February 26, 2013, RSA Conference, San Francisco—Srikanth Nadhamuni with the universal ID project in India described the efforts and challenges associated with providing unique and secure IDs to 1B people. India has many government forms and identification methods, with lots of leakage and duplications. Much of the existing ID forms exist only on paper, or [...]
February 11, 2013, Churchill Club Forum, Mountain View, CA—A panel discussed the many facets of trust. Peter Burrows from Bloomberg Business Week moderated the panel. Panelists were Eric Channing Brown from Skype, Mary Dent from Silicon Valley Bank, Richard Edelman from Edelman Public Relations, and Jeffery Pfeffer from Stanford. Trust barometer changes? Edelman produced some [...]
November 13, 2012, A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders’ Conference, UC Berkeley—Bernard Amadei from Engineers Without Borders and the University of Colorado, Boulder proposed engineering innovation for all. He noted the need to design for the needs of the 5B poor people in the world. This other 90 percent of the world’s population has great [...]
October 15, 2012, CEA Industry Forum, San Francisco—Jeff Joseph moderated a panel on technology trends. Panel members were Rachel Metz from Technology Review, Scott Steinburg from TechSavvy Global, and Shawn DuBravac from CEA. Five trends and reviews of winning technologies? Metz offered 4K TV and any video functions beyond HD. Steinberg suggested technology in education, [...]
October 15, 2012, CEA Industry Forum, San Francisco—John Gerzema from Brand Asset Consulting talked about changes in values in consumer space since the great recession, and how these changes affect the way we buy, sell, and live. Through studies crossing brands, values, and behaviors, we are saying significant changes in consumer behavior. Consumers are now [...]
September 13, 2012, Churchill Awards, Santa Clara, CA—The second annual Churchill Club awards presentations on are those people and companies who inspired others by highlighting excellence and innovation, collaboration, social benefit, and leadership. Geoffrey Moore, author, performed the duties of master of ceremonies. The Game Changer Award went to SpaceX for indispensable technology and business [...]
August 20, 2012, Palo Alto, CA–We talked with Sheryl Connelly, a futurist at Ford Motor company who focuses on trends, scenario, and understanding buyer behaviors related to brands and technology. She has been working in this space for the past 8 years, and has access to multiple corporate resources. One of the directions she is [...]
April 11, 2012, Flextech Alliance Workshop, San Jose, CA—Joshua Hagen from the US Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Patterson AFB described the programs and changing needs in their work. They need to instrument people as well as they do airplanes to match and track performance capabilities. Their facility tests prototypes and has an analysis testbed [...]
March 20, 2012, Over-the-top TV Conference, Santa Clara, CA—a panel considered the on-going commentary on the demise of cable and broadcast. Jeremy Toeman from Dijit Media moderated the panel. Panel members included Scott Mirer from Netflix, Colin Decker from the Virgin Group, and Richard Bullwinkle from Rovi. Cord cutting? Bullwinkle said this requires redefining service [...]
February 29, 2012, RSA Conference, San Francisco—David Brooks, a NY Times writer and PBS speaker looked at social skills and how they will affect many systems. Our natural social behaviors are creating challenges for securing data systems. Politicians are naturally social people. Bill Clinton could make anyone comfortable in a very short time. Mitt Romney [...]
