Program for the Future 2008 Speakers
Speakers and Workshop Leaders for Program for the Future
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Douglas C. Engelbart Founder Emeritus, Doug Engelbart Institute Bio: Douglas Carl Engelbart has a life-long track record in predicting, designing, and implementing the future of organizational computing. The grandson of early pioneers of the West, he grew up during the Great Depression on a small farmstead near Portland ... (more) Visionary, inventor, and inspiration for Program for the Future |
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Joel Orr VP and Chief Visionary, Cyon Research Bio: Joel Orr is VP and Chief Visionary of Cyon Research Corporation, which will put on the tenth annual Congress on the Future of Engineering Software in April, 2009 (www.cofes.com). He is also known as ... (more) MC, Dinner Moderator, Monday, Dec. 8 |
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Peter Norvig Director of Research, Google Bio: Peter Norvig is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery. At Google Inc he was Director of Search Quality, responsible for the core web search algorithms from 2002-2005, and has ... (more) Walkthrough the Collective Intelligence Mural and Timeline |
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Thomas Malone Founding Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence Bio: Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. He was also the founding Director of the ... (more) Morning Keynote: The Landscape of Collective Intelligence |
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Hiroshi Ishii Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, at the MIT Media Lab. Bio: He was named Associate Director at the Media Lab in May 2008. He co-directs Things That Think (TTT) consortium and directs Tangible Media Group. At the MIT Media Lab, he founded and directs ... (more) Speaker: The Art of Tangible Bits |
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Larry Johnson Chief Executive Officer, New Media Consortium Bio: CEO of the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of more than 200 world-class universities, colleges, museums, research centers, and technology ... (more) Speaker: Story of the New Media Consortium |
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Alan Levine Vice President and CTO, New Media Consortium Bio: He is widely recognized nationally and internationally for expertise in the application of new technologies to educational environments and was a pioneer on the web going back to 1993 ... (more) Speaker: Story of the New Media Consortium |
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Rachel Smith Vice President for NMC Services, New Media Consortium Bio: She is recognized for her work in making new technologies approachable for higher education faculty and staff through talks, trainings, and written materials. A specialist in project coordination, user interface design, and ... (more) Speaker: Story of the New Media Consortium |
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Peter Friess President, The Tech Museum of Innovation Bio: Peter Friess studied economics (1971 to 1975), had an apprenticeship as a clockmaker (1975 to 1979), and received a degree in master of clockmaking (1981). Parallel to this, he began ... (more) Afternoon Keynote: Redefining the Museum in the Connected Age |
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Valerie Landau Principal, Round World Media Bio: Valerie Landau is an interactive media producer and instructional designer with Round World Media and an Assistant Professor at California State University, Monterey Bay. For the past three years she has been working with Dr. Douglas Engelbart on research and design of collaborative hypermedia systems. She has designed ... (more) Activity Leader: Create the Engelbart Mural Timeline |
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Claudia Brenner Bio: Claudia Brenner is a business strategist, product manager, and information designer specializing in delivering enterprise-wide systems through Internet portals and building organizations...(more) Activity Leader: Create the Engelbart Mural Timeline |
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Eileen Clegg Founder, Visual Insight Bio: Eileen Clegg is a visual journalist, book author and founder of the company Visual Insight, creating large-scale, real-time murals for organizations. She works with top leadership invoking visual language to ... (more) Mural Artist |
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William Mark Vice President, Information and Computing Sciences Division, SRI Bio: William Mark leads SRI's Information and Computing Sciences Division, which creates new technology in information security, system design, speech and natural language, vision and perception, planning and reasoning, and formal methods. The group's ... (more) Speaker: Innovation inspired by Engelbart |
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Paul Resnick Professor, Univ. of Michigan Bio: Paul Resnick is a Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. He previously worked as a researcher at AT&T Labs and AT&T Bell Labs, and as an Assistant Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He received the master's and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and ... (more) Speaker: Reputation Systems and Collective Intelligence |
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Chris Bui Founder, 5th Medium Bio: Chris Bui founded the 5th Medium I.C. (Interactive Communications), an organizational development and interactive meeting movement with a vision to revolutionize the way communities, local governments, corporations and nonprofits communicate, build consensus, achieve goals....(more) Activity Leader: Collective Intelligence Survey |
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Steve Wozniak Co-founder, Apple Computer Inc. Bio: A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. In 1976, Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer with the Apple I computer. The next ... (more) Special Guest: Introducing the Program for the Future Global Challenge |
| Dec. 8 Dinner Program |
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Marc LeBrun Adobe Research Lab Host and Welcome Message at Adobe Systems |
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Andy van Dam VIDEO of talk Dec 8 2008 at Adobe https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/p99875217/ Professor of Computer Science, Brown University Bio: Andries van Dam (Andy) has been on Brown's faculty since 1965, and was one of the Computer Science Department's co-founders and its first Chairman, from 1979 to 1985. He was ... (more) Speaker: Engelbart's Vision: What got done and what remains to be done? |
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Alan Kay VIDEO of talk Dec 8 2008 at Adobe https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/p99875217/ President, Viewpoints Research Institute Bio: Dr. Alan Kay is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. His contributions been recognized with the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineering ... (more) Speaker: Engelbart's Vision: What got done and what remains to be done |
| Dec. 9 Workshop at Stanford |
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Chuck House Executive Director of Media X Bio: Chuck House is currently Science Policy and Societal Impact Director, Intel Corporation. He has been an inventor, intrapreneur, leader, manager, instructor, professional service, board member and coach for start-up businesses. Chuck House joined Intel ... (more) Host and Special Guest: Welcome to the Program for the Future Organizing Workshop |
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Global Call to Action: Nicole Baker with Juanita Brown |
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David Ding COO Kailesi Media Ltd. & Juhe Networks Ltd. Bio: David Ding is the Chief Operating Officer in a 30-people startup in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, exploring and developing the creative industries in China. Juhe Networks is aimed to be the No. 1 Animation...(more) Group Leader: International Call to Action - China |
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Eric Duvall - European Union Dorai Thodla - Indian subcontinent Group Leaders: International Call to Action |
| 10:15 AM | Special Panel: Technology Innovation and Collective Intelligence Moderated by David Nordfors Director, Center for Innovation Journalism, Stanford University |
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David Nordfors Director, Center for Innovation Journalism, Stanford University Bio: Dr. David Nordfors is Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University's H-STAR, the Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute. He is leading the Innovation Journalism Program, a collaboration between Stanford and VINNOVA, ... (more) Panel Moderator: Technology Innovation and Collective Intelligence |
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Gregg Zachary Columnist, New York Times Bio: Gregg Zachary, http://www.gpascalzachary.com/ is a columnist for the New York Times. Gregg Zachary wrote a full chapter on Doug Engelbart in his book...(more) Panelist: Technology Innovation and Collective Intelligence |
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Peter Magnusson Bio: Dr. Peter S Magnusson is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and blogger (petersmagnusson.com) based in San Jose, CA. A native of Sweden, he is a graduate of the Stockholm School of Economics and...(more) Panelist: Technology Innovation and Collective Intelligence |
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Michael Kanellos Editor in Chief, Greentech Media Bio: Greentech Media Michael Kanellos is the Editor in Chief at Greentech Media, where he covers emerging technologies and companies in the green world. Prior to joining the company in 2008, he worked for CNET Network's News.com...(more) Panelist: Technology Innovation and Collective Intelligence |
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Special Panel: Innovating Innovation – Leveraging People and Technology to Improve and Catalyze Innovation Moderated by Etan Ayalon CEO, GlobalTech Research |
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Etan Ayalon CEO, GlobalTech Research Bio: Etan Ayalon is the CEO and Founder of GlobalTech Research, a startup building tools and services to catalyze innovation and growth, and advance scientific, technical and business knowledge for leading technology and biotech companies, research institutions and government offices...(more) Panel Moderator: Innovating Innovation Panel "Leveraging People and Technology to Improve and Catalyze Innovation" |
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Dr. Larry Leifer Founder and Director of the Stanford Center for Design Research, Founding Director of the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning Bio: Larry Leifer is Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design and founding Director of the Center for Design Research (CDR) at Stanford University...(more) Panelist: Innovating Innovation Panel "Leveraging People and Technology to Improve and Catalyze Innovation" |
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Denise Caruso Founder, Executive Director of the Hybrid Vigor Institute, and NY Times Innovation Columnist Bio: Caruso has served as the executive director of the nonprofit Hybrid Vigor Institute since it was founded in February 2000, and is the editor of hybridvigor.net, the Institute’s blog. In December 2006, she published her first book...(more) Panelist: Innovating Innovation Panel "Leveraging People and Technology to Improve and Catalyze Innovation" |
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Phil McKinney VP and CTO of the Personal Systems Group at HP (HP’s innovation division) and Innovation Blogger Bio: Philip McKinney is HP's Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Personal Systems Group (PSG). In this role, he oversees the long-range technical strategy and research and development for HP’s laptops...(more) Panelist: Innovating Innovation Panel "Leveraging People and Technology to Improve and Catalyze Innovation" |
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Frode Hegland Director, Hyperwords Project Bio: Frode Hegland is co-creator of the Invisible Revolution site about Doug Engelbart, and the director of the Hyperwords Project, a fantastically useful Firefox extension strongly influenced by Doug Engelbart. The project's goal is ... (more) Program for the Future sponsor Group Leader: Bootstrap Tools |
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Hal Luft Bio: Harold S. Luft, PhD, is Director of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute and Esselstyn Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Health Economics and former Director...(more) Group Leader: Health Care and National Security |
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Joyce Reynolds Sinclair Bio: Joyce Reynolds-Sinclair, Ph.D is a managing director for two firms: GEO Group Strategic Services, Inc and 5 Dynamics, Inc. GEO Group provides Execution Leadership, Online Collaboration, and High Velocity Processes...(more) Group Leader: Health Care and National Security |
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Mike Sturm Bio: Michael Sturm, Founder and Chairman, 5 Dynamics & Spherical Dynamics: Mike's professional training includes the fields of social, counseling, Gestalt, learning and educational psychology...(more) Group Leader: Team Tools |
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Mei Lin Fung Chairman, Institute for Service Organization Excellence Bio: Mei Lin Fung is an internationally recognized speaker and writer on customer relationships and competency development. She worked with the Oklahoma State University Business School and Avaya in developing an innovative public and private customer relations partnership, honored with the ... (more) Program Facilitator and moderator |
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Sam Hahn Vice President of Engineering, eGain Bio: Since graduating from Stanford University, Sam has spent over 2 decades in just about every aspect of coding, research, product definition, customer understanding, system architecture, data modeling, team building, strategy formulation, ... (more) Program Facilitator and moderator |
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Nicole Boyer Bio: Nicole is Managing Director of Adaptive Edge, a firm specializing in futures thinking, strategy and innovation. http://www.adaptive-edge.com As a futurist and facilitator, she is passionate about helping leaders create “better futures.” Her focus is on catalyzing...(more) Program Facilitator and moderator |
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Bob Ketner Virtual Community Manager, The Tech Museum of Innovation Bio: Bob Ketner is a product designer with an MA in Industrial Design. Experienced in ecommerce, loyalty programs, and virtual worlds. Publisher of books by Avatar authors ... (more) Virtual event production and MC, open mic session |
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