Program for the Future Conference Agenda, Dec. 8-9, 2008

Conference Locations and Hotel Information

Monday Dec. 8 Daytime Program

( video highlights of Monday's program from Second Life )

Welcome to the summit on Collective Intelligence.  How can individuals participate in integrating Collective Intelligence into their studies, business, or art in order to achieve beneficial results that exceed the expected output?
8:30 AM Sam Hahn - Master of Ceremonies
8:40 AM Peter Norvig Director of Research, Google
Walkthrough the Collective Intelligence Mural and Timeline
Where are we? How did we get here? Where are we going? Understand the connected revolution through a graphical timeline. Learn how visualizing time provides insight into things that have happened and things to come.
( video )

9:05 AM Claudia Brenner and Valerie Landau, Timeline Mural Interaction
( video )

9:35 AM Thomas Malone, Director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
The Landscape of Collective Intelligence  (slides)
A central question for whole field of collective intelligence is "How can people and computers be connected so that - collectively - they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups or computers have ever done before?" This talk will describe some early answers to this question in business, science, and other areas.
( video | video excerpt  |  slides )

10:30 AM Hiroshi Ishii Associate Director of the MIT Media Lab, Head of the Tangible Media Group
The Art of Tangible Bits - Inspired by Engelbart's Vision  (slides)
Today's technologies will become obsolete in one year, and today's applications will be replaced in 10 years, but true visions – we believe – can last longer than 100 years. Tangible Bits is our vision-driven research that aims at 2200, and it was inspired by Engelbart's grand vision demonstrated in 1968.
10:50 AM Q&A PANEL: Norvig, Malone, Ishii facilitated by Nicole Boyer
( video | Ishii slides | .pdf )

11:15 AM Larry Johnson, CEO; Alan Levine, VP Community & CTO, and Rachel Smith, VP NMC Services – executive team of the New Media Consortium
The Story of the New Media Consortium – a networked improvement community inspired by Engelbart
( video | associated NMC video clip)

11:35 AM Ideas for the Future (Part 1) - Nicole Boyer and Chris Bui
Which problems are ripe for solution? What isn't getting enough attention? We will harness the collective intelligence of participants to identify areas of focus that show the most promise.

12:30 PM William Mark, Vice President, SRI, Information and Computing Sciences Division SRI
Innovation inspired by Engelbart
( video )

1:00 PM Professor Paul Resnick, University of Michigan School of Information
Reputation Systems & Collective Intelligence
The incentives to manipulate our collective intelligence systems grow as we rely on them more. Influence limits based on reputations can help, but there are inherent limits on our ability to aggregate distributed information when some of it may be fake.
( video )

Presented by The Tech Museum and the MIT Museum.   Introduction to Program for the Future 2009 competition. Learn the overall goals of the competition and how to participate.
( video )

2:30 PM  Open Forum discussion, Q&A, Open Mic, and networking
Facilitated by Bob Ketner, MC

3:00  PM Special Group Tour: "Leonardo: 500 Years into the Future"
Led by Peter Friess, President of The Tech, and David Whitman, Leonardo Exhibition Organizer
A custom tour of the largest Leonardo exhibition to visit North America, for inspiration on new ways to overcome the challenges to collective intelligence. Networking in the exhibition lobby.
5:00 PM Museum closes: Leave for Dinner Program at Adobe

Monday Dec. 8 Evening Program

5:30 PM  Registration and Networking at Park Theater, 321 Park Avenue

6:00 PM Welcome – Marc LeBrun, Adobe Research Lab

6:15 PM Program for the Future Evening Program: Engelbart's Vision: 
What got done and what remains to be done?
Alan Kay, President Viewpoints Research Institute and  Andries van Dam, Professor of Computer Science, Brown University in conversation with Joel Orr, Founder of the Congress for the Future of Engineering Software
(video  |  video excerpt )

7:30 PM Demos, Dinner,  and Awards at Adobe Cafeteria, 345 Park Avenue

Knowledge Gardens - Jack Park: http://knowledgefederation.org/
Mobile Chorded Keyset - Valerie Landau with Douglas Engelbart
Hyperwords - Frode Hegland
OHS - Eugene Kim and Brad Neuberg
Diving into Deep Structure - Jeff Conklin
CoVision - Lenny Lind
5Dynamics - Mike Sturm & Leslie Eveland
Creative Commons - Mike Linksvayer
Total Participation - Chris Bui
K - A Very Fast Database - Janet Lustgarten, Arthur Whitney
Visualization Convergence - Bonnie DeVarco
The Fractal Organization - Janna Raye
The Art of Tangible Bits - Jamie Zigelbaum, Hiroshi Ishii

9:30 PM Close

Tuesday Dec. 9 Morning Program

Program for the Future: Organizing Workshop
Stanford University, Wallenberg Hall (Stanford)

8:00  Registration

8:15 AM Chuck House, Executive Director of Media X
Welcome to the Program for the Future: Organizing Workshop
8:25 AM Paul Saffo, Media X
( video )

World Café discussion groups
( video )

9:30 AM Global Call to Action
Eric Duvall - European Union (slides)
Dorai Thodla - Indian subcontinent (slides)
David Ding - China (slides) (video)

Facilitated by David Nordfors - Director Center for Innovative Journalism, Stanford University
Panelists:
Gregg Zachary (NY Times)
Peter Magnusson (blogger)
Michael Kanellos (Greentech Media)
( video )

11:00 AM Innovating Innovation Panel
Leveraging People and Technology to Improve and Catalyze Innovation
How do we best realize Doug Engelbart's vision of combining people and technology to nurture innovation and better humanity, by addressing major challenges as well as creating new industries, products and jobs?  With an ever widening digital divide, how do we ensure that innovation benefits all segments of society in both developing and developed countries?  How can we most prudently and fairly balance innovation risks and rewards?   Who should participate in the dialogue?
Moderated by Etan Ayalon, CEO, GlobalTech Research
Panelists:
Phil McKinney, VP and CTO of the Personal Systems Group at HP (HP’s innovation division) and Innovation Blogger
Denise Caruso, Exec. Director, Hybrid Vigor Institute, NY Times Innovation Columnist
Dr. Larry Leifer, Founding Director of the Stanford Center for Design Research, Founding Director of the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning
( video )

11:00 AM  Parallel Track Discussions: (simultaneous with 11:00 am panel)

Collective Intelligence in Health Care and National Security
Panelists:
Hal Luft - Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute
Joyce Reynolds Sinclair - GEO Group (slides)

Bootstrap Tools
Panelists:
Frode Hegland - Hyperwords
Eugene Kim - Blue Oxen Hyperscope
Mike Linksvayer - Creative Commons (slides)

Team Tools
Panelists:
Mike Sturm - 5 Dynamics, (slides)
Leslie Eveland - electronic Charles Schwab (slides)
( video )

Tuesday Dec. 9 Afternoon Program - 40th Anniversary Commemorative Program

 Stanford University, Memorial Auditorium (Stanford)

1:00 - 5:30 pm "Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing: SRI's Revolutionary 1968 Demo — A 40th Anniversary Celebration" (n.b. - separate ticket required)  ( video )