Global Initiatives

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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FiReFilms: Documentaries That Change the World

October 12, 2017

PeterC.Davidson, Senior Media Consultant, Happy Fox Media; Jorden Saxton Hackney, Outreach Coordinator, Jenny Mackenzie Films; Bo Landin, Director & Producer and CEO, Scandinature Films USA Inc.; and Diane Tober, Asst. Professor, University of California - San Francisco, Institute for Health and Aging and Documentary Filmmaker / Founder, Moonchaser Productions LLC;hosted by Sharon Anderson Morris, SNS FiReFilms Managing Directorand SNS Programs Director.

The UnDx (Undiagnosed) Initiative

October 12, 2017

Introduction by Sharon Anderson Morris, SNS Programs Director and SNS FiReFilms Managing Director; and Co-Founder, UnDx

"Undiagnosed, The Documentary": Katia Moritz, Filmmaker (Undiagnosed: Medical Refugees)

"The UnDx Initiative, Year 2: Moving from Silos Toward Systems in Precision Medicine": Doug Jamison, Founder and CEO, HALE.life; Andreas Kogelnik, Director, Open Medicine Institute; DeAunne Denmark, Precision Medicine & Research, Open Medicine Institute; and Michael Kurisu, Clinical Director,Center for Integrative Medicine, UCSD

Hostedby Larry Smarr, Founding Director, Calit2 (a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership

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

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

The UnDx (Undiagnosed) Global Initiative

September 29, 2016

With Katia Moritz, Director, Undiagnosed (the documentary); Ryan Taft, Senior Director, Scientific Research, Illumina Inc.; John Ryals, CEO, Metabolon; and Robin Y. Smith, CEO, ORIG3N; hosted by Doug Jamison, CEO, Harris & Harris Group

SNS FiReFilms: Documentaries That Change the World: Meet the Directors

September 28, 2016

With Chris Hegedus, Director, Unlocking the Cage; Geralyn Dreyfous, Co-Founder, Impact Partners Film Fund, Founder, Utah Film Center, and SNS Ambassador for Documentary Films; Adriana LaCorte, Director, Sniffing Out Cancer; and Ted Richane, Engagement and Impact Director, Vulcan Productions (The Ivory Game); hosted by Sharon Anderson Morris, SNS Programs Director and SNS FiReFilms Managing Director

Building the Pattern Recognition Lab

October 7, 2015

SNS and UC San Diego create a new FiRe Lab: A Pattern Recognition Laboratory (PRL) based on brain-inspired processors and housed in Calit2's Qualcomm Institute With Larry Smarr, Founding Director, Calit2 (a UCSD / UCI partnership) and Mark Anderson Discussion: "Building the Pattern Recognition Lab": With Ken Kreutz-Delgado, Professor of Intelligent Systems, Signal Processing, and Robotics, Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD; Akihiro Nakao, Professor of Applied Computer Science, University of Tokyo; and Mark Anderson

Building Elon Musk’s Hyperloop

September 6, 2015

Bibop Gresta, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies’ Deputy Chairman and COO

Documentaries That Change the World

May 22, 2014

Meet the Directors: With Michael Rossato-Bennett, Writer, Director, and Producer, Alive Inside - winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for US Documentary; E. Katia Moritz, Creator and Co-Director, Undiagnosed: Medical Refugees, and Clinical Director, NeuroBehavioral Institute; Joe Piscatella, Writer, Director, and Producer, #chicagoGirl, Revolutio LLC; and Mick Ebeling, CEO, Not Impossible LLC; hosted by Geralyn Dreyfous, Co-Founder, Impact Partners Film Fund, Founder and Board Chair, Utah Film Center, and Co-Founder, Gamechanger Films

In the Wake of the Mandiant Report: China IP Theft and the World Economy

May 22, 2013

"In the Wake of the Mandiant Report: China IP Theft and the World Economy": A conversation with Richard Marshall, CEO, X-SES; and Mark Anderson, Founder and Chair, INVNT/IP; hosted by Ed Butler, Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC

CTO Design Challenge: “Creating the New Field of ‘Nutritional Microanalysis’: Inputs for the Quantified Self”

May 25, 2012

The goal of the 2012 CTO Design Challenge: to create a new field of medicine and a research platform for understanding human health and disease, and their connection to the human genome, by evaluating the inputs on a chemical level and their effects on the body’s processes.

“FiRe Films: A New Program Uniting Technology, Finance, and Documentaries”

May 24, 2012

Introduced by Sharon Anderson-Morris, Programs Director, SNS

“Privacy Protection: Going Global”

May 24, 2012

A conversation with David Vladeck, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, U.S. Federal Trade Commission; hosted by Jonathan Ewert, President, TransforMedia LLC

“Technology Addressing Human Trafficking: A New Global Rescue System”

May 24, 2012

Technologists are working with NGO leaders to create the first Global Rescue System for victims of human trafficking.

“A New Global Consortium for IP Protection”

May 23, 2012

A discussion on a new international consortium, led by the leading technology firms in the world, and joined by government agencies on three continents, the INVNT/IP group is focused on Inventing Nations vs. Nation-sponsored Theft of Intellectual Property (www.invntip.com). With Steven Sprague, CEO, Wave Systems; Paul Ricci, Chair and CEO, Nuance Communications; and Mark Anderson, Founding Chair, INVNT IP; hosted by Don Budinger, Chair and Founding Director, The Rodel Foundation

The AORTA Manifesto: “A Movement to Revolutionize Teaching and Learning”

May 23, 2012

This SNS Project Inkwell manifesto will be signed by NGOs and educators around the world, with the aim of forming the basis for accelerated policy change and creation of a new platform for the revolution needed in K12 in the 21st century. www.projectinkwell.org/manifesto.php

Leaders in This Focus Channel

Kathy Hurley

SVP Strategic Partnerships, Pearson Education & Pearson Foundation

Andrew Wallis OBE

CEO, Unseen (UK)

Shawn Heinrichs

Founder, Blue Sphere Media

James Redford

Documentary Filmmaker, Redford Center, KPJR films

Paul Ricci

Chair and CEO, Nuance Communications

Thomas Burns

Founder and CEO, Carmel International Film Festival

Geralyn Dreyfous

Co-Founder, Impact Partners Film Fund; and Founder/Board Chair, Utah Film Center

Ted Richane

Engagement and Impact Director, Vulcan Productions

Joe Piscatella

Filmmaker, Revolutio LLC

Glen Hiemstra

Founder, Futurist.com

Nelson Heller

President, HellerResults Group

Don Budinger

Chair and Founding Director, The Rodel Foundations

Roger Ressmeyer

Founder and Executive Director, Visions of Tomorrow Foundation

Hugh Bradlow

Chief Scientist, Telstra Corp

Peter Byck

Director/Producer, Carbon Nation

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Date

October 8-11, 2019

Location

The Lodge at Torrey Pines
La Jolla, CA

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