TECHNOLOGIST and INVENTORS
SCIENTISTS
Commentators and Futurists
BUSINESS LEADERS
ENTREPRENEURS
SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
ACADEMICIANS
ARTISTS, AUTHORS,
JOURNALISTS, and THE MEDIA

 

 RECENT SPEAKERS
TTI/Vanguard’s presenters are experts in their fields which represent a multiplicity of backgrounds. They bring to sessions diverse perspectives on future technologies and their impact on business, scientific, engineering, and social disciplines.

TECHNOLOGIST And Inventors
Rebecca Allen, Director, Nokia Research Center Hollywood
Chan Ping Wah, Assistant Chief Executive, Technology and Innovation, National Library Board Singapore
Brian Behlendorf, Founding Member, Apache Software Foundation
Charles Bell, Vice President, Information Technology Infrastructure, Amazon.com
Nick Bilton, Co-Founder, Shifd.com, New York Times Research and Development Lab
Ian Bogost, Founding Partner, Persuasive Games and Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Carrie Grimes Bostock, Senior Staff Engineer, Search Infrastructure, Google
Cynthia Breazeal, Principal Investigator, Robotic Presence Group, MIT Media Lab
Dan Bricklin, Co-Creator, VisiCalc and President, Software Garden
Stephen Brobst, Chief Technology Officer, Teradata
Fred Brooks, Author, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Rodney Brooks, Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT and Chief Technology Officer, iRobot
Robert Carter, Chief Information Officer, FedEx
Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Dave Cliff, Director, UK Large-Scale Complex IT Systems Initiative
Seth Cooper, Co-Founder, FoldIt
Riley Crane, Postdoctoral Fellow, Human Dynamics Group, MIT Media Lab
Simon Crosby, Chief Technology Officer, Citrix Systems
Whit Diffie, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Mick Ebeling, Founder, Not Impossible Foundation
Doug Engelbart, Director, Bootstrap Institute, and Inventor of the Mouse
Craig Feied, M.D., General Manager, Microsoft Enterprise Health Solutions Group
Bran Ferren, Co-Founder, Applied Minds
Steve Fisher, Senior Vice President, Platform Division, Salesforce.com
Richard Gabriel, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Julien Genestoux, Founder and CEO, Superfeedr
David Gilmour, Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Tacit Software
Helen Greiner, Co-Founder and President, iRobot
Saul Griffith, Co-Founder, Squid Labs
Hugh Herr, Director, Biomechatronics Group, MIT Media Lab
Danny Hillis, Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Applied Minds
Pablos Holman, Inventor, Intellectual Ventures
Tom Holman, President, TMH Corporation and Inventor, THX Sound System
Eric Horvitz, Senior Researcher, Adaptive Systems & Interaction Group, Microsoft Research
Andrew "bunnie" Huang, Vice President, Hardware, Chumby Industries
Hou Ziqiang, Chief Technology Advisor, China Netcom
Bernardo Huberman, Director, Information Dynamics Lab, HP Laboratories
Mikko HyppÖnen, Chief Research Officer, F-Secure
Joe Jacobson, Leader, MIT Media Lab NanoMedia Group and Co-founder, E Ink
Jeff Jonas, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist, IBM Entity Analytics
Dean Kamen, Founder, DEKA Research and Development
Ray Kurzweil, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kurzweil Technologies
Amory Lovins, Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
Emilio Martinez, Chief Executive Officer, Agnitio
Jane McGonigal, Lead Designer, 42 Entertainment
Patrick Meier, Director of Crisis Mapping, Ushahidi
Dwight Merriman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, 10gen
Ike Nassi, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, SAP Labs
Ian Oppermann, Director, ICT Centre, CSIRO
Ray Ozzie, Former Chief Software Architect, Microsoft
Greg Papadopoulos, Chief Technology Officer, Sun Microsystems
Alex "Sandy" Pentland, Director, Human Dynamics Laboratory, MIT Media Lab
Aza Raskin, Founder, Massive Health
Eric Raymond, Former President, Open Source Initiative
Steven Rubinow, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, NYSE Euronext
David Salesin, Principal Scientist, Advanced Technology Labs, Adobe Systems
Victor Shenkar, Chief Executive Officer, GeoSim Systems
Vishal Sikka, Chief Technology Officer, SAP
Charles Simonyi, President and Chief Executive Officer, Intentional Software
Larry Smarr, Founding Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
Doug Solomon, Chief Technology Officer, Ideo
Michael Stonebraker, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Vertica Systems
David Tennenhouse, Vice President of Research, Intel
John Underkoffler, Chief Scientist, Oblong Industries
Andrew Viterbi, President, The Viterbi Group
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Chairman Emeritus, IBM Academy of Technology
Stephen Wolfram, Founder, Wolfram Research
Phil Zimmerman, Author, Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

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SCIENTISTS
LuÍs Bettencourt, Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ed Boyden, Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group, MIT Media Lab
Richard Carmona, M.D., The 17th Surgeon General of The United States
William Dally, Chief Scientist, NVIDIA
John Donoghue, Professor of Neuroscience, Brown University and Founder, Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems
James Ellenbogen, Chief Scientist, Nanosystems Group and Emerging Technologies Division, MITRE Corporation
Murray Gell-Mann, Distinguished Fellow, Santa Fe Institute, and Nobel Laureate in Physics
William Haseltine, President, William A. Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences
Jeff Hawkins, Executive Director and Chairman, Redwood Neuroscience Institute
Tristan Lawry, Scientist, Applied Physical Sciences
Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D., Director, National Library of Medicine
Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate in Physics
David Payne, Director, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton
Roland Pitts, Founding Senior Research Scientist, Planar Energy
Bogdan Popa, Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Duke University
Ivan Poupyrev, Senior Research Scientist, Disney Research
Ellen Prager, President, Earth2Ocean, Inc.
Charles Vest, President, National Academy of Engineering
Michael Wertheimer, Director of Research, National Security Agency
Stan Williams, Director, Information and Quantum Systems Lab, Hewlett Packard
Jackie Ying, Executive Director, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

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COMMENTATORS and FUTURISTS
Yochai Benkler, Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
Stewart Brand, Co-Founder, Global Business Network and Co-Founder, The Long Now Foundation
Nicholas Carr, Author, The Big Switch
Michael Hayden, Former Director, National Security Agency and Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Joichi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab
Larry Lessig, Founder, Center for Internet and Society and Professor, Harvard Law School
Barry C. Lynn, Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
John Negroponte, Former Director, National Intelligence
Claudio Prado, Coordinator of Digital Policy, Brazilian Ministry of Culture
Chris Shipley, Co-Founder, Guidewire Group
Tiffany Shlain, Founder and Creative Director, The Webby Awards
David Weinberger, Consultant and Author, Small Pieces Loosely Joined
Ethan Zuckerman, Co-Founder, Global Voices

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BUSINESS LEADERS
Vanu Bose, President and Chief Executive Officer, Vanu
Marie Ekeland, Partner, Elaia Partners
Juan Enriquez, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Biotechonomy
Judy Estrin, Chief Executive Officer, JLabs LLC
Rob Girling, Principal and Co-Founder, Artefact Group
Blair Levin, Communications and Society Fellow, Aspen Institute
Gilman Louie, Partner, Alsop Louie Partners
Jim Marggraff, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Livescribe
John McCarter, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Field Museum
Robert Metcalfe, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
Joseph Romm, Founder and Executive Director, Center for Energy and Climate Solutions
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google
Michael Schrage, Research Fellow, Sloan School of Management Center for Digital Business, MIT
Nova Spivack, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Radar Networks
Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google
Symon Whitehorn, Director of Design Strategy, Eastman Kodak Company
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, Linux Foundation
Niklas ZennstrÖm, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, The Skype Group
Charles Zhang, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sohu.com

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ENTREPRENEURS
Adam Beguelin, Chief Executive Officer, Sensr.net
Susan Bonds, President and Chief Executive Officer, 42 Entertainment
Nolan Bushnell, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, uWink, Inc., and Founder, Atari
Calvin Chin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Qifang.com
Craig Newmark, Founder, craigslist
Kazuhiko Nishi, Founder, ASCII Corporation
Steven Nixon, Founder, Steven Nixon Consulting
Frank Nuovo, Founder, Design Studio Nuovo
Sean Parker, Managing Partner, Founders Fund
Jon Phillips, Founder and Developer, Fabricatorz
Peter Semmelhack, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Bug Labs
Josh Spear, Co-Founder, Undercurrent
Scott Summit, Co-Founder, Bespoke Innovations
Sunil Vemuri, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, reQall
Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia
Gabe Zichermann, Chief Executive Officer, Gamification.co

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SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
Genevieve Bell, Director, User Experience, Intel
Fernando Flores, President, National Innovation Council for Competitiveness, Government of Chile
Richard Klomp, Behavioral Scientist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Paul Ormerod, Partner, Volterra Partners, and Author, Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics
Clay Shirky, Writer and Consultant
Joseph Tainter, Project Leader, Cultural Heritage Research Project, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Duncan Watts, Professor, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
Roy Weinstein, President, Micronomics
Nick Yee, Research Scientist, Palo Alto Research Center

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ACADEMICIANS
Brian Arthur, Citibank Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Katy BÖrner, Director, Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, Indiana University
Yet-Ming Chiang, Professor of Materials Science, MIT
Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard University, and Author, The Innovator's Dilemma
John Doyle, Professor, Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineering and Bio-Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Robert Full, Director, Poly-PEDAL Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Neil Gershenfeld, Associate Professor, MIT Media Laboratory
Bartosz Grzybowski, Professor of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Systems, Northwestern University
James Hendler, Senior Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
John Hennessy, President, Stanford University
David Hillis, Professor, Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin
Eshel Ben-Jacob, Professor of Physics, Tel Aviv University
Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College
Jennifer Lewis, Hans Thurnauer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois
Matthew Linford, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University
Andres Maricq, Professor of Biology and of Neurology, University of Utah
Marvin Minsky, Professor, Computer Science, MIT
Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology, Newcastle University
Jonathan Payne, Assistant Professor, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
Kris Pister, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Peter Plagemann, Professor of Informatics, University of Oslo
Steven M. Potter, Assistant Professor, Laboratory for NeuroEngineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
William Rand, Director, Center for Complexity in Business, University of Maryland
Raj Reddy, Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, MIT Media Lab
Donald Sadoway, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
David Shaffer, Professor of Learning Science, University of Wisconsin
Dennis Sylvester, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
Julian Togelius, Assistant Professor, Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen
Luis von Ahn, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Masumi Yamada, Assistant Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
Zha Daojiong, Professor of Energy Politics, Chinese People's University

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ARTISTS, AUTHORS, JOURNALISTS, AND THE MEDIA
Douglas Adams, Author, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Chris Alexander, Architect and Author, The Nature of Order
Chris Anderson, Author, Free: The Future of a Radical Price
Dan Ariely, Author, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Robert Bauer, Founder, Goofy Faces Caricatures
Nathaniel Branden, Author, The Psychology of Self-Esteem
David Brin, Scientist and Author, The Transparent Society
Brian Chan, Instructor, MIT Hobby Shop
Cory Doctorow, Science Fiction Author and Co-Editor, Boing Boing
Larry Downes, Author, The Laws of Disruption
Tim Gallwey, Author, The Inner Game series
Frank Gehry, Architect, Gehry Partners
Michael Gunton, Executive Producer, BBC Natural History Unit Art Kleiner, Editor-in-Chief, strategy+business
Eric Kuhne, Founding Principal, CivicArts
Laura Lahti, Experience Designer and Adjunct Professor of Advertising, Academy of Art University
Jaron Lanier, Computer Scientist, Composer, and Visual Artist
James Lovelock, Author, The Revenge of GAIA
Alex McDowell, Production Designer, Minority Report
Peter Menzel, Photojournalist, and Faith D'Aluisio, Editor and Lead Writer, Material World Books
Casey Reas, Professor, Design | Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
Clifford Ross, Photographer
Yossi Sheffi, Author, The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage
Philip Sheppard, Professor, Royal Academy of Music
Rick Smolan, Co-Founder, America 24/7 and Day in the Life photography series
Bruce Sterling, Author, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder On The Electronic Frontier
David Talbot, Chief Correspondent, Technology Review
Tan Chin Nam, Chairman, Media Development Authority, Singapore

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