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Artificial intelligence ("AI"),
broadly defined, improves the intelligence and autonomy of our
technology. Intelligence amplification ("IA")
empowers human beings and their social, political, and economic
environments. As in previous
years, a collection of today's most broad-minded, multidisciplinary,
and practical change leaders will consider these twin trends from
global, national, business, social, and personal foresight perspectives.
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Post-Conference Testimonials:
“My hat's off to John for putting together an organization
and conference dedicated to accelerating change. There are very
few organizations that have that understanding.” Ray
Kurzweil (from Saturday keynote)
“The speakers were marvelous. There was a fantastic mix
from various disciplines…This was inspirational and energizing.”
Janna Anderson, Professor Elon University, Director of
Internet Projects, Pew Internet
“The optimistic view towards the future and our general
ability to shape it…is refreshingly different from mainstream
media and many other groups in society.” Olav Strawe,
Publisher, Teletalk Magazine
“I always enjoy the sense of being 5 years in the future
[at ACC] and I appreciate the great variety of topics and speakers.”
David Clemens, Monterey Peninsula College
“It opened my mind to new and interesting aspects of tech
and society that I had not considered or heard of before.”
Alan Devlin, Director, Web Factory
“Thanks for an extraordinary conference. Five times better
than last year.”
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Keynote
Vernor Vinge
Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Author, True
Names; The
Coming Technological Singularity |
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Keynote
Ray Kurzweil
CEO, Kurzweil
Technologies; Award-Winning
Inventor; Author, The
Age of Spiritual Machines; The
Singularity is Near |
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Keynote
Daniel G. Amen, MD
Medical Director and CEO, Amen
Clinics, Inc.; Author, Change
Your Brain, Change Your Life; Monthly columnist for Men's
Health Magazine |
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Keynote
Thomas Malone
Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT
Sloan School of Management; Founder and Director of the MIT
Center for Coordination Sciences; Author, The
Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization,
Your Management Style, and Your Life |
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Keynote
Dileep George
Founder & Principal Architect, Numenta |
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Change Leader
Steve Jurvetson
Managing Director, Draper
Fisher Jurvetson |
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Change Leader
Esther
Dyson
Editor, Release
1.0 and Editor at Large, CNET
Networks |
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Foresight
Tutorial
George Gilder
Editor in Chief, Gilder
Technology Report; Author, The
Silicon Eye; Senior Fellow, Discovery
Institute |
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Change Leader
Peter Norvig
Director of Search Quality, Google;
Author, Artificial Intelligence:
A Modern Approach (the wold's leading textbook in AI) |
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Special Host
Moira Gunn
President and CEO, The
Tech Nation Group; Host, Tech
Nation and BioTech Nation |
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Change Leader
Peter Barrett
CTO and GM of Engineering, Microsoft
TV, IPTV Program Leader |
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Change Leader
Blake Ross
Co-Creator and Project Director, Mozilla
Firefox; Open Source Entrepreneur; Computer Science Student,
Stanford University |
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Change Leader
Ronald Kaplan
Manager of Research in Natural
Language Theory and Technology, PARC;
Principle of the Center
for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University |
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Change Leader
Marti Hearst
Professor, School of Information
Management and Systems, UC Berkeley; Science Advisory Board
for Search, Yahoo!
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Change Leader
Patrick Lincoln
Director, Computer Science
Laboratory, SRI International |
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Change
Leader
Shun-Jie Ji
Assistant Professor, Graduate
Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University; Managing Editor,
Journal of Futures
Studies; CEO, Institute
for National Development, Taiwan |
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Change Leader
Philip Rosedale
CEO, Linden Lab,
creators of Second Life,
acclaimed 3D online world |
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Change Leader
Beth Noveck
Associate Professor of Law Director, New York Law School
Institute for Information
Law and Policy; Director, Democracy
Design Workshop; Founder, State
of Play conferences on law and virtual worlds |
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Change Leader
Sr. Denise Lawrence
Advisor of Academic Affairs, Certificate
Program in Education in Values and Spirituality, Brahma
Kumaris World Spiritual Organization |
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Change Leader
Neil
Jacobstein
President and CEO, Teknowledge
Corporation, Chairman of AAAI’s
17th Innovative
Applications of AI Conference, July 2005 |
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Change Leader
T. Colin Campbell
Professor Emeritus, Division
of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University; Author, The
China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted... |
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Change Leader
Rudy Rucker
Computer Scientist; Author of The
Lifebox, The Seashell, and the Soul; Spaceland;
The
Hacker and the Ants, and other
books |
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Change Leader
Joichi Ito
Blogger; CEO and Founder,
Neoteny Co., Ltd.;
VP International and Mobility, Technorati;
Chairman, Six Apart Japan |
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Change Leader
Janna Anderson
Assistant Professor, Elon
University's School of Communications; Director,
"Imagining the Internet" Predictions Database; Author
of the upcoming, Imagining
the Internet: Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives
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Investment
Tutorial
Mike Korns
Intelligent Agent Investing Pioneer; Chairman, Korns
Associates |
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Change Leader
Terry Winograd
Professor and Director, Human-Computer
Interaction programs, Stanford University; Principal Investigator,
Stanford Digital Libraries
Project and Interactive
Workspaces Project |
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Moderator
T. Sibley Verbeck
Chief Scientist, StreamSage |
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Change Leader
Scott Rafer
President and CEO, Feedster |
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Change Leader
Jon Udell
Lead Analyst, InfoWorld;
Software Developer
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Change Leader
Robin Raskin
Consultant and author on family life in a digital world,
robinraskin.com; TV Personality;
Former Editor of PC Magazine |
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Change Leader
Cecily Sommers
Strategic Principal, Unit
1; Founder and President, The PUSH Institute, producers of the
annual PUSH Conference |
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Change Leader
(Live via Video)
Robert Hecht-Nielsen
Computational Neurobiologist, Institute
for Neural Computation; Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
UC-San Diego; Founder, HNC Software (now Fair
Isaac) |
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Foresight
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Peter
Bishop
Chair and Professor,
Studies of the Future MS Program, U of Houston |
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Change Leader
Bruno
Olshausen
Director, Redwood Center
for Theoretical Neuroscience (formerly, Redwood Neuroscience
Institute)
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Emcee
Sonia Arrison
Director of Technology Studies, Pacific
Research Institute (PRI) |
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Foresight
Tutorial
Tom Conger
Consulting Futurist and CEO, Social
Technologies |
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Second
Life Tutorial
Cory Ondrejka
VP of Product Development, Linden
Lab, creators of Second
Life, acclaimed 3D online world |
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Emcee
Melanie Swan
President, Cygnet
Capital |
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Change Leader
Jamais Cascio
Senior Contributing Editor, WorldChanging;
Writer and foresight consultant |
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Change Leader
David Fogel
CEO, Natural
Selection, Inc.; Author, Blondie
24: Playing at the Edge of AI; Founding Editor-in-Chief,
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary
Computing |
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Change Leader
Julian Lombardi
Principal Architect, Croquet
Project; Manager, Division
of Information Technology, U Wisconsin-Madison; Software designer
and former biology professor |
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Change Leader
Marcos Guillen
Founder and CEO, Artificial
Development, developers of CCortex neural computing platform |
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Change Leader
Harold Morowitz
Biophysicist; Robinson Professor of Biology and Natural
Philosophy, George Mason University; Author, The
Emergence of Everything |
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Change Leader
Ruzena Bajcsy
Director, CITRIS (Center
for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society);
Former Assistant Director, National Science Foundation, CISE;
Former Director, GRASP,
U Penn |
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Change Leader
David
A. Smith
Principal Architect, Croquet
Project; CTO, 3Dsolve;
Co-founder, Red Storm Entertainment
(w/ Tom Clancy) and Timeline Computer Entertainment (w/ Michael
Crichton) |
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Change
Leader
Alex
Lightman
CEO,
IPv6 Summit, Inc., an Innofone.com
Company, and Author, Brave
New Unwired World
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Change Leader
Mark Finnern
Collaboration Manager, SAP
Developer Network; Blogger,
O'Reilly Network; Board Member, ASF;
Founder and Host, Bay Area
Future Salon; Co-Producer, Accelerating Change Conferences |
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Change
Leader
Bruno Haid
Head of Strategy, System
One, merging social software, semantic web, and AI |
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Change
Leader
Jerry Paffendorf
Community Director, Acceleration
Studies Foundation; Founder and Host, Second
Life Future Salon; Co-Producer, Accelerating Change Conferences |
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Change
Leader
John Smart
Founder and President, Acceleration
Studies Foundation; Co-Producer, Accelerating Change
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