FiRe 2012 Thought Leaders FiRe Speakers Mark Anderson
Founder and CEO, Strategic News Service; and Chairman, Future in Review Conference Corp.
Robert Anderson
Director, Technology Transfer, Illinois Institute of Technology
Sharon Anderson-Morris
Director, SNS Programs, Strategic News Service
Colin Angle
Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO, iRobot
James Balog
Photographer, Chasing Ice ; and Director, Extreme Ice Survey
James Barrese
CTO, PayPal
Hugh Bradlow
CTO, Telstra
Davis Brimer
Founder and CEO, Active Life Scientific Inc.
David Brin
Scientist, Inventor, and Author
Peter Byck
Director/Producer,Carbon Nation
Ty Carlson
Architect, Office 365, Microsoft
Gary Clayton
Chief Creative Officer, Nuance Communications, Inc.
Sheryl Connelly
Corporate futurist, Ford Motor Co.
Lesley Curwen
Host, "Business Daily",BBC World Service
Russell Daggatt
Founding General Partner, Denny Hill Capital
Winston Damarillo
CEO and Co-Founder, Morphlabs
Brett Davis
Senior Director, Healthcare, Oracle
André de Fusco
CEO, Cynvenio Biosystems
Bruce Dines
VP LGI Ventures, Liberty Global
Geralyn White Dreyfous
Co-Founder/Director-at-Large, Impact Partners; and Founder/Board Chair, Utah Film Center
George Dyson
Author (Turing's Cathedral ) and Historian of Technology
David Engle
Dir., U.S. Operations, SNS Project Inkwell; and future Superintendent, Port Townsend PSD (Washington)
Jonathan Ewert
President, TransforMedia
Scott Foster
Senior Analyst (Sustainability), BNP Paribas (Japan)
David W. Garrison
CEO, iBAHN
Michael Geraghty
CTO, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Alexander Gounares
Founder and CEO, Concurix Corp.
John Hagel III
Director and Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge
Sheeraz Haji
CEO, Cleantech Group
William Harris
President & CEO, Science Foundation Arizona
Glen Hiemstra
Founder and CEO, Futurist.com
Matthias Hohensee
Bureau Chief Silicon Valley, and Columnist,WirtschaftsWoche
Ira (Gus) Hunt
CTO for the Chief Information Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Centerpiece Conversation Mark Hurd
President, Oracle Corp.
Kathy Hurley
SVP Strategic Partnerships, Pearson Education & Pearson Foundation
Centerpiece Conversation Irwin Mark Jacobs
Founding Chairman and CEO Emeritus, Qualcomm
Centerpiece Conversation Paul Jacobs
Chairman and CEO, Qualcomm
Sridhar Jagannathan
Vice President, Technology Strategy and Partnerships, Office of the CTO, Intuit
William Janeway
Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus (New York and Cambridge, U.K.)
Daniel Kapp
Director, Powertrain Research & Advanced Engneering, Ford Motor Co.
Tony Lammers
President and CEO, MAR Systems Inc.
Patrick Lane
Technology Correspondent,The Economist
Michal Lev-Ram
Writer, FORTUNE
Philippa Lewis
CEO, Simavita
Amory Lovins
Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
Peter Mahoney
CMO, Nuance
Tom Matzzie
Founder and CEO, Ethical Electric Co.
Nathan McDonald
President, Keiretsu Forum Northwest
Gavin Michael
Chief Technology Innovation Officer, Accenture
David Nelson
Chief Strategist, Cloud Computing, The Boeing Company
Greg Ness
Chief Marketing Officer, Vantage Data Centers
Eric Openshaw
Vice Chairman and U.S. Technology Leader, Deloitte LLP; and Global Technology Sector Leader, Deloitte
Julia Ormond
Actress; and Founder and President, Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Trafficking (ASSET)
Chris Paine
Writer and Director,Revenge of the Electric Car and Who Killed the Electric Car?
Roger Payne
Founder/President, Ocean Alliance
John Petote
CEO, CIO Solutions; and Angel Investor
Don Pickering
CEO, OneOcean Corp.
Louie Psihoyos
Executive Director, Oceanic Preservation Society
Paul Ricci
Chairman and CEO, Nuance Communications
Gary Rieschel
Founder and Managing Director, Qiming Venture Partners
Kim Stanley Robinson
Science Fiction Author
Kian Saneii
CEO, Independa Inc.
David E.Y. Sarna
CEO, WoodallTech Inc.
Allwyn Sequeira
VP/CTO, Security and Networking in the Cloud Infrastructure BU, VMware
Chetan Sharma
President, Chetan Sharma Consulting
Dan Simon
President and CEO, Heliae Technology Holdings Inc.
Con Slobodchikoff
Professor Emeritus of Biology, Northern Arizona University; and CEO, Animal Communications Ltd.
Larry Smarr
Director, CALIT2, UCSD/CALIT2
Ben Smith
Director of Program Management, Windows Embedded, Micosoft
Doug Smith
President, W.D. Smith & Associates
Steven Sprague
CEO, Wave Systems Corp.
Henry Tirri
Executive Vice President and CTO, Nokia
John Vadino
Founder and CEO, One to the World
Centerpiece Conversation J. Craig Venter
Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO, and Co-Chief Scientific Officer, Synthetic Genomics Inc.
David Vladeck
Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission
Andrew Wallis
Founder and CEO, unseen
Jerry Woodall
Founder, WoodallTech; and National Medal of Technology Laureate; and Epstein Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
Jin Zidell
Founder and Chairman, Blue Planet Network
FiRe Participants Erika E. Angle
CEO and Founder, Science from Scientists
Kay Asaki
Senior Director, Oracle
Simon Bisson
Freelance Technology Journalist (U.K.)
Randolph Blotky
CEO, Technology Convergence Partners LLC
Jason Bluming
General Manager, Technical Strategy, Microsoft
Mark Booth
Managing Director, Epsilon Consulting (Australia)
Mary Branscombe
Freelance Technology Journalist (U.K.)
Donald V. Budinger
Chairman and Founding Director, The Rodel Foundations
Nancy Bulger
Assistant Provost, Purdue University
Thomas Burns
Founder and Diretor, Carmel Art & Film Festival
Richard Caro
Advisor, Simavita; and CEO, TangibleFuture Inc.
John Carrington
Director, Independa Inc.; and Chairman, Websense Inc.
Mary Clark
Executive Assistant to the Chairman, The Rodel Foundations
Steve Cooper
Chairman, Active Life Scientific Inc.
Dave Couture
National Technology Sector Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Lars Crotwell
CIO, Laredo Petroleum Inc.
Matthew Davies
Senior Producer,BBC World Service
Kim Davis
Senior Vice President, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide
Christopher S. DiGiorgio
Managing Director - Northern California, Corporate Development for Emerging Technologies, Accenture
Glen Dong
Chief of Staff, Technology, Media & Telecommunications Industry, Deloitte Services LP
Lewis Douglas
Co-Founder, Urth Organic LLc
Jonathon Dreyer
Senior Manager, Mobile Solutions Marketing, Healthcare Division, Nuance Communications
Kamran Elahian
Co-Founder and Chairman, Global Catalyst Partners
Cynthia Figge
COO and Co-founder, CSRHUB and EKOS International
Dennis Fitzgerald
President and Founding Partner, 24 Hour Company
Adrian Galvez
Vice President of Manufacturing, Heliae Technology Holdings Inc.
Anthony Gillet
Engineering Manager, Nuance Communications
David Greenwood
Technology Events Lead, Accenture
Simon Hackett
Managing Director, Internode (Australia)
Robert Hadley
Principal, Hadley Properties LLC
Kip Harrell
Director, Thunderbird Leadership EDGE, Thunderbird School of Global Management
Yoram Heller
VP of Corporate Development, Morphlabs
Greg Hendrickson
CTO, One to the World
Jacqueline Hewitt
IT Operations Manager , Info-Tech Research Group
Brett Horvath
Director, Leaders Network
Debra Hotaling
Communications Leader, Western U.S., Ford Motor Co.
Elina Ianchulev
Senior Manager, Deloitte
Ron James
Media Producer/Director, Ron James Television
Chris Jordan
Artist and Founder, Chris Jordan Photographic Arts
Jeff Kane
Senior Vice President of Sales, Vantage Data Centers
Cynthia Klein
Director of Sales , IBM
Jason Knapp
EVP of Product, Specific Media and Myspace
Dan Knappenberger
Principal, Valuation Services, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Thomas Kraemer
Founder, KMM
Jay Leon
Founder and CEO, CSG Channels
Richard Mack
Vice President, Communications, Nuance Communications
Matthew Mandich
Strategy Analyst , Info-Tech Research Group
John McMurrough
President and Owner, FlourishLA
Tushar Mehta
Sr. Licensing Manager and Sr. Analyst, Quantum Intellectual Property Services - Intellectual Ventures
Sentari Minor
Program Specialist, The Rodel Foundation of AZ
Jeff Mischka
Principal, Media and Entertainment Practice Leader, Pacific Southwest, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Jackie Norton
President and CEO, The Rodel Foundation of Arizona
Katie Pecoraro
Focus Electric Program Engineer, Ford Motor Company
Michael Pfeffer
Managing Partner, Kolohala Ventures
Ashton Pitts
Senior Executive , Accenture
Swain Porter
Chairman and CEO, Catalytic Services
Joseph Pritchett
Ceramic Researcher and Formulator, Superior Products International II Inc. USA
James Quin
Lead Research Analyst, Info-Tech Research Group
Heather Rangel
Senior Manager, Deloitte LLP
Michael Redding
Global Managing Director, Accenture Technology Labs
David Rosenfeld
Portfolio Manager and Director of Research, Williams, Jones & Associates
Jennifer Rozon
Product Director, Info-Tech Research Group
Shelley Saban
Senior Marketing Communications Coordinator, Qualcomm
Tamara Samoylova
Head of Research, Deloitte Center for the Edge
Carol Sato
VP, Corporate Communications, Products & Services, Oracle
John Schaffer
CEO, Covestic Inc.
Shannon James Smith
Executive Vice President, OneOcean Corp.
Bill Soward
Principal, Escalante Partners
Jason Spievak
Co-Founder and CEO, RingRevenue Inc.
Marco Spinner
Independent Contractor, Sigillum GmbH
Clay Stranger
Special Aide to the Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
Scott Tierney
Director, Corporate Development, Google
Marc Tremblay
Distinguished Engineer, SiArch Team, Microsoft
Craig Vachon
Chief Commercial Officer, Immersion
Vaclav Vincalek
President, Pacific Coast Information Systems Ltd.
Peter Vitulli
President and CEO, DNA Diagnostics Center
Tommy Wald
CEO, White Glove Technologies
Bob Warshawer
President, Black Rock Cable
Tania Weidick
VP, Event Marketing, Oracle
Shari Wenker
Senior Executive, Marketing and Communications, Accenture
Peter Williams
CEO, Deloitte Digital, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu; , and Chairman, Deloitte Innovation Council
Sean Woods
Advertising Director,Financial Times
Jean Wooldridge
Principal, St. Cloud Communications
Joe Zier
Partner, West Coast Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Consulting Leader, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services
FiRe Staff Berit Anderson
Director of Social Networks, Strategic News Service
Evan Anderson
FiRe Staff, Strategic News Service
Sally Anderson
Editor-in-Chief and Production Manager, Strategic News Service
Ali Evan Ayasso
FiRe/Rodel Foundations Intern, Thunderbird School of Global Management
Fabienne Jolivert
FiRe/Rodel Foundations Intern, Thunderbird School of Global Management
Dan Lamont
FiRe Event Photographer
Jennifer Lee
Executive Assistant to Mark Anderson, CEO, Strategic News Service
R. David Morris
Business Development, Strategic News Service
Karen Carlsen Roche
Director, FiRe X Partners Progam, Strategic News Service
Scott Schramke
IT Director, Strategic News Service
David Snowden
FiRe/Rodel Foundations Intern, Thunderbird School of Global Management
Gustav Toppenberg
Senior Manager, Cisco
Story Tweedie-Yates
FiRe/Rodel Foundations Intern, Thunderbird School of Global Management
Lauren Vitulli
Executive Assistant to Sharon Anderson-Morris, Strategic News Service
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