Summit Agenda

• 3:00pm - 9:00pm REGISTRATION DESK OPEN
  Location: Terrace Room

• 7:00am REGISTRATION DESK OPENS
  
• 9:00am - 12:45am MORNING SESSIONS
  Location: Gold Room
  
• 9:00am OPENING WELCOME
  James P. Clark, Chairman, The World Technology Network
  
• TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEWS
  Session Moderator:
  Wade Roush, Senior Editor, Technology Review magazine
  
• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
  Craig Mundie, Senior Vice President Chief Technical Officer, Advanced Strategies and Policy, Microsoft
  
• COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
  Peter Cochrane, President, ConceptLabs
  
• HEALTH & MEDICINE/BIOTECHNOLOGY
  Molly Coye, President, The Health Technology Center
  
• 10:20am - 11:00am BREAK (including demos from Accenture Technology Labs)
  Location: Terrace Room
  
• 11:00am ENERGY
  Mark D. Levine, Director, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  
• SPACE
  Elon Musk, Founder, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
  
• MATERIALS/NANOTECHNOLOGY
  K. Eric Drexler, Founder, The Foresight Institute
  
• 12:45pm - 2:45pm LUNCH
  Location: Crown Room
• 1:30pm - 2:15pm Innovators Review
  Session Chair: Rafe Needleman "What's Next" Columnist, Business 2.0
• Michael Anthony, Executive Director, Antree Systems
  
• Stuart Hassard, Head of Biology, deltaDOT
  
• Daniel Branagan, Chief Technical Officer, The NanoSteel Company
  
• Robert Levin, CEO, Transclick
  
• Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Sciences; Founding Director, Media Lab Asia;
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  
• Antonio Silva, Technology Director, Eletra Tecnologia De Trao Eltrica
  
• Others pending
  
• 2:45pm - 4:30pm SUMMITS-WITHIN-THE-SUMMIT BREAKOUT WORKSHOPS
  Location: Various Rooms
  2003 Summit/Awards Co-Chairs (almost all of whom are WTN members):
  
• (HEALTH AND MEDICINE)
  Arthur Benvenuto, Former CEO, Advanced Tissue Sciences
  TOPIC: "Basic research and commerce-have we struck the right balance in academia?"
  
• (COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY)
  David Farber, Former Chief Technologist, US Federal Communications Commission/FCC
  TOPIC: "What future technologies can re-stimulate the industry and what might hold things back?"
  
• (BIOTECHNOLOGY)
  Cynthia Robbins-Roth, Founder, BioVenture Publishing and BioVenture Consultants
  TOPIC: "Controlling Discovery vs. Fueling Innovation: Can the Right Balance Be Found?"
  
• (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – HARDWARE)
  Daniel Niles, Managing Director & Senior Electronics Analyst, Lehman Brothers
  TOPIC: "IT Spending: What Will Drive a Rebound?"
  
• (MEDIA AND JOURNALISM)
  Adam Clayton Powell III, Visiting Professor of Journalism and Senior Research Associate, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
  TOPIC: "The Future of News and Information"
  
• (ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT)
  Mark D. Levine, Director, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  TOPIC: "Planning for the World Energy Technologies Summit, Paris, November 2003"
  
• (SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP)
  Robert Davies, CEO, Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum
  TOPIC: "Social Enterprise - business partnerships for affordable technology access"
  
• (ENTERTAINMENT)
  Bruce Haring, CEO, JM Northern Media LLC & Author, "Beyond The Charts: MP3 and the Digital Music Revolution"
  TOPIC: "Copyright, Distribution, Wireless: How Will ‘Entertainment’ Work?"
  
• (THE ARTS)
  Marko Peljhan, Director, Projekt Atol; Assistant Professor, University of California
  Santa Barbara, Art Studio-Media Arts and Technology program
  TOPIC: "Reassessing the 'Third Culture'"
  
• (EDUCATION)
  Roy Pea, Co-Director, Stanford University Center for Innovations in Learning
  TOPIC: "What could be done to more productively share "usable knowledge" about supporting learning in education using ICT?"
  
• (POLICY & LAW)
  Claudio Jos Marinho Lucio, State Secretary for Science, Technology and the Environment, State of Pernambuco, Brazil
  TOPIC: "What are the social implications of the 'exponential technologies'"
  
• (DESIGN)
  Kristina Goodrich, Executive Director/CEO, Industrial Designers Society of America
  TOPIC: "Technology and Business: Can Culture Survive the Business Imperatives?"
  
• (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – SOFTWARE)
  Alexandra Weber Morales, Editor in Chief, Software Development magazine
  TOPIC: "IT: Strategic Advantage or Commodity?"
  
• (FINANCE)
  Ann Winblad, Co-Founder, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
  TOPIC: "Funding Innovation in 2003"
  
• (MATERIALS)
  K. Eric Drexler, Founder, The Foresight Institute
  TOPIC: "What is Old, What is New, What is Strategic?"
  
• 4:40pm - 5:30pm SUMMITS-WITHIN-THE-SUMMIT CO-CHAIRS PANEL 1
  Location: Gold Room
  Summit Co-Chairs report back in from their breakout sessions
  
• (FINANCE)
  Ann Winblad, Co-Founder, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
  
• (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – SOFTWARE)
  Alexandra Weber Morales, Editor in Chief, Software Development magazine
  
• (DESIGN)
  Kristina Goodrich, Executive Director/CEO, Industrial Designers Society of America
  
• (SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP)
  Robert Davies, CEO, Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum
  
• (MATERIALS)
  K. Eric Drexler, Founder, The Foresight Institute
  
• SUMMIT DAY ONE CLOSING REMARKS
  
• 7:15pm - 10:00pm EVENING
  Location: Terrace Room
  
• RECEPTION (including demos from Accenture Technology Labs)
  
• DINNER
  (including blues on piano from 2003 World Technology Award nominee, Rich Martini)

• 7:00am REGISTRATION DESK OPENS
  
• 9:00am - 1:05pm MORNING SESSIONS
  Location: Gold Room
  
• 9:00am OPENING WELCOME
  James P. Clark, Chairman, The World Technology Network
  
• 9:10am "How To Make An Idea Happen"
  Tom Davenport, Director, Institute for Strategic Change, Accenture
  
• 9:55am - 10:45am SUMMITS-WITHIN-THE-SUMMIT CO-CHAIRS PANEL 2
  Summit Co-Chairs report back in from their breakout sessions
  
• (COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY)
  David Farber, Former Chief Technologist, US Federal Communications Commission/FCC
  
• (BIOTECHNOLOGY)
  Cynthia Robbins-Roth, Founder, BioVenture Publishing and BioVenture Consultants
  
• (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – HARDWARE)
  Daniel Niles, Managing Director & Senior Electronics Analyst, Lehman Brothers
  
• (THE ARTS)
  Marko Peljhan, Director, Projekt Atol; Assistant Professor, University of California
  Santa Barbara, Art Studio-Media Arts and Technology program
  
• (HEALTH AND MEDICINE)
  Arthur Benvenuto, Former CEO, Advanced Tissue Sciences
  
• 10:45am - 11:20am BREAK
  Location: Terrace Room
  
• 11:20am - 12:05pm CORPORATE INNOVATION: Staying Committed in Challenging Times
  Location: Gold Room
  (session made possible by DuPont Textiles and Interiors)
  Session Moderator:
  Chris Taylor, senior technology columnist, TIME magazine
  
  Speakers/Panelists:
• Jim Trainham, Chief Technology Officer, DuPont Textiles and Interiors
  
• Stephen Bjorgan, Chief Technology Officer, France Telecom R&D
  
• Scott Power, Research Fellow, VP Technology, Genencor International
  
• Theresa Kotancheck, Senior Director of Technology, Dow Chemical
  
• Others pending
  
• 12:05pm - 12:55pm SUMMITS-WITHIN-THE-SUMMIT CO-CHAIRS PANEL 3
  Summit Co-Chairs report back in from their breakout sessions
  
• (POLICY & LAW)
  Claudio Jos Marinho Lucio, State Secretary for Science, Technology and the Environment, State of Pernambuco, Brazil
  
• (EDUCATION)
  Roy Pea, Co-Director, Stanford University Center for Innovations in Learning
  
• (MEDIA AND JOURNALISM)
  Adam Clayton Powell III, Visiting Professor of Journalism and Senior Research Associate, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
  
• (ENTERTAINMENT)
  Bruce Haring, CEO, JM Northern Media LLC & Author, "Beyond The Charts: MP3 and the Digital Music Revolution"
  
• (ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT)
  Mark D. Levine, Director, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  
• 12:55pm - 2:25pm LUNCH
  Location: Terrace Room
• 1:30pm - 2:10pm Topic: "The Next Big Thing"
  Session Moderator:
  Jerry Borrell, Editor, Venture Capital Journal
  
  Panelists:
• Kamran Elahian, President, Global Catalyst Partners
  2002 World Technology Award for Finance nominee
  
• Joanna Rees Gallanter, Founder, Venture Strategy Partners
  
• John Michaelson, Needham Asset Management
  2003 World Technology Award for Finance nominee
  
• Nicholas Parker, CleanTech Venture Networks
  2003 World Technology Award for Finance nominee
  
• Leslie (Les) Vadasz, President, Intel Capital
  2000 World Technology Award for Finance finalist
  2003 World Technology Award for Finance (corporate category) nominee
  
• 2:25pm - 4:10pm THE UN & THE WTN: How the Technology World Can Help the UN Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
  Location: Gold Room
  
  TOPICS:
1. The World Development Chart: Software for An Evidence-Based view of 100 years of Human and Economic Development
   Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
   
2. "The Technologies Needed to Eradicate Hunger" - Charles Riemenschneider, UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO)
3. "Using Technology to Achieve Universal Childhood Education" - (PENDING)
   
4. "What Technologies Need to be Created to Improve the Health of Children?"
   Chris Elias, Chief Executive, Program for the Application of Technology and Health
   
5. "Technologies Needed For Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation"
   Ingvar Andersson, Senior Water Policy Adviser, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
   
6. "Renewable Energy Technologies"
   Osman Benchikh, Renewable Energies programme director, UNESCO - (PENDING)
   
7. "Information and Communication Technologies That Will Bridge the Digital Divide"
   Dr. Sarah McCue, Former Manager, ICT for Development, UNDP
   
• 4:20pm - 5:00pm MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
  BREAKOUT WORKSHOP SESSIONS
  Location: Various Rooms
  Chaired by UN officials listed above
• Hunger
• Childhood Education
• Child Mortality
• Safe Drinking Water
• Renewable Energy Technologies
• ICT Technology Access
  

PREPARE FOR EVENING

• 7:00pm - 11:00pm EVENING
  NOTE: "BLACK TIE"/ FORMAL WEAR
  
• PRE-AWARDS RECEPTION
  Location: Pavillion Room
  
• THE WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARDS GALA CEREMONY
  Location: Venetian Room