Charlie Catlett
Chief Information Officer U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory
The capabilities of smart phones are advancing to the point that they are sophisticated, general purpose sensing and tracking devices. Combined with wireless broadband, the smart phone is an ideal platform to support new ways of interacting with others, with our environment, and with businesses - ranging from social networks to location-based services to augmented reality, but not without impact on privacy. In the near future, our privacy will also be affected by the actions of those around us (or their smart phones), and now is the right time to begin to think about what that will mean for our privacy. And whether it's already too late.
Charlie Catlett is Chief Information Officer of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne
National Laboratory. He is also Director of Argonne’s Computing and Information Systems Division, and a Senior Fellow at the Argonne / University of Chicago Computation Institute. His current focus areas include cyber security and transformation of information infrastructure.
Prior to joining Argonne in 2000, Catlett was Chief Technology Officer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He was part of the original team that established NCSA in 1985 and his early work there included participation on the team that deployed and managed the NSFNet. In the early 1990’s Catlett participated in the DARPA/NSF Gigabit Testbeds Initiative, coordinated by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
Catlett was the founding chair of the Global Grid Forum (GGF, now Open Grid Forum) from 1999 through 2004. During this same period he designed and deployed one of the first regional optical networks dedicated to academic and research use – I-WIRE, funded by the State of Illinois.
He has been involved in Grid (distributed) computing since the early 1990s, when he co-authored (with Larry Smarr) a seminal paper “Metacomputing” in the Communications of the ACM, which outlined many of the high-level goals of what is today called Grid computing.
Awards, Honors, and Memberships
- “Founder’s Award,” 2005, presented by Global Grid Forum, in appreciation for serving as founding chair.
- F. W. Ellersick Prize. 1992. Annual award for best paper in an IEEE Communications Society publication.
- Committee of Visitors, Texas Advanced Computing Center. (2009-present)
- Board of Directors, Open Grid Forum international standards body. (2006-present)
- Science Research Council, National Lambda Rail (2006-present)
- Science Advisory Council, Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI, 2007-present)
Education
Computer Engineering, B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983
For More Information on His Topic
Charlie Catlett has specifically recommended the following books if you wish to learn more about his speech topic of privacy in the new mobile device market.
"Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age," Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Princeton University Press, 2009.
"Urban Sensing: Out of the Woods," Dana Cuff, Mark Hansen, Jerry Kang, UCLA, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 51, No. 3, March 2008.
"The Future of the Internet (and how to stop it)," Jonathan Zittrain, Yale University Press, 2008.
"Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything," Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell, Dutton Adult, 2009.
"You are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto," Jaron Lanier, Knopf, 2010
"'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy," Daniel J. Solove, San Diego Law Review, Vol. 44, p. 745, 2007, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 289
Bryan Campen
Founder and CEO, Blue Air Strategy
New Media Associate at The Long Now Foundation
We’re moving so quickly the world’s becoming a blur. Products, innovations, inventions, and ideas rush at us and disappear in a continuous stream of “new”. With all this speedy innovation some have started asking an interesting question. “Is faster/cheaper always better? Is there another alternative framework?” Bryan Campen will share his ideas from the Long Now foundation's mind set of an alternative, slower/better thinking.
Over the past several years, Bryan has guest-lectured and debated the future of technology and culture at Wheaton College, served as Online Communications Coordinator at Interfaith Youth Core, and worked full-time in Schedule and Advance at Obama for America Headquarters. He has produced a range of cutting-edge new media projects, including the online installation and remix for the North American opening of 77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno.
As founder and CEO of Blue Air Strategy, Bryan heads a Chicago-based consultancy which crafts new media strategy for corporations, artists and nonprofits. He also blogs online at the Long Now Blog (blog.longnow.org) for The Long Now Foundation, and collaborates on organizing their global series of meetups, including Long Now Chicago.
This February he will speak as a panelist on the future of the multilingual web at The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Conference. He also organizes several meetup groups in downtown Chicago related to the future of new media and technology.
Bryan lives in Wheaton, Illinois with his wife Samantha and his son, Theo.
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Dr. Robert Wolcott
Executive Director of Kellogg Innovation Network
Founder & Faculty Member, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Kellogg School of Management
Author: Grow From Within – Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation
How can enterprise innovation change your outlook on life? Dr. Robert Wolcott has spent his career understanding and influencing the dynamics of how businesses innovate. He will share how innovation can be applied personally, enabling a more productive and meaningful life.
Wolcott, founder of Clareo Partners, holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences from Northwestern University. He is a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the Kellogg School of Management, founded the Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN), is author of Grow From Within: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation and an adjunct at the Pentagon’s Institute for Defense Analysis in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Harold Clampitt
CEO and Founder, American RFID Solutions.
What does tragedy of the commons and Adam Smith’s invisible hand have to do with DNA and Information? Harold Clampitt’s experience with extreme data sets and decision making will help explain this connection. Several noteworthy principles and something he calls “Ambient Information: the DNA of Decision Making” will tie these ideas together into a valuable framework. Clampitt’s invention is a better process to make superior decisions. It is all about extinguishing noise and using the best information in the right time frame to yield a peak outcome.
Harold has lived in three countries, travelled to 40+, has over 47 claims in the United
States Patent Office and written several books. His award winning RFID software has made over 170 billion measurements for his clients. Over the last three decades his business and personal interests have followed in the footsteps of Marco Polo. Driving him to discover entrepreneurial treasures in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region. His currency for success is imagination and the belief that there is no such thing as limited resources because the mind is capable of unlimited resource fullness.
He has built, sold and acquired small businesses where his ability to innovate has lead to relationships with eclectic people over a myriad of sectors. As a result, he has been fortunate to enjoy geographically diverse, culturally dissimilar and theologically rich experiences.
An avid reader, Harold also enjoys glass blowing, racing the Baja 1000, mountain snowmobiling and snowboarding. He has a commercial pilot’s license and specializes in flying hot air balloons.
A hallmark of Harold’s experience has been observing, learning from and working with extremely talented individuals. He is excited to share lessons learned, especially the confluence of disruptive technology, decision making and success. Clampitt will tie these ideas together into a compelling story punctuated with novel contrarian perspectives.
For More Information on His Topic
The RFID Certification Textbook, 3rd Edition by Harold Clampitt ISBN 978-0-9794285-0-0
- This book is for anyone on a quest to become an RFID Subject Matter Expert.
www.americanRFIDsolutions.com
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Todd Flaming
Partner Schopf & Weiss LLP Chicago
Todd will ask you to question your basic assumptions about computer interfaces as he shows off an open-standard, free application that takes information management to a higher level than conventional software. Imagine an application that makes information management effortless, is fast and light, and requires next to zero training.
A passionate proponent of rethinking design, Todd stretches outside of the legal arena to refocus the way we see the world. From computers to architecture to the very way we live, he believes we should reboot our thinking and start from a designer's perspective. Big thinkers come best with a sense of humor and Todd’s passion doesn’t blind him to the trials and tribulations of trying to change the world one idea at a time.
Todd received his J.D. from the University of Chicago.
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Douglas L. Sisterson
Operations Manager US Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility
Research Meteorologist Computing Environment Life Sciences Directorate at Argonne National Laboratory
Is the climate getting warmer? Colder? How fast? Who’s to blame? With so many disparate facts floating around climate change how do scientists come to their conclusions? This question becomes more pressing as the public flounders in their attempt to understand the advances in science that are changing the way we live in the 21st century. Douglas Sisterson will join us to discuss the scientific process and how it applies to some of the big questions being raised in the current climate debate.
Currently, Doug is the Operations Manager for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility (ACRF). The author or co-author of more than 100 research papers, conference proceedings, published reports, and extended abstracts, Doug is active in educational outreach programs (K-12) speaking to students in the classroom, talking on weather and climate - including wind energy, acid rain, ozone holes, lightning, tornadoes, and El Nino and La Nina - and on problem solving and critical thinking skills.
He has addressed district, regional, and state science educator conventions and private and civic groups. He has been a science mentor for the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program and the U.S. Department of Energy's Global Change Education Program (GCEP) for college and graduate students, and a 10-year participant in the "We Care Role Model" Program sponsored by the Chicago Police Department and the Chicago Public Schools. Doug has appeared on CNN, the Arts and Entertainment Channel’s "American Science in Review," WGN radio’s Milt Rosenberg Show, and Chicago's National Public Radio WBEZ's "Odyssey," as well as Barrow (Alaska) Public Radio KBRW and has been quoted newspaper and magazine articles.
For More Information on His Topic
For information about climate research facilities, observations, instrumentation, and public and education outreach, please see: www.arm.gov.
For information about climate research, please see: asr.science.energy.gov
Geoff Rhyne
Chef de Cuisine SugarToad
What is food sustainability and the slow food movement? Why has there recently been a lot of buzz about food and the next decade? As Geoff will share, there is no better time to learn about how the way we look at food is forever going to change.
Geoff is the chef de Cuisine at SugarToad Restaurant and founder of Slow Food Upstate in Greenville, South Carolina as well as a member of the American Institute of Wine and Food. Chef Rhyne will discuss the sustainable food movement, from the independent restaurant and farmer-turned celebrity to the White House Garden and the changing face of food.
For More Information on His Topic
SugarToad Restuarant www.sugartoad.com
Facebook:Geoff Rhyne
Books: Food Inc, Michael Pollan's Food Rules
Website:
CSA Information
http://www.localharvest.org/
All things sustainable
http://www.sustainabletable.org/home.php
Promotes Animal Husbandry
Happy Cow Creamery
Michael Kiefer
President and General Manager of BrandProtect
Can you imagine a world where all artists, musicians, publishers, or any
creative entrepreneur, could have easy direct access to bring their product to market without the middleman? All at a fair price to both the artists and the consumer? How could this change your access to creative content? How will it open up new opportunities for both parties? How soon could this happen? Michael Kiefer will share his vision for eliminating transactional friction in IP licensing, and his vision for eliminating transactional friction in IP licensing. It’s a game changer, and its happening now.
Mr. Kiefer is President and General Manager of BrandProtect, a globalleader in EIRM services.
Mr. Kiefer is an active speaker regarding Enterprise Internet Risk Mitigation (EIRM) and spoken across North America to the HTCIA, ISACA, National and Regional financial associations and has authored numerous papers on Internet Risk and SEO.
Previously, he was President, North America, AVAYA and worked for CISCO as the US service provider group director. He has spent the last 15 years in managed services, what we now call SAAS or MSSP, and his teams have created many of the seamless managed commication andsecurity services we all use today.
For More Information on His Topic
Internet image tracking education:
https://www.digimarc.com/solutions/images/
Detail example of how image monetization will work on the Internet:
http://www.licensestream.com/licensestream2/Shared/Flash/enterprise_demo.html
Museum example of image revenue enhancement:
http://www.mohistory.org/mhmhome/Image_Store/
Performers
NCHS Drumshow
The Naperville Central High School Drumshow is one of Northern Illinois's premiere high school percussion ensembles. In a style of BlueMan Group and STOMP, NCHS Drumshow features 8-13 high school students displaying high energy drumming and very mature musicianship on a number of instruments. The students of Drumshow have performed using timpani, drumset, marimbas, vibraphones, xylophones, chimes, snare drum, bongos, timbales, bass drum, congas, tabla, berimbau, dinnerware, trash cans, brooms, shopping carts, board games, and even a real car, for starters. The NCHS Drumshow presents a professional, high-caliber musically evocative experience that brings a powerful mix of emotion, energy and anticipation to the audience.
NCHS Drumshow cast members are directed by Ben Wahlund, with assistant directors Brad Stirtz and Maggie Bergren. The NCHS Drumshow cast members are all students at Naperville Central High School.
For More Information on the NCHS Drumshow
http://nchsdrumshow.com