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THE WORLD TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT & AWARDS 2012 1

THE WORLD TECHNOLOGYSUMMIT & AWARDS

2012

NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN

Time & Life BuildingNew York City

October 22nd and 23rd, 2012

2 THE WORLD TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT & AWARDS 2012

CONTENTS

General Information .......................................................................................................3

Program .........................................................................................................6

Speakers & Moderators .................................................................................................9

Special Film Screening .................................................................................................19

2012 World Technology Awards Finalists and Nominees .................................................20

About Accelerosity ......................................................................................................27

About The World Technology Network (“The WTN”) ........................................................28

THE WORLD TECHNOLOGY NETWORK MEMBERSHIP

The WTN Membership listing is available online at: http://www.wtn.net/members.html


GENERAL INFORMATION

Summit Venue

Time & Life Building8th Floor1271 Avenue of the AmericasNewYork, NY 10020

Language

The official language of the Summit is English. Translation services will not be provided.

Registration

Fees for World Technology Summit conference delegates include participation in all sessions, printed materials of the Summit, coffee breaks, and lunch on both days and the World Technology Awards Gala (unless otherwise specified with your Summit pass type).

Additional Awards tickets are available for purchase.

Registration Desk

Please enter the Time & Life Building on West 50th Street. Our WTN Registration Desk will be set up just inside the entrance. All delegates will be required to register as WTN Delegates, will receive a security pass and will then proceed through the TIME Security Check-Point, where all personal belongings will be scanned by TIME Security prior to entering the elevator banks or the escalator leading to the conference center on the 8th Floor. Please note that security measures are strict and must be adhered to. VALID PHOTO ID IS REQUIRED to enter the building

Delegate materials will be distributed on the 8th floor where the WTN Summit will take place The registration desk and conference center will be open during the following hours:

Monday, October 22nd, 7:30am – 4:30pmTuesday, October 23rd, 7:30am – 3:30pm


WORLD TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT 2012

Monday, October 22nd and Tuesday, October 23rd

Time & Life Building1271 Avenue of the Americas @ 50th StreetNew York, NY 10020

Registration Hours

Monday, October 22nd, 7:30am – 4:30pmTuesday, October 23rd, 7:30am – 3:30pmIt is advisable to register immediately upon arrival in order to receive your meeting materials and personal name badge etc. We kindly ask that you wear your badge at all sessions and all events.

Summit Sessions

All plenary sessions and coffee breaks will be held on the 8th floor of the Time & life Building, with the exception of luncheons which will be held on the 2nd floor. Note: The World Technology Awards Gala will be also be held in the Time & Life Building.

Exhibition

There will be an exhibition in the Gallery area of the 8th floor (where all sessions will be held for the summit). The official exhibition viewing times are as follows:Monday, October 22nd, 9:00am – 5:00pmTuesday, October 23rd, 9:00am – 4:00pm

Catering

Tea, coffee, continental breakfast and lunch will be served during the official breaks of the summit. Please consult the agenda in this booklet for timing.

Webcasting

The Summit plenary sessions will be videotaped for webcasting and available online soon after the conclusion of the event. The vast majority of the proceedings of the World Technology Summit will be available for a nominal fee on FORA.tv.

Liability & Insurance

The organizers are not able to take any responsibility whatsoever for injury or damage involving persons and property during the meeting. Delegates are advised to take out their own personal insurance to cover travel, accommodation, cancellation and personal effects.


WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARDS 2012

Tuesday, October 23rd, 6:45pm– 10:30pm

Time & Life Building, 8th Floor1271 Avenue of the Americas @ 50th StreetNew York, NY 10020

The World Technology Awards 2012 will be taking place on the evening of October 23rd, 2012, at the culmination of the two day World Technology Summit (October 22nd and 23rd, 2012).

We will be announcing the Winners from the stage at the ceremony and in the process inducting them and the Finalists into the membership of the WTN (which now comprises around 1,000 members from over 60 countries around the world).

Please check in at the WTS Registration Desk at the Time & Life Building during the course of the Summit, to confirm your reservation for the Gala, or to add your name to the guest list.

PLEASE NOTE: The Gala is a formal event. BLACK TIE is encouraged, although FORMAL BUSINESS ATTIRE is acceptable.


WORLD TECHNOLOGY SUMMITORDER OF EVENTS

DAY 1: MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012All sessions, breaks and luncheon will be held on the 8th Floor/Time Conference Center.

8:45 am – 8:50 am WELCOMING REMARKS DAMIAN SLATTERY, Executive Director of Integrated Marketing, Time Magazine

8:50 am – 9:45 am OPENING KEYNOTE SPEECH JAMES P. CLARK, Founder/Chairman, The World Technology Network

9:45 am – 10:25 am ROUNDTABLE: THIS WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING MODERATOR: ROBERT TERCEK , Chairman, Creative Visions Foundation; Founder, General Creativity PANELISTS: JEFF JARVIS, Director, The News Innovation Project, CUNY; Creator and Founding Editor, Entertainment Weekly; PAUL KONTONIS, Chairman, The International Academy of Web Television; RISHAD TOBACCOWALA, Chief Strategy and Innivation Officer, Vivaki

10:25 am – 10:35 am DEMO/PRESENTATION

10:35 am – 11:05 am SHApING SERENdIpITY – FRom oppoRTuNITY To ImpERATIVE JOHN HAGEL, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Co-Chairman for The Edge

11:05 am – 11:35 am COFFEE/NETWORKING BREAK/EXHIBITS AREA



11:55 am – 12:25 pm MARIAN SALZMAN, CEO, Havas PR North America

12:25 pm – 1:35 pm LUNCH (Galleries A, B & C – 8th Floor)

1:35 pm – 1:45 pm DEMO/PRESENTATION


1:55 pm – 2:25 pm TRAVELING THE WoRLd, mEETING STARTupS: WHAT I LEARNEd HERMIONE WAY, Cast Member, Silicon Valley (Bravo TV); Founder, Newspepper; Co-founder, StartupWorld competition





2:55 pm – 3:25 pm COFFEE/NETWORKING BREAK/EXHIBITS AREA

3:25 pm – 3:30 pm INTRO TO FILM SCREENING

3:30 pm – 4:45 pm FILM SCREENING: CHASING ICE

4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Q&A via SKYPE, JAMES BALOG, Filmmaker

CLOSE OF DAY ONE

DAY 2: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012All sessions, breaks and luncheon will be held on the 8th Floor/Time Conference Center.

8:45 am – 9:00 am WELCOMING REMARKS JAMES CLARK

9:00 am – 9:30 am KEYNOTE: HoW THIS dECAdE WILL BE THE moST INNoVATIVE IN HumAN HISToRY VIVEK WADHWA, Academic, Researcher, Writer and Entrepreneur


9:45 am – 10:15 am ALEX LIGHTMAN, Author, Entrepreneur and Futurist

10:15am – 10:25 am DEMO/PRESENTATION

10:25 am – 10:50 am AUGUSTINE FOU, Founder, Digital Strategy Institute

10:50 am – 11:20 am COFFEE/NETWORKING BREAK/EXHIBITS AREA


11:30 am – 11:55 am MARTIN VARSOVSKY, Technology Entrepreneur and Investor

11:55 am – 12:05 pm DEMO/PRESENTATION

12:05 pm – 12:40 pm ROUNDTABLE PANEL: THE RISE oF ASIA’S INVESToRS MODERATOR: REBECCA FANNIN, Author Silicon Dragon and Startup Asia; Founder, Silicon Dragon Ventures PANELISTS: JOHN W. ALLEN, Chairman and CEO, Greater China Corporation; PORTER BIBB, Managing Partner at MediaTech Capital Partners

12:40 pm – 1:30 pm LUNCH (Galleries A, B & C – 8th Floor)



1:40 pm – 2:15 pm CONVERSATION: WHY ARE SCIENCE & TECHNoLoGY INVISIBLE IN THE poLITICAL dEBATE? AL TEICH, Research Professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs, Center for International Science & Technology Policy, George Washington University ; FRED GUTERL, Executive Editor, Scientific American; MATTHEW CHAPMAN, Writer-Director; CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Journalist, Educator and Lecturer, producer of the weekly feature “Conversation with…” of the Science Section of the New York Times. Adjunct associate professor of international affairs and media at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University.



2:35 pm – 3:15 pm ROUNDTABLE: VCS VS. ENTREpRENEuRS: WHERE do THE “BuSINESS-CREAToRS” STANd? MODERATOR: BILL ROBINSON, “Tech Scape” Columnist for The Huffington Post and CEO, Relentless Marketing PANELISTS: TIKI BARBER, Former NY Jets Running Back and Co-Chairman and Founder, Thuzio; AYAH BDEIR, Found & CEO, littleBits; KIM CHILMAN- BLAIR, Founder & CEO, Medikidz; HOWARD MORGAN, Partner, First Round Capital, ALAN PATRICOF, Managing Director, Greycroft, LLC; SHAWN REIGSECKER, Founder and CEO, Centro


3:45 pm – 4:00 pm CLOSING REMARKS FOR THE SUMMIT JAMES CLARK

CLOSE OF DAY TWO

4:15 pm – 6:30 pm VIEW EXHIBITS AND PREPARE FOR EVENING

EVENING EVENT: WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARDSThe Awards Show will take place at the Time & Life Building/8th Floor

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm RECEPTION

7:30 pm – 10:30 pm THE WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARDS CEREMONY Co-Masters of Ceremony: JAMES CLARK, Chairman/Founder, World Technology Network, SARA HAINES, Contributing Correspondent, TODAY Show, NBC-TV

Creative musical entertainment will be provided courtesy of the Juilliard School and others.


JOHN W. ALLEN, Chairman & CEO of Greater China Corporation

John W. Allen has been involved in Asia and China for over 30 years and participated in developing several multi $billion companies. Assisted in founding AIESEC in China and Latin America and was Chairman of the Board of AIESEC, US and of AIESEC Yale. Founding member of the Chinese Cultural Foundation and the China Investment Group, LLC.

He has headed the international investment subsidiary of the Bank of Boston and was Assistant to James D. Wolfensohn (former head of the World Bank) at Schroder Bank and Trust, and subsequently became President of the International Securities Exchange Corporation.

Allen has served as Trustee of the Soros Open Society Institute and one of three Trustees of the International Science Foundation along with George Soros and Nobel Laureate James Watson.

Director of the World Policy Institute, the International Business and Academic Council, Advisor to the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights and Womensphere and previously served as Vice Chairman of the Business Council for the United Nations.

Also Chairman of Spring Investment Corporation and Turtlesnap Ventures, Inc. Frequent speaker on China, global capital markets, emerging markets and entrepreneurial initiatives. Received his BA from Yale University and MBA from Harvard Business School.

JAMES BALOG, Lead, Director of Extreme Ice Survey (EIS)

James Balog has been a leader in photographing, understanding and interpreting the natural environment for three decades. An avid mountaineer with a graduate degree in geography and geomorphology, James is equally at home on a Himalayan peak or a whitewater river; the African savannah or polar icecaps.

To reveal the impact of climate change, James founded the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), the most wide-ranging, ground-based, photographic study of glaciers ever conducted. National Geographic showcased this work in the June 2007 and June 2010 issues. The project is also featured in the 2009 NOVA documentary Extreme Ice, and in the feature-length documentary, Chasing Ice. EIS has been recognized with the Heinz Award, the Missouri School of Journalism’s Honor Medal for Distinguished Service, the Aspen Institute’s Visual Arts & Design Award, and the Galen and Barbara Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure. Balog has received the Leica Medal of Excellence, the International League of Conservation Photographers Award and the North

American Nature Photography Association’s Outstanding Photographer of the Year award. He was named Person of the Year for 2011 by PhotoMedia magazine.

James is the author of seven books, including Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report, published by National Geographic Books in 2009. ICE: Portraits of the World’s Vanishing Glaciers, will be released in the fall of 2012. Among his other books are Tree: A New Vision of the American Forest (2004), Wildlife Requiem (1984), Anima (1992), and Survivors: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife (1990), which was hailed as a major conceptual breakthrough in nature photography. His work has been extensively published in most of the world’s major pictorial magazines including The New Yorker, National Geographic, Life, American Photo, Vanity Fair, Sierra, Audubon, and Outside, and is in dozens of public and private art collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Corcoran Gallery, the Denver Art Museum and the Gilman Paper Company. In 1996, James was the first photographer ever commissioned by the U.S. Postal Service to create a full sheet of stamps.

TIKI BARBER, former New York Giants running back and Co-Chairman and Founder, Thuzio

• 3× Pro Bowl selection (2004, 2005, 2006)• Super Bowl Appearance (XXXV)• 10,000 Rushing Yards Club• New York Giants All-Time Leading Rusher• MSNBC Broadcaster for the Beijing Olympics (2008)

Tiki Barber was a NFL running back who played 10 seasons for the New York Football Giants. He was drafted out of the University of Virginia by the G-Men in the second round of the 1997 NFL Draft. Barber was initially drafted to be a 3rd down “change of pace” back but had a break-out year in 1999 when he exploded for 1639 all-purpose yards. Barber never looked back as he ran for over 1,000 yards in 6 of his last 7 seasons. Over that span Barber was a 3-time All-Pro and Pro Bowl selection while helping lead the Giants to Super Bowl XXXV in 2001. Barber rushed for 1,662 yards and five touchdowns in 2006 making him the only RB to have their final season be the biggest rushing season of their career.

Tiki retired after his 2006 campaign as the all-time leading rusher for the Giants. His 10,449 rushing yards places him in the prestigious 10,000 yards club. He became the third player in NFL history to gain more than 10,000 rushing yards and 5,000 receiving yards in a NFL career, joining Marshall Faulk and Marcus Allen.

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After retiring from football, Tiki enjoyed a career in media broadcasting becoming a correspondent for NBC’s Today Show, an analyst for Football Night in America/Sunday Night Football as well as a broadcaster during the 2008 Summer Olympics on MSNBC.

Thuzio provides an online platform for individuals and institutions to connect with public individuals for instruction, experiences and corporate entertainment and events. Thuzio’s initial focus is on major sports (primarily in the New York City area), and will be expanding starting in the Fall of 2012 to over 20 sports nationally and in the Fall/Winter of 2012-13 to music, film, television, cooking and the arts. The company is backed by a variety of strategic investors with deep experience in each of those activities.

Born on April 7, 1975 in Roanoke, Virginia he is the brother of the NFL player Ronde Barber. Tiki graduated from the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce, concentrating in Management Information System (Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society) prior to being drafted by the Giants in 1997.

AYAH BDEIR, Founder & CEO, littleBits

Ayah Bdeir is an engineer and an interactive artist, and the founder of littleBits.cc, an open source kit of electronic modules that snap together with magnets. Only 6 months after its creation, litteBits has been acquired by MoMA for the museum’s permanent collection, won “Best of ToyFair,” been featured on Ted, BBC, Forbes and Popular Science, and called by Bloomberg TV, “LEGO’s for the iPad generation.”

Bdeir graduated with a Masters from the MIT Media Lab where she was a student in the Computing Culture Group. Prior to that, Bdeir studied Computer Engineering and Sociology in the American University of Beirut.

After the Media Lab (and a brief stint in Finance), Ayah got a fellowship and senior fellowship at Eyebeam Art + Technology center. She taught graduate classes at NYU and Parsons and taught numerous workshops to get non-engineers, and particularly young girls, interested in science and technology. Bdeir was a mentor in the regional reality TV-show “Stars of Science” (initiated by Qatar Foundation) promoting science and technology innovation in the Middle East.

In 2010, Bdeir was granted a fellowship with Creative Commons in recognition of her work, including spearheading the first Open Hardware Definition and co-chairing the Open Hardware Summit at the New York Hall of Science in September of 2010 and 2011. Just recently, Bdeir was awarded the highly prestigious TED Fellowship, as one of 25 innovators in 2012 from around the world.

Bdeir is also the founder of Karaj, Beirut’s lab for experimental art, architecture and technology.

Ayah lives and works in New York.

PORTER BIBB, Managing Partner at MediaTech Capital Partners

Porter Bibb is managing partner at MediaTech Capital Partners, a private merchant bank he founded in 1996. He also serves as Senior Advisor to Gerson Global Advisors, a strategic advisor to sovereign states, where he concentrates on business development and public affairs. Mr. Bibb has more than 40 years experience as a senior investment banker, specializing in media and technology. He is a former White House correspondent for Newsweek magazine, the first Publisher of Rolling Stone Magazine, and former Corporate Development Director for The New York Times Company. He is the author of several books, including the best-selling biography of Ted Turner (Random House,1993) and has produced over a dozen television and theatrical motion pictures, most notably Gimme Shelter, with the Rolling Stones.

A graduate of Yale University, he received a Certificate in Advanced Management from the Harvard Business School, and has served as a Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics. He is a trustee emeritus of the New York State Council for the Humanities, the Theatre Development Foundation, and MUSE Film & Television. Mr. Bibb is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other major media, and appears regularly as a commentator on television and radio. He is a founder and former chairman of Peconic Public Broadcasting, the NPR public radio station in Southampton, NY.

MATTHEW CHAPMAN, Writer-Director

Matthew Chapman is the author of two critically acclaimed non-fiction books, Trials of the Monkey - An Accidental Memoir and 40 Days and 40 Nights.His screenplay credits include Consenting Adults directed by Alan J. Pakula, Color of Night, directed by Richard Rush, and Runaway Jury, directed by Gary Fleder.

He is the co-founder and president of ScienceDebate.org, an organization trying to get the presidential candidates to hold a debate on science.

He wrote and directed The Ledge, starring Charlie Hunnam, Liv Tyler, Terrence Howard, and Patrick Wilson. A thriller about a battle between a non-believer and a fundamentalist, it was selected for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and is distributed in America by IFC. It has been seen in over 50 territories worldwide including Indonesia, the Middle East, most of Europe, Russia, China, Turkey, India, and Central and South America.

DR. KIM CHILMAN-BLAIR, Founder & CEO, Medikidz

Dr. Kim Chilman-Blair is the CEO and Founder of Medikidz. Having worked in paediatrics for a number of years, she found herself frustrated at the lack of medical resources accessible to children. With all the available material directed towards parents,


she decided to create a product that would help young patients understand what was going on inside their bodies, and lessen the fear that came with a diagnosis.

While studying for a Masters in Entrepreneurship at the University of Otago in her native New Zealand and working full-time as a paediatrician, Kim started writing stories that would eventually become the world’s first series of medical information comics for young people. After winning a $20,000 entrepreneurship challenge, she moved over to England with her colleague, Dr. Kate Hersov to fully establish Medikidz.

Since launching in September 2009, Medikidz has created a series of comic books and now has over 20 titles, including Type 1 Diabetes, Epilepsy, Autism and Depression. With books now being distributed worldwide and two new titles being produced every month, Dr. Kim looks set to change the way young patients receive information and support about their conditions.

JAMES P. CLARK, Founder/Chairman, The World Technology Network

James P. Clark is the founding chairman and CEO of the World Technology Network (www.wtn.net), a global association of over 1,000 of the peer-nominated, peer-elected most innovative people in science and technology elected annually through the World Technology Awards. (He is also founder/CEO of ACCELEROSITY, a global accelerator for start-up companies.) The next World Technology Awards will be presented at the close of the 2012 World Technology Summit & Awards (WTSA), held on October 22/23, 2011, in association with TIME magazine, CNN, and Fortune, among others, in New York. Now in its eleventh annual cycle, the WTSA is a two-day, global gathering of the WTN membership (primarily winners/finalists from previous World Technology Award cycles), as well as World Technology Award nominees. The WTN has also convened other global summits, including the World Energy Technologies Summit (WETS) at UNESCO headquarters in Paris in 2004, and a second WETS at the TIME & Life Building in NYC in 2010, jointly convened with TIME magazine. The WTN also convenes other smaller roundtables in cities around the world.

Educated at Wesleyan University and Cambridge University (UK), Clark has served in a wide variety of leadership roles across business, politics, technology, academia, and the non-profit sector. A serial entrepreneur, Clark’s first venture, a clearinghouse for professional careers in the non-profit sector, was founded at Wesleyan University and then green- housed, by invitation, at Harvard University in the late 1980s, where Clark was appointed to the faculty. In 1992, Clark next served as Director the Non-Profit Sector & National Service in Little Rock, Arkansas, for then-Governor Bill Clinton’s successful Presidential campaign. During the Presidential Transition period after the election, Clark co-developed the

Presidential Transition Roundtable Series, bringing experts together to examine key issues, including Northern Ireland,

Entrepreneurship, The Politics of Inclusion, and Homelessness. In 1993, he started one of the country’s first Internet consulting firms, whose main client was another start-up called AOL, and which was focused on bringing online technology to the non-profit sector. In 1997, he founded the World Technology Network.

He has appeared on CNN, CNBC, BBC, and in many print publications over the years, and speaks regularly to a wide variety of audiences and has consulted to a wide variety of organizations.

In early 2012, he also founded ACCELEROSITY (accelerosity.com). ACCELEROSITY is a global business based in New York City that assists entrepreneurs and early stage start-up ventures in key venture-rich cities around the world by connecting these individuals and businesses to the resources they need. Its serve a large number of start-ups via its website services and with fee-for-service offerings. Its serves a much more select group of vetted and invited companies through our Network offerings (available as part of Network membership). ACCELEROSITY’s mission is to dramatically increase the likelihood of success for start-up ventures. The goal of ACCELEROSITY is to become a leading name that entrepreneurs turn to for assistance in developing their start-ups by putting them in touch with the best information and the most effective service providers. In regards to investors, ACCELEROSITY also aims to provide to its investors’ network opportunities to become involved early on in the best new start-up companies.

CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Journalist, Educator and Lecturer, producer of the weekly feature “Conversation with…” of the Science Section of the New York Times. Adjunct associate professor of international affairs and media at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University

Claudia Dreifus writes “Conversation with...” in the New York Times’ Tuesday science section. She is known internationally for her unusual interviews with scientists, policymakers, and international figures.

Dreifus is the author of Scientific Conversations: Interviews on Science from the New York Times (Times Books, 2002) and Interview (Seven Stories Press, 1999), a book of political and cultural interviews used by journalism programs worldwide.

Dreifus, who teaches Magazine Writing with an International Dateline, has filed stories from places as diverse as Central America, Northern Ireland, Burma, South Africa, Chile, and Puerto Rico. In her course, emphasis is placed on developing practical skills with real world applications. Using the diverse possibilities of New York City as a base, students are encouraged to develop the skills they will need to produce feature length reporting from international locales.


Her writing appears in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, Smithsonian, AARP-The Magazine, and Scientific American. Once, long ago and on a planet faraway, she worked as a Playboy interviewer, as well as feature writer for Ms. Magazine. She has also been an interviewer, over the years, for every major New York City newspaper, including Newsday, the New York Post, and the NY Daily News. For the past eighteen years, she has been associated with the New York Times, first as a contributing writer to the Sunday Magazine and now in the same position in the Tuesday Science Times.

Dreifus is also a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, a foreign affairs think tank which publishes the World Policy Journal. She recently published the best-selling non-fiction book, Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About It, co-authored with political scientist Andrew Hacker.

REBECCA FANNIN, Author Silicon dragon and Startup Asia; Founder, Silicon Dragon Ventures

Rebecca Fannin is the author of two influential books, Silicon Dragon (McGraw-Hill, 2008) and Startup Asia (Wiley, 2011), a media entrepreneur with her own news, events and consulting business (www.silicondragonventures.com ), and a contributor to Forbes.com, where she writes the Silicon Asia beat. A journalist with 20 years of experience, she has served as an international editor at Red Herring, Advertising Age and Hong Kong-based Incisive Media.

Rebecca has guest lectured at Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Tsinghua and the National University of Singapore. She has appeared as a commentator on CCTV, Channel Asia, Times of India, BBC and Fox Business News. In 2010, she testified before a US Congressional committee China and the Internet.

Rebecca lives in New York and San Francisco and regularly travels to Asia.

AUGUSTINE FOU, Founder, Digital Strategy Institute

Dr. Augustine Fou is the Founder of the Digital Strategy Institute and former Group Chief Digital Officer of Omnicom’s Healthcare Consultancy Group. Dr.Fou has over 16 years of management consulting and digital strategy consulting experience, advising CMOs, marketing executives, and global brands. He has pioneered the application of the Unified Marketing™ framework to optimize marketing across both traditional and digital channels and tactics.

Dr. Fou is also an Adjunct Professor at NYU in the School for Continuing and Professional Studies and at Rutgers University at the Center for Management Development, where he teaches courses on digital strategy, social media marketing, mobile marketing, and integrated marketing to executives. He is a frequent panelist, moderator, and keynote speaker.

Dr. Fou completed his PhD at MIT at the age of 23. He started his career with McKinsey & Company. He writes a monthly column on Integrated Marketing for ClickZ.com, and can be found on Twitter.com @acfou.

FRED GUTERL, Executive Editor, Scientific American

Fred Guterl is an award-winning journalist and executive editor of Scientific American. He worked for ten years at Newsweek, most recently as deputy editor, covering the most important trends in science, technology, and international affairs. He has also appeared on CNN, Charlie Rose, the Today Show, and on other television programs to discuss popular issues in science. Guterl holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, and has taught science writing at Princeton University.

JOHN HAGEL, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP & Co-Chairman,Center for the Edge

John Hagel III is an author and former consultant who specializes in the intersection of business strategy and information technology. In 2007, Hagel, along with John Seely Brown and Lang Davison, founded the Deloitte Center for the Edge Innovation. Hagel is also involved with a number of other organizations, including the World Economic Forum, Innovation Exchange with John Seely Brown and Henry Chesbrough, the International Academy of Management, and the Aspen Institute.

JEFF JARVIS, Director of the News Innovation Project, CUNY & Creator and Founding Editor of Entertainment Weekly

Jeff Jarvis, a national leader in the development of online news, blogging, the investigation of new business models for news, and the teaching of entrepreneurial journalism, writes an influential blog, Buzzmachine.com. He is author of the books What Would Google Do? and Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live as well as the e-book Gutenberg the Geek. He has also consulted for media companies including the Guardian, Digital First Media, Postmedia, Sky.com, Burda, Advance Publications, and The New York Times company at About.com. Prior to coming to CUNY, Jarvis was president of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications, which includes Condé Nast magazines and newspapers across America. He was the creator and founding managing editor of Entertainment Weekly magazine and has worked as a columnist, associate publisher, editor, and writer for a number of publications, including TV Guide, People, the San Francisco Examiner, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Daily News. His freelance articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country, including The Guardian, The New York Times, the New York Post,


The Nation, Rolling Stone, and Business Week. Jarvis holds a B.S.J. from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He was named one of the 100 most influential media leaders by the World Economic Forum at Davos.

PAUL KONTONIS, Chairman, The International Academy of Web Television

Paul Kontonis is the Chairman of the International Academy of Web Television, an industry organization founded in 2009 and comprising of leaders in the field of web television, web video, and the digital entertainment industries and are the creators of the annual IAWTV Awards at the International CES. Paul’s industry leading voice includes his role as the Lead Advisor of Outrigger Media and OpenSlate, the leading platform and content quality score for connecting marketers with native digital video for advertising. As the former Vice President, Group Director, Brand Content for The Third Act, at Digitas, Paul helped establish the Digital Content NewFronts as the leading marketplace for connecting brands with original content opportunities and has executive produced dozens of original web series including successful branded entertainment for Global 100 brands. Paul authors numerous articles about online video, and is a speaker at several industry conferences and seminars annually.

ALEX LIGHTMAN, Author, Entrepreneur, and Futurist

Alex Lightman is an author, entrepreneur, and futurist, who has made significant contributions to the adoption of IPv6, served as CTO of the United Nations‘ Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization, and has authored several books on technology and society.

HOWARD MORGAN, Partner, First Round Capital

Howard Morgan has more than 25 years of experience serving as a mentor, advisor and investor in entrepreneurial ventures.Howard was Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Computer Science at the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 through 1985. He has been a Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School. During his academic career he served as an editor of Communications of the ACM, Management Science, Transactions on Office Information Systems and Transactions on Database Systems. His research on user interface technology, and on optimization of computer networks led to his bringing the ARPAnet to Philadelphia in 1974. As a result of this early participation in the internet, he advised many corporate and government agencies on the uses of electronic and voice mail, implementing it throughout the Wharton School in the mid 1970s.

From 1983 to 1989, he served as President of Renaissance Technologies Corp. in New York, where he supervised venture capital investments in high technology companies. He was a founding board member and technical advisor of Franklin Electronic Publishers, one of the first manufacturers of personal computers. He has been an active consultant and speaker to users and vendors in the information systems area for more than 30 years, and has worked with many of the Fortune 100 companies and numerous government agencies.

Since 1989, he has been President of the Arca Group, Inc., nurturing early stage companies and taking them from seed stage through initial public offerings. He also serves as a Director of Idealab, where he was a founding investor in 1996. Dr. Morgan serves on a number of public company Boards, including Franklin Electronic Publishers and Internet Brands, Inc. He is also Chairman or a member of the board of numerous private companies including Energy Innovations, Evolution Robotics Retail, snap.com, MagicWorks LLC and Math For America. He has also served as CEO of Kentek and Franklin during various turnover or transitional periods. In 1997, he was named Delaware Valley Entrepreneur of the Year. Howard is a respected author and a frequent speaker at major industry conferences.

He received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1968, and a B.S. in physics from City College of the City University of New York in 1965.

ALAN PATRICOF, Managing Director, Greycroft, LLC

Alan Patricof, a venture capital pioneer, founded Greycroft, LLC in 2006. Greycroft is a venture capital firm, with offices in New York and Los Angeles, focused on the digital media sector. The firm has two funds, Greycroft I, with committed capital of $75 million, and Greycroft II, which was initiated in 2010 with committed capital of $130 million. Prior to founding Greycroft, Mr. Patricof was the founder and chairman of Apax Partners, Inc. (formerly Patricof & Co. Ventures, Inc.), the U.S. arm of Apax Partners, Worldwide, LP, now one of the world’s leading private equity firms with $41 billion under management or advice.

During the past 40-plus years, Mr. Patricof has participated in the financing and development of a large number of public and private companies. Companies that he has been involved with at the initial stages are Apple Computer, America Online, Cadence Systems, Office Depot, FORE Systems, Cellular Communications, Inc., IntraLinks, Audible, Inc. and The Huffington Post.

Mr. Patricof is active in the New York and Washington communities as a board member of TechnoServe, Trickle Up Program, Global Advisory Board of Endeavor, Applied Sciences NYC Advisory Board, and the Initiative for Global Development (IGD) Leadership Council. In 2007, he was appointed to the board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation by the President of the United States; he is currently serving his second term. From 1993 to 1995, he served


as Chairman of the White House Conference on Small Business Commission.

Mr. Patricof holds a BS in Finance from Ohio State University and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is married to his wife Susan for over 40 years and he has three sons, Mark, Jonathan, James, as well as seven grandchildren, Lily, Nina, Jack, Chloe, Lila, Riley and Sawyer.

ADAM REIFSTECK, Composer

New York City-based composer Adam Reifsteck (b. 1983) has written, recorded, and performed music in a variety of styles and genres for audiences across the U.S. as well as in Europe. Recipient of grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Irving S. Gilmore Foundation, and the Kalamazoo (MI) Community Foundation, his compositions have been performed by the Attacca Quartet, Cadillac Moon Ensemble, Duquesne University Chamber Singers, Flutronix, Gaudete Brass Quintet, Mana Saxophone Quartet, Western Michigan University Chorale, countertenor Tyler Wayne Smith, and other ensembles.

Adam Reifsteck released his debut album, The Burning Within, on his own label in 2008. The “Gloria” and “Sanctus” of Missa Cor Inflammatus from the album were premiered internationally by the Western Michigan University Chorale, under the direction of Dr. James Bass, at the Eisenstadt Domkirche (Esienstadt Cathedral) during a liturgical service and in concert at the Bergkirche (“Mountain Church”) in Austria. An active recording engineer, Reifsteck produced commercial spots, jingles, and audio sales presentations for the Cumulus Broadcasting, Inc. affiliated stations WBCK-AM 930, WBCK-FM 95.3, and WBXX-FM 104.9. Reifsteck also co-founded the Siena Arts Program, an outreach of the Music Mission of St. Catherine of Siena Church, in Portage, MI, which seeks to unite communities through the celebration of the musical and visual religious arts of all cultures and faith traditions.

As a member of the Duquesne University Chamber Singers, under the direction of Dr. Brady Allred, Adam Reifsteck performed during the 2003 American Choral Directors Association National Convention at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City and in the world premiere of “Paradise Lost: Opera Electronica,” by composer Eric Whitacre and librettist David Noroña, at the Angel Orensanz Cultural Center. Reifsteck also participated in the 2005 All-Star Collegiate Choir conducted by Marvin Hamlisch with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Adam Reifsteck holds a M.M. in Composition from Western Michigan University and a B.M. in Music Technology from Duquesne University. His former composition teachers include Richard Adams, Robert Ricci, C. Curtis-Smith, Lynn Emberg Purse, David Stock, and Greg Shearer. Mr. Reifsteck is a member of Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), American Composers Forum (ACF), Omicron Delta Kappa, Golden Key Honour Society, and Phi Eta Sigma.

SHAWN RIEGSECKER, Founder and CEO, Centro

Shawn Riegsecker is the founder and CEO of Centro, the leading provider of intelligent media logistics software and services for agencies, publishers, and advertisers. Riegsecker founded the company in 2001 with the goal of making it easier to buy and sell digital media, and since then he has transformed Centro into a partner to hundreds of clients, helping them simplify complex media decisions, connections, and processes in an increasingly digital world. With its software, market-driven insight, and a commitment to outstanding customer service, Centro executes flawless digital media campaigns, resulting in better campaign performance, higher retention rates, and greater profitability for its clients.

Riegsecker’s leadership, commitment to innovation in the digital media industry, and unique approach to culture and employee engagement has led Centro to receive many accolades, including appearing on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, the Inc. 500, and No. 1 on Crain’s Chicago Business’ Best Places to Work 2011 and 2012.

Riegsecker was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in 2008 and 2011, recipient of the National Association of Newspapers 2008 Advertising Person of the Year Award for his contributions to the newspaper industry, and has been a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization since 2010. He is also serves on several boards, including the advisory board for TechWeek.

Locally, Riegsecker is a member of the selection committee for 1871, a community of Chicago designers, coders, and entrepreneurs working together to grow business, and is also an angel investor in the FireStarter Fund, a group of Chicago founders supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Prior to founding Centro, Riegsecker held leadership positions at Real Media, Everstream, and Cleveland.com. He graduated from Bowling Green State University with a B.S. in Business Administration.

BILL ROBINSON, “TechScape” columnist for The Huffington post and CEO, Relentless Marketing

Bill lives in New York City and is a Strategic Marketer by trade and award-winning journalist by craft. He is first and foremost a passionate marketer who also has grown to love writing about Business, Technology, Marketing and Entrepreneurship.

Bill was a corporate executive for RCA Corporation and was one of the youngest managers in the entire corporation. After the acquisition of RCA by General Electric Corporation (GE) in what was then the largest non-oil merger in history, Bill was the youngest manager in the organization by a differential of more than 15 years.


For more than six years after leaving GE, Bill worked for best-selling author of The E-Myth: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It, Michael E. Gerber. When Bill started working for Gerber, the HarperCollins’ title had sold 150,000 copies. After Bill cold-called a full-page article on Gerber in Fortune Magazine and parlayed that into other print, broadcast and major conference appearances, the book attained sales of over 1 million copies in 18 languages.

Bill was then bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and started Relentless Marketing in 1995 near Silicon Valley. Relentless Marketing has served many clients globally while Bill lived in England and Moscow focusing mainly on smaller, high-tech start-ups in the Internet, Software and Hardware sectors. He helps build these companies through fundraising, mass-media branding and through the establishment of high-level, strategic alliances with bigger players in their niches. In traveling the world as a journalist, Bill has traveled to over 76 cities in 44 countries. He has written columns, articles and cover stories for The Wall Street Journal Europe, Marketing Magazine (UK), FORTUNE Small Business, Cisco System’s iQ Magazine, The Financial Times, Business 2.0, Forbes.com, United Airline’s Hemispheres Magazine and Upside Magazine, among others; while his “TechScape” column on The Huffington Post has won broad accolades. Bill’s “On Location” columns for Upside magazine won three prestigious ASBPE awards. He also appears frequently on CNN, PBS, Bloomberg TV, BBC News 24 and had a regular segment on SKY News while speaking, moderating and chairing technology, marketing and business conferences worldwide. Bill is probably the only person in the world to have interviewed the Late Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Kurzweil, Dean Kamen, and Vint Cerf, a “Father of the Internet.”

Currently, Bill is loving being back in his native New York from his world gallivanting; enjoys going to as many rock concerts as he possibly can; and considers his daughter Katherine “the light of his life.”

MARIAN SALZMAN, CEO of Havas PR North America (formerly Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, North America).

Marian took over as president in August 2009, bringing laser-like focus to the agency’s social media and grassroots campaigning—a homecoming, as she had previously spent five years as chief strategic officer of Euro RSCG Worldwide. After just 19 months at the helm, Marian was named PRWeek’s 2011 PR Professional of the Year. She was also named PR Agency Team Leader for the PR News PR People Awards and finalist for Lifetime Achievement and Service Executive of the Year for the Stevie Awards for Women in Business (all 2010), and is the 2011 Golden Bridge Blogger of the Year, Lifetime Achievement winner, and part of its Management Team of the Year (with two colleagues), plus PR News’ 2011 Agency PR Professional of the Year. Marian was also honored as Agency Professional of the Year (Bronze) for the Bulldog Stars of PR in 2011, so she took top slot in all the major competitions around agency leadership.

In addition, her four-part series on the brain that she wrote for the Huffington Post won a 2011 Bronze SABRE (Superior Achievement in Branding and Reputation) award for Speech or Bylined Article and was given honorable mention in the PR News Platinum PR Awards’ Blog category; her blogging in general won her a silver Bulldog Stars of PR for PR Blogger of the Year and was named the PR News Digital PR’s Best Blog.

In April 2011, Marian was named CEO of what is now @havaspr. Under her tenure, the company has added an extraordinary number of new clients, from Chiquita to Starwood, plus global AOR status for Coty Inc. and U.S. AOR for Ford Motor Co.’s Warriors in Pink and GSK’s ADVAIR. Among her most awarded campaigns are Yéle Haiti and Wyclef Jean for President of Haiti, Campaign Money Watch (#theywinulose) for Common Cause, and The French Will Never Forget, which was a simultaneous day of memory on 9/11/11. She brought together Massachusetts General Hospital and the Red Sox Foundation with the Bob Woodruff Foundation and Sears’ Heroes at Home to create one of the most visible programs to support wounded veterans and their caregivers. Marian has integrated social media into every aspect of agency life, is one of the top five Twitter personalities in Connecticut, and coordinated a global #royaltwedding, which drew together more than 1,000 colleagues to celebrate three days of William and Catherine.

Before returning to Euro RSCG (now Havas), Marian was CMO at global PR giant Porter Novelli. She drove Porter’s brand positioning and executed thought leadership, reputation management and social media programs, including the creation of Porter’s pop-up agency Jack + Bill, which in one year won PRWeek’s PR Innovation of the Year, the industry’s innovation SABRE and the top Bulldog award.

Named one of the world’s top five trendspotters, she has managed other trendspotters around the globe for more than 15 years. She has been CMO at JWT Worldwide, worldwide director of TBWA’s Department of the Future, and director of consumer insights and emerging media at Chiat/Day. With Jay Chiat, she co-founded Cyberdialogue, the world’s first online market research company, in 1992.

In addition to her closely watched and widely reported-on annual trends forecast, Marian has written for The Holmes Report, Adweek, PRWeek, PR News and Marketing Week (U.K.). She currently blogs at Forbes.com’s CMO Network, the Huffington Post, CNBC.com, havaspr.com andhavassocial.com, and Stamford magazine. Marian is also the author or co-author of 15 books, including Next Now and The Future of Men.

Marian is a member of the mentoring board of Brown University’s Women in Business and an adviser to the Berlin School of Creative Leadership’s M.B.A. program. She created Tweet to ReMIND (ReMIND.org or#tweettoremind), a community-based effort to raise money and awareness for the Bob Woodruff Family Foundation, on whose board she serves. Marian is currently a member of the Agency Management Committee of the Council of Public Relations Firms and recently served as president of the Fairfield County (Connecticut) Public Relations Association.


Marian graduated from Brown University with top honors. She now lives in Stamford, Conn.

AL TEICH, Research Professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs, Center for International Science & Technology Policy, The George Washington University

Prof. Teich is currently Research Professor of Science, Technology & International Affairs at the Center for International Science & Technology Policy in the Elliott School of George Washington University. From February 1990 until the end of December 2010, he was director of Science & Policy Programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, DC. After retiring from that position, he remained at AAAS through 2011 as Senior Adviser to the CEO. During his tenure as director of Science & Policy Programs, he was responsible for the Association’s activities in science and technology policy and served as a key spokesman on science policy issues. AAAS, founded in 1848, is a professional organization with over 125,000 members and is the publisher of Science magazine. Science & Policy Programs, which has since been reorganized and split into two units, was one of three program directorates at AAAS. Prof. Teich had a staff of about 40 and was responsible for a wide range of activities including:

• The AAAS Program in Science and Human Rights; • Scientific Freedom, Responsibility, and Law Program; • Policy Fellowships for Scientists and Engineers; • The AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program; • The Center for Science, Technology, and Congress; • The Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion; and • The Research Competitiveness Program.

Prof. Teich first joined the staff of AAAS in 1980, initially as manager of the R&D Budget and Policy Project, subsequently as head of the Office of Public Sector Programs (1984-89). Before that he taught science and technology policy at George Washington University (from 1976 to 1980) and spent several years in teaching, research and administrative positions at the State University of New York (Binghamton and Albany) and at the Syracuse University Research Corporation (now Syracuse Research Corporation). In the early 2000s, together with Dr. Annamaria Inzelt of Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration, Prof. Teich founded a Center for Innovation Policy Research and Education for Central and Eastern Europe. The center, which was funded by NATO, was located in Budapest, and offered mid-career training for policymakers from that region. It was closed several years ago due to a change in priorities at NATO.

Prof. Teich speaks frequently on topics of science and technology policy and science, technology, and society, and is the author of a variety of articles and editor of several books, including Technology and the Future, the most widely-used textbook on

technology and society, first published by St. Martin’s Press in 1972 and still in print. The 12th edition was published by Cengage Learning in January 2012.In May 2004, he received the Award for Scientific Achievement in Science Policy from the Washington Academy of Sciences. Others who have received this award from the Academy in past years include Bill Phillips, who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics while at the National Institute for Standards and Technology; Jane Goodall, the animal researcher and primatologist; and sociologist Amitai Etzioni.

Prof. Teich is a Fellow of AAAS; a member of the Board of Governors of the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) and president of the American Friends of the BSF; a member of the advisory committee to the S&T Fellows program of the California Council for Science and Technology; a member of the technical advisory committee to the Maine Space Grant Consortium; an honorary member of the Washington Science Diplomat Club; a member of the Norwegian Research and Technology Forum in the United States; and a charter member of the World Technology Network. In past years he has been an editorial advisory board member to several journals and a consultant to many government agencies, national laboratories, industrial firms, and international organizations. He chaired the advisory committee to the National Science Foundation’s Division of Science Resources Studies from 1987 through 1990. He also served as chair of the Advisory Board to theSchool of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, as well as a member of the External Research Advisory Board of the University of California at Davis (2003-2010).

Prof. Teich’s education includes a B.S. in Physics (1964) and a Ph.D. in Political Science (1969), both from MIT.

ROBERT TERCEK, Executive Leader for Creative Ventures and Business Innovation

Robert Tercek is one the pioneers of digital media, having launched the world’s first computer games, multiplayer entertainment, interactive TV shows and mobile video. He has served in executive leadership roles at MTV, Sony Pictures and most recently as President of Digital Media at OWN: the Oprah Winfrey Network where he supervised Oprah.com, the #1 women’s destination on the web and the launch of the world’s biggest online learning seminars. Today he is widely sought as a angel investor, digital media strategist and public speaker. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and a founding member of the Academy of Television Arts & Science’s Interactive Media peer group.

RISHAD TOBACCOWALA, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Vivaki

Rishad Tobaccowala helps guide strategy and serves as a catalyst to innovation efforts across Vivaki - a Publicis Groupe entity that combines the collective scale, 70 Billion dollars of clout and 18,000 talented individuals sitting inside Big Fuel, Denuo, Digitas,


Moxie, Performics, Razorfish, Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) and ZenithOptimedia. Working closely with brand CEOs and VivaKi Country Chairs, he helps VivaKiâ€™s companies show clients the way forward in an exciting and changing time for marketing.

Prior to his current role, Tobaccowala was CEO of Denuo - a Publicis Groupe company that invents, inspires and instigates new forms of creativity to help brands meet challenges of modern marketplaces.

Tobaccowala has also served as the Chief Innovation Officer of Publicis Groupe Media and was the founder and President of SMG Next, the first and most comprehensive futures practice in the media industry. The development of SMG Next resulted in the launch of several successful practices for SMG including: SMG Play, the first company to leverage videogames as a marketing platform; word-of-mouth practice Reverb; and Digits, a leader in mobile marketing. Tobaccowala was also responsible for developing SMG Search, a dedicated unit of SMG that specializes in leveraging search applications in new ways.

Before conceptualizing SMG NEXT, Tobaccowala was president and founder of SMG IP, the digital arm of SMG. As such, he played a central role in the agency, which was selected by Media in 2002 and 2004 as Interactive Agency of The Year.

In 1993, Tobaccowala formed Leo Burnett’s Interactive Marketing Group. Between 1996 and 1999, he served as the President of Giant Step, Leo’s interactive agency.

Tobaccowala was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation (2005), and TIME magazine dubbed him one of five “Marketing Innovators”. He was appointed to Advertising Age’s Interactive Hall of Fame; named Adweek’s 2000 Media All-Star for Interactive Media; and honored by OMMA as a Media Strategist All-Star in 2005. In 2008, he was named an industry legend by Ad Color, and in 2009, conferred an Industry Achievement award at ad:tech for long-term dedication and industry service. In 2011 Rishad received a lifetime achievement award from SAMMA (South Asians in Marketing, Media and Entertainment).

In addition to the VivaKi board, he serves on the board of directors for Recycle Bank. Previous board seats include Audience Science and Snap. He also serves as an advisor to a broad range of companies, including Greycroft Partners, House Party, Marketshare Partners, Bright Tag, Viewpoints, Edo Interactive, Visible Measures and the Berlin School of Creative Leadership. Tobaccowala holds a bachelors degree in mathematics from the University of Bombay and an M.B.A. from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

MARTIN VARSAVSKY, Tech Entrepreneur and Investor

Martin Varsavsky is an Argentine/Spanish entrepreneur and founder of seven companies in the past 20 years. Martin’s best-known ventures were founded during the last decade. In 1984,

while still in college, Martin Varsavsky started his first business, Urban Capital Corporation, one of the early leaders of the loft movement in downtown Manhattan. This was soon followed in 1986 by Medicorp Services, a Canadian biotechnology company, a pioneer in AIDS and PSA testing. His third business, Viatel Ltd., Martin’s first venture into the world of telecom, was founded in 1990. This company is best known for inventing call back and building the first pan European fiber optic network ahead of liberalization.

In 1998 he started Jazztel, Spain’s second largest publicly traded telecom operator. In 1999 he founded Ya.com, Spain’s third largest Internet web site/DSL provider that includes the second largest Spanish language web agencywww.viajar.com Martin’s current venture is Fon, founded in November in 2005, a community empowered company dedicated to building the world´s largest global Wifi network bottom up, spreading the power of Wifi around the world. Fon attracted British Telecom, Coral Group, Skype, Atomico, Google, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital as partners and quickly became the largest Wifi community in the world. The Fon Community already has over 7 million hot spots. Martin Varsavsky also engages in not for profit activities. He manages the Varsavsky Foundation best known as founder of two large educational projects in Latin America, Educ.ar (Argentina) and EducarChile (Chile) and the Safe Democracy Foundation. Martin received his BA from New York University, and holds an MA in International Affairs and an MA in Business Administration from Columbia University. Martin Varsavsky is married to Nina Varsavsky and has five children.

VIVEK WADHWA, Academic, Researcher, Writer and Entrepreneur

Vivek Wadhwa is Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University; Fellow, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University; Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and distinguished visiting scholar, Halle Institute of Global Learning, Emory University.

Wadhwa oversees the academic programs at Singularity University, which educates a select group of leaders about the exponentially growing technologies that are soon going to change our world. These advances—in fields such as robotics, A.I., computing, synthetic biology, 3D printing, medicine, and nanomaterials—are making it possible for small teams to do what was once possible only for governments and large corporations to do: solve the grand challenges in education, water, food, shelter, health, and security.

In his roles at Stanford, Duke, and Emory universities, Wadhwa lectures in class on subjects such as entrepreneurship and public policy, helps prepare students for the real world, and leads groundbreaking research projects. He is an advisor to several governments; mentors entrepreneurs; and is a regular columnist for The Washington Post, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and the American Society of Engineering Education’sPrism magazine.


Prior to joining academia in 2005, Wadhwa founded two software companies.

In Feb 2012, the U.S. Government awarded Wadhwa distinguished recognition an “Outstanding American by Choice” — for his “commitment to this country and to the common civic values that unite us as Americans.”

HERMIONE WAY, Cast Member, Silicon Valley (Bravo TV); Founder, Newspepper; Co-founder, StartupWorld competition

Hermione Way is a new media journalist and Reality TV personality, and entrepreneur. Originally from the UK, she currently resides in San Francisco. Way started an internet video production company called Newspepper, and works as video correspondent for The Next Web. In 2012, Way is also featured on Silicon Valley Start-Ups, a reality show on Bravo TV.


SPECIAL FILM SCREENINGCHASING ICE

In the spring of 2005, acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a skeptic about climate change. But that first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk.

Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.As the debate polarizes America and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up globally, Balog finds himself at the end of his tether. Battling untested technology in subzero conditions, he comes face to face with his own mortality. It takes years for Balog to see the fruits of his labor. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Chasing Ice depicts a photographer trying to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet.

Chasing Ice has won nearly 20 awards at film festivals around the world, including:

EXCELLENCE IN CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD (US Documentary) at the Sundance Film Festival.

The Environmental Media Association’s 22nd Annual BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD

AUDIENCE AWARDS at South By Southwest, Hot Docs, River Run, Palo Alto, Berwick, Port Townsend, DocuWest and was runner-up at the Seattle Film Festival.

BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARDS at the Berkshire Film Festival and Big Sky Film Festival

As well as the NORMAN VAUGHAN INDOMITABLE SPIRIT AWARD at MountainFilm in Telluride; the NICHOLAS SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD at Full Frame Film Festival; JURY SPECIAL MENTION PRIZE and TURIN PROVINCE STUDENT COUNCIL AWARD at CinemAmbiente; BEST ADVENTURE FILM AWARD at Boulder Film Festival; and BEST FEATURE LENGTH FILM and BEST FEATURED FILM at DocuWest Film Festival.


ARTS: FINALISTS

Mark Coniglio Composer/Media Artist, Co-Founder Troika RanchJoe Davis Artist & Research Affiliate, Department of Biology at MIT & George Church Laboratory at Harvard Medical SchoolMarkus Kayser Markus Kayser StudioAaron Koblin Artist & Designer, Data Arts Team in Google’s Creative LabGolan Levin Director of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and Associate Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art at Carnegie Mellon University

OTHER NOMINEES: Tom Abel – Computational Cosmologist, SLAC; Shaahin Amini – Researcher, Bourns College of Engineering; Onyx Ashanti – Artist/Electronic Jazz Artist, Beatjazz; Arturo Castro – Digital Artist; Simon Colton – Computational Creativity Group, Imperial College London; David Cope – Professor Emeritus of Music, USC, Santa Cruz; Alex Ljung & Eric Wahlforss – Founders, SoundCloud; Luke Jerram – Artist; Jae Rhim Lee – Artist; Nathalie Miebach – Artist; Miguel Nacenta – Artist, FatFonts; Nick Smith – Co-Founder, AV Concepts; Amit Sood – Head of Google Art Project; Timo Toots – Freelance artist/photographer/programmer; Natasha Tsakos – Producer/Director/Performer; Karthik Ramani & Wei Gao – Researchers/Creators of Kaleidogami.

BIOTECHNOLOGY(INDIVIDUAL): FINALISTS

Payal Agarwal Associate Professor of Pharmacy, Notre Dame of Maryland UniversityDmitry Bulavin Associate Professor, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR SingaporeMichael Danquah Chemical and Bioprocess Engineer, Monash UniversityDonald Ingber Founding Director, Wyss Institute and Core Faculty Member Platform Leader, Biomimetic MicrosystemsMiriah Meyer Assistant Professor, School of Computing, University of UtahRichard Wilson Director, The Genome Institute at Washington UniversityDavid Young Senior Lecturer, Musculoskeletal Research Group, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle UniversityJonathan Loh Yuin-Han Principal Investigator at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR Singapore

OTHER NOMINEES: Mary Chan – Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University; Robert Coughlin – President/CEO, Massachusetts Biotechnology Council; Rick Haselton – Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt; Janet Iwasa – Lecturer in Molecular Visualization, Harvard; Dennis

Lo – Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences; Mohidus Samad Khan – Chemical/Biochemical Engineer, McGill University; Kevin J. Tracey – President, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research; John X.J. Zhang – Associate Professor/Biomedical Engineering, UT Austin

BIOTECHNOLOGY (CORPORATE): FINALISTS

Complete GenomicsFibrocell Science, Inc.GenomaticaOmerosWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University

OTHER NOMINEES: Amgen; Cellular Dynamics International; Diagnostics For All; Fate Therapeutics; Flowonix; Foundation Medicine; GE; Genentech; Genomind; Harvard Bioscience; Humacyte; Integrated Diagnostics; Kane Biotech; Life Technology; Organovo, RxAnte, Inc.

COMMUNICATIONSTECHNOLOGY (INDIVIDUAL):FINALISTS

Ranveer Chandra Senior Researcher, Mobile Computing Research Center, Microsoft ResearchSir Richard Friend Cavendish Professor at the University of Cambridge and Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of SingaporePaul E. Jacobs CEO, QualcommJun Murai Professor, Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University (Japan)Deb Roy Director, MIT Media Lab’s Cognitive Machines GroupAnton Zeilinger Professor of Physics, University of Vienna and Director, Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

OTHER NOMINEES: Ruth Bergman – Director, HP Labs Israel; Ari Dychovsky – Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award Winner; Aakar Gupta – (mClerk) CS Graduate Student, University of Toronto; Amir Alexander Hasson – Founder, United Villages; Gil Hirsch – CEO/Founder, Face.com; Sir Jonathan Ive – Chief Designer, Apple; Dina Katabi – Co-Inventor, Fourier transform (FFT); Dag Kittlaus – Co-Founder, Siri; Leonhard Korowajczuk – Founder, CelPlan; Prem Kumar – Professor, Northwestern University; Ilja Laurs – Founder, GetJar; Diane Malarik – Aerospace Engineer, NASA; Dennis Mortensen – CEO, Visual Revenue; Ajit Narayanan – Founder, Invention Labs; Moshe Pritsker – CEO/Co-Founder, JoVE; Gerhard Rempe – Director, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics; Charlie Rowan – Founder, Whishin; Umar Saif – Co-founder, BumpIn.com, Vlad Sejnoha – CTO Nuance Communications; Jake Sigal – Founder, Livio Connect API; Ben Silbermann – Founder, Pinterest; Rachna Singh – Founder, Hachi; Peter Sweatman – Director, Transportation Research Institute, University of Michigan; Kevin Systrom – CEO, Instagram; Roel Vertegaal – Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, Queen’s University; Nolan Wright – CTO/Co-Founder, Appcelerator; Rui Yan – Research Fellow, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research; Nobuo Yoshida – Senior Economist, The World Bank.

2012 WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARDS FINALISTS AND NOMINEES


COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (CORPORATE): FINALISTS

Cisco SystemsDropboxPinterestRedditUshahidi

OTHER NOMINEES: 2tor; Adobe; Akamai; ApartmentList; Appcelerator; Assistiveware; AT&T, Inc.; AVEA; Badoo; Barclays Pingit; Bump; BuzzFeed; Byliner; Castlight; Chartbeat; Crimson Hexagon; Flipboard; Foursquare; GetGlue; Gogo; iCache Inc.; Instagram; July Systems; Lilee Systems; Lookout; magicJack VocalTec; MWW Group; Path; RingCentral; Shopkick; Skybox Imaging; Socialcam; Square; Tapjoy; The Awl Network; Tumblr; Twilio; Twitter; tyntec; Zaarly.

DESIGN: FINALISTS

David Kelley Co-Founder, IDEODick Powell Co-Founder, SeymourpowellAndrew Slorance Founder, iimaginedesign.com & Creator of Carbon Black wheelchairScott Summit CEO & Founder, Bespoke InnovationsEdward Barber & Jay Osgerby Founders, Barber Osgerby

OTHER NOMINEES: Gadi Amit – Founder, New Deal Design; Yves Behar – CEO, JAMBOX; Robert Brunner – Industrial Designer, Founder of Ammunition LLC, Tony Fadell – Designer, Nest; Dan Formosa – Co-Founder, Smart Design; Clive Grinyer – Product Designer; Lance Hussey – Industrial Designer; Sunghan Kim – Head of Samsung Design Europe; Mike Kruzeniski – Creative Director, Windows Phone Design Team; Gunther Kuhn – Senior Industrial Designer, MM design; Martin Ruegg – Designer, FUEGO North America; Frank Stephenson – Automobile Designer; Tad Toulis – Creative Director, Teague; Franz von Holzhausen – Automobile Designer, Tesla Motors; Simon Waterfall – Designer/Creative Director; Scott Wilson – Designer /Creative Director.

EDUCATION: FINALISTS

Cathy N. Davidson & David Theo Goldberg Founders, HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning CompetitionMichael Karnjanaprakorn CEO/Co-Founder, SkillshareEmma Mercier Research Associate, SynergyNet: Multi-touch in Education, Durham UniversityChip Paucek Co-Founder, 2torSuneet Singh Tuli CEO, Datawind

OTHER NOMINEES: Anant Agarwal – President, edX; Andrew Cohen – Founder, Brainscape; Gunnar Counselman – Founder/CEO, Fidelis Inc.; Jose Ferreira – CEO, Knewton; David Jaffe – CEO/Founder, Late Nite Labs LLC; Marina Kim – Co-Founder, Ashoka U; Amit Maimon – CEO, Socrative; Cheryl Meral – President, MCS Software, LLC; Vibhu Mittal – Founder, Root-One; Zach Posner – CEO, Engrade; Robert Romano – Founder/CEO, BookheadEd, LLC; Dan Rosensweig – CEO, Chegg; Marjorie Scardino – CEO, Pearson; Don Spear – President/CEO, OpenSesame; Stephan Stephensen – Founder, Mingoville; Patrick Supanc – Founder, Alleyoop; Peter Vogel – Partner, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP.

ENERGY (INDIVIDUAL): FINALISTS

Alexander Balandin Professor of Electrical Engineering and Founding Chair of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, RiversideAmit Goyal UT-Battelle/ORNL Corporate Fellow & Distinguished Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TennesseeAndy Hamilton Engineer, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research InstituteLars Jeuken Reader in Biophysics, University of LeedsLaurence Kemball-Cook Director, Pavegen SystemsZheng Liu Research Scientist, Rice University

OTHER NOMINEES: Jim Ansley – Professor, Texas AgriLife Research at Texas A&M; Greg Baker – President, 2D2C (SafePlug); Kevin DeWhitt – CTO, Agilyx; Nguyen Minh & Eric Armstrong – Researchers at CER, UCSD; Jeffrey Grossman – Associate Professor, MIT; Arthur Hebard – Distinguished Professor, University of Florida; Yun Hang Hu – Professor, Michigan Tech; Jay Keasling – Professor, UC-Berkeley; Zhong Lin Wang – Professor, Georgia Tech; Paul Lorenzini – CEO, NuScale Power; Jerry Martin – CEO Boulder Ionics; Guy Matthews – Director, ITER-Like Wall Project; Shivansh Padhy – Founder/Inventor, Boundless Energy; William Sims – CEO Joule Unlimited; Vincent Sprenkle – Chief Engineer PNNL, Department of Energy; Mas Subramanian – Professor, OSU; Deli Wang – PI, UCSD; Xiong (David) Wen Lou – Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University.

ENERGY (CORPORATE): FINALISTS

AgilyxLanza TechSiemensThe PlantTorrey Hills Technologies, LLCTrilliant

OTHER NOMINEES: Achates Power; Alta Devices; Babcock and Wilcox; BioFuelBox; Enphase Energy; Envision; First Solar, FlexEnergy; Goldwind; Joule Unlimited; NuScale; Sakti3; Semprius; SolarEdge; Suntech; SustainX, Inc.; TGO Green Energy Technology.

ENTERTAINMENT: FINALISTS

Chris Aiken Head Developer and President, AikenLabs Immersive MotionDavid Helgason CEO and Co-Founder, Unity TechnologiesTodd Howard Game Director and Executive Producer, Bethesda Game StudiosLisa Pickelsimer Executive Director of Video Product Development, Cox CommunicationsOlivier Bau & Ivan Poupyrev REVEL technology developers and Researchers, Disney Research, Pittsburgh


OTHER NOMINEES: Suranga Chandratillake – CEO, blinx.com; Tom Cosgrove – President/CEO, 3net; Mikael Hed – CEO, Rovio; Scott Holmes – CEO, United Future; Matt Jones – Founder, CrowdSurge; Blake Krikorian – CEO, Sling Media; John Lasseter – CEO, Pixar; Steve Perlman – Founder, OnLive; Amos Pizzey – CEO/Founder, Talenthouse Inc.; Spencer Richardson – CEO, Fanbridge; Jake Sigal – Founder/CEO Livio; Ben Silverman – Founder/CEO, Electus; Tim Sweeney – Founder, Epic Games; Binod Toshniwal – Founder/Director, Y Media Labs; Francisco Varela – Head of Global Partnerships, YouTube; Anthony Wood – CEO, Roku; Michael Zyda – Founding Director, USC GamePipe Laboratory.

ENVIRONMENT (INDIVIDUAL): FINALISTS

Randy Cortright Founder & Chief Technical Officer, Virent, Inc.Ellen Jordan Professor and Extension Dairy Specialist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension ServiceMa Jun Founder, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), ChinaDerek Lam DEHTLET & World Marketing Development Centre Ltd.Dara O’Rourke Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley and Co-Founder, GoodGuideClive van Heerden Senior Director of Design-Led Innovation, Philips Design

OTHER NOMINEES: Matti Alihuhta – President/CEO, KONE; Hal Aronson – Co-Founder, WE CARE Solar; Rolf Bonsack – Managing Director, Helit Germany; Vincent Callebaut – Architect; Sofia de Meyer – Founder, Whitepod; William Delaney Jr. – Founder WEP; Joseph Gho – CEO, Environmental Products, Inc.; John Bwati Gondwe – Coordinator, Esperanza stove project; Praveen Kumar Gorakavi – Technopreneur; Allert Jacobs – Designer, Aerocycle; Prashant Kamat – Professor, Notre Dame; Lyndon Rive – CEO/Co-Founder, SolarCity; Burkhold Schulz – Assistant Professor, Purdue University; Lizette Smook – Founder, InnovAsians; Alex van der Beek – Founder, Solar Botanic; Christina White – Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Duncan Wingham – Professor, University College London

ENVIRONMENT (CORPORATE): FINALISTS

Bug Agentes BiológicosCascadia Windows Ltd.CH2M HillECO KettleecoATM, Inc.IDE Technologies Ltd.RecyclebankStreetline

OTHER NOMINEES: Alta Bike Share; B9 Shipping; BlueWing Enviromental Solutions and Technology; Centro de Educação Popular e Formação Social – CEPFS (Center for People’s Education and Social Development); CERDEC; Clean Current Power Systems; Ecotricity; e-Cycle; Gevo; Ice Energy; InEnTec; Lemnis Lighting; Nest; Sensordrone; Solazyme; Solvatten; SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions).

ETHICS: FINALISTS

Anthony F. Beavers Professor of Philosophy, University of EvansvillePatrick Lin Director, Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State UniversityJames Moor Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth CollegeThomas Murray Senior Research Scholar & President Emeritus, The Hastings CenterJohn Weckert Professor of Computer Ethics, Charles Sturt University

OTHER NOMINEES: Keith Abney – Senior Lecturer, California Polytechnic State University; Anita Allen – Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania; Fritz Allhoff – Associate Professor, Western Michigan University; Jacob Appel – Author/Bioethicist/Social Critic; George Bekey – Roboticist/Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California; Selmer Bringsjord – Chair of Deparment of Cognitive Science/Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Mildred Cho – Senior Research Scholar, Stanford University; Martha Farah – Cognitive Neuroscience Researcher, University of Pennsylvania; Jean Freymond – President, Network for Governance, Entrepreneurship & Development (GE&D); Lawrence Lessig – Director, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University; Chris MacDonald – Associate Professor, Ryerson University; N.L.J.L. Manders-Huits – Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology; Jonathan Montgomery – Chair, Nuffield Council on Bioethics; Simon Rogerson – Professor, De Montfort University; Noel Sharkey – Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, University of Sheffield; Robert Sparrow – Associate Professor, Monash University; Richard Spinello – Associate Research Professor, Boston College; Herman Tavani – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Rivier University; Kevin Warwick – Professor of Cybernetics, University of Reading.

FINANCE (INDIVIDUAL): FINALISTS

Reid Hoffman Co-Founder, LinkedInBen Horowitz Co-Founder, Andreessen Horowitz; Co-Founder & CEO, OpswareVinod Khosla Founder, Khosla VenturesScott Livingston Chairman & CEO, Livingston Securities LLCBill Maris Managing Partner, Google Ventures

OTHER NOMINEES: Marc Andreessen – Co-Founder, Andreessen Horowitz; Jim Breyer – Partner, Accel Partners; Jason Calacanis – Internet entrepreneur/Blogger; Andrew Cuomo – Governor of New York; Jack Dorsey – Creator, Twitter; CEO, Square; Kevin Efrusy – Partner, Accel Partners; Peter Fenton – Partner, Benchmark Capital; Jack Hidary – Entrepreneur; Josh Kopelman – Managing Partner, First Round Capital; Jeremy Levine – Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners; Paul Madera – Managing Partner, Meritech Capital; Ben Milne – CEO/Co-Founder, Dwolla; Joshua Reich – CEO/Co-Founder, BankSimple; Barry Silbert – CEO/Founder, SecondMarket; David Sze – Managing Director, Greylock; Peter Thiel – Co-Founder, PayPal; President, Clarium Capital; Sharon Wienbar – Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners.


FINANCE (ORGANIZATION): FINALISTS

Bessemer Venture PartnersDFJ GothamGarage Technologies VenturesKhosla VenturesNew Enterprise Associates

OTHER NOMINEES: Andreessen, Horowitz; Benchmark Capital; Digital Capital Advisors; Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Financial Inclusion Network & Operations; First Round Capital; Floodgate Fund; Founder Collective; Founders Fund; Foundry Group; Freestyle Capital; General Catalyst Partners; LaunchBox Digital; Mayfield Fund; MK Capital; Spark Capital; TechStars Boulder.

HEALTH & MEDICINE (INDIVIDUAL): FINALISTS

Larry Benowitz Professor of Surgery and Ophthalmology, Boston Children’s HospitalLinda Griffith Professor of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMichael Nitsche Professor of Medicine, University of GottingenAydogan Ozcan Professor, UCLA School of EngineeringDimos Poulikakos Professor & Chair of Thermodynamics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Ting Shen Co-founder & CEO, NanoLite SystemsNina Tandon Staff Associate, Columbia University Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering

OTHER NOMINEES: Ethan Austin – Co-Founder, GiveFoward; Sathy Balu-Iyer – Professor, SUNY Buffalo; Maharaj Kishan Bhan – Secretary of Department of Biotechnology, Government of India; Dianna Bowles – Professor Emeritus, University of York, Richard Gonzalez – Vice President, Pharmaceuticals, FierceBiotech; Gary Green – Director, York Neuroimaging Centre; Garet Hil – CEO/Founder, National Kidney Registry; Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena – Professor, Johns Hopkins; Harold Kohn – Kenan Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Harish Lavu – Assistant Professor, Jefferson University; Stephen Lee – Executive Vice President/Chief Science Officer, OraSure Technologies; John Melo – CEO, Amyris; Richard Merkin – CEP, Heritage Provider Network; Christopher Newgard – Distinguished Professor, Duke University Medical Center; Daniel Palanker – Associate Professor, Stanford University; Bill Rutter – CEO, Synergenics; David Baker – Professor, Washington University; Timothy Whitehead – Assistant Professor, Michigan State University & Sarel Fleishman – Assistant Professor, Weizmann Institute; Rahul Sarpeshkar – Associate Professor, MIT; Richard Schwartz – Department Chairman/Professor, Georgia Health Sciences University; Mark Spengler – Director, ECDC; Molly Stevens – Professor, Imperial College London; Tim Surgenor – CEO, Cyberkinetics; Shraddha Thakkar – University of Arkansas, Klas Tybrandt – Linköping University; Paul Watt – CEO, Phylogica.

HEALTH & MEDICINE (CORPORATE): FINALISTS

AmyrisEkso BionicsNeuroskyOncogenexUSC Body Computing

OTHER NOMINEES: BioMoti; Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center; MC10, Inc.; OptiMedica; Partners in Health - Medical Informatics Team; Preventice; Starling Innovations.

IT HARDWARE (INDIVIDUAL): FINALISTS

Charles Hull Co-Founder, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, 3D SystemsVijay Kumar Professor of Engineering, University of PennsylvaniaSteve Lee Project Glass Lead, GoogleDharmendra Modha Manager & Lead Researcher, Cognitive Consulting Group at IBM Almaden Research CenterRen Ng Founder & Executive Chairman, Lytro

OTHER NOMINEES: Arindam Basu – Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University; Howie Choset – Professor, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute; Steve Dai – Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories; Ron Diftler – Robonaut 2 Project Manager; Daniel Frankel – Bioengineer, Newcastle University; Andreas Heinrich – IBM Research Staff Member; Tony Jun Huang – Associate Professor, Penn State; Brian Johnson – Staff Futurist, Intel; Tony Kenyon – Reader, University College London; Tan Lee – CEO, Emotiv Lifescience; Boris Luk’yanchuk – Professor, A*STAR Singapore; Gary McMurray – Principal Research Engineer, Georgia Tech; Ephrahim Garcia & Michael Goldfarb – Researchers, Vanderbilt; Daniel Nocera – Henry Dreyfus Professor, MIT; Krishna Palem – Inventor, Probabilistic CMOS and Inexact Computing; Bre Pettis – CEO, Makerbot; Martin Pfeiffer – CTO, Heliatek; Yeo Kiat Seng – Professor, Nanyang Technological University; Vera Smolyaninova – Associate Professor, Towson University; Fumitoshi Terashima – Director, Smart Energy Systems Business Unit, Panasonic; Joe Wang – CEO WatchGuard Technologies.

IT HARDWARE (CORPORATE): FINALISTS

CubifyGoogleLytroMakerBotRedbox

OTHER NOMINEES: 3M; Alcatel Lucent; Altobridge Limited; Apple; ASUS; Basis; HTC America; IBM; iCache Inc.; Logitech; NLT Technologies, Ltd.; Omron; Ossur; Panasonic; Qualcomm; Samsung; SARTRE; Sony.


IT SOFTWARE (INDIVIDUAL): FINALISTS

Bruce Donald Professor of Computer Science, Duke UniversitySean Gourley Chief Technology Officer, QuidRoger Jones Co-Founder, Chairman, Chief Scientific Officer & Chief Operating Officer, QformaMik Kersten Co-Founder & CEO, Tasktop TechnologiesDaniel Ratai Founder, Leonar3Do

OTHER NOMINEES: Mustafa Altinakar – Director, NCCHE, University of Mississippi; Jim Austin – Professor, University of York; Marc Benioff – CEO, Salesforce; Joe Dada – CEO, INSTEON/Smarthome; Scott DeLoach – Professor, Kansas State University; Aldo Faisal – Lecturer, Imperial College London; Will Glaser – Founder, Pandora; Zvi Guterman – Founder, CloudShare; Reed Hastings – CEO, Netfflix; James Hemmer – CEO/President, Antenna; David Holz – Co-Founder, Leap Motion; Todd Humphreys – Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin; Robert Jackman – Executive Chairman, OoVoo; Alexis Kalogeropoulos – Researcher, (EPFL) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Dieter Mesotten – Associate Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Thomas Pun – Founder, Delight.io; Ping Tan – Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore; Marcel Van de Burgwal – Digital Designer, Locamation; Avery Wang – Founder/Chief Scientist, Shazam; Dave Winer – Software Developer; Editor, Scripting News.

IT SOFTWARE (CORPORATE): FINALISTS

APPEOAurasmaLeap MotionPalantir TechnologiesSalesforce

OTHER NOMINEES: Acquia; Activision Blizzard; Appirio; Applico; Appthority; BMC Group; CA Technologies; Cisco; CloudFlare; Computer Software Innovations; Dassault Systems; Dexter + Chaney; digital publishing AG | Speexx; Epicor Software Corporation; EPM Live; Esri; Get Satisfaction; GFI Software; Globus Online; HTC America; Icertis Inc.; Killer Gaming; L V Prasad Eye Institute; Living PlanIT SA; National Marrow Donor Program; Netmark; Oracle FLEXCUBE; Plixer International, Inc.; Rally Software; Rocket Fuel; SAP; SkyFoundry; Sonatype; Symantec; TAZA Systems; TOA Technologies; Tridium; Voxiva; Y Media Labs.

LAW

Marvin Ammori First Amendment LawyerPeter Menell Professor of Law, University of California-Berkeley Law SchoolJason Schultz Professor of Law, University of California-Berkeley Law SchoolLea Shaver Professor, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of LawTim Wu Professor, Columbia Law SchoolChistopher Yoo Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School

OTHER NOMINEES: William Abrams – King & Spalding; Mark Bettencourt – Goodwin Procter; David Broadwin – Foley Hoag; Peter Brown – BakerHostetler; Robert A. Cantone – Proskauer; Bruce E. Dick – Perkins Coie; Roque El-Hayek – Wolf Greenfield; David Feigenbaum – Fish & Richardson; Steven Ferrey – Professor, Suffolk Law; Lee Osman – Dorsey; Julie Petruzzelli – Baker & McKenzie; Wendy Pifher – Holland & Hart; Harry Rubin – Ropes & Gray; Gregory Stone – Whiteford Taylor Preston; Gerald Swiss – Foley & Lardner LLP; Russell Weiss – Morrison Foerster; David Westenberg – WilmerHale.

MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS: FINALISTS

Joan Casas Cervero Founder & CEO, uWhispRebecca Coleman Co-Founder, Something MassiveCarol Kruse Senior VP of Marketing, ESPNNatalie Massenet CEO, Net-a-PorteRebecca Van Dyck Marketing Executive, Facebook

OTHER NOMINEES: Sergio Barrientos – Founder, Eclipse Digital; Winston Binch – Partner/Chief Digital Officer, Deutsch LA; Kevin Brown – CEO, Affiliate Window; Philip Clarke – CEO, Tesco; Daniel Ek – Founder, Spotify; Chris Erb – Head of Marketing, EA Sports; Andrew Henning – Founder/CEO, RedWeb; Brett Hurt – Founder/CEO, Bazaarvoice; Judy Kirpich – CEO, Grafik Marketing; Cliff Mintz – Co-Founder, BioCrowd; Julia Nable – Principal, SandorMax, Mike Nolet – CTO/Co-Founder, AppNexus; Chip Perry – CEO, AutoTrader.com; Mark Pincus – Co-Founder, Zynga.

MATERIALS (INDIVIDUAL): FINALISTS

Harry Atwater Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of TechnologySarbajit Banerjee Professor, University of BuffaloPaul Edmiston Founder & Chief Science Officer, ABSMaterials, Inc.Amit Goyal UT-Battelle/ORNL Corporate Fellow & Distinguished Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TennesseeFrank Koppens Professor, Institut de Ciècies Fotòniques

OTHER NOMINEES: Michael Bartlett – Researcher, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Linyou Cao – Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University; Allan Green – Deputy Chief, CSIRO Plant Industry Division; Luke Hanley – Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Nick Herbert – Physicist/Author; Onur Hamza Karabey – Researcher, Technische Universität Darmstadt; Tim Mackerodt – Designer; Satish Nagarajaiah – Professor, Rice University; Sascha Peters – Founder, Haute Innovation; Andrew Lee & Qian Wang – A&Q NanoDesigns, LLC; Michael Strano – Professor, MIT; Massood Tabib-Azar – USTAR Professor, University of Utah; Tim Young – President/CEO, HyperSolar.


MATERIALS (ORGANIZATION): FINALISTS

Concrete CanvasEcovative DesignRTI InternationalSiluriaSoitecThin Film Electronics

OTHER NOMINEES: Alphyn Industries, Inc.; Applied Materials; BlingCrete; EADS; Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability; Haute Innovation; Ineos; Intel; Kokoshout; Luminoso; MC10 Inc.; MiaSole; Nanocomp Technologies; NatureWorks LLC; NeptuTherm, Dow Chemical Company; T-Ink, Inc.; Wildcat Discovery.

MEDIA & JOURNALISM: FINALISTS

Dan Hogan Co-Creator, ScienceDailyWalter Isaacson President & CEO, Aspen InstituteNeal Stephenson Author of README & Founder of HieroglyphKara Swisher Co-Executive Editor, AllThingsDDavid Weinberger Author, Too Big to Know & Co- Direction of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab

OTHER NOMINEES: John Benson – Editor-in-Chief, PhysOrg.com; Rory Cellan-Jones – Journalist; Jim Champy – Author/Consultant; Stuart Dredge – Journalist/Blogger,; Zach Epstein – Executive Editor, Boy Genius Report; Dan Frommer – Editor/Founder, SplatF; Martin Giles – US Technology Correspondent, The Economist; John Gruber – Blogger, Mike Masnick – CEO/Founder, Techdirt; Geoffrey Moore – Managing Director, TCG Advisors, Ben Parr – Technology Journalist; Nilay Patel – Managing Editor, The Verge; David Pogue – Technology Columnist, The New York Times; Douglas Rushkoff – Author; Eric Savitz – Writer/Blogger, Forbes; Tim Stevens – Editor-in-Chief, Engadget; Jon Swartz – Reporter, USA Today; Tom Warren – Founder, WinRumors; Senior News Editor, The Verge; Seth Weintraub – Journalist/Blogger.

POLICY: FINALISTS

David Bollier Author, Activist, Blogger & ConsultantAneesh Chopra First Chief Technology Officer of the United StatesLinda Hallman Executive Director & CEO, The American Association of University WomenAngela Merkel Chancellor of GermanyBarack Obama President of the United StatesVivek Wadhwa Vice President of Academics and Innovation, Singularity University

OTHER NOMINEES: Micah Altman – Director of Research, MIT; Leah Belsky – Vice President/General Manager EMEA, Kaltura; Kavita Berger – Senior Policy and Research Analyst, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues; David Cameron – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Pablo Chavez – Managing Public Policy Counsel, Google; Bill Clinton – Former President of the United States; Founder, William J. Clinton Foundation; Sir Christopher Evans – Founder/Chairman, Excalibur Group Holdings Ltd.;

Al Gore – Former Vice President of the United States; James Greenwood – President/CEO, Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO); Michael R. Nelson – Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University; Suzanne Spaulding – Deputy Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD); Patrick Vittet-Philippe – Expert/Advisor, DG III/B3 European Commission; Kevin Werbach – Associate Professor, The Wharton School.

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: FINALISTS

David Del Ser & Mark Pedersen Founders, FrogtekMelissa Rich Founder & President, InterScholaBecca Robison Creator, AstroTotsRoy & Bertrand Sosa Founders, RISE (Relationship and Information Series or Entrepreneurs)Greg Van Kirk Co-founder, Community Enterprise Solutions

OTHER NOMINEES: Sarah Beatty – Founder/President, Green Depot; Divine Bradley – President, Team Revolution; Wendell Brown – Co-Founder/Chairman, LiveOps; Co-Founder/CTO, Appeo; Traci Claussen – Founder, REpurposingNOLA; David Crosby – Co-Founder/Managing Director, Eyejusters Ltd.; Julie Silver & Diane Stokes – Founders, Oncology Rehab Partners; Michael Gainer – Founder, Buffalo ReUse; David Griswold – Founder, Sustainable Harvest; Steve Katsaros – Founder, Nokero; Merry Korn – Founder, Pearl Interactive Network; Mari Kuraishi – Co-Founder/President, GlobalGiving Foundation; David McKinney – Co-Founder/CEO, Clean Light Green Light; Blake Mycoskie – Founder, TOMS Shoes; Socheata Poeuv – Founder/Director, Khmer Legacies; James Pope – Owner, Green Horizon; Rick Steele – Founder, NuRide; Kevin Trapani – Founder, Redwoods Group; Scott Warren – Founder, Generation Citizen; Beth Williams – President/CEO, Roxbury Technology.

SPACE (INDIVIDUAL): FINALISTS

Mark Adler Deputy Mission System Manager, Mars Exploration Rover MissionBas Lansdorp & Arno Wielders Creators, Mars One Project; and Gerard ‘t Hooft & Paul Romer Ambassadors, Mars One ProjectRoman Keane & Wei-Ming Zhang Collaborators, antimatter-powered rocket engine; High School Senior, Western Reserve Academy & Senior Research Fellow, Kent State University (respectively)Elon Musk CEO and Chief Designer, SpaceXAdam Steltzner NASA Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

OTHER NOMINEES: Andre Mazzoleni & Alexander Hartl – Researchers, North Carolina State; Adrian Daw & Douglas Rabin – Scientists, NASA’s Goddard Space FlightCenter; Suvi Gezari – Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University; Fiona Harrison – Professor, California Institute of Technology; Peter Higgs – Emeritus Professor, University of Edinburgh; Tom Hill – Aerospace Engineer/Author/Blogger; Leo Kouwenhoven – Professor, Delft University of Technology; Andrew Steele – Staff Member, Carnegie Institution for Science; Joe Tanner – Professor, University of Colorado Boulder; Mikko Tuomi – Researcher, University of Hertfordshire; Roeland van der Marel – Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute;


Massimiliano Vasile – Reader, SpaceART, University of Strathclyde; Sam Wilkinson – Citizen Scientist, SpaceBread; Jonas Zmuidzinas – Chief Technologist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Maria Zuber – E.A. Griswold Professor, MIT.

SPACE (CORPORATE): FINALISTS

Bigelow AerospaceLockheed Martin Space Systems CompanySierra Nevada CorporationSpaceXVirgin Galactic

OTHER NOMINEES: Armadillo Aerospace; Astrium; Astrotech; Blue Origin; Copenhagen Suborbitals; Final Frontier Design; General Dynamics; Interorbital Systems; Orbital Sciences Corporation; Planetary Resources; Rocket Lab Limited; Skybox Imaging; STAR Systems; Swedish Space Corporation; Whittinghill Aerospace.


THE COMPANY

ACCELEROSITY is a global business based in New York City that assists entrepreneurs and early stage start-up ventures in key venture-rich cities around the world by connecting these individuals and businesses to the resources they need. We serve a large number of start-ups via our website services and with fee-for-service offerings. We serve a much more select group of vetted and invited companies through our Network offerings (available as part of Network membership).

THE MISSION

ACCELEROSITY’s mission is to dramatically increase the likelihood of success for start-up ventures. The goal of ACCELEROSITY is to become a leading name that entrepreneurs turn to for assistance in developing their start-ups by putting them in touch with the best information and the most effective service providers. In regards to investors, ACCELEROSITY aims to provide access to the best new start-up companies likely to deliver the most substantial returns on investment.

ACCELEROSITY is a hub of entrepreneurial know-how and opportunity

For start-up ventures, ACCELEROSITY provides:

• Access to accumulated entrepreneurial knowledge

• Close mentorship services

• Specific task-focused consulting

• Exposure to seed capital

For investors, ACCELEROSITY provides:

• Opportunities for independent or collaborative investment in the hottest start-up ventures

• Continuously running pipeline of promising companies

• Diversification in start-up investment

Please contact James P. Clark at [email protected] if you are interested in potentially taking advantage of ACCELEROSITY’s services or in becoming part of the original team (as member, investor, or employee).

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ABOUT THE WTN

The World Technology Network (“The WTN”), founded by James P.Clark in 1997, is a curated, global membership community comprised of the peer-selected, most innovative individuals and organizations in the science and technology world.

The WTN a cross between a global meeting ground, a virtual think tank, and an elite club whose members are all focused on the business or science of bringing important emerging technologies of all types – including I T , communications, energy, materials, biotech, health & medicine, and space -- into reality.The WTN’s membership is comprised of over 1000 individuals and organizations from over 40 countries nominated and judged by their peers to be the most innovative in the world.

The WTN brings key players together - from the most cutting-edge technologists to the most forward- thinking financiers, from the most conceptual futurists to the most grounded entrepreneurs, from the most insightful science writers to the most savvy marketers, from the most big picture government officials to the most focused policy analysts, and from the world‘s leading corporations to the world‘s newest start-ups -- helping to make things happen sooner and better than they might have.

The WTN exists to “encourage serendipity” -- the happy accidents of colliding ideas and new relationships that cause the biggest breakthroughs for individuals and institutions.The WTN works to accomplish its mission through global and regional events for its members (and others) to help make connections among them, and to examine the likely implications and possible applications of emerging technologies.

The World Technology Awards are presented each year, in association with TIME, Fortune, CNN, Science/AAAS, Technology Review, Kurzweil Technologies, and others, to the outstanding innovators from each sector in science, technology, and related fields, both as a way to honor those individuals and as a vetting mechanism to determine the newest WTN Fellows and Corporate Members.The Award winners are announced each year in a gala ceremony at the close of the annual World Technology Summit, during which time the Award finalists and winners are inducted into the membership. The World Technology Summit is a global gathering of the WTN membership, Award Nominees, as well as other delegates.The first World Technology Awards ceremonies and World Technology Summits were held in London. In 2002, the gatherings were held in New York City. In 2003, the events moved to San Francisco. In 2009, they moved back to New York City again, where they have been held ever since. The WTN also convenes more specific high-level gatherings (e.g., The World Energy Technologies Summit (WETS) in both 2004 and 2010).

The WTN is a community for and of those people working in and around new technologies, who are creating the future and changing the world.

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