FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IS
THERE LIFE AFTER THE DOT-COM DOWNTURN FOR
NEW ENGLAND TECH COMPANIES?
National
Medal of Technology Winner Dean Kamen and Steve Randich,
Chief Technology Officer of NASDAQ, join other industry
leaders to discuss the regions’ next wave of technology
growth at FUTURE FORWARD 2001
BOSTON,
July 30, 2001 – Future Forward Events, LLC, today
announced that Dean Kamen, president of DEKA Research
& Development and Steve Randich, chief technology
officer of the Nasdaq Stock Market, will be among the
featured speakers at Future Forward: the New England
Technology Summit, to be held October 25-27, 2001 in
Woodstock, VT.
Future
Forward is an invitation-only gathering where the
technology leaders of New England will map the next
high-growth opportunities in technology. Created by the
same group that delivers the sold-out Nantucket Conference
each year, Future Forward exists to help make connections
between technology investors and innovators at companies
large and small.
“Despite
the dramatic market fluctuations we’ve seen lately, New
England has always been
- and will continue to be - a national leader in
technology development and innovation. We may not see
another boom as big as the Internet any time soon, but
we’ll certainly see smaller boomlets in areas like
robotics, 3-D design, and bioinformatics,” says Shayne
Gilbert, co-chair of Future Forward 2001.
“Future Forward will bring together our
region’s start-up superstars as well as those who excel
at using technology to help big companies win.”
In
addition to Kamen and Randich, other conference speakers
include:
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Craig
Benson, co-founder of Cabletron, who recently
announced his candidacy for Governor of New Hampshire;
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Bob
Davis, founding CEO of Lycos and a partner at Highland
Capital Ventures;
-
Bob
Crowley, President and CEO of Bowstreet;
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John
Cullinane, president of Cullinet Group;
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Todd
Dagres, general partner, Battery Ventures
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Helen
Greiner, President, iRobot;
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Bo
Peabody, co-founder, Village Ventures;
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Elisabeth
Robert, CEO, The Vermont Teddy Bear Company; and
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Diana
Walczak, co-founder, Kleiser-Walczak.
The
full agenda and speaker list are online at http://www.futureforward.com/agenda.html.
About
Future Forward
Future
Forward is a companion conference to The Nantucket
Conference on Entrepreneurship & Innovation, which was
started in 1999 by a group of entrepreneurs, venture
capitalists, consultants, and executives – the
Conference’s Advisory Committee -- who had long bemoaned
the dearth of high-level networking opportunities in the
New England area.
Members
of the Advisory Committee for Future Forward include
Elizabeth Altman, Vice President & Director, Business
Development of Motorola Personal Communications Sector;
Jesse Devitte, Chairman of Software Association of New
Hampshire and Managing Director of Borealis Ventures;
Kristen Gariepy, general partner of KMCpartners; Bruce
Journey, CEO of MIT's Technology Review; Laura Kent,
Founder and Former President of Connecticut Technology
Council; Paul LeBlanc, President of Marlboro College; Lew
McCreary, Editor in Chief of Darwin magazine and Editorial
Director of CXO Media Inc.; Bo Peabody, Chairman and
Co-founder of Village Ventures; Brenda Philips, Director
of Commonwealth Information Techology Inititative, UMASS;
Michael Prince, VP and Chief Information Officer of
Burlington Coat Factory; Jerry Schaufeld, President and
CEO of Mass Ventures; Alyssa Gilbert, Vice President of
Future Forward Events LLC; Scott Kirsner, Contributing
editor at Wired Magazine, Fast Company, and Darwin
Magazine and the @large columnist for the Boston Globe;
and Shayne Gilbert, Founder of Silverweave andauthor of 90
Days to Launch.
Conference
sponsors include Village Ventures, The Graduate Center at
Marlboro College, Darwin Magazine and MIT’s Technology
Review.
More
information about the Conference is available at http://www.futureforward.com.
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Note
to editors: Advisors and speakers are available for
telephone interviews at your convenience.
