Agenda
The 2015 World Technology Summit and Awards - Preliminary Schedule |
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Thursday November 19th: Morning Session |
7:30 - 8:55 AM |
Attendee registration, coffee and exhibits in the Gallery. |
8:55 - 9:00 |
Doors open to summit and Delegates take their seats |
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9:00 - 9:30 |
Opening keynote by James P. Clark |
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9:30 - 9:40 |
Ruslan Belikov - Research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center |
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9:40 - 9:55 |
Jon Levy - human behavior expert, consultant and author of "The Science of Networking" |
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9:55 - 10:25 |
Charles Quincy - Business Development, IBM Watson and IBM Watson Ecosystem Venture Fund |
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10:25 - 10:40 |
Shannon Vallor - researcher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University and President of the international Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT) |
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10:40 - 10:50 |
Bojanna Ginn is a new media artist, former scientist and MD |
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10:50 - 11:00 |
Shivani Nazareth - Director of Women’s Health at Counsyl |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Break and exhibits in the Gallery |
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11:30 - 11:40 |
Marco Tempest - Virtual Magician and Techno-illusionist |
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11:40 - 11:50 |
Stefan Dübel - Chair and Director of Biotechnology at University of Braunschweig, Germany, co-pioneered in-vitro antibody selection technologies |
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11:50 - 12:05 |
ShaoLan Hsueh - entrepreneur, author, traveler and Founder of "Chineasy" |
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12:05 - 12:15 PM |
Lina Nilsson - biomedical engineer at Enlitic |
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12:15 - 12:25 |
Marcus Neustetter - artist, cultural activist, and producer |
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12:25 - 12:35 |
Joseph W. Perry - Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech, and Associate Director of Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics |
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12:35 - 12:45 |
Aaron Kellner - Investment Director, SeedInvest |
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12:45 - 12:55 |
Dr. Sam Olof - Postdoctoral fellow in Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford and a Consultant for OxSyBi |
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12:55 - 1:05 |
Dr. Frida Polli - award-winning neuroscientist |
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1:05 - 2:10 |
LUNCH (Buffet lunch, served in the Gallery |
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Thursday November 19th: Afternoon Session |
2:10 - 2:20 |
Andrej Pecjak - co-founder and chairman of Metron Institute |
2:20 - 2:25 |
Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky- composer, multimedia artist, editor, professor and author |
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2:25 - 2:45 |
PANEL: "Carbon Negative Solutions for the Earth" |
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2:45 - 2:55 |
Dr. Jeannette Garcia - Chemist at IBM Research-Almaden materials research |
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2:55 - 3:05 |
Dr. David A. Boyd - Caltech staff scientist, graphene research |
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3:05 - 3:15 |
Yoichi Ochiai - media artist and assistant professor of Tsukuba University |
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3:15 - 3:25 |
Jaeyoun (Jay) Kim -Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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3:25 - 3:55 |
Break and exhibits in the Gallery |
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3:55 - 4:07 |
Christian Fritz - developer of the SPIKE High-speed Motion Control system |
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4:07 - 4:15 |
Geoff Smith - Emeritus Professor in Applied Physics |
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4:15 - 4:25 |
Mark Herrema - Chief Executive Officer As CEO and co-founder of Newlight |
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4:25 - 4:35 |
Rajesh Menon - USTAR Assistant Professor, Elect & Computer Engineering, University of Utah |
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4:35 - 4:45 |
Jennifer Kushell, Founder and CEO, YSN, "“The Next Generation Global Workforce” |
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4:45 - 5:00 |
Day 1 closing remarks by James P. Clark |
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5:00 - 7:50 |
Special Preview Screening of Discovery Channel’s RACING EXTINCTION |
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Friday November 20th: Morning Session |
7:30 - 8:30 AM |
Doors open. Coffee and exhibits in the Gallery. |
8:30 - 8:45 |
Doors open to Auditorium and Delegates take their seats |
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8:45 - 9:00 |
Day 2 opening remarks by James P. Clark |
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9:00 - 9:10 |
Patrick Tresset - robotics artist |
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9:10 - 9:25 |
Dr. Matt Taylor - Project Scientist for ESA (European Space Agency) Rosetta Comet Mission (via live video) |
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9:25 - 9:35 |
Miriam Barlow - Evolutionary biologist focused on Antibiotic Resistance and Evolutionary Time Travel, Associate Professor and Founding Faculty member at UC Merced |
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9:35 - 9:45 |
Ashutosh Saxena - Professor of Computer Science and Director of RoboBrain project at Cornell University and Stanford University |
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9:45 - 10:15 |
Robert Terceck, author, "VAPORIZED: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World" (via live video) |
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10:15 - 10:30 |
Jennifer Doudna - Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry at UC Berkeley (via live video) |
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10:30 - 10:40 |
David Rosenberg co-founder of AeroFarms: advanced vertical farms in urban environments |
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10:40 - 10:50 |
Stuart Russell - Professor (and former Chair) of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and holds the Smith--Zadeh Chair in Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley |
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10:50 - 10:55 |
Kenji Williams - BELLA GAIA Founder, Creative Director, Composer and Violinist |
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10:55 - 11:05 |
Rick Tumlinson – Chair - Deep Space Industries, Founder New Worlds Inst., Texas Space Alliance, Co-Founder Space Frontier Foundation |
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11:05 - 11:35 |
Break and exhibits in the Gallery |
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11:35 AM - 12:15 |
PANEL: "A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control" Wendell Wallach (Moderator and author of book by the same name) - consultant, ethicist, and scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. He is also a senior advisor to The Hastings Center, a fellow at the Center for Law, Science & Innovation at the Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law (Arizona State University), and a fellow at the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technology. Martine Rothblatt – Lawyer, Author, CEO of United Therapeutics and creator of GeoStar and Sirius Radio John Horgan - science journalist and author of The End of Science Gregory E. Kaebnick - author of Humans in Nature: The World As We Find It and the World As We Create It |
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12:15 - 12:45 |
J. Craig Venter - founder, chairman and CEO of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) |
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12:45 - 1:35 |
LUNCH (Buffet lunch, served in the Gallery) |
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Friday November 20th: Afternoon Session |
1:35 - 1:45 |
Mark C. Hersam is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Director of the Materials Research Center at Northwestern University |
1:45 - 2:05 |
Amy Wilkinson, author, "The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs" |
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2:05 - 2:45 |
PANEL: "The World in 2025, 2035, and 2045" Moderator: Dr. James Hughes - Executive Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Seth Baum PhD, Executive Director, Global Catastrophic Risk Institute Melanie Swan, Philosophy and Econ. Theory, The New School for Social Research; Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies David Biello, Senior Reporter, Energy & Environment, Scientific American |
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2:45 - 2:55 |
Dr. Christian Hoepfner - Director of the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems |
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2:55 - 3:05 |
Claudio Sassaki - Co-Founder of Geekie |
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3:05 - 3:15 |
Daniel A. Fletcher – Professor of Bioengineering, Purnendu Chatterjee Professor and Chair and Principal Investigator at the Berkley Stem Cell Center Lab |
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3:15 - 3:25 |
Brian Bauer - Autonomy System Lead Engineer, NASA New Horizons Project |
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3:25 - 3:30 |
Summit Closing Remarks James P. Clark |
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Friday Evening, November 20th |
6:45 - 7:20 PM |
World Technology Awards Reception in the Gallery |
7:20 - 7:30 |
Doors open to Gala and guests take their seats in the Auditorium (music and imagery by Kenji Williams) |
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7:30 - 7:35 |
James P. Clark Gala Welcome |
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7:35 |
Dinner begins: Formal plated dinner |
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7:55 - 8:00 |
James P. Clark Gala Opening Remarks |
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8:00 - 9:00 |
Awards Ceremony Part 1: Winners announced |
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9:00 - 9:15 |
DJ Spooky muscial and Kenji Williams musical and visual performance |
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9:15 - 10:15 |
Awards Ceremony Part 2: Winners announced |
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10:15 - 10:25 |
Finale Performance: Aradia and Kevlar Present "Elysium Future" (Aradia Sunseri and Kevin F. Farrell) |
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10:25 - 10:30 |
Closing Remarks James P. Clark |
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*Schedule, speakers and performers subject to change |