Global Initiatives
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.
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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.
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“FiRe Films: A New Program Uniting Technology, Finance, and Documentaries”
May 24, 2012
Introduced by Sharon Anderson-Morris, Programs Director, SNS
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“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
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“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.
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“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
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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
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FiRe CTO Challenge: “Saving the Planet by Capturing Carbon”
May 27, 2011
Hosted by Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), UC San Diego and Irvine
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“Special Showing: Are We Loving Them to Death?”
May 26, 2011
A KCPQ-TV production: How SNS’ Orca Relief contributed to new federal protection for Killer Whales; with Pam Pearson, SVP/General Manager, KCPQ/KZJO-TV and Tribune Broadcasting Co.; hosted by Mark Anderson
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CTO Design Challenge: “Scaling Alternative Energy”
May 15, 2010
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Dinner Presentation: “Scaling Alternative Energy: The Key to Survival”
May 11, 2010
Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
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Leaders in This Focus Channel
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Chris Hegedus
Documentary Filmmaker
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Susi Snyder
Nobelist & President, ICAN; and Project Lead, PAX Nuclear Weapons Project
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Robert Stone
CEO, Director and Producer, Robert Stone Productions
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Tim Disney
Co-Founder and Executive Producer, Uncommon Productions
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Vinton G. Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
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Jonathan Ewert
President, TransforMedia
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Jin Zidell
Founder and Chair, Blue Planet Network
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Michael Rossato-Bennett
Director, Alive Inside
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Joe Piscatella
Filmmaker, Revolutio LLC
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Mark Anderson
Chair, Strategic News Service and the Future in Review Conference, and Founding CEO, Pattern Computer Inc.
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Kathy Hurley
SVP Strategic Partnerships, Pearson Education & Pearson Foundation
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Stephen Nemeth
Founder and CEO, Rhino Films
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Geralyn Dreyfous
Co-Founder, Impact Partners Film Fund; and Founder/Board Chair, Utah Film Center
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Roger Ressmeyer
Founder and Executive Director, Visions of Tomorrow Foundation
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Louie Schwartzberg
Filmmaker and Founder, Moving Art
