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Innovation for Jobs Summit

The Innovation for Jobs Summit is an annual two day international conference of leaders from the fields of government, business, technology, academia and media looking for ways to harness technological innovation to produce better and more meaningful jobs for more people. One of the themes of the summit is that society is organized into vertical “silos” such as government, the corporate world and the educational system, and these silos have difficulty cooperating with each other to resolve societal problems. Future Talk attended the conference in both 2014 and 2013 at the headquarters of SRI International in Menlo Park, California, and we interviewed numerous speakers and attendees. Below are links to the interviews, edited for length. Just click on any picture to see the interview. Your feedback is always welcome!

Philip Auerswald

Allen Blue

Tim Brown

Founder, National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and author, “The Coming Prosperity”

Co-founder and Vice President of Product Management at LinkedIn

President and CEO of the human-centered design firm IDEO, and a leader in industrial design

Curt Carlson

Vint Cerf

Aart De Geus

President and CEO of SRI International, one of the world’s leading research and development labs

Internet pioneer, V.P. and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, seed sponsor of I4J Summit

Chairman of Bertelsmann Foundation, which owns
the Bertelsmann global media conglomerate

Esther Dyson

Greg Ferenstein

Anders Flodström

Chairman of Edventure Holdings, which nurtures health care and human capital start-ups

Journalist at TechCrunch. writing about the intersection of politics, technology and education

President Emeritus, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology

Paul Forster

Chuck House

Irwin Jacobs

Co-founder of Indeed.com, the world’s leading search engine for jobs

Director of the Innovascapes Institute, former director of Stanford’s Media X

Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of leading telecommunications company Qualcomm

John Joss

Steve Jurvetson

Agnes Kwek

Long time writer, broadcaster, chronicler of Silicon Valley and avid airplane pilot and biker

High tech investor and Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson venture capital firm

Planner of human-centered public policies for the Government of Singapore

Julia Lane

Sven Otto Littorin

Dan Maydan

Senior Managing Economist at the American Institutes for Research

Former Swedish Minister of employment, past President of European Council of Ministers

Former president of leading semiconductor company Applied Materials

Michael Nelson

Anaïs Saint-Jude

Cortnie Shupe

Technology Policy Analyst for Bloomberg Government, former director of Internet technology at IBM

Founder and director of Stanford’s BiblioTech Program, connecting Ph.D. students with corporations

Project Manager of the Shaping Sustainable Economies Project at the Bertelsmann Foundation

Dane Stangler

Eric Thode

Eilif Trondsen

Acting Director of Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Senior expert on economic, social and labor market policy at the Bertelsmann Foundation

Research Director at Strategic Business Insights, focusing on performance improvement

Moshe Vardi

Vivek Wadhwa

Ann Winblad

Director of the Institute for Information Technology at Rice University

V.P. Of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University, Washington Post columnist

Silicon Valley venture capitalist and co-founder of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

Esther Wojcicki

Menahem Yaari

Monica De Zelaya

Educational innovator, founder of highly successful journalism program at Palo Alto H.S.

Prof. Emeritus of Mathematical Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Director of Kirzner Entrepreneurship Center at Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala

2013 I4J Summit

David Nordfors & Vint Cerf

Tim O’Reilly & Dale Dougherty

David Nordfors (left) is President of the IIIJ and chief organizer of I4J Summit. Vint Cerf (right) is an Internet pioneer and seed sponsor of I4J Summit

Tim O’Reilly (left) is founder of O’Reilly Media and publisher of Make Magazine. Dale Dougherty (right) is founder of Maker Media and the Maker Faire.