Previous World Technology Summit Speakers
(A Sampling)
(NOTE: Most speakers/panelists selected each year are current WTN members or drawn from that year's Awards nominees. However, where possible and appropriate, representatives of leading sponsors are placed in high-profile speaking situations.)
The 2003 World Technology Summit
- Ingvar Andersson, Senior Water Policy Adviser, United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
- Michael Anthony, Executive Director, Antree Systems
- Osman Benchikh, Renewable Energies program director, UNESCO
- Arthur Benvenuto, Former CEO, Advanced Tissue Sciences
- Stephen Bjorgan, Chief Technology Officer, France Telecom R&D
- Jerry Borrell, Editor, Venture Capital Journal
- Daniel Branagan, Chief Technical Officer, The NanoSteel Company
- James P. Clark, Chairman, The World Technology Network
- Peter Cochrane, President, ConceptLabs
- Molly Coye, President, The Health Technology Center
- Tom Davenport, Director, Institute for Strategic Change, Accenture
- Robert Davies, CEO, Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum
- K. Eric Drexler, Founder, The Foresight Institute
- Kamran Elahian, President, Global Catalyst Partners
- Chris Elias, Chief Executive, Program for the Application of Technology and Health
- David Farber, Former Chief Technologist, US Federal Communications Commission/FCC
- Joanna Rees Gallanter, Founder, Venture Strategy Partners
- Kristina Goodrich, Executive Director/CEO, Industrial Designers Society of America
- Bruce Haring, CEO, JM Northern Media LLC & Author, "Beyond The Charts: MP3 and the Digital Music Revolution"
- Stuart Hassard, Head of Biology, deltaDOT
- Theresa Kotancheck, Senior Director of Technology, Dow Chemical
- Robert Levin, CEO, Transclick
- Mark D. Levine, Director, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Claudio José Marinho Lucio, State Secretary for Science, Technology and the Environment, State of Pernambuco, Brazil
- Dr. Sarah McCue, Former Manager, ICT for Development, UNDP
- John Michaelson, Needham Asset Management
- Alexandra Weber Morales, Editor in Chief, Software Development magazine
- Craig Mundie, Senior Vice President Chief Technical Officer, Advanced Strategies and Policy, Microsoft
- Elon Musk, Founder, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
- Rafe Needleman "What's Next" Columnist, Business 2.0
- Daniel Niles, Managing Director & Senior Electronics Analyst, Lehman Brothers
- Nicholas Parker, CleanTech Venture Networks
- Roy Pea, Co-Director, Stanford University Center for Innovations in Learning
- Marko Peljhan, Director, Projekt Atol; Assistant Professor, University of California Santa Barbara, Art Studio-Media Arts and Technology programProf. Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Sciences; Founding Director, Media Lab Asia; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Adam Clayton Powell III, Visiting Professor of Journalism and Senior Research Associate, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
- Scott Power, Research Fellow, VP Technology, Genencor International
- Cynthia Robbins-Roth, Founder, BioVenture Publishing and BioVenture Consultants
- Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Wade Roush, Senior Editor, Technology Review magazine
- Antonio Silva, Technology Director, Eletra Tecnologia De Tração Elétrica
- Chris Taylor, senior technology columnist, TIME magazine
- Jim Trainham, Chief Technology Officer, DuPont Textiles and Interiors
- Leslie (Les) Vadasz, President, Intel Capital
- Ann Winblad, Co-Founder, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
The 2002 World Technology Summit
- Simon Anholt, Chairman, Earthspeak
- Paola Antonelli, Curator for Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art/MoMA, New York City
- Venkataram Balaji, Winner, 2001 World Technology Award for Education
- Geoffrey Ballard, Founder, Ballard Power Systems
- John Perry Barlow, Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Andrew Bermingham, Managing Director, Montreux Energy
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Author
- Dr Ron Cohen, Founder, President and CEO, Acorda Therapeutics
- Assefa Dagne, CEO Cybersoft
- Peter J. Denning, co-editor "The Next 50 Years of Computing"
- Gerry Elman, CEO, Elman and Associates
- Jim Fruchterman, President, The Benetech Initiative
- Dan Goldin, former (longest-serving and most recent) Administrator, NASA
- Cynthia Goodman, former director, Millennium Monuments Center
- J. Enrique Hinostroza, Director, Instituto de Informática Educativa – UFRO
- Mr. Reinhart Helmke, UNOPS
- Andrew Hiatt, CEO, Epicyte Pharmaceuticals
- David Isenberg, communications industry pundit and author "The Rise of the Stupid Network"
- Bert Keely, Software Architect, Microsoft
- Colleen McLaughlin, Project Director Asia, Equal Access
- Paul MacCready, Chairman Aerovironment
- Mr. Sarbuland Khan, Director, ECOSOC Support and Coordination, DESA
- Elizabeth Osder, John S. Knight Fellow, Stanford University
- Christine Peterson, President, The Foresight Institute
- Jim Pitofsky, Executive Director, Sea Change
- Jason Pontin, Editorial Director, Red Herring
- Bunker Roy, Director, The Barefoot College
- Scott Sacknoff, President, International Space Business Council
- Vanda Scartezini, National Secretary for Information Technology Policy, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil
- Gary Shapiro, CEO, Consumer Electronics Association
- Michael Waller-Bridge, co-founder, TradePoint Stock Exchange (now Virt-X, with Swiss stock exchange)
- Albert Teich, Director, Directorate for Science and Policy Programs, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Alexandra Wyke, former Managing Editor, Health Publications, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
- Brian Young, Cisco Systems
The 2001 World Technology Summit
- Dr. Bragi Arnason, Head of Chemistry, University of Iceland's Science Institute
- Charles Balfour, Senior Vice President, The Nasdaq Stock Market and Senior Managing Director, Nasdaq International
- Andrew Bermingham, Managing Director, Montreux Energy
- Michael Braungart, Founder, EPEA International Umweltforschung GmbH and Co-Founder, MBDC McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry
- Mitchell Burnside-Clapp
- Robert Cahn, Distinguished Research Fellow, Dept. of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge University
- Dr. Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature Magazine
- Robert Davies, CEO, Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum
- Peter J. Denning, co-editor "The Next 50 Years of Computing"
- Richard N. Foster, Senior Partner and Director, McKinsey & Company
- Arne Fjortoft, Secretary General, Worldview International Foundation
- Dr. Hugo de Garis, Head of the Brain Builder Group at STARLAB
- Dr. Anita Goel, Harvard-MIT Joint Division of Health Sciences & Technology
- Reinhart Helmke, Executive Director, UNOPS
- David Isenberg, communications industry pundit and author "The Rise of the Stupid Network"
- Dr. Phil Kennedy, Neural Signals Inc
- Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
- Julie Meyer, Founder and CEO, Ariadne Capital
- Aram Mika, Vice President, Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space
- Sugata Mitra, Head of the Center for Research in Cognitive Systems (CRCS), NIIT
- Nigel Roberts
- Malcolm Ross
- Sir Richard Sykes, Chairman, GlaxoSmithKline
