Archive for '2010 Future in Review' Category
The Finer Points of Global Economics
18 August 2010Editor’s Note: This issue is based on the transcript of an interview of Mark Anderson, CEO of SNS, by Art Kleiner, editor-in-chief of strategy+business, which took place at the SNS Future in Review conference at the Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, California, on May 13, 2010. Restructured by strategy+business for publication as a front-page “Thought [...]
FiRe 2010 Apres Feu Party
17 May 2010Each year, on the night FiRe ends, FiRe staff and assorted remaining guests gather for our annual “Apres Feu” fete to celebrate a week full of groundbreaking thinkers and envelope-pushing conversations among the extended FiRe family. This year was no different. Wonderful people, stimulating conversation, delicious fare in a breathtaking location. Thanks to the Rodel [...]
Thanks for a Great FiRe 2010!
15 May 2010Thanks to everyone for another world changing Future in Review, from the entire team at FiRe 2010. Share this post:
CTO Challenge
15 May 2010CTO Design Challenge – “Scaling Alternative Energy: How Can It Be Done?”: With Ty Carlson, Architect, SiArch Group, Microsoft; Thomas Aidan Curran, CTO, Products & Innovation, Deutsche Telekom AG; Eric Openshaw, Vice Chairman and U.S. Technology Leader, Deloitte; Jerry M. Woodall, National Medal of Technology Laureate, and Berry M. and Patricia L. Epstein Distinguished Professor [...]
FiReStarter Winner!
14 May 2010FiRe attendees voted and the winner of our FiRe 2010 Audience award is FiReStarter company, NeuroRepair. Congratulations from the entire FiRE 2010 team! NeuroRepair Inc. NeuroRepair Inc., in cooperation with researchers at the University of California-Irvine School of Medicine, has developed what is likely the world’s most advanced technology for repair of neurological damage, an [...]
Discovering the Future: Nonlocal Quantum Communication
14 May 2010“Discovering the Future: Experiments in Nonlocal Quantum Communication and Retrocausality”: A conversation with John Cramer, Science Fiction Author and Professor Emeritus in Physics, University of Washington; hosted by David Brin, Author, Physicist, and Co-Host of TV’s “ArchiTechs” series The problem of nonlocality: Einstein didn’t like quantum mechanics; thought there was something wrong with it. If [...]
The Little Rovers That Could: Spirit and Discovery Traverse Mars
14 May 2010“Searching for Life on Mars”: 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 The space program has historically been indecisive in its efforts to determine whether or not there’s life on Mars. Most [...]
Building the First Remote Underwater City
14 May 2010“Building the First (Remote) Underwater City”: An interview with John Delaney, Professor of Oceanography and Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair in Sensor Networks, and Director, Regional Scale Nodes Program, University of Washington; on the construction of the world’s first undersea broadband and power-supplied permanent remote sensing network; hosted by Michael Pfeffer, Managing Partner, Kolohala Ventures [...]
1:1 Computing Drives Success in Schools
14 May 2010“SNS Project Inkwell: New Achievements in 1:1 and Sister Schools Programs”: With David Engle, Director of Operations (U.S.), Project Inkwell, and Superintendent, North Platte School District; Kathy Hurley, SVP Strategic Partnerships, Pearson Education and Pearson Foundation; and David Achim, President and COO, SkyFiber; hosted by Tom Greaves, CEO, the Greaves Group, and Member, Inkwell Steering [...]
The Cloud and Its Triumverate: Guest Entry by Infoblox VP Greg Ness
13 May 2010Key Tech Vendors and the Future of IT If you drew a triangle and placed Cisco, Microsoft and VMware, respectively, at each corner you would have a good idea of where the center of power is regarding the future direction of the IT industry and the emergence of cloud computing. And plenty of well-heeled tech [...]