The following are confirmed speakers for ACC2003. All of them have contributed important work to understanding and guiding accelerating change.

To see each speaker's abstract and talk title, visit the Speaker Abstracts page. To see their personal or professional website, click the Web-linked name next to the their photo. For detailed biographies, please visit our Speaker Biographies page. Finally, to see questions that our presenters are asking themselves about accelerating change, see the Speaker Questions page.

	Ray Kurzweil (via 3D Telepresence Lectern) Founder and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies, Winner of the National Medal of Technology and the MIT-Lemelson Prize, Author of The Age of Spiritual Machines
	Steve Jurvetson Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Founding VC investor in Hotmail, Interwoven, and Kana
	James N. Gardner Complexity Theorist, Author of Biocosm: The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life is the Architect of the Universe
	Howard Bloom (via teleconference) Visiting Scholar, New York University, Author of The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain
	Robert Wright Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Author of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny and The Moral Animal
	K. Eric Drexler Founder and Chair, Foresight Institute, Author of Engines of Creation and Nanosystems
	Greg Papadopoulos Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sun Microsystems
	Tim O'Reilly Founder and President, O'Reilly & Associates, Leading Open Source activist, Creator of The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
	William H. Calvin Theoretical Neurobiologist, University of Washington in Seattle, Author of 11 books, including The River that Flows Uphill: A Journey From the Big Bang to the Big Brain, and A Brain for All Seasons
	Christine Peterson Co-Founder an President, Foresight Institute, Co-Author of Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution and Author of Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work
	John R. Koza President, Genetic Programming, Author of four landmark books on genetic programming, including Genetic Programming IV: Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence
	Nick Bostrom Research Fellow, Oxford University, Author of Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
	William A. Dembski Associate Professor at the Institute for Faith and Learning, Baylor University, Texas, Author of No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence
	Michael Denton Senior Research Fellow in Human Genetics, University of Otago, New Zealand, Author of Nature's Destiny
	Ilkka Tuomi Visiting Scientist at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Seville, Spain, Author of "The Lives and Death of Moore's Law"
	Ben Goertzel Founder and CEO, Biomind LLC, Author of Creating Internet Intelligence and The Path to Posthumanity
	Keith Devlin Executive Director, CSLI, Stanford University, Author of 23 books, including Infosense, The Math Gene and The Millennium Problems
	Sonia Arrison Director, Technology Studies, Pacific Research Institute (PRI)
	Scott A. Hunt Peace Scholar and Activist, Author of The Future of Peace: On the Front Lines with the World's Great Peacemakers
	Ross Mayfield Founder and CEO, Socialtext, Key participant in the emerging Social Software movement
	James M. Crawford Area Lead, Autonomy and Robotics, NASA Ames Research Center
	Matt Lennig Senior Vice President of Engineering, Nuance speech software solutions
	Alex Lightman CEO, Charmed Technology, Chair, North American IPv6 Summits; Author, Brave New Unwired World
	Melanie Swan Research Director of Telecom Economics, RHK, Inc.
	Mark Finnern Collaboration Manager, SAP Developer Network, Founder and Host of the Bay Area Futurists Salon, Director of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, blogger for the O'Reilly Network
	John Smart Founder and President, Acceleration Studies Foundation, Founder of the Los Angeles Futurists Salon, Author of SingularityWatch.com

For more information on our speakers, please visit
the Speaker Biographies, Speaker Abstracts, and Speaker Questions pages.