Museums as Symbols Salzburg Global - Salzburg Global SeminarNeil MacGregor delivered this presentation during the board of directors meeting at the Salzburg Global Seminar. A stimulating analysis of several important artifacts, artworks, and collections relating their discovery, display...
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Zadie Smith: On Beauty Book Passage - Book PassageZadie Smith talks about her third novel, On Beauty.On Beauty is an analysis of family life, the institution of marriage and an honest look at people’s deceptions. An infidelity, a death and a legacy set in motion a chain of events that forces eve...
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Why Funding Women and Girls Matters Salzburg Global - Salzburg Global SeminarWhy Investing in Women and Girls Makes Good Business Sense. Presentation by Christine Grumm, President and CEO of the Women’s Funding Network in San Francisco, California, to participants in a seminar entitled...
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Investment in Media, News, and Information Salzburg Global - Salzburg Global SeminarAmadou Mahtar Ba delivered the opening presentation to the Salzburg Global Seminar’s Strengthening Indpendent Media Initiative's October 2009 meeting on Governance, Media, and Development, entitled "Aligning Stra...
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GreenBeat 2009: Fireside Chat with Laura Ipsen VentureBeat - GreenBeat 2009Laura Ipsen, Cisco’s SVP and GM of Smart Grid operations, speaks about Cisco's role in the development of a cleaner, more efficient grid, and how it is capitalizing on its specialties in IP networks and security to captur...
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GreenBeat 2009: Internet Giant in the Smart Grid Ed Lu VentureBeat - GreenBeat 2009Ed Lu (Program Manager in Advanced Projects, Google) interviewed by Matt Marshall (Founder & CEO, VentureBeat)Energy used to be a one-way street. Today, it’s becoming a bi-directional superhighway with utility cus...
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GreenBeat 2009: Executive Climate Change Survey VentureBeat - GreenBeat 2009Sharon Allan, head of the North American Smart Grid Practice at Accenture, runs the numbers on why utilities need to revamp the country’s aging electrical grid, and how they should go about it. For the past two years, Ac...
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GreenBeat 2009: Intro and Opening Keynote VentureBeat - GreenBeat 2009The seminal conference on the Smart Grid, GreenBeat 2009 brought together leading entrepreneurs, investors, utilities, technology executives, and policymakers to accelerate the development of a leaner, more efficient electrica...
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End of Life Care: Two Generations AbandonedThe Hastings Center - The Hastings CenterA bioethics seminar with Jane Gross, longtime reporter for the New York Times and The Hastings Center’s first journalist in residence. Baby boomers are setting yet another trend. Their parents are living longer t...
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GreenBeat 2009: Investment in The (Not So) Smart Grid VentureBeat - GreenBeat 2009Eric Wesoff, a senior analyst for Greentech Media, presents data on where the money is going within the grid development space, and why some companies are more attractive to investors than others.Energy used to be ...
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GreenBeat 2009: Politics and Policy VentureBeat - GreenBeat 2009For the smart grid to become a reality, we need policy changes a the federal, state and local levels. Our experts discuss those changes and their thoughts on whether the current political initiatives like Cap and Trade bill in congr...
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