Triple Helix IX International Conference

Co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford Uni­ver­si­ty’s H-STAR ins­ti­tu­te, co-founder of the Stan­ford Media X re­se­arch network, and Senior Re­se­archer at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). World Economic Fo­rum Fellow and a Fellow of the American As­so­cia­ti­on for the Ad­van­ce­ment of Science.
 

President & Chief Executive Officer of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network and founder of the annual State of the Valley conference, a “town hall” meeting attracting more than 1,500 leaders for a day spent in dialogue and discussion about the Valley’s opportunities.
 

President of the Triple Helix Association, Senior Re­se­arc­her at H-STAR Institute, Stanford Uni­ver­si­ty, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Re­se­arch, Edinburgh University Bu­si­ness School and at the Department of Ma­na­ge­ment, Birk­beck, Uni­ver­sity of London.
 

Vice-President of the Triple Helix Association. Pro­fes­sor, Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), University of Ams­ter­dam. Visiting Pro­fes­sor, Institute of Scien­ti­fic and Technical In­for­ma­ti­on of China (ISTIC) in Bei­jing, Ho­no­ra­ry Fellow of SPRU, Uni­ver­sity of Sussex, and of the Virtual Know­led­ge Studio of the Nether­lands Royal Aca­de­my of Arts and Scien­ces.
 

Vice-President of the Triple Helix Association. Visiting Professor, Graduate Pro­gram on Production En­gi­nee­ring, Research As­so­cia­te at the Center for Studies in In­no­va­ti­on, Know­ledge and Work (NEICT), and Advisor to the Innovation Agency, Federal Flu­mi­nen­se University, Brazil.
 

Chair, TH9 Scientific Com­mit­tee. Senior Re­se­ar­cher, H-STAR Institute, Stanford University and Visiting Fel­low, Sussex University, School of Business, Ma­na­ge­ment and Economics. Member of the UN Eco­no­mic Com­mis­sion of Eu­ro­pe’s Expert Group on In­no­va­ti­on and Com­pe­ti­ti­ve­ness and of the Gender Advisory Board of the UN Com­mis­sion for Science and Tech­no­lo­gy for De­ve­lop­ment.
 

Professor of Technology and Development at the Technological University of Tallinn, Estonia, Visiting Senior Fellow at London School of Economics, Vi­siting Scholar at the Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University, U.K. and Hono­rary Professor at SPRU, School of Business, Mana­ge­ment and Eco­no­mics, Univer­sity of Sussex, U.K.
 

Executive Director of the Institute for the Future, a 42-year old non-profit re­se­arch and consulting organization based in Si­li­con Valley, which is de­di­ca­ted to helping people think systematically about the future in order to make better decisions today.
 

Director of the Atmo­sphe­re/Energy Program and Professor of Civil and En­vi­ron­men­tal Engineering at Stanford University; Senior Fellow of the Woods Ins­ti­tu­te for the En­vi­ron­ment and Senior Fellow of the Pre­court Institute. He sits on the US Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Federal Ad­vi­sory Committee (ERAC) to the U.S. Secretary of Energy.
 

Senior Research Scholar, Human Sciences Tech­no­lo­gy Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR) and As­so­cia­te Director of Media X at Stanford University, Senior Fellow at the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin.
 

Professor and Dean at the University of California Berkeley School of Infor­mation and Professor in Berkeley´s Department of City and Regional Planning.
 

Professor of Management and Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, Director of the IC² Institute (cam­pus wide) and the Herb Kelleher Center (McCombs School of Business), Uni­versity of Texas at Austin.
 

President and CEO of the Research Triangle Regional Partnership (RTRP), the public-private partnership that leads economic deve­lopment for the 13-county Research Triangle Region of North Carolina.
 

Provost at San Francisco State University and mem­ber of the American As­so­cia­tion for the Advan­ce­ment of Science (AAAS) Executive Board, 2010- 2014.
 

Director of SKG Analysis, a research consulting firm, and Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. Research Consultant for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
 

Vice President, Innovation and University Programs, CA Technologies. Leader and manager of the In­no­va­ti­on and Thought Lea­der­ship initiatives within CA Technologies, including the company’s innovation and idea management pro­grams, patent program, tech­nical recognition events, and employee engagement initiatives. She also manages CA Tech­no­lo­gies pub­li­shing programs, including CA Press.
 

Entrepreneur with technical and business expertise in the software industry. Mul­tiple patent holder in the US, Europe, and Canada. Founder of Umbanet Inc. and Picture Patents LLC, President of Intellinet, Inc.
 

Co-founder and Managing Director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, which is a leading venture capital firm focused exclusively on soft­ware, investing and ma­naging over $1 billion in cumulative capital. Since Hummer Winblad Venture Partners´ inception in 1989 the firm has launched over 100 new software compa­nies.
 

Managing Director of Dra­per Richards L.P and Dra­per In­ter­na­tio­nal, Co- Chair­man of The Draper Richards Kaplan Foun­da­ti­on. Member of the boards of the Hoover Institution, Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies at Stan­ford University, World Affairs Coun­cil of Northern California, the UN As­so­cia­ti­on-USA, and the Harvard Business School California Research Center Advisory Board. Member of the Coun­cil on Fo­reign Re­la­ti­ons and the President’s Coun­cil on International Ac­ti­vi­ties at Yale Univer­sity.
 

Vice President of SRI Ven­tu­res at SRI Inter­na­tio­nal, Chair of SRI’s Com­mer­cia­li­za­tion Board and the Ven­tu­re Advisory Board (a part­nership with the ven­tu­re capital com­mu­ni­ty that develops early-stage in­vest­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties), and Visiting Scholar at Stan­ford University in the Shorenstein Asia-Pa­ci­fic Re­se­arch Center.
 

CEO and founder of Global Tech Venture, a global network of business accelerators that support entrepreneurship in the technology space.
 

Partner & Founder, Bjoern will speak in the Plenary session ’"Fire in the Valley" - Entrepreneurship, Ven­tu­re Ca­pi­tal and the Start-up phenomenon’ (July 12, 16.30-18.00).
 

Co-director, Stanford Pro­gram on Regions of Inno­va­tion and Entre­pre­neur­ship, Director emeritus, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution Professor emeritus, Gra­duate School of Business Stanford University
 

Director of the Genesis Ins­ti­tu­te, Pontifical Catholic Uni­ver­si­ty (PUC)-Rio. Di­rec­tor of RE­DE­TEC - Tech­no­lo­gy Network of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Mem­ber of the Board of En­dea­vor Brazil, the Edu­ca­tio­nal Institute of the BOVESPA (Stock exchange), SEBRAE RJ (support services to small businesses) by REDETEC and Koan Con­sul­ting Services. Coordinator of ANITEC Innovation Wor­king Group (Brazil na­tio­nal association of corporate education) and curator of TEDXRio.
 

CEO of 22@Barcelona, President of XPCAT (Ca­ta­lan Network of Science Parks) and Vice-President of APTE (Spanish Network of Science Parks).
 

Henry E. Riggs Professor of Management at the Keck Graduate Institute of Ap­pli­ed Life Sciences in Cla­re­mont, California.
 

External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Visiting Researcher at PARC, the Palo Alto Research Center (Formerly Xerox PARC)
 

Chairman and CEO of Col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve Eco­no­mics-­Ad­vi­sors to Civic Entre­pre­neurs, strategic ad­vi­sor to the Cali­for­nia Economic Stra­te­gy Panel, which de­ve­lops state and regional economic deve­lop­ment and work­force stra­te­gies, co- author of the Ca­li­for­nia Green In­no­va­ti­on Index for Next 10, and con­sul­tant to the Green Val­ley Initia­tive.
 

President of the Inter­na­tio­nal Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) and Professor Emeritus of History, De Anza College, Cupertino, California.
 

Professor at the University of California, Davis and a Senior Project Director at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Eco­no­my. He is the West Coast editor for Research Policy.
 

Lecturer in European Entre­pre­neur­ship & Innovation, Stanford School of Engi­neering; Managing Direc­tor, Innovarium Ventures; SBIR reviewer for the Na­tio­nal Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foun­dation (NSF), and expert evaluator for Euro­pean Com­mis­sion FP7 research pro­grams.
 

Associate Director of the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE), and one the core SPRIE leaders, directing research initiatives, conferences, and publications on topics ranging from “China 2.0: The Rise of a Digital Super­po­wer” to “Smart Green Cities: New Tech­no­logies, New Models, New Strategies” to “The Next Silicon Valley.”
 

Associate Professor of Ma­na­ge­ment at the Franklin P. Perdue School of Business, Salisbury University, and holder of the 2011-2012 Robert W. Smiley Jr. Economic History Fel­low­ship from the Rutgers Uni­ver­si­ty School of Ma­na­ge­ment and Labor Relations.
 

Adjunct Professor in the School of Business, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland, and in Trinity Research and Innovation, delivering courses on the MBA & MSC Finance, and general TCD Entre­pre­neur­ship Training Programmes.
 

Assistant Professor of History at the University of Washington and a historian of the modern United States, whose work looks at the growth of the knowledge economy and the reasons creativity and innovation thrive in particular places.
 

General Manager of K. U. Leuven Research & De­ve­lop­ment, Catholic Uni­ver­si­ty of Leuven Belgium, Ma­na­ging Director of Gem­ma Frisius-­Fonds K. U. Leuven nv, Belgium, Board mem­ber of the Fondation Four­nier-­Majoie pour l’In­no­va­ti­on, Chairman of the Centre for Drug Design and Dis­co­ve­ry and Board member or president of several high tech companies.
 

VP and Head of Platform Research at salesforce.com inc.
 

Alumni Distinguished Gra­duate Professor in the Psychology in the Public Interest Program, Depart­ment of Psychology, North Carolina State University - one of the three Research Triangle Park universities.
 

Vice President and Ma­na­ging Director of the Uni­ver­sity of Phoenix Research Institute, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Media X researching the impact of information and technology on society, work, and higher education.
 

President, Technology Innovation Group, Inc.
 

Professor of Stra­te­gy and En­tre­pre­neur­ship, Head of En­tre­pre­neu­rial studies and UNESCO Chair in En­tre­pre­neur­ship, J.J. Stros­smayer Univer­sity in Osijek, Croa­tia. Mem­ber of Croa­tian Com­pe­ti­ti­ve­ness Coun­cil and Club of Rome, Croa­tian Chap­ter, and lea­der of CEPOR, SMEs Think Tank
 

Director of the Masters in Engineering Management Program, Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin.
 

Professor of Innovation Management, Rio de Janeiro State University- UERJ. Leader of the Laboratory for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and of the Innovation and Society research group.
 

Professor of Contemporary Philosophy and Science Stu­di­es, University of Lyon- Jean Moulin, Senior Re­se­arch Fellow, Institute of East Asian Studies (CNRS), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He has been stu­dying the mutation since the 1970s of the role, con­ception and or­ga­ni­za­ti­on of knowledge in ad­van­ced in­dus­tri­al so­cie­ties. He now focuses on a com­pa­ra­ti­ve study of Science and Tech­nology policies, in­clu­ding a study of present ideo­lo­gi­cal constructions and debates in East-Asia and Europe. He is the author of various articles, studies and books.
 

PhD student, Dept. of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
 

Associate Professor, Dept. of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
 

Senior Policy Counsel and Head of Public Policy at Google. Non-residential fellow at Stanford Centre for Internet and Society.
 

Head of the Centre for Growth poles and Special Economic Zones, Institute of Economy, Russian Academy of Sciences.
 

Vice Chancellor for Ex­ten­si­on, Engagement, and Eco­no­mic Development at North Caro­lina State Uni­ver­sity, Raleigh, NC. He co­or­di­nates the Co­ope­ra­ti­ve Extension Service, In­dust­ri­al Extension Service, Small Business and Technology Development Center, non- credit programs of the Jane S. McKimmon Center for Extension and Continuing Education, the Economic De­ve­lop­ment Partnership, and the General H. Hugh Shelton Leadership Center and all outreach and public service programs of the colleges and other univer­sity programs.
 

Executive Director of the Office of Science and Technology, North Carolina Department of Commerce. Adjunct Assistant Profes­sor, Department of Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill.
 

Interim President and CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, manager and developer of The Research Triangle Park.
 

Vice President Technical Services Acquisition Integration at Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader of networking for the Inter­net. Cisco's Site Executive for Research Triangle Park.
 

Professor in Business & In­no­vation and Head of Business & Manage­ment, Sussex Univer­sity. Associate at Quotec, the techno­logy consul­tants, Visiting fellow at Birkbeck - Univer­sity of London, K.U. Leuven, and Helsinki University of Techno­logy. Elected member of the board of ISSI, the Inter­natio­nal Society for Sciento­metrics and Infor­metrics.
 

Professor of Technology and Innovation Mana­ge­ment, K.U.Leuven Bel­gi­um. Mana­ging director of K.U. Leuven Research & De­ve­lop­ment and Chair­man of the Gemma Frisius Fonds (the venture fund) of K.U. Leuven. Co-founder and chairman of Leuven.Inc, the innovation network of Leuven high-tech en­tre­pre­neurs. Board member of IWT-Vlaanderen, and Ge­ne­ral Ma­na­ger of K.U. Leuven.
 

Head of SC-Research Ins­ti­tu­te at the Lap­peen­ran­ta University of Technology, Finland, Visiting Scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Visiting Professor at the University of Sussex, UK.
 

Acting professor, Head of International Business and CEMS Academic Director at Aalto University School of Economics, Department of Management and Inter­national Business.
 

Senior Lecturer in the School of Business, Mana­gement and Economics, Sussex University
 

Head of the Economics of Science and Innovations Division, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
 

Head of the Department for International and Regional Cooperation of Tomsk Region Administration, Russia.
 

Vice-Rector for Innovative Development and In­ter­na­tio­nal Affairs, di­rec­tor of the Ins­ti­tute of In­no­va­tion, head of Department of In­no­vation Management, head of the research and education center of the Ins­ti­tute of Innovation, scientific supervisor of the student business incubator, Candidate of Economic Science.
 

VP for Science at Creative Commons, member of the Board of Directors for Sage Bionetworks, AcaWiki and 1DegreeBio, member of the Advisory Board for Boundless Learning, mentor at RockHealth.
 

Founder and CEO, The In­no­va­tion Games® Com­pa­ny
 

Deputy Director and Head of the In­no­va­ti­on, Value Crea­tion, and Inter­na­tio­nal Inte­gra­tion Depart­ment of the Fraun­hofer Center for Central and Eastern Europe MOEZ, Leipzig, Germany. Lecturer in Inno­vation Ma­nage­ment and Innova­tion Eco­no­mics at the Univer­sity of Leipzig.
 

Professor, Head of the In­no­va­ti­on and Logis­tics Unit, School of Ma­na­ge­ment, Uni­ver­si­ty of Warsaw, Poland.
 

Associate Professor, Institute for Informatics, University of Oslo
 

Silicon Valley researcher and innovator, presently developing Knowledge Gardens and deploying them in South Korea, Kuwait, and Malaysia under the auspices of the Millennium Project.
 

Researcher and teacher at Hypermedia Laboratory (HLab), Tampere University of Technology, Finland and collaborator with Stanford’s Innovation Ecosystems Network
 

Researcher at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and collaborator with Stanford’s Innovation Ecosystems Network
 

Principal and co-founder of Technology Innovation Group, Inc. (TIG), a com­pa­ny with the mission to con­nect innovation to so­cie­tal needs. Member of the governing board of the State of Texas Product De­ve­lopment and Small Bu­si­ness Incubator Fund Board, Chair of the Finance Com­mit­tee of the Fund's Board. Co-founder of North Texas Life Science Society.
 

Secretary General of the South Eastern European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, mem­ber the Re­pre­sen­ta­ti­ve Group of the European Venture Capital As­so­cia­ti­on, member of the Ro­ma­nian National Council for Development and Inno­va­tion.
 

Assistant Professor in En­tre­pre­neurship and Ven­ture Finance, and Director of Studies at Centre for Inno­vation, Research and Com­petence in the Lear­ning Economy (CIRCLE) at Lund Univer­sity, Sweden.
 

Head of the Singapore’s National Research Foun­da­tion Projects Division, un­der the Prime Minister´s Office. He oversees Sin­ga­po­re’s National Framework for Innovation and En­ter­pri­se and is responsible for the investments of high- tech growth ventures and venture capital funds in Asia. He has been named as one of ´100 Leaders Of Tomorrow´ by the St. Gal­len Symposium in 2010 and is one of the first in­ter­na­tio­nal Kauffman Fellows from Singapore.
 

SVP (Telecoms/Wireless), Enterprise Ireland, Silicon Valley Office.
 

Expert in management cy­ber­ne­tics, having integ­ra­ted crowd psy­cho­lo­gy, ma­na­ge­ri­al cybernetics and law to a new approach on government. Secretary of the board of directors at Malik Management, an in­ter­na­tio­nal knowledge or­ga­ni­za­ti­on in the field of general management con­sul­ting and education. Dr. Malik will talk about ‘Ma­na­ging the consensus space: New cybernetic tools for clustering’.
 

Entrepreneur, corporate exe­cu­ti­ve, corporate di­rec­tor, venture capitalist and edu­ca­tor. Leader in several industry organiza­tions and a recognized and popular spokes­per­son for the tech­no­lo­gy in­dus­try and entre­pre­neu­rial com­mu­ni­ty. Mem­ber of the board of directors of TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO), member of the board of Prysm, Inc., Fen­wick and West En­tre­pre­neur­ship Educator in the Stanford Technolo­gy Ven­tu­res group of the En­gi­nee­ring Department, Stan­ford Univer­sity.
 

Economist, teacher and re­se­arch­er at MIT, Uni­ver­si­ty of Augsburg, UC Berkeley, San Francisco University and University of the Pa­ci­fic. Author of the Dot-com to Dot-bomb – Un­der­stan­ding the Dot-Com Boom, Bust and Re­sur­gen­ce, Si­li­con Valley: Ecology of In­no­va­ti­on, What Makes Silicon Valley Tick? (2009), Closing the Job Gap (2010). Columnist on eco­no­mic issues and in­no­va­tion.
 

CEO of JLabs, LLC, advisor and speaker in the areas of entrepreneurship, leader­ship and innovation. She sits on the boards of di­rec­tors of The Walt Disney Company as well as pri­va­te­ly held Packet Design, Inc. She also sits on the advisory councils of Stan­ford’s School of En­gi­nee­ring and Stanford’s Bio-X initiative.