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Colorado Innovation Network Announces Speakers for 3rd Annual Innovation Summit(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) DENVER, Colo., Aug. 12 -- The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade issued the following news: The Colorado Innovation Network (COIN) today announced the final speaker lineup for the 3rd Annual COIN Summit, which will be held Aug. 26-27. The Summit helps elevate the state's innovation climate with two days of dialogue and networking focused on sharing innovative best practices and creating relationships that can propel Colorado forward. "We are thrilled and grateful to have such brilliant minds and fantastic energy coming to Colorado," said Governor John Hickenlooper. "When we created the COIN Summit, our primary goal was to bring together innovative leaders from around the globe to build relationships and to spark ideas, and to help foster a forward-thinking business environment in this state that will endure far beyond the two day event; every one of these speakers is a dynamo." Hosted by Gov. Hickenlooper, the COIN Summit speakers include local, national and global innovation leaders who will speak to the event theme of "Redefining Connections". This year's speakers and delegates come from diverse countries including Brazil, Puerto Rico, Chile, Spain, China, Japanand Israel. Speakers include Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric Company; France Cordova, Director of the National Science Foundation; and Safra Catz, President and CFO of Oracle. Local Colorado business executives include Greg Maffei, President and CEO of Liberty Media; Donna Lynne, Executive Vice President of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan, Inc.; Walter Scott, Founder, EVP and CTO of DigitalGlobe; and Jim Kelley, Founder and Managing Partner of the Colorado Impact Fund. COIN Summit Speakers: Andy Gill, EVP Investor Services, Charles Schwab Governor John W. Hickenlooper Jeff Immelt, Chairman & CEO, General Electric Company Chris Rezendes, Founder & President, Inex Advisors Mark Gazit, CEO, ThetaRay, Israel Suma Nallapati, Secretary of Technology & Chief Information Officer, Colorado Office of Information Technology Andrew Rosenthal, Sr. Product Engineer for Wellness, Jawbone Eric Schaefer, Senior VP & General Manager; Communications, Data & Mobility; Comcast Communications France A. Cordova, Director, National Science Foundation Donna Lynne, Executive Vice President, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals & Health Plan, Inc.; Group President, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Northwest and Georgia; President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado Michelle Hadwiger, Executive Director, Colorado Innovation Network; Corporate Business Development Director, Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade Mitra Best, US Innovation Leader, PwC Michael Park, Partner, McKinsey & Company Dean L. Bartles, Ph.D., Executive Director, Digital Manufacturing & Design Innovation Institute, UI Labs Walter Scott, Founder, EVP & Chief Technical Officer, Digital Globe Phil Weiser, Dean of the Law School, University of Colorado Boulder; Executive Director and Founder, Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology & Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Gale Anne Hurd, CEO, Valhalla; Producer, The Terminator, Aliens and The Walking Dead Ruth Vitale, Executive Director, CreativeFuture Iain Klugman, CEO, Communitech, Canada Uri Adoni, Partner, Jerusalem Venture Partners Media Labs, Israel Amit Aharoni, CEO, Cruisewise, Chile Lia Kislev, Founder, Wishi, Israel Nicolas Shea, Founder, Start Up Chile Pedro Sorrentino, VP, Brazilian Association of Startups; Ecosystem Development Latin America, SendGrid Inc. Howard Tullman, CEO, 1871 Jennifer Pahlka, Founder, Code for America; Former United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer Mark Sirangelo, Chief Innovation Officer, State of Colorado; Corporate Vice President, Sierra Nevada Space Systems Safra Catz, President & CFO, Oracle Geoff Smart, PhD., Chairman, ghSmart; Author, Who: The A Method for Hiring Meredith O'Connor, International Director, Jones Lang LaSalle; Former Director, World Business Chicago Jerre Stead, Executive Chairman, IHS Inc. Sofia Stolberg, Co-Founder, Piloto 151 & Codetrotters, Puerto Rico Jim Kelley, Founder and Managing Partner, Colorado Impact Fund Robert Bilder, Director, PhD., Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity, and Chief of Medical Psychology-Neuropsychology, University of California Los Angeles Semel Institute Colonel Ronald J. Garan Jr., NASA Space Station and Shuttle Astronaut, Aquanaut, Test & Fighter Pilot, Social Entrepreneur Jeremiah Owyang, Founder, Crowd Companies Gary Swart, former CEO, oDesk Josh Scott, Founder & COO, Craftsy Pau Sabria, Co-Founder, Olapic Greg Maffei, President & CEO, Liberty Media Eric Garland, General Manager, Live Nation Digital, Live Nation Entertainment Chuck Morris, CEO, AEG Live Jessie Elliott, Musician, Ark Life Speakers and participants of the Summit will explore topics such as the Internet of Things, boundaries to innovation, and the impact of global innovation hubs. In addition, the ActivateCOLORADO Challenge, presented by Kaiser Permanente Colorado, will be underway to encourage COIN Summit participants toward physical activity and well-being through use of Jawbone UP24 bands. COIN Summit delegates will be on competing teams to see which team is the most active. Additionally, a new and unique activity sponsored by Comcast will catch the attention of anyone in Denver traveling by the McNichols Building in Civic Center Park. Six innovative people will be placed in a giant glass box for the "Xfinity Innovation Think Tank: Bringing the Future Forward, Faster" event, where they will collaboratively work on ideas about how to tell Colorado's innovation story to the world. The 275 people making up the summit delegation are innovation leaders from around the world, representing business and industry, nonprofit, research labs, academia, government and entrepreneurs. In an effort to curate a diverse delegation, this is an invite-only event. COIN was launched by Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper with the mission to make Colorado the most innovative state in the nation and is a public-private partnership housed in the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade. COIN acts as a convener for leaders in our innovation ecosystem. To learn more about COIN, please visit www.coloradoinnovationnetwork.com. Thank you to the COIN Summit sponsors: Presenting Sponsor Charles Schwab; Platinum Sponsor Comcast; Gold Sponsors GE, IHS, Liberty Media, PwC, Western Union, WhiteWave; Silver Sponsors CenturyLink, Coca-Cola, Colorado Impact Fund, Colorado State University, DigitalGlobe, Google, Mantucket Capital, tw telecom; Patron Scholar Sponsors Bryan Cave, Mercury Payment Systems, Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, Pinnacol Assurance; and additional event partners PostModern and Zenman. CC AutoTriage5rn-140813-30FurigayJane-4826989 30FurigayJane (c) 2014 Targeted News Service |