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Second Annual Global Trends in Technology Investment Symposium
October 29, 2002
St. Regis Hotel, Washington, DC
Host Sponsor: Piper Rudnick LLP
Co-Host Sponsors: Maryland Technology Development Corp. (TEDCO), Saarland Economic Promotion Corp.
Supporting Sponsor: Chinese Investors Association, US Israel Business Exchange
Questions Addressed
Which technologies will have the greatest global impact on economic, social, political, and environmental issues?
· Nanotech
· Proteomics & Genomics
· Biometrics
· Wireless
· Network Software
· Broadband
· Alternative Energy Sources
· New Materials
How will these technologies impact investors, business, consumers, and government?
What technologies do we need to support today that will help us achieve the world in which we want to live in 2010? 2020? Where are the dangers?
Trends Discussed
· Technology as the driving force for economic, social and political development
· The confluence of the Information Age and the Age of Life Sciences
· Moving towards universal interactive communications
· Smaller, cheaper and more effective machines, materials, and medicines
· Impact of emerging technologies on security, privacy, warfare, and democracy
· Rising expectations for technology to solve health, education, and life quality issues, and to improve materials and food production
· Global rationalization of business enterprises (research, development, production, marketing, and support located in the most cost effective country) and recognition of the importance of global standards
· Emerging centers of technology excellence in Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin American, and North America
· Earth system sciences and responsible planetary management
· Convergence of business, government, and academia to accelerate technology solutions
Participants
· US and international venture capital and other investment professionals
· Technology experts from the investment, corporate, research, and academic communities
· International, national, and local government development organizations and public/private partnerships
· Corporations with interest in partnering or licensing new international technologies
Agenda and Speakers
Opening Remarks Where Do We Want To Be In 2020? William Drayton, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
Impact of Technology on Security, Privacy, Warfare and Democracy
Moderator: H.K. Park, The Cohen Group
William J. Malik, Waveset Technologies
John Perry, TECSEC
Dan Epstein, U.S. Israel Business Exchange -USIBEX
Gary Gamerman, Seraphim Life Sciences Consulting LLC
Emerging Economies and Centers of Technology Excellence
Moderator: John W. Allen, Turtlesnap Ventures
Dr. Phillip Kennedy, Zurich MedNet
Dr. Phillip Singerman, Maryland Technology Development Corp.
Jeffrey Serfass, Technology Transition Corp.
Stan Yakatan, BIOCOMM
Dr. Raul Hinojosa, UCLA, Digital Diaspora Project
Carl Rosner, CardioMag Imaging Inc.
Lunch with Keynote
Mr. Jin Xiaoming, Minister Counselor for Science and Technology of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China
Nanotech: New Machines, Materials and Medicines
Moderator: Henry Barratt Jr., Blue Water Capital
Peter Hauptmann, Saarland Economic Promotion Corp.
Frank Cavaliere, Office of Senator George Allen (R. Va.)
Harlan Jacobs, Genesis Business Centers, Ltd.
John Belk, The Boeing Company
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