Archive for 'Future in Review' Category
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 [...]
Global Broadband Initiative
13 May 2010“A Global Broadband Preview: New Initiatives in the U.S., Australia, and Elsewhere”: A panel with Chris Hancock, CEO, AARNet; Peter Coroneos, CEO, Internet Industry Association, Australia; Simon Hackett, Managing Director, Internode (Adelaide); and Phil Asmundson, Global Telecom Sector Leader and Vice Chairman and National Managing Partner for U.S. Technology, Media, and Telecommunications, Deloitte; hosted by [...]
Paul Jacobs
13 May 2010Centerpiece Conversation with Paul Jacobs, Chairman, Board of Directors; and CEO, Qualcomm; hosted by Mark Anderson Augmented Reality: Using mobile-based GPS to track twitter activity in real time. Managing privacy aspects in social networks is going to be very fine-grained. Jacobs says the next form factor: an in-between sized mobile device you can carry around [...]
Cyber Warfare
13 May 2010“CyberWar: Today and Tomorrow”: A panel with Barrett Lyon, Founding Partner and CEO, 3Crowd Technologies; and Raimund Genes, CTO, Trend Micro; hosted by Joseph Menn, Technology Correspondent, Financial Times, and Author, Fatal System Error State-sponsored hackers are engaging in cyber warfare to take down foreign governments. Every day we are tracing about 6.3 million specbots [...]
Fixing Healthcare
13 May 2010“Fixing Healthcare: Connecting Patient to Doctor”: A panel with Garri Jones, Founding Partner, Circle Health (Europe); Sheryl Skolnick, SVP, CRT Capital Group LLC; Nick Hanauer, Partner, Second Avenue Partners, and Investor, Qliance; and Constantine Davlantes, VP, Business Development, NivaSonix; hosted by Doug Smith, President, W.D. Smith & Associates How do we move from a unit-pay [...]
FiReStarters Part 2
13 May 2010Hosted by Stephen Evans, Presenter, Business Daily, BBC World Service: Gist: T.A. McCann, Founder and CEO TrifectaGIS: Clark Easter, Founder and CEO Tesla Motors: Ricardo Reyes, Vice President, Communications X1 Technologies: John Waller, CEO Zirus: David Perryman, President and CEO Gist Brings together all of your contacts, assesses your interaction history and organizes contacts that [...]
Thursday AM: Wrap-up
13 May 2010“Trends in Global Investing”: Panel discussion with Kamran Elahian, Co-Founder and Chairman, Global Catalyst Partners; Steve Brotman, Managing Director, Greenhill SAVP; Tara Lemmey, Chairman, LENS Ventures, and CEO, Net Power & Light; and Victor Perton, Commissioner to the Americas, State Government of Victoria (Australia); hosted by Bruce Dines, Managing Director of Technology Investing, Liberty Global [...]
FiReStarters
13 May 2010Beautifull: Eric Greenberg, Founder, Chairman, and CEO Makes pure, tasty healthy retail food prepared for eat-in, stock-up, take-out. “We make what you should eat into what you want to eat,” said Greenberg. We have to make healthy food fast, affordable and available to a lot of people. because that’s what Americans do. Beautifull is the [...]
How to Save Patagonia’s BioGem
12 May 2010“Peak Water”: A panel 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 1 in 5 people lack access to drinking water today. 40% of the world’s population [...]