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From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 08:06:40 -0400
THE 2003 WORLD TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT & WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARDS in association with Nasdaq, Accenture, TIME magazine, Science magazine/AAAS, and Technology Review San Francisco, June 24 and 25 http://www.wtn.net/new/registration/2003/recommended/index7887.html Communications Technology - Design - Education - Energy/Environment - Entertainment - Ethics - Finance - Health & Medicine/Biotech - Information Technology (IT)/Hardware - IT/Software - Law - Marketing - Materials - Media & Journalism - Policy - Social Entrepreneurship - Space - The Arts ________________________________________________________________________ On June 24th and 25th in San Francisco, I will be the Communication Technology chairman for the 2003 World Technology Summit & Awards, held in association with Nasdaq, Accenture, TIME magazine, Technology Review magazine, and Science magazine/American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Most participants will be current World Technology Network (WTN) members - winners, finalists, and nominators of previous World Technology Awardscycles - and 2003 Award nominees. For IPers, they have arranged for you to be given an opportunity to be invited and to register at a special member-"recommended"rate. To register or for more information, please go to this private recommended-only website: http://www.wtn.net/new/registration/2003/recommended/index7887.html Just to give you a taste for the sorts of people involved, including myself... SUMMIT CO-CHAIRMEN/speakers (all of whom are also WTN members) in various categories, include: (COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY) David Farber, Former Chief Technologist, US Federal Communications Commission/FCC (SPACE) Elon Musk, founder, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (MATERIALS) Eric Drexler, founder, The Foresight Institute (BIOTECHNOLOGY) Cynthia Robbins-Roth, Founder, BioVenture Publishing and BioVenture Consultants (ETHICS) Georges Kutukdjian, Exec. Secretary, World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge & Technology/COMEST, UNESCO (FINANCE) Lawrence Aragon, Editor-in-Chief, Venture Capital Journal (HEALTH & MEDICINE) Arthur Benvenuto, Former CEO, Advanced Tissue Sciences (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY-HARDWARE) Daniel Niles, Managing Director & Senior Electronics Analyst, Lehman Brothers (MEDIA & JOURNALISM) Adam Clayton Powell III, Visiting Professor of Journalism and Senior Research Associate, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California (SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP) Robert Davies, CEO, Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (ENTERTAINMENT) Bruce Haring, CEO, JM Northern Media LLC & Author, "Beyond The Charts: MP3 and the Digital Music Revolution" (THE ARTS) Marko Peljan, Director, Projekt Atol (EDUCATION) Roy Pea, Co-Director, Stanford University Center for Innovations in Learning (ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT) Mark D. Levine, Director, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (POLICY) Susan Hackwood, Executive Director, California Council for Science & Technology (DESIGN) Kristina Goodrich, President/CEO, Industrial Designers Society of America (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY-SOFTWARE) Alexandra Weber Morales, Editor in Chief, Software Development magazine... The World Technology Summit venue, the Fairmont Hotel (where the UN charter was signed in 1945) is a wonderfully conducive environment for encouraging serendipity, and the WTN has arranged very special rates with the Fairmont for the delegates to stay there. And, the WTN is also charging a significantly discounted (over 50%) rate for member-recommended delegates if you register before May 23rd. The registration rate is $950 (it is $1450 after that date). Please contact Trish Hargrave (thargrave () wtn net) at the World Technology Network directly if you have any questions or to RSVP. Otherwise, go directly to the registration website. http://www.wtn.net/new/registration/2003/recommended/index7887.html
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