Friday, July 28, 2006

Hello,
a few days ago Paul Saffo came on board for the Summit, which is great news.

Paul is a forecaster and strategist with over two decades experience exploring long-term technological change and its practical impact on business and society. A Director and Roy Amara Fellow at Institute For The Future, Paul is Chairman of the Samsung Science Board, and serves on a variety of other boards including the Long Now Foundation, as well as the boards of several public and pre-public companies located the United States and abroad. In 2006, he was appointed a Consulting Associate Professor in the Stanford's School of Engineering and is also a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Paul has served as an advisor and Forum Fellow to the World Economic Forum, which in the late 1990s named Paul one of its "100 Global Leaders For Tomorrow." Paul's essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Business 2.0, Fortune, The Harvard Business Review, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New York Times and the Washington Post and Wired. Paul holds degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University.

Paul has a great inside knowledge of the Valley, and his challenging thoughts are sure to add an exciting dimension to the Summit.