TechNet's CEO's this week held their second annual "Innovation Summit" in Silicon Valley on the campus of eBay. Moderating the event was TV personality Charlie Rose. The first interview was with former Secretary of State Colin Powell and he was extremely candid in his views on technology, innovation and his role in running foreign policy for the Administration. To the question of when he's writing a book, he said "history is best written cold."
TechNet also had a bevy of CEOs and top execs participate, including Cisco's John Chambers, eBay's Bill Cobb, Yahoo's Jerry Yang, VeriSign's Stratton Sclavos, Sun's Jonathan Schwartz, Netflix's Reed Hastings, Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff, and Stanford's John Hennessy.
Stories appeared in BusinessWeek, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Dan Farber's great CNET blog and others. They all focused on the steps necessary for America to remain the innovation leader -- including burdensome federal regulations, reforming our public education system and immigration policies....
Quotes from the Summit:
"The United States is the world leader in innovation but to maintain this status we must do much more," said Lezlee Westine, President and CEO of TechNet. "The TechNet Innovation Summit brings together America's technology leaders to discuss how America can maintain our global edge in innovation. We must ensure that our education system is preparing the next generation of innovators, and we must renew our investments in research and development, entrepreneurship and next-generation infrastructure."
"Technology holds tremendous promise to improve lives and transform industry sectors - from health care to education to communications. Unless we invest in a skilled, innovative workforce, however, we as a nation will not lead this change," said John Chambers, President and CEO of Cisco Systems and Co-Chair, TechNet. "The TechNet Innovation Summit is about a national imperative: building on America's economic leadership and achieving the full potential of this new century."
"To maintain our scientific and technological leadership, the United States must set an ambitious goal and put in place the public policies and private sector initiatives to achieve it," said John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and TechNet Co-Chair. "Our nation's bold vision should be to double the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics graduates from U.S. universities within the next decade. Only then can we be confident that our nation will lead in this new era."
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the question of when he's writing a book, he said history is best written cold.
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