January 2016 – At Storage Visions 2016, a panel of VCs, analysts and the CTA discussed the directions and drivers for ubiquitous storage and persistent memories. SASI presented the consolidation and growth in the storage marketplace. New technologies are moving to the implementation stage with a venture round investments totaling $1.4B in 45 rounds in…
August 2015 – At Siggraph 2015, Lenovo hosted a moderated panel discussion “How Today’s Design Pioneers Power Tomorrow’s Innovations”. Scott Ross, visual effects legend was hosting design pioneers across disciplines to discuss the tools, techniques and technologies they use to deliver the advancements that are reshaping their industries. Some of these new tools include the…
April 2015 – The annual Verizon briefing to overview their Data Breach Incident Report (DBIR) [http://www.verizonenterprise.com/DBIR/2015/ ]took place at the RSA conference in San Francisco. The report once again showed a rise in both the number of data breaches reported, and a cost per incident for remediation. The Panel this year was introduced by Janet…
July 2014 – At the San Diego Comic-Con there was a panel discussion hosted by Leonard Maltin regarding the new Rocky and Bullwinkle feature that will be included in the Oct 14 Blu-Ray release of the Peabody and Sherman movie. The short feature, directed by Gary Trousdale and animated by Dreamworks, is a new 3D…
January 2014, at the NAMM 2014 show, the atmosphere was different from other conferences, it is a rare mix of business, products, art & innovation and a genuine positive energy for the merger of these which is music and the performance of music. Most shows are a diverse ecosystem with every niche having its own…
November 2013, A discussion on autonomous and connected vehicles was a highlight panel at the Connected Car Expo at the LA Auto Show. The panel, moderated by Joseph White of the Wall Street Journal, and featured Ron Medford of Google, Jeff Klei of Continental, and Sven Beiker of Stanford. The panel started with the question…
July 2013 – At Comic-Con in San Diego, they held a panel featuring the art director’s guild The panel consisted of several art directors for major motion pictures including the Man of Steel, Inception and the Christopher Nolan Batman Trilogy. The basis of the panel was – in modern digital workflow, espcially one that has…
September 2012 – The Churchill Club continued their innovation series with the event themed on “Changing the Game”. The diverse program focused on the nature of change, if it is by design or by accident and how to drive change for the future. One of the more controversial discussion was from Rich Karlgaard of Forbes…
August 6, 2012, Siggraph, Los Angeles—A panel from the production group described their efforts in creating the effects and action in “The Avengers”. The mixing of effects into live action, had the challenge of maintaining flow and human body responses in a CG world. This was an opportunity to integrate a wide range of super…
September 20, 2011, CICC, San Jose, CA—A panel moderated by Rao Tummala from Georgia Tech considered the issue of MCMs (multi-chip-modules) possibly delaying 3-D IC developments. Heterogeneous integration techniques of multiple ICs like SIP, wire-bonded stacked die, and silicon carriers offer an alternative to 3-D ICs with TSVs. Tummala noted that MCM technology is over…