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Jack Uldrich
Topics: Author/Writer, Business Motivation, Emerging Technology, Futurist, Green, Innovation, Investing, Leadership, Science, Technology
Jack Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, independent scholar, sought-after
business speaker, and best-selling author. His books include the best-seller,
The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How N…
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Dick Rutan
Topics: Astronaut, Aviator, Computer Technology, Emerging Technology, Futurist, Motivation, Science, Team Building, Technology
Dick Rutan, aviator and adventurer, made "the world's longest flight" in the
airplane "Voyager", the first airplane to circumnavigate the globe without
refueling. In realizing his dream, with desi…
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Mark Jung
Topics: CEO, Computer Technology, E-business, E-commerce, Emerging Technology, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Internet/Web, Media, Mergers/Acquisitions, Technology
Mark Jung has spent the last 18 years as a successful internet CEO and
entrepreneur. He is currently the CEO of Vudu, a leading provider of digital
home entertainment and interactive television se…
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Dr. Brian Cox
Topics: Emerging Technology, Science, Space Exploration, Technology
Oldham 1986: school lad and keyboard player Brian Cox was invited to join local
rock band DARE who subsequently recorded 2 albums and toured the world with
Jimmy Page, Gary Moore, Europe and others…
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Dr. Gregory Stock
Topics: Biotechnology, Emerging Technology, Futurist, Science
Dr. Gregory Stock believes we are at a defining moment in human evolution. A
thousand years from now our descendants will point to this time, with its
critical breakthroughs in computers, genetics …
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Bill Glynn
Topics: CEO, Corporate Culture, E-business, E-commerce, Emerging Technology, Entrepreneurship, Financial Markets, Growth, Internet/Web, Investing, Management, Marketing, Mergers/Acquisitions, Small Business, Strategy, Technology
Billy Glynn is a successful serial and parallel entrepreneur, philanthropist
and visionary voted one of the world's top innovators. Authors, colleagues and
leaders who know Bill refer to him fondly…
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Bob Arno
Topics: Commentators, Communication, Corporate Humor, Creativity, Emerging Technology, Entertainment, Ethics/Values, Marketing, Technology
If convention entertainment is all about creating a receptive and happy
audience, Bob's presentation is invaluable. What differentiates Bob's
presentation from other speakers' is the lasting WOW fa…
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Glen Hiemstra
Topics: Breakout/Workshop, Consumer Trends, Demographics, E-business, Economy, Emerging Technology, Futurist, Globalization, Internet/Web, Leadership, Social Trends, Technology
If you listen carefully, you can learn what the future is telling you.
Glen Hiemstra is the founder and owner of Futurist.com, a company dedicated to
disseminating information about the future, to…
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Jim Balsillie
Topics: CEO, Computer Technology, Consumer Trends, E-commerce, Emerging Technology, International Business, Internet/Web, Technology
Jim Balsillie is Chairman and Co-CEO at Research In Motion. He is responsible
for directing RIM's strategy, business development and finance.
In 2002, Jim founded The Centre for International Gove…
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Ray Kurzweil
Topics: Computer Technology, Creativity, Emerging Technology, Entrepreneurship, Futurist, Innovation, Technology
Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, entrepreneur, author, and futurist. Called "the
restless genius" by the Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine"
by Forbes, Kurzweil's ideas on the futur…
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William McDonough
Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Creativity, Emerging Technology, Energy, Environment, Green, Sustainability
William McDonough is a world-renowned architect and designer and winner of
three U.S. presidential awards: the Presidential Award for Sustainable
Development (1996), the National Design Award (2004…
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Michio Kaku
Topics: Author/Writer, Emerging Technology, Environment, Futurist, Science, Space Exploration, Technology
Dr. Michio Kaku is an internationally recognized authority in theoretical
physics and also the environment. He holds the Henry Semat Professorship in
Theoretical Physics at the City College and the…
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Rodney Brooks
Topics: Creativity, Emerging Technology, Futurist, Innovation, Science, Space Exploration, Technology
Rodney Brooks is a technology visionary, a ground-breaking scientist, and a
creative entrepreneur. A mainstay of M.I.T.'s prestigious Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and fo…
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Dr. Amory Lovins
Topics: Business Excellence, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economy, Education, Emerging Technology, Energy, Environment, Futurist, Green, Science, Sustainability
Amory Lovins is renowned for his wide-ranging intellect and unique
problem-solving approach, which he has used to make breakthroughs in fields
ranging from automobiles to energy. His work has consi…
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Dr. James Logan
Topics: Biotechnology, Emerging Technology, Futurist, Science, Space Exploration, Technology
Dr. Jim Logan's interest in space began in 1957 when the former Soviet Union
launched the first Sputnik. Encouraged by a librarian and an elementary school
science teacher, he read everything he co…
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Chris Pirillo
Topics: Computer Technology, E-business, Emerging Technology, Internet/Web, Networking
Chris Pirillo is a best-selling author, e-mail publishing authority and
creator of the award-winning Lockergnome e-zine.
His book, "Poor Richard's E-Mail Publishing" pre-sold more copies than a…
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Jerry Yudelson
Topics: Consumer Trends, Corporate Social Responsibility, Emerging Technology, Energy, Environment, Futurist, Green, Interior Design, Social Trends, Sustainability, Visionaries
Jerry Yudelson is widely recognized as one of the leading green building
experts in the United States. On behalf of the U.S. Green Building Council
(USGBC), he chaired the Steering Committee for Gr…
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Kevin Mitnick
Topics: Computer Technology, Emerging Technology, Internet/Web, Security, Technology, Terrorism/Homeland Security
With more than twenty years of experience in exploring computer security, Kevin
Mitnick is a largely self-taught expert in exposing the vulnerabilities of
complex operating systems and telecommunic…
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Mark Cuban
Topics: Basketball, Communication, Emerging Technology, Entrepreneurship, Internet/Web, Marketing, Television Media
Mark Cuban was born in the working-class city of Pittsburgh, PA, and his
penchant for business was evident right from the start. As a 12-year-old goofy
kid with thick glasses, he sold garbage bags …
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Nova Spivack
Topics: Computer Technology, Emerging Technology, Futurist, Innovation, Internet/Web, Technology
Nova Spivack is one of the leading voices of the emerging Semantic Web, what is
sometimes referred to as Web 3.0. Nova founded Radar Networks to develop the
next-evolution of social software, Twine…
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Gerd Leonhard
Topics: Author/Writer, E-business, Emerging Technology, Futurist, Internet/Web, Media, Popular Culture, Social Trends
The Wall Street Journal calls Gerd Leonhard one of the leading media futurists
in the world. He is the co-author of the influential book The Future of Music
(2005, Berklee Press), as well as the au…
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Greg Stuart
Topics: Advertising, Author/Writer, Emerging Technology, Technology
Greg Stuart is currently serving as CEO of a stealth spin out from Alcatel
Lucent. He is also the former CEO & President of the Interactive Advertising
Bureau (IAB), the trade association for inter…
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Jordan Ayan
Topics: Computer Technology, Creativity, Emerging Technology, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Strategy, Technology
When global business leaders need a strategic understanding of the evolving
technological landscape, they turn to Jordan Ayan. He is the President of an
international consulting firm based in Chica…
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Rishad Tobaccowala
Topics: Change Management, Emerging Technology, Marketing
Rishad Tobaccowala is the CEO of Denuo, a futures "think-do" company that helps
its clients get to the future first in ways that make "tomorrow tangible
today". Denuo combines strategy, research, i…
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Dr. Gary Small
Topics: Author/Writer, Balance, Biotechnology, Education, Emerging Technology, Fitness, Futurist, Healthcare, Lifestyles, Nutrition
A Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Semel Institute, Gary Small, MD, is also the
Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging at the David …
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Dr. Hau Lee
Topics: Creativity, E-business, E-commerce, Economy, Emerging Technology, Globalization, Growth, Innovation, International Business, Management, Strategy
Hau L. Lee is the Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at
the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. His areas of
specialization include supply chain management, i…
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Dr. Larry Chimerine
Topics: Business Motivation, Consumer Trends, Economy, Emerging Technology, Futurist, Internet/Web
Dr. Lawrence Chimerine is President, Radnor International Consulting Inc., in
Radnor, PA; and co-founder, iGrandparents.com. He is the former Chairman, Chief
Executive, and Chief Economist of Chase…
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Daniel Burrus
Topics: Business Motivation, E-business, Emerging Technology, Futurist, Strategy, Technology
Daniel Burrus is one of the world's leading technology forecasters and business
strategists, and is the author of six books, including the highly acclaimed
Technotrends, which has been translated i…
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David Zach
Topics: Breakout/Workshop, Computer Technology, Consumer Trends, Emerging Technology, Futurist, Technology
David Zach is one of the few professionally trained futurists in the United
States, with a master's degree in Studies of the Future from the University of
Houston-Clear Lake. As a futurist, David h…
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John Dvorak
Topics: Emerging Technology, Journalist, Technology
John graduated from the University of California with a B.A. in history and a
chemistry minor. He worked as a chemist for Union Oil and with the Bay Area Air
Quality Management as an Air Pollution …
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John McKean
Topics: Branding, Communication, Customer Loyalty, Customer Service, Emerging Technology, Sales Management, Technology
John McKean is a best selling author and Executive Director of the Center for
Information Based Competition, which provides thought leadership to help
businesses advance their understanding of cust…
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John Sculley
Topics: Branding, CEO, Change Management, Computer Technology, E-business, Emerging Technology, Innovation, Internet/Web, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Organizational Development, Technology
John Sculley is a partner in Sculley Brothers LLC, a private investment firm
founded by brothers Arthur, David and John Sculley in 1995. Each brother has
held senior operating positions with multi-…
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John Seely Brown
Topics: Computer Technology, Emerging Technology, Futurist, Global Business, Globalization, Internet/Web, Social Trends
John Seely Brown is currently a visiting scholar at USC and prior to that he
was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto
Research Center (PARC)-a position he held…
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Kenneth Langer
Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Emerging Technology, Environment, Global Business, Green, Sustainability
Kenneth Langer is founder and CEO of Environmental Market Solutions, Inc.
(EMSI), an international consulting firm with offices in Washington, D.C.,
Springfield, MO, Beijing, and Shanghai. EMSI is…
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Michael Rogers
Topics: Emerging Technology, Futurist, Journalist, Media, Technology
One of the nation's leading experts on how business and society adapt to the
future, Michael Rogers is an interactive media pioneer, novelist and journalist.
For ten years he was vice president of…
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Peter Cohan
Topics: E-business, Emerging Technology, Entrepreneurship, Growth, Internet/Web, Leadership, Technology
Peter S. Cohan, author of Value Leadership: The 7 Principles That Drive
Corporate Value in Any Economy (Wiley, 2003), is a leading expert on technology
and business. For the past 22 years, Cohan h…
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Ted Waitt
Topics: Branding, Emerging Technology, Investing, Leadership, Marketing, Relationships/Family
Ted Waitt, founder and former Chairman and CEO of Gateway, Inc., helped
revolutionize how people use technology to live, work, and play through
pioneering the direct marketing of personal computers…
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Christine Ervin
Topics: Consumer Trends, Corporate Social Responsibility, Emerging Technology, Energy, Environment, Futurist, Green, Sustainability, Visionaries
Christine Ervin's career as an environmental leader spans executive positions
in both national and state government as well as in the nonprofit sector. As
the President and CEO of the U.S. Green Bu…
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Kay Koplovitz
Topics: CEO, Communication, Emerging Technology, Television Media
Kay Koplovitz was the first woman to head a
television network when she founded
USANetworks under the banner of
Madison Square Garden Sports in 1977.
As a visionary of what sports
television would…
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