Welcome to our fall program, which is marked by three series:
1) further innovation roundtables in our G Street conference room;
2) a teleconference series on innovation; and
3) a teleconference series on the future of the internet.
Please find below key dates for your schedule.
To reserve your place, please email your name and affiliation to one of our colleagues here at C-PET, with the topic/date in the subject-line:
Join Nigel Cameron, President of C-PET, at the pii2011 Venture Forum in Silicon Valley on November 15! 20% discount for members of the C-PET network.
Taking place at the Quadrus Conference Center in Menlo Park, the pii2011 Venture Forum is a new event from the team behind the Privacy Identity Innovation conference (pii2011).
Hear the latest on C-PET’s DATA DELUGE PROJECT from:
- Deputy Director, Dr. Robert B. Cohen;
- Prof. George Weinstock, Associate Director of the Genome Institute, Washington University, St. Louis; and
- Dr. Eli Dart of the ESnet Network Engineering Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
An earlier, more visionary NASA, thank goodness, sent probes into deep space. Some of them continue to ping us from far beyond the domestic reaches of the Solar System. But even they have not penetrated as far from Washington as I did last month. I made it all the way to the West Coast.
I have yet to meet one American who is opposed to innovation. Which does not mean that we all know what it means, or what is required to get it to happen. Michael Bloomberg, who knows a thing or two about business, is energizing New York City to get a major university to center a cluster of efforts and turn NYC into the new Silicon Valley (kid you not) - recently critiqued, err, savagely, by innovation guru Vivek Wadhwa in the Washington Post and elsewhere (he argues that clusters are really great for pols).
Nigel M. de S. Cameron
Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies
As the Arab spring continues to unravel into an Arab summer, the most important lesson is that hardly anyone knew it was coming. Much like the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Wall Street could it be that as much as conventional wisdom may be conventional it is not always reliably wise?
Nigel M. de S. Cameron
Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies
"Depend upon it, sir," quoth the inimitable dictionographer and wit Samuel Johnson, "when a man is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
Nigel M. de S. Cameron
Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies
Washington, DC
Pretty much all of hip and would-be hip America has been lolling, partying, festooning, and tweeting in an alternate universe these past days. Woodstock for the geeks? Neverland of the digerati? Or (ouch) a retreat into a new Century 21 Fundamentalism, a bolt-hole from the realtime world into a might-have-been America?
Nigel M. de S. Cameron
Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies
Washington, DC
These past weeks, C-PET's Network on Innovation has been hosting conversations at the fateful meeting-point of past and future - and the witching word of Century 21. The I-word. The word that, at the end of the day, will open or close America's future.
Meantime, Washington has been both enthusing about it - and seeking perversely to slash federal R and D spending.
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