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FiReStarters Part 1
26 May 2011Hosted by David Willis, Senior Foreign Correspondent, BBC: Cynvenio Biosystems: André de Fusco, CEO and Director; Finsphere: Mike Buhrmann, Chairman and CEO; Magnet Systems: Alfred Chuang, Founder and CEO; Spigit Inc.: Paul Pluschkell, Co-Founder and CEO; Wave Systems Corp.: Steven Sprague, CEO Steven Sprague, Wave Systems – hardware security designed to provide support for integrity and health of program as [...]
“Tolerating Waste: From Keynes to Schumpeter”
26 May 2011A Conversation with Bill Janeway, Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus; hosted by Mark Anderson BJ: Working on a book- recognized how important it is to take waste seriously. Economics is supposed to be about efficiency. A free market will allocate goods and services unefficiently. Keynesian waste — unemployment, machines rusting, etc. Keynes: govt could fix that [...]
“Operation Enduring Care”
26 May 2011A Conversation with Sloan D. Gibson, President and CEO, United Service Organizations (USO); and Louis “Chip” Weil III, Member, Board of Governors, USO, and Chairman, President, and CEO, Central Newspapers Inc. (Ret.); hosted by Don Budinger, Chair and Founder, The Rodel Foundations SG: USO is building two brand new veteran centers to help them rehabilitate. [...]
CTO Design Challenge Working Session “Saving the Planet by Capturing Carbon”
25 May 2011LS: Greg’s work with colleagues at Carnegie Mellon actually changed clean air act in CA. Separating ecological and engineered approaches. All biological material in ocean– diatoms alone give off 1/5 of O2 in atmosphere. Using iron filings to fertilize phytoplankton has been largely unsuccessful, because copapods eat iron. Biochar — taking waste ag and forest [...]
Breakout Session: Tomorrow’s Entertainment – Technology and Devices
25 May 2011Moderated by Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3; with Rob Chandhok, President, Qualcomm Internet Services and Qualcomm Innovation Center, Qualcomm; Tim Disney, Executive Producer, The Last Mountain; Lew Douglas, Board Member, Exodus Film Group, and President, Lewis Douglas Consulting; David Garrison, CEO, iBAHN; and Ed Lantz, President and CTO, Vortex Immersion Media Tomorrow’s Entertainment: Technology and Devices [...]
“Technology and Entertainment: Hollywood’s Future”
25 May 2011A Panel with Craig Tanner, Director/Executive Producer and President/Co-founder of Digital Revolution Studios; Tim Disney, Executive Producer, The Last Mountain; and Ed Lantz, President and CTO, Vortex Immersion Media; and hosted by Lew Douglas, President, Lewis Douglas Consulting, and Board Member, Exodus Film Group LD: 3D: Is it here to stay or just a gimmick? CT: [...]
Intro to CTO Design Challenge: “Saving the Planet by Capturing Carbon”
25 May 2011A Conversation with Greg McRae, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley, and Hoyt C. Hottel Professor of Chemical Engineering; hosted by Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), UC San Diego and Irvine; CTOs will take on the challenge of solving climate change through carbon capturing in the next 48 hours. Greg McRae [...]
“Computing with Light: The Future of Photonics and the New OPSIS Lab”
25 May 2011A Conversation with Michael Hochberg, Executive Director, OPSIS Lab, University of Washington; hosted by Robert Anderson, Director Technology Transfer, Illinois Institute of Technology MH: How do you replace computers that use electrons with computers that use photons? The answer is, it’s a bad idea. Photons don’t talk to each other. Making a photonic computer fights [...]
“Embedded Vision: Computers Seeing You”
25 May 2011A Conversation with Bruce Kleinman, Corporate VP, Platform Marketing, Xilinx;Jason Bluming, General Manager, Technical Strategy, Microsoft; and Ian Weightman, President, IMS Research; hosted by Scott Gardner, General Manager and EIC, Embedded Vision Alliance SG: All of this has been in research for decades, but is there really an inflection point causing all this tech to [...]
“IPTV and the World of Streaming 4G Devices”
25 May 2011A Conversation with David Garrison, CEO, iBAHN; and Philip Nelson, SVP Strategic Development, NewTek; hosted by Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3 JL: Newtek -revolutionized video in Amiga days. Now have tech that allows anybody to live stream using a mechanism the size of a breadbox. Phil: talk about world of streaming. PN: In the 90s, first [...]