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John Abele |
Marianne Abreu |
Jim Adams James Adams came to the Office of the Chief Technologist from NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. There, he served as the Deputy Director of the Planetary Science Division, overseeing the Discovery, New Frontiers, Lunar Science and Mars programs. He was responsible for the development of several key technologies including Ion Propulsion, Radioisotope Power Systems and Pu-238 production strategies. Prior to this post, Adams served as the Project Manager for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, as well as a Space Station Freedom Systems Integration Manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). |
Nadia Aly |
Omri Amirav-Drory |
Chris Anderson |
J. Christopher Anderson |
German Aparicio |
Rachel Armstrong Rachel Armstrong is Co-Director of AVATAR (Advanced Virtual and Technological Architectural Research) in Architecture & Synthetic Biology at The School of Architecture & Construction, University of Greenwich, London. Senior TED Fellow, and Visiting Research Assistant at the Center for Fundamental Living Technology, Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark. Rachel is a sustainability innovator who investigates a new approach to building materials called ‘living architecture,’ that suggests it is possible for our buildings to share some of the properties of living systems. She collaboratively works across disciplines to build and develop prototypes that embody her approach. |
Howard W. Ashcraft, Jr. |
Jim Babb |
Carl Bass Carl Bass is president and chief executive officer of Autodesk, Inc. Autodesk products serve the manufacturing, building, infrastructure, and media and entertainment industries. Formerly he was Autodesk’s chief operating officer, responsible for worldwide sales, marketing, and product development. Earlier roles included chief strategy officer and executive vice president of emerging business, looking broadly across the entire Autodesk organization at strategy and growth opportunities. He also served as chief technology officer (CTO) and vice president of the AECAD group, responsible for the design and development of AutoCAD and AEC products. When Autodesk spun off its Buzzsaw division as a separate start-up, Bass left to be its chairman, CEO, and president. He returned to Autodesk when Buzzsaw was acquired by the company. Bass co-founded Ithaca Software, the developers of HOOPS, which was acquired by Autodesk in 1993. Bass serves on the Board of Directors of Autodesk, McAfee, and iRise, and is a member of the Executive Advisory Boards of Cornell Computing and Information Science and FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science & Technology). He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Cornell University. |
Sara Beckman Sara L. Beckman has taught at the Haas School for over 15 years in the areas of operations management, manufacturing strategy, and product design and development. During that time she has won the Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award three times and the campus Distinguished Teaching Award once. She has also worked at Hewlett-Packard where she was director of the Product Generation Change Management Team, which modeled manufacturing strategy decisions and implemented team management structures in new product development, and in the Operations Management practice at Booz, Allen, and Hamilton. She serves on the boards of the Corporate Design Foundation and the Building Materials Holding Corporation. |
Scott Belsky |
David Benjamin |
Harvey Bernstein Harvey M. Bernstein leads McGraw-Hill Construction’s thought leadership and green building initiatives and manages its research and analytics division. He is a member of The McGraw-Hill Companies’ Sustainability Business Development Board and was a key member of the team that launched McGraw-Hill Construction’s award-winning GreenSource: The Magazine of Sustainable Design. He helped drive the creation of MHC’s China Green Building and Energy Efficiency International Conferences for which he serves as an organizer and moderator. He created the MHC global SmartMarket Report series on industry trends and is co-author of the book Solving the Innovation Puzzle: Challenges Facing the Design and Construction Industry. He serves as chair of the National Building Museum’s Industry Council and is a member of the Princeton University Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisory Council; the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Policy Advisory Board; and Underwriter Laboratories Environment, Inc., Advisory Council. He is a visiting professor with the University of Reading’s School of Construction Management and Engineering in London, England, where he serves on its Innovative Construction Research Center Advisory Board. He has an MBA in corporate marketing from Loyola College, an MS in engineering from Princeton University, and a BS in civil engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. |
Phillip G. Bernstein FAIA, RIBA, LEED ® AP Phillip G. Bernstein is a Vice President at Autodesk, a leading provider of digital design, engineering and entertainment software. He leads Strategic Industry Relations, where he is responsible for setting the company’s future vision and strategy for technology as well as cultivating and sustaining the firm's relationships with strategic industry leaders and associations. Prior to joining Autodesk, Phil practiced architecture as a principal at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects where he managed many of the firm’s most complex commissions. Phil has taught at the Yale School of Architecture as a Lecturer in Professional Practice since 1988. He writes and lectures extensively about practice and technology issues, has been published in Architectural Record, Architecture, Architecture+Urbanism, Design Intelligence, Fast Company, Fortune and Perspecta and quoted in The Economist, Vanity Fair, Dwell and The Wall Street Journal. Phil is co-editor of Building (In) The Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture, published in 2010 by Princeton Architectural Press, as well as BIM in the Academia: Technology’s Implications for Practice and the Academy in 2011, and contributed to Digital Workflows in Architecture, published in 2012 by Birkhauser. He was the executive responsible for Autodesk’s recent Waltham AEC Headquarters project, which received more than 14 architectural awards including those from the American Institute of Architects, Business Week/Architectural Record, the Association of General Contractors and Interiors Magazine. Phil was honored by DesignIntelligence as one of the “30 Most Admired Educators for 2013” and was named as an Outstanding Industry Contributor in 2010 by the Connecticut Construction Institute. Phil received a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude with Distinction in Architecture from Yale University and a Master of Architecture also from Yale. He is a Trustee of the Emma Willard School of Troy, NY, a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and former Chair of the AIA National Contract Documents Committee. He is licensed to practice in California. |
John Bissell John Bissell is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Micromidas, Inc., an industrial biotechnology company that is converting municipal wastewater sludge into biodegradable plastic. At Micromidas, he has raised seed and Series A financing and led the company to numerous successes in regional and national green technology competitions, including the University of California, Davis Little Bang! Business Plan Competition; the California Business Ascent Competition; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s People, Prosperity, and the Planet Sustainable Design Competition; the National Clean Tech Open; and the Artemis Top 50. He is an alumnus of the UC Davis Chemical Engineering Department, where he graduated with a BS. |
David Bleiman David Bleiman is chief executive officer for Rutherford & Chekene, with more than 30 years of experience in structural design of all building types. |
Jason Bobe Jason Bobe is the Executive Director of PersonalGenomes.org, a 501(c)(3) charity that aims to make genomes useful for humankind through research initiatives like the Personal Genome Project and the BioWeatherMap. He is also the co-founder of DIYbio.org, an organization that aims to help establish a vibrant, productive and safe community of do-it-yourself biologists worldwide. The focus of his work is making extraordinary biotechnologies ready for everyday use. |
Jason Bredbury After 15 years working as an architect, Jason Bredbury moved to the building side of the architecture, engineering, and design equation. Working first as a VDC director and more recently as West Region design manager, he has been part of Skanska’s push toward integration of design and technology into a standard project delivery model. |
Terry Brickman |
Bill Burkett |
Yvonne Cagle Yvonne Cagle received her bachelor's degree in biochemistry from San Francisco State University in 1981, and a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Washington in 1985. She completed a transitional internship at Highland General Hospital in Oakland, California in 1985 and received a certificate in Aerospace Medicine from the School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, in 1988. She then went on to complete a residency in family practice at Ghent FP at Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1992 and received certification as a senior aviation medical examiner from the Federal Aviation Administration in 1995. Yvonne Cagle was a member of the Astronaut Class of 1996. She is currently assigned to Johnson Space Center's Space and Life Sciences Directorate. Dr. Cagle is also advisor for the Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program (CRuSR). Currently Dr. Cagle is on faculty and serves as the NASA liaison for exploration and space development with Singularity University. During the workshop, Dr. Cagle was embedded with the crew as a crew training consultant and advisor, providing insights and feedback to both crew and study team from the viewpoint of an astronaut, flight surgeon, space development expert and science liaison. She has recently been selected reserve crew for Hawai‘i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS), which is part of a study for NASA to determine the best way to keep astronauts well nourished during multiple-year missions to Mars or the moon. |
Yizhi Patrick Cai Patrick Yizhi Cai received a bachelor degree in Computer Science in China, a master degree in Bioinformatics from University of Edinburgh in the UK, and a PhD in Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from Virginia Tech in the USA. Dr. Cai has his postdoctoral fellowship in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His scientific achievement has been well recognized by several international/national awards, including most recently the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development from the Genetic Society of America. |
Liesl Capper Capper has extensive international business experience as a CEO. She has been managing growth businesses for over 15 years. Capper has helped lead MCT from a research and development company to a market leader in the provision of high-end customer support solutions to clients like NAB, HP, NASA, Westpac and others. Before MyCyberTwin, Capper was founder and CEO of Mooter. Mooter is a stock-exchange listed company specializing in search and behavioral targeting. While leading Mooter, she raised millions in venture capital, created patents and defensible technology, managed the expansion into US and Asian markets, secured deals with major clients including Yahoo! and Fairfax and prepared the company for listing. Prior to Mooter, while in her twenties, Capper built a multi-national education franchise to 38 branches in four countries. She took the business online, trained her management to run it in 2000, and it is still growing today. Capper holds a Bachelors degree in Psychology and Education, and has a Postgraduate Certificate in Venture Development. She is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and is a regular speaker at local and international conferences. Recently, Capper was honored by the Women in Technology organization, for her groundbreaking efforts in IT, as the recipient of their “ICT outstanding achievement” Optus award for 2007. |
John Cary |
Valerie Casey Valerie Casey is a globally recognized designer and innovator. She consults with start-ups, governments, and organizations all over the world on challenges ranging from creating new products and services to transforming organizational processes and behaviors. Before starting her own practice, Casey held executive leadership positions at IDEO, frog design, and Pentagram. Her work has been highlighted in many publications, and she has been named a “Guru You Should Know” by Fortune magazine, a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine, and a “Master of Design” by Fast Company. She was also selected as one of the “World’s Most Influential Designers” by Businessweek. Casey is the founder and executive director of the Designers Accord, a global coalition of designers, educators, and business leaders focused on creating positive social and environmental impact. Casey speaks globally on systems thinking, cultural change, and sustainability, and is an adjunct professor in the graduate design program at California College of the Arts. She holds a master’s degree in cultural theory and design from Yale University and a BA from Swarthmore College. |
Dhaval Chadha Trained at Harvard and Singularity University, Dhaval Chadha is a social scientist and futurist. He is an entrepreneur and innovator, a strategic and creative thinker inspired to create a more just, equitable, and sustainable world. He previously worked as manager of innovation at www.cdiglobal.org, and curated TEDxSudeste in Rio de Janeiro. He blogs on www.socialedge.org and is a co-founder of www.H2020global.org. He is a global citizen, having lived in India, the United States, and Brazil. |
Rupa Chaturvedi |
Davis Chauviere Davis Chauviere has been a principal at HKS, Inc., since 1981, where he has worked for more than 37 years. After roles as director of quality control and code research, the head of a design studio, and director of CADD in 1983, his position evolved into that of chief information officer. He led the team involved in initial system selection and has managed the implementation, training, and evolution of HKS technology through three major generations of architectural software. His responsibilities have ranged from strategic research and planning, to network installation, hardware repair, programming of accounting, plotting, database, and graphic routines, developing technical training courses, and managing the information technology staff. He has recently relinquished the position of CIO to return to architectural design and research of advanced professional technology. He was a member of the national AIA Integrated Practice Strategy Working Group in 2005, and has worked actively with the AGC BIM Forum since its inception in 2005 as co-chair of the Designer Subforum. He has been an active member of the AIA Large Firm Roundtable CIO Group since its founding in 1998. |
Sooshin Choi Professor Sooshin Choi earned a BA from Seoul National University of Science and Technology, an MFA in industrial design from Hong-Ik University, and a post-experience diploma in vehicle design from Royal College of Art. He designed several automobiles while working as a senior designer at Daewoo Motors and Kia Motors, led design of office furniture systems at Fursys, and developed designs for innovative products as design director at DEKA Research and Development. His designs received numerous prestigious awards, such as iF Hanover Product Design Award, iF Hanover Ecology Design Award, Japanese G-Mark, Grand Prize of Korean Industrial Design Award, and Korean Good Design Award. Since appointed at the University of Cincinnati in 2003, Choi has taught industrial design courses and conducted design research projects in collaboration with major corporations. Choi’s research topics include universal design, inclusive design, and design for innovation, presenting and publishing on these topics at conferences, universities, and in industry. Professor Choi serves as vice chair of Southern Ohio Chapter, Industrial Designers Society of America; U.S. chapter chair, Korean Design Science; and is a member of the Korean Industrial Designers Association. |
George Church George Church in 1984 developed the first direct genomic sequencing method, molecular multiplexing, barcode tags, which led to automation and software used for the first commercial genome sequence (the pathogen Helicobacter) in 1994. This multiplex cycled solid-phase sequencing evolved into polonies (1999), ABI-SOLiD (2005), open-source Polonator.org (2007), and Complete Genomics Inc. (2008). Innovations in DNA reading, writing and cell/tissue engineering has led to consumer-directed genomics (23andme, Knome), synthetic biology (SynBERC, Joule, LS9) & new ethics, safety and security strategies. He founded PersonalGenomes.org, which provides the world's only open-access source for human genomic, environmental and trait data (GET). |
Robert Colelli As the chief administrative officer of the MMM Group, Robert Colelli manages the Information Technology, Environmental Health & Safety, Facilities Management and Office Services groups, as well as the Real Estate portfolio and Capital Budget process. His responsibilities include the administrative policies and procedures of MMM Group, as well as special projects, including initiatives to improve enterprise content management and streamline the workflow and procurement processes. In addition, he serves on a number of committees at the corporate level, including the executive committee. |
Zaitrarrio Collier |
Chris Conley Chris Conley is a founding partner of gravitytank and former tenured professor at IIT Institute of Design. He works with gravitytank and leading firms such as Samsung, Autodesk, Coinstar/RedBox, Plantronics, and Unilever, to cultivate an innovative culture within their organizations. He guided seminal programs between Unilever and its retail partners that culminated in the creation of its Customer Collaboration Centers in six global cities. He is working with the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the California Health Care Foundation to bring design and innovation to philanthropy and create sustainable growth for some of their most effective programs. Conley was the 2006 chair of the IDEA/Business Week Awards and is a regular speaker at business conferences and leadership summits that focus on innovation and organizational culture. He holds a master of science degree in innovation and an engineering degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. |
Maurice Conti Maurice is an innovator, futurist and creative visionary. His ideas, projects and creative leadership have been leveraged by Fortune 100 companies, government agencies, boutique manufacturing studios and renowned artists. Maurice's work has centered around Design and Innovation for the last 15 years. He started his career at frogdesign and is now, after many adventures, director of strategic innovation at Autodesk. There he is defining and leveraging technological, economic and cultural trends, especially in the context of exponential change. His mission is to help technology bring more creativity into the world. As a faculty member at Singularity University, Maurice is helping to spread a vision of the future where technology and design will help solve some of the most wicked problems we face as a species. Maurice is also an explorer of geographies and cultures. He has circumnavigated the globe once and been half-way around twice. In 2009 he was awarded the Medal for Exceptional Bravery at Sea by the United Nations IMO, the New Zealand Bravery Medal, and a U.S. Coast Guard Citation for Bravery for saving the lives of 3 shipwrecked sailors. Maurice lives in Muir Beach, CA, where he serves his local community as a volunteer firefighter. |
Douglas Coupland Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist, visual artist and designer. His first novel in 1991 was Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. He has published thirteen novels, a collection of short stories, seven nonfiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. Coupland’s novels and visual work synthesize high and low culture, web technology, religion, and changes in human existence caused by modern technologies. |
S. Scott Crump |
Nonny de la Pena Nonny de la Peña is “One of the 13 People Who Made the World More Creative” according to FastCompany’s Cocreate. As a pioneer of the groundbreaking Immersive Journalism, she uses gaming platforms to offer fully immersive experiences of news and nonfiction using virtual reality gaming platforms. Her most recent project Hunger in Los Angeles, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, creates the feeling of BEING THERE as a real crisis unfolds on a food-bank line. Other projects include the MacArthur-funded Gone Gitmo, a virtual Guantanamo Bay Prison; Cap & Trade, an exploration of the carbon markets built with Frontline World and CIR; Ipsress which investigates detainees held in stress positions; and Three Generations, a newsgame about the California eugenics movement that premiered at 2011 Games For Change. A graduate of Harvard University, she is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with twenty years of journalism experience including as a correspondent for Newsweek Magazine and as a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and others. Her films have screened at theatres in more than fifty cities around the globe, garnering praise from critics like A.O. Scott who called her work “a brave and necessary act of truth-telling.” |
Ron Dellaria As the president of Astorino Development Company, Ron Dellaria is responsible for all construction services. He has 40 years of experience as an architect in planning, design, construction documents, field supervision, and project management of large aviation, health care, corporate, institutional, commercial, and sports facilities. His ability to concurrently manage the three Construction Services departments enables his team to support the A/E Group. Having completed continuing education in asbestos abatement and construction litigation, he is experienced in building environmental problems and potential exposure to claims for equitable adjustments and has prevailed in many cases as an expert witness. As the chief compliance officer for Astorino’s A/E business, he is responsible for all document standards, overseeing the QA/QC department as well as the implementation the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process. Since joining Astorino, he has assumed an international role in program management, overseeing construction of an American-managed transplant hospital built by the Italian government in Sicily. A native of Rome, he speaks fluent Italian and has the cultural understanding required to navigate the foreign project approval system. He is a registered architect in Pennsylvania and a member of the Construction Specification Institute, the Design-Build Institute of America, and Astorino’s board of directors. |
Sanjay Govind Dhande |
Jeff DiBattista Jeff DiBattista, PhD, P.Eng., is a structural engineering principal with the Canadian integrated design firm DIALOG. Based in Edmonton, he is passionate about design excellence and its vital contribution to quality of life. With DIALOG since 2000, his portfolio includes bridges, schools, university buildings, and community and cultural facilities across Alberta. An advocate for technology in the advancement of the design industry, he also chairs DIALOG’s national advisory committee on design technology. As president of Consulting Engineers of Alberta, he is a strong supporter of the practice of engineering and architecture: design excellence starts with a healthy design community. He is also an associate adjunct professor in the University of Alberta’s faculty of engineering, where he is regarded for his leadership in mentoring and strong advocacy for higher education. |
Ginger Krieg Dosier |
Dale Dougherty
Editor and Publisher
Make
Dale Dougherty is the editor and publisher of Make, and general manager of the Maker Media division of O’Reilly Media, Inc. He has been instrumental in many of O’Reilly’s most important efforts, including founding O’Reilly Media, Inc., with Tim O’Reilly. He was the developer and publisher of Global Network Navigator, the first commercial web site that launched in 1993 and was sold to AOL in 1995. He was developer and publisher of Web Review, the online magazine for web designers, and he was O’Reilly’s first editor. Prior to developing Make, he was publisher of the O’Reilly Network and he developed the Hacks series of books. He is the author of Sed & Awk. He was a lecturer in the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley from 1996 to 2000.
Shawn Douglas |
Hugh Dubberly Hugh Dubberly is a partner in Dubberly Design Office (DDO), a San Francisco–based consultancy that focuses on making hardware, software, and services easier to use, more effective, and more fun, through interaction design and information design. At Apple Computer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Dubberly managed cross-functional design teams and later managed graphic design and corporate identity for the entire company. While at Apple, he co-created a technology-forecast film called Knowledge Navigator that presaged the appearance of the Internet and interaction via a mobile device. At Netscape, he became vice president of design and managed groups responsible for the design, engineering, and production of Netscape’s web portal. In 2000, he co-founded DDO. Dubberly also served at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena as the founding chair of the Computer Graphics Department. He has taught courses in the Graphic Design Department at California State University, San Jose; the Design Department at Carnegie-Mellon University; the Institute of Design at IIT; and the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. He edits a column “On Modeling” for Association of Computing Machinery’s journal, Interactions. |
Laura Anne Edwards |
John Elkington Founding Partner & Executive Chairman of Volans(2008 to date) also Co-founder of SustainAbility (1987-2008, where he remains a non-executive member of the Board) and of Environmental Data Services (ENDS, 1978), John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. In 2004, BusinessWeek described him as “a dean of the corporate responsibility movement for three decades.” His first involvement in the field: raising money for the newly formed World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in 1961, aged 11. In 2008, The Evening Standard named John among the ‘1000 Most Influential People’ in London, describing him as “a true green business guru,” and as “an evangelist for corporate social and environmental responsibility long before it was fashionable.” In 2009, a CSR International survey of the Top 100 CSR leaders placed John fourth: after Al Gore, Barack Obama and the late Anita Roddick of the Body Shop, and alongside Muhammad Yunus of the Grameen Bank. In August 2001, John was named among the ‘100 Global Sustain Ability Leaders for 2011’ by ABC Carbon and the Sustain Ability Showcase Asia, based on nominations and recommendations received from around the globe. Volans, launched in April 2008, is a future-focused business working at the intersection of the sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation movements. Volans applies thought leadership and global networks across these areas to develop solutions for entrepreneurs, businesses, governments and investors. In terms of other hats, John is a Visiting Professor at the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at the Cranfield School of Management and sits on various strategic advisory boards: 2degrees; EcoVadis; Gaia Energy; Instituto Ethos; Nestlé’s Creating Shared Value; One Earth Innovation, Polecat UK and a Cleantech Fund developed by zouk Ventures. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, a member of the WWF Council of Ambassadors, a member of the Advisory Board of The Climate Group‘s Clean Revolution Campaign and sits on Newsweek’s Green Rankings Advisory Board. He has also recently joined PPR’s Technical Advisory Board and is an Honorary Fellow of The Hub. John has served as a juror for the first Gigaton Awards, developed by Sir Richard Branson’s non-profit Carbon War Room and dubbed the ‘oscars of sustainability’ and sits on the Advisory Boards of Guardian Sustainable Business, One Earth Innovation, the Katerva Challenge, F&C’s Committee of Reference, Recyclebank‘s Sustainability Advisory Council and Atkins‘ Futures. John is Chairman of the newly formed Ecological Sequestration Trust. Until recently John was also on the advisory boards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). He is also a past Chairman, now a Trustee of The Foundation for Democracy & Sustainable Development (FDSD) and the Aflatoun Impact and Policy Analysis Steering Group. In 2011 John was awarded the Spencer Hutchens, Jr. Medal by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) primarily for his outstanding leadership, as an advocate for social responsibility, and for bringing about positive social change. John has completed a Fellowship at the Bellagio Centre awarded to him by The Rockefeller Foundation. He has written or co-authored 18 books: John’s latest book is The Zeronauts: Breaking the Sustainability Barrier, published May 2012. The Zeronauts spotlights a new breed of innovators, entrepreneurs, investors and policy-makers who are pushing towards zero in such areas as population growth, pandemic risk, poverty, pollution and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The book will explore ways in which corporations, citizens, cities and countries can tackle the civilizational challenges at the intersections between demography, consumerist lifestyles, natural resource availability and climate change. Previous titles include 1988’s million-selling Green Consumer Guide (co-authored with SustainAbility co-founder Julia Hailes), 1997’s Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business (the book which brought his triple bottom line concept and agenda to a wider audience) and 2008’s The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World, (Harvard Business School Press), co-authored with Volans co-founder Pamela Hartigan. John is a columnist for a number of publications, including chinadialogue (China), CSR Wire (USA), Director Magazine (UK), Monday Morning (Denmark) and Guardian Sustainable Business, as well as other media. As a public speaker, he has addressed over 500 conferences all over the world. He was a Faculty member of the World Economic Forumfrom 2002-2008. John’s Who’sWho entry lists his recreations as: “playing with ideas, thinking around corners, conversations with unreasonable people, reading an Alpine range of books (history to science fiction) and business and science magazines, risking life and limb as a London cyclist, catch-it-as-you-can photography, art and design, writing all hours, pre-1944 aircraft, New World wines, 20th century popular music and Johann Strauss II.” Personal website: www.johnelkington.com |
Drew Endy Drew Endy teaches in the new Bioengineering major at Stanford and previously helped start the Biological Engineering major at MIT. His Stanford research team is pursuing one byte of programmable genetically encoded data storage. He also co-founded the BioBricks Foundation as a public-benefit charity that supports the open development of free-to-use standards and technology that enable the engineering of biology. He also organized what has become the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition and the BIOFAB International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (BIOFAB). |
Juan Enriquez |
Glenn Entis Glenn Entis is an Academy Award®–winning animation pioneer and games industry veteran. Currently, he is a partner with Vanedge Capital, a new venture capital fund focused on investments in consumer-facing interactive software. Prior to that, he was chief visual and technical officer for Electronic Arts Worldwide Studios. He came to EA through its acquisition of Dreamworks Interactive, where as CEO he worked with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg on a number of video games, including the first title in the successful Medal of Honor series. Before joining Dreamworks, Entis co-founded Pacific Data Images (PDI), where he co-wrote PDIs first animation system, earning him a Scientific and Technical Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Entis serves on numerous boards and is an honorary professor at Emily Carr University and an adjunct professor at the Masters of Digital Media program at Great Northern Way, both in Vancouver. |
Florencia Estrade |
Kevin Farnham As one of the founders of Method, Kevin Farnham believes that business communications should be consistent, immersive, and highly functional, regardless of the medium. With more than 15 years of experience in branding, user-centered design, and program management, he brings extensive, broad-based leadership to Method’s multidisciplinary design programs. As CEO, Farnham is a leader of the business, focusing on service creation and design vision. He brings a wide range of interests, abilities, and experiences to Method’s clients and employees. During his career, he has consulted with a wide variety of companies, including Apple Computer, Bank of America, Disney, Gucci, Levi-Strauss, Microsoft, Nike, and Sony. He has received awards from ID Magazine, Communication Arts magazine, How magazine, Print magazine, ReBrand, and the ACD 100 Show, as well as numerous other honors from professional organizations and publications. Prior to founding Method, Farnham worked at famed design consultancy MetaDesign, where he was a leader in the firm’s move into cross-platform brand work. Before joining MetaDesign, he was a very early employee at the seminal interactive agency Organic. He stays involved in the design community through his work judging local and international design competitions, and through speaking engagements about design, user experience, and convergent technologies. |
Michael Fero |
Chris France Chris France, CIO at Little Diversified Architectural Consulting (Little), has specialized in information technology for two decades. He started his career at IBM Federal Systems as a software and systems engineer and progressed to project manager of major Department of Defense systems. From IBM, he traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina, to work for Bank of America, where he led efforts to merge and consolidate the information technology of major bank acquisitions. Prior to becoming the CIO of Little, he consulted in the technology-intense Wachovia Capital Markets. As CIO of Little, he not only leads the firm’s information technology strategy, planning, and operations, but also works with clients to ensure that their diverse technology needs are addressed and incorporated during the design process of their new facility. |
Mitch Free |
Ping Fu |
Gilad Gans |
Nelson Gayton Nelson Gayton specializes in entrepreneurship in media, technology, and entertainment (including sports). At UCLA, he teaches entrepreneurship and innovation in media, entertainment, and sports to MBA students. He leads and manages a host of industry-related, experiential projects in digital media, and teaches summer courses in managing global entertainment enterprises; entertainment and media management; and sports marketing and management. Prior to joining UCLA, he was an adjunct faculty member of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. During his time at Wharton, he also served as a general partner of the venture management firm Crayon Venture Partners and today remains on the advisory board of leading venture and angel-backed digital media companies. At Sony Pictures Entertainment, he assisted the chairman and CEO in the development and marketing of feature films. Prior to Sony, he co-founded Microtime Media, a London-based advertising agency. He later took an ownership position in Washington D.C.–based, PolyMedia Communications a cross-platform developer of interactive entertainment and educational software. He has led many nonprofit initiatives, including the establishment of $3.5 million public-private partnership to restore a landmark theater in Miami and serving as founder and lead sponsor of Beyond the Millennium, a Latin American contemporary art exhibition. |
Alice Gelli |
Fred Gelli |
Eri Gentry |
Neil Gershenfeld |
Daisy Ginsberg Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist, designer and writer, interrogating science, technology and new roles for design in a biotech future. As Design Fellow on Synthetic Aesthetics, an NSF/EPSRC-funded project at Stanford University and the University of Edinburgh, she is curating an international programme researching synthetic biology, art and design, investigating how we might ‘design nature’. Daisy studied Architecture at Cambridge University, Design at Harvard University, and MA Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA NY, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Israel Museum, The Wellcome Trust, London’s Design Museum and the National Museum of China. Daisy publishes, teaches and lectures internationally: recent talks include TEDglobal, PopTech, MIT MediaLab and Tsinghua University. Her work has been nominated for the Brit Insurance Designs of The Year 2011, the Index Award 2011 and she is the recipient of the World Technology Award (Design) 2011.www.daisyginsberg.com |
Marc Goodman Marc Goodman is a global thinker, writer and consultant focused on the profound change technology is having on security, business and international affairs. Over the past twenty years, he has built his expertise in cyber crime and terrorism working with organizations such as INTERPOL, the United Nations Counterterrorism Task Force, NATO, the U.S. Government. Mr. Goodman frequently consults with global policy makers, security executives and industry leaders on transnational cyber risk and intelligence and has operated in more than 70 countries around the world. Additionally, Mr. Goodman serves as the global security advisor at Silicon Valley’s Singularity University. He founded the Future Crimes Institute to inspire and educate others on the security implications of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, the social data revolution, synthetic biology, virtual worlds, robotics, ubiquitous computing and location-based services. He has been published in the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, the Economist and Jane’s Intelligence Review. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the London School of Economics. |
Claes Gustafsson
Chief Commercial Officer
DNA2.0
As DNA2.0’s Co-Founder and CCO, Dr. Gustafsson is deeply involved in developing and implementing design criteria in the area of genes, proteins, and pathways for the purpose of building a market place for synthetic biology. Prior to co-founding DNA2.0 in 2003, Claes was a scientist at Maxygen developing protein engineering algorithms and at Kosan Biosciences pioneering synthesis of non-natural natural products. Claes grew up on the Swedish tundra and received his Ph.D. from the University of Umeå.
Samir Hanna |
Jim Haseloff I am a plant biologist working at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. My scientific interests are focused on the engineering of plant morphogenesis, using microscopy, molecular genetic, computational and synthetic biology techniques. I teach Synthetic Biology at the University of Cambridge, and am very interested in its wider potential as a tool for engineering biological systems and underpinning sustainable technologies. http://www.haseloff-lab.org http://www.synbio.org.uk |
Mark Hatch |
Erleen Hatfield Erleen Hatfield is a partner of Buro Happold, a global multidisciplinary engineering consulting firm, and is based in New York. She has over 18 years of experience in the structural design of a wide range of complex projects, including sports facilities, commercial, cultural, residential, and academic buildings. In addition, she oversees the Buro Happold complex modeling group, managing BIM, integrated practice, and fabrication modeling. She sits on numerous national industry committees, including the American Institute of Steel Construction Building Information Modeling Committee, the American Concrete Institute Committee on BIM, and the Advisory Board of the Pankow Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds innovation in the A/E/C industry. She was also a past member of the national American Institute of Architects Integrated Project Delivery Committee. In New York, she is the co-chair of the AIA New York City Technology Committee and a past director of the Structural Engineers Association of New York. She teaches graduate architecture classes at Yale University and gives regular lectures at Pratt University. She is a registered professional engineer and architect in the state of New York. |
Andrew Hessel |
Erin Rae Hoffer |
Pablos Holman Pablos is a futurist, inventor, and notorious hacker with a unique view into breaking and building new technologies. |
Dave Higgins Jr.
Regional Manager
HMH Builders
Dave Higgins Jr., LEED AP BD+C, has been the president of HMH Builders and the chair of AGC, California Building Division since 2004. From 1984 to 2004, he was project engineer and project manager at HMH Builders. He is a member of the AIACC IPD steering committee, a member of the AGC Project Delivery Forum steering committee, and was a past chair of the Sacramento Builders Exchange.
Jim Jacobi Jim Jacobi is a senior principal and CIO for Walter P Moore engineering consulting firm. He is responsible for the firm’s overall information technology strategy and programs. He has over 30 years of experience in engineering design, project management, and construction. He has served as a member of Walter P Moore’s board of directors and is a registered professional engineer in five states. He began his career as a structural engineer and has served as vice president and chief engineer for Brown & Root and as CIO for Halliburton Company. He earned bachelor of science and master of science degrees in civil engineering with a specialization in structural engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Chi Epsilon engineering honor societies, and has served on committees, including chair of University of Houston’s Industry Advisory Board on Training in Advanced Plant Design Systems, the Electronic Data Management Task Force for the Construction Industry Institute, the A/E Productivity Committee of the Construction Users Roundtable, and chair of the Information Technology Roundtable for the Texas Council of Engineering Companies. He is an emeritus member of the Advisory Board for the College of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University. |
Brian David Johnson – Futurist The future is Brian David Johnson's business. As a futurist at Intel Corporation, his charter is to develop an actionable vision for computing in 2020. His work is called "future casting"—using ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data, and even science fiction to provide Intel with a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. Along with reinventing TV, Johnson has been pioneering development in artificial intelligence, robotics, and using science fiction as a design tool. He speaks and writes extensively about future technologies in articles and scientific papers as well as science fiction short stories and novels (Science Fiction Prototyping: Designing the Future with Science Fiction, Screen Future: The Future of Entertainment Computing and the Devices we Love, Fake Plastic Love, and Nebulous Mechanisms: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories). He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter. |
Steve Jurvetson Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a leading venture capital firm with affiliate offices around the world. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), Kana (KANA), and NeoPhotonics (NPTN). He also led the firm's investments in other companies which were then acquired for $12 billion in aggregate. Current Board positions include SpaceX, Synthetic Genomics, and Tesla Motors (TSLA). Previously, Steve was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated. His prior technical experience also includes programming, materials science research (TEM atomic imaging of GaAs), and computer design at HP's PC Division, the Center for Materials Research, and Mostek. He has also worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT Software. As a Consultant with Bain & Company, Steve developed executive marketing, sales, engineering and business strategies for a wide range of companies in the software, networking and semiconductor industries. At Stanford University, he finished his BSEE in 2.5 years and graduated #1 in his class, as the Henry Ford Scholar. Steve also holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. He received his MBA from the Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He also serves on the Advisory Boards of SRI International, STVP, and the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund and is Co-Chair of the NanoBusiness Alliance. He was honored as "The Valley's Sharpest VC" on the cover of Business 2.0 and chosen by the SF Chronicle and SF Examiner as one of "the ten people expected to have the greatest impact on the Bay Area in the early part of the 21st Century." He was profiled in the New York Times Magazine and featured on the covers of Worth, Red Herring, and Fortune magazines. Steve was chosen by Forbes as one of "Tech's Best Venture Investors", by the VC Journal as one of the "Ten Most Influential VCs", and by Fortune as part of their "Brain Trust of Top Ten Minds." In 2005, Steve was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and a Distinguished Alumnus by St. Mark's, where he was the 2010 Commencement Speaker. |
Jim Karkanias |
Jim Keravala |
Richard Kerris Richard Kerris joined Lucasfilm in December 2007. As chief technology officer he oversees the company's technical operations and is responsible for the development and execution of the technology strategy for Industrial Light & Magic, Skywalker Sound, LucasArts, Lucasfilm Animation, Lucasfilm Animation Singapore, and Lucas Online. Before joining Lucasfilm, he held numerous positions at Apple, from managing special projects for the applications division to managing the company's technical marketing strategies for professional applications. He was also senior director of Developer Technologies for Apple's Worldwide Developer Relations group where he managed teams supporting Unix, Java, and Cocoa developers working to bring their applications to Mac OS® X. Before joining Apple in 2001, he was the director of Maya Technologies at Alias|Wavefront, where he was responsible for working on strategic partnership and licensing agreements that brought parts of Maya 3D technology into new markets. Earlier in his career, he held senior management positions at both Electric Image and Silicon Graphics. He is an active member of the Visual Effects Society where he holds a seat on the Technology Advisory board and the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers. He received his bachelor of science in communications from Fitchburg State College, in Massachusetts. |
Behrokh Khoshnevis |
Henry King Henry King is a global relationship manager at Doblin with two main responsibilities: to lead work for a small number of strategic clients, and to build capabilities through the development of new intellectual property, including methods, tools, and techniques. Prior to joining Doblin, he held the CIO role at architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and earlier at various technology startups, ecommerce dotcoms, and professional services organizations. He previously spent 12 years with Accenture and Deloitte Consulting where he led large-scale IT strategy and systems development projects in Europe, the United States, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. He is on the faculty and the Design Council of the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He has also provided advisory services to a number of highly creative individuals, including the futurist John Naisbitt and the artist Miroslaw Rogala. He holds MA and BA honors degrees in Literae Humaniores (Classical Greek and Latin Studies) from Oxford University, England. |
Jonathan Knowles Jonathan Knowles is a senior advisor to the CEO and CTO at Autodesk providing thought leadership and insight on the intersection of emerging technology and social trends, the impact of discontinuous innovation, and beyond the horizon technologies. |
Bud Kolich |
Kurt Komraus Kurt Komraus is a technology professional with 20 years of versatile experience with innovative design-to-fabrication technology in industrial design, automotive, and architecture. Specializing in the integration of emerging technologies, he has 10 years of experience innovating technology for Frank Gehry, integrating 3D, automation, and information modeling. He was the director of design technologies for Gehry Partners, driving BIM and IPD collaborative design processes for complex structures worldwide. He has lectured internationally on the subjects of BIM and computational design and is co-coordinator of the Los Angeles Design Technology Forum. He is currently an associate with Buro Happold in Los Angeles, providing BIM integration consulting, implementing interdisciplinary design technologies, design automation, custom tool development, and complex structural modeling and analysis. |
Jeff Kowalski Jeff Kowalski is a senior technologist and entrepreneur with extensive expertise leading engineering and technology core teams. Currently he is vice president, chief technology officer at Autodesk, a design technology company dedicated to helping people imagine, design, and create a better world. He and his team are responsible for shaping Autodesk’s technology and innovation strategies, developing emerging technologies into customer capabilities, and exploring the big ideas that are important to Autodesk and making them more valuable. His team includes Autodesk Research, dedicated to discovering and developing new technologies and insights in areas critical to Autodesk’s future, the Global Alliance team, which engages with other technology companies to scale Autodesk’s capabilities and reach as effectively as possible, and the Corporate Strategy and Engagement team, responsible for developing corporate strategy and thought leadership content and conversations around design, technology, business, and society. |
Tali Krakowsky Tali Krakowsky is the founder of Apologue, Inc., dedicated to the creation of immersive environments that seamlessly integrate new media, storytelling, and physical space. Committed to a highly multidisciplinary and collaborative methodology, she has imagined and created interactive spaces for clients such as Chanel, Victoria’s Secret, BMW, the Museum of Modern Art, IBM, Frank Gehry, and Van Cleef and Arpels. Born in Israel and raised in Hong Kong, she has a bachelor of fine arts in communication design from the Parsons School of Design and a master of arts from UCLA's School of Architecture, where her thesis was on interactive architecture. She is a frequent speaker and writer on the topics of design, technology, and architecture, and is also a curator and moderator of global, cross-disciplinary events that focus on facilitating conversations among professionals around the science and fiction of immersive design. |
Henry LaBounta |
Eric Lamb |
Cynthia La Grou Cynthia La Grou is a cross-disciplinary creative professional currently exploring the intersection of social innovation and purposeful media. Her most recent projects include Compathos.tv (founding director, catalyst); Drawn from Water the Movie (executive producer); the Compathos Film with Social Impact Director Series (curator, producer); and Compathos Productions. Compathos Foundation explores creative ways to inspire action, advocacy, and global citizenry through harnessing the power of story to promote positive change. The Compathos creative community consists of award-winning artists, photographers, and filmmakers who have produced work for a range of clients—including Discovery Channel, O’Neill, ESPN, Fox, FUEL TV, the Smithsonian, and the United Nations—and who are passionate about creating results-oriented media campaigns that deliver measurable impacts and inspire viewer action. |
Brenda Laurel Brenda Laurel has worked in interactive media since 1976 as a designer, researcher, writer and teacher. She served as professor and founding chair of the Graduate Program in Design at California College of Arts from 2006 to 2012. She designed and chaired the Graduate Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (2001-2006) and was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Labs (2005-2006). Based on her research in gender and technology at Interval Research (1992-1996), she co-founded Purple Moon in 1996 to create interactive media for girls. In 1990 she co-founded Telepresence Research, focusing on virtual reality and remote presence. Other employers include Atari, Activision, and Apple. Her books include The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design (1990), Computers as Theatre (1991; second edition forthcoming), Utopian Entrepreneur (2001), and Design Research: Methods and Perspectives (2004). Her recent article, “Gaian IxD”, was the cover article in the Sept-Oct 2011 issue of the journal Interactions. She earned her BA (1972) from DePauw University and her MFA (1975) and PhD in Theatre (1986) from Ohio State University. |
Nancy Levinson Nancy Levinson is editor of Places/Design Observer, a leading journal of architecture and urbanism with a large and global readership. She brings to her editorial work experience in academia and practice, most recently as the founding director of the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory at Arizona State University. At ASU, she developed the interdisciplinary project Post-Petroleum Phoenix: Transforming the Low-Density City for an Eco-Energy Future, a multiyear initiative focusing on the systems-scale adaptation of postwar suburbia. At the Harvard Graduate School of Design, she co-founded Harvard Design Magazine and directed its rise to international prominence. At Princeton Architectural Press, she developed books on subjects ranging from visual perception to landscape urbanism. A frequent design juror and lecturer, she writes for academic and trade periodicals, including Architectural Record, the Journal of Planning Literature, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Perspecta: The Yale Journal on Architecture, The Architect’s Newspaper, I.D., Metropolis, Dwell, Landscape Architecture, Graphis, the Boston Review, the Christian Science Monitor, and Planning. She received a BA from Yale University and Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. |
Hod Lipson Hod Lipson is an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and computing and information science at Cornell University. He directs the Computational Synthesis group, which focuses on novel ways for automatic design, fabrication, and adaptation of virtual and physical machines. He has led work in areas such as evolutionary robotics, multimaterial functional rapid prototyping, machine self-replication, and programmable self-assembly. He received his PhD from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and a postdoc at Brandeis University and MIT. His research focuses primarily on biologically inspired approaches as they bring new ideas to engineering and new engineering insights into biology. For more information, visit www.mae.cornell.edu/lipson. |
Douglas Look Doug Look, senior product manager, leads Autodesk’s workflow and interoperability design strategies, looking for ways to help customers achieve larger innovations from the alignment and integration of Autodesk’s diverse portfolio. He also spent two years working with Autodesk Labs exploring new approaches to design technology, including software as a service, multitouch interfaces, and remote collaboration solutions. Before joining Autodesk, he received his master of design methods from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology and also worked for Doblin, Inc. He holds architectural degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Cornell University, and practiced as a licensed professional architect for more than 20 years. |
Amory Lovins Recovering physicist Amory Lovins, an innovator in energy and many related fields, has advised the energy and other industries for four decades and Departments of Energy and Defense. His work in 50+ countries has been recognized by the “Alternative Nobel,” Blue Planet, Volvo, Zayed, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, 11 honorary doctorates, honorary membership of the American Institute of Architects, Foreign Membership of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, National Design, and World Technology Awards, among others. A Harvard and Oxford dropout and former Oxford don, he has briefed 21 heads of state and written 30 books and over 450 papers. Cofounder of Rocky Mountain Institute, where he’s Chairman and Chief Scientist, he’s led the superefficient redesigns of scores of buildings, several vehicles, and $30+ billion worth of industrial facilities, and the creation of three of RMI’s five for-profit spinoffs. The latest of his nine visiting chairs was in Stanford’s School of Engineering. In 2009, Time named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people, and Foreign Policy, one of the 100 top global thinkers. |
Chris Luebkeman Educated as a geologist, structural engineer, and architect, Chris Luebkeman leads the Global Foresight & Innovation team at Arup, a global firm of engineering and design consultants. He has served as a faculty member of the departments of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, University of Oregon, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and MIT. He was named a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council, in 2004, and was listed as one of the ten future speculators and shapers “who will change the way we live,” in Wallpaper Magazine (2002). At Arup he advises organizations, such as the UK Government’s Environmental and Physical Sciences Research Council, on strategic matters relating to the built environment. He works with some of the world’s leading companies to develop future scenarios to better understand the opportunities created by future change in the built environment. He speaks on the issues of sustainability and thoughtful design, and applies the lessons learned in the design of the built environment to business. His keynotes, workshops, and strategy sessions are created for executives seeking better design sensibility for their products, services, and processes. He helps clients better understand the needs and desires of consumers, customers, and citizens. |
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