DRAFT CONFERENCE AGENDA: FiRe 2016

Last updated 09/20/16. Speaking assignments and agenda items are subject to change.

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Tuesday, September 27

5:00pm - 6:15pm

Registration and Cocktail Reception with finger food and live entertainment (Adult partners welcome) – Flagstaff Mountain Deck – Featuring the cello performance of Geoffrey Dean

– Thank you to our Reception sponsor –

6:15pm - 6:45pm

“Welcome to Utah”: Lt. Governor Spencer Cox “Introduction to FiReFellows and Staff”: Sharon Anderson Morris, SNS Programs Director and SNS FiReFilms Managing Director – Flagstaff Mountain Deck

7:00pm - 7:10pm 7:10pm - 7:30pm

Welcoming Remarks – Olympic Ballroom

Introductions and Appreciations: Sharon Anderson Morris

“The Power of Flows”: Mark Anderson

7:30pm - 8:15pm

Dinner – Olympic Ballroom

8:15pm - 9:00pm 9:00pm - - -

Dinner Presentation: “Global Flows and Disruptions: From the Economy to the Environment”: William Janeway, Managing Director and Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus (London and New York) Followed by: Q & A and Discussion

Wednesday, September 28 6:45am - 7:50am

Buffet Breakfast – Olympic Ballroom

7:50am - 8:00am

Welcome and Opening Remarks: “The Power of Flows: From Biology into Technology”: Mark Anderson, Author and FiRe Chair – Stein Eriksen Ballroom

8:00am - 8:30am

“Visualizing Flows in Nature and Data”: I. “Visualizing Flows in Nature”: With Chris Johnson, Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI), and Distinguished Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah

II. “Visualizing Information Flow in Networks”: With Alexander Lex, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) and the School of Computing at the University of Utah III. “Visualizing Flow in Scientific Simulations”: With Bei Wang Phillips, Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI), University of Utah Hosted by Mark Anderson

8:30am - 9:00am

“The Irresistible Forces Behind ‘Flow Computing’”: With Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2 (a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership), and SNS Ambassador for Pure Science; hosted by Mark Anderson

9:00am - 9:30pm

“Redefining Country GDP: National Business Models and IP Flows”: With William Ribaudo, Managing Partner, Technology, Media and Telecommunications Industry, Deloitte & Touche LLP; Evan Anderson, INVNT/IP Director of Research, Strategic News Service; and Mark Anderson Hosted by Ed Butler, Presenter and Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC

9:30am - 10:00am

“Circadian Rhythms and the Flow of Biological Time”: With Benjamin Smarr, NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley; hosted by Ed Butler, Presenter and Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC

10:00am - 10:30am

Break – Directly outside the Stein Eriksen Ballroom

10:30am - 11:00am

“Flow Economics: Driving Tech Companies Today”: With R. Preston McAfee, Chief Economist and VP, Microsoft; Michael Schwarz, Chief Scientist for Waze, Google; and Pai-Ling Yin, Assoc. Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship and Director, Technology Commercialization Initiative, Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Marshall School of Business, USC; and Co-Founder, Mobile Innovation Group (Stanford) Hosted by tbd (Accenture)

11:00am - 11:30am

FiReStarters I: Six Companies Improving the World Hosted by Ed Butler, Presenter and Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC:

Aromyx: With Chris Hanson, Founder and CEO

Atrin Pharmaceuticals: With Oren Gilad, President and CEO

First Light Biosciences: With Jeffrey Arnold, Executive Chairman

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT): With Bibop

Gresta, Chairman

HZO: With Michael Bartholmeusz, CEO

Kineta: With Rob Hedequist, President and COO

11:30am - 12:00pm

“Preserving Big Brains: The New Whale Protection Zone”: With Christopher Clark, Imogene Johnson Senior Scientist, Cornell University, and Senior Advisor, Planet OS and “Announcing the Biocomputer Comparison Toolkit: Finding the Most Powerful Brains on Earth”: With Benjamin Smarr, NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley; and Mark Anderson Hosted by Roger Payne, Whale Scientist, Founder/President of Ocean Alliance, and SNS Ambassador for Ocean Health

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch – Flagstaff Mountain Deck [Weather alternate: Odin Valhalla]

1:00pm - 1:30pm

“Intellectual Property Theft Flows: Mapping Future Wealth”: With Kevin Montgomery, Founder and Chief Evangelist, Collaborate.org; and Evan Anderson, INVNT/IP Director of Research, Strategic News Service; hosted by tbd

1:30pm - 2:00pm

“The Simplicity Behind Complexity: Do Flow and Interaction Explain Everything?”: With Brad Holtz, CEO, Cyon Research, and Chief Nexus Officer, Coventry Computer; and Murray Cantor, CTO, Aptage, and past IBM Distinguished Engineer; hosted by Mark Anderson

2:00pm - 2:30pm

THE FIRE CTO DESIGN CHALLENGE: “Creating the First Flow Computing System and Enabling the Earth Energy Monitoring System” Judges Charging the CTO Panel: Mark Anderson; Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2 (a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership), and SNS Ambassador for Pure Science; and Ty Carlson, CTO, Coventry Computer The Challenge Team: Ilkay Altintas, Chief Data Science Officer, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego; Murray Cantor, Author, past IBM Distinguished Engineer, and CTO, Aptage; Steve Coy, President, TimeLike Systems; Brad Holtz, CEO, Cyon Research, and Chief Nexus Officer, Coventry Computer; Jeff Hudson, CEO, Venafi; Talbot Jaeger, CEO, NovaWurks ; Nathanael Miller, Aerospace Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center; Franklin Williams, Principal, Live Earth Imaging Inc.; and David Zuniga, Commercial Innovation Manager, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (Sole Manager, NASA’s ISS US National Laboratory)

2:30pm - 3:00pm

“Digitalization, the Cloud, and the Transformation of the 21st Century Enterprise”: With R. Preston McAfee, Chief Economist and VP, Microsoft; Michael Schwarz, Chief Scientist for Waze, Google; Mark Sunday, SVP and CIO, Oracle America; James Urquhart, SVP of Performance Analytics, SOASTA Inc.; and tbd (Accenture); hosted by Greg Ness, VP, WorldWide Marketing, CloudVelox, and SNS Ambassador for Cloud Computing

3:00pm - 3:30pm

“Protecting Your Crown Jewel IP: INVNT/IP on 60 Minutes” and “Operation BedBug – China’s Ongoing Threat to Global Trade Secrets”: With Dan McGahn, President and CEO, American Superconductor; Evan Anderson, INVNT/IP Director of Research, Strategic News Service; Richard H.L. Marshall, CEO, X-SES Consultants LLC; and Morian Eberhard, Chief Information Security Officer, Zions Bancorporation; hosted by Jeff Hudson, CEO, Venafi

3:30pm - 4:00pm

FiReStarters II: Six Companies Improving the World Hosted by Ed Butler, Presenter and Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC:

24-Hour Solar Roof: With Will Perego, CEO

Metabolon: With John Ryals, President and CEO

NanoXplore: With Soroush Nazarpour, President and CEO

NovaWurks: With Talbot Jaeger, Founder and Chief Technologist

ORIG3N: With Robin Y. Smith, CEO

OtoNexus: With Caitlin Cameron, Chair and CEO

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Breakouts: I. FiRe CTO DESIGN CHALLENGE: Working Session: “Creating the First Flow Computing System and Enabling the Earth Energy Monitoring System” The Challenge Team: Ilkay Altintas, Chief Data Science Officer, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego; Murray Cantor, Author, past IBM Distinguished Engineer, and CTO, Aptage; Steve Coy, President, TimeLike Systems; Brad Holtz, CEO, Cyon Research, and Chief Nexus Officer, Coventry Computer; Jeff Hudson, CEO, Venafi; Talbot Jaeger, CEO, NovaWurks ; Nathanael Miller, Aerospace Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center; Franklin Williams, Principal, Live Earth Imaging Inc.; and David Zuniga, Commercial Innovation Manager, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (Sole Manager, NASA’s ISS US National Laboratory) – Flagstaff Room

II. “Accomplishment Based Education: Launching a Vision for Education that Fits Our Connected Students and Their World”: Moderated by David Engle, Director of US Operations, SNS

Project Inkwell, and SNS Ambassador for Education; and Marc Prensky, Author and Executive Director, Global Future Education Foundation and Institute – Silver Room

III. INVNT/IP Open Session: “Hotel Spying and Technology Risk for Technology Executives: ‘Operation BedBug’ (as seen on Fox News)”: Moderated by Evan Anderson, Author of “Theft Nation” Cabinet Briefing Paper and “Operation Bedbug,” and INVNT/IP Director of Research, Strategic News Service – Bronze Room IV. SNS FiReFilms: “Meet the Filmmakers”: With Chris Hegedus, Film Director, Pennebaker Hegedus Films (Unlocking the Cage); Adriana LaCorte, Founder, Bellamica Pictures, and Creator / Producer / Director, Sniffing Out Cancer; Pina De Rosa, Executive Director, Sniffing Out Cancer; and Ted Richane, Engagement and Impact Director, Vulcan Productions (The Ivory Game); moderated by Sharon Anderson Morris, SNS Programs Director and SNS FiReFilms Managing Director; and Geralyn Dreyfous, Co-Founder, Impact Partners Film Fund, Founder, Utah Film Center, and SNS Ambassador for Documentary Films – Viking Room, in the Mountain Lodge Building (the “other” building)

5:00pm - 7:00pm

Meet the FiReStarters: Exhibition and Reception with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, with FiReStarter companies and a Special Exhibitor:

24-Hour Solar Roof: With Will Perego, CEO Aromyx: With Chris Hanson, Founder and CEO

Atrin Pharmaceuticals: With Oren Gilad, President and CEO

First Light Biosciences: With Don Straus, Founder, CEO and

CSO

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT): With Bibop Gresta, Chairman

HZO: With Michael Bartholmeusz, CEO

Kineta: With Rob Hedequist, President and COO

Metabolon: With John Ryals, President and CEO

NanoXplore: With Soroush Nazarpour, President and CEO

NovaWurks: With Talbot Jaeger, Founder and Chief Technologist

ORIG3N: With Robin Y. Smith, CEO

OtoNexus: With Caitlin Cameron, Chair and CEO

Utah Science, Technology and Research Agency (USTAR): With Ivy Estabrooke, Executive Director [Special Exhibitor]

– Stein Eriksen Ballroom Gallery

7:00pm - 7:15pm 7:15pm - 8:45pm 8:45 ---

FiRe Film Night – Stein Eriksen Ballroom Sponsored by : Opening Comments: Sharon Anderson Morris, SNS Programs Director and SNS FiReFilms Managing Director; and Mark Anderson Followed by a screening of: Unlocking the Cage: FiReFilms Documentary of the Year Discussion with film subject Steven M. Wise, President, Nonhuman Rights Project; and Chris Hegedus, Director, Unlocking the Cage

Thursday, September 29

6:45am - 7:50am

Buffet Breakfast – Olympic Ballroom

7:55am - 8:00am

Welcome and Announcements: Mark Anderson – Stein Eriksen Ballroom

8:00am - 8:30am

SNS FiReFilms: “Documentaries That Change the World: Meet the Directors”: With Chris Hegedus, Director, Unlocking the Cage; Geralyn Dreyfous, Co-Founder, Impact Partners Film Fund, Founder, Utah Film Center, and SNS Ambassador for Documentary Films; Adriana LaCorte, Director, Sniffing Out Cancer; and Ted Richane, Engagement and Impact Director, Vulcan Productions (The Ivory Game); hosted by Sharon Anderson Morris, SNS Programs Director and SNS FiReFilms Managing Director

8:30am - 9:00am

“Flows and the Big Shift in Business Models”: With John Hagel III, Director and Co-Chair, Deloitte Center for the Edge LLP; and Paul Sallomi, Vice Chairman, Global TMT Industry Leader, and US & Global Technology Sector Leader, Deloitte Tax LLP; hosted by Ivy Estabrooke, Executive Director, Utah Science, Technology and Research Agency (USTAR)

9:00am - 9:30am

“The SNS Carbon Trifecta: Harnessing the Flow of CO2”: With Ray Gibbs, CEO, Haydale Plc; Jon Myers, Founder, Graphene Technologies, NovaMetallix, and Neural ID; Will Perego, CEO, 24-Hour Solar Roof; Soroush Nazarpour, President and CEO, NanoXplore; and Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2 (a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership), and SNS Ambassador for Pure Science; hosted by Mark Anderson

9:30am - 10:00am

Introduction by Sharon Anderson Morris, SNS Programs Director and SNS FiReFilms Managing Director: “The UnDx (Undiagnosed) Global Initiative”: Katia Moritz, Director, Undiagnosed (the documentary); Tristan Orpin, EVP of Clinical Genomics, Illumina; John Ryals, CEO, Metabolon; and Robin Y. Smith, CEO, ORIG3N; hosted by Doug Jamison, CEO, Harris & Harris Group

10:00am - 10:30am

Break – Directly outside the Stein Eriksen Ballroom

10:30am - 11:00am

“Treat the Patient, Not the Disease: How Technology, Incentives, and Business Models Will Enable Data Flows and Reinvent Healthcare”: With Glenn Snyder, Medical Technology Segment Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP; and Michael E. Raynor, Director, Monitor Deloitte; hosted by Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2 (a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership), and SNS Ambassador for Pure Science

11:00am - 11:30am

“Elon’s Vision Becomes Reality: The Hyperloop Takes on the World”: With Bibop Gresta, Chairman, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT); hosted by Sharon Anderson Morris, SNS Programs Director and SNS FiReFilms Managing Director

11:30am - 12:00pm

“The Oldest and Newest Microbiome: Plants”: With James “Ben” Brown, Dept. Head, Molecular Ecosystems Biology, and Chair, Environmental Bioinformatics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Birmingham; hosted by David Morris, VP Business Development, Strategic News Service

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch – Flagstaff Mountain Deck [Weather alternate: Odin Valhalla]

1:00pm - 1:30pm

“A New Congo”: With Emmanuel Weyi, Presidential Candidate, Democratic Republic of Congo; and Bruce Dines, VP, Liberty Global; hosted by Ed Butler, Presenter and Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC

1:30pm - 1:45pm 1:45pm - 2:00pm

Advanced Sensor Design: I. “Ocean Sensing: Realtime Data Flows from an Unmanned Remote Station”: With John Delaney, Professor, School of Oceanography, Paros Endowed Chair for Sensor Networks, University of Washington; and Director OOI, NSF

II. “Digitizing Smell and Taste”: With Chris Hanson, Founder and CEO, Aromyx

Hosted by Jim Louderback, Managing Director, Louderback Group, and past GM, Discovery Digital Networks

2:00pm - 2:30pm

“Human Trafficking and the SNS GRS System in the UK”: With Andrew Wallis OBE, Founder and CEO, Unseen UK; hosted by Cynthia Figge, Co-Founder and COO, CSRHUB and EKOS International

2:30pm - 3:00pm

“Quantum Computing: Targeting Quantum Chemistry with a New Qubit Chip and New Algorithms”: With Jonathan Carter, Deputy Director of Computing Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab; hosted by Brett Horvath, Co-Founder and Head of Product, Scout

3:00pm - 3:30pm

“Hotspots: Five Views of the Future”

David Engle, Director of US Operations, SNS Project Inkwell, and SNS Ambassador for Education

Mike Winder, VP, Community Development, Zions Bank, and

Legislative Candidate Michael Bartholomeusz, CEO, HZO “The New FiRe Fund”: Mark Godsy, CEO, Exro

Thomas Aidan Curran, CTO, Imarum GmbH

Hosted by Ed Butler, Presenter and Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC

3:30pm – 4:00pm

Break – Directly outside the Stein Eriksen Ballroom

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Breakouts (Locations subject to change): I. FiRe CTO DESIGN CHALLENGE: Working Session: “Creating the First Flow Computing System and Enabling the Earth Energy Monitoring System” The Challenge Team: Ilkay Altintas, Chief Data Science Officer, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego; Murray Cantor, Author, past IBM Distinguished Engineer, and CTO, Aptage; Steve Coy, President, TimeLike Systems; Brad Holtz, CEO, Cyon Research, and Chief Nexus Officer, Coventry Computer; Jeff Hudson, CEO, Venafi; Talbot Jaeger, CEO, NovaWurks ; Nathanael Miller, Aerospace Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center; Franklin Williams, Principal, Live Earth Imaging Inc.; and David Zuniga, Commercial Innovation Manager, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (Sole Manager, NASA’s ISS US National Laboratory) – Flagstaff Room II. “The UnDx (Undiagnosed) Global Initiative”: Moderated by Doug Jamison, CEO, Harris & Harris Group; Katia Moritz, Director, Undiagnosed (the documentary); Tristan Orpin, EVP of Clinical Genomics, Illumina; John Ryals, CEO, Metabolon; and Robin Y. Smith, CEO, ORIG3N – Silver Room III. “Population Flows: Who’s Going Where?”: The political, economic, cultural, and environmental impacts of global demographics in flux; with Mike Winder, VP, Community Development, Zions Bank, and Legislative Candidate – Gold Room IV. “Bringing Technology to the Congo”: Moderated by Emmanuel Weyi, Presidential Candidate, Democratic Republic of Congo; and Bruce Dines, VP, Liberty Global – Bronze Room

5:00pm - - -

Dinner: Off-agenda – Ask the Concierge for suggestions in Park City! Then reconvene for . . .

8:00pm - - -

The FiRe Social: “Experiencing Endangered Species Through VR”: Produced by Condition One – Bronze Room, which adjoins …

Cocktail Social For all FiRe Participants, including FiRe Speakers, FiReStarters, Exhibitors, Press, and SNS & FiRe Staff – Olympic Ballroom Gallery

Friday, September 30

6:45am - 7:50am

Buffet Breakfast – Olympic Ballroom

7:55am - 8:00am

Announcements: Sharon Anderson Morris – Stein Eriksen Ballroom

8:00am - 8:30am

“Global Warming and Coastal Inundation”: With Hans-Peter Plag, Director and Professor, Old Dominion University, Mitigation and Adaptation Research Institute; hosted by Glen Hiemstra, Founder and Owner, Futurist.com

8:30am - 9:00am

“Bleeding-Edge Medicine: Today’s Discoveries, Tomorrow’s Practice”: With Oren Gilad, CEO, Atrin Pharmaceuticals; Don Straus, Founder and CEO, First Light Biosciences; Rob Hedequist, President and COO, Kineta; and Caitlin Cameron, Chair and CEO, OtoNexus; hosted by Ed Butler, Presenter and Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC

9:00am - 9:30am

“Autonomous Cars: Social Transformation and Industry Displacement”: With Craig Giffi, Vice Chairman, US Automotive Leader, Deloitte LLP; hosted by Robert Anderson, Chairman and CEO, Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies and HEVT LLC

9:30am - 10:00am

“Looking Further”: With Eliot Peper, Strategist and Author, Neon Fever Dreams and The Uncommon Series; hosted by Berit Anderson, CEO, Scout

10:00am - 11:00am

CONCLUSION AND REPORT OUT: FIRE CTO DESIGN CHALLENGE: “Creating the First Flow Computing System and Enabling the Planetary Energy Monitoring System” Judges Charging the CTO Panel: Mark Anderson; Larry Smarr, Director of Calit2 (a UC San Diego/UC Irvine partnership), and SNS Ambassador for Pure Science; and Ty Carlson, CTO, Coventry Computer The Challenge Team: Ilkay Altintas, Chief Data Science Officer, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego; Murray Cantor, Author, past IBM Distinguished Engineer, and CTO, Aptage; Steve Coy, President, TimeLike Systems; Brad Holtz, CEO, Cyon Research, and

Chief Nexus Officer, Coventry Computer; Jeff Hudson, CEO, Venafi; Talbot Jaeger, CEO, NovaWurks ; Nathanael Miller, Aerospace Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center; Franklin Williams, Principal, Live Earth Imaging Inc.; and David Zuniga, Commercial Innovation Manager, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (Sole Manager, NASA’s ISS US National Laboratory)

11:00am - 11:15am 11:15am - 12:00pm

“Coventry Computer: Stealth Team Update”: With Ty Carlson, Michael Riddle, Brad Holtz, and Steve Coy “Your Turn: The Next Five Years”: Audience Questions & Comments and Closing Comments and Summary Hosted by Mark Anderson