FiRe 2012 Thought Leaders

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FiRe Speakers

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Mark Anderson Founder and CEO, Strategic News Service; and Chairman, Future in Review Conference Corp.	Robert Anderson Director, Technology Transfer, Illinois Institute of Technology	Peter Byck Director/Producer, Carbon Nation
Ty Carlson Architect, Office 365, Microsoft	George Dyson Author, Turing's Cathedral	Kamran Elahian Co-Founder and Chairman, Global Catalyst Partners
Alex Gounares CTO, AOL	Simon Hackett Managing Director, Internode (Australia)	Glen Hiemstra Founder and CEO, Futurist.com
Irwin Jacobs Co-founder, past CEO, and Board Member, Qualcomm	Paul Jacobs Chairman and CEO, Qualcomm	William Janeway Sr. Advisor, Warburg Pincus (NY and Cambridge, U.K.)
Vyomesh Joshi Executive Vice President, Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett-Packard	Paul Ricci Chairman and CEO, Nuance Communications	Gary Rieschel Founder and Managing Director, Qiming Venture Partners
Jin Zidell Founder and Chairman, Blue Planet Network

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FiRe Participants

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Randolph Blotky CEO, Technology Convergence Partners LLC	Jason Bluming General Manager, Technical Strategy, Microsoft	Mark Booth Managing Director, Epsilon Consulting (Australia)
Bill Budinger Founding Director, The Rodel Foundations	Don Budinger Chairman and Founder, The Rodel Foundations	Nancy Bulger Assistant Provost, Purdue University
Mary Clark Executive Assistant, The Rodel Foundations	Kim Davis Senior Vice President, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide	André de Fusco CEO, Cynvenio Biosystems
Christopher DiGiorgio Managing Director - California, Accenture	Dennis Fitzgerald President and Founding Partner, 24 Hour Company	Randy Foutch Chairman and CEO, Laredo Petroleum
David W. Garrison CEO, iBAHN	Robert Hadley Principal, Hadley Properties LLC	William Harris President & CEO, Science Foundation Arizona
Kathy Hurley SVP Strategic Partnerships, Pearson Education & Pearson Foundation	Sridhar Jagannathan Vice President, Technology Strategy and Partnerships, Office of the CTO, Intuit	Jason Knapp EVP, Product, Specific Media
Thomas Kraemer Founder, KMM	Patrick Lane Technology correspondent, The Economist	Jay Leon Founder and CEO, CSG Channels
Tushar Mehta Sr. Licensing Manager and Sr. Analyst, Quantum Intellectual Property Services - Intellectual Ventures	John Petote CEO, CIO Solutions[SEM]; and Angel Investor	Bill Phelps Executive Director, Technology Consulting, Accenture
Swain Porter CEO, Catalytic Software	Joseph Pritchett President/ Founder, Superior Products International II	David Rosenfeld Portfolio Manager and Director of Research, Williams, Jones & Associates
John Schaffer CEO, Covestic Inc.	Doug Smith President, W.D. Smith & Associates	Bill Soward Principal, Escalante Partners
Jason Spievak Co-Founder and CEO, RingRevenue Inc.	Marco Spinner Independent Contractor, Sigillum GmbH	Steven Sprague CEO, Wave Systems Corp.
Scott Tierney Director, Google	Marc Tremblay Distinguished Engineer, SiArch Team, Microsoft	Craig Vachon Chief Commercial Officer, Immersion
Vaclav Vincalek President, Pacific Coast Information Systems Ltd.	Tommy Wald CEO, White Glove Technologies	Bob Warshawer President, Black Rock Cable
Jerry Woodall National Medal of Technology Laureate; and Epstein Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

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FiRe Staff

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Berit Anderson Director of Social Networks, Strategic News Service	Evan Anderson FiRe Staff, Strategic News Service	Sally Anderson Editor-in-Chief and Production Manager, Strategic News Service
Sharon Anderson-Morris Director, SNS Programs, Strategic News Service	Jennifer Lee Executive Assistant to Mark Anderson, CEO, Strategic News Service	David Morris Business Development and FiReStarter Liaison, Strategic News Service
Scott Schramke IT Director, Strategic News Service	Lauren Vitulli Executive Assistant to Sharon Anderson-Morris, Strategic News Service

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