San Francisco Celebrates the Best in Business Innovation at the Economist's Third Annual Innovation Awards and Summit September 14th 2004.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Economist This article is about the profession. For the news publication, see The Economist. An economist is an expert in the social science of economics.[1] Conferences welcomes leading CTO's, scientists, heads of research, CEO's, and entrepreneurs to this unique event to honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. individuals whose innovative ideas have transformed the way we think and have helped create both financial and societal so·ci·e·tal adj. Of or relating to the structure, organization, or functioning of society. so·ci  e·tal·ly adv.Adj. value for our world.
WHAT: Economist Conferences is holding its 3rd Annual Innovation
Awards and Summit on September 14th 2004 at the Four
Seasons in downtown San Francisco.
The event will begin with a series of peer-group
discussions, lectures and interviews of practices that
drive corporate and societal innovation, and culminate
with a dinner and awards ceremony to honor the immense
contribution key innovators have made to the global
economy.
Nominated by a distinguished committee of judges, as well
as readers and journalists from The Economist and selected
by a judging committee, the winners will represent chief
innovators in the fields of Computing, Bioscience,
Telecommunications, and Energy and the Environment. There
will also be a winner selected in a special technology
category that The Economist calls "No Boundaries," and in
a new category: Social and Economic Innovation.
WHO: SPECIAL GUEST: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will
present welcoming remarks preceding the Awards Reception.
Hosted by Tom Standage, Editor, The Economist's Technology
Quarterly; and sponsored by Scottish Development
International, Strategos, Burson-Marsteller and Dow
Corning, the event presents a prestigious faculty,
including:
-- Jim Gable, Managing Executive, ChevronTexaco
Technology Ventures
-- Mark Klopp, Managing Director, Eastman Ventures
-- Larry Page, President, Products, Google
-- David Ai, Vice-president, Hitachi America Corporate
Ventures Catalyst Division
-- Tim Brown, CEO, Ideo
-- Genevieve Bell, Senior Researcher, Intel
-- John Chiplin, CEO, ITI Life Sciences
-- Alpheus Bingham, Vice-president, Lilly Research
Laboratories Strategy & e.Lilly
-- Jeffrey Miller, President, Markem Corporation
-- Richard Kramlich, Co-founder and General Partner, New
Enterprise Associates
-- Mark Benioff, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce.com
-- Charles O'Reilly III, Professor of Human Resources
Management and Organizational Behavior, Stanford
University Graduate School of Business
-- Michael Botos, Principal, Strategos
-- Bob Finlayson, President and CEO, Burson-Marsteller
Northern California
WHEN: Tuesday, September 14th 2004
Summit: 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. PDT
Awards Reception: 5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. PDT
WHERE: Four Seasons Hotel, San Francisco
757 Market Street (between 3rd & 4th Streets)
415-633-3000
CONTACT/
RSVP: For further information and/or to receive a complimentary
press pass, please contact: Melissa Swanson at
Burson-Marsteller, 415-591-4097, or
economistinfo@sfo.bm.com.
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