Archive for 'Future in Review' Category
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 [...]
How the World Wide Web is Changing the Face of Hollywood
12 May 2010“Technology and Entertainment: Hollywood’s Future”: A panel with Max Howard, President, Exodus Film Group; Eric Starr, Sr. Strategic Planner for Advertising, Media Arts Lab – Apple; Roy Salter, Founding Principal, The Salter Group; and Rob Hummel, CEO, Prime Focus Post Production, North America; hosted by Lewis Douglas, Managing Director, Ocean Alliance Photo courtesy of Flickr [...]
Opensourcing Higher Education
12 May 2010“Fixing the Business Model: Affordable Higher Education Worldwide”: Ángel Cabrera, President, Thunderbird School of Global Management; hosted by Robert Anderson, Director, Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property, Illinois Institute of Technology The future of education is in internet-based, technologically diverse education, as in MIT’s open-source education model, where video lectures are available online. For profit universities [...]
The Future of Sustainable Housing
12 May 2010“Tomorrow’s Sustainable Housing Today”: A panel with Hank Louis, Founder and Director, DesignBuildBLUFF, College of Architecture + Planning, University of Utah; and Mark Foster, Partner, ZGF Architects; hosted by Cynthia Figge, Co-Founder and COO, CSRHUB, and Co-Founder and Partner, EKOS International Buildings are responsible for 40% of energy use in the US, and a huge [...]
Keynote Conversation w. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang
12 May 2010NVIDIA is investing in a. Parallel computing; using simulations and algorithms rather than photos to simulate special effects b. Revolutionized PC Currently, the PC is at a pause, but it will be revolutionized and refreshed again. Developers around the world will redesign the purpose and capabilities of the computer. NVIDIA is creating the next fastest [...]
Exploiting Emerging Platforms: From Push to Pull
12 May 2010John Seely Brown and John Hagel III on emerging platforms: Shift in education model from things being delivered to you to seeking out knowledge and information, so that we are excited about change rather than wary. The edge is now amazingly empowered because the cloud provides powerful tools and social networks to those on the [...]
Ray Ozzie and the Cloud
12 May 2010Highlights from Mark Anderson’s 8 am conversation with Ray Ozzie Move towards a low friction open software model, where developers will be developing non-device specific apps One cloud, linked to many appliance-like devices fine-tuned to specific parts of our lives, including buying devices for fashion All devices will need to have security; firewalls are not [...]
Harnessing the Power of the Sun
11 May 2010“Scaling (Alternative) Energy: The Key to Survival”: Presented by Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology Future in Review is designed to give its attendees a glance into, well, the future. So it is quite fitting that Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology, [...]