Events & Speakers

 

Previous Speakers at WTN Events

Chris Aiken - President, Aiken Development LLC/AikenSoft/AikenLabs/AikenControls

John W. Allen - Chairman & CEO of Greater China Corporation

Gadi Amit - Principal / Designer, NewDealDesign LLC

George Anders - National Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal

Timothy Anderson, President, World Computer Exchange

Stephen Augustin, Industrial Designer, BMW; Inventor, The Watercone

John Baker - CEO, Baker No-Tillage Ltd

Venkataraman Balaji

Geoffrey Ballard

James Balog - Lead, Director of Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) (via Skype)

Tibor Balogh - CEO, Holografika Ltd.

Richard Baraniuk, Founder, Connexions (Rice University)

James Barrett - R&D Manager, Venture Design Services

Andrew Beck - Beck, Vice President for Public Affairs, PetroAlgae, LLC.

Rod Beckstrom - co-author, The Starfish and The Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

Bill Belsey - iEARN-Canada; President, Inukshuk.com

Arthur Benvenuto - Former CEO, Advanced Tissue Sciences

Andrew Bermingham

Porter Bibb - Managing Partner at MediaTech Capital Partners

Matthias Bichsel - Director, Projects and Technology, Royal Dutch Shell

Jean-Pierre Bizzari - Global Head of Oncology, Celgene

John Borthwick - CEO, betaworks; former Senior Vice President of Alliances and Strategy, Time Warner, Inc.

Gerardine G. Botte - PhD, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Ohio University

Amanda Bower - San Francisco-based columnist, TIME magazine

Travis Bradford - Founder, President and Director, Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development; COO/CFO, The Carbon War Room

Johannes Britz - Professor, School of Information Studies/ Interim Dean, College of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

R. Brough-Turner - Co-Founder/CTO, NMS Communications

Hazen Burford - VP / Director, Intelligent Energy

Brad Burnham - Partner, Union Square Ventures

Tom Burton - Founder, Energy and Clean Technology Practice Group, Mintz Levin

Kateri Callahan - President, Alliance to Save Energy

Dean Cameron - Founder, Biolytix

Annette Campbell-White - Managing Partner, MedVenture Associates

Rafael Capurro

Thomas R. Casten - Founder and Chairman, Recycled Energy Development

Charles Chafer - CEO, Space Services Inc.

David Chao - Co-Founder, Doll Capital Management (DCM)

Matthew Chapman - Co-Founder and President, ScienceDebate.org

Graciela Chichilnisky - Architect of the Carbon Market for the Kyoto Protocol; Managing Director, Global Thermostat; Director, Columbia University's Consortium for Risk Management

Jan Chipchase - Executive Creative Director of Global Insights, Frog Design; Former Chief Usability Researcher, Nokia

James P. Clark - Founder/Chairman, The World Technology Network

Sir Arthur C Clarke

Adam Clayton Powell III - Visiting Professor of Journalism and Senior Research Associate, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California

David Clinch - former Senior International Editor and Social Media expert, CNN; Editorial Director, Storyful.com; Founder, Clinch Media

Steve Cochran - Steve Cochran, Vice President, Climate and Air, Environmental Defense Fund

Alex B. Cone - CEO / Alpha Geek, CodeFab LLC; consultant, Apple

Russ Conser - GameChanger Program Manager, Shell

Randy Cortright - Co-Founder/CTO, Virent Energy Systems

Molly Joel Coye - Founder/CEO Heath Technology Center

Jeremy Curnock-Cook

Melissa Alexis Dalmau - Chief Visual Officer, Xtreme Electronics Systems

Robert Davies - CEO, Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum

Susan Dawson - President/Executive Director Sapling Foundation

Shamina de Gonzaga Shamina - Co-founder, what moves you?

Peter J Denning

Peter Denning - Professor and Chairman of Department of Computer Science - Naval Postgraduate School

Peter Diamandis - Founder/Chairman/CEO X Prize Foundation

Tom Dinkel - VP, Fat Spaniel

Tom M. Djokovich - President and Chief Executive Officer, XsunX

Irah Donner - Partner, WilmerHale

Rebecca Fannin - Silicon Dragon: How China is Winning the Tech Race and International Editor, Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ)

Claudia Dreifus - journalist, Conversation with... in the New York Times' Tuesday science section; Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

Brian Dumaine - Senior Editor-at-Large, Fortune

Reid A. Edwards III - Head of Public Affairs Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Renate Egan - Process Development Group Manager, CSG Solar

Peter Eisenberger - Managing Directors, Global Thermostat

Kamran Elahian - Chairman, Global Catalyst Partners

Michael Elliott - Deputy Managing Editor, TIME; Editor, TIME International

David Ellis - Publisher, Health Futures Digest

Gerry Elman - Attorney at Law and Patent Attorney, Elman Technology Law, P.C.

James Erickson - Project Manager, Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA

Hartmut Esslinger - Co-CEO, frog design

David Ewing Duncan - Director

Rebecca Fannin - Silicon Dragon: How China is Winning the Tech Race and International Editor, Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ)

David Farber - Former Chief Technologist, US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Scott Faris - CEO, Planar Energy Devices

Gerhard Fasol - CEO, Eurotechnology Japan

Erica Feidner - vanderLinde Feidner, President/CEO, Piano Matchmaker LLC

Kirby Ferguson - Writer, Director, Producer

Tomas Fernandez - DTS Oabe

Jeffrey Ferns - Gregangelo & Velocity Arts & Entertainment

Marvin S. Fertel - President and CEO, Nuclear Energy Institute

Charlie Firestone - Executive Director, Communications & Society Program, The Aspen Institute

Martin J. Fisher - Co-Founder & Executive Director, KickStart International (formerly ApproTEC)

M. Gail Fitzpatrick - Managing Director, Ritchie Technology and Life Sciences Finance

Gary Flake - Founder & CEO, Systems Complex

Craig Forman - Vice President & General Manager, Yahoo! Inc.

Augustine Fou - Founder, Digital Strategy Institute

Pratibha L. Gai - Yorkshire Forward Professor of Electron Microscopy and Nanotechnology, Co-Director of the York JEOL Nanocentre, University of York.

Karl Gawell - Executive Director, Geothermal Energy Association

Jesse Gilbert - Dark Matter Media llc, Sound and software designer

George Gilder - Chairman Gilder Publishing LLC

Bruno Giussani - Knight Fellow Department of Communications, Stanford University

James Gleick - author, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood; former National Book Award winner, Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Anita Goel - MD, PHD, Chairman, & Scientific Director, NANOBIOSYM, Chairman, & CEO, NANOBIOSYM DIAGNOSTICS

Daniel S Goldin

Peter Goldmark - Director, Climate and Air Program, EDF

Cynthia Goodman

Kristina Goodrich - President/CEO, Industrial Designers Society of America

Adam Gopnik - Author, Angels & Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life

Suzanne Grant Lewis - Coordinator, Partnership for Higher Education in Africa

Lev Grossman - Senior Writer and book critic, TIME; co-author, Techland blog, TIME.com

Moira Gunn - Host , NPR's Tech Nation. Also a professor where she focuses on Global Information Systems and Biotechnology

Susan Hackwood - Executive Director, California Council for Science & Technology

Pen Hadow - Director, Geo Mission Ltd.

John Hagel - Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP & Co-Chairman,Center for the Edge

Sara Haines - Contributing Correspondent, TODAY Show, NBC

Sheeraz Haji - President, Cleantech Group

Usman Haque - Director, Haque Design + Research Ltd; Founder, Pachube

Bruce Haring - CEO, JM Northern Media LLC

Poppy Harlow - Anchor, CNNMoney

David Hartwell - Three-time winner, Hugo Award

David Haussler - Director, UCSC Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering

Graham Hawkes - Ocean Engineer & Inventor

Mark Heesen - President, National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)

Jessi Hempel - Writer, FORTUNE

Dewayne Hendricks - CEO, Dandin Groupe

Susan N. Herman - President of the ACLU

Gregangelo Herrera - Gregangelo & Velocity Arts & Entertainment

Andrew Hiatt

Bill Holmberg - Chairman, Biomass Coordinating Council, ACORE

Bruce Howard - Co-Founder, Lightglove

Steven Howe - Director, Center for Space Nuclear Research (CNSR), Universities Space Research Association

Jonathan Hoyt - Heidrick & Struggles

David S Isenberg

Jeremiah Jackson - Senior Principal Engineer, Kleinfelder

Jeff Jarvis - Director of the News Innovation Project, CUNY & Creator and Founding Editor of Entertainment Weekly

Jesse Jenkins - Director of Energy and Climate Policy, Breakthrough Institute

Mary Lou Jepsen - CEO and Founder, Pixel Qi

Bob Johansen - Senior Vice President and Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future (IFTF)

Bob Johansen - Senior Vice President and Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future (IFTF)

W. Lewis Johnson - Senior Project Leader, Center for Advance Research in Technology for Education, University of Southern California

Steve Jurvetson - Managing Director - Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Paul Kagame - President of the Republic of Rwanda

Philippe Kahn - CEO LightSurf Technologies

Thomas Kalil - Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology, University of California-Berkeley

Dimitri Kanevsky - IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Priyadarshini Karve - Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)

Patrick Keane - CEO, Associated Content; Former CMO, CBS Interactive; Former head Ad Sales Strategy, Google

Bert Keely

Melanie A. Kenderdine - Executive Director, MIT Energy Initiative

Cynthia Kenyon - Director, Kenyon Lab, University of California/San

Vinod Khosla - General Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

Art Kleiner - Editor, Strategy+Business magazine; author, The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management

Jeffrey Kluger - senior editor, TIME

Paul Kontonis - Chairman, The International Academy of Web Television

Ray Kurzweil - Inventor & Founder, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.

Aleksandr Kushleyev - Co-President, KMel Robotics

Georges Kutukdjian - Exec. Secretary, World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge & Technology (COMEST), UNESCO

Michael Laine - CEO, Liftport

Eli Lake - Foreign Policy Correspondent, The Washington Times

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Nick Laperle - President and CEO of Sonomax Technologies, Inc. (TSXV: SHH)

Adam Lashinsky - Senior Writer, FORTUNE magazine

Robert Levin - Founder and CEO, Transclick

Paul Levinson - Author; Former President, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Alex Lightman - Author, Entrepreneur, and Futurist

Zheng Liu - Research Scientist, Rice University

Bjorn Lomborg - Director, Copenhagen Consensus Center

Kati London - Director of Product, Zynga New York

Amory B. Lovins - Co-Founder & CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute

Mindy S. Lubber - President, Ceres

Arun Madan - Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, XsunX; Research Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines; President/Founder of MVSystems Inc.; Founder, Glasstech Solar Inc.

Arun Madan - Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, XsunX

Yael Maguire - Founder, Thinkcycle

Julian Maire - Artist

Om Malik - Senior Writer Business 2.0 magazine

Roger Malina - Chairman of the Board Leonardo: The International Society for the Arts Sciences and Technology

Miltos Manetas - Artist, Founder "NEEN" art movement

Alfred E. Mann - Chairman, MannKind Corporation

John Maraganore - Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Roberto Mariani - XID Technologies

Jennie Mather - CEO, Raven Biotechnologies

Lily Mazahery - Founder, Legal Rights Institute

Lily Mazahery - Founder/President, Legal Rights Institute; Member, Tankel Law

Lowell McAdam - CEO, Verizon Wireless

Jason McCabe Calacanis - Chairman & Co-Founder, Weblogs, Inc. Network

Bob McCooey - Senior Vice President, The Nasdaq Stock Market

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Sarah McCue - Founder and Board Chair, BluMail

John R. McGrath - Senior Director, Fast Search & Transfer, Inc

William McKeen - Department Chair

Scott Mcleod - co-creator of Did You Know viral internet video phenomenon

Stephanie Mehta - Global Editor, Fortune magazine

Daniel Mellinger - Co-President, KMel Robotics.

John Mendlein - Chairman, Fate Therapeutics

Nicholas Merrill - Executive Director of The Calyx Institute

Sarah Miller Caldicott - Great grandniece of Thomas Edison; Co-author: Innovate Like Edison; Steering Committee: Edison Awards

C. Michael Ming - President, Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America

Bob Mitchell - Cassini Program Manager

Ehsan Moghaddasi - PhD candidate focusing on Social Movements and New Media, social anthropology, Boston University

Hans Monderman - Project Manager Stichting Voorwerk

Nicholas Moore Eisenberger - Strategy Advisor to Management Team, Global Thermostat

Howard Morgan - Partner, First Round Capital

Ayan Mukerji - Sr. Vice President, North America, Wipro Technologies

Craig Mundie - Senior Vice President & Chief Technical Officer Advanced Strategies and Policy Microsoft

Sean Murdoch - Executive Director, NanoBusiness Alliance

Ron Nabarro - Designer

Ziv Navoth - Founder, Verve!

Ulf Nehrbass - CEO, Institut Pasteur Korea

Ben Neill - Composer, Inventor & Performer

Stephen Nelson - Science and Policy Program

Daniel Niles - Managing Director & Senior Electronics Analyst, Lehman Brothers

Peter Norvig - Director of Search Quality Google Inc.

David Orrell - Mathematician and Author, The Future of Everything, Economyths

Elizabeth Osder

Lucille Outhred - CEO, Digislide

Warren Packard - Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Mario Paniccia - Director, Photonics Technology Lab, Intel Corporation

Lawrence T. Papay - CEO & Principal, PQR, LLC.

Nicholas Parker - Executive Chairman/Co-Founder, The Cleantech Group

Kevin Parker - Head of Asset Management, Deutsche Bank

Alan Patricof - Founder and Managing Director, Greycroft, LCC

Donald Paul - Vice President and Chief Technology Officer ChevronTexaco

Roy Pea - Co-Director, Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning

Jonathan Peachey - CEO, Virgin Management USA, Inc., for Virgin Galactic

Marko Peljhan - Director, Projekt Atol

Don Peppers - Co-Founder, Peppers & Rogers Group; author, "The One-to- One Future"

John Perry-Barlow

David Pescovitz - Former forecasting columnist, Wired magazine

Christine Peterson

Paolo Pirjanian - Chief Scientist and General Manager of the Robotics and Vision Group, Evolution Robotics

Jim Pitofsky

David Pogue - Personal Technology Columnist, The New York Times; Emmy-Award winning tech correspondent, CBS News

Jason Pontin - Publisher & Editor in Chief, Technology Review

Zoran Popovic - Professor, University of Washington, for Foldit

David Post - Chairman, Next Island

James Potter - Director, Mayo Clinic Medical Devices

Andrew Quintero - Director, Technology Transfer and Commercialization

Marc Raibert - Co-Founder and President, Boston Dynamics Inc, (BDI)

Doug Randall - Senior Practitioner, Consulting Practice, Global Business Network

Dan Reicher - Director, Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google.org

Adam Reifsteck - Composer

Dave S. Renné - President, International Solar Energy Society

Michael Rigney - VP Marketing, EnerNOC

Dan Roam - Author of The Back of a Napkin

Cynthia Robbins-Roth - Founder, BioVenture Publishing and BioVenture Consultants

Katherine Roberts - Senior Manager, International Partnerships, Cisco

Bill Robinson - TechScape columnist for The Huffington Post and CEO, Relentless Marketing

Geordie Rose - President/CEO, D-Wave

Anna Rosling Rommund - Co-Founder, Gapminder Foundation

Richard Roussel - Deputy CTO, XID Technologies

Bunker Roy - Founder, The Barefoot College

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Lou Rubin - Founder, DPrime Consulting (Omnicom Group)

Scott Sacknoff

Marian Salzman - CEO, Havas PR North America

Ian Sands - Director of Envisioning, Microsoft

Bill Saporito - Editor, Global Business edition; Assistant Managing Editor, TIME magazine

Silvio Scaglia - Founder e-Biscom and FastWeb; former CEO Omnitel

Vanda Scartezini

Stanley Schmidt - Editor, Analog Science Fiction & Fact magazine

Stuart Schulzke - Director, Content Development, FORA.tv

Jeff Serfass - President, National Hydrogen Association

Jigar Shah - CEO, Carbon War Room

Gary Shapiro

Zhengrong Shi - SuntechÕs founder, chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer.

Clay Shirky

Daniel Sieberg - Science & Technology correspondent, CBS News

Daniel Sieberg - Host, "Next@CNN" television show, CNN

Greg Simon - President, FasterCures

John Smart - President Institute for the Study of Accelerating Change

Peter Smith - Principal Investigator and Project Leadership, Phoenix Mars Mission

Adam Somlai-Fischer - Cofounder, Prezi.com; Director, aether architecture; Senior Adviser, Kitchen Budapest medialab

Jonathan Spector - President and CEO, The Conference Board

Jim Spoher - Director, Almaden Services Research, Almaden Research

Dwayne Spradlin - President and CEO, Innocentive

Jay Stanley - Senior Policy Analyst with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project

Gavin Starks - Founder and CEO, AMEE

Paul Steely White - Executive Director, Transportation Alternatives

Ronald E. Stoltz - Manager, California Energy Liaison Office, Sandia National Laboratories

Erik Straser - General Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Bob Suh - Chief Technology Strategist & Global Managing Partner for Growth and Strategy, Accenture

John P. Sullins - Associate Professor, Sonoma State University, California; Teaches: Philosophy and Robotics, CyberEthics, Philosophy of Science and Technology and Logic

Devon Swezey - Project Manager, Breakthrough Institute

Chris Taylor - Futures Editor, BUSINESS 2.0 magazine

Richard M. Taylor - Executive Director, International Hydropower Association

Albert H. Teich - Director of Science & Policy Programs, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Steve Teig - Co-Founder, Tabula

Marco Tempest - Technoillusionist and Winner, 2010 Merlin Award for Best Contemporary Magician

Reshef Tenne - Professor Department Head Department of Materials and Interfaces Weizmann Institute of Science

Robert Tercek - Executive Leader for Creative Ventures and Business Innovation

Maria C. Thomas - Vice President and General Manager, National Public Radio/NPR Online

Volker Thomsen - Treasurer, World Wind Energy Association; Executive Chair of the World Wind Energy Conference 2008

Sebastian Thrun - Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University- SAIL

Rishad Tobaccowala - Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Vivaki

Margaret C. Turnbull - New Worlds Observer Lead Scientist, President, Global Science Institute, Certified Supplier, Northrup Grumman Aerospace Systems, Global Science Institute/Northrup Grumman

Tien Tzuo - CMO, Salesforce.com

Martin Varsavsky - Tech Entrepreneur and Investor

Sahba Vaziri - NY Representative, Pavegen Systems Ltd

Ali Velshi - Chief Business Correspondent, CNN

Alex Vieux - Publisher, Red Herring

Steve Vogt - Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Lick Observatory

Lisa Voldeng - Founder, sugar lab

Frank Volke - Head of NMR/MRI-Group, Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBMT)

Vivek Wadhwa - Academic, Researcher, Writer, and Entrepreneur

Jimmy Wales - co-founder, Wikipedia; Director, CiviliNation

Michael Waller-Bridge

Bryan Walsh - Writer, TIME

Philip Warner - President & CEO, Eden Park Illumination.

Hermione Way - cast member, Silicon Vally (Bravo TV); founder, Newspepper; Co-founder, StartupWorld competition

Kernaghan Webb - Chief of Research and Senior Legal Advisor, Canadian Office of Consumer Affairs

Alexandra Weber Morales - Editor in Chief Software Development magazine

Andrea Weckerle - Founder & President, CiviliNation

Robin L. Weiss - Vice President, Investment Banking Service, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

Stuart Wenham - Professor of Photovoltaics, The University of New South Wales

Helen Whelan - CEO and Founder of Success Television

Randy Williams - Founder, Keiretsu Forum

Daniel H. Wilson - Author, Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived

Stephen Wolfram - Founder & CEO, Wolfram Research; Creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha; Author, A New Kind of Science, Winner, MacArthur Genius Fellowship

Alexandra Wyke

Takashi Yabe - Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Brian Young

Michell Zappa - Designer and technologist

Huang Zhiyong - Department Head of Computer Graphics and Interface Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR

Robert Zubrin - Founder, Mars Society