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Industry leaders to Chair "Summits-within-the-Summit" roundtable sessions at World Technology Summit
The 2002 World Technology Summit, to be held in New York from July 21-22 at the Millennium Conference Center (Millennium Broadway Hotel) and the United Nations, will this year for the first time include a series of Summits-within-the-Summit as an integral part of the programme. Hosted by leading names in industry, these breakout sessions will debate a total of 20 newsworthy topics during Sunday 21st July.
For immediate release: Wednesday 3rd July 2002
Industry leaders to Chair "Summits-within-the-Summit" roundtable sessions at World Technology Summit
London, New York (Wednesday 3rd July 2002) - The 2002 World Technology Summit, to be held in New York from July 21-22 at the Millennium Conference Center (Millennium Broadway Hotel) and the United Nations, will this year for the first time include a series of Summits-within-the-Summit as an integral part of the programme. Hosted by leading names in industry, these breakout sessions will debate a total of 20 newsworthy topics during Sunday 21st July.
Selected from the World Technology Network's global membership, Summits-within-the-Summit chairmen include:
| | - Bert Keeley, architect and developer of soon to be launched "Tablet PC" at Microsoft who will be discussing "What hardware advances would make electronic information truly easy to use, anytime, anywhere?" in the Information Technology category.
- Michael Waller-Bridge, co-founder of TradePoint Stock Exchange who will be leading a session on "What would constitute Rational Exuberance? " in the Finance category.
- Gary Shapiro, Chairman and CEO, Consumer Electronics Association who will debate "What should the entertainment industry do to survive the digital world?" in the Entertainment category.
- Venkataram Balaji, Winner, 2001 World Technology Award for Education who will discuss "How can new technologies be used to make possible true lifelong learning?" in the Education category.
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Other chairmen of the World Technology Summits-within-the-summits include: - IT Software, Peter J. Denning, former President, ACM and co-editor "The Next 50 Years of Computing"; Biotechnology - Jeremy Curnock Cook, CEO Bioscience Managers Ltd; Design - Paolo Antonelli, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Space - Scott Sacknoff, President, International Space Business Council; Marketing Communications - Simon Anholt, Chairman, Earthspeak; Law - Gerry Elman, CEO, Elman & Associates; Policy - Albert Teich, Director for Science and Policy Programs, American Association for the Advancement of Science/AAAS; Energy and Environment - Andrew Bermingham, Managing Director, Montreux Energy; Media Journalism - Elizabeth Osder, John S. Knight Fellow, Stanford University; Social Entrepreneurship - Jim Pitofsky, Executive Director, Sea Change; Ethics - Rafael Capurro, European Group on Ethics in Science and New technologies.
James Clark, founder and Chairman of the World Technology Network (WTN), commented:
"This year's Summits-within-the-Summit are great opportunities to bring together and create new relationships between WTN members and other specially invited guests. They provide ideal forums to discuss those issues most likely to impact on today's industries and those industries yet to be born."
In addition to the Summits-within-the-Summit, plenary and panel sessions will take place at the Millennium Conference Center and the United Nations over the two days of the Summit. The World Technology Summit will then conclude with its annual World Technology Awards on the evening of Monday 22nd July, honouring those individuals and companies viewed by their own peers as being the most innovative in their field.
The 2002 World Technology Summit and World Technology Awards are in association with Nasdaq, Intel, Cisco Systems, Novartis, Time, Red Herring and Science.
For further information about the World Technology Network and the World Technology Summit & Awards, please visit the World Technology Network's website, www.wtn.net.
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About World Technology Network
The World Technology Network was created to "encourage serendipity" - happy accidents - amongst those individuals and companies deemed by their peers to be the most innovative in the technology world. WTN's areas of interest range from IT and communications to biotech, energy, materials, space, as well as related fields such as finance, marketing, policy, law, design, and ethics. Each year, WTN members are brought together through an ongoing global series of Roundtable Dinners, Chapter Meetings and other events. WTN also publishes "World Technology Intelligence", a bi-monthly journal about what is imminent, possible, and important in the technology world, written largely by its own members - the people driving the most significant innovations. Central events in the WTN calendar include the annual World Technology Summit and World Technology Awards - the culmination of a global judging programme through which new members are nominated and selected and by which the network grows and is refreshed.
For more information, please contact:
Pamela Shabi/Toby Hall +44 207 467 0607
(GTH Media Relations)
James Clark +44 207 349 0826
(WTN)
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