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Barry Asmus, Ph.D , Arizona USA

Dr. Barry Asmus speaks, testifies, writes and consults on political and business issues facing America. He was named by USA Today as one of the five most requested speakers in the United States. Dr. Asmus was twice voted the Outstanding Professor of the Year, as well as honored with the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge Award for Private Enterprise Education. Barry receives standing ovations and repeat invitations because he customizes every presentation. They are unique and fresh. He presents an optimistic and thrilling future for America. His comments on globalization, demographics and public policy issues are rooted in factual information, enthusiasm and humor. Barry’s presentations are full of ideas that can be used to harness our unlimited future.
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Joel Barker , Minnesota USA

Joel Barker is an independent scholar and futurist. Because he was the first person to popularize the concept of paradigm shifts, he is known around the world as the "Paradigm Man." He began his work in 1975 and pioneered the concept of paradigm shifts to explain profound change and the importance of vision to drive change within organizations. His book, Future Edge, published in 1992, was listed as one of the most influential business books of that year by the prestigious Library Journal. His new book, Five Regions of the Future, with co-author, Dr. Scott Erickson, was released in June 2005.
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Edward Barlow, Jr. , Michigan USA

Mr. Barlow holds a Masters Degree in Management from the University of Notre Dame and is a member of the Graduate School faculty at the University of San Francisco. An invigorating speaker, Barlow explores economic, technological, social, and political trends that are anticipated into the next century. He suggests personal, professional, and organizational strategies which can be used to navigate these changes and create a preferred future.
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Nick Bontis , Ontario Canada

Dr. Nick Bontis is recognized internationally as a leading strategy and management expert. With humor and passion, he empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to build their brainpower for high performance and sustainable competitive advantage. Tom Stewart, editor of Harvard Business Review, states, “He is not only a pioneer in the field of intellectual capital, but one of its real experts as well.” Dr. Bontis’ expertise has been tapped by several Fortune 500 companies and even the United Nations, who selected him for a high profile initiative. His groundbreaking doctoral dissertation is the #1 selling thesis in Canada. He is an award-winning tenured professor of strategy, and Maclean’s magazine has identified him as one of McMaster University’s most popular business professors for the last six years in a row! Dr. Nick Bontis is associate editor of the Journal of Intellectual Capital, which is the leading academic publication in the field.
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Daniel Burrus, CSP, CPAE , Wisconsin USA

Daniel Burrus is one of the world’s leading technology forecasters and strategists, and the author of six books, including the highly acclaimed Technotrends, which has been published in thirteen languages. Over the past two decades, he has established a worldwide reputation for his exceptional record of accurately predicting the future of technological change and its direct impact on the business world. The New York Times has referred to him as one of America’s top three business “gurus” in the highest demand as a speaker, and he has delivered over 2,000 keynote speeches to corporations, association, and professional organizations worldwide.
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James Canton, Ph.D , California USA

Dr. James Canton is an internationally recognized futurist, digital entrepreneur and public speaker. His speciality is the future of technology and its impact on business and society. He is a former executive at Apple Computer and has been an innovator in the high technology industry for over twenty years. As Editor-in-Chief of 21st Century Online on the Microsoft Network he tracks trends and developments throughout the globe for his facinating leading-edge presenations.
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Jim Carroll, CA , Ontario Canada

Jim Carroll is a leading international futurist, innovation and business trends expert, providing unique insight into workplace, business, economic, current event, social and cultural trends, as well as demographic, lifestyle and technology issues. He speaks and consults frequently worldwide with a wide variety of international clients, including Microsoft, American Express, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, KPMG, Monsanto, the American Academy of Ophthalmologists, IBM, the North American Newsprint Producers Association, SAP, the BBC, and many more.
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Gerald Celente , New York USA

Gerald Celente, Director and founder of The Trends Research Institute®, is the pioneer in forecasting, analyzing, and MANAGING trends. Celente designed and currently teaches the first professional course in trend tracking. Using his unique perspectives on current events forming future trends he developed the Globalnomic® methodology which is used to forecast and manage trends.
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Marvin Cetron, PhD , California USA

Dr. Cetron has been identified as one of the nation's foremost futurists in the cover story, The Next 50 Years, in the 50th Anniversary issue of U.S. News and World Report. He was selected by the Institute of Industrial Engineers as one of the top 10 Industrial Engineers in the U.S., and has been featured in countless magazines and newspapers. He has appeared regularly on every major television network, including Today, Good Morning America, CBS Morning News, CNN Newsmaker Sunday, Crossfire, and Larry King Live shows.
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Ann Coombs , Ontario Canada

"When the Attitude of Tomorrow's Consumers Matters?...this FUTURIST will deliver!" Innovative, creative and challenging, Ann Coombs is dauntless in her quest to provide individuals and organizations with research that will assist them to understand and embrace the consumer changes that face our modern business world. Ann's insightful presentations focus on consumer trends and marketing strategies you will need to deal with in order to be positioned for the new Millennium. With an extensive retail and service sector background, in addition to creating training programs for many industries, Ann's sessions provide practical solutions and immediate response to industry specific issues which are guaranteed to increase profits. Her knowledge of technology makes Ann an expert on e-commerce and web marketing.
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Harry Dent, Jr., MBA , California USA

Harry Dent speaks on future trends, applying basic principles of business strategy, finance, and marketing research to the economy, and developing highly understandable forecasts. He publishes the H.S. Dent Forecast and has been speaking since 1988. He has been consistently rated in the top one percent of hundreds of speakers by the Executive Committee, a worldwide network of business CEOs. He has consulted to Fortune 100 companies and has been CEO of several companies. Harry holds an M.B.A. from Harvard and has appeared on Good Morning America, Smart Money and other TV shows, and featured in the Wall Street Journal, Success, Fortune, and Omni. He authored The Great Boom Ahead and Job Shock, your comprehensive guide to personal and business profit in the new era of prosperity. His latest book, The Roaring 2000, was just released.
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Mary O'Hara Devereaux, Ph.D , California USA

A highly respected researcher, consultant, and speaker, Mary specializes in providing customized foresight and consulting to senior executives in private industry, not for profits, foundations and government. Her focus is on providing the �big picture� context and the design and execution the complex strategies, innovations and executive readiness needed to thrive in this rugged business and social landscape. Her deep knowledge of the emerging landscape, useful and provocative insights and the quality of her work make her a preferred long term strategy partner of leading organizations.
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Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D , California USA

Over the past 30 years, Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D. has emerged as the nation's foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the lifestyle, marketing and workforce implications of the "age wave." He is a psychologist, gerontologist and author of ten books on aging-related issues, including Bodymind, Millennium: Glimpses Into the 21st Century, Healthy Aging, his best-seller Age Wave and his latest, Age Power: How the 21st Century will be Ruled by the New Old. He is currently working on two new books, Demography is De$tiny and Re-Inventing Yourself: How to Fulfill Your Dreams in the Third Age of Life.
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Maddy Kent Dychtwald , California USA

Maddy Kent Dychtwald is a nationally recognized public speaker, author, marketing executive and entrepreneur. One of the nation`s leading authorities on the maturing market, for the past twelve years she has been actively involved in analyzing and forecasting consumer and marketing trends related to boomers and the 50-plus population.
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Eric Garland , District of Columbia USA

Garland advises a global clientele on subjects such as information technology, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, agriculture, packaging, food, and consumer lifestyles to assist in strategic planning. In addition, he has conducted over 100 competitive intelligence studies to help executives track specific threats in their marketplace. He is an expert in competitive intelligence, and he brings his clients insight about the kinds of business intelligence practices companies need to get the right information to the right people in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
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Joyce L. Gioia, CMC , North Carolina USA

Joyce Gioia is a Strategic Business Futurist concentrating on relationship aspects of the future. This arena includes workforce and workplace trends, as well as consumer and business-to-business trends. Joyce is President of The Herman Group, a firm serving a wide range corporate, trade association and governmental clients on an international basis. Through consulting, speaking and training, Joyce helps clients position themselves for success in the future. Joyce has served clients in the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia.
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Gary Hamel , California USA

Professor Gary Hamel is one of the most successful authors on corporate strategy. As the author of concepts such as “core competence,” “strategic intent,” “industry foresight,” and “industry revolution,” Gary Hamel has changed the focus and language of strategy in many of the world's most successful companies. His success as a writer is rivaled only by his profound and prolific lecture abilities. Gary has given keynote speeches at the Microsoft CEO Summit, the World Economic Forum, the Fortune 500 CEO Roundtable and many other high profile events.
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Trevor Hancock, M.D , Ontario Canada

As a public health physician and health promotion consultant, Dr. Hancock has been at the leading edge of health thinking for more than twenty years and has been described as "one of the ten best health futurists in the world."
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Thomas Koulopoulos , Massachusetts USA

InformationWeek magazine named Tom Koulopoulos one of the top six consultants in the information industry. President of the international technology think tank, The Delphi Group, and professor at Boston College Graduate School of Management, he is an authority on the organizational and individual implications of information technology and a frequent contributor to print and broadcast media. Tom is the author of six books including; Corporate Instinct, Smart Companies and The Portals. His most recent undertaking is his upcoming book, MyGeneration.com: Survival Skills for the New Millennium. Through his speeches, which are carefully customized for each audience, Tom shares his thought-provoking insights into the dynamic forces shaping the future of work, technology, and family.
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John Krubski , Connecticut USA

Krubski is an exceptional, high-energy public speaker whose insights, perspectives and disciplines have been found useful by a range of companies including Nabisco, AT&T, Pillsbury, Brown-Forman, Anheuser-Busch, Nissan Motors, FOX Broadcasting, MCI, Charles Schwab, Chevrolet, Citibank, M&M Mars, General Cinemas, The National Home Builders Association, TGI Friday's, PepsiCo, General Foods, L'Oreal, Pfizer, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Sara Lee, Sears, Uncle Ben's and many, many others.
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Ray Kurzweil , Massachussetts USA

Ray Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray has successfully founded and developed nine businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial investment, cybernetic art, and other areas of artificial intelligence . All of these technologies continue today as market leaders. Ray's Web site, KurzweilAI.net, is a leading resource on artificial intelligence.
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Arthur Laffer , California USA

Dr. Laffer has been widely acknowledged for his economic achievements. He was noted in Time Magazine’s March 29, 1999, cover story "The Century’s Greatest Minds" for inventing the Laffer Curve, which it deemed one of "a few of the advances that powered this extraordinary century". He was listed in "A Dozen Who Shaped the ’80s," in the Los Angeles Times on Jan. 1, 1990, and in "A Gallery of the Greatest People Who Influenced Our Daily Business," in the Wall Street Journal on June 23, 1989. His creation of the Laffer Curve was deemed a “memorable event" in financial history by the Institutional Investor in its July 1992 Silver Anniversary issue, "The Heroes, Villains, Triumphs, Failures and Other Memorable Events."
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Herb London, Ph.D , New York USA

Dr. London is a noted social critic whose work has appeared in every major newspaper and journal in the country including such diverse publications as Commentary, National Review, American Spectator, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Washington Times, New York Magazine, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Modern Age, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Orbis, Encounter, Forbes, and The New Criterion. He is the author and editor of twenty-one books (see enclosure) and two plays “My Most Embarrassing Moment” and “A Love That Cannot Speak Its Name.”
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Ryan Mathews , Michigan USA

Ryan Mathews, founder and CEO of Black Monk Consulting, is a globally recognized futurist, speaker and storyteller. Mathews is also a best-selling author, a successful international consultant and a sought after commentator on topics as diverse as innovation, technology, global consumer trends and retailing.
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Hamish McRae , * England

Hamish McRae is the business and finance editor of The Independent, one of Britain's leading newspapers. He is also the author of The World in 2020: Power, Culture, & Prosperity. McRae shows audiences not only where we will be in the next twenty-five years but how we will get there. He offers a bold vision of a world in which the best predictor of economic success will be not technological achievement but rather a nation's creativity and social responsibility. The emergence of culture and values as a source of competitive edge for industrialized nations signals a profound shift in world order. Hamish McRae demonstrates how changes in demography, the environment, the role of government, technology, and natural resources, as well as the costs of social disintegration, will contribute to this new competitive landscape.
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J. Ian Morrison , California USA

Ian Morrison is an internationally-known futurist and the author of The Second Curve: Managing the Velocity of Change and Health Care in the New Millenium. As president of Institute for the Future from 1990 to 1996, he led the organization's growth and success over that period. A highly respected consultant and speaker, Morrison specializes in long-term forecasting and planning with particular emphasis on health care and societal change. He has worked with more than 100 Fortune 500 companies in the fields of health care, information technology, and financial services and has written, lectured, and consulted on a wide variety of forecasting, strategy, and health care topics for government, industry, hospitals, physicians, and nonprofit agencies around the world. His work focuses on helping clients to plan for their long-term future.
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Barry Nalebuff, PhD , Connecticut USA

Dr. Barry Nalebuff is the Milton Steinbach Professor of Economics and Management at Yale School of Management and co-author of the bestselling book Co-opetition, which demonstrates how to combine competition and cooperation in order to change the game of business for maximum benefit. An expert on Game Theory, he has written extensively on its application for managers and has applied its use in consulting for such companies as Allied Signal, American Express, Bell Atlantic, Citibank, McKinsey & Co., Procter & Gamble, and Warner Lambert. Nalebuff is also co-author of Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life.
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Don Peppers , * England

Recognized for over a decade as one of the leading authorities on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) business strategies, Don Peppers is an acclaimed author and a founding partner of Peppers and Rogers Group, the world’s leading customer-focused management consulting firm. Author Martin Mayer, in his book Whatever Happened on Madison Avenue, called Don Pepper's presentation on the future of marketing "brilliant... the most fascinating presentation I have ever witnessed." If your company wants to build long-term relationships with customers that will generate higher margins, increased customer loyalty and greater customer satisfaction, best-selling author and business visionary Don Peppers can explain how to get the job done - clearly, concisely and without ambiguity. Don is the Co-author with Martha Rogers of Enterprise One To One, The One To One Future, The One to One Fieldbook and The One to One Manager and author of Life's a Pitch, Then You Buy. He is a Partner at Peppers and Rogers Gro
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Jeremy Rifkin , District of Columbia USA

Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, is the author of sixteen books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and are used in hundreds of universities around the world. His 1995 book, The End of Work, is an international bestseller that is widely credited with helping shape the current global debate on technology displacement, corporate downsizing and the future of jobs. His 1998 bestseller, The Biotech Century, addresses the many critical issues accompanying the new era of genetic commerce and is the most widely read book in the world on the biotech revolution. Mr. Rifkin�s 2000 bestseller, The Age of Access, explores the vast changes occurring in the capitalist system as it makes the transition from geographic markets to e-commerce networks and from industrial to cultural production.
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Martha Rogers, Ph.D , Ohio USA

Business 2.0 magazine named Martha Rogers, Ph.D. one of the nineteen most important business gurus of the past century. The World Technology Network named her as “an innovator most likely to create visionary ripple effects.” Recognized for the past decade as one of the world’s leading experts on customer-based business strategies and growing customer value, Dr. Rogers is an acclaimed author, a world class-class speaker, and a founding partner of Peppers and Rogers Group, the world’s leading customer-focused management consulting firm, based in Norwalk, CT, and boasting an impressive list of Fortune 500 clients. Gartner Group has positioned Peppers and Rogers Group as the only CRM-services firm that can help clients with both “vision” and “implementation” of their customer strategy. Martha’s experience, expertise, and ability to think out of the box makes her equally popular with media interviewers, speaking event planners, and Fortune 1000 executives seeking to learn how to compete in the Informa
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Michael Rogers , New York USA

One of the nation's leading experts on the impact of technology on business and society, Michael Rogers is editor and general manager of Newsweek.com and a contributing editor for Newsweek. He is also vice president of Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive, the electronic publishing subsidiary of The Washington Post Company. At Newsweek, he created the magazine's award winning technology section, covering topics ranging from Chernobyl and genetic engineering to computers and the Internet. He currently serves as managing editor of Newsweek Interactive, for which he produced the world's first CD-ROM news magazine as well as areas on Prodigy, America Online, and the Internet. A captivating speaker and frequent guest on radio and television, Rogers has addressed audiences worldwide ranging from venture capitalists and corporate executives to educators, college students, and the general public.
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Harrison H. Schmitt, Ph.D , New Mexico USA

Harrison Hagan Schmitt , a native of Silver City, NM, has the diverse experience of a geologist, pilot, astronaut, administrator, businessman, writer, and U. S. Senator.  He received his B. S. in Science at Caltech, studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Oslo, and attended graduate school at Harvard.  He received his Ph.D. in geology in 1964 based on geological field studies in Norway.  As a civilian, Schmitt received Air Force jet pilot wings in 1965 and Navy helicopter wings in 1967.
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Jack Shaw , Georgia USA

For over 25 years, Jack Shaw has been a leader in assessing the impact of new technologies on the evolution of business strategy. He has helped hundreds of companies increase sales, manage costs, improve productivity and gain competitive advantage by integrating leading-edge technologies into business practices. Recognized internationally for his expertise in eBusiness, Jack has spoken to audiences in a wide variety of industries in 20 countries. He is known for his thought provoking and informative presentations for executives and managers – presentations given in the language of strategy and business, not technical jargon.
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Allen Sinai, PhD , Massachusetts USA

Over the years, Dr. Sinai has been consulted by various administrations from both political parties on key economic issues. He was an invited presenter at the December 1992 Little Rock Economic Summit and has been consulted by various Clinton Administration officials. He also was consulted by the Bush and Reagan Administrations and has met with officials in numerous state governments. He meets regularly with senior level policy makers in other countries and has testified before the U.S. Congress. Dr. Sinai is a recognized expert on the Federal Reserve and monetary policy, both as a scholar and in forecasting Federal Reserve policy.
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David Smith , California USA

Economist, futurist and market strategist David L. Smith, an internationally known speaker and author offers penetrating insight, accurate forecasts and profitable advice regarding: U.S. and world economies, financial and investment markets, international trade, energy markets, U.S. monetary and fiscal policy , and specific industries and companies.
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David Pearce Snyder , Maryland USA

David Pearce Snyder is the Life-Styles Editor of The Futurist magazine and a social forecaster whose seminars on strategic management and decision making have been attended by representatives from most of the Fortune 500 companies. A former consultant to the RAND Corporation, Mr. Snyder has also been senior planning officer for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, an instructor for the Federal Executive Institute, and an instructor for Congressional and White House staff development programs. A full-time consulting futurist since 1981, David Pearce Snyder has advised such clients as IBM, Exxon, General Electric, Bellcore, and the Dayton-Hudson Corporation. Snyder is the editor/co-author of four books, including Future Forces and America in the 1990's. He is routinely called upon to forecast the future of U.S. institutions, industries, and professions.
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David Thornburg, Ph.D , California USA

In his fast-paced and entertaining presentations, Dr. Thornburg explores the trends which are taking businesses beyond the information age where it's not just the data that matters, it's the means of access too. As he so aptly says, "The future's not about forecasts, it's about trends." No matter the business application, these shifts will have their impact.
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Robert Tucker , California USA

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Stephen Tweed, CSP , Kentucky USA

A nationally known healthcare strategist, professional speaker, author and consultant, Stephen Tweed works with healthcare organizations who want to grow, and with healthcare leaders who want to get ready for the future. He does that by presenting keynote speeches and learning seminars, by leading board and executive retreats, by guiding individuals and groups through Strategic Refocusing sessions, and by authoring knowledge products for healthcare leaders.
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Jack Uldrich , Minnesota USA

Jack Uldrich is the president of The NanoVeritas Group, a consultancy that focuses on helping businesses, venture capitalists, and governments understand, evaluate, prepare for, and profit from nanotechnology. Clients include leading venture capital firms, law firms, governments and Fortune 100 companies.
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Watts Wacker , Connecticut USA

One of the most celebrated and influential minds in modern business, Watts Wacker is a futurist of uncommon versatility and vision. He has helped the world's top corporations navigate the extraordinary change that mark this new century. For audiences, Mr. Wacker delivers up-to-the minute forecasts of the opportunities that lay on the horizon - and explains how best to benefit from them. His multi-media presentations, known for their powerful graphics, are custom-built and can range from new consumer and economic trends to late-breaking technological advances, and deep-rooted shifts in society and business.
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David Weinberger, Ph.D , Massachusetts USA

Called a "marketing guru" by the Wall Street Journal, David has delivered acclaimed keynote presentations at IBM, Disney, Yahoo and many more. He's co-author of "The Cluetrain Manifesto," the bestseller that cut through the hype and showed business the Web's real lesson - markets are conversations, and so are businesses. David is a frequent commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and Here and Now. He's written for The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Wired, USA Today, and many more. David is a columnist for Darwin Magazine and Knowledge Management World, and writes an influential business technology newsletter and a daily "weblog." He was a philosophy professor for six years, a marketing VP, a dot-com entrepreneur before most people know what a home page was, and a strategic marketing consultant to household-name multinationals as well as to the most innovative startups.
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Dr. James Wetherbe , Minnesota USA

Dr. James Wetherbe is an international authority on the use of computers and information systems to improve organizational performance and competitiveness. A dynamic and entertaining speaker, he is particularly appreciated for his ability to explain complex technology in straightforward, practical terms that can be strategically applied by top executives and general management. Dr. Weatherbe is the author of The World On Time: 11 Management Principles That Made FedEx an Overnight Sensation. He has also written 16 other highly-regarded books on information technology and management. In his lectures, Dr. Wetherbe shows how to apply today`s new emerging technologies to improve quality, productivity, profitability, and today`s workplace.
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Walter Wriston , New York USA

During his seventeen year reign as Chairman and CEO of Citicorp/Citibank, Walter Wriston was widely-regarded as the most powerful banker in the world. Wriston is also recognized as being among the most innovative and technologically savvy financiers of our time. Want to know about the future of money? Talk to Walter Wriston.
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