Thursday, November 11, 2010

Sign up during Registration, Breaks, and Lunch for a ride in the all-electric Tesla Roadster, courtesy of SNS Global Clean Energy Partner Tesla Motors... ending at 5:30.

7:00am – 7:50am

Registration – Spanish Foyer

8:00am – 8:05am

"Welcome to FiReGlobal : West Coast" – Sharon Anderson-Morris, Programs Director, Strategic News Service – Spanish Ballroom

8:05am – 8:10am

"Why FiReGlobal : West Coast Matters" – Rogers Weed, Director, Washington State Department of Commerce

8:10am – 8:30am

"Global Knowledge, Local Change" – Mark Anderson, CEO, Strategic News Service, and Chair, FiReGlobal

8:30am – 9:00am

Applying Lessons from Australia:

I. "The National Broadband Network: A Blueprint for the West Coast?" – with Larry Smarr, Founding Director, Calit2 Lab, UCSD/Irvine (and instigator of the NBN)

II. "Australia's Alternative Energy Projects: Getting It Done" – with Victor Perton, Commissioner to the Americas, State Government of Victoria (AU)

III. "The Northwest: Programs in Alternative Energy and Broadband" – with Steve Reynolds, CEO, Puget Sound Energy; and Bob Warshawer, CEO, Black Rock Cable

Hosted by Brier Dudley, Tech Columnist, Seattle Times

9:00am – 9:45am

CTO Design Challenge I: "Avoiding Climate Catastrophe: Applying FiRe CTO Solutions to the Region" – with Brenda Cooper, Futurist, Writer, and CIO, City of Kirkland, Washington; Larry Smarr, Founding Director, Calit2 Lab, UCSD/Irvine; and Janice Nickel, Senior Scientist, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; led by Ty Carlson, Architect, SiArch, Microsoft

9:45am – 10:15am

"New Successes in Global Health" – with Ken Stuart, CEO, Seattle BioMed; Hugh Chang, Director of Special Initiatives, Office of the President, PATH; and John Tedstrom, President and CEO, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; hosted by Chris Gorey, VP of Sales, Regence BlueShield

10:15am – 10:45am

Refreshment Break – Spanish Foyer

10:45am –11:05am

FiReStar Companies: "Changing the World in New Ways" – A panel hosted by Michael Pfeffer, Managing Partner, Kolohala Ventures

• Wave Systems: Steven Sprague, President and CEO
• Intersect: Peter Rinearson, CEO
• Black Rock Cable: Bob Warshawer, CEO
• Terremark: Chris Drumgoole, Senior Vice President

11:05am – 11:20am

"The New Education X PRIZE" – A short description and discussion with Keith Kegley, Vice President, Alliances, X PRIZE Foundation; interviewed by Melissa Milburn, Director of Media Relations, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

11:20am – 11:50am

The Biologic View

I. "Puget Sound Whales: Minkes at 30 Years" – The longest

longitudinal study of the world's most hunted whales; with

Jonathan Stern, Minke Whale Project Lead and Professor, Marine

Ecosystems, San Francisco State University; and

II. "A New Drug Delivery System from HP" – with Janice

Nickel, Senior Scientist, Hewlett-Packard Labs

Hosted by Russ Daggatt, General Partner, Denny Hill Capital; and Board Member, American Rivers

11:50pm – 12:05pm

Moving to Lunch – Metropole Room

12:05pm – 12:30pm

"Net Neutrality, Broadband, and Alternative Energy: A Bright Future" – Jay Inslee, U.S. Congressman (WA-01); introduced by Roger Nyhus, Founder and CEO, Nyhus Communications

1:00pm – 1:45pm

Centerpiece Conversation: Mark Hurd, President, Oracle – hosted by Mark Anderson

1:45pm – 2:15pm

Computing Advances:

I. "Creating a Hackproof ID" – with Steven Sprague, President

and CEO, Wave Systems;

II. "Why the Memristor Will Change the Future of

Electronics" – with Janice Nickel, Senior Scientist, HP Labs; and

III. "Beyond Facebook: Telling Our Stories" – with Monica

Harrington, Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer,

Intersect

Hosted by Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington

2:15pm – 2:45pm

CTO Design Challenge II: "A Year's Progress Designing and Installing Government 2.0" – with Bill Schrier, CTO, City of Seattle; Jock Mackinlay, Director, Visual Analysis, Tableau Software; and Kevin Merritt, CEO, Socrata; led by Brett Horvath, Co-Founder and Board Member, Lumana

2:45pm – 3:15pm

Refreshment Break – Spanish Foyer

3:15pm – 4:00pm

"Fixing the Cloud: Business Models and Infrastructure" – with Brian Bershad, Director of Research and Development, Google; Chris Drumgoole, Senior Vice President, Terremark; Doug Gourlay, VP Marketing, Arista Networks; Yousef Khalidi, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft; Matt McIlwain, Managing Director, Madrona Ventures; and Javier Soltero, CTO, VMware; hosted by Greg Ness, VP Marketing, Vantage Data Systems

4:00pm – 4:30pm

Sustainability Opportunities:

I. "Restoring the Night Sky" – with Pete Strasser, Managing

Director, International Night-Sky Association; and

II. "Providing Clean Water for 200 Million" – with Jin Zidell,

Founder/Chairman, Blue Planet Network

Hosted by Cynthia Figge, Co-Founder and COO, CSRHUB and EKOS International

4:30pm – 5:00pm

"The Future of Telecommunications: Building Services on Bandwidth" – with Doug Junkins, CTO, NTT America; and Erez Yarkoni, CIO, T-Mobile USA and Member of the Deutsche Telekom Group IT Leadership Team; hosted by Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2 Laboratory, UC San Diego and Irvine

5:00pm – 5:30pm

"China and Intellectual Property: What Is the Long-Term Plan?" – An ongoing conversation between Sidney Rittenberg, Founder, Rittenberg Associates; and Mark Anderson, CEO, Strategic News Service

5:30pm –7:30pm

Meet the FiReStars: Exhibition and Reception – Spanish Foyer

7:30pm – 8:00pm

Dinner – Spanish Ballroom

8:00pm – 8:30pm

"Currency Wars, IP Trading Blocs, and the Rising China Price: Global Economic Predictions" – with Mark Anderson; interviewed by Michael Copeland, Senior Writer, Fortune magazine

8:30pm – 9:00pm

Wrap-Up, Questions, and Comments