.
Currently, he is developing and designing a framework for visualizing the future of technology, attempting to demonstrate for different areas of research cluster -- and speculating about when said technologies are bound to become mainstream.
The current iteration of the visualization, which can be found here is evidently subjective, but nonetheless attempts to facilitate other researchers to see the connections between seemingly disparate areas of research. Envisioning these correlations is key to predicting potential solutions and imagining where humanity is headed.
He is studying toward becoming a systems-thinker with a distinct outlook on how technology transforms society. He hopes to see this research being applied to human-centered design and strategic development of products, scenarios, and policy.
Remember where you've been. It's next to impossible to stay where you are Although it may SEEM as though heÕs already been everywhere, Marco is still very much in the process of progress, and still Ògoing placesÓ fast! HeÕs been performing since the age of 8Éwon the World Cup of Magic at age 22, and has gone on to perform around the world in a variety of venues. His Òcyber-illusionÓ show is the only one of itÕs kind on the planet, and in great demand, with Marco performing an average of at least one major corporate event or special gala every week.
Marco has already been seen on over 50 major international television shows, from London to Tokyo to Zurich to New York, Los Angeles, BarcelonaÉalmost anyplace you can think of. Some highlights include DisneyÕs Night of Magic on the Disney Channel, Champions of Magic, shot in Monaco for ABC Television (USA), The Best of Magic on Thames Television, and the recent International Digiglobe Awards taped in Hanover, Germany. Currently one of the busiest performers in the business theatre market, Marco has been a favorite on stages worldwide for many years. Casino audiences have been delighted by his work in both Atlantic City and Monte Carlo. He has been featured at such prestigious show palaces as BerlinÕs famed Wintergarten, the Theatre Princess Grace in Monaco, and Theatre CarrŽ in Amsterdam. Working in scales ranging from a 3-minute act up to his own full evening of grand illusion spectacular, Marco has truly covered the Òfull rangeÓ of the entertainment market.
In the business world, many of the worldÕs leaders in the high-tech industries have found MarcoÕs work to be the perfect way to present their newest products and innovations -- to their own staff members and to the public at large. Such giants as Panasonic, Sony, Apple, and Lucent Technologies have used his services time and time again. Internet giant America On Line used Marco to introduce their newest browser to the European market at EuropeÕs largest high-tech trade show. In the automotive industry, Marco has used his next-generation illusion technologies to present the hottest new cars for Audi, Nissan, Toyota and Mitsubishi, to name just a few, at events ranging from private party product launches for local dealers to some of the largest auto shows in the world. MarcoÕs ability to take living human beings into any kind of virtual space imaginableÉincluding inside the human bodyÉhas made him a favorite with many leaders in the health care and pharmaceutical industry, including Johnson & Johnson, Parke-Davis, Pfizer, Searle and Alza Corporation.
Ever growing, ever exploring, ever developing -- with Marco, itÕs always wise to expect the unexpected. You wonÕt be able to guess where heÕs going next, but you can bet it will be filled with innovation, wonder and excitement! If you would like a more complete listing of some of the places Marco has been in the past, please click the button at the right in order to view (and print, if you like!) a copy of his extensive resumŽ.
Prior to co-founding Tabula, Steve Teig was CTO of Cadence Design Systems. Steve joined Cadence through its acquisition of Simplex Solutions (NSDQ: SPLX), where he was also CTO. At Simplex, Steve invented and led the technology development for the X Architecture, which radically improves chip design by pervasively incorporating diagonal wiring. Before joining Simplex, Steve co-founded two successful biotechnology companies: CombiChem (NSDQ: CCHM, later acquired by DuPont Pharmaceuticals), where he was CTO, and BioCAD, where he was CTO and, later, CEO. At CombiChem, Steve invented and led the development of the companyÕs revolutionary Discovery Engine technology, with which CombiChem discovered pharmaceutical-lead compounds for 11 different therapeutic areas in only five years. At BioCAD, Steve designed Catalyst, which is still the leading software used worldwide for pharmaceutical discovery. In the 1980s, Steve spent several years in the EDA industry, where his work had a major impact still felt today. First, at Trilogy Systems, he invented the now-universal technique of compiled-code logic simulation. Then, as CTO and co-founder of Tangent Systems (which later became CadenceÕs very first acquisition), he invented the principal place-and-route algorithms for the Tancell and Tangate products. These techniques form the core of CadenceÕs Gate Ensemble, Cell-3 Ensemble, and Silicon Ensemble systems and underlie most of todayÕs other physical design systems as well. Steve received a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University. He holds over 200 patents. In 2002, he broke Thomas EdisonÕs record for the number of patents filed by an individual in a single year.
Albert H. Teich is director of Science & Policy Programs at AAAS, a position he has held since 1990. He is responsible for the Association's activities in science and technology policy and serves as a key spokesman on science policy issues. Dr. Teich also serves as director of the AAAS Archives. Dr. Teich received a B.S. degree in physics and a Ph.D. in political science, both from M.I.T. Prior to joining the AAAS staff in 1980, he held positions at George Washington University, the State University of New York, and Syracuse University. He is the author of numerous articles and editor of several books, including Technology and the Future, a widely used textbook on technology and society, the eleventh edition of which was published by Wadsworth Cengage Learning in 2008. More on Dr. Teich's career can be found at www.alteich.com/al
Dr. Sullins, (Ph.D., Binghamton University (SUNY), 2002) is an associate professor at Sonoma State University in California where he teaches Philosophy and Robotics, CyberEthics, Philosophy of Science and Technology and Logic. His research interests are computer ethics and the philosophical implications of technologies such as Robotics, AI and Artificial Life. His recent publications have focused on artificial agents and their impact on society as well as the ethical design of successful autonomous information technologies including the ethics of the use of robotic weapons systems.
Relevant Publications:
Telerobotic weapons systems and the ethical conduct of war, APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, winter 2009
The Role of Artificial Moral Agency in Technoethics, in Handbook of Research on Technoethics, Rocci Luppicini and Rebecca Adell, editors, Idea Group Inc, 2008 Building
The Perfect Companions: The Humane Design of Personal Robotics Technologies, in Designing: from philosophy to ethics, from engineering to architecture, Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore, editors, Springer, 2008
When Is a Robot a Moral Agent? International Review of Information Ethics, (2006) 6: December 2006 Ethics and Artificial Life: from modeling to moral agents, Ethics and Information Technology, (2005) 7:139-148
Jay Stanley researches, writes and speaks about technology-related privacy and civil liberties issues and their future. Stanley has authored and co-authored a variety of influential ACLU reports on such topics as government and private-sector surveillance, network neutrality, scientific freedom, privacy-enforcing institutions, data mining, NSA spying, video surveillance, and airline passenger security. Stanley was co-chair of the successful 2009 Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) conference in Washington DC. Before joining the ACLU in 2001, he was an analyst at the technology research firm Forrester, where he focused on Internet policy issues. Stanley also served as the American politics editor of Facts on File's World News Digest. He is a graduate of Williams College and holds an M.A. in American History from the University of Virginia.
Dwayne Spradlin has spent nearly 25 years driving business performance to its limits. He is intensely focused on two goals: finding new ways to unleash and focus human potential on solving particularly daunting problems, and defining the role of leadership in driving change in our businesses and culture.
Dwayne serves as President & CEO of InnoCentive, the global leader in Challenge Driven Innovation. Previous appointments included: President of Hoovers Online, President and COO of StarCite Inc., Senior Vice President at VerticalNet Inc., and Director at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he spent ten years delivering technology and strategy solutions to Fortune 500 clients. He is frequently interviewed and has been featured on CNBC, ABC, NPR, and BBC and quoted in the Economist, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and many other journals and periodicals. In April 2011, Dwayne and co-founder of InnoCentive Alph Bingham co-authored the groundbreaking book, The Open Innovation Marketplace, published by FT Press.
Dwayne holds a BA in Applied Mathematics as well as an MBA from the University of Chicago. He lives in Southlake, TX with his wife and three children.
Jonathan Spector is president and chief executive offi cer of The Conference Board, the most widely cited private source of business intelligence. The Conference Board convenes thousands of executives annually in council, conference, and meeting programs, and publishes the Consumer Confidence Index¨, The Conference Board Leading Economic Index¨ (LEI) for 11 countries and regions around the world, and other reports on economic trends and best management practices. Spector joined The Conference Board after serving as vice dean of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was responsible during his tenure for the signifi cant growth and strategic repositioning of the school's executive education activities, and for strengthening Wharton's involvement in book publishing, globalization, and collaborations across the university. Spector began his career at McKinsey & Company, where he spent 20 years and was elected a senior partner. He founded and managed the fi rm's Taipei offi ce, and helped lead McKinsey's North American electronics practice to become the chief executive of two startup technology companies. Spector is the co-author of We Are Smarter Than Me (2007), which highlights the ways in which businesses can harness the power of collective intelligence. The book resulted from an experiment in which thousands of participants attempted to pool their knowledge and create a book manuscript. Spector serves on the board of the March of Dimes, and is a trustee emeritus of Wesleyan University. He earned his BA in math/economics with honors from Wesleyan University, and his MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.
Dan Roam is the author of the international bestseller The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, Business Week and Fast Company's best innovation book of the year, and Amazon's #5 selling business book. The Back of the Napkin has been published in 25 languages and is a bestseller in Japan, South Korea, and China. Dan has helped leaders at Microsoft, eBay, Google, Wal-Mart, Boeing, Lucas Film, Gap, Kraft, Stanford University, The MIT Sloan School of Management, the US Navy, and the United States Senate solve complex problems through visual thinking. Dan and his whiteboard have been featured on CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, Fox News, and NPR. Dan's visual explanation of American health care was selected by Business Week as ""The World's Best Presentation of 2009"". This inspired the White House Office of Communications to invite Dan in for a discussion on visual problem solving. Dan is the founder of Digital Roam Inc, a management consulting company that helps business executives solve complex problems through visual thinking. Through lectures, workshops, books, and hands-on projects with many of the world's most influential organizations, Dan has helped teams learn to solve complex problems by relearning how to see. Dan discovered the power of pictures as a business problem-solving tool in the 1990's when he founded the first marketing communications company in what was then the Soviet Union. With no Russian language skills, Dan quickly realized that his business pictures transcended the language barrier. Since that eye-opening experience, Dan has been fine-tuning the visual thinking tools he introduces in his books. Dan received two degrees at the University of California, Santa Cruz: fine art and biology. This combination of art and science kicked off Dan's cross-disciplinary approach to problem solving. Dan is a licensed pilot, a skill that demands constant practice in understanding complex visual information displays. Dan has applied his business-oriented visual thinking skills while working in Switzerland, Russia, Thailand, France, Holland, and the US. He lives in San Francisco.
David Post is a visionary and serial entreprenuer with two of his startups Page America and Cellular Systems Inc. evolving into industry changers and leaders. He believes that Next Island has these qualities.
Post started Next Island nearly three years ago to be the first 3D virtual world for the mass market. It is the first with time travel and a real cash economy. It is positioned to attract the 200 million casual gamers who are looking for entertainment that is more challenging.
A great grandniece of Thomas Edison, Sarah Miller Caldicott has been engaged in creativity and innovation throughout her life. Inspired by a family lineage of inventors dating back five generations, Sarah began her 25-year career as a Marketing executive with major brand-driven firms, including Quaker Oats and the Helene Curtis subsidiary of Unilever.
Concerned that America was losing its innovation leadership, Sarah spent three years researching Edison's innovation methods with experts at Rutgers University. She co-authored the first book ever written on the subject of Edison's world-changing innovation methods, entitled Innovate Like Edison. Innovate Like Edison has been translated into 5 languages, and is used as a textbook in graduate and undergraduate programs across the US.
An award-winning speaker, Sarah travels all over the world inspiring audiences on how they can employ Edison's timeless innovation methods today. A selected speaker for the popular TEDx series, Sarah's speech was captured in an ebook she authored, entitled Inventing the Future: What Would Thomas Edison Be Doing Today? Dedicated to revitalizing America's global innovation leadership, Sarah also serves on the Steering Committee of the Edison Awards.
Innovate Like Edison has been featured in The New York Times, Fortune Small Business, and USA Today. Sarah has also appeared as an innovation expert on PBS television, CNBC, the Fox Business Network, and NPR. She is President of her own Chicago-based consultancy, The Power Patterns of Innovation, offering organizations of all sizes expert training and guidance on how to achieve innovation success in the global economy. Her clients include Motorola, Microsoft, Intel, and Abbott Laboratories among many others.
Sarah holds a BA from Wellesley College, and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Nicholas Merrill was the first person to challenge the National Security Letters provision in the USA PATRIOT Act in a court of law. He is the Executive Director of The Calyx Institute, a non-profit organization focused on promoting best practices with regards to privacy within the Telecommunications Industry.
He founded Calyx Internet Access Corporation in 1995. Calyx Internet Access was one of the first commercial Internet service providers operating in New York City and soon opened a sister company in Amsterdam. Calyx served many journalists, civil liberties groups and non-profit organizations on a pro bono or low-cost basis, including the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Independent Media Center (Indymedia.org) and Democracy Now! Radio. Calyx also worked with for-profit businesses, including Mitsubishi Motors, IKEA, Snapple, and Tanqueray.
In 2004, after a request for information from the FBI, Calyx became involved with the ACLU in using the legal system and the media to resist illegal government requests for information on Internet users. For six and a half years, Merrill and the ACLU tirelessly challenged the orders contained in the letter, resulting in the establishment of two key legal precedents overturning aspects of the national security letter program
"Alfred E. Mann, Chairman, MannKind Corporationn
Alfred E. Mann has been one of our directors since April 1999, our Chairman of the Board since December 2001 and our Chief Executive Officer since October 2003. Mr. Mann has founded and largely funded 17 companies in his career. Nine were acquired at an overall total of almost $8 billion, and two companies became public. In addition to MannKind, he is currently involved with:
¥ Bioness, which develops and manufactures systems to address neural deficits and to restore controlled function of paralyzed limbs;
¥ Second Sight, which is developing a visual prosthesis to restore sight to the blind;
¥ IncuMed, which is developing novel percutaneous seals for various applications;
¥ PerQFlo, which is developing drug delivery systems;
¥ Quallion, which develops, manufactures and markets advanced batteries for medical, aerospace and military applications;
¥ Stellar Microelectronics, which produces micro-circuit assemblies, and
¥ RoundTrip, which is developing location and identification technology.
In 1993, Mr. Mann founded and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MiniMed Inc. until August 2001 when it was acquired by Medtronic, Inc. Medtronic MiniMed develops, manufactures and distributes microinfusion systems and continuous glucose monitoring systems that have revolutionized the treatment of Type 1 diabetes. Mr. Mann founded and funded Medical Research Group (MRG), a developer of an artificial pancreas. MRG was also acquired by Medtronic in 2001. Mr. Mann also founded and served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Bionics Corporation from its founding in 1993 until it was acquired by Boston Scientific Corporation in 2004. Advanced Bionics developed neurostimulation devices for various neural deficits, including cochlear stimulators. Previously, Mr. Mann founded and was Chairman of the Board and CEO of Pacesetter Systems, Inc., which developed, manufactured and distributed cardiac pacemakers, from 1972 until 1985 when it was acquired by Siemens, AG. From 1985 to September 1992, Mr. Mann continued to serve as Chairman and CEO of the successor company, Siemens-Pacesetter, Inc., Pacesetter is now the Cardiac Rhythm Management unit of St. Jude Medical. Prior to 1972, he was President of Spectrolab, an electro-optical and aerospace systems company, and Heliotek, a semiconductor and electro-optical components manufacturer. Mr. Mann founded these companies in 1956 and 1960, respectively, sold them to Textron Inc. in 1960 and continued to lead them until 1972, when he left for Pacesetter. They are now part of the Boeing Company.
Mr. Mann founded and endowed, and from 1985 until 2006 served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Alfred Mann Foundation, a nonprofit research organization devoted to development of advanced medical products in a variety of fields. Mr. Mann is currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Alfred Mann Institutes at the University of Southern California, Purdue University, and The Technion Institute (Israel), all of these medical research foundations founded and endowed principally by Mr. Mann. He also serves as a Trustee for the University of Southern California, as a member of the Board of Overseers of the Keck USC School of Medicine, and as the Chairman of the Southern California Biomedical Council, a nonprofit association dedicated to the fostering of the bio-medical industry in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area. Alfred Mann also serves as a Director of the Nevada Cancer Institute.
Mr. Mann holds B.A. and M.S. degrees in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles and honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Southern California, The Johns Hopkins University, Western University and the Technion Institute (Israel). Mr. Mann is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering."
"Kati London
For her work in both real world games and the early Internet of Things, Kati was named one of the ""Top 35 Innovators Under 35"" by MIT's Technology Review Magazine (2010), and ""Top 100 Most Creative People in Business"" by Fast Company Magazine (2011). She teaches the graduate course ""Persuasive Technology: Designing the Human"" at NYU's ITP.
Her work is represented in the permanent collection of MOMA and has been exhibited at the Design Museum of London and Museum of Science & Industry. Her work has been covered by the New York Times, Wired, National Geographic, Glamour Magazine and Businessweek, among others. She has worked with clients ranging from Foursquare, Knight Foundation, MTV, to UK Department for Transport.
She is currently Director of Product for Zynga New York. Previously she was Vice President and Senior Producer at Area/Code."
"Nick Laperle is President and CEO of Sonomax Technologies, Inc.
Nick Laperle is President and CEO of Sonomax Technologies, Inc. (TSXV: SHH), a leader in sound isolating and enhancing technologies for consumer, industrial and military use.
Since July 2009, when Mr. Laperle became CEO, Sonomax has made significant breakthroughs, leading with the development of a new generation of self-fitting earpieces, called custom-fit by Sonomaxª. In addition, the company has also expanded its product offerings to other hearing applications such as earphones for MP3 players and earpieces for Bluetooth headsets, all using this unique new custom fitting system. Under Mr. Laperle's leadership, Sonomax was also able to deliver the Company's first custom-fit consumer products, the award winning sculpted eersª, to Canadian and U.S. retail customers.
Mr. Laperle has more than 20 years of experience in hearing related matters, much of which is attributable to his mother and father who, over a 40 year period, pioneered hearing health clinics across the Province of Quebec. Mr. Laperle himself worked at the Gaudet Laperle Hearing Healthcare Centers in Montreal for 4 years.
Throughout his career, Mr. Laperle has been involved with worldwide organizations associated with hearing healthcare. In 2004, the World Council on Hearing Health (WCHH), the public education and advocacy arm of the Deafness Research Foundation (DRF), named him chairman of the organization. Mr. Laperle served on DRF's Board of Directors from 2004-2008. Laperle is now very active with World Wide Hearing Care for Developing Countries, an NGO based in Geneva that is affiliated with the World Health Organizations (WHO), where he oversees the implementation of fundraising and development campaigns to bring much needed hearing healthcare solutions to the developing world. Mr. Laperle also sits on the Advisory Board of the Hearing Foundation of Canada and the Foundation Board of the Montreal Oral School for the Deaf.
Laperle graduated with a law degree from University of Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada in 1993. He currently resides in Montreal with his wife and their daughter."
"Jeffrey Kluger, senior editor, TIME
Jeffrey Kluger, senior editor, oversees TIME's science and technology reporting. He has written or co-written more than 35 cover stories for the magazine and regularly contributes articles and commentary on science and health stories. Kluger is the co-author, with astronaut Jim Lovell, of Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, which was the basis of the Apollo 13 movie released in 1995. His other books include, Splendid Solution, published in 2006, which tells the story of Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine. He is also the author of the 2008 Hyperion release Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and Why Complex Things Can Be Made Simple), and the upcoming novel Freedom Stone. Before joining TIME, Kluger was a staff writer for Discover magazine, where he wrote the ""Light Elements"" humor column, and he was also an editor for the New York Times Business World Magazine, Family Circle and Science Digest. Kluger, who is also an attorney, has taught science journalism at New York University."
"Dr. Steven Howe, Director, Center for Space Nuclear Research (CNSR), Universities Space Research Association
Dr. Steven D. Howe was appointed the first Director of the CSNR in 2005. He was previously part of the Thermonuclear Applications group of the Applied Physics Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Howe's research interests include antiproton physics and applications, nuclear rocket propulsion, hyper-velocity aerodynamics and thermodynamics, and non-equilibrium X-ray emission. Dr. Howe is also a fiction writer, having published the novella Wrench and Claw in Analog Magazine and the novel Honor Bound Honor Born, which detailed the possible development of the first commercial base on the Moon. Dr. Howe has appeared in numerous television programs about space and rocketry. He holds five patents involving the storage and application of antiprotons, and he is the co-founder of Hbar Technologies. Dr. Howe has served on a number of national committees."
"Susan N. Herman President of the ACLU
Susan N. Herman was elected President of the American Civil Liberties Union in October 2008, after having served on the ACLU National Board of Directors for twenty years, as a member of the Executive Committee for sixteen years, and as General Counsel for ten years. Herman holds a chair as Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where she currently teaches courses in Constitutional Law and Criminal Procedure, and seminars on Law and Literature, and Terrorism and Civil Liberties. She writes extensively on constitutional and criminal procedure topics for scholarly and other publications, ranging from law reviews and books to periodicals and on-line publications. Recent publications include two books, TERRORISM, GOVERNMENT, AND LAW: NATIONAL AUTHORITY AND LOCAL AUTONOMY IN THE WAR ON TERROR, editor and co-author, with Paul Finkelman (Praeger Security International 2008) and THE RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL (Praeger 2006) (part of a series on the Constitution), and law review articles including The USA PATRIOT Act and the Submajoritarian Fourth Amendment, 41 HARV. CIV. RTS.-CIV. LIB. L. REV. 67 (2006)."
"James Gleick: author, ""The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood""; former National Book Award winner, Pulitzer Prize finalist.
James Gleick was born in New York City in 1954. He graduated from Harvard College in 1976 and helped found Metropolis, an alternative weekly newspaper in Minneapolis. Then he worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times. His first book, Chaos, was a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist and a national bestseller. He collaborated with the photographer Eliot Porter on Nature's Chaos and with developers at Autodesk on Chaos: The Software. His next books include the best-selling biographies, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton, both shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as Faster and What Just Happened. They have been translated into twenty-five languages.
In 1989-90 he was the McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University. For some years he wrote the Fast Forward column in the New York Times Magazine.
With Uday Ivatury, he founded The Pipeline, a pioneering New York City-based Internet service in 1993, and was its chairman and chief executive officer until 1995. He was the first editor of the Best American Science Writingseries. He is active on the boards of the Authors Guild and the Key West Literary Seminar."
"Poppy Harlow: Anchor, CNN Money
Poppy Harlow is the anchor for CNNMoney.com, serving as the primary host for the site's video network, as well as a business correspondent on CNN, CNN International and HLN. Based in New York, Harlow covers business and economic news and how it impacts policy and people around the globe. She interviews prominent business leaders, policymakers, small business owners and consumers on a wide range of topics covering the world of economics and finance. She also reports from the field on breaking news, features and investigative stories.
Harlow covers major international business events including the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, South by Southwest, The North American International Auto Show and Fortune's Brainstorm conferences. She regularly interviews the top names in business and money news covering a wide range of industries from banking to technology, autos to agriculture. She has interviewed the heads of the world's largest banks, Warren Buffett, Jay-Z, and countless other business luminaries.
Harlow's reporting has won numerous industry awards, including the Gracie Award for Best online investigative feature, and SABEW's Best in Business award for online video. She is a regular speaker at industry events and donates her time to developing emerging high school and collegiate journalists.
Prior to her position at CNNMoney.com, Harlow served as an anchor, reporter and producer for the Forbes.com Video Network and was an anchor and reporter for NY1 News Local Edition.
Born and raised in Minnesota, Harlow graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Columbia University."
"CHARLIE FIRESTONE Executive Director, Communications & Society Program, The Aspen Institute
Charlie Firestone joined the Aspen Institute's Communication & Society program as executive director in 1989. Since then, the program has focused on the implications of communications and information technologies for leadership; the impact of new technologies on democratic, economic and social institutions; and the development of new communications policy models and options for the public interest. Recently, it released a report entitled, ""The Future of Work."" Charlie also served as the Institute's executive vice president for policy programs and international activities for three years. Previously, he was director of the Communications Law Program at UCLA, and president of the Los Angeles Board of Telecommunications Commissioners. Charlie has argued two Supreme Court cases, and has written numerous articles on communications law and policy. In the fall of 2003 he was a visiting professor of public policy at Duke University."
"KIRBY FERGUSON writer, director and producer.
KIRBY FERGUSON is a writer, director and producer who has created dozens of comedic short films and gotten over four million views on the web. His recent online video series ""Everything Is a Remix"" is, in part, about the collective momentum of creativity behind innovation and further creativity. As part of a development deal with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, he recently wrote, directed, produced and edited the viral hit “Macs vs. PCs”. The video has now gotten almost 400,000 views. He is a prolific comedy writer and has extensive knowledge of video production, executing almost all production roles for his shorts. "
"Jan Chipchase, Executive Creative Director of Global Insights, Frog Design; Former Chief Usability Researcher, Nokia
As Executive Creative Director of Global Insights, Jan Chipchase oversees frog's global user research practice, working with clients to turn insights into innovative solutions for business challenges. Chipchase joined frog from Nokia, where as a principal researcher he studied behavioral patterns that informed the development of new products based on emerging consumer trends.With deep experience in running complex, international design research projects, he is widely considered to be the authority on applying human-centered insights to the development process. His extensive research projects have taken him around the world to collect insights into the broader emotional, social, and cultural contexts of the impact of technology. Recent projects include research studies into the design of mobile money services for emerging markets; travel to Uganda to look at shared phone use; trips to India to examine how design can make mobile devices more accessible to people with low or nonexistent levels of literacy; and a study in South Korea exploring how early adopters were reacting to the then recently launched mobile TV.
A world-renown thought leader, Chipchase has delivered keynotes at conferences including TED, CES, LIFT, and the Global Philanthropy Forum. He sits on the advisory boards of organizations including Broadcasting Board of Governors, FrontlineSMS, the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion, and the Pecha Kucha Foundation. Chipchase holds 25 patents granted or pending, and his research has been extensively profiled in the New York Times, The Economist, New Scientist, and BusinessWeek, among others. Jan writes about the intersection of people, technology, and culture at janchipchase.com."
"Dr Jean-Pierre Bizzari, Global Head of Oncology, Celgene
Jean-Pierre Bizzari is a Doctor of Medicine, graduate of the Nice Medical School and a specialist in oncology. Since October 2008, he has served as Senior Vice President for Clinical Development Oncology at Celgene, and is based in the USA. Between 1993 and 2008 he held the same position successively at Rhône-Poulenc Rorer, Aventis, Sanofi-Synthélabo, and Sanofi-Aventis, also in the USA. He was responsible for the clinical development of drugs such as Taxotere or Eloxatin. After working as an assistant in the medical oncology department at La Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, Dr Bizzari became head of the oncology department at Servier. Since 2005 he has been a member of the international scientific committee of the French National Cancer Research Institute."
Moderator: James Clark, Chairman, The World Technology Network
Phillip Letts, Founder, Blur group
Kati London, Director of Product, Zynga New York
Hussein al-Attar, Designer, e-bike, smart
James Gleick, Inventor and Futurist Interviewed by James Clark Chairman, The World Technology Network
Sarah Miller Caldicott Great grandniece of Thomas Edison; Co-author: "Innovate Like Edison"; Steering Committee: Edison Awards
Charlie Firestone
Executive Director, Communications & Society Program, The Aspen Institute
Jonathan Specter
President and CEO, The Conference Board
Tammy Johns
Senior Vice President, Innovation & Workforce Solutions, Manpower Group
Dwayne Spradlin
President and CEO, Innocentive
