Also at the Summit Viking Technology was showing their NV-DIMM technology that can be used for data in-memory applications.
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Technology Inclusion Summit, hosted by Chief Technology Officer Todd Park, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Level Playing Field Institute.
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Those are the chief results of a survey conducted recently and released today by the law firm DLA Piper at its technology summit today in Menlo Park, Calif.
"America had better wake up to this likelihood, " said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom at a green technology summit last month in Shanghai aimed primarily at foreign investors interested in entering China's burgeoning cleantech industry.
Hammering the irony home, the solution he proposed -- a "technology summit" of academics, tech companies, and content producers to develop a workable DRM system -- is exactly the sort of wasted effort Steve-O lambasted in his open letter.
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Last week I received a somewhat last-minute invitation by a company named Ener1 to attend a U.S.-China Advanced Technology Vehicle Summit in Indianapolis, Indiana.
While Internet safety advocates and tech professionals were meeting at the FOSI and Qitcom events in one part of the city, eight heads of state from the Arab region, government ministers and Arab tech industry leaders were participating in the Connect Arab Summit to talk about expanding technology opportunities in the region.
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Among the issues the women will be discussing at the three-day summit are ways to bridge the technology gap, including use of the internet in business development, strategies to cope with the economic impact of Aids and war, especially in Africa, financing women's enterprises and understanding trade agreements as globalisation continues to have an adverse impact on developing societies.
But it remains to be seen if any of the talk at the UN summit materialises into political action to narrow the technology gap.
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Speaker at the recent i7 Summit in Chantilly, Paris, a Global Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Society , Kyung H.
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At the inaugural 2009 Kairos summit, Avadhany got the chance to introduce their GenShock technology, which generates energy with every bump, to Admiral William Owens, former Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
For the past seven years, science academies representing countries that are attending the summit have issued statements to inform delegates of vital science and technology matters.
"We're thrilled to see Fusion-io launching ioScale in conjunction with the Open Compute Summit and making this high-performance, low-power technology more broadly available, " said Frank Frankovsky, Chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and Vice President of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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"Intel and Facebook are collaborating on a new disaggregated, rack-scale server architecture that enables independent upgrading of compute, network and storage subsystems that will define the future of mega-datacenter designs for the next decade, " said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer during his keynote address at Open Computer Summit in Santa Clara, Calif.
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ABSMaterials and MAR Systems are part of a growing cluster of water technology companies in Northeast Ohio, who attended the Water Innovation Summit.
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Additionally, Stephen Laster, McGraw-Hill Education's chief digital officer, will participate in the HigherEdTECH Summit at CES, a conference designed to bring together industry leaders to discuss how technology can positively impact higher education.
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And, as I learned from Hastings at the stellar Education Innovation Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona, the former math teacher has used his teaching, technology, and entertainment industry experience to understand the future of education too.
Genevieve Bell discussed the intersection of technology, data, and real-world uses at Web 2.0 Summit 2011.
The Summit will feature keynotes, case studies, and panels on sales, marketing, branding, technology and more.
In addition to the CDIC summit, Virginia Gov. James Gilmore will host the final meeting of his Commission on Information Technology on Dec. 9 at Old Dominion University in Norfolk.
These leaders came together at the invitation of the White House Offices of Public Engagement and Science and Technology Policy, and the Level Playing Field Institute, for the first Tech Inclusion Summit.
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