FiRe looks at the future of everything in these core target areas of interest, from chip designs to high-performance computing, from cloud structure to wireless and software.
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SNS has redefined global economics theory through an IP-centric view, with strong results in prediction success, from companies to countries. FiRe provides a unique focus on finance subjects, including venture capital and technology funding, with additional attention to global equity markets.
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Beginning with its SNS Project Inkwell initiative – the first global vendor consortium on appropriate technology in K-12 education – FiRe takes a deep look into creating the next model for modern education.
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Perhaps the first team to unveil the Enron scandal, SNS has a long history of accurate predictions of oil pricing and energy outcomes. FiRe explores related areas, from alternative energy and energy markets to energy’s connection to climate change.
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FiRe maintains a continuous awareness of the world we depend on for survival, from the oceans to the atmosphere, from how we affect the environment to what technology can contribute to promote global environmental health.
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The FiRe program incorporates ongoing efforts relating to select coordinated SNS initiatives. These initiatives have grown from FiRe conversations into multiple global cooperative efforts to improve the world through the appropriate application of technology, including INVNT/IP, SNS FiReFilms, SNS Project Inkwell, Nutritional Microanalysis, and more.
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The ongoing “fixing healthcare” discussion at FiRe is focused on the question of how to repair a broken business model, generally seeking ways to bring providers and patients back into primary contact. This area also includes new innovations in healthcare solutions, from the Quantified Self to the new SNS field of Nutritional Microanalysis.
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FiRe’s Pure Science channel focuses on research by members of the FiRe community into pure science, including physics, climatology, space and ocean exploration, evolutionary theory, ethnology, and more.
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William J. Ribaudo, Technology Media Telecom Industry Leader, Deloitte Advisory
“Another outstanding FiRe event. Smart people speaking and collaborating about important global issues that
technology can positively impact. Well worth our investment and participation.”
Vaclav Vincalek, Founder and President, Pacific Coast Information Systems Ltd.:
“Mind-provoking place filled with smart people.”
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