• Cynthia Breazeale (unrelated to Cynthia Breazeal of MIT) is an IT Innovation Strategic Program Manager at Intel. The title of her talk is Innovation Through IT: Enabling Systemic Innovation.

  The Intel IT division chartered a small organization to work outside of the traditional roles and responsibilities and empowered them to discover new business value through innovation. The result was surprisingly immediate – and dramatic. Intellectual property capture rates within IT increased over 600% the first year. Emerging technology prototypes were merged with industry solutions causing adoption at government levels to soar. A new business practice was developed that provides IT managers with a means to project measurable business value return from information technology investments. The road to these successes, however, was not obvious. Breazeale will share the key learning, strategies, and a few of the industry-transforming results of the Intel IT Innovation organization. For more information visit www.Intel.com/research/.

• Steve Jurvetson is the Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. One of Silicon Valley's leading lights in innovation funding, Jurvetson will discuss DFJ's general approach to the challenge of funding for technology and business innovation. The title of his talk is Discovering a Renaissance in Innovation.

  Collectively, we are going to be learning more in next 20 years than in the last 100 years. But there is a glacial change of human nature compared to technological change. DFJ's international affiliates are partners in a global innovation watch, maximizing the ability to discover the next disruptive technologies while they are in their earliest and most underfunded stages. Such perspectives may be helpful to designing and managing your own innovation pipeline in a world of increasingly global expertise. For more information visit www.dfj.com.

• Christine Peterson is a Co-Founder and Vice President of the Foresight Institute and Co-Author, Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work, 1997. The title of her talk is Championing Innovation in Nanotechnology: Lessons Learned.

  Our task at Foresight is to help maximize progress toward and minimize potential problems coming from humanity's ever-increasing control of the structure of matter, down to the level of individual atoms. One of the most powerful developments we expect in coming years will be new classes of molecular machine systems -- artificial structures inspired by those found widely in nature. Vigorous debate, policy formulation, and public education on this controversial topic has been in progress since the late 1970s, and organized since 1986. Major progress has been achieved, but challenges remain. Foresight has been responsibly championing innovation in nanotech research and policy debate for many years. We have concluded that open, cooperative international development, including of defensive technologies, combined with stable, trustworthy institutions is the best path forward. As the National Nanotechnology Initiative and other efforts outside the U.S. take new steps toward Feynman's vision, we need calm, clear thinking about abstract, complex, and potentially scary topics. We'll discuss lessons learned in this process, as each year takes us closer to a world of transformative molecular nanotechnology. For more information visit www.foresight.org.

This presentation was recorded at Accelerating Change 2004, November 5-7, 2004. Check here for the complete Accelerating Change archives.