The Smart Grid promises to change our relationship with electricity from that of a passive, unaware consumer to an active, engaged prosumer (as defined by Alvin Toffler, a producing consumer). This talk will discuss some of the greatest beneficial impacts Smart Grid technologies will have on consumers, energy markets, and our environment. Christine Hertzog is …
Carole Leigh Hutton will discuss managing through such crises as a merger of competitors, a lengthy and bitter strike, the death of a company leader, the sale of two companies and the slow, painful decline of the newspaper industry. Carole Leigh Hutton is an accomplished executive and dynamic public speaker, experienced in strategic planning and …
Do you have a children's book idea in the back of your mind? Celebrities such as Madonna, John Lithgow and Jamie Lee Curtis did. But authors need illustrators to bring their words to life. Ashley Wolff, the illustrator of over 60 books, many by well known authors such as Margaret Wise Brown, Robert Louis Stevenson …
Marleen McDaniel, successful serial entrepreneur and visionary internet pioneer, will share how and why she has decided to spend her time working toward transforming education after a career of growing seven technology startups. Higher Education teaching methods go back to the time of Socrates and Plato. Ingrained methods, policies and culture have caused the education …
Jan Oldenburg will talk about personal health records and discuss what role they can play in helping you take charge of your health and the health of your family. In the process, she’ll talk about what it took for Kaiser Permanente to create personal health records for its members, what some of the public policy …
Wendy Lea is an accomplished entrepreneur, angel investor and CEO of Get Satisfaction, a network of online support communities. She’s also an active philanthropist, serving on the board of Silicon Valley Social Venture Capital and Watermark (formerly The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives). In the many chapters of her business life, from bootstrapped entrepreneur, …
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Is your to-do list two pages long and getting longer by the hour? Are you caught or lost between worlds – your life and the lives of everyone around you. In this discussion, you’ll learn tools and strategies for managing "it all" and increasing productivity. Key takeaways include: The P’s of Productivity The real power …
Linda Gass is an environmental artist whose work is informed by the wilderness, maps, aerial photography and her activist passions. Her most recent work explores land use and water issues by portraying aerial views of the human marks on our landscape. Linda’s presentation will take you on a photographic journey to the places that inspire …
Julia will describe her climb up the corporate ladder from scientist to CEO. As a clinical scientist inventor she shares her process of inventing medical devices, and as an entrepreneur and CEO she emphasizes the value of a flat organizational structure and provides management tools she learned from working with 60 medical device companies (you …
The US is detangling itself from two wars that have taken its toll on the American people as well as the civilians where US troops are fighting. President Obama wants to get out of both Iraq and Afghanistan and leave those countries to govern themselves. But years of foreign intervention and aid have left these …
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