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FiReGlobal : west coast / 2009 Participants

Speakers                           Participants | Staff
David Achim
President and COO
SkyFiber, Inc.


Dennis Adler
CTO
MetaJure Inc.


Mark Anderson
CEO
Strategic News Service


Mark Ashida
Managing Director
OVP Venture Partners


Forest Baskett
General Partner
New Enterprise Associates


Greg Bear
Science Fiction Author

Jesse Berst
Managing Director
Global Smart Energy


Ty Carlson
Architect, SiArch
Microsoft Corp


Frank Catalano
Principal
Intrinsic Strategy


Sailesh Chutani
Senior Director, Windows Mobile
Microsoft


John Cook
Executive Editor
TechFlash


Brenda Cooper
Futurist; CIO, City of Kirkland;
and Science Fiction Author


Michael Copeland
Senior Writer
Fortune


Karl da Gama Campos
Manager, International Business Development
Information & Communication Technology, Washington State Department of Commerce


John R. Delaney
Professor of Oceanography and Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair in Sensor Networks
and Director, Regional Scale Nodes Program, University of Washington


Michael Dell
CEO
Dell, Inc.


Randy Dorn
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
State of Washington


Tricia Duryee
Principal Correspondent
mocoNews


David Engle
Director of Operations, SNS Project Inkwell; and Superintendent of Schools
North Platte, Nebraska


Rob Glaser
Founder, Chairman, and CEO
RealNetworks Inc.


Tom Guthrie
President and CEO
Twisted Pair Solutions


Lee Hartwell
Nobelist; President & Director
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center


Denis Hayes
President and CEO
Bullitt Foundation


Joe Heitzeberg
Vice President of Technology
WhitePages


Glen Hiemstra
Founder
Futurist.com


Dr. Irwin Jacobs
Co-Founder and Board Member
Qualcomm, Inc.


megan kahn
Vice President
Nyhus


Edward Lazowska
Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington


Peter Lloyd
Consul General of Canada

Daniel Malarkey
Deputy Director
Washington State Department of Commerce


Paul Manson
President and CEO
Sea Breeze Power Corp.


Dave Meyer
Host, "All Things Considered"
KPLU-FM


Liam Moriarty
News Reporter
KPLU-FM/NPR


Roger Payne
Founder/President
Ocean Alliance


Sen. Kevin Ranker
40th Legislative District
Washington State Senate


Steve Reynolds
Chair, President and CEO
Puget Energy and Puget Sound Energy


Sajal Sahay
Executive Director Marketing, Devices Innovation
T-Mobile USA, Inc.


William Schrier
Chief Technology Officer
City of Seattle


Keith Seinfeld
Health and Science Reporter
KPLU-FM / NPR


Chetan Sharma
President
Chetan Sharma Consulting


Jeffrey Short
Pacific Science Director
Oceana


Larry Smarr
Director
Calit2 Laboratory, University of California San Diego


Alan Smith
Partner, Corporate Group
Fenwick & West LLP


Nancy Stagliano
CEO
CytomX Therapeutics


Patrick Sullivan
CEO and President
Hoana Medical Inc.


Kevin Surace
President and CEO
Serious Materials


Martin Tobias
Founder and CEO
Kashless Inc.


Sarah van Gelder
Co-Founder and Executive Editor
YES! Magazine


Jud Virden, Jr
Chief Technology Officer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory


John Walker
Vice President Sales, North America
Tesla Motors


Yulun Wang
Chairman and CEO
InTouch Health


Rogers Weed
Director
Washington State Department of Commerce


Tom Wesselman
Senior Manager, CTO Unified Communications
Cisco




Participants                           Speakers | Staff
Andrew Albertson
Associate, Corporate Group
Fenwick & West LLP


Afrose Amlani
Founder and Executive Director
Planet Kids Bellevue


Kevin Barber
Vice President
Comerica Bank


Bryan Bell
President
Synth-Bank Consulting LLC


Simon Bisson
Journalist

Gregg Blodgett
Chief Financial Officer
Twisted Pair Solutions


Shaun Botha
Co-Founder and CTO
Twisted Pair Solutions


Cary Bran
Senior Business Development Manager and Technologist
Voice Technology Group, Cisco Systems


Mary Branscombe
Journalist

Mark Calhoon
Senior Managing Director, International Trade and Economic Development Division
Washington State Department of Comemrce


Todd Campbell
Speechwriter

Sean Cunningham
Co-Founder and President
Logic20/20


Dave Curry
Co-Founder, President, and CEO
Demand Energy Networks


Jeff Day
Principal Group Program Manager
Microsoft


Lewis W. Douglas
Managing Director
Ocean Alliance


Lisa Downey
Business Architect and Lead Program Manager, Infrastructure Business Architecture
Microsoft Corp.


Brier Dudley
Technology Columnist
The Seattle Times


William Duncan
Director's Assistant
Planet Kids Bellevue


Nick Eaton
Reporter
SeattlePI.com


Ned Finkle
VP Strategic Marketing
NVIDIA


Joseph Galante
Reporter
Bloomberg News


Enrique Godreau III
Managing Director
Voyager Capital


Nancy Gohring
Seattle Correspondent
IDG News Service


Josh Gould
Founder and President
Gould Energy Storage


Alexander Gounares
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Online Services
Microsoft Corporation


Matthew Greenfield
Partner
StoneWork Capital


Jan Greylorn
consultant , planning systems
Delta S


Lee Hall
Program Manager
Boeing Commercial Airplanes Technical Services


Donald Heisler
Audit Partner
Deloitte & Touche LLP


Leslie Helm
Editor
Seattle Business Magazine


Jonathan Hensley
President
Regence BlueShield


Greg Huang
Editor
Xconomy


Charlie Huiner
Vice President, Business Development
InTouch Health


Peter D. Joers III
President, Bank of America Washington; and Managing Director
and Regional Executive, U.S. Trust; Bank of America


Lars Johansson
President
Energethic, LLC


Reese Jones
Trustee
Singularity University


Matthew Karwoski
Associate, Corporate Group
Fenwick & West LLP


Cynthia Klein
District Sales Manager
Terremark


Robert Kruse
Managing Partner
VenLogic LLC


David Lahaie
President
Evergreen Recycling


Gary Lang
Partner Product Unit Manager
Microsoft


Kelly Jo MacArthur
Principal
MacArthur Group LLC


John Martin
Board Member
Clean Tech Open


Rohit Mathur
Regional Director
MindTree


Nathan McDonald
Vice President of Investor Relations
The University Funds


Isabella McPeak
Business Solution Architect
ActionCOACH


Howard Mendelsohn
President
Avitar Partners


J.P. Michael
SVP/Regional Marketing Director
Comerica Bank


Jay Miller
VP
Lushootseed Reseach


David Morris
President
Accelegrow Technologies Inc.


Ken Myer
President and CEO
Washington Technology Industry Association


Tarek Najm
Technical Fellow
Microsoft


Roger Nyhus
President and CEO
Nyhus Communications


Christopher Olsen
Practice Director
Point B


Lucy Ostrander
Producer/Director
Stourwater Pictures


Tim Parsey
Founder
Shift Alliance


Kelly Pennock
Chief Technology Officer
Visible Technologies


Philip Peterson
Vice President of Sales
SkyFiber Inc.


John Petote
CEO
CIO Solutions


Michael Pfeffer
Managing Partner
Kolohala Ventures


Dominique Piotet
President and CEO, Atelier North America,
BNP Paribas; and Columnist, La Tribune


Christina Richards
Director of Marketing
SkyFiber Inc.


Gary Ritner
President
Ritner & Company


Gary Roshak
Consultant

Jonathan Sackler
North Bay Associates

Stephen Schramke
Co-Founder and CEO
Logic361


Mike Schwenk
Vice President, Battelle; and Director, Technology Deployment and Outreach
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory


Eric Scigliano
News Editor
Seattle Metropolitan Magazine


Jeffrey Seely
President and CEO
Recruiting.com Inc.


Robert Sherbin
Vice President Corporate Communications
NVIDIA


Allan Stephan
CEO
Stratos Genomics and Stratos Group


Jon Taylor
Regional Sales Manager, Seattle
Tesla Motors


Cecile Thomas
President
Silverstein Thomas Rice and Associates


Penny Thomas
Communications Director
WA State Dept. of Commerce


Christine Thompson
Principal
Informing Arts


Alexander Tokman
President and CEO
Microvision, inc


Jim Torina
CEO
The University Funds


Nancy Truitt Pierce
CEO and Founder
Woods Creek Consulting Co.


Michele Vivona
Senior Vice President and GM
Global Web Strategy, LexisNexis


Petra Vorsteher
Co-Founder & EVP Strategic Alliances
Smaato Inc.


James Waldo
Strategic Adviser
Sea Breeze Power Corp.


Scott Warner
Owner
Garvey Schubert Barer


Kay Warren
Senior Product Manager
Microsoft


Bob Warshawer
President
Black Rock Cable


Kathleen Wilcox
President & CEO
Kathleen P. Wilcox & Assoc. LLC


Larry Williams
Assistant Director
Washington State Department of Commerce


Kim Zentz
Executive Director
Sirti, Spokane




Staff                           Speakers | Participants
Berit Anderson
Staff
Strategic News Service


Sally Anderson
Editor-in-Chief and Production Manager
Strategic News Service


Sharon Anderson-Morris
Director, SNS Programs
Strategic News Service


Shane Elben
Executive Assistant
Strategic News Service


Nancy Garrison
SNS Volunteer Staff

Dan Lamont
Photojournalist and FiReGlobal : West Coast Event Photographer

Janis Machala
FiReGlobal : West Coast Event Staff; Director of LaunchPad Services
University of Washington; and Founder and Principal, Paladin Partners


Lynne Mercer
Comptroller and Circulation Manager
Strategic News Service


Donald Murray
Sales, Business Development and Marketing
Health, Wellness & Technology


Ruth Offen
Founder and Director
waterworks gallery


Scott Schramke
IT Director
Strategic News Service


Gustav Toppenberg
SNS Volunteer Staff

Kelly Webb
Assistant to SNS Programs Director
Strategic News Service



  Note: All speakers pending final confirmation.

 

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