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We look forward to returning
to our FiRe roots
on the beautiful California coast Next week! ~ October 8-11, 2019 ~ The Lodge at Torrey Pines in La Jolla Join us for four days of industry-changing conversations, problem-solving with global leaders, lively debates, and social events, including an exclusive tour of UCSD's Calit2 Lab. And you'll connect with the world's most strategic thinkers and doers on tech, business, climate, and the global economy. There are only a few seats left - really. Registration includes all meals, social activities, program sessions, and networking events. 
Our roster of 2019 speakers and moderators includes: - Dmitri Alperovitch, Co-Founder and CTO, CrowdStrike
- Paul Jacobs, CEO, XCOM (fmr. CEO, Qualcomm)
- Pamela Brody-Heine, Director, Clean Electronics Production Network, Green America
- Mark Dankberg, Chair and CEO, Viasat
- Hillel Cooperman, SVP, User Experience Design, Oracle
- Chris Hegedus, Documentary Filmmaker, Pennebaker Hegedus Films
- Jim Louderback, GM, VidCon
- Jeffrey Hussey, President and CEO, Tempered Networks
- Ilshat H. Kokbore, President, Uyghur American Association
- Derek Harp, Founder and Chairman, Control System Cyber Security Assoc. International (CS2AI)
- Susan C. Schnabel, Co-Founder and Co-Managing Director, aPriori Capital Partners
- Paul Clayson, CEO, AgilePQ
- Junaid Islam, Cybersecurity Expert, OODA
- Manfred Krischke, Co-Founder and CEO, Cloudeo
- Kimberly Dozier, Global Affairs Analyst, CNN; Contributor, The Daily Beast
- James Wagoner, Co-Founder and CEO, Joule Case
- Steve Sherman, President and COO - NuPlastiQ, BioLogiQ Inc.
- Stephen Honikman, Co-Founder and CEO, Emergent Microgrid
- Kimberly Prather, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry, UCSD
- Elizabeth Unger, National Geographic Explorer and Filmmaker
- Paul Maher, General Manager, Microsoft
- Harri Hursti, Founding Partner and Hacker, Nordic Innovation Labs
- Susi Snyder, Nobelist and President, ICAN
- George Church, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Director, PersonalGenomes.org
- Anand Rao, Partner, Advisory Services, and Global AI Lead, PwC
- Richard Romanowski, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Planet Ark Power
- J. Augusto de Oliveira, EVP & CTO, Cypress Semiconductor
- H.E. Ambassador Abraham Wen-Shang Chu, Director General, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles
- Michael Ashley, Owner & Creative Content, Ink Wordsmiths LLC
- Bob Flores, CEO, Applicology Inc., and former CTO, CIA
- John Mattison, Emeritus Asst. Medical Director and CMIO, Kaiser Permanente
- Ali Douraghy, Chief Strategy Officer, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Berkeley Lab
- Anne Hardy, CSO, Join Digital Inc.
- Jody R. Westby, CEO, Global Cyber Risk
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Hugo-Winning Author of Science Fiction
- Judy Korin (Producer) and Pedro Kors (Writer / Producer), The Great Hack
- Maryanne Morrow, CEO, 9th Gear Technologies Inc.
- Jack Gilbert, Professor, UCSD School of Medicine and Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Group Leader for Microbial Ecology, Argonne National Laboratory
- Steve Fey, CEO, Totem Building Cybersecurity
- David Gruber, Presidential Professor of Biology, City University of New York / National Geographic Society
- Pam Taub, Founder and Director, Step Family Foundation Cardiovascular Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, Jacobs Medical Center, UCSD
- Georg Kopetz, CEO, TTTech Auto AG
- Vanessa Pegueros, Board Member, Carbon Black and BECU; former VP and CISO, DocuSign
- Jerry Schwartz, CEO, Ecellix Inc.
- Satchin Panda, Professor, Regulatory Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute
- David Brin, Founder, Futures Unlimited; Sci-Fi Author & Physicist
- Lyndsay Keys, Documentary Filmmaker, The Lyme Trials LLC
- Rob Knight, Founding Director, Center for Microbiome Innovation; Professor, Pediatrics and Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD
- David Ewing Duncan, Author and Independent Correspondent; CEO, Arc Programs
- John Wells, Producer and Co-Host, "Cool Science Radio," KPCW (NPR Affiliate)
- Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2); Harry Gruber Professor of Engineering, UCSD
- The Pattern Computer Team (www.patterncomputer.com)
Register Now! Publisher's Note: In this release of our regular Asia Letter, Asia editor Scott Foster clearly paints the economic, technical, and military tensions that are the outfalls of US China tariffs, and Chinese territorial / military adventurism. Ultimately, those who end up paying for China's decision to persevere with a model based on stealing both inventions and territory will be not only China, but also its unfortunate neighbors. It feels as though we are reaching a breaking point, as dictator Xi refuses to make any meaningful change. Read on. - mra
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