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***SNS*** Crisis as a Lens: The Real Japan
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SNS MEMBERS: In last year's post-conference survey, many of you indicated a desire to see younger talent joining us. Today, we are excited to announce our new Future in Review (FiRe) Conference 2011 *Rising Stars* program, created for your most talented young team members.
We are inviting senior company members who are paid attendees for FiRe 2011 to register, as their guests, up to 2 young stars from their company, at a strong discount. Your Rising Star guests will receive a unique opportunity to experience the power of FiRe, along with up to 200 C-level executives in world technology, finance, telecommunications, government, and more, covered by the highest level of both domestic and global press.
Space is limited for this new program, so registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. Qualifying Rising Stars employees of your company who are age 35 or under and are not yet registered for the FiRe conference will receive a discounted registration fee of $2,900. (That's $2,000 below the normal rate.)
Please register your Rising Stars as soon as possible, at www.futureinreview.com. Use the invite code risingstar2011 for this special rate, and enter your name in the Special Instructions field.
Your Rising Stars will join you for 4 days of learning and problem solving with the experts, in the areas of:
Technology Driving the Economy, Economic Cyberwar, Data Privacy: Global Policies, Online Privacy: Enabling Technologies, Investing in China, Improving Cloud Infrastructure, The New (CarryAlong) Pads, IPTV: Hardware and Software, Telepresence Entertainment, The New Car-Computing Revolution, Next-Generation Voice Recognition, Embedded Machine Vision, Financial Risk in the Global Economy, The Next Security Designs: Protecting Intellectual Property, The (now-famous) Annual FiRe CTO Design Challenge, 4G Devices, New Targets in Venture Investing, Investing in Films and lots more.
We look forward to seeing you and your Rising Stars in May.
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This year's theme for the Future in Review (FiRe) Conference is "Technology Driving Global Economics."
You can learn more about FiRe 2011 at our website, www.futureinreview.com.
It's going to be another amazing event, at another fantastic location the Montage Laguna Beach: www.montagelagunabeach.com/
Our opening evening will feature a conversation between myself and Richard Marshall, Director of Global Cyber Security Management, Department of Homeland Security, on the subject of "Economic Cyberwar."
Since our first conversation on this subject at the New York Predictions Dinner in December, this has become perhaps the hottest topic in security. I have just concluded advising the Symantec board of directors on its market repercussions, and Accenture has hired SNS to create a half-day program on this subject in London in July. Bloomberg TV, having run two interviews on the subject, is now asking for a third.
I look forward to providing our participants with the latest information on how this will impact their countries and companies.
Here are some of the speakers and subjects arranged to date, with many more coming up in the next few weeks:
I am happy to note that FiRe speakers now will include past Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers. Stay tuned for a wave of additional speakers next week.
I am very pleased to announce that we have added a fascinating, and scientific, discussion on monitoring and controlling personal health, a real-life story told by Calit2 Director Larry Smarr. Larry has shown this to a very few audiences, including at Stanford, Johnson & Johnson, and the Singularity Institute, and it is incredible.
We've also added the world's expert on measuring the volume of polar ice (not just its area), and the world's expert on carbon control strategies, which ought to give you a sense of where our CTO Design Challenge is headed this year. Is there something more important than planetary carbon control?
Ford's CTO, Paul Mascarenas, will be with us to talk with us about the Ford Co.'s leadership drive in telematics, in-dash content and communications, SYNC and its related technologies, and what we are calling the Revolution in Car Computing.
Of course, our Global Energy Partner Tesla Motors and its team will be there as well, with the new all-electric sedan (haven't seen that one yet, eh?); fast, silent cars to drive; and a new 17-inch hi-res dash screen that you'll drool over.
Both our headcount and our sponsorships are ahead of last year, and, one should add, Yes, we're having fun. Seats are again limited, so sign up soon, and avoid the next price hike on March 31 as well: www.futureinreview.com.
Here is a partial list of speakers and participants to date:
Justin Rattner Intel CTO and Senior Fellow; and VP and Director, Intel Labs; Intel Corp.
Tim Disney Co-Founder and Executive Producer,
Leroy Hood President,
Jeffrey Carr Founder and CEO, Taia Global; and Author, Inside Cyberwar Paul Ricci Chairman and CEO, Nuance Communications Inc.
William Janeway Senior Advisor,
James Louderback CEO,
Richard H.L. Marshall Director, Global Cyber Security Management,
Robert Anderson Director Technology Transfer,
Donald Budinger Chairman and Founder,
Eric Openshaw Vice Chairman, U.S. Technology; and Leader, Global Technology; Deloitte LLP
Joe Burton Chief Technology and Strategy Officer,
Jaidev Shergill Founder and CEO, Bundle.com
Alfred Chaung CEO and Founder,
John Delaney Professor of Oceanography and Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair in Sensor Networks, University of Washington; and Director, Regional Scale Nodes Program, National Science Foundation
Swain Porter CEO, Catalytic Software Inc.
Michael Hochberg Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering; and Director,
Mike Buhrmann Chairman and CEO,
Cynthia Figge Co-Founder and COO,
Ricardo Salinas Chairman of the Board,
David Rosenfeld Director of Research, Williams Jones Jason Dittmer Principal,
Paul Mascarenas CTO and VP, Research & Advanced Engineering,
Geralyn Dreyfous Board Chair, SLC Film Center and Utah Coalition for Film and Media; and Co-Founder, Impact Partners Film Fund
Per-Kristian Halvorsen Chief Innovation Officer and SVP,
Stephen Dunnivant Founder, Gulf Coast Entrepreneurial Center; and
The Hon. Richard Guy Retired Chief Justice, Supreme Court,
Norman Winarsky Vice President,
Jonathan Ewert CEO,
Gregory McRae CTO and VP, Research & Advanced Engineering,
Mark Booth
Chris Drumgoole Terremark
Gary Rieschel Founder and Managing Director,
Doug Stanley CEO and Co-Founder,
Paul Pluschkell Spigit Inc.
--- and many more.
Join us May 24th-27th, at the beautiful Montage Laguna Beach Hotel, and see why FiRe remains "the best technology conference in the world." (The Economist)
Register today at www.futureinreview.com.
Thank you to our FiRe 2011 partners, sponsors, and supporters:
Global Silver Partners of SNS Events:
Thunderbird SNS Internship Sponsor:
Tesla Motors, SNS' Global Clean Energy Partner:
and SNS Communications Partner Nyhus Communications:
» Crisis as a Lens: The Real Japan
The current triple crisis has put Japan under stresses far beyond what any planner had imagined. In doing so, it has provided an opportunity to see the real Japanese global economic model laid bare.
I am tempted to call this the Godzilla Crisis, after the wonderful Japanese cartoon and film character who comes out of the sea, eats most of Tokyo, and finally is vanquished by (insert your favorite hero). The combination of 9.0 earthquake, 30-foot tsunami, and runaway nuclear reactors is a plot that no B-grade movie producer in Hollywood would touch.
The people of Japan have already shown themselves to be heroes, and there will be thousands of stories of individual, family, and worker heroism which we will read about in the years to come.
The warning system that had been put into place seems to have worked perfectly, and, combined with prior training, will be shown to have saved perhaps a million lives well worth its cost.
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