MIT ENTERPRISE FORUM OF NEW YORK CITY, INC.

in association with

TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

present

"EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD"

Is NASDAQ the bellwether of technology in America, or is it a poor prognosticator of what is ahead? What we know today is that adoption of technology is not always predictable - and conventional wisdom is often wrong. What does lie ahead?

MIT's Technology Review in its Jan./Feb. cover story began a dialog about profound technology innovation bubbling up now in industry in ten diverse arenas. In this seminar, we pick three of them - and add a fourth - and provide a unique window and global perspective as to which Emerging Technologies will change the world in the decade ahead.

We identify the scientific and engineering disciplines at the leading edge of the world's next wave of innovation, and provide an outlook on the advances now being made in materials science, the life sciences, energy, nanotechnology, machines and information technology. Our panel of technology experts also share their insider's knowledge of four specific technologies: biometrics, web-based robotics, proteomics and photonics.

Panelists:

• Helen Greiner, President, iRobot

  Geiner is the cofounder of iRobot (Somerville, MA), a company that works closely with the U.S. Defense Department to develop mobile robots for the military and has a strategic partnership with Hasbro to develop the next generation of robot-based toys. Spun out of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, iRobot today is developing web-driven robotic systems.

• Joseph J. Atick, PhD, CEO, Visionics

  Atick is co-founder of Visionics (Jersey City, NJ), a company which through face-recognition and other biometric technologies, satisfies the need for positive human identification prior to permitting certain human activities. Applications, many of them web-enabled, abound in security and surveillance, law enforcement, financial services and even voting. Atick previously directed the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory at Rockefeller University.

• Professor Peter Sorger, Scientific Founder & Chairman--Scientific Advisory Board, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals; Associate Professor--Department of Biology and Department of Bioengineering and Environmental Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Professor John D. Joannopoulos, Francis Wright Davis Chair of Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Moderator:

• John M. Benditt, Chief Knowledge Officer and Editor in Chief, Technology Review

  Benditt joined TR in 1997. He has transformed TR's editorial product, and under his stewardship the magazine has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards - for General Excellence and Public Interest. He is a technology commentator on CNBC's Market Watch as well as a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal Report. Previously, Benditt was Editor of Science Magazine's Next Wave and a member of the Board of Editors at Scientific American.