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THOUGHT LEADERS 2007


FiRe Speakers                           FiRe Participants | FiRe Staff
Mark Anderson
CEO
Strategic News Service


Robert Anderson
Director Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property
Illinois Institute of Technology


Janine Benyus
Biologist, Innovation Consultant, and Author
Founder, Biomimicry Institute


Otto Berkes
Architect, Mobile Platforms Division
Microsoft


Mark Bernstein
President and Center Director
Palo Alto Research Center


Keith Blakely
CEO
NanoDynamics Inc.


Stewart Brand
Co-founder and Co-chairman
The Long Now Foundation


Mark Bregman
Chief Technology Officer
Symantec


David Brin
Author and Physicist


Donald Budinger
Chairman, Founding Director
Rodel Foundations


Ty Carlson
Director, Technical Strategy
Microsoft Corp.


Russell Daggatt
General Partner
Highside Capital


Peter Diamandis
Chairman and CEO
X PRIZE Foundation


Suzanne DiBianca
Chief Service Officer and Executive Director
Salesforce Foundation


Eric Dishman
General Manager & Global Director
Intel Health Research & Innovation Group


Martin Eberhard
CEO
Tesla Motors


Kamran Elahian
Chair and Co-founder Global Catalyst Partners
Chair, Beceem Communications


David Engle
Principal, Squalicum High School
Director of Operations, SNS Project Inkwell


Stephen Evans
Presenter, Business Daily
BBC World Service


John Falker
Strategic Integration Lead, CxP SE&I AT&A
NASA JSC


Kenneth M. Ferry
President and CEO
iCAD


Cynthia Figge
Partner and Co-founder
EKOS International


Scott Foster
Senior VP
HSBC Securities


Randy Foutch
President and CEO
Foutch Consulting


Alan Gotcher
President and CEO
Altairnano Inc.


Thomas Greaves
Chairman
The Greaves Group, LLC


Helen Greiner
Co-founder and Chairman of the Board
iRobot


William Harris
President and CEO
Science Foundation Arizona


Eric Haseltine
Associate Director of National Intelligence for Science and Technology
Office of the Director of National Intelligence


Glen Hiemstra
Founder and Owner
Futurist.com


C.J. Holthaus
Technical Director
VIA Technologies


Robert Hormats
Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs (International)
and Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.


William Janeway
Senior Advisor
Warburg Pincus


George Jensen
Chairman of the Board and CEO
USA Technologies


Vyomesh Joshi
Executive Vice President, Imaging and Print Group
Hewlett-Packard


Michael King
Director, IBM Education Industry
IBM


Tom Krazit
Staff Writer
CNET News.com


Heidi Larson
Research Associate
Harvard Center for Population and Development


Nate Lewis
George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry
California Institute of Technology


Jim Louderback
Editor in Chief
PC Magazine


Tom Malloy
Senior Vice President and Chief Software Architect
Advanced Technology Labs, Adobe Systems Inc.


Randall Moon
Director
Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington


Toshio Morohoshi
Corporate Vice President and Executive Officer
Fujitsu Ltd.


Matthew Moynahan
CEO
Veracode Inc.


Elon Musk
Chairman and CEO, SpaceX
and Chairman of the Board, Tesla


Jeffrey Nick
CTO and Senior Vice President
EMC


Karoly Nikolich
CEO
Amnestix


Leif Pagrotsky
MP and Past Minister of Trade and Culture, Sweden;
and Vice Chair, Swedish Central Bank (Riksbank)


Robert Penny
Chair and CEO
Molecular Profiling Institute


James Peoples
Vice President Marketing
GrassRoots Marketing Inc.


Nasser Peyghambarian
Founder, TIPD LLC; and Professor in Optical Sciences and in Engineering
University of Arizona


Michael Pfeffer
Managing Partner
Kolohala Holdings


Ryan Phelan
Founder and CEO
DNA Direct


Peter Piot
UNAIDS Executive Director and
Under Secretary-General of the United Nations


Tom Rabon
Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs
Red Hat Inc.


Sidney Rittenberg
Founder
Rittenberg Associates


Kim Stanley Robinson
Science Fiction Author


Sourabh Satish
Architect
Symantec Research Labs


Simeon Simeonov
Technology Partner
Polaris Venture Partners


Ray Siuta
Halo Marketing Manager
Hewlett-Packard


Larry Smarr
Director
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology


David Soane
Chairman and CEO
Hawaii NanoSciences


Rick Spurr
CEO, President, and COO
ZixCorp


Barry Taylor
Managing Director
Warburg Pincus


Jo Taylor
Managing Partner
3i Venture


Jeb Terry
Founder and President
Aberdeen Investment Management Inc.


Martin Tobias
CEO and Chairman, Imperium Renewables Inc.
Venture Partner, Ignition Partners


Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Environment and Energy Correspondent
The Economist


J. Craig Venter
Founder, Chairman and President
J. Craig Venter Institute


Dave Vieau
CEO
A123 Systems


Steve Waite
Founder and Managing Director
Consilient Capital Partners LLC


Bruce Wilcox
CEO
SNS Project Inkwell


Carnet Williams
CEO
Chipin


David Winer
Editor
Scripting News


Josh Wolfe
Managing Partner
Lux Capital




FiRe Participants                           FiRe Speakers | FiRe Staff
Donald Anderson
Vice President, Business Development
Hawaii NanoSciences LLC


Steve Arnold
Founder and Managing General Partner
Polaris Venture Partners


B. Marc Averitt
Co-founder and Managing Director
Okapi Venture Capital, LLC


Amy Bernstein
Deputy Editor
strategy+business, Booz Allen Hamilton


Simon Bisson
Independent Journalist


Randolph Blotky
Chairman and CEO
Technology Convergence Partners, LLC


Mary Branscombe
Independent Journalist


John Breshears
Associate Partner
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership


Steve Broback
Founder
Blog Business Summit and i3forum conferences


Paula Brock
Chief Financial Officer
Zoological Society of San Diego


William Budinger
Founding Director
Rodel Foundations


Vincent Caprio
Vice President and Event Director
NanoBusiness Alliance


Martin Cardoe
Group Marketing Director
3i


Mary Clark
Executive Assistant
Rodel Foundations


JosÈ Collazo
President and CEO
BT Infonet


Richard Collings
Assistant Editor of Business Programmes
BBC World Service


Michael Copeland
Senior Writer
Business 2.0


Thomas Aidan Curran
Founder and CEO
Telemos AG


Matthew Davies
Producer, Business Programmes
BBC World Service


Stan DeLaney
Thematic Researcher
Morgan Stanley


Darlene Deptula-Hicks
Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer
iCAD


Charles Eldering
President and CEO
Technology, Patents & Licensing, Inc.


Richard Elkus Jr.
Director
Lam Research


Greg Ellis
Founder
Auction Video ñ OnStream Media


Chenoa Farnsworth
Partner
Kolohala Ventures


Grant Ferrier
Editor
Environmental Business Journal


Mark Foster
Partner
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership


Matthew French
Director, SI Business Strategy
Altiris


Markus Fromherz
Manager, Intelligent Systems Laboratory; and Principal Engineer
Palo Alto Research Center


J. Scott Gardner
President and Principal Analyst
Advantage Engineering LLC


David Geller
President and CEO
WhatCounts Inc.


Dan Gillmor
Director
Center for Citizen Media


Robert Goebel
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Altair Nanotechnologies


Alexander Gounares
Corporate Vice President, Corporate Strategy
Microsoft Corporation


Bobby Gruenewald
Innovation Leader
LifeChurch.tv


Simon Hackett
CEO
Internode and Agile


Dave Hardwick
President
Hardwick Technical Recruiting


Monica Harrington
Senior Policy Officer
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation


Stephen Herbert
President, Chief Operating Officer, and Director
USA Technologies Inc.


Matthias Hohensee
Bureau Chief and Columnist
Wirtschaftswoche


Barbara Holmes
Principal
Holmes Group


Ayako Jacobsson

Toyokeizai


Donald Jones
Vice President
QUALCOMM, Inc.


Garri Jones
COO
Centres of Clinical Excellence


Reese Jones
Fellow
University of California, Berkeley


Davin Juusola
Vice President, Research and Development
Info-Tech Research Group


Kosmo Kalliarekos
Senior Partner
The Parthenon Group


Lillian Kellogg
Vice President, Client Services
Education Networks of America


David Kestenbaum
Correspondent
NPR


Anita Killian
Vice President and Global Industry Analyst
Wellington Management Co., LLP


David LaFontaine
Freelance Reporter


Eric Lang
General Manager
Microsoft Corporation


Ashish Larivee
Vice President, Product Management
Veracode


Alex Letts
CEO
RI3K LTD


Rusty Lhamon
Director Telematic Services
PACCAR Inc.


Allan Lubitz
Senior Vice President and CIO
Option One


Mark Lydon
Director, Strategic Investments
Intel Corporation


Theresa MacDonald
Halo Marketing Program Manager
Hewlett Packard


David Mallery
Co-founder and President
Molecular Profiling Institute


Leigh Marriner
Consulting Practice Director
Cheskin


Kipp Martell
Communications Strategist, Imaging and Printing Group
Hewlett-Packard Co.


Greg McCarthy
Director of Information Services
Martin's Point Health Care


Joel McLean
President
Info-Tech Research Group


William Melton
Managing Director
Melton Investments


Cathy Menees
Business Manager
Microsoft Corporation


Douglas Myers
CEO/Executive Director
Zoological Society of San Diego


Benjamin Paulus
Representative
Polygon Group


John Petote
CEO and Founder
CIO Solutions Inc.


Francis Pisani
Technology Correspondent
El Pais, Le Monde, and Reforma


Pavel Polynkin
Director of Engineering
TIPD LLC


Gary Ritner
President
Ritner & Company


David Robertson
Vice President, Engineering
ZixCorp


Robert Robinson
Managing Partner
Kolohala Ventures


Rebecca Runkle
Senior Analyst
Arience Capital


Ian Sandy
Principal Advisor
Shell International B.V.


John Schaffer
President
Covestic Inc


Jerry Sheehan
Manager for Government Programs
Calit2, University of California, San Diego


Bill Sobel
Senior Director, Product Strategy
Symantec Corp.


Douglas Solomon
Chief Technology Strategist
IDEO


Bill Soward
CEO
Adaptive Planning


Stephen Sparkes
Managing Director
Morgan Stanley


David Steakley
President
DGSRSA LP


Dietrich Stephan
Founder
Amnestix


Bill Strecker
Partner
Flagship Ventures


John K. Thompson
President & CEO
Marketing Sciences


Kris Tuttle
CEO
Blue Caterpillar


Marcel Vinay
CEO
Investment Media Group


Kevin Walter
Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives
EMC


Janine Warner
Freelance Journalist


Bob Warshawer
President
Black Rock


Jonathan Wilkie
Owner and President
Nicollet Technologies Corp.


Richard Wolfe
President
Hi-Vision America Inc.


Jim Woodward
Adjunct Professor, Physics Department
California State University Fullerton


Jean Wooldridge
Founder and Principal
St. Cloud Communicaton


Brad Wurtz
CEO
Caspian




FiRe Staff 

Berit Anderson
FiRe Volunteer
Strategic News Service



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



Sharon Anderson-Morris
Director, SNS Programs
Strategic News Service



Laurie Eastwood
Assistant to the Director of SNS Programs
Strategic News Service



Joel Montgomery
SNS/Rodel Foundations Intern
Thunderbird School of Global Management



Brent Morris
FiRe Volunteer
Strategic News Service



David Morris
FiReStarter Liaison
Strategic News Service



Marydee Potter
Public Relations Specialist
Strategic News Service



Scott Schramke
IT Director
Strategic News Service



Gustav Normark Toppenberg
SNS/Rodel Foundations Intern
Thunderbird School of Global Management



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  Note: All speakers pending final confirmation; many Participants will also be speaking.

Jean Wooldridge Steve Waite Larry Smarr Rolf Skoglund Michael Pfeffer Greg Ness Dan Lynch Bill Janeway Glen Hiemstra Scott Foster Cynthia Figge Kai de Altin Popioloek Russ Daggatt Ty Carlson Larry Brilliant

 

 

 
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