Innovations & Trends

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Re-Envisioning Privacy In The Digital Era

Internet Censorship II: Our Panel Of Experts Returns

Games4Change II: Using Games For Social Change

Automated Automobiles: The Self Driving Car Is Coming (Soon)

Dongtan Update: China's Zero-Carbon Scratch-Built Metropolis

Product Packaging Without The Landfill

Augmented Reality: Combining the Real World & Ubiquitous Data

Defending Ourselves From Potential Nuclear & Bio Terror

Peak Water: Solutions for the Global Clean Water Crisis

Getting To Fusion Power

Wireless Electricity & The Potential Of Air Energy

GE and The Future of Printable Solar Cells

How Nanotech Will Change Our Lives

The New Star Wars: China vs NASA vs Private Industry

Securing Cyberspace: Cyberwarfare threat or hoax?

Private Warriors: The Future of Warfare

Workshops

Will The Public Be Your Next Film Financier? Part 2 (5/18)

Also being scheduled...

The Future of Hollywood VFX: Outsourcing To India & China

Will Your Facebook Profile Enhance Your Career?… Or Kill It?

Why DreamWorks, Disney, Sony, & Pixar Are Embracing 3D

On-Demand & Real-Time: How Home Distribution Is Changing

Foreign Production Trends

Pilot's Are Dead: What's Next In The Post-Pilot TV Season?

Future of Licensing Music

Future of Music Production

Where Is Reality TV Headed?

Packaging 2.0: How Will Agents & Managers Package In An Internet-Driven Media World

The Future of Internet Video II

The Future of Cable

The Future Searching Video: AI Video-tagging Software

Towards “We.Gov”: Restoring Trust in our Election Systems

Gregory Miller, Co-Executive Director, Open Source Digital Voting Initiative (OSDV); Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State; Heather Smith, Executive Director, RockTheVote; Mitch Kapor, Founder, Lotus Development Corporation; Designer of Lotus 1-2-3; Co-founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Mozilla Foundation

Armchair Revolutionary Projects Intro

Ariel Hauter

Rising From The Ashes: The Rwandan Model

Josh Ruxin, Founder and Director of Rwanda Works and The Access Project and Millennium Village Rwanda; Assistant Clinical Professor of Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University

How To Shoot Your Next Film In Space

Elon Musk, Founder/CEO, SpaceX
(co-founder, Paypal; Chairman, Tesla Motors); Steve Squyres, Principal Investigator, Mars Exploration Rover Mission, JPL/NASA
(the principal cameraman for the Mars Rover Mission)

Synthetic Organism Invasion: The Rise of BioBricks

Drew Endy, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Synthetic Biology, Stanford University

Will Web Start-Ups & VCs Replace The TV Networks?

Cameron Death (VP, NBC Universal Digital Studios), Marshall Herskovitz (Creator, Quarterlife), Stan Rogow (Director, Gemini Division), Josh Metzger (SVP, Veoh), Nathan Coyle (Agent/Production Integration, CAA). Moderated by Frank Rose (Contributing Editor, Wired Magazine)

BigBrainBoy’s Mobile Media Summit: Creating Change In A Connected World

The Low Dollar Effect on U.S. Film Financing

Adrian Ward (National Bank of California), Ben Kramer (CAA), Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard (Lakeshore Entertainment), Jonathan English (Mythic International), Simon Horsman (Future Films)

Hollywood Meets Google (At The Bus Stop)

Kevin Mathy, Transportation Manager, Google

The Next Humans: The New Science of Advanced Body Modification

Quinn Norton, Journalist

The New Hi-Tech Robin Hoods

Matt Flannery, Co-Founder/CEO, Kiva.org
Tracey Pettengill Turner, Founder/GM, MicroPlace.com
Donna Callejon, COO, GlobalGiving.com
Julie Lacouture, Deputy Director, DonorsChoose.org
Peter Bladin, Founding Director, Grameen Foundation Technology Center

Project Snapshot: GridRepublic & The Power of Distributed Computing

Matthew Blumberg, Founder, GridRepublic.com
David Anderson, Founder/Director, University of California Berkeley's BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) Project and SETI@home Project
Liz Kellogg, Laboratory Researcher, Rosetta@home Project

Bringing Grameen Bank To California

Isabel Maxwell, Senior Advisor to Grameen America (West Coast) & Grameen Trust

Book Party: The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It!

Jonathan Zittrain, author of new book The Future of the Internet -- And How To Stop It!

The Future of Consumerism

Benjamin Barber, author of the new book Consumed

Thelma & Louise vs. Bourne Ultimatum: Making It As A Writer-Director And A Social Activist To Boot

Callie Khouri and Scott Z. Burns

The Hollywood Hill Holiday Party 2007

Keynote Speaker Jonathan Zittrain

Hollywood Goes Green Kick-Off Reception

3-D Printers + Mobile Fab Labs For The Developing World

Cathy L. Lewis, CEO, Desktop Factory

The Race For New Fuels

Frances Arnold, Founder, Gevo, Inc.

Workshop: Domestic Film Distribution

with Gary Rubin, President, First Independent Pictures

China’s Totally Sustainable Scratch-Built Metropolis

with Peter Head, Director, Head of Planning and Integrated Urbanism Gary Lawrence, Head of Global Policy, Arup and Douglas McGray, Fellow, New America Foundation

The Future of Sustainable Cars

with Elon Musk, Chairman, Tesla Motorcars (co-founder of Paypal & Founder/CEO of SpaceX), Stephen Ellis, Manager, Fuel Cell Marketing, American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Mike Millikin, Founder/Editor, GreenCarCongress.com

Swiss Internet Voting Technology

with Valerie Christinet (Secretary General of the State Chancellery, Canton of Neuchatel), Michel Chevallier (Head of Communications Internet Voting Project, Canton of Geneva), and Professor Dr. Alexander H. Trechsel (leading expert on Internet Voting and Estonia)

Securing Film Financing & Current Trends

with Film Financier Adrian Ward

Breaking Into Producing

with Film Producers Kristin Hahn & Michele Weisler

Perfecting L.A. “Transforming L.A. Into A Sustainable City”

L.A. Deputy Mayor for Energy & Environment Nancy Sutley

WorldChanging: A User’s Guid

Alex Steffen, Co-Founder & Executive Editor, WorldChanging.com

The Future of the Internet

Tom Patterson, Founder/CEO of Command Information

The Future of Hi-Tech Warfare

Parney Albright, Managing Director, Civitas Group

The Beginning of The End of Disease

Alan Colman, CEO of ES Cell International, Singapore. Moderated by Doug Wick, Academy Award-Winning Film Producer & Diabetes Activist

The Future of Copyright

Lawrence Lessig (Founder of Creative Commons)

The Future of Internet Video

Jennifer Feikin (Director of Video, Google), Jeff Karnes (Director of Multimedia Search, Yahoo!), Shawn Gold (SVP of Content, MySpace). Moderated by Frank Rose (Contributing Editor, Wired Magazine)

Social Change Videogames: The Next Frontier

Ian Bogost, Suzanne Seggerman, Benjamin Stokes

Censoring The Internet

Jonathan Zittrain (Chair of Internet Governance, Harvard/Oxford), Scott Moore (SVP Content, Yahoo!), Jason Calacanis (Founder, Weblogs, Inc.), Stephen Hsu (Founder of SafeWeb). Moderated by Jeff O'Brien (Senior Editor, Wired Magazine)

Inside Russia

Gregory Feifer, NPR's Correspondent In Moscow

Film Screening: Why We Fight

Director Eugene Jarecki will moderate a panel of experts including Congressman Henry Waxman, Michael Keane, and Philip Coyle

Iraq, Inc.

Pratap Chatterjee

The Real State of Marriage

Evan Wolfson, Executive Director, Freedom To Marry

The Long Tail: How Technology Is Reshaping Entertainment Models

Chris Anderson, Editor-In-Chief, Wired Magazine

The Real State of the Union

Ted Halstead & David Lesher, Heads of The New America Foundation

Smuggling Nukes & Dirty Bombs… Mission Impossible: Securing the L.A. Port

Noel Cunningham, Director of Operations & Emergency Management, Port of Los Angeles

Running For Mayor & Fighting Corruption

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