Global Initiatives
These are coordinated, focused global efforts to improve the world through the appropriate application of technology. Most of these initiatives were seeded at the annual SNS FiRe conference, including INVNT/IP, SNS FiReFilms, SNS Project Inkwell, Nutritional Microanalysis, and more.
October 12, 2017
PeterC.Davidson, Senior Media Consultant, Happy Fox Media; Jorden Saxton Hackney, Outreach Coordinator, Jenny Mackenzie Films; Bo Landin, Director & Producer and CEO, Scandinature Films USA Inc.; and Diane Tober, Asst. Professor, University of California - San Francisco, Institute for Health and Aging and Documentary Filmmaker / Founder, Moonchaser Productions LLC;hosted by Sharon Anderson Morris, SNS FiReFilms Managing Directorand SNS Programs Director.
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October 12, 2017
Introduction by Sharon Anderson Morris, SNS Programs Director and SNS FiReFilms Managing Director; and Co-Founder, UnDx
"Undiagnosed, The Documentary": Katia Moritz, Filmmaker (Undiagnosed: Medical Refugees)
"The UnDx Initiative, Year 2: Moving from Silos Toward Systems in Precision Medicine": Doug Jamison, Founder and CEO, HALE.life; Andreas Kogelnik, Director, Open Medicine Institute; DeAunne Denmark, Precision Medicine & Research, Open Medicine Institute; and Michael Kurisu, Clinical Director,Center for Integrative Medicine, UCSD
Hostedby Larry Smarr, Founding Director, Calit2 (a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership
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October 11, 2017
"Chasing Coral", FiReFilms Featured Film of 2017 A Discussion with C. Mark Eakin, Coordinator, Coral Reef Watch, NOAA; Brian McInerney, Hydrologist, National Weather Service; Roger Payne, President, Ocean Alliance and Brian Moench
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September 29, 2016
With Ray Gibbs, CEO, Haydale Plc; Jon Myers, Founder, Graphene Technologies, NovaMetallix, and Neural ID; Soroush Nazarpour, President and CEO, NanoXplore; and Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2 (a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership), and SNS Ambassador for Pure Science; hosted by Mark Anderson
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September 29, 2016
With Katia Moritz, Director, Undiagnosed (the documentary); Ryan Taft, Senior Director, Scientific Research, Illumina Inc.; John Ryals, CEO, Metabolon; and Robin Y. Smith, CEO, ORIG3N; hosted by Doug Jamison, CEO, Harris & Harris Group
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September 28, 2016
With Chris Hegedus, Director, Unlocking the Cage; Geralyn Dreyfous, Co-Founder, Impact Partners Film Fund, Founder, Utah Film Center, and SNS Ambassador for Documentary Films; Adriana LaCorte, Director, Sniffing Out Cancer; and Ted Richane, Engagement and Impact Director, Vulcan Productions (The Ivory Game); hosted by Sharon Anderson Morris, SNS Programs Director and SNS FiReFilms Managing Director
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October 7, 2015
SNS and UC San Diego create a new FiRe Lab: A Pattern Recognition Laboratory (PRL) based on brain-inspired processors and housed in Calit2's Qualcomm Institute With Larry Smarr, Founding Director, Calit2 (a UCSD / UCI partnership) and Mark Anderson Discussion: "Building the Pattern Recognition Lab": With Ken Kreutz-Delgado, Professor of Intelligent Systems, Signal Processing, and Robotics, Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD; Akihiro Nakao, Professor of Applied Computer Science, University of Tokyo; and Mark Anderson
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September 6, 2015
Bibop Gresta, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies’ Deputy Chairman and COO
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August 18, 2015
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April 16, 2015
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May 22, 2014
Meet the Directors: With Michael Rossato-Bennett, Writer, Director, and Producer, Alive Inside - winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for US Documentary; E. Katia Moritz, Creator and Co-Director, Undiagnosed: Medical Refugees, and Clinical Director, NeuroBehavioral Institute; Joe Piscatella, Writer, Director, and Producer, #chicagoGirl, Revolutio LLC; and Mick Ebeling, CEO, Not Impossible LLC; hosted by Geralyn Dreyfous, Co-Founder, Impact Partners Film Fund, Founder and Board Chair, Utah Film Center, and Co-Founder, Gamechanger Films
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May 22, 2013
"In the Wake of the Mandiant Report: China IP Theft and the World Economy": A conversation with Richard Marshall, CEO, X-SES; and Mark Anderson, Founder and Chair, INVNT/IP; hosted by Ed Butler, Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC
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July 11, 2012
An SNS Weekly Report on Device Battles, IP Wars, including Inventing the Computer Industry; Smartphones: Strategic Fulcrum of the Computer Industry; Committing Strategic Hara-Kiri; Sidebar: Pirates and Trolls; Asia Moves In; Carriers: The Willing Accomplices; Device Battles Heat Up; and The IP Wars
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May 25, 2012
The goal of the 2012 CTO Design Challenge: to create a new field of medicine and a research platform for understanding human health and disease, and their connection to the human genome, by evaluating the inputs on a chemical level and their effects on the body’s processes.
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May 24, 2012
Introduced by Sharon Anderson-Morris, Programs Director, SNS
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May 24, 2012
A conversation with David Vladeck, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, U.S. Federal Trade Commission; hosted by Jonathan Ewert, President, TransforMedia LLC
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May 24, 2012
Technologists are working with NGO leaders to create the first Global Rescue System for victims of human trafficking.
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May 23, 2012
A discussion on a new international consortium, led by the leading technology firms in the world, and joined by government agencies on three continents, the INVNT/IP group is focused on Inventing Nations vs. Nation-sponsored Theft of Intellectual Property (www.invntip.com). With Steven Sprague, CEO, Wave Systems; Paul Ricci, Chair and CEO, Nuance Communications; and Mark Anderson, Founding Chair, INVNT IP; hosted by Don Budinger, Chair and Founding Director, The Rodel Foundation
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May 23, 2012
This SNS Project Inkwell manifesto will be signed by NGOs and educators around the world, with the aim of forming the basis for accelerated policy change and creation of a new platform for the revolution needed in K12 in the 21st century. www.projectinkwell.org/manifesto.php
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April 5, 2012
An exclusive SNS Special Report on Huawei, including The National Broadband Network; Ren Zhengfei: The Invisible Man; Control vs. Ownership; Sun Yafang: The Missing Puzzle Piece; Follow the Money; Foreign Intellectual Property: Beg, Borrow, or Steal; Champions “Going Out,” or Market Killers?; Global Market Effects; Other Countries, and the Charm Offensive; and The Problem with Cyber Security
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November 22, 2011
An SNS Weekly Report on Living in an AORTA World; Social Issues; The Brain Extended; The Internet Assistant and AORTA; and Sensors in an AORTA World
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May 27, 2011
Hosted by Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), UC San Diego and Irvine
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May 26, 2011
A KCPQ-TV production: How SNS’ Orca Relief contributed to new federal protection for Killer Whales; with Pam Pearson, SVP/General Manager, KCPQ/KZJO-TV and Tribune Broadcasting Co.; hosted by Mark Anderson
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May 15, 2010
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May 11, 2010
Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
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Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Co-Founder, Impact Partners Film Fund; and Founder/Board Chair, Utah Film Center
President, HellerResults Group
Founder and CEO, Rhino Films
Engagement and Impact Director, Vulcan Productions
Founder and Chair, Blue Planet Network
Fmr. Project Director, NASA World Wind
SVP Strategic Partnerships, Pearson Education & Pearson Foundation
Director and Producer, Climate Refugees
Filmmaker, Revolutio LLC
Scientist, Author, and Chief Visionary, Futures Unlimited
Documentary Filmmaker, Redford Center, KPJR films
Chief Scientist, Telstra Corp
President, TransforMedia
Chair and Founding Director, The Rodel Foundations
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