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Speakers



Saturday November 15

07:30-15:00 : Registration


09:30-11:15 : Session 1

Live Longer. Create the world.

Aubrey de Grey -- world's leading aging scientist, believes that we can live
to 1000

Eva Vertes -- cancer scientist, made an Alzheimer's breakthrough at age 15

Vincent Lam -- author, 2006 Giller Prize winner for Bloodletting and
Miraculous Cures

Karim Rashid -- industrial designer, in 14 museums worldwide, created over
2500 products

Hani Rashid -- architect, principal of Asymptote, designing what will be
the tallest building in Asia


11:15-12:00 : Conversation Break -- mingle with speakers, book signings,
segway test drives, technology exhibition, and other really cool stuff
(Bahen Centre)



12:00-13:20 : Session 2

Our technology - the best of our future.

Anand Agarawala -- creator of Bumptop, a revolutionary 3D interface

Mike Beltzner -- director of Firefox

Don Lindsay -- creator and designer of Mac OS X at Apple, now Design
Director at Microsoft Live Labs

Roel Vertegaal -- technologist, pioneer of Organic User Interfaces


13:20-14:50 : Lunch Break -- mingle with speakers, book signings,
segway test drives, technology exhibition, and other really cool stuff
(Bahen Centre)

***meals are not provided


14:50-16:30 : Session 3

How can we change the world?

Patrick Lor -- founder of iStockPhoto -- acquired by Getty Images for USD
$50 million

Andre Charoo -- co-founder of prospectlinker, an online recruiting tool
that connects companies to students

Chamath Palihapitiya -- VP of Growth, Mobile and International at Facebook

Matthew Hockenberry -- leading contributor of One Laptop Per Child

Eric Chivian -- Nobel Peace Prize winner for his work on stopping nuclear war.
Among this year's Time 100 for his work on global environmental protection.

Melody Hossaini -- founder of UK Youth Parliament, youth leader of Al Gore's
Climate Project


16:30-18:00 : Atrium break -- mingle with speakers, book signings,
segway test drives, technology exhibition, and other really cool stuff
(Bahen Centre)