Welcome to Techonomy 2012, a three-day conference that convenes leaders to discuss the role of technology in business and social progress. We will be live video streaming almost all of the sessions here so that anyone and everyone can benefit from the conversation. Tweet your questions using the #techonomy12 hashtag and we’ll ask them onstage. You can also watch live streaming on our interactive Twitter page by clicking here.
Live Stream Schedule
(All times in the Mountain Time Zone)
Sunday, November 11:
3:00 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. MT: Let’s Get Started! David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
3:10 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. MT: The End of Offline: Susan Athey, Harvard; Douglas L. Gilstrap, Senior Vice President, Head of Strategy, Ericsson; Robert Hormats, Under Secretary Economic Growth, Energy and The Environment, U.S. Department of State; David Sze, Partner, Greylock Partners; Moderator: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
3:50 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. MT: Humanity Enhanced: Ray Kurzweil, Founder, Kurzweil Technologies; Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
4:15 p.m. – 4:25 p.m. MT: The Human Face of Big Data: Rick Smolan, President and CEO, Against All Odds Productions
4:25 p.m. – 5:05 p.m. MT: The Forest for the Trees: The Meanings of Data: Lars Björk, QlikView; Gil Elbaz, CEO, Factual; Vivek Ranadivé, CEO, TIBCO; Rick Smolan, President and CEO, Against All Odds Productions; Moderator: Justin Fox, Harvard Business Review
5:05 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. MT: The Internet’s Fantastic Four: Alec Ellison, Jefferies; Steve Hasker, President, Global Media Products and Advertiser Solutions, Nielsen; Mark Mahaney, analyst; Moderator: Eric Savitz, Forbes
8:45 p.m. MT: Conversation & Performance: Richard Thompson, songwriter, performer; Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
Monday, November 12:
8:35 a.m. – 8:40 a.m. MT: 180° Shifts: Ray Kurzweil, Founder, Kurzweil Technologies
8:40 a.m. – 8:50 a.m. MT: Cloudpreneurs: Bertil Chappuis, Senior Partner, McKinsey
8:50 a.m. – 9:20 a.m. MT: Geo-engineering: Who Decides, and Who Benefits?: David Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard; Andrew Parker, Research Fellow Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Moderator: Jeff Goodell, Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone
9:20 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. MT: Why it Matters that the GDP Ignores Free Goods: Erik Brynjolfsson, Director, MIT Center for Digital Business
9:30 a.m. – 9:40 a.m. MT: 180° Shifts: Doreen Lorenzo, President, frog; David Haussler, Director, Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, UCSC
9:40 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. MT: Intelligence, Leadership, and Command: Joseph Tucci, Chairman & CEO, EMC; Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
10:25 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. MT: A Glimpse at the Next Generation: Sujay Tyle, VP, Business Development, Scopely; Sheel Tyle, Associate, NEA; Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
10:40 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. MT: 180° Shifts: Stephen Hoover, CEO, PARC; Christopher T. Mikkelsen, Co-founder and Director, Refugees United Foundation
10:45 a.m. – 11:25 a.m. MT: Can the U.S. Stay Competitive? Retaking the High Ground in Applied Technology: John Kao, Chairman, Institute for Large Scale Innovation; Pradeep Khosla, Chancellor, UC San Diego; Vish Nandlall, CTO & Head of Strategy and Marketing, Ericsson North America; Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Cisco; Moderator: Zachary Karabell, President, River Twice Research
11:25 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. MT: Social is an Enterprise Feature: Hugo Sarrazin, Senior Partner, McKinsey
11:35 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. MT: Making Sense of a Changing China: Robert Hormats, Under Secretary Economic Growth, Energy and The Environment, U.S. Department of State; Zachary Karabell, President, River Twice Research; Gary Rieschel, Qiming Venture Partners
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. MT: The Media IS the Message, Now More than Ever (Techonomy Lab): Susan Athey, Harvard University; Tom Bedecarre, WPP Ventures; Frank Speiser, SocialFlow; Moderator: Dave Morgan, Simulmedia, Inc.
2:45 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. MT: A Report from Techonomy Detroit: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
2:55 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. MT: Shopping Outside the Box: The Intersection of Data and Dollars: James Barrese, CTO, PayPal; Dan Schulman, Group President, Enterprise Growth, AmEx; Gibu Thomas, SVP of Mobile and Digital, Walmart; Moderator: Erick Schonfeld, DEMO
3:30 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. MT: 180° Shifts: Ryan Anderson, Herman Miller; Karen Tse, International Bridges to Justice
3:40 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. MT: Where’s My Robot?: Rodney Brooks, Founder, Chairman and CTO, Rethink Robotics; Andy McAfee, Principal Research Scientist, MIT; Moderator: John Markoff, Journalist, New York Times
4:15 p.m. – 4:25 p.m. MT: Collaborative Consumption and the Sharing Economy: Arun Sundararajan, NYU
4:25 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. MT: 180° Shift: Dan Bartlett, President and CEO, Hill + Knowlton Strategies
4:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. MT: Companies Confront the Madness of Crowds: Alex Ljung, SoundCloud; Rob Tarkoff, Lithium Technologies; Padmasree Warrior, Cisco; Moderator: Hugo Sarrazin, McKinsey & Company
Tuesday, November 13:
9:35 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. MT: The SunSaluter, One Year On: Eden Full, Roseicollis Technologies
9:45 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. MT: Corporate Shape-Shifting and Tech-Based Transformation: John Donovan, Senior Executive Vice President, Technology and Network Operations, AT&T; Steve Felice, President, Dell; Sandra Kurtzig, Chairman and CEO, Kenandy; Moderator: Matthew Bishop, The Economist
10:20 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. MT: Manufacturing the Future: The Next Era of Global Growth and Innovation: James Manyika, Senior Partner, McKinsey
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. MT: America’s Economic Opportunity in a World of Services: Michael Capellas, Chairman, VCE; Bradford Jensen, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Ambassador Miriam Sapiro, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative; Moderator: Zoë Baird, President, Markle Foundation
11:00 a.m. – 11:05 a.m. MT: 180° Shifts: Sam Stathis, Founder and CEO, Theometrics
11:05 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. MT: The Uploaded Life: Paramemory and Information Magnetism: Gordon Bell; Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. MT: The Facebook Effect, Continued: David Fischer and Sam Lessin, Facebook; Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
