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Tuesday, May 11th
2:00p - 4:00p Meet the FiReStarters - Channel Island Suite
Private reception for the BBC, FiReStarters, and FiReSpotters; with Mark Anderson; Sharon Anderson-Morris, SNS Programs Director; and select SNS staff
4:00p - 7:00p Registration and Reception - Catalina Terrace and Lawn
4:00p - 6:30p FiRe Registration
5:00p - 6:30p Cocktail Reception with live entertainment (adult partners welcome)
6:30p - 6:45p Welcome to FiRe, and Introduction to FiRe Interns and Staff: Sharon Anderson-Morris, SNS Programs Director
7:00p - 10:00p Dinner and Presentation - Catalina Room
7:00p - 7:30p Welcoming Remarks:
  • Introductions and Appreciations:
    Sharon Anderson-Morris
  • Opening Remarks by Mark Anderson
8:00p Dinner Presentation: "Scaling (Alternative) Energy: The Key to Survival": Presented by Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
Wednesday, May 12th
6:45a - 7:45a Breakfast - Point Lawn
Note: Private test drives in the all-electric Tesla Roadster will be available to all FiRe attendees today, with thanks to CEO Elon Musk, on a sign-up basis. Register today at the FiRe Registration Desk.
7:50a - 12:00p Morning Sessions - Marineland Ballroom
7:50a - 8:00a "Welcome to FiRe" - LIVE Worldwide (Note: This morning session will be streamed to live sites around the world): Mark Anderson

8:00a - 8:45a "The Complex World of Emerging Platforms, from Cloud to Phone": A Centerpiece Conversation with Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect and CTO, Microsoft: hosted by Mark Anderson

8:45a - 9:15a "Is the Network Ready for Cloud Computing?": A panel with Glenn Dasmalchi, Tech Chief of Staff, Office of the CTO, Cisco Systems; Lew Tucker, former Cloud CTO, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems; Mark Thiele, VP Data Center Strategy, ServiceMesh; Yousef Khalidi, Distinguished Engineer, Windows Azure, Microsoft; and Richard McDougall, Chief Cloud Application Architect and Principal Engineer, Office of the CTO, VMware; hosted by Greg Ness, Vice President, Infoblox

9:15a - 9:45a "Exploiting Emerging Platforms: Moving from Push to Pull": John Hagel III, Director and Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge; and John Seely Brown, Independent Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge - authors of The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion; hosted by Stephen Evans, Presenter, Business Daily, BBC World Service

9:45a - 10:15a Break - Marineland Foyer

10:15a - 11:00a Keynote Conversation: Jen-Hsun Huang, Co-Founder, President, and CEO, NVIDIA; hosted by Mark Anderson

11:00a - 11:30a HOTSPOTS I: Six Personal Views of the Future

A panel hosted by Stephen Evans, Presenter, Business Daily, BBC World Service
  • Adrian Steckel: CEO, Azteca America, and Vice Chair, SkyFiber
  • Jeff Rodman: Co-founder and CTO, Polycom
  • Randy Foutch: Chairman and CEO, Laredo Petroleum
  • Joe Burton: VP and CTO, Unified Communications, Cisco
  • Paul Sonderegger: Chief Strategist, Endeca
  • Brett Horvath: Co-Founder, Re-Vision Labs
11:30a - 12:00p "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

12:00p - 1:30p Lunch - Point Lawn
1:30p - 3:30p Afternoon Sessions - Marineland Ballroom
1:30p - 2:00p "Tomorrow's Sustainable Housing Today": A panel with Hank Louis, Founder and Director, DesignBuildBLUFF, College of Architecture + Planning, University of Utah; Adelle Demko, COO, TrifectaGIS; and Mark Foster, Partner, ZGF Architects; hosted by Cynthia Figge, Co-Founder and COO, CSRHUB, and Co-Founder and Partner, EKOS International

2:00p - 2:30p "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

2:30p - 3:00p CTO 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; Glenn Dasmalchi, Technical Chief of Staff, Office of the CTO, Cisco Systems; Jerry M. Woodall, National Medal of Technology Laureate, and Berry M. and Patricia L. Epstein Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University; and Per-Kristian Halvorsen, SVP and Chief Innovation Officer, Intuit; hosted by David Brin, Author, Physicist, and Co-Host of TV's "ArchiTechs" series - Resource and judge: Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (Panel to continue at 4pm Breakout and Thursday 3:45pm Breakout; "Conclusion" to be presented Friday at 10am)

3:00p - 3:30p "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

3:30p - 4:00p Break - Marineland Foyer
4:00p - 5:00p Breakouts
  1. FiRe CTO Design Challenge - "Scaling Alternative Energy": 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; Glenn Dasmalchi, Technical Chief of Staff, Office of the CTO, Cisco Systems; Jerry M. Woodall, National Medal of Technology Laureate, and Berry M. and Patricia L. Epstein Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University; and Per-Kristian Halvorsen, SVP and Chief Innovation Officer, Intuit; hosted by David Brin, Author, Physicist, and Co-Host of TV's "ArchiTechs" series - Resource and judge: Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (Panel to continue at Thursday 3:45pm Breakout; "Conclusion" to be presented Friday at 10am) - Location: Whites Point #1 and #2

  2. "Behind the Film Climate Refugees": Moderated by Michael P. Nash, Director and Producer, and Stephen Nemeth, Executive Producer, documentary film Climate Refugees; - Location: Rocky Point #1

  3. "Moving from Push to Pull in New Platforms": Moderated by John Hagel III, Director and Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge; and John Seely Brown, Independent Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge - Location: Rocky Point #2

  4. "Networks Under the Cloud": Moderated by Glenn Dasmalchi, Tech Chief of Staff, Office of the CTO, Cisco Systems; Lew Tucker, former Cloud CTO, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems; Mark Thiele, VP Data Center Strategy, ServiceMesh; Yousef Khalidi, Distinguished Engineer, Windows Azure, Microsoft; and Richard McDougall, Chief Cloud Application Architect and Principal Engineer, Office of the CTO, VMware; moderated by Greg Ness, Vice President, Infoblox - Location: Inspiration Point
5:00p - 7:00p Meet the FiReStarters - Marineland Foyer
Exhibition with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, with FiReStarter companies Beautifull, Gist, Impact Radius, Mobisante, NeuroRepair, NivaSonix, Power Assure, Tesla Motors, TrifectaGIS, X1, and Zirus
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7:00p Global Film Debut: Climate Refugees
7:00p - 8:30p Global Film Debut: Screening of documentary film Climate Refugees (L.A. Think Tank Trulight Pictures) - Partners are welcome! - Location: Marineland Ballroom

8:30p -- Discussion with Michael P. Nash, Director and Producer, and Stephen Nemeth, Executive Producer

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Thursday, May 13th
7:00a - 8:25a Breakfast - Point Lawn
8:30a - 12:00p Morning Sessions - Marineland Ballroom
8:30a - 9:00a "The Finer Points of Global Economics": A discussion with Mark Anderson, hosted by Art Kleiner, Editor-in-Chief, strategy+business

9:00a - 9:35a FiReStarters I: Introduction by Sharon Anderson-Morris, SNS Programs Director;

Hosted by Stephen Evans, Presenter, Business Daily, BBC World Service:
  • Beautifull: Eric Greenberg, Founder, Chairman, and CEO
  • NeuroRepair Inc.: James Fallon, Chief Scientific Officer; and Matthew Klipstein, CEO
  • Impact Radius: Per Petterson, Co-Founder
  • Mobisante: Sailesh Chutani, Co-Founder and CEO
  • NivaSonix Inc.: Bobby Purkait, President and CEO
  • Power Assure: Brad Wurtz, President and CEO
9:35a - 10:05a "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 Ventures

10:05a - 10:35a FiReStarters II

Hosted 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

10:35a - 11:00a Break - Marineland Foyer

11:00a - 11:30a "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

11:30a - 12:00p "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

12:00p - 1:30p Lunch - Point Lawn
1:30p - 3:15p Afternoon Sessions - Marineland Ballroom
1:30p - 2:15p Centerpiece Conversation with Paul Jacobs, Chairman, Board of Directors; and CEO, Qualcomm; hosted by Mark Anderson

2:15p - 2:45p "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 Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), UCSD

2:45p - 3:15p HOTSPOTS II: Five Personal Views of the Future

A panel Hosted by Chris Albrecht, Editor, GigaOm Network:
  • Peter Möckel: Vice President, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Deutsche Telekom AG
  • James Fallon: Chief Scientific Officer, NeuroRepair
  • Per Petterson: Co-Founder and CEO, Impact Radius
  • Jim Sink: CEO, Avatar Reality
  • William Phelps: Executive Director, Technology Consulting, Accenture

3:15p - 3:45p Break - Marineland Foyer
3:45p - 4:45p Breakouts
  1. FiRe CTO Design Challenge Working Session: The Challenge Continues - "Scaling Alternative Energy": 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; Glenn Dasmalchi, Technical Chief of Staff, Office of the CTO, Cisco Systems; Jerry M. Woodall, National Medal of Technology Laureate, and Berry M. and Patricia L. Epstein Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University; and Per-Kristian Halvorsen, SVP and Chief Innovation Officer, Intuit; hosted by David Brin, Author, Physicist, and Co-Host of TV's "ArchiTechs" series - Resource and judge: Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (Solution to be presented Friday at 10am plenary session) - Location: Whites Point #1 and #2

  2. "Fixing Healthcare: Connecting Patient to Doctor": A continuing discussion with Sheryl Skolnick, SVP, CRT Capital Group LLC; Nick Hanauer, Partner, Second Avenue Partners, and Investor, Qliance; Constantine Davlantes, VP, Business Development, NivaSonix; and Doug Smith, President, W.D. Smith & Associates; moderated by Garri Jones, Founding Partner, Circle Health (Europe) - Location: Inspiration Point

  3. "Lighting the FiRe: Taking Your Company to Global Prominence": A discussion open to all FiRe participants, led by the CEOs of the FiReStarter companies - Location: Rocky Point #1

  4. "A Global Broadband Preview: New Initiatives in the U.S., Australia, and Elsewhere": A continuing discussion with Chris Hancock, CEO, AARNet; Peter Coroneos, CEO, Internet Industry Association, Australia; Simon Hackett, Managing Director, Internode (Adelaide); Phil Asmundson, Global Telecom Sector Leader and Vice Chairman and National Managing Partner for U.S. Technology, Media, and Telecommunications, Deloitte; and Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), UCSD; moderated by Victor Perton, Commissioner to the Americas, State Government of Victoria (Australia) - Location: Rocky Point #2

5:00p - 9:00p Dinner off-agenda by private arrangement
9:00p The FiRe Social - Library Lobby Bar
Meet with FiRe Speakers, FiReStarters,
Press, and SNS Staff
Friday, May 14th
7:00a - 7:55a Breakfast - Point Lawn
8:00a - 12:00p Morning Sessions - Marineland Ballroom
8:00a - 8:30a "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 Committee

8:30a - 9:00a "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

9:00a - 9:30a "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

9:30a - 10:00a "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

10:00a - 11:00a The FiRe CTO Design Challenge - "Scaling Alternative Energy:" Conclusion: Hosted by David Brin, Author, Physicist, and Co-Host of TV's "ArchiTechs" series; Group TBA

11:00a - 11:30a "Your Turn: The Next Five Years": Audience Questions and Comments, hosted by Mark Anderson

11:30a - 12:00p Closing Comments and Summary: Mark Anderson

 

 

 
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