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***SNS*** Asia Letter, Q1 2011: The Big One
By Eric Grant* SNS Asia Correspondent [Tokyo]
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Absolutely brilliant and of course correct!
Richard H.L. Marshall, Esq., Director, Global Cyber Security Management, National Cyber Security Division, Department of Homeland Security, on Economic Cyberwar: A New Security Mandate:
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Rising Stars at FiRe 2011: Bring Your Young Company Stars With You to FiRe
SNS MEMBERS: In last years 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. (Thats $2,000 below the normal rate.)
Please register your Rising Stars as soon as possible by contacting Lauren at lauren@stratnews.com or 617-733-5686.
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 years 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.
Its 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.
Weve also added the worlds expert on measuring the volume of polar ice (not just its area), and the worlds 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?
Fords 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 (havent seen that one yet, eh?); fast, silent cars to drive; and a new 17-inch hi-res dash screen that youll drool over.
Both our headcount and our sponsorships are ahead of last year, and, one should add, Yes, were 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:
Gen. Richard Myers Past Chair, Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Department of Defense
Paul Ricci Chairman and CEO, Nuance Communications Inc.
Leroy Hood Co-founder and President,
Justin Rattner Intel CTO and Senior Fellow; and VP and Director, Intel Labs; Intel Corp.
Richard H.L. Marshall Director, Global Cyber Security Management,
Tim Disney Co-Founder and Executive Producer,
Jeffrey Carr Founder and CEO, Taia Global; and Author, Inside Cyberwar
Paul Mascarenas CTO and VP, Research & Advanced Engineering,
William Janeway Senior Advisor,
James Louderback CEO,
Sloan Gibson President and CEO, USO
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 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,
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 Chief Justice (ret.), Supreme Court,
Norman Winarsky Vice President,
Steve Neiger VP Sales, West, Terremark World Wide
Jonathan Ewert CEO,
Gregory McRae CTO and VP, Research & Advanced Engineering,
Philip Nelson SVP, Strategic Development, NewTek
David Garrison CEO, iBAHN
Chris Drumgoole Terremark
Gary Rieschel Founder and Managing Director,
Doug Stanley CEO and Co-Founder,
Bruce Kleinman Corporate VP, Platform Marketing, Xilinx
Cynthia Klein District Sales Manager, Terremark
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:
Publishers Note: For over a decade, we have had the benefit of our Asia Editors on-the-ground view of Japan and Southeast Asia. Those of you who have followed us during this period have read his qualifications in finance, technology, and all things Japanese and South Korean. Today, he works as a top analyst and officer for an international banking firm in Tokyo.
At his request, and because banks apparently are a little shy about telling the truth in public (are you shocked?), we have renamed this valuable team member Eric Grant. If you know him by another name, thats fine, too.
As the Godzilla Crisis in Japan began to unfold, Eric was in Tokyo. And since the moment of the first earthquake, as you will see today, we have been in close touch with him. In this issue, we are including the professional view of Japans struggles and successes, but also the personal. The latter is presented in a series of lightly edited emails, in the Ethermail Special section of this letter.
I think that, between the two of these sections, SNS members will get a strikingly blunt, and personal, view of business and private life in Tokyo over the last three weeks.
I would like to thank Eric for staying in such close touch with us throughout this period, and for finding the time to write this issue when there are so many other priorities on his desk. Our members will now be the beneficiaries of his efforts. mra.
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By Eric Grant* Tokyo, Saturday, 19 March 2011
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