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2005 World Technology Summit and World Technology Awards Agenda
Monday, November 14th, and
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
The Summit will be comprised of a strategic mix of keynote addresses, panel
discussions, breakout sessions, CTO Showcase exhibitors, and plenty of
networking time, capped on the last evening with the World Technology Awards
gala and ceremony. Overall, the Summit will be comprised
of a strategic mix of keynote addresses, panel discussions,
breakout sessions, CTO Showcase
exhibitors, and plenty of networking time, capped on the last evening
with the World Technology Awards gala and ceremony.
DAY ONE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14THTECHNOLOGY OVERVIEWS
- 9:15AM - 9:25AM MODERATOR REMARKS
MODERATOR: Adam Lashinsky
Senior Writer, FORTUNE magazine
- 9:25AM - 9:45AM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Tien Tzuo
SVP of Marketing and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO),
Salesforce.com; Finalist, 2004 CMO Council/BusinessWeek CMO of the Year
- 9:45AM - 10:05AM COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
R. Brough Turner
Co-Founder, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, NMS
Communications; Former engineering and engineering management roles at
Digilab, In., and at Block Engineering Inc., both subsidiaries of Bio-Rad
Laboratories; Widely cited commentator on technology, economic and social
issues of communications at the intersection of telecom, mobility and the Internet.
- 10:05AM - 10:25PM HEALTH & BIOTECHNOLOGY/HEALTH & MEDICINE
David Haussler
Director, UCSC Center for Biomolecular Science &
Engineering; Scientific Co-Director, California Institute for Quantitative
Biomedical Research; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute;
Scientist of the Year (2001, R & D magazine)
- 10:25AM - 11:15AM BREAK/CTO SHOWCASE
A very select group of new/emerging technology companies -- established and
start-up -- will be showcasing their cutting-edge work. Selected from among the current
WTN members/partners/2005 World Technology Award nominees, the goal is to enable delegates
not only to experience great technological innovation first-hand, but also the enable those
showcasing and other delegates to gain new insights and to create new collaborative relationships.
Exhibitors include:
INTEL - SILICON PHOTONICS RESEARCH
ACCENTURE TECHNOLOGY LABS
iROBOT
FAST SEARCH AND TRANSFER
MICROSOFT
CYBERDYNE
TACTICAL LANGUAGE TRAINING/USC
AEROSPACE
RITCHIE CAPITAL (TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCE FINANCE)
XsunX
EVOLUTION ROBOTICS
- 11:15AM - 11:35AM MATERIALS/NANOTECHNOLOGY
Steve Jurvetson
Managing Director - Draper Fisher Jurvetson; "The
Valley's Sharpest VC" (Business 2.0 magazine);
Number 7 of the "40 Under 40" Most Influentials
(Fortune magazine)
- 11:35AM - 11:55AM ENERGY
Amory Lovins
Co-Founder & CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute; Winner,
2000 World Technology Award for Environment; other awards
include MacArthur Fellowship, the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right
Livelihood, and TIME magazine "Hero for the Planet" awards;
one of 39 people worldwide "most likely to change
the course of business" (Wall Street Journal); "one of
the Western world's most influential energy thinkers" (Newsweek)
- 11:55AM - 12:15PM SPACE
Robert Zubrin
Founder, Mars Society (nominee for 2005 World Technology Award for Space
(corporate category, and nominee, individually, for World Technology
Award for Space, individual category); Driving force behind "Mars
Direct", a version of which was subsequently adopted by NASA as
their "design reference mission"; Founder, Pioneer Astronautics;
Chairman, Executive Committee, National Space Society.
- 12:15PM - 12:45PM TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW AUDIENCE Q&A
MODERATOR: Adam Lashinsky
Senior Writer, FORTUNE magazine
12:45pm - 2:00pm LUNCH
1:30pm - 2:00pm LUNCH SPEAKER: "Adopting Innovation"
Peter J. Denning
Chairman, Computer Science Department, US Naval
Postgraduate School in Monterey; former President, Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM).
2:00pm - 5:45pm AFTERNOON SESSIONS
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm SUMMITS-WITHIN-THE-SUMMIT BREAKOUT WORKSHOPS
Delegates meet in breakout sessions with other delegates to discuss a pressing
question of the day (these sessions are chaired by a current WTN member or 2005
World Technology Award nominee)
- Secure Me Now: How Can We Secure Identity Without Losing Privacy or Speed?
Dimitri Kanevsky
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center; "Master Inventor" status, IBM; Finalist,
2005 World Technology Award for IT-Software; Top Five Most Influential Patents of
2003 (MIT Technology Review).
- Communications Technology: Culture Vs. Technology Vs. Business
R. Brough Turner
Co-Founder, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, NMS
Communications; Former engineering and engineering management roles at
Digilab, In., and at Block Engineering Inc., both subsidiaries of Bio-Rad
Laboratories; Widely cited commentator on technology, economic and social
issues of communications at the intersection of telecom, mobility and the Internet.
- Shifting Power: How Do We Determine Content Value in the User-Edited Media Age?
Lisa Voldeng
Founder, sugar lab; Founder, Uberbabe Media; "Top 25 Women in Technology"
(ZDnet); "Women to Know in New Media" (Online Journalism Review)
- Private Ethics and Public Policy: Can We Reconcile Faith, Social Responsibility and Science?
Dr. Kernaghan Webb
Chief of Research and Senior Legal Advisor, Canadian Office of Consumer Affairs: Nominee,
2005 World Technology Award for Ethics
- Winning the Oil Endgame: How Can It Be Done?
Amory Lovins
Co-Founder & CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute; Winner, 2000 World Technology Award for Environment (see "Energy" keynote info above).
- How Relevant is Biotechnology to Developing Countries?: Problems and Promises"
Jennie Mather
CEO, Raven Biotechnologies; Finalist, 2003 World Technology Award for Biotechnology; Former Senior Scientist/Staff Scientist, Genentech
- 3:30pm - 4:15pm "REPORTING IN" FROM SUMMITS-WITHIN-THE-SUMMIT BREAKOUTS
Summit Co-Chairs report back in from their breakout sessions
MODERATOR: Amanda Bower
San Francisco-based columnist, TIME magazine
- 4:15pm - 5:10pm INNOVATORS REVIEW, with Q&A
Martin J. Fisher
Co-Founder & Executive Director, KickStart
International (formerly ApproTEC); Winner "Social Entrepreneur of the Year"
Award (Schwab Foundation, 2003); "European Hero" Award winner (TIME
magazine, 2003); Citation for "Inventions the Will Change the World"
(Newsweek magazine, 2003); Co-nominee, 2005 World Technology Award for
Social Entrepreneurship
Mario Paniccia
Director, Photonics Technology Lab, Intel
Corporation; Two-time winner, Intel Achievement Award (1998, 2005); Top 10
Emerging Technologies (Technology Review, 2005); Nominee, 2005 World
Technology Award for IT-Hardware; Director, corporate Nominee, 2005 World
Technology Award for Communications Technology
W. Lewis Johnson
Senior Project Leader, Center for Advance
Research in Technology for Education, Information Sciences Institute,
University of Southern California; Associate Editor, Automated Autonomous
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; Former President, Artificial Intelligence in
Education Society
Hans Monderman
Project Manager (spatial, landscape, traffic planning),
Stichting Voorwerk (Drenthe, Groningen en Fryslân, Netherlands); nominee,
2005 World Technology Award for the Environment
Graham Hawkes
Ocean Engineer & Inventor, Founder, Hawkes Ocean Technologies
deep sea submersibles; Founder, Precision Remotes land-based remotes (Best
Inventions of 2004, TIME magazine); Co-founder (with Dr. Sylvia Earle), Deep
Ocean Engineering remotely operated vehicles; Founder, Deep Sea Discoveries
marine archeology; Associate Laureate for Rolex Awards for Innovation
(1987); Finalist, Discover Awards for Innovation (1998); Corporate nominee,
2005 World Technology Award for the Environment.
Bob Mitchell
Cassini Program Manager, Cassini-Huygens mission (NASA, ESA,
ASI); former Galileo mission design manager; former NASA-honored team
leader, Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist trajectory; Recipient NASA
Exceptional Achievement Awards for Viking mission navigation and Galileo
mission design, among numerous other awards.
- 5:10PM - 5:15PM CLOSING REMARKS FOR THE DAY
James P. Clark
Chairman, The World Technology Network
A select group of 2005 World Technology Award nominees describe their work and its implications
- 5:15pm - 6:15pm BREAK/CTO SHOWCASE
A very select group of new/emerging technology companies -- established and start-up -- will
be showcasing their cutting-edge work. Selected from among the current WTN members/partners/2005
World Technology Award nominees, the goal is to enable delegates not only to experience great
technological innovation first-hand, but also the enable those showcasing and other delegates to
gain new insights and to create new collaborative relationships.
Exhibitors include:
INTEL - SILICON PHOTONICS RESEARCH
ACCENTURE TECHNOLOGY LABS
iROBOT
FAST SEARCH AND TRANSFER
MICROSOFT
CYBERDYNE
TACTICAL LANGUAGE TRAINING/USC
AEROSPACE
RITCHIE CAPITAL (TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCE FINANCE)
XsunX
EVOLUTION ROBOTICS
6:00pm - Onward EVENING
- 6:15PM - 8:45PM - Onward RECEPTION/DINNER
DAY TWO: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH
7:00am REGISTRATION DESK OPENS
9:00am - 12:15pm MORNING SESSIONS
- 9:00am OPENING WELCOME
James P. Clark
Chairman, The World Technology Network
- 9:15am - 10:00am KEYNOTE: TECHNOLOGY'S UNFINISHED BUSINESS (including audience Q&A)
Bob Suh
Chief Technology Strategist & Global Managing Partner for Growth and Strategy,
Accenture; One of the Top 25 Consultants of 2005 (Consulting magazine)
- 10:00am - 10:45pm BREAK/CTO SHOWCASE
A very select group of new/emerging technology companies -- established and start-up -- will be
showcasing their cutting-edge work. Selected from among the current WTN members/partners/2005 World
Technology Award nominees, the goal is to enable delegates not only to experience great technological
innovation first-hand, but also the enable those showcasing and other delegates to gain new insights
and to create new collaborative relationships.
Exhibitors include:
INTEL - SILICON PHOTONICS RESEARCH
ACCENTURE TECHNOLOGY LABS
iROBOT
FAST SEARCH AND TRANSFER
MICROSOFT
CYBERDYNE
TACTICAL LANGUAGE TRAINING/USC
AEROSPACE
RITCHIE CAPITAL (TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCE FINANCE)
XsunX
EVOLUTION ROBOTICS
- 10:45pm - 11:30am PANEL DISCUSSION: "Citizens" "vs. "Professional" Journalism: Are We "Open" to the Implications?"
SESSION LEADER: Craig Forman
Vice President & General Manager, Yahoo! Inc.; Producer PBS series "Great
Entrepreneurs" and "Great Leaders"; former VP, CNN Financial News;
former VP-Worldwide Development, Time Inc. New Media, former Tokyo Bureau Chief,
Wall Street Journal; nominee, 2005 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism
OTHER PANELISTS:
Maria C. Thomas
Vice President and General Manager, National Public Radio/NPR Online; Former
launch/operations manager Amazon.com camera/photo store; Former investment
officer, World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC); Former
corporate/project finance, Kidder, Peabody & Company.
Jason McCabe Calacanis
Chairman & Co-Founder, Weblogs, Inc. Network; former
founder/editor "Silicon Alley Reporter/VentureReporter.net (sold to Dow Jones).
Helen Whelan
CEO and Founder of Success Television, an interactive
television network on Comcast VOD (video on demand) and on the Internet.
Former President/Co-Founder, MyPrimeTime; Former VP of Business Development,
CNN Financial News; former Washington, DC bureau chief, Nightly Business
Report on PBS.
- 11:30pm - 12:30pm INNOVATORS REVIEW, with Q&A
A small select group of 2005 World Technology Award nominees describe their work and its implications
John R. McGrath
Senior Director, Fast Search & Transfer, Inc; Former high-level experience with Motorola, United Technologies, Excalibur
(Convera), Cognos Software, and Hoovers, Inc.
Tom M. Djokovich
President and Chief Executive Officer, XsunX; Founder and former CEO, Accesspoint Corporation; Founder, TMD Construction
and Development; Leads corporate nominee, 2005 World Technology Award for Energy, and
Dr. Arun Madan
Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, XsunX; Research Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of
Mines; President/Founder of MVSystems Inc.; Founder, Glasstech Solar Inc.
Dr. Paolo Pirjanian
Chief Scientist and General Manager of the Robotics and Vision Group, Evolution Robotics; Former lead engineer, Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); Faculty Member (artificial intelligence),Computer Science, USC. IEEE and Automation "Early Career Award" winner as
best, upcoming roboticist (2004); corporate nominee, 2005 World Technology Award for IT-Hardware.
Priyadarshini Karve
Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI); Nominee, 2005 World Technology Award for the Environment.
James Erickson
Project Manager, Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA; former Mission Manager, MER;
former Project Manager, Galileo Project to study Jupiter; senior level experience on Viking Mission to Mars, Voyager mission to outer planets, and
Mars Observer mission.
Hartmut Esslinger
Co-CEO, frog design; former designer, SONY, including
mold-breaking black-box SONY Trinitron TV in the 1970s; Established
Esslinger Design (later renamed to frog) and was hired by Steve Jobs to
design Apple IIC voted Design of the Year (TIME magazine, 1984). Other
designs include the surface of SAP software, Acer computer, AT&T's
answering machines, the Consors market world, Dual's hi-fi systems,
Hansgrohe's shower heads and the look of Lufthansa. Described in Business
Week cover story (1990) as "the most influential industrial designer on the
American scene since the 1930s"; Nominee, 2005 World Technology Award for Design.
12:15pm - 1:45pm LUNCH
- 1:00pm - 1:30pm LUNCH SPEAKER: "Now What?: Seven Trends"
Ziv Navoth
Founder, Verve!; Former Managing Director, Startup Station plc; Co-founder, Tagma logistics
consultancy; Co-founder, Automatic for the People CD-vending business; Former Executive Director,
Institute for Technology and Enterprise (NY).
- 1:45pm - 4:45pm AFTERNOON SESSIONS
- 1:45pm - 2:30pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Corporate Futurists
MODERATOR: Chris Taylor
Futures Editor, Business 2.0 magazine; Former Technology Editor, TIME magazine; Winner,
2004 PRSA award for excellence in technology journalism; twice named top ten most influential
technology journalist in America by Adweek
OTHER PANELISTS:
David Pescovitz
Former forecasting columnist, Wired magazine; Winner, 2002 Foresight Prize in Communication; Co-Editor, BoingBoing.net;
Special Projects Editor, MAKE:; Affiliate, Intitute for the Future; Writer-in-Residence, UC Berkeley's College of Engineering and the Berkeley Sciences.
Doug Randall
Senior Practitioner/Co-Leader, Consulting Practice,Global Business Network; co-author (with Peter Schwartz) of Pentagon climate
change report, "Imagining the Unthinkable", and Wired cover story "How Hydrogen Fuel Can Save America;" Former Senior Research Fellow, Wharton
School; Former Partner, Palo Alto Ventures.
Bob Johansen
Senior Vice President and Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future (IFTF); Former President/CEO, IFTF; co-author,
"Upsizing the Individual in the Downsized Organization" and co-author "GlobalWork."
- 2:30pm - 3:15pm BREAK/CTO SHOWCASE
A very select group of new/emerging technology companies -- established and start-up -- will be
showcasing their cutting-edge work. Selected from among the current WTN members/partners/2005 World
Technology Award nominees, the goal is to enable delegates not only to experience great technological
innovation first-hand, but also the enable those showcasing and other delegates to gain new insights
and to create new collaborative relationships.
Exhibitors include:
INTEL - SILICON PHOTONICS RESEARCH
ACCENTURE TECHNOLOGY LABS
iROBOT
FAST SEARCH AND TRANSFER
MICROSOFT
CYBERDYNE
TACTICAL LANGUAGE TRAINING/USC
AEROSPACE
RITCHIE CAPITAL (TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCE FINANCE)
XsunX
EVOLUTION ROBOTICS
- 3:15pm - 4:00pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Financing Innovation
SESSION LEADER: Mark Heesen
President, National Venture Capital Association (NVCA); Manager, American Entrepreneurs
for Economic Growth (AEEG); Nominee, 2005 World Technology Award for Policy
Kamran Elahian
Chairman, Global Catalyst Partners; Chairman of ten other companies he co-founded - CAE Systems, Cirrus Logic, Momenta, NeoMagic, PlanetWeb,
Centillium Communications, Actelis Networks, Informative, Entopia, and Greenfield Networks; Founder, non-profit organization, Schools Online.
M. Gail Fitzpatrick
Managing Director, Ritchie Technology and Life Sciences Finance, Ritchie Capital Finance.
David Chao
Co-Founder, Doll Capital Management (DCM); former
co-founder/board member JCI, Japan's largest MVNO; former McKinsey & Company
management consultant; former marketing/product management roles at Apple
Computer; co-author and successful implementer of Apple Japan's One Billion
Dollar Revenue Plan; Top 100 venture capitalists (Forbes), where mentioned
as third most active in China in 2004; Management Board Member, Stanford
Graduate School of Business; Nominee, 2005 World Technology Award for
Finance.
- 4:00pm - 4:30pm INNOVATORS REVIEW, with Q&A
A small select group of 2005 World Technology Award nominees describe their work and its implications
Randy Cortright
Co-Founder, Chief Technical Officer, Virent Energy Systems; co-nominee, 2005 World Technology Award for Energy.
Dr. Geordie Rose
President/CEO, D-Wave "quantum computing systems" company;
co-inventor 25 filed patents in superconducting electronics; 2001 Business
in Vancouver 40 Under 40 awards; 2002 BCTIA Award for Most Promising
Start-Up; Nominee, 2005 World Technology Award for IT-Hardware.
Robert Levin
Founder and CEO, Transclick; Former Trader/Senior Analyst,
Chilewich Corporation; Macro-strategist for Paul Tudor Jones and for Louis
Moore Bacon; Former consultant, ViaTel; Transclick, Winner (wireless
categogy), Consumer Electronics Association Innovation 2003 Awards; Best
Messaging Technology (Global Wireless Summit, 2003).
- 4:30pm - 4:45pm SUMMIT DAY TWO CLOSING REMARKS
James P. Clark
Chairman. The World Technology Network
- 4:45pm - 6:30pm BREAK/PREPARE FOR EVENING
NOTE: "BLACK TIE"/ FORMAL EVENING WEAR
6:30pm - Onward WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARDS EVENING
- 6:45PM - 7:30PM PRE-AWARDS RECEPTION
- 7:30PM - THE WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARDS GALA CEREMONY (INCLUDING DINNER)
Co-Masters of Ceremony:
Daniel Sieberg
Technology Correspondent, CNN; Host, Next@CNN (one-hour weekly television magazine on
science, technology, space, aviation and environmental current events)
James P. Clark, Chairman
The World Technology Network
Welcoming Remarks:
Robin L. Weiss
Vice President, Investment Banking Service, The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), managing IPOs and structured products.
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