2006 Summit & Awards

 

2006 World Technology Award WINNERS and other new individual Fellows and Corporate Members (plus Associates)...

At San Francisco City Hall in a gala ceremony on the evening of November 3rd, the 2006 World Technology Award winners, new individual WTN Fellows and Corporate Members (in 20 individual categories and 10 corporate categories) were announced by James P. Clark (Chairman, the World Technology Network) and Daniel Sieberg (Host, "Next@CNN" television show).

In addition to the Winners, the top five, including the Winner, in each category -- a few more in some cases where there were ties in the voting -- have been selected as the newest Fellows (for individuals) and Corporate Members (for organizations) of the World Technology Network.

(Those member-nominated nominees who did not make the short-list of the top five become WTN Associates in order to keep up communication with them in the coming years.)

THE MOST INNOVATIVE PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WORLD IN 2006:

Arts

WINNER

  • Perry Hoberman

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Shawn Brixey
  • Catherine Richards
  • Ken Rinaldo
  • Jocelyn Robert

Arts - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Yves Behar
Felice Frankel
Zachary Lieberman
Koray Tahiroglu and Joni Lyytikainen
Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger
Takuro Osaka
Dan Phiffer
Daina Taimina
Tamas Waliczky

Biotechnology

WINNER

  • Paul Rothemund


OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Sue Clark
  • Elizabeth Holmes
  • Ram Sasisekharan
  • Michael Strano

Biotechnology - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Yusaku Nakabeppu, Mizuki Ohno and Tomofumi Miura Shannon Fisher, Elizabeth Grice, Ryan Vinton, Seneca Bessling and Andy McCallion
Christopher Anderson, EJ Clarke, AP Arkin and CA Voigt
Thijn Brummelkamp
Aziz Cayli
Keith Firman
Wei Kong
Pierre Luigi Luisi
John McCaskill
Peter McKinnon
Tom Soh
Jack Szostak
Jeffery Taubenberger

Biotechnology - Corporate

WINNER

  • Genentech

OTHER NEW CORPORATE MEMBERS

  • BrainCells Inc
  • deCODE Genetics
  • Epigenomics
  • Signalomics GmbH

Biotechnology (Corporate) - Other Nominees (NEW CORPORATE ASSOCIATES)
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Cell Genesys Inc
Cepheid
CoGenesys Inc
CytoGenix Inc
Epigenomics
Genmab A/S
Medigene AG
Nexgen
Origen Therapeutics Inc
Shenzhen Sibiono Genetech Co Ltd.
Solucel Ltd.
Theravance

Communications Technology

WINNER

  • Craig Newmark

 

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Tim Berners- Lee
  • Dewayne Hendricks
  • Peter Kirstein
  • Henning Schulzrinne
  • Haitao ( Heather) Zheng

Communications Technology - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Carmen Vidaurre Arbizu
Raimundo Beca
Scott Cantor
JD Doyle
Apostolos Gerasoulis
Sebastian Gottschall
Joshua Schachter
Masayoshi Son

Communications Technology - Corporate

WINNER

  • FON

 

OTHER NEW CORPORATE MEMBERS

  • Cognima Ltd
  • Flock
  • Galileo
  • HelloSoft
  • iPass
  • NTT DoCoMo
  • Planet Lab
  • Soonr

Communications Technology (Corporate) - Other Nominees (Corporate Associates)
BroadRamp
EQO Communications Inc
i-Mate plc
Nexidia Inc
SpinVox Ltd
Tapuz Mobile
TransMedia
TZero Technologies Inc
Visto Corporation
Wolfson Microelectronics

Design

WINNER

  • Bill Moggridge

 

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Gadi Amit
  • Nader Khalili
  • Michael and Katherine McCoy
  • Katya Warner

Design - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Sohui Won
John A Ochsendorf
Ron Nabarro
Robert Kutter
Terry Branson
Chris Bangle
Paola Antonelli
Gunter Ott and Peter Miodek
Gerard Furbershaw and Jeff Smith
Wendy Chua and Gabriel Tan

Education

WINNER

  • James Slotta

 

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Bill Belsey
  • Trond Waage
  • Yoko Takagi
  • Hiroshi Ishii
  • Paul Horwitz
  • Steve Mariotti

Education - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Hytham Atef
Wessam Elbaz
Hussien Ezzat
Laila Al Hariri
Stephen Carrick-Davies
Henry Chasia
Paul Edelman
Paul Horwitz
Zaheer Kidvai
Joseph Krajcik
Girma Mitiku
Ramesh Reddy
Muhammad Salman
Naoko Tosa
Cecilia Velez

Energy

WINNER

  • Stuart Wenham

 

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Zhong Lin Wang
  • Sameer Maithel
  • Romel Noufi, Kannan Ramanathan, Raghu Battacharya and Migu Contreras
  • Rob Ross
  • Takashi Tomita

Energy - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Arne Dahle
Dr Kazhuiro Nogita
Mike Ahearn
Mark Goldes
Denny Klein
Ed Spooner
Paul Stoelinga

Energy - Corporate

WINNER

  • CSG Solar

OTHER NEW CORPORATE MEMBERS

  • Changing World Technologies, Inc. (CWT)
  • Chinese Auto Technology & Research Center (CATARC)
  • Energy Innovations
  • First Solar
  • Green Fuel Technologies Corporation
  • Magenn Power Inc
  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory (US)

Energy (Corporate) - Other Nominees (NEW CORPORATE ASSOCIATES)
Ingelligent Energy
Deerns Raadgevende Ingenieurs
KEMA
Konarka
Medis Technologies Ltd
Suzlon Energy
Ocean Power Delivery Ltd
Volker Wessels
Velsen Flexoplast

Entertainment

WINNER

  • Chad Hurley and Steve Chen

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • John Amato
  • Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe
  • Ted Cohen
  • Trevor Huxley
  • Gang Qian and Jodi James
  • Tim Westergren

Entertainment - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Jan Welter Timkrans
Edith Bodnar
Edward Castronova
Mathew Dunn
Robert Goodale
Rob Pardo
Geoffrey Pepos
Randy Turrow

Environment

WINNER

  • Inez Fung

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • David Aldridge
  • Corneille EN Ewango
  • Jan Gehl
  • Tyrone Hayes
  • Mary Kalin Arroyo
  • Sharatchandra Lele


Environment - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Liana Talaue-McManus
John McManus
Kaisha Atakhanova
Martin Brown
Merle de Kreuk
Vasilis Fthenakis
Emma Gabunschina
Adriana Lobo
Richard Schrock
Dadi Zhou

Environment - Corporate

WINNER

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Scripps Institution of Oceanography

OTHER NEW CORPORATE MEMBERS

  • Architecture for Humanity
  • DTS Oabe
  • Energy CS and Valence
  • Greenwheels Carsharing Group
  • Intelligent Energy
  • Norwich Research Park (JIC)

Environment (Corporate) - Other Nominees (NEW CORPORATE ASSOCIATES)
Agrilink Holdings Pty Ltd
Cal-Earth Institute
Census of Marine Life
Headwaters Technology Innovation Group Inc
Invisible Heating Systems (UK) Ltd
Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
Mwanza Rural Housing Pogram
Tricycle
Windsave Ltd
Zipcar

Ethics

WINNER

  • Carl Mitcham

 

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Nicholas Ashford
  • Arthur Caplan
  • Alta Charo
  • Jens Erik Fenstad
  • Jonathan Moreno
  • Raymond Spier

Ethics - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Patrick Lin
Fritz Allhoff
Luc Bovens
Franco Celada
Goran Hermeren
Bill Joy
Jonathan Moreno
Marcelo Palacios
Joao JM Vila-Cha
Jutta Weber

Finance

WINNER

  • Erik Straser

 

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Annette Campbell-White
  • David Chao
  • Michael Moritz
  • Peter Tufano
  • Quan Zhou

Finance - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Michael Grimes
Raj Alturu
David Douglass
Tim Draper
Nobuo Matsuki
Nicholas Parker
Arvind Sodhani
Erik Straser
William Younger Jr
Giuseppe Zocco

Finance - Corporate

WINNER

  • Silicon Valley Bank

 

OTHER NEW CORPORATE MEMBERS

  • IDG Venture Capital Investment
  • Intel/Intel Capital
  • Intellectual Ventures
  • Keiretsu Forum
  • Newbridge Capital LLC

Finance (Corporate) - Other Nominees (NEW CORPORATE ASSOCIATES)
Asia Vest Partners
Cleantech Venture Network LLC
D2D Fund Inc
Granite Global Ventures
Index Ventures
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Powershares Capital Management
Ritchie Capital Finance
SAIF Partners
TVM

Health and Medicine

WINNER

  • Hunter Peckham

 

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Zheng Cui
  • Susan Hardin
  • Yusuke Nakamura
  • Dr Dimitry Oleyikov
  • Leonard Pinchuk
  • Jonathan Wolpaw

Health and Medicine - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Yoh Matsumoto
Akira Miyakoshi
Kuniko Kohyama
ll-Kwon Park
Matthias Staufenbiel
Frank Kirchoff and Michael Schindler
Andrzej Bartke
Randall Bateman
Douglas Cowan
Rushika Fernandopulle
Elisa Konofagou
Todd Kuiken
Igal Kushnir
Naresh Trehan

Health and Medicine - Corporate

WINNER

  • BodyMedia, Inc

 

OTHER NEW CORPORATE MEMBERS

  • ABIOMED, Inc
  • Deep Breeze Medical Diagnosis Ltd
  • Epithelix Sarl
  • Panacos Pharmaceuticals
  • StemCellSciences UK Ltd

Health and Medicine (Corporate) - Other Nominees (NEW CORPORATE ASSOCIATES)
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Entelos Inc
GlaxoSmithKline
Globelmmune
Nereus Pharmaceuticals
Nitromed Inc
Novo Nordisk A/S
Nuance
Pfizer
Vasogen
Visicu

IT Hardware

WINNER

  • Calvin Quate, Gerd Carl Binnig and Christoph Gerber

 

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Bruce Doris
  • Stuart Parkin
  • Rajit Manohar
  • William “Red” Whittaker
  • Tibor Balogh
  • Tom Hart
  • Caleb Chung
  • Jason Cong, H. Huang and X. Yuan

IT Hardware - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Girish Varatkar
Radu Marculescu
John Cressler
Ravi F. Saraf
Vivek Maheshwari
Saul Griffith

IT Hardware - Corporate

WINNER

  • Palm

 

OTHER NEW CORPORATE MEMBERS

  • Digislide
  • iRobot
  • Lenovo
  • LG Electronics
  • Samsung
  • Schmartboard
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
  • The MicroOptical Corporation

IT Hardware (Corporate) - Other Nominees (NEW CORPORATE ASSOCIATES)
AGEIA
Axeon Ltd
Creative Labs
Hewlett-Packard
High Tech Computer (HTC) Corporation
Intel
Pioneer
Platform Solutions Inc
QuickLogic
TDK Corporation
Toshiba/Canon

IT Software

WINNER

  • Sebastian Thrun

 

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Jesse James Garrett
  • Burak Gokturk
  • Paul Horn
  • John R. Koza
  • Philip Rosedale
  • Richard Roussel
  • Alberto Savoia and Roongko Doong

IT Software - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
John Witchel
Peter Robinson
Ian C MacMillan
Ken Krugler
Hisham El- Emam
Eric Bonabeau
Mik Kersten
Gail Murphy
Ross King
Larisa Soldatova

IT Software - Corporate

WINNER

  • Google

 

OTHER NEW CORPORATE MEMBERS

  • Accelrys
  • IBM
  • Streambase
  • VMware

IT Software (Corporate) - Other Nominees (NEW CORPORATE ASSOCIATES)
BEA Systems Inc
Blurb Inc
Gapminder
HelloSoft
Oracle Corporation
Panoratio Database Images Inc
Platinum Blue
The Multiverse Network Inc
Wonderware/Invensys Systems

Law

WINNER

  • Jerry Kang

 

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Morgan Chu
  • Judge John E Jones III
  • F Scott Kieff
  • Bo Xilai

Law - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Martin Adelman
Victor H Boyajian
Scott Cleland
Richard E Climan
Gordon K Davidson
Richard A Daynard
Renaud Donnedieu De Vabres
David G Hawkins
Lawrence Sonsini
JT Westermeier

Marketing Communications

WINNER

  • Saul Klein

 

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Pekka Ala- Pietila and Antti Ohrling
  • Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe
  • Richard Lusk
  • Colin Payne
  • Michael Wolf
  • Minoru Yoshida and Takamitsu Kamakura

Marketing Communications - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Steve Schwartz
Paula Mae Schwartz
Peter Adderton
Dondeena Bradley
Seth Godin
Seth Goldstein
James Kydd
Robin Li
Jack Ma
Steve Rubel
Kate Sirkin

Materials

WINNER

  • Michael Graetzel

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Zhihong Chen
  • Jia Chen
  • Charles Martin
  • John Martinis
  • Christian Shafmeister
  • Yurii Vlasov

Materials - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Anthony Kent
Borys Glavin
Tao Deng
Anita Goel
David Kaplan
Denny Klein
Richard Lambert
Charles Martin

Materials - Corporate

WINNER

  • IBM

 

OTHER NEW CORPORATE MEMBERS

  • A123 Systems
  • Apollo Diamond
  • Evident Technologies
  • QD Vision, Inc.
  • Sokang Nano
  • Zettacore

Materials (Corporate) - Other Nominees (NEW CORPORATE ASSOCIATES)
Advanced Nanotechnology Ltd
ApNano Materials
Ecology Coatings
Evident Technologies
L'Oreal
MBA Polymers Inc

Media and Journalism

WINNER

  • Chris Kyriakakis

 

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Sharon Begley
  • William McKeen
  • Jeff Skoll
  • Maria Thomas

Media and Journalism - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Ivan Schuller
Rich Warg
Vladimir Belov
John Carey
Manuel De Landa
Tomlinson Holman
Arianna Huffington
Alexander Kostinsky
Elena Martinova
Alla Popova
Alexander Sergeev
Yukiko Shikata
Olga Smakova

Policy

WINNER

  • Al Gore

 

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Jose Manuel Barroso
  • William Clinton
  • Mary Harney and Michael Martin
  • Miriam E John
  • Lawrence T Papay
  • Greg Simon
  • David Wu

Policy - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Ivan Schuller
Jon Baron
James C Greenwood
Xu Guanhua
John A Kitzhaber
Sean Murdoch
Johan VanHemelrijck
Chen Zhu
Yves Quere
Arthouros Zervos

Social Entrepreneurship

WINNER

  • Victoria Hale

 

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Stephen A Dukker
  • Martin Fisher and Nick Moon
  • H Harish Hande
  • Yael Maguire, Ravi Pappu, Wendy Plesniak, Saul Griffith and Nitin Sahwney
  • Wolfgang Scheffler

Social Entrepreneurship - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Richard Jefferson
Fred Kavli
Chris Mairs
Nicholas Negroponte
Cyrus S Poonawalla
Chinu Srinivasan
Katrin Verclas
Muhammad Yunus

Space

WINNER

  • Eric Anderson

 

OTHER NEW FELLOWS

  • Phil Braden
  • John Carmack
  • Jean- Luc Josset
  • Elon Musk
  • Steven Vogt

Space - Other Nominees (NEW ASSOCIATES)
Charles Chafer
Alexander E ( Sandy) MacDonald
Zoran Mikic
James A M Muncy
John Paffett
Scott Sacknoff
Wei Sun

Space - Corporate

WINNER

  • Space-X

 

OTHER NEW CORPORATE MEMBERS

  • Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission / NASA
  • Venus Express Mission / ESA
  • Arianespace
  • AstroVision Australia
  • Baikonur Cosmodrome/Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Sea Launch Company LLC

Space (Corporate) - Other Nominees (NEW CORPORATE ASSOCIATES)
Andrews Space Inc
Elektroniksystem und Logistik Draeger
GOES-N Mission (NASA/NOAA)
Institute for Gravitational Physics
KT Engineering Corporation
LiftPort Group
Mars Society
Pan-STARRS