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 Tim Anderson finds himself building minimum-consumption personal infrastructure from recycled scavenged materials. Redirecting the waste stream. Doing much with little. A reverse peace-corps to learn from poor people all over the world. |
 Scott Beale is the primary tentacle and founder of Laughing Squid and Laughing Squid Web Hosting. He lives in San Francisco and is married to Lori Dorn. He blogs, host websites, twitters, shoots photos & video, publicizes events, shares links, has a thing for squid, organizes parties and drinks lots of coffee. |
 David Calkins is currently cohosting Systm, the Do It Yourself show designed for the common geek who wants to quickly and easily learn how to dive into the latest and hottest tech projects.He is also a widely respected robot builder and expert. He teaches robotics and computer engineering at San Francisco State University, is the president of the Robotics Society of America, Founder of the international ROBOlympics competition. |
 Simone Davalos is Owner of Combots LLC. Her work centers on robotics education and the promotion of tomorrow’s engineers. Combots provides an entertaining and educational experience in robotics and engineering for audiences of all ages. |
 Amy Critchett is a media and marketing producer with an activist’s heart. Her life’s passion is to change the world one thought-provoking and innovative experience at a time. She has participated in several industry defining media launches, including the earliest days of Wired, ZDTV, and Oxygen Media. |
 Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com. Doherty is author of the books This is Burning Man (2004, Little, Brown; paperback BenBella, 2006) and Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (PublicAffairs, 2007). |
 Brian Eno is a musician, composer and producer of audio and visual landscapes. Eno’s synthesizer work and electronic manipulation of audio textures was first featured during the early 1970’s as a founding member of Roxy Music. His solo and collaborative musical compositions with John Cale, Robert Fripp and David Bowie have been in circulation world-wide over the last 25 years. In recent years, Eno has been involved in the design and production of audio/video gallery installations including “Music for White Cube” at the White Cube Gallery in London and “Lightness” in the Marble Palace at the Russian Museum, St. Petersberg. |
 Brewster Kahle has built technologies, companies, and institutions to advance the goal of universal access to all knowledge. He currently oversees the non-profit Internet Archive as founder and Digital Librarian, which is now one of the largest digital archives in the world. |
 Daniel M. Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. He works on energy and environmental science, policy and analysis, and has extensive field experience in Latin American, southeast Asia and China, and in Africa. |
 Michael Michael rides the edge of community, art, technology and culture. He is one of the principal organizers of the Burning Man art festival in Nevada and the organizing force behind the Cacophony Society, a social network dedicated to the pursuit of experiences beyond the mainstream |
| Tom Miles is runs a consulting design engineering firm in Portland, Oregon, USA. For more than 30 years his work has been in mechanical engineering in the design and development of fuel preparation systems and industrial biomass combustion and gasification systems for heat and power generation. His background is in wood technology, especially wood and non-wood fiber processing and in economic development. |
 Paul Saffo is a forecaster and essayist with over two decades experience exploring long-term technological change and its practical impact on business and society. He currently teaches at Stanford University and is a Visiting Scholar in the Stanford Media X research network. |
 Alex Steffen has been the Executive Editor of Worldchanging since he co-founded the organization in 2003, as the next phase in a lifetime of work exploring ways of building a better future. In a very short time, Worldchanging has become the most widely-read sustainability-related publication on the Internet. |
 Joseph (Yossi) Vardi is one of Israel’s early tech entrepreneurs. For 40 years he founded and helped build over 50 tech companies in diverse areas of software, energy, Internet, mobile, electro-optics, clean water and others. |
 Eric Wilhelm earned his SB, SM, and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, where he developed methods to print electronics and micro-electromechanical systems using nanoparticles. He was awarded the National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Award for the development of a printing technique used to create patterns in films of nanoparticles or polymers with resolutions reaching into the 10’s of nanometers. Eric co-founded Squid Labs and is currently CEO of Instructables. Eric believes in making technology accessible through understanding, and strives to inspire others to learn as much as they can and share it with those around them. |
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Tim Anderson finds himself building minimum-consumption personal infrastructure from recycled scavenged materials. Redirecting the waste stream. Doing much with little. A reverse peace-corps to learn from poor people all over the world.
David Calkins is currently cohosting Systm, the Do It Yourself show designed for the common geek who wants to quickly and easily learn how to dive into the latest and hottest tech projects.He is also a widely respected robot builder and expert. He teaches robotics and computer engineering at San Francisco State University, is the president of the Robotics Society of America, Founder of the international ROBOlympics competition.
Simone Davalos is Owner of Combots LLC. Her work centers on robotics education and the promotion of tomorrow’s engineers. Combots provides an entertaining and educational experience in robotics and engineering for audiences of all ages.
Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com. Doherty is author of the books This is Burning Man (2004, Little, Brown; paperback BenBella, 2006) and Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (PublicAffairs, 2007). 
Brian Eno is a musician, composer and producer of audio and visual landscapes. Eno’s synthesizer work and electronic manipulation of audio textures was first featured during the early 1970’s as a founding member of Roxy Music. His solo and collaborative musical compositions with John Cale, Robert Fripp and David Bowie have been in circulation world-wide over the last 25 years. In recent years, Eno has been involved in the design and production of audio/video gallery installations including “Music for White Cube” at the White Cube Gallery in London and “Lightness” in the Marble Palace at the Russian Museum, St. Petersberg.
Brewster Kahle has built technologies, companies, and institutions to advance the goal of universal access to all knowledge. He currently oversees the non-profit Internet Archive as founder and Digital Librarian, which is now one of the largest digital archives in the world.
Daniel M. Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. He works on energy and environmental science, policy and analysis, and has extensive field experience in Latin American, southeast Asia and China, and in Africa.
Michael Michael rides the edge of community, art, technology and culture. He is one of the principal organizers of the Burning Man art festival in Nevada and the organizing force behind the Cacophony Society, a social network dedicated to the pursuit of experiences beyond the mainstream
Paul Saffo is a forecaster and essayist with over two decades experience exploring long-term technological change and its practical impact on business and society. He currently teaches at Stanford University and is a Visiting Scholar in the Stanford Media X research network.
Alex Steffen has been the Executive Editor of Worldchanging since he co-founded the organization in 2003, as the next phase in a lifetime of work exploring ways of building a better future. In a very short time, Worldchanging has become the most widely-read sustainability-related publication on the Internet.
Joseph (Yossi) Vardi is one of Israel’s early tech entrepreneurs. For 40 years he founded and helped build over 50 tech companies in diverse areas of software, energy, Internet, mobile, electro-optics, clean water and others.
Eric Wilhelm earned his SB, SM, and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, where he developed methods to print electronics and micro-electromechanical systems using nanoparticles. He was awarded the National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Award for the development of a printing technique used to create patterns in films of nanoparticles or polymers with resolutions reaching into the 10’s of nanometers. Eric co-founded Squid Labs and is currently CEO of Instructables. Eric believes in making technology accessible through understanding, and strives to inspire others to learn as much as they can and share it with those around them.
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