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“In the world of technology, Mark is the man!” – Kathleen Wilcox, past CEO, Washington Software Alliance/Washington Technology Industry Association
“SNS is even MORE relevant and insightful in these turbulent times.” – Curtis Wong [creator of Worldwide Telescope; Corbis’ CD-ROMs including “Leonardo da Vinci” and “FDR”; and much more], Microsoft
“I have been a devoted fan of Mark Anderson for over a decade – this special alert [SNS: ‘Not a Bottom Call, But a Price Call’]is one more example of why” [and] “Great SNS alert – I shared it with my financial advisor and will probably push it out to more folks who need to read your words. I continue to marvel at the scope and breadth of your universe.” – Dave Davison, Band of Angels, Silicon Valley
“Thank you for helping me think differently.” – Karen Radford, President, TELUS Quebec; and Executive Vice President and President, TELUS Partner Solutions; in a note after Anderson’s recent keynote speech at the CRIM Crystal Ball Conference
“I depend on SNS more than ever now with the economic downturn. Thanks and regards.” – John Baudrexl, Intel Corp.
To arrange for a speech by Mark Anderson on What Caused the Collapse (and how the financial world really works), How Technology Will Lead the Rebound, or other subjects in technology and economics, email shane@stratnews.com.
The FiRe Box:
FiRe 2009: “Shaping the Rebound: Technology Driving Economics”
www.futureinreview.com, May 19-22, 2009, Hotel del Coronado, San Diego, California.
We are pleased to announce that our opening evening presentation will be “Practical Strategies for Solving the Climate Problem,” by Veerabhadran “Ram” Ramanathan, Victor Alderson Professor of Applied Ocean Sciences; and Director of the Center for Clouds, Chemistry & Climate (C4), Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UCSD.
YOU read about Ram’s discoveries on the New York Times front page two weeks ago, one day after our announcement; now come and see him at FiRe.
HERE is the agenda, hot off the press. You’ve been to the gadget shows, the bizcard exchanges, and the Celebrity Awe conferences. FiRe continues to differentiate itself as the best, and perhaps only, conference to offer a clear guide forward on where the world is headed and the roles technology will play.
FiRe 2009 CONFERENCE AGENDA
Speaking assignments and agenda items are subject to change.
Great thanks to Joe Sterling of Sterling Insights (http://sterlinginsights.com) for providing his scribing services throughout the FiRe conference.
“A great lineup of truly inspiring people, both onstage and off.”
– Esther Dyson, past Editor, Release 1.0, CNET Networks
“There’s nothing like it, and that’s no exaggeration.”
Dan Gillmor, Author, “We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People“
“From FORTUNE’s perspective, this was a great investment. Our editors made some great connections, and the event blew my socks off. I came back very energized and have shared that enthusiasm with our publisher.”
– Kip Meyer, FORTUNE
“Such depth of intelligence. All I could think of as I listened to all the geniuses: ‘This is your brain. This is your brain on FiRe.’”
– Jonathan Ewert, CEO, Looksmart
“They have great food at this conference. The other conferences don’t do it right.”
– Dave Winer, Scripting News
“A key differentiator between this conference and others is that the attendees here are typically people in a position to actually do something to effect a change.”
– Ian Sandy, Shell Oil
If you want to meet and hear Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, perhaps the most successful technology CEO at work today, come to FiRe 2009. AND we’ve added some new names to the list (for a complete list, go to www.futureinreview.com and click the Thought Leaders tab):
Member Price Alert: Use “firecode 2009” when registering to save the usual member discount of $300. Catch it now, before it slips away –
Bring a Friend, Save Over $2,000: Upon registration, you will receive a Friendcode to sign up someone (non-SNS member) in addition to yourself. When you register a friend, on top of on top of your $300 discount, we’ll add a year of Premium SNS – what David Kirkpatrick of FORTUNE calls “the best technology newsletter” – to your own account, at an $895 value, AND give your friend One Thousand Dollars Off his or her registration fee. Total savings: $2,195.
As in previous years, our interns will be available to help you arrange private meetings with fellow speakers and participants or with the global business press, including the Financial Times, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, many well-known bloggers, and our media partner, the BBC World News and its 150 million audience.
Register now at: www.futureinreview.com .
» FiRe Away: Second-Order Trends
Next week, we’ll be packing up to take off for Future in Review 2009, which is less than two weeks from now. I remember being concerned, when we started FiRe, that it be properly differentiated from other conferences. Today, seven years later, this issue has melted away. Today, even as the world is populated with a seemingly endless parade of new conferences, they all fit into a few molds: gadget meetings, celebrities on-script, panels for sponsors, PowerPoint nightmares.
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