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FiRe 2013 Centerpiece Conversation: Mark Hurd

From the president of Oracle: a Conversation Centerpiece discussion on the future of the cloud, big data, realtime analytics, and exactly how the world will compute over the next 3-5 years.

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FiRe 2013 Centerpiece Conversation: Vint Cerf

From the Google evangelist and award-winning pioneer who digitized the planet: a new understanding of privacy and ID on the Net, deeper Net structure and design issues for the future, the Interplanetary Net, and more.

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FiRe 2013 Opening Night Speaker: Leroy Hood

From the inventor of gene decoding technology, founder of the Institute for Systems Biology, and recent recipient of the National Medal of Science: a description of “digitizing cancer” and how computing will launch a new era of parameter-based diagnostics.

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FiRe 2013 Featured Speaker:
Gus Hunt

From the CTO of the CIA: a new level of understanding for corporations seeking to protect their crown-jewel Intellectual Property from military-grade, nation-sponsored theft.

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FiRe 2013 Featured Speaker: Kevin Montgomery

From the CEO of a stealth company whose product will forever change how participants use planet-scale data: an amazing new proprietary tool, just for FiRe attendees.

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FiRe 2013 Featured Speaker: Patrick Hogan

From the creator of the most information-capable browser ever built, the head of NASA World Wind shares global projects on how communities in the US and EU benefit from local and global data shared in a new, common geographical interface.

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FiRe 2013 Featured Speaker: Tony Blau

From one of the world’s leading researchers in stem cells and regenerative medicine: a description of a series of amazing breakthroughs leading to human trials in repairing heart, liver, and nerve tissue.

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FiRe 2013 Featured Speaker: Chris Johnson

From the head of the most advanced visualization laboratory: a new world of visualization techniques and imaging tools to turn Big Data into Big Knowledge.

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FiRe 2013 Featured Speaker:
Bob Bishop

From the past CEO of Silicon Graphics and a global leader in visualization and planet-size Big Data: a description of his work with the EU’s new human brain mapping project, and a planetary data rendering system.

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Thought into Action

FiRe celebrates taking action, in fields as important and diverse as CO2-free Petro-Energy, Ocean Health, Quantified Self preventive medicine, creating new platforms in computing and communications, and much more.

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FiRe Global Initiatives

FiRe is the birthplace of programs that long outlive each conference: FiRe Films that make a difference, the AORTA digital education manifesto, a Global Rescue System to reduce human trafficking, and the new medical field of Nutritional Microanalysis, among many others.

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A Roundtable Experience

FiRe attendees and speakers are called Participants for a reason many are included onstage, and many more take part in offstage FiRe group discussions leading to new ventures or FiRe Global Initiatives.

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World-Class Centerpiece Conversations

With industry luminaries such as Paul Jacobs and Irwin Jacobs, Mark Hurd, J. Craig Venter, Michael Dell, Colin Angle, Ray Ozzie, and Barry Diller, in PowerPoint-free, “real” conversations.

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Expanding Networks, Creating Alliances

98% of survey respondents said FiRe 2012 met their expectations, and 74% made new project and business alliances at FiRe 2012, in an oceanside venue that could’t be more conducive.

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Real-Time Problem Solving

FiRe’s annual “CTO Design Challenge” unites engineers to tackle an intractable world problem and present actionable solutions, from fighting urban wildfires to solving global warming to defining and launching the new medical field of “Nutritional Microanalyisis.”

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Entrepreneurs Making History

Who comes to FiRe? The CEO of the first private company to successfully launch a rocket into orbital space. FiRe Chair Mark Anderson (L) interviews Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO and 7-time FiRe speaker.

Meet the people changing the world in real-time

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FiRe Thought Leader:
Michael Dell
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FiRe Thought Leader:
Craig Venter
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FiRe Thought Leader:
Paul Jacobs
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FiRe Thought Leader:
Elon Musk
SNS Member Opportunity: To celebrate the launch of the new FiRe site, SNS will select one Member who enters, to receive a private phone consultation with Mark.

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Date

May 21-24, 2013

Location

Montage Laguna Beach
Laguna Beach, California

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