2019 Participants

  • Osh. Agabi

    Founder & CEO, Koniku Inc.

  • Berit Anderson

    Berit Anderson

    Director of Programs, Strategic News Service

  • Evan Anderson

    CEO, INVNT/IP

  • Mark Anderson

    Chair, Strategic News Service and the Future in Review Conference, and Founding CEO, Pattern Computer Inc.

  • Sharon Anderson Morris

    CEO, FiReFilms

  • Robert Armstrong

    Senior Software Engineer, Tempered Networks

  • James Barrese

    Strategic Advisor & Investor, Altos Group; Former CTO, PayPal

  • David Brin

    Author, Scientist & Chief Visionary, Futures Unlimited

  • Pamela Brody-Heine

    Director, Clean Electronic Production Network, Green America Center for Sustainability Solutions

  • Caitlin Cameron

    Chair and CEO, OtoNexus Medical Technologies Inc.

  • Murray Cantor

    Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Aptage; and Senior Technical Fellow, Pattern Computer Inc.

  • Ty Carlson

    Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Pattern Computer Inc.

  • H. E. Ambassador
    Abraham Wen-Shang Chu

    Director General, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles

  • George Church

    Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

  • Paul Clayson

    CEO, AgilePQ

  • Hillel Cooperman

    Senior Vice President, User Experience Design, Oracle

  • Charlie Corredor

    Vice President, Operations, OtoNexus Medical Technologies

  • Andrea Crosta

    Executive Director and Co-Founder, Earth League International

  • Thomas Aidan Curran

    Co-Founder and CTO, Ory

  • Mark Dankberg

    Chairman and CEO, Viasat

  • J. Augusto de Oliveira

    EVP & CTO, Cypress Semiconductor

  • Ali Douraghy

    Chief Strategy Officer, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Kimberly Dozier

    CNN Global Affairs Analyst; and Contributor, The Daily Beast

  • David Ewing Duncan

    Science Writer and CEO, Arc Fusion

  • Andrew Fano

    Managing Director, AI R&D, Accenture Labs

  • Steve Fey

    CEO, Totem Building Cybersecurity

  • Cynthia Figge

    Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, CSRHub and Co-Founder, EKOS International

  • Bob Flores

    Co-Founder and Partner, Cognitio Corp.; Former CTO, CIA

  • Aaron Fyke

    Founder and Managing Partner, Thin Line Capital

  • Jack Gilbert

    Professor, UCSD School of Medicine and Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  • David Gruber

    Presidential Professor of Biology, Baruch College, CUNY; Explorer, National Geographic; Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History; and Adjunct Faculty, Yale School of Medicine

  • Anne Hardy

    Chief Security Officer, Join Digital Inc.

  • Derek Harp

    Chairman, Control System Cyber Security Assoc. International (CS2AI)

  • Chris Hegedus

    Documentary Filmmaker

  • Bill Hilf

    CEO, Vulcan Inc.

  • Stephen Honikman

    Co-Founder & CEO, Emergent Microgrid

  • Joseph Hopkins

    COO, Crown Sterling

  • Harri Hursti

    Founding Partner, Nordic Innovation Labs

  • Jeffrey Hussey

    President and CEO, Tempered Networks Inc.

  • Junaid Islam

    Cybersecurity Expert, OODA

  • Paul Jacobs

    Chairman & CEO, XCOM; Former Chair and CEO, Qualcomm

  • Chris Johnson

    Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute; and Distinguished Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah

  • Lindsay Keys

    Documentary Filmmaker, The Lyme Trials LLC

  • Art Kleiner

    Editor-in-Chief (strategy+business)

  • Rob Knight

    Director, Center for Microbiome Innovation, and Professor, University of California San Diego

  • Ilshat H. Kokbore

    President, Uighur American Association

  • Georg Kopetz

    CEO, TTTech Auto AG

  • Judy Korin

    Producer, The Great Hack

  • Pedro Kos

    Writer / Producer, The Great Hack

  • Manfred Krischke

    Co-Founder and CEO, Cloudeo

  • Shalev Lifshitz

    AI Researcher & Entrepreneur, University of Waterloo, SickKids Hospital, and St. Joseph’s Health Centre

  • Edy Liongosari

    Chief Research Scientist and Managing Director, Accenture

  • Alex Livingston

    Co-Founder and President, Joule Case

  • Paul Maher

    General Manager, Industry Experiences, Microsoft

  • Richard H.L. Marshall

    Chairman of the Board, Cinturion

  • John Mattison

    Assistant Medical Director, Chief Health Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente

  • Bill McAleer

    Managing Director, Voyager Capital

  • Greg Ness

    CMO, Tempered Networks

  • Michael Norman

    Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center, and Distinguished Professor of Physics, UC San Diego

  • Hillery Nye

    IP Lawyer and Angel Investor, Zipwhip

  • Satchin Panda

    Professor, Regulatory Biology Department, Salk Institute

  • Vanessa Pegueros

    Board Member, Carbon Black and BECU

  • Kimberly Prather

    Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UC San Diego

  • Anand Rao

    Partner, Advisory Services, and Global AI Lead, PwC

  • William (Bill) Ribaudo

    Senior Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP

  • Kim Stanley Robinson

    Science Fiction Author

  • Richard Romanowski

    Co-Founder and Executive Director, Planet Ark Power

  • Marcus Sachs

    Chief Security Officer, Pattern Computer Inc.

  • Susan Schnabel

    Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner, aPriori Capital Partners

  • Jerry Schwartz

    CEO, Ecellix Inc.

  • Steven Sherman

    President and COO, NuPlastiQ, BioLogiQ

  • Bryan Skene

    CTO & VP Product Development, Tempered Networks

  • Larry Smarr

    Founding Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2; a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership)

  • Susi Snyder

    Nobelist & President, ICAN; and Project Lead, PAX Nuclear Weapons Project

  • Pam Taub

    Assoc. Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UCSD

  • John K. Thompson

    Global Head of Advanced Analytics & AI, CSL Behring

  • Elizabeth Unger

    Explorer, National Geographic Society

  • John Wells

    Producer and Host, “Cool Science Radio,” KPCW (NPR Affiliate)

  • Jody Westby

    CEO, Global Cyber Risk, and Professional Blogger, Forbes

  • Ann Winblad

    Founding Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

  • Joel Yarmon

    Founder and Managing Director, Pipeline Capital Partners

  • Pilar Ackerman

    Principal Technical Program Manager, Pattern Computer Inc.

  • Don Allen

    CTO, BioLogiQ

  • John Anderson

    SVP Products, Ecellix Inc.

  • Robert Anderson

    President, Robert F. Anderson and Assoc. Inc.

  • Michael Ashley

    Owner & Creative Content Specialist, Ink Wordsmiths

  • Seema Bajaj

    Digital Risk Manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP

  • Dallas Beddingfield

    Vice President, Evolution Computing Inc.

  • Akash Bhatia

    Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

  • Sanjay Bhatia

    Founder, Izenda

  • Scott Biddle

    President, BDL

  • Michael Biltz

    Managing Director, Lead for Technology Vision, Accenture

  • Simon Bisson

    Freelance Technology Journalist (U.K.)

  • Christine Bock

    Director of Public Relations, Crown Sterling

  • Mark Booth

    Managing Director, Epsilon Consulting (Australia)

  • Mary Branscombe

    Freelance Technology Journalist (U.K.)

  • Ben Brown

    Deputy Director of Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • John Butler

    Architect

  • Eric Cabral

    Research Analyst, Info-Tech Research Group

  • Caroline Calkins

    Premier Experiences Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers

  • Cole Cioran

    Senior Director, Research, Info-Tech Research Group

  • Domini Clark

    CEO, Blackmere Consulting

  • Steve Coy

    CEO and CTO, TimeLike Systems

  • Russell Daggatt

    Founding General Partner, Denny Hill Capital

  • Robyn Davis

    Marketing Strategist, Crown Sterling

  • Kai De Altin Popiolek

    President, ARQ

  • Gavin Dean

    Software Engineer, Pattern Computer Inc.

  • Craig Dobson

    Principal, Taylor Warwick Consulting Ltd.

  • John Elliott

    Global Managing Director, Digital Platforms, Accenture Digital

  • Dan Elron

    Managing Director, Corporate Strategy , Innovation and Technology, Accenture

  • Mike Freeman

    Staff Writer, San Diego Union Tribune

  • Mark Godsy

    Entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO, Exro Technologies

  • Ken Goldman

    President Hillspire; Former CFO, Yahoo Inc.

  • Anna Hackett

    Director, Base64

  • Simon Hackett

    Director, Base64; Co-Founder, Internet Society of Australia; and Founder, Internode

  • David Hadley

    Student, Hadley Properties

  • Robert Hadley

    Principal, Hadley Properties LLC

  • Steve Hart

    Co-Founder, ViaSat

  • Adam Hetnarski

    Vulcan Capital

  • Matthias Hohensee

    Bureau Chief Silicon Valley, Wirtschaftswoche (German Business Week)

  • Brad Holtz

    Founding Member and Chief Nexus Officer, Pattern Computer Inc.

  • Samuel Huegli

    CTO and Head of Digital Ventures, Tamedia AG

  • Quinn Jackson

    Senior Bioinformatics Technologist, Pattern Computer Inc.

  • Kristi Jaska

    Vice President Engineering, Viasat

  • Matt Keener

    Lead Hardware Designer, Pattern Computer Inc.

  • Jason Knapp

    Vice President, Product, Viasat

  • Lubomir Kordos

  • Ken Kreutz-Delgado

    Director PRLab, Qualcomm Institute, University of California, San Diego

  • David Levanson

    Senior Portfolio Manager & Research Analyst, and Executing Managing Director, Sands Capital Management

  • Ainnat Lifshitz

    Personal Development Coach, S.T.A.R. Consulting Group

  • Mark Mahan

    President, MMCO

  • Aleksander Mehrle

    President and Co-Founder, Ukraine Global Trade and Investor Inc. (UGTI)

  • Omid Moghadam

    CEO, Namida Lab Inc.

  • Ishan Mohanty

    Software Engineer, Machine Learning & Computer Vision, Pattern Computer Inc.

  • Peter Mueller-Bruehl

    Chairman of the Board, Cloudeo

  • Aadil Nanji

    Director, Info-Tech Research Group

  • John Petote

    Founder, Santa Barbara Angel Alliance

  • Michael Pfeffer

    CEO, Gabriel USA Inc.

  • Ward Phillips

    President, Ward Foundation

  • Luca Pion-Tonachini

    Senior Applied Mathematician, Pattern Computer Inc.

  • Nick Psyhogeos

    General Counsel and Chief Growth Officer, Pattern Computer Inc.

  • Emma Radan

    Marketing Coordinator, Crown Sterling

  • Michael Riddle

    Founding Member and Chief Systems Architect, Pattern Computer Inc.

  • Gary Roshak

    Managing Director, Synthesis Works

  • Jason Schwartz

    CSO, Ecellix Inc.

  • Drew Senyei

    CEO and Chairman, CausliT

  • Hassan Shahidullah

    CEO, Khaga Ltd.

  • Holliday Shuler

    Systems Engineer, Boeing Defense, Space, and Security

  • Kayla Singer

    Co-Lead Innovation Labs, Pypestream

  • Ricky Solomon

    Managing Partner, AI Capital

  • Bill Soward

    CEO, Titan Seal

  • Jeremy Stone

    Chairman, Highbank Capital Ltd

  • Bernard Ta

    Director of Commercial Development, Crown Sterling

  • Mark Tauschek

    Vice President, Infrastructure & Operations, Security, Risk & Compliance, Info-Tech Research Group

  • Steve Thrall

    Director of Development - North America, Planet Ark Power

  • Martin Tobias

    CEO, Upgrade Labs

  • Lyle Turner

    Founder, Invitrogen Corp. (ret.) and The Global Reef Project

  • Marcel van Hulle

    Senior Vice President, Info-Tech Research Group

  • Meenakshi
    Venkatasubramanian

    Graduate Research Assistant, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

  • James Wagoner

    Co-Founder and CEO, Joule Case

  • Steve Waite

    Steve Waite, Adjunct Scholar at the Hudson Institute/Quantum Alliance Initiative

  • Mark Webster

    Board Member, iCoin Technologies

  • Danah Wessels

    Director, Executive Speakers Bureau and Events, Oracle

  • Lynn Williamson

    Senior Events Manager, Oracle

  • Jean Wooldridge

    Founder, St. Cloud Communications

  • Yoichiro Yamada

    Consul-General of Japan in Seattle

  • Berit Anderson

    Berit Anderson

    Director of Programs, Strategic News Service

  • Evan Anderson

    CEO, INVNT/IP

  • Sally Anderson

    Editor-in-Chief and Production Manager, Strategic News Service, FiRe, and FiReFilms

  • Sharon Anderson Morris

    CEO, FiReFilms

  • Wil Audley

    2019 FiReFellow Team Leader; and Student at University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Dakota Carter

    FiRe Blogger and Machine Learning Engineer, Metis

  • Sebastian Damm

    2019 FiReFellow; Aerospace Engineering Student, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Lee Hall

    Special Projects Manager, Future in Review and Strategic News Service; and Principal, Clew Group LLC

  • Denyse Hudson

    Executive Assistant to Mark Anderson; Administrative Logistics Coordinator, Strategic News Service; and Senior Operations Manager, Pattern Computer Inc.

  • Shallon Jordan

    Executive Assistant to Berit Anderson, Director of Programs, Strategic News Service

  • Kris Krüg

    FiRe Event Photographer

  • R. David Morris

    Fire Interview Liaison; and Managing Director, Elysian Essential Oils LLC

  • Max Navas

    2019 FiReFellow; and Senior Portfolio Manager, Keiretsu Capital

  • Evan Roche

    2019 FiReFellow

  • Karen Roche

    FiRe Volunteer

  • Scott Schramke

    CTO, Strategic News Service

  • Diane Tober

    FiReFilms Support & Asst. Adjunct Professor, University of California - San Francisco

  • Ann Vertovec

    Attending Physician, Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital

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