Participants

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List of participants:

Eileen Clegg, Visual Insight
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 of organizations invoking visual language to wordlessly introduce the power of emotion and meaning into group communications. Her visual journalism combines contemporary reporting techniques with ancient, universal symbols. Her practice emphasizes metaphor, intuition, and story to facilitate business transformation, strategic planning, and team effectiveness.

Her clients have included Art Center College of Design, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, Federated Department Stores, Starbucks, Edwards Lifesciences, American Society of Training and Development, and the Gates Foundation’s Model Secondary Schools Program. She was a daily newspaper journalist for many years with an emphasis on education and environment before becoming a research affiliate for Institute for the Future, in Palo Alto, California, where she developed visual communication while conducting research in learning. She has written several books on subjects incuding creativity, learning and technology.

Claudia Welss  NextNow Collaboratory

Claudia Welss is founder/executive director of NextNow Collaboratory, matching needs with resources to benefit social projects that use information-visualization tools for raising awareness about the relationship between human activity and Earth changes, and collaboration tools to mobilize collective action in response to the raised awareness. Claudia’s founder of the Digital Earth/Digital Mind initiative (ISDE5), a founding director of Mobile Input Devices and Systems, on the board of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution co-creating a “synergy engine,” and serves the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Global Coherence Initiative, Plastic Pollution Coalition, 2020 Climate Leadership Campaign, World Resources Simulation Center and the Ecological Creditors Summit/Global Footprint Network in various capacities.  She’s also a Strategic Allies Connector for 'Four Years. Go'.  Previously, Claudia was executive director of the Center for Executive Development at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley developing and delivering programs on strategy for client corporations around the world. Her personal mission was to develop and institutionalize CSR program curriculum.

Nilofer Merchant, Rubicon Consulting
CEO, Author and Strategist, Nilofer is a leading authority on creating business strategy to win markets. Having worked inside and outside major corporate brands like Adobe, Apple, Nokia, SAP and others, Nilofer has honed her collaborative approach to solving tough problems. Her firm is hired by global brands such as Hewlett-Packard, Pinnacle, Logitech, Openwave, Symantec and others to create the solutions to win markets.

Her keynotes attract SRO crowds at business leadership events, technology expos, women’s conferences and universities – ranging from AjaxWorld to CTIA and PBWC to Stanford. Having won multiple awards for her insights on applying strategic thinking and innovation, she’s been quoted or published in major business publications such as BusinessWeek, Entrepreneur, Fortune and The Wall Street Journal.

Nilofer earned her MBA from Santa Clara University, a BS in Economics from University of San Francisco and is a certified Instructor of Facilitative Leadership from Interaction Associates. O’Reilly Media is publishing Nilofer’s book on the “the new how: creating winning outcomes through collaborative strategy”, in Fall 2009.

Nancy Margulies, Mindscapes
Nancy Margulies co-developed The World Cafe process with Juanita Brown and David Isaacs. She hosts Cafes throughout the world for corporations, universities and community groups. Nancy began developing her visual recording technique in 1984. Since then she has worked with corporations and educational groups worldwide. Her books have been translated into five languages. She facilitates visioning sessions and presents ideas using her unique form of graphic representation, Mindscaping. Nancy also regularly collaborates with Meg Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science.  Other activities include working with Fritjof Capra, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox and 3M.  She has also worked with President Clinton and the Cabinet, the Dalai Lama and facilitated workshops in Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Switzerland, Turkey, South Africa and India.

Kevin Wheeler, Future of Talent
Kevin Wheeler is founder and Chairman the Future of Talent Institute. Kevin started FOTI five years ago out of his passionate belief that organizations need a more powerful and thoughtful architecture for talent than they have. After a 25 year career in corporate America serving as the Senior Vice President for Staffing and Workforce Development at the Charles Schwab Corporation, the Vice President of Human Resources for Alphatec Electronics, Inc. in Thailand, and in a variety of human resources roles at National Semiconductor Corporation, Kevin has firsthand knowledge of the need for better strategies and approaches to finding, developing and retaining people.

Verna Allee, Value Networks
Verna Allee, M.A., is Co-founder and CEO of Value Networks LLC, dba ValueNetworks.com (www.valuenetworks.com). ValueNetworks.com is the leading provider of value network visualization and analysis applications. Gartner named ValueNetworks.com as a “Cool Vendor” in 2009.

Ms. Allee has more than twenty years of deep experience in value networks, intangibles, knowledge management, and new business models. She has been a trusted advisor to more than 100 Fortune 1000 companies and has led government agencies, civil society organizations, and entrepreneurial startups in tapping intangible value for increased efficiency and competitive advantage.

Verna is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, advisor to the European Commission, and sits on a number of Advisory and Editorial Boards including Hazel Henderson’s Ethical Markets television series. She is the author of two books and more than 50 industry articles and papers on value networks and knowledge management.

She began her management career in 1975 as the co-founder of a networked sign manufacturing company. She organized the new company as a value network – a radical idea at the time. Within five years, the company was handling large installations from Alaska to Florida and revenue had grown to match some of the largest companies in the industry. Determined to carry her insights into global companies, she developed the ValueNet Works™ methodology, which is gaining rapid adoption and is the cornerstone of ValueNetworks.com applications.

Ms. Allee holds an M.A. in Organizational Leadership and Human Consciousness from JFK University and a B.A degree in Social Science and International Business from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a visiting lecturer at many universities around the world, most notably at Oxford University, the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), and Hanken Swedish School of Business (Helsinki).
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Nick Kloski, Sun Microsystems
Web 2.0 Evangelist for Sun Microsystems, VP Membership, Mensa
Bio coming soon

Bill Fenwick, Fenwick and West

William A. Fenwick is one of the founding partners of Fenwick & West LLP and is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Intellectual Property Practice Groups. Fenwick & West is a 280-attorney law firm specializing in high technology matters and having offices in Mountain View, California, Seattle, Washington, Boise, Idaho. and San Francisco, California.  Mr. Fenwick first began litigating technology disputes in 1968.  Technology transfer, development contracts, taxation, licenses, copyright, trademark, trade dress, trade secrets, distribution and antitrust disputes have been the priority of his practice for over 30 years.
 
Since 1992 he has been involved in a number of Internet-related matters as well as online commerce and communications.  Since the early 1970's, Mr. Fenwick has spoken and written extensively on privacy, on information handling and on the intersection of law and technology.  He has served as Chairman, EFT Transfer Committee, American Federation of Information Processing Societies, Inc. and was one of the initial members of the Committee on Electronic Legal Research of the New York Bar Association.  Mr. Fenwick has served as Chairman, Committee on Law Relating to Computers, Section on Science & Technology.  During his three years as Chairman of the Practicing Law Institute's program on Computer Litigation, he was the editor of three volumes of working papers on various subjects related to law and technology.
 
Mr. Fenwick co-authored the report on the use of technology in the courts for the California Future of the Courts Commission and has been was a member of the Judicial Council of California’s Court Technology Advisory Committee from its creation to 2002.  He received the 2001 Bernard E. Witkin Award from the Judicial Council for his efforts assisting the courts in adopting information technology and in moving into electronic filing.
 
Mr. Fenwick is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of California and in the Courts of Appeals for the 2d, 7th and 9th Circuits, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Tax Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.  He was a member of the New York state and federal courts from 1968 to 2008 when he resigned.

Mr. Fenwick has a B.S. in business management from Southern Illinois University where he graduated with Honors and was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma.  He received his Doctor of Jurisprudence. from Vanderbilt Law School and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

He co-blogs with Drue Kataoka at http://www.valleyzen.com which was launched in 2008.

Sam Hahn, Program for the Future
Sam Hahn 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, corporate startups, executive management, private equity placement, and entrepreneur mentoring since graduating from Stanford University.  In some of these positions, he has also been responsible for product management and sales as well. Sam was the first at TRW (and possibly elsewhere) to architect systems that integrated relational database management systems, hypertext, vector and raster-based cartography, elevation data, multiple sources of intelligence data (yes this must be vague!), image processing, document management, character recognition, text indexing, search, and reasoning systems as early as the mid-80's. Sam was co-founder, VP of Engineering, and CTO of DocuMagix (now part of eFax.com), and has also held VPE positions at Sales.com and Purisma. Sam is a partner at Sand Hill Angels, and now advises entrepreneurs in startup strategies and companies on effective application of Chasm and Agile thinking and practices. Attempting to live an enlightened life, he is too often tempted by sushi, Cambodian food, and white mochas with soy, only somewhat balanced by his enjoyment of tai chi.

Valerie Landau, Program for the Future

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 and produced video and multimedia projects for clients that include WGBH Interactive, Britannica, hungryminds.com, The Learning Company, PeopleSoft, Mattel, and UC Berkeley. She began her career as Regional Director of the Literacy Campaign in Nicaragua. She then worked in public television on award-winning documentary programs including "Silicon Valley" TV series which received numerous awards and is on permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution. She also worked for 60 Minutes with investigative reporters Lowell Bergman and Harry Reasoner and for legendary singer Paul McCartney.

In the early nineties she began designing educational interactive multimedia projects, including, Theatrix Interactive's game "Math Heads," winner of the SPA Codie Award Nomination for Best Consumer Creativity Software and the Platinum
Award in the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio in 1996. She also worked on "Enhanced Arthur", a prototype for interactive television for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and WGBH Interactive.

She served as Supervisor of Instructional Development for the Foothill/DeAnza Community College District and founded the Multimedia Studies Program at Ohlone College. She was awarded the "Online Pioneer Award' at Ohlone College and worked with the California Virtual Campus to develop the recent book and online course "Developing an Effective Online Course" published by McGraw Hill Primus.
Ms. Landau holds two graduate degrees in the field of Technology in Education, one from San Francisco State University's School of Education and the other from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Laleh Shahidi, Active Path Solutions, Inc.
Laleh Shahidi is Founder and CEO of Active Path Solutions, Inc., bringing extensive experience in Informatics, Education, Training, and Management to the Company. Laleh is also the chief visionary for ActivePath's product line.

Her professional credentials include the design and delivery of knowledge management, distance and e-learning processes, tools, and systems. She has provided consulting expertise to enterprises investing in instructional and information design, product development, Internet trends, electronic curriculum management, and self-directed lifelong learning. Laleh is an expert in Medical Informatics and pioneered electronic distribution applications for medical education. Prior to founding ActivePath, Laleh worked at the University of California, San Francisco in several capacities: As the Director of the Distance Education Program at the School of Nursing, Director of Applied Informatics at the School of Medicine, and a member of the Multidisciplinary Medical Information Science Graduate Program, and later as a consultant to the University. In those capacities, Dr. Shahidi designed, maintained, and implemented virtual learning environments and successfully developed an online learning system that emphasized the creation and shared use of knowledge among multidisciplinary faculty.

Laleh is an active member of NextNow a think tank of visionaries and thought leaders in the knowledge economy. She has a Ph.D. in Education and Medical Informatics and a Master degree in Instructional Technology both from the University of South Florida.

Barbara Kivowitz, Innovation Measurement
Barbara Kivowitz has expertise in complex systems change, innovation strategy, team and leadership development, and cross-organizational collaborative networks. Prior to co-founding im21, Barbara was the chief organizational systems architect for Lotus Institute, an R&D group within Lotus/IBM that pioneered original knowledge management solutions, where she directed the creativity and innovation practice area. She co-directed the team collaboration practice to enable distributed groups to achieve high levels of performance using technology. She researched and developed best-practice implementation methodologies across multiple project areas. Barbara also served as vice president of R&D for the e-Teaming Company. For its global customers, including IBM, Barbara designed knowledge management solutions that used collaborative practices and technology to help them leverage their strengths, extend their reach, and enable geographically distributed project teams to work together. Barbara has written extensively about virtual collaboration, technology-enabled innovation, and knowledge management. She is co-author of The Manager's Pocket Guide to Knowledge Management.

Rod Falcon,  Program Director, Health Horizons Program  Institute for the Future
Born in Oakland, California in a time and place of great social change, Rod Falcon attended nearby UC Berkeley to better understand what was happening. There he studied history and social change as an undergraduate and public policy as a graduate student. After working one summer enforcing the Voting Rights Act for the Justice Department, he realized that public policy was not as future oriented as it might be and was inspired to do something about it. He came to IFTF to forecast the future of the California health care safety net and has stayed on for more than a decade and counting.

As one of the leading ethnographic researchers at IFTF, Rod uses the stories of real people to get at larger trends. For his pioneering work on social networks, he has visited homes in China, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the United States, where families and individuals have generously opened their lives. Rod has also examined the information and technology ecology in the home and workplace and has led research in technology adoption, workspace and mobility patterns, and personal health technologies.

Rod leads IFTF’s Health Horizons team. He conducts research across a range of health and health care issues with an emphasis on the global health economy: evolving consumer health markets, do-it-yourself health care, the shifting of care outside clinical settings, and the growing number of people turning to technology to become better-than-well. Rod’s current work explores how social technologies are creating health-aware environments as well as personal systems for managing health. In the course of his work, Rod speaks to executive audiences in the health care and food industries and helps them find innovative strategies for participating in the global health economy.

Rod has a BA in American history and ethnic studies and an MPP from the University of California, Berkeley. Outside work, Rod keeps busy learning the myriad stories of his own large extended family.

Jeff Saperstein   creatingregionalwealth.com
Jeff Saperstein is an author, teacher, consultant, and enabler in how technology can be used to create growth in regional economic development and success for organizations. His most recent book is: Bust the Silos: Opening Your Organization for Growth His books and case studies are focused upon best practices for innovation. “Toyota: Driving the Mainstream Market to Purchase Hybrid Electronic Vehicles” is one of Richard Ivey Business School top ten most popular case studies.
 
He has worked with governments, corporations, and NGO's to use marketing to increase growth. Jeff teaches writing and speaking at San Francisco State University College of Business and on-site at Cisco and other corporations. He teaches seminars on Tech Clusters and Innovation at the European School of Management in Paris. Jeff also hosts International MBA groups for immersion tours in Silicon Valley and leads technology bloggers on writing trips to regional centers of innovation excellence including Israel, London/Cambridge and Paris.
 Website: creatingregionalwealth.com   Jeff lives in Mill Valley, California with his wife, Ilene Serlin.