WTSA 2011
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Location:
Oct 25 - Oct 26, 2011
Time & Life Building
New York, USA
1271 Avenue of the Americas
(50th Street and 6th Avenue)
Speakers & MODERATORS
The Summit program will be a combination of all-delegate plenary sessions and smaller breakout sessions, with plenary sessions including keynote addresses, open Q&As, panel discussions, and on-stage demonstrations. Through these activities, Summit attendees will experience firsthand some of the most extraordinary technological advances in the works today, and an opportunity to meet their creators.
The current line-up of Moderators, Panelists and Speakers are listed below – please check back often for updates. (Speakers subject to change.)
Moderators for the event will include:
James P. Clark, Founder/Chairman, The World Technology Network
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Jeffrey Kluger, senior editor, TIME
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Speakers will include:

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor & Founder, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
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Jonathan Spector, President and CEO, The Conference Board
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Kati London, Director of Product, Zynga New York
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Jan Chipchase, Executive Creative Director of Global Insights, Frog Design; Former Chief Usability Researcher, Nokia
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Dr Jean-Pierre Bizzari, Global Head of Oncology, Celgene
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Susan N. Herman, President of the ACLU
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Nick Laperle, President and CEO of Sonomax Technologies, Inc. (TSXV: SHH)
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Dan Roam, Author of "The Back of a Napkin"
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Sarah Miller Caldicott, Great grandniece of Thomas Edison; Co-author: "Innovate Like Edison"; Steering Committee: Edison Awards
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John P Sullins, Associate Professor, Sonoma State University, California; Teaches: Philosophy and Robotics, CyberEthics, Philosophy of Science and Technology and Logic
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Dwayne Spradlin, President and CEO, Innocentive
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Alfred E. Mann, Chairman, MannKind Corporation
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Dr. Anita Goel, MD, PHD, Chairman, & Scientific Director, NANOBIOSYM, Chairman, & CEO, NANOBIOSYM DIAGNOSTICS
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Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project
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Nicholas Merrill, Executive Director of The Calyx Institute
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Albert H. Teich, Senior Policy Adviser
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Steve Teig, Co-Founder, Tabula; Finalist, 2011 World Technology Awards.
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Dr. Steven Howe, Director, Center for Space Nuclear Research (CNSR), Universities Space Research Association
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James Gleick, author, "The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood"; former National Book Award winner, Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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Poppy Harlow, Anchor, CNNMoney
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Tammy Johns, Senior Vice President, Innovation & Workforce Solutions, ManpowerGroup
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Art Kleiner, Editor-in-Chief, Strategy+Business
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Michell Zappa, Designer and technologist
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Kirby Ferguson, Writer, Director, Producer
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Charlie Firestone, Executive Director, Communications & Society Program, The Aspen Institute
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Marco Tempest, Technoillusionist and Winner, 2010 Merlin Award for Best Contemporary Magician
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