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Stanford University
Date: May 15, 2006
Location: Stanford, CA

Singularity Summit at Stanford
Date: May 13, 2006
Location: Stanford, CA

Council on Entrepreneurial Development
Date: May 3, 2006
Location: Pinehurst, NC

MassMedic Annual Meeting
Date: May 2, 2006
Location: Boston, MA

News Corporation
Date: May 1, 2006
Location: Cambridge, MA

Iowa State, Human Computer Interaction Forum
Date: April 12, 2006
Location: Ames, Iowa

University of Southern California and AAAS 125th Anniversary Conference
Date: April 11, 2006
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Women Entrepreneurs In Science
Date: April 6, 2006
Location: Boston, MA

Bio-IT World
Date: April 3, 2006
Location: Boston, MA

FIRST Regional Robotics Competition
Date: March 25, 2006
Location: Boston, MA

Pfizer Global Glaucoma Summit
Date: March 24, 2006
Location: Beijing (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Interlaken, Switzerland

Tech Days sponsored by Microsoft
Date: March 23, 2006
Location: Interlaken, Switzerland

x.days sponsored by Microsoft, HP, and Orange
Date: March 21, 2006
Location: Interlaken, Switzerland

Evercore Partners
Date: March 9, 2006
Location: LaJolla, CA

BioAgenda
Date: March 9, 2006
Location: Palm Springs, CA

eCollege's The Center for Internet Technology in Education Conference
Date: March 9, 2006
Location: Denver, CO (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Palm Springs

American Council on Education
Date: February 13, 2006
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Technology Association of Georgia
Date: February 7, 2006
Location: Altanta, GA

American Society for Training and Development
Date: February 1, 2006
Location: Denver, CO

Methuselah Foundation
Date: December 8, 2005
Location: Boston, MA

Western Association of Venture Capitalists
Date: December 1, 2005
Location: Redwood City, CA (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)

Council on Foreign Relations
Date: November 30, 2005
Location: New York, New York

Georgia Pacific
Date: November 29, 2005
Location: Orlando, FL

Art Center College of Design
Date: November 17, 2005
Location: Pasadena, CA

Industry Hall of Fame
Date: November 15, 2005
Location: Silicon Valley, CA

World Healthcare Innovations in Technology Congress
Date: November 10, 2005
Location: Washington, DC

Dow Jones
Date: November 8, 2005
Location: New York, New York

Western Michigan University
Date: November 3, 2005
Location: Kalamazoo, MI

Future Forward
Date: November 1, 2005
Location: Beverly, MA

Google Zeitgeist
Date: October 26, 2005
Location: Mountain View, CA

Microsoft Research Division
Date: October 11, 2005
Location: Redmond, WA

Seattle Town Hall
Date: October 10, 2005
Location: Seattle, WA

National Research Council of Canada's Annual Leaderhip Forum
Date: October 4, 2005
Location: Toronto, Canada (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)

IT Infrastructure Management Conference and Expo
Date: October 3, 2005
Location: Orlando, FL

Tech Review's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT
Date: September 29, 2005
Location: Cambridge, MA

Lockheed Martin ITeam Leadership Conference 2005
Date: September 28, 2005
Location: Orlando, FL

Telecosm
Date: September 26, 2005
Location: Lake Tahoe, CA

The Long Now Foundation
Date: September 23, 2005
Location: San Francisco, CA

SD Forum
Date: September 22, 2005
Location: San Diego, CA

Google
Date: September 21, 2005
Location: Mountain View, CA

Future of Broadband Conference
Date: September 21, 2005
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)

Accelerating Change Conference
Date: September 17, 2005
Location: Stanford, CA

Custom Electric Design Installation Association
Date: September 9, 2005
Location: Indianapolis, IN

Geoethical Nanotechnology Workshop
Date: July 20, 2005
Location: Lincoln, VT

BP Group Technology Conference
Date: June 29, 2005
Location: San Diego, CA

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital (GSRH) Hall of Fame Award
Date: June 23, 2005
Location: Allentown, PA
Kurzweil Keynote: Disabilities and Technology in the 21st Century
Event Summary: Founded in 1908, GSRH is a world-class rehabilitation network providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services throughout Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. They are a leading provider of post-acute rehabilitation care, serving over 35,000 people annually. Ray Kurzweil was the 33rd recipient of GSRH's Annual Hall of Fame Award.
Audience: Three hundred senior leaders, technical staff, and Good Shepherd community members.
Event host URL: http://www.goodshepherdrehab.org/

Microsoft's Senior Technical Community Dinner
Date: June 21, 2005
Location: Gates' residence, Redmond, WA
Kurzweil Keynote: Early in the Twenty-First Century, Software will Underlie Everything of Value
Event Summary: Hosted by Bill Gates, this dinner was attended by fifty of Microsoft's most senior technical employees and their spouses. Ray Kurzweil was the featured speaker.
Audience: Fifty of Microsoft's senior technical employees and their spouses.

World Bank
Date: June 9, 2005
Location: Washington, DC
Kurzweil Keynote: The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Business, the Economy, and Society
Event Summary: This was a meeting of The World Bank's Information Solutions Network focused on the future of information technology, the challenges ahead, encouraging innovation, and fostering vision.
Audience: Five hundred professionals from The World Bank's IT and finance teams.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Commencement Address
Date: May 21, 2005
Location: Worcester, MA
Event Summary: Founded in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1865, WPI was one of the nation's earliest technological universities. WPI is ranked No. 55 among all national, doctoral universities by U.S. News & World Report; No. 1 for student/faculty interaction in the National Survey of Student Engagement; and No. 9 by The Princeton Review for "best career prospects" for graduates of the MBA program. WPI's 18 academic departments offer more than 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science, engineering, technology, management, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts, leading to the B.S., M.S., M.E., MBA and Ph.D.
Audience: Thousands of students, faculty, and community members of WPI.
Event host URL: http://www.wpi.edu/

GSC Partners Meeting
Date: May 19, 2005
Location: Princeton, NJ
Kurzweil Keynote: The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Business, the Economy, and Society
Event Summary: Founded in 1994, GSC Partners is a private investment firm, with $7.2 billion of assets under management. The Firm specializes in control distressed debt investing, corporate credit, mezzanine lending, and structured finance. GSC Partners is privately owned, has over 100 employees, and has offices in New Jersey, New York and London.
Audience: Sixty investment professionals and managers from GSC Partners.
Event host URL: http://www.gscpartners.com/

Cambridge Forum: The Ron Burns Memorial Forum on Science and Technology
Date: May 4, 2005
Location: Cambridge, MA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Coming Merger of Human and Machine
Event Summary: Cambridge Forum is one of public radio’s longest running public affairs programs. Recorded live every week in Harvard Square, Cambridge Forum focuses on the news behind the news and regularly examines the issues and ideas that shape our lives. The programs explore topics related to civic democracy, science and technology, history and the global environment, and include as well discussions about computers, education, art, and more.
Event host URL: http://www.cambridgeforum.org/

Discovery Forum 2005, sponsored by Peoria Next
Date: April 29, 2005
Location: Peoria, IL
Kurzweil Keynote: Innovation in the 21st Century
Audience: Nine hundred entrepreneurs, artists, scientists and educators from throughout the Midwest.
Event Summary: This annual event, held at the Peoria Civic Center, brought together over 900 people from around the Midwest with the goal of making the Peoria area fertile ground for artistic and scientific endeavors. This year's event focused on exploring the impact of innovations in art, science and the Knowledge Economy.
Event host URL: http://www.peorianext.org/splash.html

8th Annual Milken Institute Global Conference
Date: April 16, 2005
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Kurzweil Keynote: Biotechnology and Nanotechnology: Two Overlapping Health Revolutions
Audience: 2,300 business leaders, investors, government officials, journalists, and top academics.
Event Summary: Now in its eighth year, the Global Conference has become an important gathering for a diverse audience of business leaders, financial executives, investors, institutional investors, philanthropists, government officials, journalists and top academics – including many Nobel laureates – from more than 50 countries. The 8th annual Conference brought together some of the world’s most extraordinary thinkers and decision makers for three days of intensive discussions on a wide range of economic, business, public policy and social issues. More than 325 panelists on more than 80 sessions provided a detailed look at current global conditions, and some not-so-far-off predictions about the future.
Event URL: http://www.milkeninstitute.org/events/events.taf?function=detail&ID=145&cat=GC&EventID=GC05

Department of the Interior Director’s Cultural Lecture
Date: April 8, 2005
Location: Denver, CO
Kurzweil Keynote: The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Business, the Economy and Society

World Blind Union's "Vision 2005"
Date: April 7, 2005
Location: London, England (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)
Kurzweil Keynote: The Future of Blindness and Disabilities in an Age of Accelerating Technology
Audience: Twelve thousand delegates from 69 countries.
Event Summary: This is the world’s largest conference on issues concerning people with sight problems, hosted by the Royal National Institute of the Blind. Speakers from 55 countries led 700 discussions, workshops and presentations in which issues of worldwide significance were discussed. The latest cutting edge scientific research was showcased and case studies presented excellent practice-based work. Presentations were given by leading international figures in the field of blindness and sight loss.
Event URL: http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/code/public_rnib004044.hcsp

National Institutes of Health Director's Cultural Lecture
Date: March 30, 2005
Location: Bethesda,MD
Kurzweil Keynote: Biotechnology and Nanotechnology: Two Overlapping Health Revolutions
Audience: Approximately 500 people from the NIH community, with telecasts to overflow rooms and laboratories on and off campus.
Event Summary: The NIH's Director's Cultural Lectures are the most prestigious on campus and contribute to the vitality of science and life at NIH.
Event host URL: http://www.nih.gov

Icon Speaker Series, sponsored by Wired Magazine
Date: March 23, 2005
Location: Manhattan, NY
Kurzweil Keynote: A Glimpse of the Twenty-First Century
Event Summary: Sponsored by WIRED magazine, this lecture was part of a special series held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. The series focuses on technology and a world undergoing transformation and features leaders in business, technology, design, entertainment,and science. Ray Kurzweil was interviewed live on stage by a WIRED editor.
Event host URL: http://www.wired.com

TED2005
Date: February 26, 2005
Location: Monterey, CA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Audience: Eight hundred though leaders in technology, entertainment, and design.
Event Summary: TED was born in 1984 out of the observation by Richard Saul Wurman of a powerful convergence between Technology, Entertainment and Design. The first TED included the public unveiling of the Macintosh computer and the Sony compact disc, while mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot demonstrated how to map coastlines with his newly discovered fractals and AI guru Marvin Minsky outlined his powerful new model of the mind. TED has been held regularly in Monterey, California, ever since, attracting a growing and influential audience from many different disciplines united by their curiosity, open-mindedness, a desire to think outside the box... and by the sense of community arising from their shared discovery of an exciting secret. (TED has never had an advertising budget or a PR campaign.) Meanwhile the roster of speakers broadened to include scientists, philosophers, musicians, religious leaders, environmentalists and many others.
Event host URL: http://www.ted.com

The Photo Marketing Association's 81st Annual Conference and Tradeshow
Date: February 18, 2005
Location: Orlando, FL
Kurzweil Keynote: The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century and Its Impact on the Economy, Culture, and Society
Audience: 2,500 PMA members.
Event Summary: PMA is a trade association of photo imaging retailers and processors worldwide. The main goal of PMA is to help their 20,000 members, in 100-plus countries, expand their consumer, commercial and industrial markets and increase their profitability. This was their 81st annual event attended by 2,500 members.
Event host URL: http://www.pmai.org/new_pma/1028/default.asp

Cisco System's Global Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) 2005
Date: February 16, 2005
Location: Aptos, CA
Kurzweil Keynote: Innovation in the Twenty First Century
Audience: Two hundred IBSG vertical consultants including senior management.
Event Summary: Combining industry expertise, knowledge, and experience, IBSG helps Global 500 companies identify and implement technology solutions and services that offer the greatest business impact. The focus of this annual meeting was, "IBSG Next Generation: Defining the Future."
Event host URL: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/about/ac79/about_cisco_internet_business_solutions_group.html

The Explorer's Club Presidential Lecture Series
Date: February 2, 2005
Location: Manhattan, NY
Kurzweil Keynote: Exploring the Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century
Event Summary: Founded in 1904, The Explorer's Club is a multidisciplinary, professional society with 3,000 members world-wide, dedicated to the advancement of field research, scientific exploration, and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore. The mission of the Club is the encouragement of scientific exploration of land, sea, air, and space, with particular emphasis on the physical and biological sciences. The Presidential Lecture Series is for members only.
Event host URL: http://www.explorers.org/

5th Annual Eclipsys Executive Forum
Date: January 18, 2005
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Kurzweil Keynote: The Impact of 21st Century Technology on Human Health and Society
Audience: One hundred C-level executives of hospitals and healthcare providers.
Event Summary: This was a two day executive retreat for Eclipsys' customer base with the theme, "A Vision of Health." The event focused on healthy outcomes for patients and companies (cost, effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction).
Event host URL: http://www.eclipsys.com/

Canada School of Public Service's Science & Technology Convergence Symposium
Date: January 11, 2005
Location: Ottawa, Canada (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)
Kurzweil Keynote: The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century and Its Impact on Society
Audience: Three hundred scientists, managers and policy-makers.
Event Summary: This was a pre-forum, one-day event on science convergence. It included participation from across government departments and agencies with representation from a broad cross-section of the federal science and technology community including scientists and technicians, science managers and federal S & T knowledge workers, such as policy advisors, regulatory officers and youth.

Longwood Area Clinical Diabetes and Metabolism Conference Series
Date: January 10, 2005
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Kurzweil Keynote: The Impact of 21st Century Technology on Human Health
Audience: 140 physicians, research investigators, fellows, residents and students from Harvard Medical School
Event host URL: http://www.joslindiabetescenter.org/

Milton Academy
Date: December 15, 2004
Location: Milton, MA
Kurzweil keynote: What the Future Will Bring
Audience: Milton Academy's upper school student body and faculty.
Event Summary: This was a full upper-school assembly featuring Ray Kurzweil. Mr. Kurzweil presented a lecture, including a demonstration of a virtual person and a video about her creation.
Event host URL: http://www.milton.edu/

24th Army Science Conference
Date: November 29, 2004
Location: Orlando, FL
Kurzweil Keynote: War Fighting in the Early 21st Century: The Remote, Robotic, Robust, Size-Reduced Virtual-Reality Paradigm
Audience: 2,000 attendees from government, academia, and industry from the US and allied nations.
Event Summary: This conference was built on the theme, "Transformational Science and Technology for the Current and Future Force." Conference objectives were to provide for an opportunity for the science and technology community to discuss the latest developments in emerging technologies and their impact on the soldier of the future; to provide a forum for the cross fertilization and leveraging of ideas among the many scientific and engineering disciplines relevant to the Army's missions; and to publicly recognize the important technical achievements of scientists and engineers doing work relevant to the Army.
Event URL: http://www.asc2004.com/

Babson Entrepreneurship and Innovation Forum
Date: November 12, 2004
Location: Wellesley, MA
Kurzweil Panel: Identifying an Opportunity in Technology
Audience: Approximately 120 industry leaders, students, faculty, and community members.
Event Summary: This was the 3rd annual Babson Forum, a conference of the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College, the world's leader in entrepreneurial management education. The Forum is an opportunity for more than 500 students, entrepreneurs, academics, business people, and others to share knowledge, experience, and ideas about entrepreneurship and innovation.
Event URL: http://www.babsonentrepreneurshipforum.org/

An Evening with Ray Kurzweil presented by ClearSpeed Technology
Date: November 10, 2004
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Emergence and Impact of Intelligent Machines
Audience: Approximately 500 scientists, technologists, professional in the field of supercomputing that use application in supercomputing in the fields of biotech and nanotech.
Event Summary: This event was organized in parallel to the Supercomputing 2004 Conference, the most widely attended annual conference for the supercomputing industry. The theme of the program was "supercomputing everywhere: imbedded, wearable, portable" and featured a presentation and on-stage interview with Ray Kurzweil.
Event host URL: http://www.clearspeed.com//

Foresight Institute's First Conference on Advanced Nanotechnology
Date: October 22, 2004
Location: Arlington, VA
Kurzweil Keynote: An Exponentially Expanding Future from Exponentially Shrinking Technology
Audience: Approximately two hundred Foresight members including scientists, researchers, and others.
Event Summary: This was the first in a series of Conferences on Advanced Nanotechnology: Research, Applications, and Policy. This new meeting series examines all aspects of advanced nanotechnology, also termed molecular manufacturing or MNT: research status, prospects for disruptive applications, and policy issues — including maximizing access for those who would not otherwise benefit. Foresight Institute's first Conference on Nanotechnology, which pre-dated the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative by a decade, was the first comprehensive conference on the topic of nanotechology. Foresight-sponsored events continue to be the premiere venue for discussing new and innovative multidisciplinary research in nanotechnology and what these developments will mean for society.
Event URL: http://www.foresight.org/conferences/AdvNano2004/index.html

Harvey Mudd College's Dr. Brice Nelson Distinguished Speaker Series
Date: October 20, 2004
Location: Claremont, CA (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)
Kurzweil Keynote: The Coming Merger of Human and Machine
Audience: Seven hundred students, faculty, and community members.
Event Summary: This was the seventh year of this distinguished lecture series with the theme "Frontiers in Computer Science." Harvey Mudd College, established in 1955, is known as the premiere undergraduate college of engineering and science in the United States.
Event host URL: http://www.hmc.edu/

Parthenon Capital CEO Conference
Date: October 14, 2004
Location: Carefree, AZ (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)
Kurzweil Keynote: The Future of Information Technology as it Asymptotes to 100% of the Value of Products and Services
Audience: Approximately forty CEOs and Parthenon Capital executives.
Event Summary: Parthenon Capital is a $1.1 billion private equity firm with offices in Boston and San Francisco. The firm focuses on providing financial backing and strategic support to middle market companies for acquisition and internal growth strategies. Topics covered at this event included: Outsourcing, building extraordinary teams, state of capital markets, the innovator's dilemma and solution, and disruptive technology.
Event host URL: http://www.parthenoncapital.com/

TEDMED
Date: October 14, 2004
Location: Charleston, SC
Kurzweil Presentation: A Bridge to a Bridge to a Bridge...to Immortality
Event Summary: The Wall Street Journal and Richard Saul Wurman teamed up to present TEDMED in 2004, a conference focused on the business and communication of medical technology, research and healthcare in the 21st Century. Like past Journal events, and previous TEDMED conferences and the TED conferences, this provided an intimate, in-depth look at the frontiers of healthcare and medical technology. TEDMED represents a new pattern of thought about the business of healthcare that encompasses genetic research, information technologies, advertising, pharmacology, forensics, epidemiology and robotics, among other fields.
Event URL: http://www.tedmed.com/

Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute's 25th Anniversary
Date: October 13, 2004
Location: Pittsburg, PA (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)
Kurzweil Keynote: The Web Within Us: When Minds and Machines Become One
Event Summary: Twenty-five years ago Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute opened its doors with the dream of ushering in a new age of thinking robots. During the ensuing two and one-half decades, they have experienced many research successes in intelligent manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, space-related robots, medical robotics, nano-machines and anthropomorphic robots. This event celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Robotics Institute with a thought-provoking robotics extravaganza. The four-day, public, interactive event provided a forum for the research, educational and business communities to explore and discuss the impact and future of robotics.
Event URL: http://www.ri.cmu.edu/events/25th/poster_flash.html

Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT
Date: September 29, 2004
Location: Cambridge, MA
Kurzweil Keynote: Innovation in an Era of Accelerating Technologies
Audience: Over 1,000 science and technology professionals from 36 states and 41 countries.
Event Summary: The 2nd Annual Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT showcased the technologies that are poised to make a dramatic impact on our world. This two-day event was produced by Technology Review Magazine, the authority on emerging technology. It brought together world-renowned innovators and leaders in technology and business for keynote, panel and breakout discussions that center on the transformative technological innovations certain to better our lives, create opportunities and fuel economic growth.
Event URL: http://www.tretc.com/

Cadence Innovation Day
Date: September 22, 2004
Location: Chelmsford, MA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Business, the Economy and Society
Audience: 100 Cadence technical, research, and administrative staff.
Event Summary: This event was sponsored by Cadence Labs, the research group within Cadence Design Systems. As part of their Distinguished Lecture Series, the event was designed to keep Cadence engineers current with technologies and trends in the industry. Cadence is the largest supplier of software tools and professional services needed to accelerate and manage the design of electronic-based products.

12th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine
Date: August 22, 2004
Location: Chicago, IL
Kurzweil Keynote: Three Bridges to Radical Life Extension
Audience: Two thousand physician's from around the world.
Event Summary: The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine is a non-profit medical organization with a membership of 11,500 physicians and scientists from 65 countries, dedicated to the advancement of technology to detect, prevent, and treat aging related disease and to promote research into methods to retard and optimize the human aging process. A4M is also dedicated to educating physicians, scientists, and members of the public on anti-aging issues.
Event URL: http://www.worldhealth.net/

American Healthcare Radiology Administrators Annual Meeting
Date: August 3, 2004
Location: Boston, MA
Kurzweil Keynote: Reverse Engineering the Human Body and Brain -- The Impact on Human Health and Society
Audience: One thousand two hundred radiology administrators.
Event Summary: The AHRA Annual Meeting and Exposition is the premier event for imaging and radiology administrators as well as other healthcare professionals.
Event URL: http://www.ahra.com/annmtg/2005/call.htm

World Future Society's "World Future 2004: Creating the Future Now"
Date: July 31, 2004
Location: Washington, DC
Kurzweil Opening Keynote: The Law of Accelerating Returns and the Coming Merger of Human and Machine
Kurzweil Special Event Keynote: Reverse Engineering and Simulating the Human Brain and Radical Life Extension
Audience: Approximately 1,000 members of the World Future Society.
Event Summary: The World Future Society is an association of people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future. The Society was founded in 1966 and is chartered as a nonprofit educational and scientific organization in Washington, D.C. The Society strives to serve as a neutral clearinghouse for ideas about the future including forecasts, recommendations, and alternative scenarios. These ideas help people to anticipate what may happen in the next 5, 10, or more years ahead.
Event URL: http://www.wfs.org/2004summary.htm

National Federation of the Blind Annual Convention
Date: July 4, 2004
Location: Atanta, GA
Kurzweil Keynote: Disabilities and Blindness Technology in the 21st Century
Audience: Three thousand members of the National Federation of the Blind from all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and numerous foreign countries.
Event Summary: Ray Kurzweil, inventor of the original Kurzweil Reading Machine, presented the Kurzweil Foundation's annual scholarship awards to thirty blind students. The awards banquet was part of the annual convention which gives government representatives, agency administrators, and leaders in politics, business, and industry the opportunity to address and respond to a large nationwide audience primarily of individuals who are blind or visually impaired. The topics of interest include: relevant civil rights issues; rehabilitation of the blind for competitive employment; the operation of vending facilities by blind persons on public property; specialized library services for the blind; Social Security and Supplemental Security Income programs; advancements in technology; the organization and funding of federal programs; and other timely topics. Legislative proposals, new laws, administrative policy, and program changes were all considered during the convention.
Event URL: http://www.nfb.org/convent/convens2.htm

Business 4Site
Date: June 16, 2004
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Future of Information Technology as it Asymptotes to 100% of the Value of Products and Services
Audience: Two hundred senior level executives from mid market level companies.
Event Summary: Produced by Ziff Davis Media, this was an inaugural conference that provided customers with customized programs to analyze key business issues and the technology to solve them. The three day conference provided a unique and intimate setting where the technology industry's leading companies interacted with their customers and prospects.
Event URL: http://www.business4site.com

IDEAS Boston 2004
Date: June 7, 2004
Location: Boston, MA
Kurzweil Presentation: How to Live Long Enough to Live Forever
Audience: Four hundred thought-leaders, CEOs, non-profit directors, education leaders, entrepreneurs, and civic leaders
Event Summary: This inaugural event sponsored by The Boston Globe featured the ideas of leading entrepreneurs, business and non-profit executives, and educators in Massachusetts. The conference featured a unique format of 90 minute sessions each including four 20 minute presentations followed by extended breaks for networking and informal dialogue. The conference was not themed around one topic and there were no keynotes, breakouts, or panels. Rather, all participants were included in the common narrative of ideas.
Event URL: https://bostonglobe.com/promotions/ideas/
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Microsoft's CEO Summit
Date: May 20, 2004
Location: Redmond, WA
Kurzweil Keynote: The future of software as it asymptotes to 100% of the value of products and services
Audience: One hundred and seventy five of the world's top Chief Executive Officers, including the highest of Microsoft executives
Event Summary: The Microsoft CEO Summit, established in 1997 in response to growing interest in the convergence of technology and business issues among corporate CEOs, is considered one of the most important gatherings of global business leaders, second only to the World Economic Forum. The event brought together more than 150 top international business leaders to address the role of software in helping organizations realize gains in productivity, quality and cost savings.
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Australian Institute of Company Directors' (AICD) Annual Company Directors Conference
Date: May 6, 2004
Location: Port Douglas, Australia (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)
Kurzweil Keynote: Towards Singularity - it's Nature, Promise, and Dangers
Audience: Five hundred business leaders from public and private sectors.
Event Summary: This conference has firmly established itself as the leading business conference on the Australian corporate calendar. The 2004 conference examined alternative ways of approaching challenges and understanding new factors that are shaping the world today in a business environment faced with increasing rules and regulations and leaps in technology. The annual conference provides a prestigious platform for Australia's leading chairmen, directors, and senior executives to explore a theme which is both topical and relevant to their professional interests.
Event URL: http://svc150.bne117v.server-web.com/conference/
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University of California Berkeley's "Living With the Genie" Panel
Date: April 29, 2004
Location: Berkeley, CA (Kurzweil presented via videconference from Boston)
Audience: Three hundred faculty, students, and Berkeley community members.
Event Summary: This panel featured authors of "Living With the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery" published by Island Press in early 2004. Panelists included Ray Kurzweil, Denise Caruso, Howard Rheingold, Richard Rhodes, and Mark Schapiro. The panelists presented their views on the promise and risks of a future technologies, with particular attention to GNR (genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics).
Event URL: http://journalism.berkeley.edu/events/details.php?ID=103

The Arlington Institute's Conference on Breakthrough Technologies for the World's Biggest Problems
Date: April 28, 2004
Location: Arlington, VA
Kurzweil Keynote: Will Humanity Succeed or Fail?
Audience: One hundred and fifty academics, technology executives, non-profit executives, and members of the press.
Event Summary: This event focused on "the biggest problems that humanity must address in the future" and how breakthrough technologies might solve them -- without harm. It showcased emerging technologies, including carbon-based fuel cells, superconductors, a technology for turning waste materials into building blocks, and a universal vaccine.
Event URL: http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/springseminar2004/2aprilCon_home.asp
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Applied Information Management Institute's Technology Celebration Banquet
Date: April 21, 2004
Location: Omaha, NE
Kurzweil Keynote: The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Business, the Economy, and Society
Audience: Four hundred executives, secondary and post secondary educators, community leaders, and dignitaries.
Event Summary: The Annual AIM Banquet features an awards ceremony recognizing local business and community leaders for their contributions and leadership in the technology field. Awards are given to Nebraska based students, educators, executives, and technology companies.
Event Host URL: http://www.aiminstitute.org/

National Federation of the Blind's Technology Training for Technology Trainers
Date: April 8, 2004
Location: Baltimore, MD
Audience: Approximately one hundred technology specialists from state vocational rehabilitation agencies throughout the United States.
Event Summary: Cosponsored by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and Mississippi State University, this was the first major event to be held in the NFB's new Jernigan Institute opened in January, 2004. A one-of-a-kind research and training facility on blindness, the Institute leads the quest to understand the real problems of blindness and to develop innovative education, technologies, products and services that help the world’s blind to achieve independence.

American Foundation for the Blind -- Migel Awards
Date: March 6, 2004
Location: Washington, DC
Audience: Two hundred and fifty leaders and professionals in the field of blindness from throughout the US.
Event Summary: The American Foundation for the Blind presented its Migel 2004 Lay/Volunteer Award to Ray Kurzweil at the annual Josephine L. Taylor Leadership Institute conference. The Migel Medal, the highest honor in the blindness field, was established in 1937 by the late M. C. Migel, the first chairperson of the American Federation of the Blind, to honor professionals and volunteers whose dedication and achievements have significantly improved the lives of blind or visually impaired people. The American Foundation for the Blind is the leading national resource in literacy, employment, independent living, and technology for people who are blind or visually impaired.
Event URL: http://www.afb.org/info_document_view.asp?documentid=1988
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Coastal Carolina University's 3rd Celebration of Inquiry
Date: February 11, 2004
Location: Conway, SC (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)
Kurzweil Keynote: The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century and Its Impact on Society
Audience: Approximately nine hundred students, faculty and CCU community members.
Event Summary: The theme of this year's conference was "Seeing the World Anew". The conference is aimed at uniting the university community in an interdisciplinary conversation around a common theme. It creates a space in which students can experience and participate in inquiry based intellectual discussion. During the days of the conference, regularly scheduled classes are re-directed to conference activities to enable maximum opportunities for intellectual exchange. "Seeing the world anew" has resulted in systems thinking, discussions of multiple intelligences, and recognition that there are diverse ways of knowing.
Event URL: http://www.coastal.edu/inquiry/welcome.html

CIO Enterprise Value Retreat
Date: February 9, 2004
Location: Sunny Isle Beach, FL
Kurzweil Keynote: The Coming Merger of Human and Machine
Audience: Approximately three hundred Chief Information Officers, Vice Presidents of Information Technology, Chief Technology Officers, and Chief Executive Officers.
Event Summary: CIO Executive Programs attract the best and brightest IT executives with the largest IT budgets. These face-to-face conferences are regarded as the trusted networking resource for the nation’s CIOs. This year's theme was on IT value and the value of peer networking and sharing.
Event URL: http://www2.cio.com/conferences/february2004/index.cfm

McKinsey & Company Business Technology Office East Coast Retreat
Date: February 7, 2004
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Kurzweil Keynote: The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Business, the Economy, and Society
Audience: Approximately sixty-five McKinsey IT executives, partners, recruiters, and assistants.
Event Summary: McKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm advising the top management of leading companies and institutions on issues of strategy, organization, technology, and operations. This retreat provided professional development and events of general interest to the McKinsey branch that provides IT capability for the firm.

NASA Langley Research Center Senior Management Annual Retreat
Date: February 5, 2004
Location: Williamsburg, VA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Law of Accelerating Returns and the 21st Century
Audience: Approximately sixty senior managers including directors of each subunit within Langley Research Center and senior scientists.
Event Summary: The focus of this event was on strategizing and planning for organizational change and transition within NASA. Ray Kurzweil presented as part of a theme on "Looking to the Future."

CRIM's Crystal Ball Conference
Date: February 4, 2004
Location: Montreal, Canada (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)
Kurzweil Keynote: The Coming Merger of Human and Machine
Audience: Over five hundred Information Technology Directors, Chief Executive Officers, Vice Presidents of Information Technology, and senior managers.
Event Summary: This is Quebec's leading IT event. It is sponsored and organized by CRIM, a non-profit organization founded in 1985 to strengthen ties between universities and firms of every size active in the information technology industry. It contributes to Quebec’s socio-economic and industrial development in the high-tech fields of IT and computer applications through various activities including: research and development activities; knowledge and technology transfer; creation of strategic alliances; networking; technology and market monitoring; training a highly skilled workforce.

Grand Opening Celebration of the National Federation of the Blind Research and Training Institute
Date: January 30, 2004
Location: Baltimore, MD
Event Summary: This event marked the grand opening of the NFB Research and Training Institute—the first research and training facility developed and operated by an organization of blind people. The Institute will lead the quest to understand the real problems of blindness and develop innovations in work with the blind to achieve breakthroughs in education, rehabilitation, employment opportunities, and research meaningful to the blind. With more than 50,000 members and 700 local and state affiliates and chapters, the National Federation of the Blind, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, is the largest and most influential membership organization of blind people in the United States. Ray Kurzweil, a special guest speaker, has had a 26 year relationship with the NFB, which began when the NFB worked closely with him to develop the world's first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind.
Event URL: http://www.nfb.org/coming/grand%20adv.htm
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) meeting
Date: January 29, 2004
Location: Bernardsville, NJ
Kurzweil Keynote: The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century and Its Impact on Health, The Economy, and Society
Audience: Fifty Information Technology Executives from pharmaceutical companies.
Event Summary: This was a special AMD luncheon coordinated by Ziff Davis Media with Ray Kurzweil as the featured guest speaker. Kurzweil spoke about exponential growth in technology and its implications and described scenarios for the near and long term future.

USDA's 50th Anniversary of the Agricultural Research Service
Date: January 22, 2004
Location: New Orleans, LA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Age of Spiritual Machines
Audience: Approximately nine hundred agricultural scientists from more than one hundred labs across the country.
Event Summary: This event represented the cornerstone of a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). In 2003, the ARS reached the billion dollar budget mark and for the first time has over 2150 research scientists on board with a goal of 2200. The theme of Kurzweil's session was "Where We are Going -- What are the challenges we will face in the future, and how will agricultural and related sciences contribute to their solution.
Event URL: http://www.ars.usda.gov/aboutus/50th/conference/

Sony Tech Week: Beyond 60
Date: December 15, 2003
Location: Tokyo, Japan (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)
Kurzweil Keynote: The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century and Its Impact on Consumer Products, Culture, and Society
Audience: Several hundred Sony scientists and engineers.
Event Summary: Sony Tech Week is an annual in-house event for Sony group worldwide. The 2003 conference focused on what lies beyond Sony's 60th anniversary (coming in 2006).
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doctoral Seminar in Engineering Systems - Guest Lecture
Date: December 3, 2003
Location: Cambridge, MA
Kurzweil Guest Lecture: Insights for Complex Engineering Systems from Evolutionary Theory
Audience: MIT doctoral students and professors.
Summary: The topic of Kurzweil's guest lecture focused on approaching technology forecasting in a methodological sound manner as a systems engineering problem. Extensive discussion followed Kurzweil's presentation about technological, social and ethical implications of future technologies.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office's 8th Annual Independent Inventors Conference
Date: November 17, 2003
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Kurzweil Keynote: Innovation in the 21st Century
Audience: Over 200 aspiring inventors and senior officials from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Event Summary: Co-Sponsored by the National Inventors Hall of Fame, this conference provides content of interest to inventors -- from how to file a patent to how to find an attorney or agent, from marketing and merchandising an invention to finding a manufacturer. The conference, entitled "Invent Now America," provides tools, resources, and contacts necessary for independent inventors to be successful. Ray Kurzweil is an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Event URL: http://www.invent.org/

The 115th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society
Date: October 11, 2003
Location: New York City, NY
Distinguished Richard C. Heyser Lecture: The Future of Music in the Age of Spiritual Machines
Audience: Approximately 200 professionals from the audio engineering community.
Event Summary: The Heyser Memorial Lecture Series constitutes the most prestigious endowed lectureship of the AES. It aims to bring to the AES eminent individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of audio. The Audio Engineering Society, now in its fifth decade, is the only professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology. Its membership is comprised of leading engineers, scientists and authorities in the audio field.
Event URL: http://www.aes.org/events/115/
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The Coleman Institute's Conference on Cognitive Disabilities
Date: October 9, 2003
Location: University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
Kurzweil Keynote: Technology, Neuroscience and the Future of Cognitive Disabilities
Audience: Approximately 200 faculty, engineers, research scientists, White House policy staff, and representatives from the President's Committee on Mental Retardation.
Event Summary: The mission of the Coleman Institute is to catalyze and integrate advances in science, engineering and technology to promote the quality of life and independent living of people with cognitive disabilities. The theme of this event focused on technology, neuroscience and cognitive disabilities.
Event URL: http://www.cu.edu/ColemanInstitute/

MIT Lincoln Lab's High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop
Date: September 23, 2003
Location: Lexington, MA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Emergence and Impact of Intelligent Machines
Audience: Approximately 350 military generals, colonels, and defense contractors.
Event Summary: Sponsored by DARPA, this workshop gave U.S. government-funded researchers who work on high performance embedded computing technologies, an opportunity to discuss techniques, approaches, and ongoing developments with relevance to real-time embedded computing, information dominance, and other military applications.
Event URL: http://www.ll.mit.edu/hpec/

World Economic Forum Industry Agenda Meeting for the IT and Telecoms Industry Sectors
Date: September 22, 2003
Location: London, England (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)
Kurzweil Keynote: The Accelerating Influence of Information Technology
Audience: Approximately 75 leading chief technology officers.
Event Summary: This exclusive meeting gathered top strategy and business development leaders to discuss key IT and telecommunications industry and cross-industry issues.
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The 9th Siemens International Users Conference
Date: September 18, 2003
Location: Hofburg Congress Center, Vienna, Austria (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)
Kurzweil Keynote: The Web Within Us, When Minds and Machines Become One
Audience: Approximately 800 senior and top level executives from around the world.
Event Summary: This conference, for customers and prospects of Siemens Information and Communications, was organized around the theme, "Powering the Information Age." The conference sought solutions to challenges created by the convergence of voice and data – in both the business and private spheres. Technical, economic, and social constraints on state-of-the-art IT solutions were considered.
Event URL: http://w3.siemens.de/justsave/Wien/wien_e.htm

NASA's Conference on Motion and Interaction Within Virtual Environments
Date: September 16, 2003
Location: University College, London (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)
Kurzweil Keynote: The Emergence and Impact of Intelligent Machines
Audience: Approximately 50 scientists and engineers from academia and industry.
Event Summary: This scientific conference was organized around the hypothesis that the genesis of intelligent behavior is not explicitly intellectual but arises from an upwelling of constraints determined by a hierarchy of lower levels of behavioral interaction. In order to build the illusion of realistic motion in virtual environments, you must start at the most basic level and then build upwards.
Event URL: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/Motion/

Army SMART Conference
Date: September 10, 2003
Location: Dearborn, MI
Kurzweil Keynote: The Law of Accelerating Returns and its Impact on War and Peace
Audience: Approximately 300 Army SMART professionals and industry leaders.
Event Summary: This conference, sponsored by the Army Simulation and Modeling for Acquisition, Requirements and Training (SMART), is the leading conference for military, academic, and defense industry concept developers, material developers, and trainers who use modeling and simulation in concert with new information-age technologies to establish true collaborative environments that will enable faster, less costly fielding of the Objective Force.
Event URL: http://conference.brtrc.com/2003Smart/info/default.aspx/

Telluride Tech Festival
Date: August 8, 2003
Location: Telluride, CO (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)
Audience: This was a small and intimate gathering of approximately 150 innovators and technology luminaries.
Event Summary: The Telluride Technology Festival is a celebration of the past, present and future of technology. The Tech Fest is based on the historical fact that in 1891, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse and Telluride's own L.L. Nunn built the world's first commercial grade AC power plant in Telluride. The intimate mountain environment of Telluride, Colorado continues to be an ideal environment for discussion and reflection. Ray Kurzweil presented the 2003 Ray Kurzweil Award of Technology in Music to Tod Machover for Machover's pioneering research at the MIT Media Lab in music technology.
Event URL: http://www.telluridetechfestival.org/
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Unmanned Effects: Taking the Human Out of the Loop
Date: July 29, 2003
Location: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD
Kurzweil Keynote: The Law of Accelerating Returns and its Impact on War and Peace
Audience: Several hundred leaders in science and technology.
Event Summary: Sponsored by the United Stated Joint Forces Command (JFC) and hosted by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, this workshop helped the JFC refine its vision for the use of tactical autonomous combatants and outlined a technological plan to speed implementation of an operational concept that replaces soldiers, sailors, pilots, and marines with machines.
Event URL: http://www.jfcom.mil/

Deloitte & Touche Global Meeting
Date: July 8, 2003
Location: Barcelona, Spain (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)
Kurzweil Keynote: The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century and Its Impact on the Economy, Culture, and Society
Audience: 500 CEOs and C-Level executives
Event Summary: This was a an executive global meeting focusing on visions and trends driving the technology, media and telecommunications sectors.

National Federation of the Blind Annual Convention
Date: July 3, 2003
Location: Louisville, KY
Kurzweil Banquet Remarks: The Power of an Idea
Audience: 3,500 members of the National Federation of the Blind.
Event Summary: The NFB Convention gives government representatives, agency administrators, and leaders in politics, business, and industry the opportunity to address and respond to a large nationwide audience primarily of individuals who are blind or visually impaired. The 2003 convention marked the 5th year of the presentation of Kurzweil scholarships sponsored by the Kurzweil Foundation and Kurzweil Educational Systems. Ray Kurzweil presented thirty blind and visually impaired college students with a $1,000 check, a Kurzweil 1000 Reading System, and a Braille engraved plaque.
Event URL: http://www.nfb.org/convent/convens2.htm
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Breakfast with the Stars
Date: June 18, 2003
Location: Cambridge, MA
Audience: 50 high tech entrepreneurs and CEOs.
Event Summary: Co-sponsored by the MIT Enterprise Forum and the Cambridge Business Development Center, this series features successful entrepreneurs who share candid accounts of their companies' success, challenges faced, as well as mistakes from which they learned. The program targets high tech entrepreneurs in the relatively early stages of business development. The series presents the opportunity to reflect on the entire experience of entrepreneurship.
Event URL: http://www.cbdc.org/bwts/

Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR) 20th Annual Meeting
Date: June 7, 2003
Location: Boston, MA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Impact of 21st Century Technology on Human Health and Society
Audience:1,000 imaging information professionals, radiologists, engineers, and scientists.
Event Summary: This event is the gathering place for medical and technical professionals interested in the intersection of medical informatics and radiology. SCAR is devoted to advance computer applications and information technology in medical imaging through education and research. A fundamental role of SCAR is to bridge the gap between engineers and scientists who develop the systems and radiologists and technologists who use them.
Event URL: http://www.scarnet.org/
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PLM World
Date: March 29, 2003
Location: Anaheim, CA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Law of Accelerating Returns and the 21st Century
Audience:Approximately 1,400 employees of licensed EDS customers representing industries including automotive, aerospace, consumer products and heavy equipment/machinery.
Event Summary:PLM World is an independent, federally chartered not-for-profit organization. Their mission is to be the Voice of the User in providing an open forum for the exchange of ideas within the EDS product environment. Citizenship is open to users of EDS Unigraphics, Metaphase, I-DEAS and iMAN software. The theme of the 2003 annual conference was "From Dreams to Reality".
Event URL: http://www.plmworld.org/

18th Annual International Conference on "Technology and Persons with Disabilities" sponsored by California State University of Northridge (CSUN) Center on Disabilities
Date: March 19, 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Kurzweil Keynote: The End of Handicaps
Audience:Over 1,000 people with disabilities and professionals from around the world in the field of technology and disability.
Event Summary:This was the 18th Annual Conference of the Center on Disabilities. The Center is committed to providing outstanding student services to students with disabilities, and to making a contribution to the field of disabilities in general and to those who provide services to people with disabilities by the dissemination of information through training programs, conferences, workshops, seminars, and electronic media, and may also conduct applications-oriented research as a means of improving the lives of persons with disabilities and the professional skills of those who work with them.
Event URL: http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/index.htm/
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Fireside Chat
Date: April 20, 2003
Location: Cambridge, MA
Audience: Approximately 100 C-Level technology executives.
Event Summary: This is an exclusive invite-only "discussion salon" organized by the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council, held quarterly and hosted by Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe and Wired Magazine. Ray Kurzweil was the featured guest and was interviewed one-on-one by Mr. Kirsner in front of 100 prominent technology executives followed by questions.

Interurban Clinical Club Meeting
Date: April 4, 2003
Location: Boston, MA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Emergence and Impact of Intelligent Machines
Audience:Approximately 60 physicians and researchers.
Event Summary: The Interurban Clinical Club was formed by Sir Doctor Osler in the early 1900s in order to foster communication amongst medical scientists in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, New Haven, and Boston. It has evolved into a small meeting for internal medicine scientists numbering approximately 60 active members who are leaders in their fields.

Jerusalem Global Ventures Annual Meeting for Limited Partners of CommLaunch Ventures, InnoMed Ventures, and NetLaunch Ventures
Date: March 11, 2003
Location: Boston, MA
Kurzweil Keynote: 21st Century Technology and the Capital Markets
Audience: Approximately 50 limited partners.
Event Summary: Jerusalem Global Ventures (JGV) is an Israeli venture capital fund that invests in seed and early-stage communications, information technology and life sciences companies. JGV manages $156 million in capital for investment in exceptional entrepreneurs. It is an Israeli venture capital fund that invests in seed and early-stage communications, information technology and life sciences companies.

Time Magazine's Future of Life Summit
Date: February 21, 2003
Location: Monterey, CA
Kurzweil Panel: Lifespan: How Long, How Fun?
Kurzweil Breakout Session: The Next Frontier? Energy, Medicine, Space?
Audience:300 science and industry innovators, ethicists, activists, venture capitalists, religious leaders, and press.
Event Summary: This event marked a groundbreaking dialogue celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the discovery of the DNA double helix. Architects of the genomic revolution charted the future of biotech and its ramifications on mankind. Speakers included over 60 luminaries in science, technology, and business. In addition to hosting the event, Time will publish a special editorial package that tells the human stories behind the double helix and the advances that flowed from it, from recombinant DNA to the mapping of the genome.
Event URL: http://www.thefutureoflife.com/
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Microsoft Envision Conference
Date: January 23 and 24, 2003
Location: Space Needle, Seattle and Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA
Kurzweil Keynote #1: How to Manage Innovation in an Era of Accelerating Technologies
Kurzweil Keynote #2: The Acceleration of Software and Its Impact on the Human-Machine Civilization in the 21^st Century
Audience: 1,800 Microsoft Technology Solution Professionals and Managers.
Event Summary: This event was a leadership summit for all Microsoft Technology Solution Professionals and their managers.

Auburn University’s Littleton-Franklin Lectures in Science and Humanities
Date: January 22, 2003
Location: Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Kurzweil Keynote: The Coming Merger of Human and Machine
Audience: Approximately 400 students, faculty, and community members.
Event Summary: The Littleton-Franklin Lectures address the pervasive problem of retaining our humanity and ideals in a rapidly developing technological society. The series has been sponsored since 1968 by the John and Mary Franklin Foundation of Atlanta Georgia.

23^rd Army Science Conference – Transformational Science and Technology for the Army…a race for speed and precision
Date: December 4, 2002
Location: Orlando, FL
Kurzweil Keynote: The Law of Accelerating Returns and its Impact on War and Peace
Audience: Approximately 1,000 defense personnel and representatives from academia and industry.
Event Summary: Sponsored by the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology), this event showcased the latest developments in emerging technologies and their impact on the soldier and the future. Science and technologies were highlighted that are driving the Army transformation from Cold War legacy to a smaller and faster force designed to be rapidly deployable anywhere in the world.
Event URL: http://www.asc2002.com/

The Austrian Computer Society’s AT21 Gala on e-living
Date: November 27, 2002
Location:Vienna, Austria (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from Boston)
Kurzweil Keynote: The Coming Merger of Man and Machine
Audience: Over 1,000 people from industry, science, politics and press.
Event Summary: The AT21 Gala is an annual event of the Austrian Computer Society. In 2002, music, entertainment, and multimedia were presented before an audience of over 1,000 people in Vienna’s grand City Hall. The theme was “e-living: Visions and Reality on Ubiquitous Computing.”   The Gala and its sister symposium were among the most impressive happenings in and around the information technology industry in Europe. Kurzweil’s “virtual” presence at the podium in Vienna while actually in his office outside of Boston, Massachusetts, provided a unique demonstration of the future of communications.
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The Power of One: Creating a Change Revolution, sponsored by the Indiana Governor’s Planning Council for People with Disabilities (IGPCPD)
Date: November 20, 2002
Location:Indianapolis, IN
Kurzweil Keynote: Disabilities and Technology in the
21^st Century
Audience:Approximately 500 people with disabilities, policy makers, and private-sector professionals.
Event Summary: The mission of the IGPCPD is to promote public policy that will lead to the inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of society. This annual conference drew from national speakers and state-of-the-art information to further the mission of the Council and informed the disabilities community about best practices, public policy, and legislative initiatives.

ALCOR’s 5^th Conference on Extreme Life Extension
Date: November 16 and 17, 2002
Location: Newport Beach, CA
Kurzweil Address #1: The Singularity is Near
Kurzweil Address #2: A Bridge to a Bridge to a Bridge
Audience: Approximately 200 scientists and laypeople.
Event Summary: The ALCOR Life Extension Foundation is the world’s largest and most technically advanced provider of cryonics services. This event convened scientists and laypeople working toward the expansion of human health and longevity. A few of the topics covered included:   nanomedicine, genetic engineering, therapeutic cloning, anti-aging medicine, and cryonics.
Event URL: http://www.alcor.org/conferences/2002/
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DARPA Cognitive Systems Workshop
Date: November 4, 2002
Location: Warrenton, VA
Kurzweil Keynote: Cognition in the 21^st Century: The Cutting Edge
Audience: 30 senior scientists, researchers, and technical experts.
Event Summary: This by-invitation meeting gathered a group of scientists to explore critical aspects of a new DARPA Cognitive Systems program. The workshop explored the necessary architecture for cognitive systems, issues of how humans and cognitive systems will interact, and target applications that validate this new approach.
Event URL: http://www.dsic-web.net/meetings/oy8guwod/index.html

IEEE Visualization 2002   (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Date: November 1, 2002
Location: Boston, MA
Kurzweil Keynote: Visualization and Human-Machine Interaction in the 21^st Century
Audience: Approximately 450 visualization researchers and practitioners.
Event Summary: Visualization 2002 was a premier forum for innovations in visualization methods in science, engineering, commerce, and entertainment. The event brought together visualization researchers and practitioners with an interest in techniques, tools, and technology.
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Event URL:  http://vis.computer.org/vis2002/

Pop!Tech 2002: Artificial Worlds
Date:October 18, 2002
Location: Camden, ME
Kurzweil Address:Artificial Worlds:  Expanding Human Horizons
Audience: Approximately 500 contemporary thinkers, writers, pioneers, academics, scientists, and business leaders.
Event Summary: Pop!Tech is what happens when you combine the wildly pervasive mass media--TV, movies, radio, music, art, and the Internet--with the almost limitless power of digital technology. The conference featured nationally known speakers from both the mass media and the digital worlds who spoke about new societies in cyberspace, worldwide gaming communities, how artificial worlds are beginning to overlay reality, what's ahead in totally immersive virtual reality, the artificial worlds of the silver screen, and artificial worlds that are chemically induced.
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Event URL:  http://www.poptech.com/home.jsp

Zero Stage Capital Annual Investors Meeting
Date: October 11, 2002
Location: Boston, MA
Kurzweil Keynote: 21^st Century Technology and the Capital Markets
Audience: Zero Stage Capital limited partners representing pension funds, endowments, banks, and corporations.
Event Summary: This annual limited partners’ meeting reported on the progress of a new $158 million dollar fund investing across IT/communications, life sciences and energy technologies companies along the US East Coast.

Beyond e: After the Shakeout, the Real Revolution
Date: October 5, 2002
Location: DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
Kurzweil Keynote: The Evolution of Technology in the 21^st Century
Audience: Over 1,000 students, faculty, and community members.
Event Summary: In 2001, Lily Endowment gave DePauw University a $20 million grant. With this grant, DePauw created the “361° initiative” with the vision of being a national role model for the successful marriage of digital fluency with the classic critical thinking, speaking and writing strengths of liberal arts education. This event celebrated the opening of DePauw’s new National Technology Center and the 361° initiative.

Sensors Expo and Conference
Date: September 24, 2002
Location: Boston, MA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Rapidly Shrinking Sensor:  An Intimate Merger with Our Bodies and Brains
Audience: Approximately 500 engineers, scientists, researchers, and managers in the sensors industry.
Event Summary: Sensors Expo and Conference is the premier event for sensors technology and applications in North America and is closely associated with Sensors Magazine.
Event URL: http://www.sensorsexpo.com
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Landmark College Convocation Ceremony
Date: September 9, 2002
Location: Putney, VT
Kurzweil Address: The Future of Special Education in an Era of Accelerating Technology
Audience: Students, faculty, and community members
Event Summary: In 2002, Landmark College gave Ray Kurzweil an honorary doctorate for his technological innovations that have affected students with learning disabilities. Landmark College is the nation's premier college for high-potential students with learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Many Landmark students have benefited from Kurzweil 3000 text–to-speech software. The College has 16 years of educational experience and has derived teaching principles, methods, and strategies that are effective in a wide variety of settings for a broad range of students who are capable of learning but require innovative, student-centered approaches.
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SG Cowen Securities Corporation’s 30^th Annual Fall Technology Conference
Date: September 4, 2002
Location: Boston, MA
Kurzweil Keynote: 21^st Century Technology and the Capital Markets
Audience: Approximately 400 institutional investors.
Event Summary:SG Cowen offers securities brokerage and investment banking services powered by Focus equity research. SG Cowen hosts over a dozen industry-specific conferences each year, including this Fall Technology Conference, which provides institutional investors direct contact with senior management and industry experts and an introduction to dynamic emerging companies.
Event URL: http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/event/2002/sep/sgcowen/090402.htm

The 18^th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 14^th Innovative Applications of AI Conference, sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Date: August 1, 2002
Location: Alberta Canada
Kurzweil Address: Human Level “Strong” AI:  The Prospects and Implications
Audience: Over 1000 scientific researchers, practitioners, and engineers.
Event Summary: AAAI is Canada’s premier showcase of AI science and technology. The conference promotes research among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in related disciplines. AAAI provides a forum for a broad range of topics including knowledge representation and automated reasoning, machine learning and data mining, autonomous agents, robotics and machine perceptions, probabilistic inference, constraint satisfaction, search and game playing, natural language processing, neural networks, multi-agent systems, computational game theory, and cognitive modeling.
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Event URL: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2002/aaai02.html

Summer Science Program, 2002
Date:July 31, 2002
Location:Ojai Valley, CA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Law of Accelerating Returns and the 21^st Century
Audience: Academically gifted high school students and others involved in the Summer Science Program.
Event Summary: The Summer Science Program exposes academically gifted high school students to advanced topics in mathematics, physics, astronomy, and computer science. Unique in the world for its hands-on, practical approach, the Summer Science Program (SSP) challenges its participants to determine the orbit of a minor planet using their own telescopic observations, measurements, and software, working in teams of three. In addition to providing a college-level experience, the six-week residential SSP has been a turning point in the academic and personal development of many of its alumni.

United Therapeutics 6^th Anniversary event
Date:June 26, 2002
Location:Melbourne, FL
First Kurzweil Keynote: Technology in the 21^st Century: An Intimate Merger with our Bodies and Brains
Second Kurzweil Keynote: How to Live to See the 21^st Century (in good health!)
Audience:United Therapeutic scientific researchers, information specialists, and executives.
Event Summary: United Therapeutics Corporation is a biotechnology company focused on life-saving therapies. The company is active in the three therapeutic areas of cardiovascular medicine, infectious disease, and oncology. All of the company’s therapies are geared to life-threatening conditions, enabling them to concentrate on some of the highest-value applications of biotechnology.

12^th Annual Canadian Conference on
Intelligent Systems
Date:May 30, 2002
Location: Calgary, Canada
Kurzweil Keynote: Human Level “Strong” AI:  The Prospects and Implications
Audience: Industry and government researchers, business development professionals, and academic professors and researchers.
Event Summary: The Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems is Canada's leading forum for the exchange of ideas and information in intelligent systems technologies. The conference brings together world experts in intelligent systems from industry, research organizations, and universities to discuss the results of their research, the latest technological developments, applications of these technologies, and related business opportunities. The event is sponsored by Precarn, an industry-based research consortium carrying out collaborative research in robotics and intelligent systems.
Event URL: http://precarn.ca/
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Nanobusiness Spring 2002
Date:May 20, 2002
Location:New York City, NY
Kurzweil Keynote: Exponentially Growing Ventures from Exponentially Shrinking Technology
Audience: Over 400 senior professionals from industry, research and development, government, and the investment community.
Event Summary: NanoBusiness 2002 was a broad-based conference and exhibition dedicated to the business, markets and technologies of the emerging small technologies industry, including nanotechnologies, MEMS, microsystems and other "small" sectors. Produced by Penton Technology Media (producers of Internet World) and Nanobusiness Alliance, this event brought together top innovators and business leaders to discuss the exciting advances of small tech into the global economy in all its forms.
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Partisan Review: Our Country, Our Culture
Date: May 10, 2002
Location: Boston University, Boston, MA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Acceleration of Technology in the 21^st Century and Its Impact on the Economy, Culture, and Society
Audience: Approximately 200 academic professors, researchers, and writers.
Event Summary: Partisan Review, the renowned periodical published by Boston University, organized this conference in order to seriously address the questions raised in their famous symposium of 1952 entitled “Our Country, Our Culture.”. Speakers and audience members examined the relationship of intellectuals and academics to their country and culture at a time of transition due to the collapse of communism, the ascendance of the so-called Third World continents, and the means of instant communication and other advances in science and technology.

9^th Annual Lockheed Martin Web Authors Guild Forum:  Embracing the Future – Connect. Share. Innovate.
Date:May 1, 2002
Location:Fort Worth, TX
Kurzweil Keynote: Technology in the 21^st Century:  An Imminent Intimate Merger
Audience:Approximately 250 Lockheed Martin web developers, designers, and technical writers.
Event Summary:The Web Authors Guild Forum provides an opportunity for Lockheed Martin’s Web professionals from the technical, design, multimedia, and business areas to share best practices and experiences as well as address current and future Web issues.

V-World:   Speech Means Business
Date: April 30, 2002
Location: Lake Buena Vista, FL
Kurzweil Keynote: The Future of Voice, Language, and AI Technologies in the 21^st Century
Audience: Over 1,000 people from the voice technology industry
Event Summary: Hosted by Nuance, V-World is the premier conference on speech   software and solutions. Speech solutions are changing the way businesses do business–revolutionizing customer care, enabling new enhanced services, improving productivity, and expanding how companies communicate with customers. V-World offers extensive conference content, vendor exhibits, and networking opportunities.

Foresight Senior Associate Gathering
Date: April 27, 2002
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Kurzweil Keynote: Technology in the 21^st Century:   An Imminent Intimate Merger
Kurzweil Debate with Gregory Stock: BioFuture or Machine Future?
Audience: Approximately 200 big thinkers in the fields of nanotechnology and high-tech.
Event Summary: Foresight Institute's goal is to guide emerging technologies to improve the human condition. Foresight focuses its efforts on nanotechnology, the coming ability to build materials and products with atomic precision, and systems that will enhance knowledge exchange and critical discussion, thus improving public and private policy decisions. This event is Foresight’s annual brainstorming and planning session where participants learn about revolutions in technology that are expected in the next five to 30 years.
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Audio Clips and Talking Points:   http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0462.html

The Sixth Congress on the Psychology of Investing
Date: April 26, 2002
Location: Boston, MA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Impact of Technology on the Future of Investing
Audience: Approximately 150 leaders in the investment community and Harvard Medical School faculty.
Event Summary: This conference brought together a faculty of seminal educators and leaders in the fields of investment and psychology in order to explore the interface between human emotions and financial decision-making. Conference speakers and participants explored how both group dynamics and the individual’s personal psychology affect investor decisions.

Massachusetts Software and Internet Council (MSIC) Membership Meeting
Date: April 23, 2002
Location: Newton, MA
Kurzweil Keynote: The Future Impact of Software on the Internet
Audience: Executives, IT professionals, venture capitalists, and others involved in the design, development, and delivery of software and interactive media as well as hardware, telecommunications, and electronics.
Event Summary: The MSIC’s mission is to promote the software and Internet industry; to assist executives in starting, managing and growing their companies; and to help software and Internet companies be successful in global markets.   The Council furthers its mission through research and publications, educational and networking events, workforce development, public policy advocacy, and an educational foundation.

Tucson 2002:   Toward a Science of Consciousness
Date: April 10, 2002
Location: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Kurzweil Keynote: How Can We Possibly Tell if it’s Conscious?
Audience: Approximately 1,000 professors from the fields of cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, philosophy, and community members.
Event Summary: The Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona promotes open, rigorous discussion of all phenomena related to conscious experience. Recent years have seen an explosion of work in the sciences and humanities on science's last great frontier: the problem of consciousness. Can there be a scientific theory of consciousness? If so, what form should this theory take? Conference participants transcended disciplinary boundaries, seeking not just answers, but also which questions to ask.

National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Conference
Date: April 8, 2002
Location: Denver, CO
Kurzweil Keynote: Information and Knowledge in the 21^st Century
Audience:Approximately 450 state chief information officers and security policy makers.
Event Summary: NASCIO represents state chief information officers and information resource executives and managers from the 50 states, six U. S. territories, and the District of Columbia. The mission of the association is to shape national IT policy through collaborative partnerships, information sharing and knowledge transfer across jurisdictional and functional boundaries. This event focused on several questions, including: How can CIO’s use emerging technologies in their states? What role can emerging technologies play in homeland security? How can CIOs best educate policy makers about the benefits and relevance of emerging technologies?
Event URL: https://www.nascio.org/events/2002MidyearConference/

Science Talent Search Institute
Date: March 8, 2002
Location: Washington, DC
Kurzweil Keynote: The Law of Accelerating Returns and the 21^st Century
Audience: Science Talent Search finalists, alumni, and public officials.
Event Summary: Intel is the sponsor of this nationwide Science Talent Search —America's oldest and most highly regarded pre-college science contest, originally founded by Westinghouse in 1942. Each year, approximately 2000 American high school seniors accept the challenge of completing an entry for the Intel Science Talent Search, with finalists competing for the top prize, a $100,000 scholarship. As a previous winner of this award, Ray Kurzweil addressed the top 40 finalists who demonstrated their projects at the event.
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Nanoventures 2002: The Path to the Commercialization of Nanotechnology
Date: March 7, 2002
Location: Dallas, TX (Kurzweil presented via Teleporter from New York City)
Kurzweil Keynote: Exponentially Growing Ventures from Exponentially Shrinking Technology
Audience: Approximately 400 venture capitalists, nanotechnology entrepreneurs, analysts and press.
Event Summary: Sponsored by Zyvex Corporation, The Texas Nanotechnology Initiative (a consortium of industry, universities, government, and venture capitalists), Austin Ventures, STARTech Foundation, and Vortex Partners, this event focused on the current state of nanotechnology and related opportunities for investment.
Event URL: http://www.nanoventures.ws/index2002.html
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Living With the Genie: Governing the Scientific and Technological Transformation of Society in the 21^st Century
Date: March 6, 2002
Location: Columbia University, New York City
Kurzweil Panel: What do we want from science and technology? How do science and technological change influence the quality of our lives and mediate our ability to pursue “the good life”?
Audience: Approximately 400 leading scientists, public policy makers, professors, opinion leaders, and press.
Event Summary: No society is equipped to deal with the accelerating impacts of science and technology. This conference aimed to stimulate a broad societal commitment to reflection, discourse, and action about how society should govern the way that it continually remakes the world with science and technology.

United States Army Medical Research and Material Command Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, Commanders Conference.
Date: February 4, 2002
Location:Baltimore, Maryland
Kurzweil Keynote: The Law of Accelerating Returns and its Impact on the 21st Century
Audience: Approximately 300 military and civilian scientists and senior national security officials.
Event Summary: USAMRMC is a $1.2 billion a year enterprise responsible for military medical research in infectious disease, biological and chemical warfare defense, combat casualty care, occupational health, telemedicine and advanced medical technology. It is composed of laboratories throughout the United States and overseas, most notably in Thailand and Kenya. It is home to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease. The Commander’s Conference convened all laboratory commanders and senior staff to assess current operations, survey changes in the technological and threat environments, and forecast new research directions and strategies.