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In This Issue     Feature: Australia’s Strengths Strength of the Australian Economy Australia’s Place in Asia About Chris Bowen   Upcoming SNS Events & Media Links   In Other House News…   How to Subscribe May I Share This Newsletter? About SNS About the Publisher Where’s Mark?

By The Hon Chris Bowen, MP [Australia]

    Minister for Human Services; and Minister for Financial

    Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law

 

 

“The Australian American Leadership Conversations: Hosted by the Australian Consulate General, these events were conceived in the spirit of the Prime Minister’s determination to talk about the future of our country – Australia – and, by extension, the world. They feature many and varied views from leaders in their fields with the aim of fostering discussion on matters of public interest, which is what conversation is all about.”

                                                – From the AALC website.

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Peter Day’s annual “BBC World of Business” interview with Mark Anderson can be found at:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p005m6zl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Save $1,500 on Future in Review 2010 by signing up before January 31:

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Suggested resolutions for 2010:

 

1. Join global thought leaders for Year Eight of “the best technology conference in the world” (The Economist).
2. Capture the FiRe 2010 Early Bird rate by January 31.
3. Come to Terranea, the most beautiful resort in California, May 11-14.

 

And meet NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, subject of our Centerpiece Conversation, where he will explain how his GPU chips are replacing Intel’s CPUs at every level of computing;

 

and SNS Member Paul Jacobs, CEO of QUALCOMM, for our Day 2 Centerpiece Conversation on Smartbooks, Snapdragon chips, and the future of wireless.

 

Other themes we’ll be addressing:

 

Netbooks: Since we invented them, FiRe is a great place to learn about how the fastest-growing form factor in computing will expand over the next three years.

 

Cloud Computing: Last year, FiRe was the launch pad for the Infrastructure 2.0 Working Group, fixing until-then unknown “broken” aspects in Cloud design. Come to FiRe to learn how to “fix the Cloud.”

 

You also might want to:

 

Talk to Steve Jobs’ personal advisor, in person.

 

Learn more about Sweden’s Sustainable Cities, catch up on how you can be part of the Australian Miracle, and find out about Japan’s plans for fuel cells.

 

See Qualcomm’s Smartbooks and Snapdragon chips.

 

Hear what’s next for Google’s Android platform and applications.

 

Approach Fixing Healthcare by re-connecting patient to doctor.

 

And, of course, catch our now world-famous CTO Design Challenge, with Larry Smarr and David Brin.

 

 

   “The best technology conference in the world.”

      – The Economist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publisher’s Note: SNS Members will recall the issue in which I suggested, a few years ago, that Australia was the next country to put on our positive Country Watch List. Since that time, Australia has had an amazing ride up, even as the rest of the world has been in trial.  

 

About a year later, I had the pleasure of being introduced to the Australian American Leadership Dialogue, and its founder, Phil Scanlan, via live telepresence connection during FiRe, thanks to Larry Smarr and the “FiRe Laboratory” (Calit2) at UCSD. Today, I find myself a happy member not only of that lab’s advisory board, but of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue.

 

Phillip Scanlan, who many of you met at FiRe 2009 (and who will be rejoining us for FiRe 2010), has now moved forward into the position of Consulate-General of Australia in New York. In that office, he hosted MP Chris Bowen for a discussion before his non-Australian friends explaining the country’s current status and some of the reasons for its success.

 

In Phil’s words, in an email to us this week: “Chris Bowen is still in his thirties, and is an influential member of the labor caucus with a strong focus on the future. He is a patron of the young [Australian American] Leadership Dialogue, and will continue to be a big influence in the AALD. His visit to NYC and London was highly successful in engaging the interest of global investors in Australia.”

 

If I thought our members knew the data in Bowen’s talk already, I would not have bothered, but I think you will agree that the facts the MP has assembled here paint a truly stunning picture supporting our selection of Australia for this honor. Indeed, my guess is that what you are about to read will almost all come as new news, and I suspect our membership will change their view of Australia’s prospects based partly on this account.

 

I thank SNS Member and Consulate-General Phil Scanlan for providing private permission to SNS to reprint this talk, given recently by MP Bowen at the Consulate in New York.  – mra.