Pop!Tech 9
Oct. 19-22, 2005

Seeing What’s There
Graham Flint
Bob Hanner

It’s Alive!
Norman Packard
Theo Jansen

Mind and Body
Todd Kuiken
Jesse Sullivan
Ze Frank

Explorer’s Club
Peter Diamandis
Marcia McNutt
Carolyn Porco

People, Place, and Planet
Mark Lynas

East Meets West
Oded Shenkar
Rebecca MacKinnon

Serious Games
Edward Castronova
Ivan Marovic
Steven Berlin Johnson
Davy Rothbart

The Participation Revolution
Nicholas Negroponte
Yochai Benkler
Ingo Gunther

Habitats
Suketu Mehta
Robert Neuwirth

Big Fixes
Cameron Sinclair
Bunker Roy
Neil Gershenfeld

The Future of Ideas
Sam Harris
Susan Blackmore

What Do We Know?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Robert Trivers

Summary
Bob Metcalfe

The Future of Africa
Panel Discussion

Andrew Zolli, founder of Z+Partners, is a forecaster, design strategist and author, working at the intersection of culture, creativity, technology, and futures research. Andrew specializes in helping people and institutions see, understand and act upon complex change. He runs Z+ Partners, a research, foresight and design thinktank.

Most recently, Andrew was the editor of The Catalog of Tomorrow, (QUE Publishing, 2002) which explores 100 trend and technologies for the next 25 years. His next book, In Good Company, about the complex relationship between companies and culture, will be published in 2005.

Andrew is the former Chief Marketing Officer of one of the world's leading brand consultancies, Siegelgale, where he helped develop new brands, businesses, products and services for companies such as The Weather Channel, Netscape, Kodak, American Express, AT&T, Toys R Us, Silicon Graphics, Lucent, Hewlett Packard, Forrester Research, Sappi, T. Rowe Price, The Industry Standard, and IBM, among many others. While at Siegelgale, Andrew was also instrumental in creating the CRAVE Conference, a design event exploring the nature of and craft of compelling design experiences.

In the mid-1990's, Andrew helped found the company's new media practice, and helped envision and develop next-generation approaches to product development, user experience, and communications. He also created and led the company's research and development lab, which explored digital user experience and interface design. Prior to this, in the early 1990's, Andrew participated as an academic researcher in core technology and standards research and development that shaped the World Wide Web.

Andrew speaks and writes widely on the subjects of technology, design, communications and long-term forecasting and has edited several books on new technology and his work, ideas and writing have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Wired, I.D., The Industry Standard, Eye magazine, and National Public Radio.

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Andrew is also currently a visiting lecturer in Clark University's Graduate School of Management, where he teaches courses on strategy and branding. He also serves as a Contributing Editor to Popular Science magazine, and is a regular contributor to Wired magazine.

Andrew is a past board member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts' New York chapter. He has served as an advisor to TRUSTe, the leading Internet privacy organization, to The Doctors' Company, a leading healthcare insurance concern, and to the Arlington Institute, a leading futures research firm. He has also served as a conference programming advisor to CNET and the Seybold Seminars.

Bibliography:
The Catalog of Tomorrow

http://www.zpluspartners.com/about5.html
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