Best-Selling Business Author Malcolm Gladwell to Keynote SpeechTEK 2007 in New York.LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell (born September 1, 1963) is a United Kingdom-born, Canadian-raised journalist now based in New York City who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. (The Tipping Point The point in time in which a technology, procedure, service or philosophy has reached critical mass and becomes mainstream. See network effect. See also tip and ring. : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking) will keynote the 2007 SpeechTEK Conference and Exposition, August 20-23 at the New York Marriott Marquis New York Marriott Marquis Times Square at 1531-1549 Broadway opened in 1985 and was designed by architect John Portman. It is located in the heart of Times Square at Broadway and 45th Street. . (www.speechtek.com) Gladwell is widely credited with having a gift for generating value by interpreting groundbreaking research in psychology, sociology, and neurology and applying it to business. His books are on the recommended reading lists at many companies and business schools. Time Magazine named Gladwell one of its "100 Most Influential People" in 2005. Fast Company Magazine has called Gladwell "a rock star, a spiritual leader, a stud." In a 2005 profile, "The Gladwell Effect," New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Book Review editor Rachel Donadio described Gladwell as possibly being the "Dale Carnegie, or perhaps the Norman Vincent Peale Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) was a Protestant preacher and author (most notably of The Power of Positive Thinking) and a progenitor of the theory of "positive thinking". , of the iPod generation." Gladwell's keynote address will be on Tuesday, August 21 at 9:00 a.m. "In The Tipping Point, Mr. Gladwell analyzes how and why change happens," says Tom Hogan, Sr., president of Information Today, which produces the SpeechTEK Conferences and Expositions. "Gladwell's keynote comes at time when applications and strategies using speech technology are among the tools being used to make those changes happen. We are extremely pleased that he has accepted our invitation to keynote SpeechTEK 2007." Gladwell, 42, was born in England and grew up in rural Canada. He has been a staff writer with The New Yorker Magazine since 1996. His 1999 profile of Ron Popeil won a National Magazine Award. From 1987 to 1996, he was a reporter with the Washington Post, where he covered business, science, and then served as the newspaper's New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. bureau chief. Gladwell graduated from the University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, , Trinity College, with a degree in history. He was born in England, grew up in rural Ontario, and now lives in New York City. Registration information for SpeechTEK West is available online at www.speechtek.com or by contacting Sheila@infotoday.com. About SpeechTEK Launched in 1995, SpeechTEK Expositions and Educational Conferences (www.speechtek.com) are recognized worldwide as the industry's premier events focusing on products, services, applications, solutions and innovations using speech technologies. Held twice a year in New York and San Francisco, the trade shows and educational conferences attract a global network of speech technology providers and enterprise network customers who are developing and implementing speech solutions. About Information Today Information Today is the parent company of SpeechTEK and Speech Technology Magazine. Information Today, Inc. (ITI (Information Technology Industry Council, Washington, DC, www.itic.org) Formerly the Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association (CBEMA), founded in 1916. ITI is a membership organization composed of approximately 30 large high-tech companies. ) is a leading publisher and conference organizer in the information and knowledge management industries. The company is widely known as the publisher of premier information and knowledge management titles such as Information Today, Computers in Libraries, ONLINE, MultiMedia & Internet@Schools, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , Searcher, KMWorld, and EContent. ITI is also the sponsor and organizer of many industry conferences, including WebSearch University, KMWorld & Intranets, Internet Librarian, Computers in Libraries, Enterprise Search Summit, and Streaming Media. |
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