The Telluride Technology Festival is a Celebration of the Past, Present and Future of Technology.The Tech Fest is based on the historical fact that in 1891, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse and Telluride’s own L.L. Nunn built the world’s first commercial grade AC power plant in Telluride. The intimate mountain environment of Telluride, Colorado continues to be an ideal environment for discussion and reflection.

The 8th annual Telluride Technology Festival is August 1st-2nd, 2008!

2008 Event Schedule…

Day 1 (8/1/2008, Friday)12:10 PM Opening Remarks

12:20 PM Showing of Interview with Arthur C. Clark at the Telluride Tech Festival
12:45 PM “Considering Democracy” Film by Keya Lea Horiuchi
http://www.consideringdemocracy.com/
1:45 PM Discussion and break
2:00 PM Jonathan Aronson “The $4 Trillion Challenge: Sustaining Innovation in a Modular Era”
2:45 PM Discussion and Break
3:00 PM Dr. Ted Selker “Context Aware Computing”
4:00 PM Panel Discussion
5:00 PM Cocktails and Appetizers
6:00 PM Cajun Festival Food and Live Music $15
9:00 PM Tesla Coil Demonstration Main Street - FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC

Day 2 (8/2/2008, Saturday)

9:30 AM Coffee and Bagels
10:00 AM Herb Morreale “Domino Theory: Attempting to Understand Chain Reactions and How To Set Big Things In Motion”
10:45 PM Discussion and Break
11:00 AM Kirstie L. Bellman “Technology Dreams and the Reality of Complex Systems”
12:00 AM Panel Discussion
1:00 PM Picnic
2:30 PM Dan Pearlman “Democracy at the Supreme Court”
2:45 PM Discussion and Break
3:00 PM Brewster Kahle “Universal Access to all Knowledge”
4:00 PM Panel Discussion
9:00 PM Tesla Coil Demonstration Main Street - FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC

2008 Honorees…

Each year, present day honorees are selected that exemplify the life, times and standard of contribution of Tesla, Westinghouse and Nunn, who not only changed the world, they electrified it.

Kirstie L. Bellman

Kirstie L. Bellman, Ph.D., is a Principal Scientist in the Computer Systems Division and head of the Aerospace Integration Sciences Center (AISC), which she started upon returning to the Aerospace Corporation after four years at DARPA. AISC’s focus is on the development of advanced system and model integration methods, new analytic techniques, and evaluation tools for assessing the impacts of new technologies.

Brewster Kahle

Brewster Kahle is Director and co-founder of archive.org. Brewster has built technologies, companies, and institutions to advance the goal of universal access to all knowledge. He currently oversees the non-profit Internet Archive as founder and Digital Librarian, which is now one of the largest digital archives in the world. His stated goal is “Universal Access to all Knowledge”.

Dr. Ted Selker

Dr. Ted Selker has been an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory for ten years. Ted’s work takes the form of prototyping concept products supported by cognitive science research. Ted’s research has contributed to products ranging from notebook computers to operating systems. Among many computer innovations, he is known for the TrackPoint pointing device, shipped in over 20 million computers. His work is also applied to developing and testing user-experience technology and security architectures for recording voter intentions securely and accurately.