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“SNS (just read the latest issue) is the only publication I know of that lifts your head up to the sun while anchoring your feet firmly to the ground.” – Sidney Rittenberg, Author, The Man Who Stayed Behind, and Founder, Rittenberg Associates, Inc., Beijing and Fox Island, WA
“The New York Times/Wall Street Journal etc. can barely deliver meaningful analysis of yesterday’s news. Mark clearly and actionably illuminates what is on our, and our families’, horizons – both storm clouds and sunshine.” – Rob Berkley, Managing Partner, Group MV LLC, Tisbury, MA
“SNS has been a staple of my weekly reading for years. As the economic storm was gathering, Mark and SNS [were] a primary source of information leading me to exit the market one week before the bottom fell out. Not only did we not lose any money, we have moved into safe havens and have been able to increase our net worth during one of the most severe downturns in recent history. SNS has been a valuable source of market intelligence that leads to informed action.” – John K. Thompson, CEO, U.S. Operations, Kognitio Inc.
“Not surprisingly, it looks like FiRe is doing even better in the midst of crisis. Of course: that’s when the awareness and responsive innovation you offer via FiRe are most valuable.” – Bob Jacobson, Lead on U.S. / Shanghai 2010 Expo Team FiReGlobal: West Coast
A New Conference, A New Format, A New Location
www.futureinreview.com/global/wc
Save the date: October 15th, 2009 Location: Herban Feast/Sodo Park, Seattle
What is it FiReGlobal? We are shortening the FiRe format to a single day and night, bringing the best of FiRe and its thought leaders to bear on local issues and problems. Keynote interviews will include Michael Dell, Nobelist Lee Hartwell, and conservation scientist Roger Payne. Speakers will include Governor Christine Gregoire. Local leaders in all major sectors in the Northwest will guide the process and help define worthy local problems, and global and local CTOs will help solve them.
Now there is a concept. This is an extension of our CTO Design Challenge at FiRe, brought to our friends in Seattle and neighbors in Portland and Vancouver, B.C.
The agenda will include a full day’s discussion, lunch, a reception for FiReStar companies (both local and global), dinner, and a local/global economic summary by Mark Anderson.
The problem-solving process is actually beginning now, and will culminate in solution report-outs, live, at the conference. As at FiRe for the last few years, we will hope for real answers to real problems. And yes, these conversations may continue after the conference.
Who is Involved? To date, our Steering Committee includes:
The FiReGlobal Steering Committee, as of 6.30.09
Mark Anderson Chairman, FiRe and FiReGlobal: West Coast CEO, Strategic News Service
Ty Carlson Architect, “SiArch” Group Microsoft Corporation
Tom Cowan Cowan Associates Lopez Island, WA
Karl da Gama Campos Manager, International Business Development Information & Communication Technology State of Washington’s Department of Commerce
John Delaney Program Director and Principal Investigator Neptune University of Washington
Enrique Godreau III Founding Partner Voyager Capital
Lee Hartwell Nobelist President and Director Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Ed Lazowska Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington
Rick LeFaivre Venture Partner OVP Venture Partners, Seattle
Janis Machala Founder and Principal Paladin Partners
Ken Myer President and CEO Washington Technology Industry Association
Michael Pfeffer Managing Partner Kolohala Ventures, Honolulu
Linden Rhoads Vice Provost, Office of Technology Transfer University of Washington
Bryce Seidl President and CEO Pacific Science Center, Seattle
Kathy Wilcox President and Founder Kathleen P. Wilcox & Associates
If you think we should add you or someone else, let us know.
FiReGlobal: West Coast is sponsored and supported by the Washington State Department of Commerce.
Is there an Early Bird price for SNS Members? Of course there is!!
SNSers may sign up this month, July, for $695; EB non-member rate is $895. As of August 1, the price will be $795 for members and $995 for non-members.
Here is the registration site. Sign up now, since we’ll once again sell out:
www.futureinreview.com/global/wc
To arrange for a speech by Mark Anderson on subjects in technology and economics, or to get a strategic review of your company, email shane@stratnews.com.
FiRe 2009 Photo Gallery: See more than 1,000 photos from FiRe 2009, at http://futureinreview.smugmug.com/FiRe%202009.
Early Bird Call for SNS Members for Future in Review 2010:
We are moving FiRe next year to the Terranea Resort, about 20 minutes south of the LAX airport, at:
Terranea was 15 years in the making, a four-star business hotel on its own promontory, and is just opening this month. Members may register now for the terrific Early Bird price of just $3400, vs. $4900 retail. We have already signed up a record number of Early Birds from those who attended FiRe 2009 (up 62%). Here is your chance, as an SNS Member, to reserve a seat and get a great price. Registration is at:
https://www.tapsns.com/fire/registration.php
Save a lot of money by registering now, and join us at “the best technology conference in the world” [The Economist]. – mra
» Finding
It seems as though most of the air in the Technology Room over the last few years has been taken up with the idea of Searching. After all, it made accidental billionaires of the Google tribe, so obviously it’s important, right? And it remains Microsoft’s Holy Grail, as not a week goes by without the company publicly longing for its unrequited-love-mate Yahoo.
It struck me this week, as I was thinking about the “real” technology landscape (i.e., involving customers and users), that Searching isn’t really important at all.
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