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 Enterprise 3.0: new representations of new markets: Speakers

Admiral Thad W. Allen assumed the duties of 23rd Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard May 25th, 2006 after serving as the Chief of Staff. He was the principal Federal official in charge of response and recovery operations for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.

Dan Ariely holds a joint appointment between MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences and The Sloan School of Management. He is the principal investigator of the Lab's eRationality group and co-director of the Lab's SIMPLICITY consortium.

Vincent P. Barabba is the chairman of Market Insight Corporation and the Synthesis Alliance. He retired in 2003 as the general manager of corporate strategy and knowledge development at General Motors Corporation where he was responsible for overseeing corporate strategic planning and the Business Decision Support Center.

John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He promotes the freedom of expression in digital media through his work with the EFF, his writings, and lectures.

Gordon Bell has been a principal researcher with the Microsoft eSciences Research Group in San Francisco, California since 1995, and is currently a visiting professor at Macquarie University's Institute for Innovation in Sydney, Australia. At Microsoft, he is involved in "lifelogging" or storing everything an individual has experienced in his lifetime. His previous roles have been vice president of research and development at Digital Equipment Corp. (1960-1983); professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University (1966-72); founding assistant director of the National Science Foundation's Computing and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Directorate (1986-1988); panel chair of the National Research and Education Network (NREN) for creating the Internet(1987-1988); advisor/investor in 90+ start-up companies; and a founding trustee of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. He is a DiamondExchange fellow, a TTI Vanguard advisory board member, and on the Department of Energy's advanced scientific computing advisory committee.

Mel Bergstein is the Chairman of the Board of Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTPI), a premier management and advisory firm serving Global 2000 clients worldwide. An internationally known leader in the consulting industry, Mel has more than 30 years of experience serving clients globally.

Daniel Bricklin is founder and president of Software Garden, Inc., a small consulting firm and developer of software applications. Products he personally developed at Software Garden include the wikiCalc Open Source web-spreadsheet and the Dan Bricklin's Demo Program prototyping tool. He is a frequent speaker and commentator on the software industry, software development, and innovation.

Caroline Calkins directs research, analysis and content development in support of Innovation programs at Diamond. Prior to joining Diamond, Caroline spent 10 years as a management consultant, focusing primarily on business strategy. She also worked for a dot-com start-up and as an independent consultant. She holds a Bachelors in English from Cornell University, an MBA from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, and a Maitrise en Administration et en Gestion from the Universite Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium.

John Henry Clippinger is a Senior Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at The Harvard Law School and a Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He is the author of several books, most recently, A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity, that explores how science and technology are creating a new narrative about human nature and identity.

Chris Curran, partner and chief technology officer at Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, Inc, works closely with senior client management on their most complex and strategic technology issues, helping define the IT organization, deploy technology governance and management practices, and develop business and technical architectures. In addition, Mr. Curran directs Diamond's own strategic investments in building the intellectual capital required to maintain the consulting profession's premier team of technology strategists and architects.

Louise Guay is not just a gifted entrepreneur, but also a true visionary. She created YYIATS (1986) and PTM (1990) before founding My Virtual Model (MVM) with her partner Jean-Francois St-Arnaud in 2000. Her Ph.D. thesis was a first essay on virtual identity. The context was museum collections. As museums and stores deal similarly with visual dynamics and acrobatics, it was natural to apply the virtual identity concept to the retail world.

Adam Gutstein is chief executive officer and president of Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, Inc. He is a member of the firm's Board of Directors and also serves on the company's Office of the Chairman.

Ray Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.

Mark Lentczner directs a software engineering studio at Linden Lab. His studio is primarily focused on the architectural extension of Second Life and the software infrastructure to support its expansion to Internet scale. Within the company, he is an architect of the studio concept of engineering management, and a leader in the effort to have a fully geographically distributed company through the use of collaborative technologies.

Andrew Lippman has spent the last forty years at MIT in capacities ranging from undergraduate to professor to senior research scientist. He has never had to look for a job in his life. He received his bachelor and master of science degrees from MIT, and a Ph.D. from Ecole Polytechnique FEdErale de Lausanne in Switzerland while on leave from MIT.

Chunka Mui is an independent business advisor on strategic issues at the intersection of business and technology. He is also a fellow at Diamond and chairs that firm's prestigious network of external advisors.

As CTO, Cory Ondrejka leads the team developing "Second Life," Linden Lab's award-winning, user-created digital world. His team has created the revolutionary technologies required to enable collaborative, atomistic creation, including distributed physical simulation, 3D streaming, completely customizable avatars, and real-time, in-world editors.

Laura Peterson is Ventana's president and CEO. She helped start the company in 1985 based upon technology developed earlier at MIT. She provided funds, equipment, and contracts to start the company on a track of research and development to use IT strategically: to provide organizations foresight and visibility of the right thing to do. Applications are with the federal government, large corporations and recently Wall Street.

Emile is an expert in human information processing with a track record of delivering innovative products that leverage human intelligence. Before founding NewsFutures, Emile co-authored two best-selling award-winning CD-Roms featuring 24 world-famous scientists including 8 Nobel Prize laureates: The Challenge of the Universe, and Secrets of the Mind. He also worked as an artificial intelligence engineer for Ilog, contributed to several science and technology magazines, and is a regular contributor to the OECD's project on Learning Sciences and Brain Research. He has a B.S. in computer science and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, both from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied with '78 Economics Nobel Prize laureate and artificial intelligence pioneer Herbert Simon.

John Sviokla is vice chairman of Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTPI), and serves on the firm's Board of Directors as global managing director of innovation and research.

Marvin Zonis, a political economist and professor emeritus of the University of Chicago, and helps organizations identify, assess, and manage their political risks in the global environment. His recent book, The Kimchi Matters, uncovers important misperceptions of globalization