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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                           FiRe Speakers | FiRe Participants

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



  View the FiRe Thought Leaders from previous years:
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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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