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CONFERENCE AGENDA: FiRe 2008

Tuesday, May 20
4:00pm - 6:00pm

Registration - Windsor Cottage
5:00pm - 6:30pm Cocktail Reception with hors d'oeuvres and live entertainment (adult partners and associates welcome) - Windsor Lawn
6:30pm _ 6:45pm Welcome to FiRe, and Introduction to FiRe Interns and Staff: Sharon Anderson-Morris, SNS Programs Director - Windsor Lawn
7:00pm - 7:30pm Welcoming Remarks: - Crown Room
7:30pm - 8:15pm Dinner - Crown Room
8:00pm - 8:45pm Dinner Presentation: "Identifying Tomorrow's Energy Sources": Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures - Crown Room
     
Wednesday, May 21
7:00am - 7:50am Breakfast - Crown Room
7:50am - 8:00am "Welcome to FiRe" Mark Anderson - Grand Ballroom
8:00am - 8:30am "Hydrogen from Aluminum and Water": Jerry Woodall, National Medal of Technology Laureate, and Barry M. and Patricia L. Epstein Distinguished Professor of ECE, Purdue University; hosted by Mark Anderson
8:30am - 9:00am "Earth on FiRe: Rapid Response to Climate Crisis, Continuing the Necker Island Discussion": A panel with Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, and Lyndon Rive, CEO of SolarCity; hosted by Stephen Evans, Presenter, Business Daily, BBC World Service
9:00am - 9:30am "Trading Carbon Credits: What's Next, and Who Benefits?": A panel with Erik Blachford, CEO, TerraPass; and David Morris, Chairman and President, EcoVerdance; hosted by Martin Tobias, past CEO, Imperium Renewables
9:30am - 10:00am "The FiRe CTO Design Challenge": A panel of wildfire experts, including: Ron Roberts, Supervisor, San Diego County Board of Supervisors, and military and fire personnel; with Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (the "FiRe Lab"), UCSD; Prith Banerjee, SVP, Research, and Director, HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard; Per-Kristian Halvorsen, CTO, Intuit; Brian Higbee, Director of SI Strategy, Symantec; Kelly Millsaps, CTO, Avanade; hosted by David Brin, Science Fiction Author and Physicist, and Co-Host of TV's "ArchiTechs" series (Panel to be continued at 4pm Breakout and Thursday 3:30pm Breakout; solution to be presented Friday at 10am plenary session)
10:00am - 10:30am Break - Courtyard
10:30am - 11:00am HOTSPOTS I*: Five Personal Views of the Future
Hosted by Stephen Evans, Presenter, Business Daily, BBC World Service:
11:00am - 11:30am "The Future of Wireless: From Mobile Ads to Mobile Purchases": A panel with Rajeev Chand, Managing Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst, Wireless, Rutberg & Co.; Gary Roshak, Vice President, Mobile Advertisers and Publishers, Yahoo!; Jonathan Bulkeley, CEO, ScanBuy; and Hugh Bradlow, CTO, Telstra; hosted by Chetan Sharma, President, Chetan Sharma Consulting
11:30am - 12:00pm "Next Up in High-Performance Computing": A panel with Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, UCSD; and Justin Rattner, VP and Senior Fellow, Director of Corporate Technology Group, and CTO, Intel; hosted by John K. Thompson, President and CEO, Marketing Sciences
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch - Windsor Lawn
1:00pm - 1:30pm "The Deep Lesson of the Financial Crisis: Economics Is Not a Branch of Physics" Bill Janeway, Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus; hosted by Mark Anderson
1:30pm - 2:15pm "Sustainability and the Cloud": A conversation with Shane Robison, EVP, Chief Strategy & Technology Officer, Hewlett-Packard; hosted by Mark Anderson
2:15pm - 2:45pm HOTSPOTS II: Five Personal Views of the Future
Hosted by Stephen Evans, Presenter, Business Daily, BBC World Service:
  • David Morris, Chairman and President, EcoVerdance
  • Mark Foster, Partner, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects
  • Bill Brindley, CEO, NetHope
  • Donald Jones, Vice President, Qualcomm
  • tba
2:45pm - 3:30pm "The Next China: Beyond the Olympics": Sidney Rittenberg, Rittenberg and Associates; hosted by Russ Daggatt, Founding Partner, Denny Hill Capital
3:30pm - 4:00pm Break - Courtyard
4:00pm - 5:00pm

Breakouts: (Locations tba onsite)

  1. "The FiRe CTO Design Challenge Working Session: The Challenge Continues": With Per-Kristian Halvorsen, CTO, Intuit; Brian Higbee, Director of SI Strategy, Symantec; and Kelly Millsaps, CTO, Avanade; hosted by David Brin, Science Fiction Author, Physicist, and Co-Host, "ArchiTechs" TV series (Continued from 9:30am plenary session, and re-convening at Thursday 3:30 Breakout; solution to be presented Friday at 10am plenary session)

  2. "China and Tibet: What's Really Happening?": Moderated by Sidney Rittenberg, Rittenberg and Associates; with Russ Daggatt, Founding Partner, Denny Hill Capital

  3. "Fixing Carbon While Feeding Billions": A conversation on the links between agricultural and energy policy: Moderated by David Morris, Chairman and President, EcoVerdance; with Erik Blachford, CEO, TerraPass; Lanier Davenport, Founding Partner, EcoVerdance; Martin Tobias, past CEO, Imperium Renewables; and Dennis Knight, COO, Accelegrow Technologies

  4. "Water As Fuel: The Potential for Aluminum-Catalyzed Hydrogen Delivery Systems": Moderated by Jerry Woodall, National Medal of Technology Laureate, and Barry M. and Patricia L. Epstein Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

  5. "Creating Music Online: Collaborative Composition of FiRe Music": J. Hamilton "Hank" Coleman, CEO, Open Labs. Participants can create music with these new tools for playback during the conference
5:15pm - 9:00pm Food and cocktail reception and Special Tour of Next-Generation Visualization and Networking Facilities ("FiRe Lab") of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at UC-San Diego Hosted by Internet pioneer Larry Smarr, Director of Calit2 - Buses depart promptly at 5:15 from the hotel's main entrance
     
Thursday, May 22
7:00am - 7:55am Breakfast - Crown Room
8:00am - 8:30am "Google's Role in 'Rapid Response to Climate Crisis'": A conversation with Larry Brilliant, Executive Director, Google.org; hosted by Kamran Elahian, Global Catalyst Partners, and Chair, Beceem Communications
8:30am - 9:00am FiReStarters I: Introduction by Sharon Anderson-Morris, SNS Programs Director
9:00am - 9:30am "Fixing Healthcare I: Bringing Third-World Costs to the U.S.": A conversation with William Haseltine, Chairman, Haseltine Global Health, and Founder, Human Genome Sciences; hosted by Michael Copeland, Senior Writer, Fortune Magazine
9:30am - 10:00am "Fixing Healthcare II: Using Technology to Empower the Consumer": A conversation with Peter Neupert, Corporate VP, Microsoft; and Roy Schoenberg, CEO, American Well Systems; hosted by Doug Smith, Chief Information and Quality Officer, Martin's Point Healthcare
10:00am - 10:30am Break - Courtyard
10:30am - 11:00am "Collaborative (Green) Innovation": A panel with Mark Atkins, Chairman, President, and CEO, Invention Machine Corp.; Mark Turrell, CEO, Imaginatik; Prith Banerjee, SVP Research, and Director, HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard; Steve di Biase, Senior VP and Chief Scientific Officer for Research, Development and Engineering, JohnsonDiversey; hosted by Robert F. Anderson, Director of Technology Transfer, Illinois Institute of Technology
11:00am - 11:30am "An Urgent Need to Address Climate Change": James McCarthy, a leader of the Nobel Prize-Winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Professor of Oceanography, Harvard University; hosted by Cynthia Figge, Co-Founder, EKOS International
11:30am - 12:00pm "Social Networks in Europe: Merging Culture and Technology": Pierre Bellanger, Founder, Skyrock (Paris); hosted by Mary Branscombe, Independent Journalist
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 2:00pm "China and the Changing Face of World CO2 Emissions": A conversation with Richard Carson, Professor and Past Chair, Department of Economics, UC-San Diego; hosted by Mark Anderson
2:00pm - 2:30pm "Trends in Venture Investment: 'Rapid Response' for Strong Returns": A panel with Erik Straser, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures; Michael Pfeffer, Managing Partner, Kolohala Ventures; Bruce Harned, President, MarketFit Associates; Alan Mattamana, Polaris Ventures; hosted by Richard LeFaivre, OVP Venture Partners
2:30pm - 3:00pm FiReStarters II:
3:00pm - 3:30pm Break - Courtyard
3:30pm - 4:30pm

Breakouts: (Locations TBA onsite)

  1. "The FiRe CTO Design Challenge Working Session: The Challenge Continues": With Per-Kristian Halvorsen, CTO, Intuit; Brian Higbee, Director of SI Strategy, Symantec; and Kelly Millsaps, CTO, Avanade; hosted by David Brin, Science Fiction Author and Co-Host, "ArchiTechs" TV series (Solution to be presented Friday at 10am plenary session)

  2. "Fixing Healthcare: Attacking the Achievable?": A conversation with Peter Neupert, Corporate VP, Microsoft; and Roy Schoenberg and Ido Schoenberg, CEOs, American Well Systems; moderated by William Haseltine, Chairman, Haseltine Global Health, and Founder, Human Genome Sciences

  3. "The Details Behind Climate Change: Making it Real": Moderated by James McCarthy, a leader of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Professor of Oceanography, Harvard University; with Cynthia Figge, Cofounder, EKOS International

  4. "Lighting the FiRe: Taking Your Company to Global Prominence": A discussion open to all participants, and including the CEOs of all FireStarter companies
5:00pm - 5:30pm Break - Courtyard
4:30pm - 6:30pm Meet the FiReStarters and Spotlight Company: Exhibition with cocktails - In the Grand Ballroom
7:00pm - 10:00pm "FiRe on the Beach!" Party: With appetizers, hosted bar, and live steel-drum music
     
Friday, May 23
7:00am - 7:55am Breakfast - Crown Room
8:00am - 8:30am "SNS Project Inkwell: New Devices and Implementations of One-to-One Computing": Kai de Altin Popiolek, Director of Operations (Europe); David Engle, Director of Operations (U.S.), Inkwell; Tom Greaves, Chairman, the Greaves Group, and Inkwell Steering Committee Member; hosted by Mark Anderson, CEO, Inkwell
8:30am - 9:00am "Reinventing (Lithium) Batteries": Yi Cui, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University; hosted by Jim Peoples, VP Marketing, GrassRoots Marketing
9:00am - 9:30am "Fixing Healthcare III: Radical Approaches for Improving Healthcare": Nobelist Lee Hartwell, President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; hosted by Mark Anderson
9:30am - 10:00am "Looking Further": A conversation with Bruce Sterling, Science Fiction Author; hosted by Sheldon Brown, Professor of Visual Arts and Head of New Media Arts for the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technologies (Calit2)
10:00am - 10:30am "The FiRe CTO Design Challenge: And the Solution Is -- ": Conclusion, with Per-Kristian Halvorsen, CTO, Intuit; Brian Higbee, Director of SI Strategy, Symantec; Kelly Millsaps, CTO, Avanade; hosted by David Brin, Science Fiction Author, Physicist, and Co-Host of TV's "ArchiTechs" series
10:30am - 11:00am "The First Quantum Computer?": A conversation with Geordie Rose, Founder and CTO, D-Wave Systems; hosted by Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology ("FiRe Lab"), UCSD
11:00am - 11:30am "Your Turn: The Next Five Years": A Group Conversation with Mark Anderson
11:30pm - 12:00pm Closing Comments: Mark Anderson

* Hotspots are 3-4 minute personal views of the future, focused upon "What Are The Great Opportunities in Technology?" taken over a 3-5 year time frame

Note: All speaking assignments and agenda items are subject to change.

 

 

  
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