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Environment
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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Topics in This Focus Channel
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AI in the Cloud
October 11, 2018
Amazon, Microsoft, and others are rushing to distinguish their cloud offerings by integrating the latest advances in AI, unlocking new possibilities and efficiencies for small- and medium-sized businesses the world over. Hear how the democratization of AI over the cloud will affect data use, analysis, business operations, and the economy.
- David Binger, CTO, Forced Physics
- Murray Cantor, IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO, Aptage
- Elena Eneva, Research Scientist in Artificial Intelligence, Accenture
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Supporting the Carbon Trifecta: Advances in 3D Printing
October 12, 2017
Trevor Rudderham, President and CEO, Haydale Technologies Inc.: Shane Fox, Co-Founder and CEO, LINK3D; and Philip Vafiadis, Executive Chairman, Innovyz and Innovyz Institute; hosted by Steve Waite, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Graphene Stakeholders Association
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Supporting the Carbon Trifecta: Building Elon’s World
October 12, 2017
Will Perego, Founder and CEO, 24-Hour Solar Roof; Mark Godsy, CEO, Exro Technologies; and Ray Gibbs, CEO, Haydale Plc; hosted by Cynthia Figge, CEO and Co-Founder, CSRHub
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FiReFilms: “Chasing Coral” Q & A
October 11, 2017
"Chasing Coral", FiReFilms Featured Film of 2017 A Discussion with C. Mark Eakin, Coordinator, Coral Reef Watch, NOAA; Brian McInerney, Hydrologist, National Weather Service; Roger Payne, President, Ocean Alliance and Brian Moench
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The SNS Carbon Trifecta: Harnessing the Flow of CO2
September 29, 2016
With Ray Gibbs, CEO, Haydale Plc; Jon Myers, Founder, Graphene Technologies, NovaMetallix, and Neural ID; Soroush Nazarpour, President and CEO, NanoXplore; and Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2 (a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership), and SNS Ambassador for Pure Science; hosted by Mark Anderson
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Preserving Big Brains: The New Whale Protection Zone
September 28, 2016
With Christopher Clark, Imogene Johnson Senior Scientist, Cornell University, and Senior Advisor, Planet OS; and "Announcing the Biocomputer Comparison Toolkit: Finding the Most Powerful Brains on Earth" With Benjamin Smarr, NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley; and Mark Anderson Hosted by Roger Payne, Whale Scientist, Founder/President of Ocean Alliance, and SNS Ambassador for Ocean Health
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Building Elon Musk’s Hyperloop
September 6, 2015
Bibop Gresta, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies’ Deputy Chairman and COO
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Commercializing Space: From the Moon to Mars
May 21, 2014
FiRe 2014: "Commercializing Space: From the Moon to Mars": Patti Grace Smith and Michael Sims; hosted by Larry Smarr
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Outer Space Commerce: Increasing Humanity’s Prosperity on a Global Scale
May 20, 2014
FiRe 2014: Dinner Presentation: "Outer Space Commerce: Increasing Humanity's Prosperity on a Global Scale": Chris Lewicki; hosted by Mark Anderson
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Roger Payne Talks About Humpback Whales In Park City
April 16, 2014
The man who is credited with discovering that humpback whales sing songs will be in Park City for the final guest in this season's Park City Institute's SNS Future in Review Speaker Series.
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Planning the Earth’s Energy Sourcing
May 23, 2013
"Planning the Earth's Energy Sourcing": A conversation with Michael Shellenberger, President, Breakthrough Institute; Kevin Surace, CEO, Appvance; Tom Arnold, CEO, Gridium.com; Stefano Poli, CEO, Electro Power Systems; and Michael Pfeffer, CEO, Ibis Networks; Hosted by Ed Butler, Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC
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“The Future of Cleantech”
May 25, 2012
A Conversation with Tom Matzzie, Founder and CEO, Ethical Electric Company; Dan Kapp, Director, Powertrain Research & Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Co.; and Tony Lammers, President and CEO, MAR Systems; hosted by Sheeraz Haji, CEO, Cleantech Group
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“From Ice to Ocean: Sea-Level Rise to Ocean Health”
May 23, 2012
James Balog, Photographer, Chasing Ice, and Founder, the Extreme Ice Survey; hosted by Roger Payne, Founder and President, Ocean Alliance
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“Ocean Toxins: Discoveries and Remedies”
May 23, 2012
Roger Payne, Founder/President, Ocean Alliance; hosted by James Balog, Photographer, Chasing Ice, and Founder, the Extreme Ice Survey
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“Remote Viewing in Underwater Cities”
May 27, 2011
With John Delaney, Professor, School of Oceanography and Paros Endowed Chair for Sensor Networks, and Director and PI for the Regional Cabled Observatory of NSF’s OOI; and Doug Stanley, CEO and Co-Founder, Ridgeline Entertainment; hosted by Michael Pfeffer, Managing Partner, Kolohala Ventures
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“Polar Ice Volumes Over Time: Is the Climate Debate Over?”
May 25, 2011
A conversation with Wieslaw Maslowski, Research Professor of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey; hosted by Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), UC San Diego and Irvine
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“Providing Clean Water for 200 Million”
November 11, 2010
A conversation with Jin Zidell, Founder/Chairman, Blue Planet Network
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“Restoring the Night Sky”
November 11, 2010
A conversation with Pete Strasser, Managing Director, International Night-Sky Association
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“Searching for Life on Mars”
May 14, 2010
With Steve Squyres, Principal Investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission, and Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University; hosted by Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), UCSD and Irvine
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“Peak Water”
May 12, 2010
With Wendy Pabich, Founder, Water Futures; Jonathan Leidich, President and CEO, Patagonia Adventure Expeditions; Tamin Pechet, CEO, Banyan Water LLC; and Rafael Simon, Venture Partner, VantagePoint Venture Partners; hosted by Russ Daggatt, Board Member, American Rivers
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“Pollution Report on the World’s Oceans”
May 22, 2009
Roger Payne, Founder and President, Ocean Alliance; hosted by Cynthia Figge, Co-Founder, EKOS International and EkoHub
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“Practical Strategies for Solving the Climate Problem”
May 19, 2009
Veerabhadran "Ram" Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor of Climate Sciences and Director, Center for Clouds, Chemistry & Climate (C4), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
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“An Urgent Need to Address Climate Change”
May 22, 2008
James McCarthy, a leader of the Nobel Prize-Winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Professor of Oceanography, Harvard University; hosted by Cynthia Figge, Partner and Co-Founder, EKOS International
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“China and the Changing Face of World CO2 Emissions”
May 22, 2008
A conversation with Richard Carson, Professor and Past Chair, Department of Economics, UC-San Diego; hosted by Cynthia Figge, Partner and Co-Founder, EKOS International
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“Earth on Fire: Rapid Response to Climate Crisis, Continuing the Necker Island Discussion”
May 21, 2008
With Elon Musk, CEO and CTO, SpaceX; and Lyndon Rive, CEO, SolarCity; hosted by Stephen Evans, Presenter, Business Daily, BBC World Service
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CTO Design Challenge: “Fighting Urban Wildfires”
May 21, 2008
A panel of wildfire experts, including: Ron Roberts, Supervisor, San Diego County Board of Supervisors, and military and fire personnel; with Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (the "FiRe Lab"), UCSD; Per-Kristian Halvorsen, CTO, Intuit; Brian Higbee, Director of SI Strategy, Symantec; Kelly Millsaps, CTO, Avanade; Kevin Walter, Director, Strategic Planning, Office of CTO, EMC Corporation; hosted by David Brin, Science Fiction Author and Physicist, and Co-Host of TV's "ArchiTechs" series
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“Tesla Motors: The Cars of Tomorrow, Today”
May 24, 2007
A panel discussion with Martin Eberhard, CEO, Tesla Motors; Nate Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, Caltech; and Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Environment and Energy Correspondent, The Economist; hosted by Elon Musk, Chair, Tesla Motors
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“The Whale and the Wind Turbine: Biomimicry and Design”
May 23, 2007
A conversation with Janine Benyus, President, Biomimicry Institute; hosted by Cynthia Figge, EKOS International.
Leaders in This Focus Channel
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John Delaney
Professor of Oceanography, University of Washington; Director and Principal Investigator, Regional Scale Nodes, NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative
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James Balog
Writer, The Human Element; Photographer and Subject, Chasing Ice; and Founder & Director, Earth Vision Institute and Extreme Ice Survey
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Jason Green
Director, Vantage Data Centers
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Keith Blakely
Chairman and CEO, The InVentures Group Inc.
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Hank Louis
Founder and Director, DesignBuildBLUFF
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Mark Foster
Partner, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects
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Cory Doctorow
Author, Activist, Journalist, Blogger, & Co-Editor, Boing Boing
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Steve Waite
Steve Waite, Adjunct Scholar at the Hudson Institute/Quantum Alliance Initiative
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Ramez Naam
Author; Computer Scientist; and Energy & Environmental Systems Faculty, Singularity University
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Nathanael Miller
Technical Lead, Earth Energy Monitoring System (E2MS)
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Wendy Pabich
Founder and President, Water Futures Inc.
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Jin Zidell
Founder and Chair, Blue Planet Network
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Will Perego
Founder and CEO, 24-hour Solar Roof
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Brian McInerney
Hydrologist, National Weather Service and E2MS
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Daniel Kapp
Director, Powertrain Research & Advanced Engneering, Ford Motor Co.
