BIL 2009

Speakers

A.J. Pape Adam Glickman Alex Kawas Moderator, 'Where is My Cyborg Self' panel Alex Lightman United Nations Alex Peake Creator of Code Hero Alexandros Pagidas TheGlint Andrew Berardini Art writer (self-described 'art worker', ngs-98) Andrew Hyde Startup Weekend Aubrey de Grey SENS Research Foundation Barbara Logan Ben Huh CEO, Pet Holdings, Inc. (I Can Has Cheezburger) Blake Mycoskie Toms Shoes Brad Templeton Electronic Frontier Foundation Bruce A. McHenry Founder, RoadTrains.us and the Key Prize Foundation Cameron Sinclair Architecture for Humanity Carissa van den Berk Clark Charles Armstrong One Click Organisations project / CIRCUS Foundation (ngs-43) Chris Axton Chris Bucchere Clint Schaff Craig Sim Webb Executive Director, The DREAMS Foundation Curt Beckmann Damian Crowe Daniel Ford Danielle Strachman Educator David Wygant Dating coach (ngs-87) David Zetland PhD economist; postdoctoral fellow, UC Berkeley Derek Lomas Playpower Foundation (ngs-102) Drew Jones Emma Persky Eric Boyd Founder, Automotive X Prize blog; Engineer, Jetalon Eric Gradman Applied Minds; The Mutaytor / Cirque Berzerk Eric Rasmussen CEO, InSTEDD (per 2009.bilconference.com 'Smart Power Con... Erik Hersman AfriGadget Eve Blossom Founder and CEO, Lulan Artisans Evo Heyning Francine Hardaway Partner, Stealthmode Partners Francisco Dao Founder and President, The Killer Pitch Gavin Starks George Bressler Center 4 Smart Power (C4SP) Glenn Zucman Gordy Grundy Heather Vescent Silicon Valley product manager (ngs-57) Ilsa Bartlett Isa Gordon SIGGRAPH CyberFashion Show Jayson Elliot Director of User Experience, Greater Than One Jenn Ramsey Sex educator (ngs-41) Jessica Mullen The Church of Internetology Jessica Richman BRIC Tour (brictour.blogspot.com, ngs-78) Joel Grus Speaker/Writer John Chisholm John Deneen John Schloendorn Institute for Biomedical Gerontology, Tempe AZ (ngs-68) John Smart John Trager Jonathan Sheffi Harvard Business School Class of 2011, BIL:PIL 2009 organ... Joseph Adams ASU Saguaro high-performance computing (2009 blog 'Hands-... Joseph Jackson Joseph Turian Post-doctoral research fellow, Université de Montréal KV Fitzpatrick University of Southern California (graduate student, Neur... Karl Roth Kevin Baugh KnowledgeBridgeIntl.com (per PIL-Speakers wishlist page) Kiem Tjong Lindsay LaShell Lisa Tansey Lynn Langit Marissa Louie Matias Viegener Fallen Fruit art collaboration (ngs-72) Matthew Schultz BIL 2009 Podcast studio host Micah Baldwin Mike Mettler Mitch Altman CEO, Cornfield Electronics. Patri Friedman Executive Director, The Seasteading Institute Peter Samuelson EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof) Peter Voss Speaker Raines Cohen Aging in Community / cohousing movement (ngs-62) Richard Gordon Founder, Quantum-Touch (ngs-89) Richard Leis Executive Director, Humanity+ (ngs-23) Robert Kirkpatrick InSTEDD / Open Mobile Consortium Robert Sperry Ryan Arroyo MyWaterFuture.com Silona Bonewald Tom Schaff Chairman of the Board, Statue of Responsibility Foundatio... Tommi Virtanen Varoujan Gorjian Spitzer Space Telescope scientist (per ngs-71) Virgil Griffith Ward Plunet Whurley Goldman Sachs

Talks

• "Material Social Change" How a fabric company is transforming lives in local communities globally — Eve Blossom
• 10 Lessons I Learned from Starting Companies in a Downturn — Francine Hardaway
• 15 minutes with an evil genius — Whurley
• A Garage-Level Biomedical Research Effort is Taking on Death — John Schloendorn
• A Lever and A Place to Stand: How to Do Cool Things Around the World — Alex Lightman
• A New Basic Human Skill — Richard Gordon
• A mass with The Church of Internetology — Jessica Mullen
• Advertising: Now and Future — Marissa Louie
• AfriGadget: What do you see? — Erik Hersman
• Aging In Community: Cohousing, Village Networks, Elders' Guilds, Earth Elders — Raines Cohen
• An "integrated" Solution to Water Mismanagement in the West — David Zetland
• An Extraordinary Collaboration to End the Diseases of Aging — Barbara Logan
• Automotive X Prize — Eric Boyd ▶ video
• Big Startup Weekend announcement… going open. — Andrew Hyde
• Brazil, Russia, India, China (BRIC) - Whither the global order? — Jessica Richman
• Breakthrough News — Heather Vescent
• Building School Culture — Danielle Strachman
• By Video: Your Energy IDentity — Gavin Starks
• California's Water Crisis - What YOU can do! — Ryan Arroyo
• Can we burn less gasses? YES WE CAN! — Chris Axton
• Cancer: A Call for a New Health Science Research Paradigm — Ward Plunet
• Center 4 Smart Power (C4SP) — George Bressler
• Chair Massage — Adam Glickman
• Climate Change, Disaster Response, and the Spread of Infectious Diseases — Eric Rasmussen
• Color by Numbers - The Wonders of Algorithmic Art — Matthew Schultz
• Conscious Capitalism: Why Giving Just Makes Sense — Blake Mycoskie
• Creating the University of the Future — Alexandros Pagidas
• Deep Learning for Artificial Intelligence — Joseph Turian
• Democratic Source Development — Emma Persky
• Democratizing the University Innovation Process — Kiem Tjong ▶ video
• EDAR (Everyone Deserves a roof) — Peter Samuelson
• Everything I learned about being successful in life I earned from teaching blow job classes — Jenn Ramsey
• Evo Devo Universe? A Framework for Thinking About the Future — John Smart
• Exercise and The Nervous System — KV Fitzpatrick
• Fertility Awareness Method Crash Course — Danielle Strachman
• Freedom Isn't Free: The All New American Responsibility Movement — Tom Schaff
• From Extrasolar Planets to Black Holes: The Latest Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope — Varoujan Gorjian
• Gargoyle in Your Pocket: the Future of Wearables — Isa Gordon
• Greed, Power, and the Sex-Life of Naked Pixels — Glenn Zucman
• Happiness — Daniel Ford
• How Attracting The Opposite Sex Is Simpler Than You Think — David Wygant
• How Technology Keeps Failing Us — Tommi Virtanen
• In Support of Local — Lindsay LaShell
• Interactive Spaces — Eric Gradman
• It's the Experience, Stupid — Thoughts on saving the music business — Clint Schaff
• Land redistribution, community empowerment and community land trusts. — Carissa van den Berk Clark
• Lightful: A open, public project to create the next generation of computer interfaces — Jayson Elliot
• Lightning Temple: Energetic Research on Stage — Evonne Heyning
• Lucid Living & World Peace from the Inside Out — Craig Sim Webb
• Measuring consciousness of simple neural systems — Virgil Griffith
• Meta Civilization Tutorial — Eric Boyd
• Middle East - any new ideas? — Lisa Tansey
• Not So Simple Any More: The Bleeding Edge of RSS — Chris Bucchere
• Oh yeah, it's the People - The Key Ingredient to Making Shit Happen — A.J. Pape
• On Breathing — Ilsa Bartlett ▶ video
• One Click Organisations: Emergent Democracy For Everyone! — Charles Armstrong
• Open Mobile Consortium — Robert Kirkpatrick
• Open Source Architecture: From TED Prize to reality — Cameron Sinclair
• Outworking & Innovation — Drew Jones
• PODCAST! — Matthew Schultz
• Perils of Robotics — Eric Gradman
• Playpower: Using Computer-Aided Learning Games on $12 computers (for real) to enhance education worldwide — Derek Lomas
• Practical Application of Technology — Heather Vescent ▶ video
• Robot cars saving the planet — part two — Brad Templeton
• Salient Differences Between Art and Science and Why They Actually Need Each Other — Andrew Berardini
• Seasteading: how to homestead the high seas and why it will make politics work better — Patri Friedman
• Secrets of Social Influence (How to get a Date) — Francisco Dao
• Seven Axes of Sexual Orientation — John Chisholm
• Silicon Valley Conference Aims to Raise Planetary IQ — John Deneen
• Social Empowerment Makes Apathy Obsolete: Empowerment Anywhere Is An Inspiration For Empowerment Everywhere — Alex Peake ▶ video
• State of Humanity+ — Richard Leis
• Super "Hello World" Experience — Joseph Adams
• Sustainable Poverty Reduction for 3+ Billion — Curt Beckmann
• Tactics and Strategy for the Organizational Guerilla: acheving positive change in organizations that resist it. — Kevin Baugh
• Teaching Kids to Code with Boku — Lynn Langit ▶ video
• The Evils of Cloud Computing, Data Portability & Single Sign On — Brad Templeton ▶ video
• The Free and Open Science/Technology Paradigm — Joseph Jackson
• The Great Vanishing — Richard Leis
• The Hacker Space Movement — Mitch Altman
• The Methuselah Foundation's university research projects: SENS progress worldwide — Aubrey de Grey ▶ video
• The Promise and the Peril of Personalized Medicine — Jonathan Sheffi ▶ video
• The art of Conference Crashing — Chris Axton
• There Are Some Things We Just Don't Know — Gordy Grundy
• Towards Real AI — Peter Voss ▶ video
• Transparent Government starting with the Federal Budget — Silona Bonewald
• Traveling in the world's most dangerous places — Mike Mettler
• What You Don't Know About The Solar Panel Industry… — Karl Roth
• What is Public Fruit and What Can it Do? — Matias Viegener
• What's Funny about the Interwebs — Ben Huh
• Where is My Cyborg Self — Alex Kawas
• Why is longevity such a hard sell? — Damian Crowe
• Working with Complex Systems: Approaches, Techniques, and Philosophies — John Trager
• You Are The Center of Your Universe — Micah Baldwin
• Your Religion is False — Joel Grus ▶ video
• Your lack of script is killing us: How applying engineering to new domains can save lives and edcuate the world. — Robert Sperry
• Zars: Cars that form Trains — Bruce A. McHenry

Organizers

• Cody Marx Bailey Co-organizer
• Bill Erickson Co-organizer
• Todd Huffman Co-organizer