Bill Robinson
Tech Scape Columnist
Alan Patricof
Managing Director, Greycroft, LLC
Howard Morgan
First Round Capital
Brian Cohen
New York Angels
Ayah Bdeir
Founder, CEO littlebits
Dr. Kim Chilman-Blair
Founder & CEO, MediKidz
Tiki Barber
Founder Thuzio.com
Claudia Dreifus, Journalist, Editor, and Lecturer Al Teich, Director, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fred Guttrell, Executive Editor, Scientific American Matthew Chapman, Screenwriter, Director; President and Founder, Sciencedebate.org
Hermione Way is a new media journalist and Reality TV personality, and entrepreneur. Originally from the UK, she currently resides in San Francisco. Way started an internet video production company called Newspepper, and works as video correspondent for The Next Web. In 2012, Way is also featured on Silicon Valley Start-Ups, a reality show on Bravo."
Vivek Wadhwa is Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University; Fellow, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University; Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and distinguished visiting scholar, Halle Institute of Global Learning, Emory University.
Wadhwa oversees the academic programs at Singularity University, which educates a select group of leaders about the exponentially growing technologies that are soon going to change our world. These advancesÑin fields such as robotics, A.I., computing, synthetic biology, 3D printing, medicine, and nanomaterialsÑare making it possible for small teams to do what was once possible only for governments and large corporations to do: solve the grand challenges in education, water, food, shelter, health, and security.
In his roles at Stanford, Duke, and Emory universities, Wadhwa lectures in class on subjects such as entrepreneurship and public policy, helps prepare students for the real world, and leads groundbreaking research projects. He is an advisor to several governments; mentors entrepreneurs; and is a regular columnist for The Washington Post, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and the American Society of Engineering EducationÕs Prism magazine. Prior to joining academia in 2005, Wadhwa founded two software companies.
In Feb 2012, the U.S. Government awarded Wadhwa distinguished recognition an ""Outstanding American by Choice"" Ñ for his ""commitment to this country and to the common civic values that unite us as Americans."
Sahba Vaziri is the NY Representative of Pavegen Systems Ltda UK-Based company that is looking to transform the future of renewable energy, kinetic to electric. Pavegen tiles harness renewable electricity from otherwise wasted energy from human footsteps. Ms. Vaziri has over 20 years experience in financing energy projects domestically and internationally. She started her career at Bechtel Corporation, financing natural gas, coal, and nuclear independent power projects. She then moved into investment banking at the First Boston Corporation and Lehman Brothers, where she was a key member of the financing team for several IPP projects in India, including the $1.1 Billion 740 MW Dabhol Project owned by an international consortium. In recent years, Ms. Vaziri has concentrated in renewable energy projects. Prior to Pavegen, she was the Business Development Advisor at Ocean Renewable Power Company where she participated in strategic planning for the company and developed complex financial and macro-economic analyses aimed at raising private and public funding.
Education and Training: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. Electrical Engineering 1986. Sloan School of Management, MIT, M.S. Management (MBA) 1988.
Martin Varsavsky is an Argentine/Spanish entrepreneur and founder of seven companies in the past 20 years. Martin's best-known ventures were founded during the last decade. In 1984, while still in college, Martin Varsavsky started his first business, Urban Capital Corporation, one of the early leaders of the loft movement in downtown Manhattan. This was soon followed in 1986 by Medicorp Services, a Canadian biotechnology company, a pioneer in AIDS and PSA testing. His third business, Viatel Ltd., Martin's first venture into the world of telecom, was founded in 1990. This company is best known for inventing call back and building the first pan European fiber optic network ahead of liberalization.
In 1998 he started Jazztel, Spain's second largest publicly traded telecom operator. In 1999 he founded Ya.com, Spain's third largest Internet web site/DSL provider that includes the second largest Spanish language web agency www.viajar.com Martin's current venture is Fon, founded in November in 2005, a community empowered company dedicated to building the world«s largest global Wifi network bottom up, spreading the power of Wifi around the world. Fon attracted British Telecom, Coral Group, Skype, Atomico, Google, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital as partners and quickly became the largest Wifi community in the world. The Fon Community already has over 7 million hot spots. Martin Varsavsky also engages in not for profit activities. He manages the Varsavsky Foundation best known as founder of two large educational projects in Latin America, Educ.ar (Argentina) and EducarChile (Chile) and the Safe Democracy Foundation. Martin received his BA from New York University, and holds an MA in International Affairs and an MA in Business Administration from Columbia University. Martin Varsavsky is married to Nina Varsavsky and has five children.
Rishad Tobaccowala helps guide strategy and serves as a catalyst to innovation efforts across Vivaki - a Publicis Groupe entity that combines the collective scale, 70 Billion dollars of clout and 18,000 talented individuals sitting inside Big Fuel, Denuo, Digitas, Moxie, Performics, Razorfish, Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) and ZenithOptimedia. Working closely with brand CEOs and VivaKi Country Chairs, he helps VivaKi‰Ûªs companies show clients the way forward in an exciting and changing time for marketing.
Prior to his current role, Tobaccowala was CEO of Denuo - a Publicis Groupe company that invents, inspires and instigates new forms of creativity to help brands meet challenges of modern marketplaces.
Tobaccowala has also served as the Chief Innovation Officer of Publicis Groupe Media and was the founder and President of SMG Next, the first and most comprehensive futures practice in the media industry. The development of SMG Next resulted in the launch of several successful practices for SMG including: SMG Play, the first company to leverage videogames as a marketing platform; word-of-mouth practice Reverb; and Digits, a leader in mobile marketing. Tobaccowala was also responsible for developing SMG Search, a dedicated unit of SMG that specializes in leveraging search applications in new ways.
Before conceptualizing SMG NEXT, Tobaccowala was president and founder of SMG IP, the digital arm of SMG. As such, he played a central role in the agency, which was selected by Media in 2002 and 2004 as Interactive Agency of The Year.
In 1993, Tobaccowala formed Leo Burnett's Interactive Marketing Group. Between 1996 and 1999, he served as the President of Giant Step, Leo's interactive agency.
Tobaccowala was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation (2005), and TIME magazine dubbed him one of five ""Marketing Innovators"". He was appointed to Advertising Age's Interactive Hall of Fame; named Adweek's 2000 Media All-Star for Interactive Media; and honored by OMMA as a Media Strategist All-Star in 2005. In 2008, he was named an industry legend by Ad Color, and in 2009, conferred an Industry Achievement award at ad:tech for long-term dedication and industry service. In 2011 Rishad received a lifetime achievement award from SAMMA (South Asians in Marketing, Media and Entertainment).
In addition to the VivaKi board, he serves on the board of directors for Recycle Bank. Previous board seats include Audience Science and Snap. He also serves as an advisor to a broad range of companies, including Greycroft Partners, House Party, Marketshare Partners, Bright Tag, Viewpoints, Edo Interactive, Visible Measures and the Berlin School of Creative Leadership.
Tobaccowala holds a bachelors degree in mathematics from the University of Bombay and an M.B.A. from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.
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
Named one of the worldðs top five trendspotters, Marian was PRWeek's 2011 PR Professional of the Year. Before heading Havas PR, she was CMO at Porter Novelli, CMO at JWT Worldwide and CSO at Euro RSCG Worldwide. Since she took over at Havas PR (at that time known as Euro RSCG Worldwide PR) in late 2009, the agency has become one of the most awarded of its size. Among Marianðs many personal awards, she won a 2011 Bronze SABRE for Speech or Bylined Article for the series on the brain that she wrote for the Huffington Post, plus other blogging awards. In 2012, she was a PR juror for the CLIO Awards and the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
New York City-based composer Adam Reifsteck (b. 1983) has written, recorded, and performed music in a variety of styles and genres for audiences across the U.S. as well as in Europe. Recipient of grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Irving S. Gilmore Foundation, and the Kalamazoo (MI) Community Foundation, his compositions have been performed by the Attacca Quartet, Cadillac Moon Ensemble, Duquesne University Chamber Singers, Flutronix, Gaudete Brass Quintet, Mana Saxophone Quartet, Western Michigan University Chorale, countertenor Tyler Wayne Smith, and other ensembles.
Adam Reifsteck released his debut album, The Burning Within, on his own label in 2008. The ""Gloria"" and ""Sanctus"" of Missa Cor Inflammatus from the album were premiered internationally by the Western Michigan University Chorale, under the direction of Dr. James Bass, at the Eisenstadt Domkirche (Esienstadt Cathedral) during a liturgical service and in concert at the Bergkirche (""Mountain Church"") in Austria. An active recording engineer, Reifsteck produced commercial spots, jingles, and audio sales presentations for the Cumulus Broadcasting, Inc. affiliated stations WBCK-AM 930, WBCK-FM 95.3, and WBXX-FM 104.9. Reifsteck also co-founded the Siena Arts Program, an outreach of the Music Mission of St. Catherine of Siena Church, in Portage, MI, which seeks to unite communities through the celebration of the musical and visual religious arts of all cultures and faith traditions.
As a member of the Duquesne University Chamber Singers, under the direction of Dr. Brady Allred, Adam Reifsteck performed during the 2003 American Choral Directors Association National Convention at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City and in the world premiere of ""Paradise Lost: Opera Electronica,"" by composer Eric Whitacre and librettist David Noro–a, at the Angel Orensanz Cultural Center. Reifsteck also participated in the 2005 All-Star Collegiate Choir conducted by Marvin Hamlisch with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
Adam Reifsteck holds a M.M. in Composition from Western Michigan University and a B.M. in Music Technology from Duquesne University. His former composition teachers include Richard Adams, Robert Ricci, C. Curtis-Smith, Lynn Emberg Purse, David Stock, and Greg Shearer. Mr. Reifsteck is a member of Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), American Composers Forum (ACF), Omicron Delta Kappa, Golden Key Honour Society, and Phi Eta Sigma.
Alan Patricof, a venture capital pioneer, founded Greycroft, LLC in 2006. Greycroft is a venture capital firm, with offices in New York and Los Angeles, focused on the digital media sector. The firm has two funds, Greycroft I, with committed capital of $75 million, and Greycroft II, which was initiated in 2010 with committed capital of $130 million. Prior to founding Greycroft, Mr. Patricof was the founder and chairman of Apax Partners, Inc. (formerly Patricof & Co. Ventures, Inc.), the U.S. arm of Apax Partners, Worldwide, LP, now one of the worldÕs leading private equity firms with $41 billion under management or advice.
During the past 40-plus years, Mr. Patricof has participated in the financing and development of a large number of public and private companies. Companies that he has been involved with at the initial stages are Apple Computer, America Online, Cadence Systems, Office Depot, FORE Systems, Cellular Communications, Inc., IntraLinks, Audible, Inc. and The Huffington Post.
Mr. Patricof is active in the New York and Washington communities as a board member of TechnoServe, Trickle Up Program, Global Advisory Board of Endeavor, Applied Sciences NYC Advisory Board, and the Initiative for Global Development (IGD) Leadership Council. In 2007, he was appointed to the board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation by the President of the United States; he is currently serving his second term. From 1993 to 1995, he served as Chairman of the White House Conference on Small Business Commission.
Mr. Patricof holds a BS in Finance from Ohio State University and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is married to his wife Susan for over 40 years and he has three sons, Mark, Jonathan, James, as well as seven grandchildren, Lily, Nina, Jack, Chloe, Lila, Riley and Sawyer.
Howard Morgan has more than 25 years of experience serving as a mentor, advisor and investor in entrepreneurial ventures.
Howard was Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Computer Science at the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 through 1985. He has been a Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School. During his academic career he served as an editor of Communications of the ACM, Management Science, Transactions on Office Information Systems and Transactions on Database Systems. His research on user interface technology, and on optimization of computer networks led to his bringing the ARPAnet to Philadelphia in 1974. As a result of this early participation in the internet, he advised many corporate and government agencies on the uses of electronic and voice mail, implementing it throughout the Wharton School in the mid 1970s.
From 1983 to 1989, he served as President of Renaissance Technologies Corp. in New York, where he supervised venture capital investments in high technology companies. He was a founding board member and technical advisor of Franklin Electronic Publishers, one of the first manufacturers of personal computers. He has been an active consultant and speaker to users and vendors in the information systems area for more than 30 years, and has worked with many of the Fortune 100 companies and numerous government agencies.
Since 1989, he has been President of the Arca Group, Inc., nurturing early stage companies and taking them from seed stage through initial public offerings. He also serves as a Director of Idealab, where he was a founding investor in 1996. Dr. Morgan serves on a number of public company Boards, including Franklin Electronic Publishers and Internet Brands, Inc. He is also Chairman or a member of the board of numerous private companies including Energy Innovations, Evolution Robotics Retail, snap.com, MagicWorks LLC and Math For America. He has also served as CEO of Kentek and Franklin during various turnover or transitional periods. In 1997, he was named Delaware Valley Entrepreneur of the Year. Howard is a respected author and a frequent speaker at major industry conferences.
He received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1968, and a B.S. in physics from City College of the City University of New York in 1965.
Daniel Mellinger is a Co-President of KMel Robotics. He received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2012. His research focuses on dynamics, control, and trajectory planning for robotic systems including walking, rolling, and flying vehicles. His work with quadrotor helicopters has received attention from the popular media and has been covered by Discovery, NY Times, Popular Science, Engadget, and the Colbert Report. To date the videos of his research have received more than 15 million views on YouTube.
"Zheng Liu, Research Scientist, Rice University.
Dr. Zheng Liu received his PhD in Physics from National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China, working on carbon nanotubes. Since 2010, at Rice University, he has been working on atomic-thicnkess two-dimensional materials including graphene, hexgoanl boron nitride and sulfides, and becomes one of the pionners in this area. He is also interesting in the potential applications of these novel materials on optics, electronic and mechanics. He is also the translator of the books ""The great beyond"" and ""Galileo's finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science"""
"Alex Lightman, Author, Entrepreneur, and Futurist
Alex Lightman is an internationally recognized inventor, entrepreneur, author, speaker, conference organizer, futurist, and government advisor. He has been working at the bleeding edge of technology, primarily software and specialized telecommunications, since June 1983, and his experience includes pioneering development and/or marketing of simulation and modeling software, Internet 3D, artificial intelligence/expert systems (military, medical, training, trading, investing, budgeting, scheduling, advising), financial engineering workstations (for Reuters, where he was Project and Product Manager responsible for the ART2000), websites for Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and Madison Avenue, wearable computers and augmented reality, Internet-connected jewelry, and novel applications of Internet Protocol version 6, the 128-bit successor to the 32 bit IPv4 that has been in use since 1973.
In addition to his corporate interests, Lightman has made meaningful contributions to education, via a small high school and college he created with a partner in Santa Fe, New Mexico, The Nizhoni Institute (""Beauty-Way"" in the Navaho language), which received state and federal accreditation. Lightman is also one of the highest rated mentors at Founder Institute, the no. 1 incubator program in the world based on number of companies launched (650 to date). His last rating by the founders was 9.65 out of 10.0, and he has been the host of both of the last two Founder Institute LA events, held in Santa Monica in Q3, 2012.
Lightman is an MIT graduate in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Course I) and attended graduate school at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and MIT's Sloan School of Management, as well as Lund University, Sweden, for a semester abroad. He has published over a million words about the future of technology and public policy, including the first book on 4G, Brave New Unwired World: The Digital Big Bang and the Infinite Internet (John Wiley, 2002), which holds up well 10 years later, including a chapter on wearable computing and augmented reality that predicted what Google and other companies will be doing in 2013 and beyond. Lightman's other published book is Reconciliation: 78 Reasons to End the US Embargo of Cuba. He has also provided policy advice, white papers, technology briefings, training workshops, and transition plans to over 40 US federal agencies (including the Dept. of Defense up to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIO and Director of C3I level and the Defense Information Systems Agency), and to over 40 national governments, as well as to influential international organizations, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, for NATO's CIO) and the United Nations.
His most recent company was Innofone.com, which he built from zero, with zero equity or debt, into a company with 75 technology and government customers, including IBM, Microsoft, HP, ATT, Ericsson, Nokia and took it public after two years via reverse merger. As a public company, Innofone.com had a peak value of $280 million.
In addition to his corporate interests, Lightman has made meaningful contributions to education, via a small high school and college he created with a partner in Santa Fe, New Mexico, The Nizhoni Institute (""Beauty-Way"" in the Navaho language), which received state and federal accreditation. Lightman is also one of the highest rated mentors at Founder Institute, the no. 1 incubator program in the world based on number of companies launched (650 to date). His last rating by the founders was 9.65 out of 10.0, and he has been the host of both of the last two Founder Institute LA events, held in Santa Monica in Q3, 2012.
His awards, in addition to the Economist Reader's Award, including a Johnson Foundation award as ""one of America's 10 most innovative educators"", and, in the SGI Internet Virtual Reality contest, out of over 800 entries from around the world, winner of both the Entertainment category and the Grand Prize.
Lightman's insight, that 4G should be and would be both the licensed and unlicensed band (unlike 1G, 2G, and 3G) and that this would create an explosion of new entrepreneurial opportunities in telecom, was not as obvious as it is today, as exemplified in the loss of hundreds of billions in the early year overcharging for the supposed exclusivity of 3G, and the failure of 3G outside , which he sent to the White House and to the Castro administration. The response of Castro was to ask that a few unflattering quotes be removed. The response of the White House, via the Office of Science and
He is one of the few people to win an award that the entire world had a chance to give input to (crowd sourcing applied to in two ways), as the first recipient (and the only other besides Steve Jobs) of The Economist magazine ""Reader's Award"", in 2010, on behalf of 4G, as ""the innovation that will most radically change the world over the next ten years, 2011 to 2020""."
"Aleksandr Kushleyev, Co-President, KMel Robotics
Aleksandr Kushleyev is a Co-President of KMel Robotics. He received a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2009. He has a broad experience in robotics research and applications, ranging from hardware design to simulation and high level algorithms. He participated in several advanced robotics projects (4th place in DARPA Urban Challenge, 2nd place in MAGIC2010 competition)."
"Paul Kontonis, Chairman, The International Academy of Web Television
Paul Kontonis is the Chairman of the International Academy of Web Television, an industry organization founded in 2009 and comprising of leaders in the field of web television, web video, and the digital entertainment industries and are the creators of the annual IAWTV Awards at the International CES. PaulÕs industry leading voice includes his role as the Lead Advisor of Outrigger Media and OpenSlate, the leading platform and content quality score for connecting marketers with native digital video for advertising. As the former Vice President, Group Director, Brand Content for The Third Act, at Digitas, Paul helped establish the Digital Content NewFronts as the leading marketplace for connecting brands with original content opportunities and has executive produced dozens of original web series including successful branded entertainment for Global 100 brands. Paul authors numerous articles about online video, and is a speaker at several industry conferences and seminars annually."
"Jeff Jarvis, Director of the News Innovation Project, CUNY & Creator and Founding Editor of Entertainment Weekly
Jeff Jarvis, a national leader in the development of online news, blogging, the investigation of new business models for news, and the teaching of entrepreneurial journalism, writes an influential blog,Buzzmachine.com. He is author of the books What Would Google Do?and Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live as well as the e-book Gutenberg the Geek. He has also consulted for media companies including the Guardian, Digital First Media, Postmedia, Sky.com, Burda, Advance Publications, and The New York Times company at About.com. Prior to coming to CUNY, Jarvis was president of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications, which includes CondŽ Nast magazines and newspapers across America. He was the creator and founding managing editor of Entertainment Weekly magazine and has worked as a columnist, associate publisher, editor, and writer for a number of publications, including TV Guide, People, the San Francisco Examiner, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Daily News. His freelance articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country, including the Guardian, The New York Times, theNew York Post, The Nation, Rolling Stone, and BusinessWeek. Jarvis holds a B.S.J. from Northwestern UniversityÕs Medill School of Journalism. He was named one of the 100 most influential media leaders by the World Economic Forum at Davos."
"John Hagel, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP & Co-Chairman, Center for the Edge
John Hagel III is an author and former consultant who specializes in the intersection of business strategy and information technology. In 2007, Hagel, along with John Seely Brown and Lang Davison, founded the Deloitte Center for the Edge Innovation. Hagel is also involved with a number of other organizations, including the World Economic Forum, Innovation Exchange with John Seely Brown and Henry Chesbrough, the International Academy of Management, and the Aspen Institute."
"Augustine Fou, Founder, Digital Strategy Institute
Dr. Augustine Fou is the Founder of the Digital Strategy Institute and former Group Chief Digital Officer of Omnicom's Healthcare Consultancy Group. Dr.Fou has over 16 years of management consulting and digital strategy consulting experience, advising CMOs, marketing executives, and global brands. He has pioneered the application of the Unified Marketing™ framework to optimize marketing across both traditional and digital channels and tactics.
Dr. Fou is also an Adjunct Professor at NYU in the School for Continuing and Professional Studies and at Rutgers University at the Center for Management Development, where he teaches courses on digital strategy, social media marketing, mobile marketing, and integrated marketing to executives. He is a frequent panelist, moderator, and keynote speaker.
Dr. Fou completed his PhD at MIT at the age of 23. He started his career with McKinsey & Company. He writes a monthly column on Integrated Marketing for ClickZ.com, and can be found on Twitter.com @acfou."
"David Ewing Duncan, Director, The Personalized Health Project
David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning, best-selling author of seven books published in 19 languages; he is a journalist and a television, radio and film producer and correspondent. His most recent book is When I'm 164: The new science of radical life extension, and what happens if it succeeds (TED Books). He is a Correspondent for The Atlantic, and the Chief Correspondent of public radio's Biotech Nation, heard on NPR Talk. David writes for The New York Times, Fortune , Wired, National Geographic, Discover, Atlantic Monthly, and many other publications. He is the Founding Director of the Center of Life Science Policy at UC Berkeley. He has been a commentator on NPR's Morning Edition, and a contributing editor for Wired, Discover and Conde Nast Portfolio. He is a former special correspondent and producer for ABC Nightline and a correspondent for NOVA's ScienceNOW! David has won numerous awards including the Magazine Story of the Year from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His articles have twice been cited in nominations for National Magazine Awards, and his work has appeared twice in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. He is at work on a TED book on extreme aging. David lives in San Francisco."
"Melissa Alexis Dalmau, Chief Visual Officer, Xtreme Electronics Systems www.xes3d.com
Ms. Dalmau has over nine years experience working with auto-stereoscopic 3D technology and fifteen years working in the field of information technology. She founded her own a IT consulting company in 2001, for which she was the President and Lead Network Engineer, configuring and designing Cisco Systems and Microsoft networks.
In 2003, she was introduced to auto-stereoscopic technology by her father, Fernando Dalmau and co-founded Xtreme Electronics Systems, Inc (XES 3D). She is the driving force behind the engineering and development of new platforms, applications, proof of concept designs, and prototypes. In 2009, she was hired as a consultant for a major retailer in Panama to design, develop, and implement an auto-stereo 3D DOOH Ad Network. This opportunity led to the development of the first prototype Chromatic Light Deflector lens technology. As a result, the confluence of these opportunities allowed her to establish and integrate multiple optics labs for 3D display assembly.
She leads a world-class content production team, which includes designers in Miami, NYC, Milan and Tokyo. Recently, she has expanded XES's capabilities with the addition of a software development company, focusing on mobile application development to supply the burgeoning demand of content for 3D Mobile devices. This will create many new and patentable technology standards, frameworks and licensable content for world-wide distribution."
"Matthew Chapman, Co-Founder and President, ScienceDebate.org
Writer-Director Matthew Chapman is the author of two critically acclaimed non-fiction books, Trials of the Monkey - An Accidental Memoir and 40 Days and 40 Nights.
His screenplay credits include Consenting Adults directed by Alan J. Pakula, Color of Night, directed by Richard Rush, and Runaway Jury, directed by Gary Fleder.
He is the co-founder and president of ScienceDebate.org, an organization trying to get the presidential candidates to hold a debate on science.
He wrote and directed The Ledge, starring Charlie Hunnam, Liv Tyler, Terrence Howard, and Patrick Wilson. A thriller about a battle between a non-believer and a fundamentalist, it was selected for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and is distributed in America by IFC. It has been seen in over 50 territories worldwide including Indonesia, the Middle East, most of Europe, Russia, China, Turkey, India, and Central and South America."
"Porter Bibb, Managing Partner at MediaTech Capital Partners
Porter Bibb is managing partner at MediaTech Capital Partners, a private merchant bank he founded in 1996. He also serves as Senior Advisor to Gerson Global Advisors, a strategic advisor to sovereign states, where he concentrates on business development and public affairs.
Mr. Bibb has more than 40 years experience as a senior investment banker, specializing in media and technology. He is a former White House correspondent for Newsweek magazine, the first Publisher of Rolling Stone Magazine, and former Corporate Development Director for The New York Times Company. He is the author of several books, including the best-selling biography of Ted Turner (Random House,1993) and has produced over a dozen television and theatrical motion pictures, most notably ‘Gimme Shelter’, with the Rolling Stones.
A graduate of Yale University, he received a Certificate in Advanced Management from the Harvard Business School, and has served as a Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics. He is a trustee emeritus of the New York State Council for the Humanities, the Theatre Development Foundation, and MUSE Film & Television. Mr. Bibb is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other major media, and appears regularly as a commentator on television and radio. He is a founder and former chairman of Peconic Public Broadcasting, the NPR public radio station in Southampton, NY."
"James Balog, Lead, Director of Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) (via Skype)
James Balog has been a leader in photographing, understanding and interpreting the natural environment for three decades. An avid mountaineer with a graduate degree in geography and geomorphology, James is equally at home on a Himalayan peak or a whitewater river; the African savannah or polar icecaps.
To reveal the impact of climate change, James founded the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), the most wide-ranging, ground-based, photographic study of glaciers ever conducted. National Geographic showcased this work in the June 2007 and June 2010 issues. The project is also featured in the 2009 NOVA documentary Extreme Ice, and in the feature-length documentary, Chasing Ice.
EIS has been recognized with the Heinz Award, the Missouri School of Journalism’s Honor Medal for Distinguished Service, the Aspen Institute’s Visual Arts & Design Award, and the Galen and Barbara Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure. Balog has received the Leica Medal of Excellence, the International League of Conservation Photographers Award and the North American Nature Photography Association’s Outstanding Photographer of the Year award. He was named Person of the Year for 2011 by PhotoMedia magazine.
James is the author of seven books, including Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report, published by National Geographic Books in 2009. ICE: Portraits of the World’s Vanishing Glaciers, will be released in the fall of 2012.
Among his other books are Tree: A New Vision of the American Forest (2004), Wildlife Requiem (1984), Anima (1992), and Survivors: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife (1990), which was hailed as a major conceptual breakthrough in nature photography. His work has been extensively published in most of the world’s major pictorial magazines including The New Yorker, National Geographic, Life, American Photo, Vanity Fair, Sierra, Audubon, and Outside, and is in dozens of public and private art collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Corcoran Gallery, the Denver Art Museum and the Gilman Paper Company. In 1996, James was the first photographer ever commissioned by the U.S. Postal Service to create a full sheet of stamps.
James lives in the Rocky Mountains, above Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, Suzanne, and his daughters Simone and Emily."
"John W. Allen, Chairman & CEO of Greater China Corporation
John W. Allen 約翰. 阿伦先生 Chairman & CEO of Greater China Corporation. Involved in Asia and China for over 30 years and participated in developing several multi $billion companies. Assisted in founding AIESEC in China and Latin America and was Chairman of the Board of AIESEC, US and of AIESEC Yale. Founding member of the Chinese Cultural Foundation and the China Investment Group, LLC.
Headed the international investment subsidiary of the Bank of Boston and was Assistant to James D. Wolfensohn (former head of the World Bank) at Schroder Bank and Trust, and subsequently became President of the International Securities Exchange Corporation.
Served as Trustee of the Soros Open Society Institute and one of three Trustees of the International Science Foundation along with George Soros and Nobel Laureate James Watson.
Director of the World Policy Institute, the International Business and Academic Council, Advisor to the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights and Womensphere and previously served as Vice Chairman of the Business Council for the United Nations.
Also Chairman of Spring Investment Corporation and Turtlesnap Ventures, Inc. Frequent speaker on China, global capital markets, emerging markets and entrepreneurial initiatives. Received his BA from Yale University and MBA from Harvard Business School."
"Chris Aiken, President, Aiken Development LLC/AikenSoft/AikenLabs/AikenControls
As a life long entrepreneur and technologist, Chris has worked extensively in the areas of embedded product development, system design, and real-time industrial control. With over 30 years of experience, Chris has developed products ranging from embedded sensors to high-speed industrial vision systems and optimizing/cutting solutions.
Currently, Chris is the President of Aiken Development LLC, acting as lead design engineer and system architect for the AikenLabs and AikenControls divisions.His current development focus is on the Immersive Motion sensor products from AikenLabs, and the nDepth industrial sensor products from AikenControls. His desire is to continue to bring new products and innovations to both the consumer and industrial fields.
Personally, Chris has been blessed with an exceptional wife of 25 years, a wonderful family that work alongside in the business, and an awesome God that helps guide the way."
Damian Slattery, Executive Director of Integrated Marketing, TIME
