Next 2013: Conference on Innovation and The Future

We are hosting a pretty kickass conference on June 14th in Seoul exploring technology, innovation and future trends. The lineup of speakers is awesome with Ray Ozzie, Richard Florida, Catherine Mohr and others. These slides provide details on this event that I've been working on.

Next 2013: Conference on Innovation and The Future from Bernard Moon

TechCrunch Social Currency CrunchUp

I'll be at the TechCrunch Social Currency CrunchUp and 5th Annual Summer Party tomorrow. Looking forward to these sessions and more:

9:00 – 9:45 am
The Social Currency Investment Thesis
Michael Arrington speaks with Ron Conway and Paul Graham

9:45 – 10:15 am
Social Savings: Building the Next Billion Dollar Business
Erick Schonfeld speaks with Groupon CEO Andrew Mason

10:15 – 10:30 am
Couponing 101: What Tech Should Understand About Brands, Retailer and Consumer Promotions
Heather Harde speaks with News America Marketing Group Sales Manager Ginny Byrnes

10:45 – 10:50 am
New Product Demo: Blekko by Founder and CEO Rich Skrenta

10:50 – 11:30 am
Check Ins, Coupons and Commerce
Tristan Walker, director of business development, Foursquare
Kara Nortman, Senior Vice President, Publishing, CityGrid Media
Shiva Rajaraman, product manager, Twitter
Moderated by MG Siegler

(full schedule)

TED Reviews & Links

Unlike TED 2008, I didn't blog actively or daily this year. Some of reasoning was that I was only able to stay for two-thirds of the conference due to our twin girls. The other part of it was because I had work to do during the evenings and couldn't devote the mental energy to effectively reflect upon each day.

Anyway, here are some news and blog reviews of this year's TED:

"Wisdom: Roundup of TED2010, Session 12" TED Blog
Primarily a photo blog.

"David Cameron at TED" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog

"Heroes and Villains at TED" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog

"Thought experiments at TED" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog

"Sergey Brin on Google China at TED" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog

"Introducing TED Fellow: Daniel Zoughbie" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog

"Bill Gates Goes Nuclear" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog

"TED 2010: Halting Blood Vessels Key to New Cancer Treatment; Possibly Obesity" WIRED's Epicenter

"TED 2010: Reality Is Broken. Game Designers Must Fix It" WIRED's Epicenter

"TED 2010: The Price in Human Suffering of Being Open-Minded" WIRED's Epicenter

"TED 2010: Death Star Laser Gun Zaps Mosquitoes Dead" WIRED's Epicenter

"TED 2010: Google Optimistic It Can Remain in China" WIRED's Epicenter

"TED 2010: Wired for the iPad to Launch by Summer" WIRED's Epicenter

"TED 2010: Transformative Transparency" Fresh Influence blog

"TED 2010: Id and Identity Online" Fresh Influence blog

"TED 2010: Innovation NOW" Fresh Influence blog

"Jake Shimabukuro at TED2010" BoingBoing


"TED 2010 in 100 Tweets" Bill Gross

"Highlights from TED 2010, Day One" Brain Pickings

"Highlights from TED 2010: Day Two" Brain Pickings

"TED 2010 Day Three: A New Kind of Middle School and Bill Gates on Energy Miracles" HBR's Anthony Tjan

"TED 2010: Day 3" MIT Sloan Management Review

"TED 2010: Day 4 and Wrapup" MIT Sloan Management Review

"Kevin Bales at TED: We Can End Slavery" Tonic

"Notes From TED: Can Simplicity and Innovation Overcome Complexity and Cynicism?" The Huffington Post

"Bill Gates: We need global 'energy miracles'" CNN

"Ten big ideas from TED" CNN

Pics from TED 2010

@TED2010 This Week

In Long Beach for TED2010 this week, so I'm pretty excited. Very thankful to Christine for letting me go since the twins are getting to be a handful. I'll be there for two-thirds of the conference and coming back early on Friday.

Some good coverage of this year's TED before the conference starts...

"TED's Influence and Digital Reach Keep Expanding
While many conferences strive to cover niches, Chris Anderson's long-running think fest known as TED thrives on willful eclecticism" BusinessWeek

"TED 2010 Conference Makes for Strange Bedfellows" WIRED


If anyone from TED's staff is reading, I've been trying to change my profile photo for over a year now. The photo upload doesn't work nor changing the primary photo. Help!

2010 AT&T Developer Summit in Las Vegas

Just received this notice for you mobile developers out there:

"The 2010 AT&T Developer Summit is a full day event giving developers first access to exciting technology announcements, strategy, guidance, and tools for developing applications on the AT&T Network and devices.

By attending the 2010 AT&T Developer Summit, you will be the first to learn about new developments in our technology roadmaps through a morning of General Sessions including the Executive Keynote by Ralph de la Vega, President and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. You’ll also be able to customize your Summit experience through four different tracks of presentations, panels, and demos for developers wanting to build, market, and sell applications and devices."

The event will be on January 6th, 2010 at the Palms in Las Vegas.

ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit

I'm at the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit in Mountain View, CA today. The event is held at the Computer History Museum, which is always a good facility.

It's the first conference I've attended by the ReadWriteWeb guys and looking forward to it.

Conference Hopping Today: TechCrunch's Real-Time Stream & Guy Kawasaki's Revenue Bootcamp

I'm conference hopping today before I take off for Chicago today to meet Christine and our girls. I'm at Guy Kawasaki's Revenue Bootcamp this morning and headed to TechCrunch's Real-Time Stream event later today.

Slice of Revenue Bootcamp
Keynote
Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief, Wired magazine
Author of Free: The Future of a Radical Price
11:00am - 12:00pm

Is the Advertising Model Dead?
1:30pm - 2:30pm
This panel answers questions like: Can you build a real business around advertising revenues? What does it take to optimize ad revenue? Are new ad techniques energizing?

Samir Arora - Chairman and CEO, Glam Media
Neil Chase - Vice President for Author Services, Federated Media
Xavier Zang - Publisher Partner Management, Microsoft
Tim Kendall - Director of Monetization, Facebook
David Kopp - Senior Director, N. American Ads, Yahoo!
Bill Reichert - Moderator. Garage Technology Ventures

Slice of Real-Time Search
9:00 - 9:45 am
The Real Time Opportunity
Q&A with leading angel investors John Borthwick and Ron Conway, moderated by Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor.

9:45 - 10:30 am
The Real Time Moment

* Jack Dorsey, Twitter
* Chris Cox, Facebook
* Bret Taylor, Friendfeed
* Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch (moderator)

More Than Money Conference, July 17th-19th

One of our companies, InsideWork, is a niche media company focused on the intersection of faith and business and is hosting an event called More Than Money in San Francisco July 17th-19th. A summary is here:

"More Than Money is a major professional finance event focused on the global economy. The keynote presentations feature top flight private fund managers, economists and experts in international finance with first rate insights into the impact of current global economics on your business and investments and your intentions to transfer those assets and responsibilities to your business successors and heirs.

InsideWork® has constructed the More Than Money conference on a robust platform of spiritually enlivened business intelligence—the Financial Times in one hand; the ancient wisdom of the Bible in the other. That’s the context in which More Than Money presents a rich understanding of strategic risk management that encompasses the whole range of capital issues, including the multigenerational relationship of capital with our emergent company leaders and children."

We have an excellent line up of speakers that includes:

- Ted Lucas, Founder & Managing Partner at Lattice Capital.

- Os Guinness, Senior Fellow at EastWest Institute, who is an excellent commentator on culture, public policy and how it intersects with faith.

- Jay Richards, Director of Media, Acton Institute & Author of Money, Greed, and God

The event is crafted to be intimate and limited to 120 attendees. It's open to all and ideally targets boomers dealing with various issues around wealth management. If you're interested in attending, register here.

Tweets by Time of Day & Day of Week

More navel gazing whether yours or mine... Steve Broback, 140 | The Twitter Conference organizer, promoted some random developer's Twitter project during the second session. If you plug in your Twitter account here or someone else's, you can see when he/she tweets during the time of day and days of the week. The panelists were joking that you can see users' sleep patterns too. Here's mine:

@ 140 The Twitter Conference

I'm at 140 | The Twitter Conference over the next couple days. It's held at Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, which is less than 10 minutes from home and right next to Google, where Christine works. The schedule is here and a snapshot here:

Keynote: The Business Value of Twitter
Alex Payne

In his keynote, Alex Payne will provide several real-world examples of how the Twitter API is delivering results for organizations large and small.

Best Practices Panel: I am a Twitter God(dess) and So Can You
Panelists: iJustine, Tara Hunt, Dave Peck Moderator: Steve Broback

Our panel of experts will discuss what strategies, tactics, and tools ahve taken them to the top of the twitosphere.

What Makes a Great Twitter App?
Panelists: Loren Brichter, Britt Selvitelle, Dom Sagolla, Moderator: Sudha Jamthe

This panel of successful developers will talk about the design and functionality choices they made

Under the Radar Winners: Who’s On Cloud Nine?

Last Friday I attended Dealmaker Media's "Under the Radar: Clarity in the Cloud" event.

They just posted the winners voted on by the judges and attendees:

BEST IN SHOW
Voted as “best startup of the day” by the judges: Zuora
*View their award-winning presentation here.

Voted as “best startup of the day” by the audience: CloudKick
*View their award-winning presentation here.

CATEGORY WINNERS (Click on startups to view their presentations)

Cloud Platform
Audience Choice: Eucalyptus
Judges Choice: Eucalyptus

Cloud Management
Audience Choice: CloudKick
Judges Choice: TapInSystems

Storage Infrastructure
Audience Choice: Virsto Software & Zetta (tie)
Judges Choice: Virsto Software & Zetta (tie)

Web Services
Audience Choice: Zuora
Judges Choice: Zuora

Applications
Audience Choice: Zephyr
Judges Choice: uTest

Development & Platforms
Audience Choice: Heroku
Judges Choice: Heroku

Data Management
Audience Choice: Axcient
Judges Choice: Ctera

Under The Radar's Cloud Computing Event

I'll be at Dealmaker Media's Under The Radar: Cloud Computing event tomorrow. The one day event seems to have a good line up, so I'm hoping that I can gain some good insights into this overall space and the players involved.

It will be held at Microsoft's office in Mountain View, CA. Great location since it's a local 10 minute drive from home.

TEDIndia November 2009

TEDIndia will be held November 4th-7th, 2009 at the beautiful Infosys campus in Mysore. I believe registration is open to the public, so if you're interested apply to attend TEDIndia.

I would have loved to attend, but there isn't a strong reason for me to go. There is probably a better fit for Christine, so I wonder if she will go for work.

Banking On Life Conference (Cord Blood Stem Cell Research) May 2, 2009

The Center for Bioethics & Culture is hosting a conference that brings the major leaders, thinkers and experts in the field of cord blood stem cell research and regenerative medicine. Definitely a highly academic and engaging event! More from the event website here:

Cutting edge leaders from around the world, in the field of umbilical cord blood stem cell research and regenerative medicine, will join us to promote, inform and educate attendees on up to the minute successes and advances in cord blood research. These key voices will convene to share information that will shape the future direction of progress in cord blood banking and advances in patient treatments.

Some of the world experts are:

Dr. Colin McGuckin
After finishing his PhD (DPhil) on leukaemia research in 1991 (Biomedical Sciences Research Centre, University of Ulster – a 5* RAE department), Colin completed a postdoctoral position at St George’s Hospital Medical School Dept of Haematology. There he worked on Chronic Anaemia’s & Stem Cell Disorders. In 1996 he became Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at Kingston University, and ‘Reader’ in 2001. In 1999, he founded and became Director of the Stem Cell Therapy Laboratory specialising in Stem Cell Research, Tissue Engineering and regenerative medicine. His research collaborates internationally and with industry. Colin is also a freelance journalist working with TV, radio and print media and believes in promoting medical and scientific research understanding to the public. He is a UK Millennium Fellow & Media Fellow promoting science and medicine to the public. In 2005 he was appointed the first Professor of Regenerative Medicine at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, leading a clinical research programme to take adult stem cells through to patients. We strongly believe in international cooperation and collaboration

Banking Umbilical Cord Blood: The Future of Regenerative Medicine
Abstract: It is 20 years since the first successful cord blood stem cell transplant, and this field of regenerative medicine, is moving forwards at an incredible pace, as more and more countries realise the potential of the stem cells which are present in umbilical cord blood at birth. World expert, Prof Colin McGuckin, will present his own work and progress to date in this exciting sphere. His team have been successful in discovering a unique group of cells from cord blood called ‘cord-blood-derived embryonic-like stem cells’ or CBEs which can give rise to any tissue type of the body. They combine qualities of the embryonic and the adult stem cell, whilst bypassing the ethical or technical limitations of these two types of stem cells. In his laboratory they use a microgravity technology originally developed for NASA, to grow cells in 3-dimensional free-floating conditions, greatly increasing the number of cells which can be produced, and they have successfully grown liver cells from CBEs

Dr. David T. Harris
Dr. Harris is a graduate of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where he obtained Bachelor of Science degrees (cum laude) in Biology, Mathematics and Psychology in 1978. He earned a Masters of Medical Sciences (summa cum laude) from Bowman Gray Medical School in 1980 and his Doctorate in Microbiology and Immunology (magna cum laude) from Bowman Gray Medical School in 1982. From 1982-1985 Dr. Harris was a Postdoctorate Fellow at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1985 he joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine. In 1989 Dr. Harris joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in Tucson as an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology. In 1996 Dr. Harris was promoted to Professor of Immunology. Dr. Harris established the first cord blood bank in the USA in 1992. He currently serves as Director of the Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank, is a member of the Arizona Cancer Center, a member of the Children’s Research Center, a member of the Arizona Arthritis Center, and Head of the Gene Therapy Group. Dr. Harris’s research interests include stem cells and regenerative medicine, cancer research/stem cell transplantation and gene therapy. He has published more than 300 articles (papers, book chapters and abstracts), given more than 100 talks on stem cells over the past 7 years, and has served as a consultant to the governments of China, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea. Dr. Harris has also founded 3 companies while at the University of Arizona; Cord Blood Registry, Inc.; ImmuneRegen BioSciences, Inc.; and QuReGen, Inc.

Cord Blood Cells and Regenerative Medicine: Clinical Applications
Abstract: The use of stem cells from umbilical cord blood has grown significantly over the last 10 years. More than 12,000 cord blood transplants have now been performed worldwide for a variety of cancers, blood disorders, and genetic diseases. However, recent discoveries in regenerative medicine suggest that stem cells, like those found in newborn cord blood, can differentiate into bone, brain, nerve, skin, or other cell types. While these areas of research are in their infancy, the value and power of stem cells and the potential they possess for medical treatment and cures is creating a new paradigm for the future.

The objective of this presentation is to provide updated information regarding clinical experience with umbilical cord blood banking and transplantation and a summary of expert opinion concerning the current and potential future applications of cord blood stem cells.

Other speakers here and register here.

Visit the Facebook Event page here.

140: The Twitter Conference

Parnassus Group is hosting 140: The Twitter Conference on May 26th - 27th, 2009.

"140 is the place where developers, business people, and enthusiasts converge to find innovative ways to tap into the Real-Time Web."

Web 2.0 Expo... The Power of Less

Web 2.0 Expo is coming up, March 31 - April 3rd. I seriously must be getting old because it seems like it was a few months ago that I attended last year's conference.

Anyway, the Strategy & Business Models track looks good right now along with the Web Operations track. I'll write down more details later...

GamesBeat 2009

VentureBeat's gaming conference is coming up. GamesBeat 2009 is on March 24th at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. More info here:

Why GamesBeat?

In 2008, more than $885 million was invested into video games and virtual worlds. U.S. game industry sales rose 19 percent to $22 billion, not counting sales from online games or casual games. Those figures are astonishing and they confirm that the games industry stood out as a haven during the tough economic storm. GamesBeat 2009 will explore what will happen next.

As we stated above, it’s a time of explosive growth for the video game industry; however, it now faces a crossroads. Will games take the next step up in experience and become the pinnacle of entertainment? And, while developers seek to attain this goal, how will the games business fair? As more types of people start using games, these games are becoming increasingly interesting for advertisers. Hollywood, application-developers and retailers are all likely to use games and gaming principles to hook users with addictive content, or to engage them in ways that will lead to more purchase transactions.

Meanwhile, the traditional gaming business models are under attack. Users are shifting toward new platforms such as Facebook and casual Web games, and it’s not clear that the gaming leaders of past generations will stay on top. The Internet and the recession are driving big companies to rethink their focus on hardcore games; the costs of producing console games are out of control, putting the squeeze on independent developers.

The Nintendo Wii, the iPhone and the online game World of Warcraft now dominate the industry’s mindshare, but big questions remain: Can upstarts with free games, virtual goods, and episodic content further undermine the establishment? Does the Wii’s popularity represent the return to simplicity and cartoon-like entertainment, or are we on our way to touch-based user interfaces that immerse us in a compelling virtual reality? And is the web the path to more efficient economics, or will it introduce a flood of free titles that decimate everyone’s profits?

So, for those of you wanting to know what the future holds for games, and their effect on the world at large — whether you’re interested in console, casual or mobile phone games — you’ll want to join us on March 24th!

"Unveiling the TED Fellows program"

I first heard of the TED Fellows program soon after Christine and I came back from TED2008. It was a program to invite people from the nonprofit sector, education and the arts, who add to the great diversity and excellence of TED but typically cannot afford to attend.

Our good friend, Adrian Hong, is one of TED Fellows for this year. There were 40 selected and our colleague from the NetKAL program, Esther Chae, was also part of this first class. Too bad we can't join them since we are busy with our newborns. We hope to be at TED2010 next year!

An article on this new program, "TED reaching out to "remarkable" people in hard-luck lands"

More from Tom Rielly
's email:

Unveiling the TED Fellows program

Greetings TEDsters --
It's my pleasure to share with you the first “Great Unveiling” of TED2009: our new TED Fellows program. At TEDGlobal 2007 in Arusha, Tanzania we were struck by the remarkable conversations and collaborations inspired by the 100 fellows who attended. We saw the founding of several companies, including Black Star Line SA by speaker Herman Chenery- Hesse and TEDGlobal fellow June Arunga; the emergence of new NGOs such as Ushahidi.com, founded by Fellows Erik Hersman, Juliana Rotich and Ory Okolloh; and U.S. TEDsters setting up offices and hiring a TED Fellow in Tanzania. Scientists met with artists and designers, tech bloggers spoke with environmental activists, and filmmakers bonded with economists. Those exceptional people continue to write Africa's "Next Chapter."

Since then we've been seeking a way to bring the TED Fellows’ passion, energy and the ideas worth spreading to every TED conference, with the hope that their world-changing ideas and proven potential will meld with the talent and experience of the TED community.

Introducing TED Fellows, our new international program that will bring 50 eclectic, up-and-coming world-changers to our Long Beach and Oxford conferences each year. Twenty of those fifty will be invited back, starting the next year, as TED Senior Fellows, joining the community for a three-year term including six conferences. All TED Fellows will receive special benefits including pre-conference programs, training from world-class communications professionals, the opportunity to give short TEDTalks at TED University, the opportunity to spread their ideas on TED.com, a private social network and more. Of course, TED will cover their conference fees, travel and lodging.

We’re targeting individuals aged 21-40 from all of TED’s many disciplines, including of course, technology, entertainment and design but also science, humanities and the arts, entrepreneurs, NGOs and political and community leaders. We’re focusing on candidates from five regions of the world: Africa, Asia/Pacific, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East. However, anyone 18 and over is welcome to apply. The first application cycle begins February 23rd, 2009.

Meet our first 40 fellows here. The complete list is also at the bottom of this email. If you’d like to read more about them, you can download a PDF of the TED Fellows Program Guide.

These men and women were selected for their achievement but especially for their promise. Each of them shows real potential to create positive change in their field -- whether it's technology, entertainment, design, music, art, science, business or the NGO community -- in their country, and even around the world.

I would like to thank the Bezos family, the Harnisch Foundation and Nokia for their visionary inaugural support of the program, with in-kind participation from TED friends Kodak, Livescribe, Lynda.com, ONE.org and SubscriberMail.

There are many opportunities for TEDsters to get involved and contribute. Find more information at www.ted.com/fellows

Warmly,


Tom Rielly

TED Community Director

Netexplorateur 100 Released!

Forum Netexplorateur is a technology and digital culture conference held in Paris every year. They recently released their hot list of emerging innovations called the Netexplorateur 100. The conference organizers of Open Web Asia, which I'm a part of, contributed to their selection process. More from their announcement:

To reveal emerging innovations in the way Internet and digital media are used, the forum’s founders had the idea of a global selection of the most promising initiatives in digital culture, the Netexplorateur 100. The pioneers on the annual list publish Web 2.0 sites, software or electronic games, break new ground in culture or education, invent new forms of citizenship or transform management methods and business models. These 100 “Netexplorateurs” are blazing trails in the Web’s uncharted territories and developing new practices that are likely to have significant economic or social impact. They embody the future of the Net and, more generally, the digital era.