1. a new ‘new age’
Orange Institute Silicon Valley session
15-
San Francisco, 15-17 November 2010
A New ‘New Age’ will be focused on the trends, technologies and lifestyle
changes that will affect the next decade, just as the First New Age affected ours.
We will be exploring the long-term evolution of tech and humanism with some
of the most eminent and cutting edge thinkers in the Valley. Join us.
This three-day workshop brings together a select group of business leaders and
influencers in an intimate setting: a unique opportunity to learn how to innovate
in a world permeated by networks.
To reserve your seat, email stephane.sireau@orange-institute.com
meet the people shaping innovation and change
Just some of the world-famous thought leaders who will be leading the dialog at Orange
Institute Silicon Valley:
John Hagel, author of some of the Kevin Kelly, the co-founder of both
most influential books on the digital Wired magazine and the influential
landscape and, more recently, the Whole Earth Catalog, will bring his
changing face of business, will return encyclopedic knowledge and long-term
again this year after his explosive talk perspective to bear on the topic of how
last year on the long-term failure of computers are changing the way we
traditional business models think about our bodies
John Markoff, the long-time New Steve Rubel, a highly sought-after
York Times correspondent in Silicon expert on social media at global
Valley, as well as author, will talk communications firm Edelman’s will
about his observations on the share his perspective on how data
revolution of computational models mining social platforms is changing the
across the past 50 years in Silicon way brands behave
Valley – illustrated with rare archival
footage from his extensive research
discover the start-ups for a post-PC world
We will showcase a hand-picked selection of the latest and hottest startups, including:
Quora, the hottest startup of 2010, founded by the lead technical team from Facebook, and backed
by a $86 million valuation by Benchmark Capital
Flipboard, founded by serial entrepreneur Mike McCue, who sold his last startup TellMe Networks
for $800 million
Affectiva, part of our coverage of the trends in self-measurement, this start-up is a pioneer in
emotion detection and reporting
Willow Garage is one of less than six companies who have built and demonstrated real-world
remote presence robots
Quid, if you wished you had a way to see what disruptive technologies are being worked on, and
who is working on them, Quid will show you
All listings and topic descriptions are provided on a preliminary basis
and are subject to change, including substitutions and additions

2. session highlights : a unique program, only in Silicon Valley
expect the unexpected
When you come to Orange Institute Silicon Valley we will also be exploring:
companies with no buildings and how to achieve precise performance metrics for a distributed
workforce that connects through the Cloud
consumer genetic sequencing with 23andme
Food Web 2.0 and emergent trends in urban farming and food distribution
predictive cities that aggregate user data and forecast who will be where
a view from inside the Lab connect with the University
NEW in 2010 : some of our community We will reach into the world-class campuses
members have told us that they would of the Valley to deliver talks by leading
like to have an insight into what academic researchers solving for:
Orange is doing with advanced hyper-local journalism and the future of news
technologies in the Valley. We heard Big Data models for analyzing ‘crowd clouds’
you and we will show several cutting- tracking the activities of thousands of users
edge demos including: neuroscience for creativity and learning
real-time natural language processing
and semantic enrichment, that means
looking at Twitter’s 120 million posts per join the community
hour and running deep semantic analytics
on them – in real-time This session shall include rich interactions
instrumented social biometrics : a with ecosystem influencers, journalists,
social networking site for comparing and policy-makers and thought-leaders both
competing with friends based on your vital during sessions and at our gala launch
biological signs during exercise and event for our newest research publication
workouts
attendance is limited, reserve your seat now
The session lasts three full days from Monday 15th to Wednesday 17th November 2010.
To reserve your seat, contact us
by phone: +33 1 44 44 36 40
by e-mail stephane.sireau@orange-institute.com
All listings and topic descriptions are provided on a preliminary basis
and are subject to change, including substitutions and additions