The World Technology Summit 2013 Home Program / Agenda Speakers / Moderators AWARD WINNERS/FINALISTS(and other nominees) 2013 Summit & Awards Gala TO REGISTER click here 2013 Hunger Initiative To Sponsor / Exhibit / Demo Past Summits & Awards Contact Us The WTN Website COUNTDOWN TO WTSA 2013 0 Days0 Hours0 Minutes0 Seconds Date: Place: Location: Nov 14 - 15 , 2013 Time & Life Building New York City, USA 1271 Avenue of the Americas (50th Street & 6th Avenue) THE 2013 WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARD FINALISTS (SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ALL 20 CATEGORIES) These Award Finalists are those individuals (in 20 categories) and companies/organizations (in 10 categories) who are -- in the opinion of the WTN Fellows and Founding Members, through Awards voting process -- doing the innovative work of the greatest likely long-term significance in their fields. They are those creating the 21st century. The Winners will be announced from the stage at a black-tie gala and ceremony at Time Conference Center at the World Technology Awards gala/ceremony on the evening of November 15th, at the conclusion of the two-day (Nov. 14/15) World Technology Summit conference held at the Time & Life Building in New York City. ARTS FINALISTS Daan Roosegaarde - Artist & Innovator, Studio Roosegaarde Dennis Hwang - Original Google Doodler, Visual Director of Niantic Labs Mark Anton Read - Visual Effects & 3D-HFR Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Colorist, Technologist and Artist Natasha Tsakos - Visual Artist & Director-Performer R. Luke DuBois - Composer, Artist & Performer OTHER NOMINEES Cecil Balmond Kim Boekbinder John Bohannon Lydia Bradshaw Benjamin Rollins Caldwell Yvette Campbell Billy Chasen Ben Cooper Daniel Ek Alexander Ljung & Eric Wahlforss Robert J. Lang Glenn Lowry Randall Munroe James Patten Renzo Piano Leon Reid IV Jeremy Soule Kevin Systrom Meg Ventrudo Roman Verostko Massimo Vignelli Ge Wang BIOTECHNOLOGY (INDIVIDUAL) FINALISTS George Church - Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Director, NIH Center for Excellence in Genomic Science Gustavo Stolovitzky - Manager, Functional Genomics and Systems Biology, IBM Research Roy Bar-Ziv - Group Head at Laboratory for artificial biological system and soft condensed matter, Department of Materials and interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science Alan Colman - Executive Director, Singapore Stem Cell Consortium; Principal Investigator, A*STAR Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore; and Professor of Regenerative Medicine, Kings College, University of London, UK Karl Deisseroth - Professor, Bioengineering Member, Bio-X;Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioural Science, Stanford University Ann Graybiel - Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research; Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT Stuart Lindsay - Director, Center for Single Molecule Biophysics; Professor of Physics and Chemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University OTHER NOMINEES Ido Amit Amaranathan (Nathan) Balasingham Ian Bancroft Henry Hess Björn Högberg Philipp Holliger Johannes Krause David Lane Shoukhrat Mitalipov Atsushi Miyawaki Stephen Quake Mitinori Saitou Isaac Salazar-Ciudad Ehud Shapiro Jay Shendure Nahum Sonenberg Gabriel Villar BIOTECHNOLOGY (CORPORATE) FINALISTS 23andMe, Inc. Amgen, Inc. Biogen Idec Life Technologies Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. OTHER NOMINEES Alexion Pharmaceuticals Arzeda Baxter International Inc. BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Celgene Corporation Chromocell Clovis Oncology Inc. EpiBone Groove Biopharma Medimmune LLC RaNA uniQure Valerion Therapeutics Visterra Warp Drive Bio COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY(INDIVIDUAL) FINALISTS Brian Chesky - CEO & Co-Founder, Airbnb, Inc. Edmon Chung - CEO, DotAsia Organisation Ltd. Marian Croak - Senior Vice President of Applications and Services Infrastructure, AT&T Rebecca Moore - Manager, Google Earth Outreach, Google Luis von Ahn - CEO, Duolingo; Co-Inventor, CAPTCHA; Inventor, reCAPTCHA Mark Zuckerberg - Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Facebook, Inc. OTHER NOMINEES Reggie Aggarwal Tim Cook Dick Costolo Weili Dai Jack Dorsey Brendan Eich Saikat Guha Baris Gultekin Rollo Carpenter Barnaby Jack Paul Jacobs Garrett Johnson Travis Kalanick Dae-Young Kim Kai-Fu Lee Marissa Ann Mayer Larry Page Jian-Wei Pan Ben Silbermann Cher Wang Cali Williams Yost COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY(CORPORATE) FINALISTS Dropbox Naver Corp. Tumblr ViaSat, Inc. AT&T, Inc. OTHER NOMINEES AOL Inc. Aviat Networks Box Boxc Cisco Systems, Inc. Cleanweb Craigslist Digg Ether2 Foursquare Groupon Hulu Idomoo Ltd. Instagram Path PayPal Rainbow Broadband Inc. Reddit Samsung Snapchat Sprint Nextel StumbleUpon Tango UPS Vlingo Whatsapp Yelp Yip Yap Inc. DESIGN FINALISTS Kunlé Adeyemi - Founder, NLÉ, Amsterdam; Architect, Makoko Floating Schools, Nigeria Dinard da Mata - Designer and Director of Art, ddmdesign; Senior Designer, Automotive Experience, Johnson Controls, Sao Paulo, Brazil Amy Gilvary - Founder & Owner, VoicePix Doris Sung - Principal, DOSU Studio Architecture LLC; Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, USC Daniel Harden - President/CEO and Principal Designer, Whipsaw Inc., California Bre Pettis - CEO & Co-Founder, Makerbot OTHER NOMINEES Jonathan Cedar & Alexander Drummond Andre Broessel Eric Chan Anthony Dunne Shaun Fitzgerald Duncan Fitzsimons Marco Fossati Olafur Eliasson & Frederik Ottesen Leo Kuelbs, John Ensor Parker & Farkas Fulop Vadim Kibardin Pier Franco Midali Aakash Nihalani Nendo Oki Sato Cameron Robertson & Paul Gerhardt Manon Leblan & Romain Diroux Brett Wickens EDUCATION FINALISTS Kalevi Ekman - Director, Design Factory; Professor, Aalto University School of Science and Technology Jose Ferreira - Founder & CEO, Knewton, Inc. Sal Khan - Founder & Executive Director, Khan Academy Brij Kothari - President & CEO, PlanetRead Cliff Schmidt - Founder & President, Literacy Bridge Constance M. Yowell - Director of Education, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Ariel Diaz - Founder & CEO, Boundless OTHER NOMINEES Adda Birnir Andrew Ng & Daphne Koller Jim Fitt Russell Okamoto & Greg Passmore Paul Gollash & Gregg Carey Teddy Rice & Jordan Meranus John Katzman Sam Chaudhary & Liam Don Tobias Lorenz Bilge Mutlu Eren Bali; Oktay Caglar; Gagan Udemy Chip Paucek Anne Shongwe Piya Sorcar; Clifford Nass Shuman Ghosemajumder; Ashwini Doshi Robert Tinker & Stephen Bannasch Lukas Wandzioch ENERGY (INDIVIDUAL) FINALISTS Michael Adams - Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia Scott & Julie Brusaw - Co-Inventors & Co-Founders - Solar Roadways Joseph Heremans - NAE Member, Ohio Eminent Scholar, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineer; Professor, Physics, Ohio State University Daniel G. Nocera - Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy, Harvard University Rafael Verduzco - Louis Owen Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Rice University OTHER NOMINEES Sita Adhikari Lutfi Albasha Andre Broessel Alexander Drummond & Jonathan Cedar Olafur Eliasson & Frederik Ottesen Alex Green Nelvin Joseph Daniel Kim Manon Leblanc Arun Majumdar Jessica Matthews & Julia Silverman Miloš Milisavljević Frank Rogalla Andrea Rossi Lesley Silverthorn Marincola Michael Strano ENERGY (CORPORATE) FINALISTS BrightSource Energy, Inc. G24i Power Ltd. LIGOO Rawlemon Solar Architecture Tesla Motors, Inc. OTHER NOMINEES Amyris Angaza Design Azuri Technologies Biolitestove Brillouin Energy Corp. Charge Point Decoflama Peru Empower Generation Enecsys Enerkem Hybrid Social Solutions, Inc. LittleSun OriginOil PhotonStar LED Platinum Invests Group Corporation [E-MAG] Point Source Power Inc. Steeper Energy TECSIS Uncharted Play, Inc. ENTERTAINMENT FINALISTS Allen DeBevoise - Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Machinima, Inc. Cristina Sylla; Sérgio Gonçalves Pedro Branco; Clara Coutinho - Researchers, engageLab, University of Minho, Portugal Kei Shiratori; Takeshi Mukai; Younghyo Bak - Artists & Creators, ARART App Anthony Wood - Founder & CEO, Roku, Inc. Matt Denton - Founder, Director and Chief Designer, Micromagic Systems OTHER NOMINEES Florian Kaps; Andre Bosman; Christian Lutz Jon Atherton Troy Carter Manuel Creignou Dinard Da Mata AnnMaria De Mars Peter DeSimone Jay Silver & Eric Rosenbaum Gregor Hanuschak Ho Vinh Hoang Leo Kuelbs; John Ensor Parker; Farkas Fulop Graeme Taylor; Richard North; Kenny McAndrew; Jaimie Mantzel Misha Lyalin Ren Ng John MacFarlane; Craig Shelburne; Thomas Cullen; Trung Mai Nicholas Woodman Y. Suzuki; Y. Okada; H. Kawaguchi; T. Kimura Y. Takahashi; K. Horita; T. Nojima; H. Koike Perry Chen; Yancey Strickler; Charles Adler Kevin Yeaman ENVIRONMENT (INDIVIDUAL) FINALISTS Elizabeth Cochran - Research Geophysicist, US Geological Survey; Project Lead, Quake-Catcher Network Richard M. Crooks & Ulrich Tallarek - Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology, University of Texas at Austin; Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Arup K. SenGupta - P. C. Rossin Senior Professor; Professor, Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University Sugianto Tandio - President Director, PT. Tirta Marta, Indonesia Mark J. Post - Professor of Vascular Physiology; Head of the Department of Physiology, University Maastricht, Netherlands Jackson D. Leow - Assistant Professor, National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan; Research Scientist II, A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology OTHER NOMINEES Todd Barber James Cameron Paolo Cugnasca Alex Green Josefin Illergård Kwong Yung Lam Jeff Mendelsohn Miloš Milisavljević Sanga Moses Mary Nichols Jeffrey Shaw ENVIRONMENT (CORPORATE) FINALISTS BIOFUNGITEK, S.L. Eco-Fuel Africa EcoSphere Technologies, Inc. The Plant Strawberry Energy, LLC KONE, Inc. Global Thermostat, LLC OTHER NOMINEES Amyris, Inc. Climate Smart Business Decoflama Peru Enerkem Italcementi Group Liquid Robotics OriginOil Ozone Industries Ireland - RainSafe Water Phytorem Quinzee Recyclebank Reef Ball Foundation Tirta Marta UTEC - Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (University of Engineering & Technology) Voltea Whitewater Technologies ETHICS FINALISTS Luciano Floridi - Research Professor, Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford Amy Gutmann - President, University of Pennsylvania; Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences; Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Debra Satz - Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society & Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University Mariarosaria Taddeo - Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS), University of Warwick Michael Zimmer - Assistant Professor & Director, Center for Information Policy Research, University of Wisconsin Peter-Paul Verbeek - Professor of Philosophy of Technology & Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Netherlands OTHER NOMINEES Coetzee Bester Danah Boyd Sarah Conly Michael Davis Linda Emanuel Stephen Gardiner Jonathan Haidt Don Heider Jonathan Kimmelman Juliet Lodge Darryl Macer Evgeny Morozov Janet Radcliffe-Richards Max Senges Cass H. Sunstein Stephen Unger FINANCE (INDIVIDUAL) FINALISTS Jim Breyer - Partner, Accel Partners Kai-Fu Lee - Founder, Chairman & CEO, Innovation Works Mary Meeker - General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers David Sze - Partner, Greylock Partners Peter Thiel - Founder & President, Clarium Capital; Partner, Founders Fund OTHER NOMINEES Ajay Agarwal Chris Dixon John Doerr Tim Draper Brad Feld Theresia Gouw Reid Hoffman Dmitry Itskov David Johnston Tina Ju Vinod Khosla Murray Low Bill Maris Dave McClure Sabine Miltner Michael Moritz Mark Suster Cameron Winklevoss & Tyler Winklevoss Ingrid Vanderveldt Fred Wilson Jacki Zehner FINANCE (CORPORATE) FINALISTS Andreessen Horowitz Betaworks Pure Energy Partners Sequoia Capital Venrock OTHER NOMINEES Accelerator BitAngels DFJ Gotham Digital Sky Technologies FirstMark Capital First Round Capital IA Ventures Kickstarter Kiva Kiva Systems Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers (KPCB) Lerer Ventures Spark Capital Thrive Capital Tribeca Venture Partners Union Square Ventures HEALTH & MEDICINE (INDIVIDUAL) FINALISTS Lawrence Bonassar & Jason Spector - Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University. Atul Butte - Chief, Division of Systems Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Stanford University Jane Chen - CEO & Co-founder, Embrace Innovations Daniel Didrick - CEO, Didrick Medical Inc. Risto Ilmoniemi - Academy Professor; School of Science, Aalto University, Finland Walter de Brouwer - CEO, Scanadu Inc. OTHER NOMINEES Zhenan Bao Bart Barlogie Greg Biggers Caroline Buckee Howie Choset Richard Crooks & Hong Liu Dennis Filips Hannah Gay; Katherine Luzuriaga; Deborah Persaud Sanjay Gupta Patrick Chi-Leung Hui Mark Humayun Homayoon Kazerooni Max Little Derek Magee Ray Meddis Stephen D. Miller Rodrigo Miranda; Agustín Maciá; Luis Sanchez Maximilian Müller Ada Poon John Rogers Mario Romero Andrew Schwartz Jason Spector Laura Stachel & Hal Aronson Jeff Tangney HEALTH & MEDICINE (CORPORATE) FINALISTS NuPathe, Inc. Hidalgo Ltd. International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) Touch Bionics, Inc. Qualcomm Life, Inc. Masimo Corp. OTHER NOMINEES Accium Biosciences AccuVein Inc. Alcresta AliveCor, Inc. Corindus Vascular Robotics Didrick Medical Inc. Domixity Embrace Innovations Fitbit geneOnyx Gilead InTouch Health Lantos Technologies Lark Medtronic, Inc. Misfit Wearables Novo Nordisk Restoration Robotics, Inc. Sanofi US Scanadu Inc. Second Sight Medical Products Seventh Sense Biosystems Siemens Healthcare UniQure WE CARE Solar World Health Partners (WHP), India Первый медицинский канал - The First Health Channel IT HARDWARE (INDIVIDUAL) FINALISTS Jack Dorsey & Jim McKelvey - Co-Founder & CEO, Square Inc. Co-Founder & Chairman, Square Inc. Ariel Garten - CEO, Interaxon Inc. David Hanson - Founder & CEO, Hanson Robotics Inc. Hiroshi Ishiguro - Professor, Osaka University and ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories Babak Parviz - Founder, Google Glass; Director, Google, Inc. Roel Vertegaal - Professor at Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) & Director at Human Media Laboratory, School of Computing, Queen’s University, Canada Martin Gren - Founder & Director of New Projects, Axis Communications AB OTHER NOMINEES Lee Chen Narbeh Derhacobian Lynn Hayden K. Charles Janac Wenbin Jiang Michael Joyce Stephen Milligan Bre Pettis Tim Saxe Rafal Tomasiak; Martin Olchanowski; Pawel Bienk Eben Upton IT HARDWARE (CORPORATE) FINALISTS Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob) 3D Systems, Inc. Kiva Systems LLC Liquid Robotics, Inc. Mobileye OTHER NOMINEES AliveCor, Inc. Axis Communications B9Creations, LLC Broadcom Corporation Eelectron Hewlett-Packard Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. IBM InTouch Health Memjet Qualcomm, Inc. Siemens Healthcare The National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) Xiaomi IT SOFTWARE (INDIVIDUAL) FINALISTS Amr Awadallah - Founder & CTO, Cloudera Inc. Sachin Chitta - Associate Director, Robotics Systems and Software at SRI International Eldad Farkash - Co-founder & CTO, SiSense Ltd. Simson Garfinkel - Associate Professor, Naval Postgraduate School, CA Per Ola Kristensson - Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction, University of St Andrews; Co-Founder, SACHI Group OTHER NOMINEES Steve Ballmer Stefan Bernbo Aneel Bhusri Martin Casado Tracy Chou Jared Cohen Pat Hanrahan Jonathan Ive Chandra Krintz Satya Nadella Sundar Pichai Ginni Rometty Amit Singh Lauren States Linus Torvalds Jim Whitehurst Meg Whitman IT SOFTWARE (CORPORATE) FINALISTS Dropbox GenoSpace LLC SiSense Splunk, Inc. Terracotta Livefyre Percolate Industries, Inc. SanDisk OTHER NOMINEES Afghan Citadel Software Company Alteryx Birst, Inc. Cvent, Inc. FreshBooks Gluster INSZoom Linux Mint LucidWorks NGINX OpenStack SanDisk SAP Scanadu, Inc. Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) StackIQ Tableau Software Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Varonis Systems Wipro Ltd. Workday LAW FINALISTS Susanne Beck - Professor, Department of Criminal Law, Law School, EBS University, Germany Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar - Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Co-Director, CISAC Mark Lemley - Lex Machina Co-Founder; William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Director, Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology; Director, Stanfords LLM Program in Law, Science and Technology, Stanford University Erica Palmerini - RoboLaw, Project Coordinator; Professor at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy Daniel Solove - John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School Christopher Holman - Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Missouri Kansas-City OTHER NOMINEES Clark Asay Nicole Black Ian Brown I. Glenn Cohen David Drummond Joel Eisen Conrad Johnson Michael J. Madison Chris Marsden James Nehf Radim Polčák Michael Genesereth & Roland Vogl Karen H. Rothenberg Mark Rothstein MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS FINALISTS Magid Abraham - President, CEO & Co-Founder, comScore, Inc. Marco Gomes - Founder & CMO, boo-box, Brazil Hazem Rushdi Mohamed - Co-Founder & CTO, Merchlar Guy Kawasaki - Special Advisor, Motorola Business Unit, Google, Inc. Robin Li - Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Baidu, Inc. Diana Tsai & Stephany Zoo - CEO & Visionary; CMO & Superconnector, Bundshop LLC OTHER NOMINEES Alejandro Aponte & Juan Donalisio Jeff Bezos Robert Brunner; Brett Wickens; Matt Rolandson Anand Chandrasekher Perry Chen; Yancey Strickler; Charles Adler Carine Clark Diane Danielson Allen DeBevoise Duncan Fitzsimons Gabe Gottlieb & Tom Lorimor Deborah Jackson Ambarish Mitra; Omar Tayeb; Jessica Butcher; Steve Spencer Brian Muller & Blaine Sheldon Vivian Rosenthal Ted Sarandos Bettina Sherick Kei Shiratori;Takeshi Mukai; Younghyo Bak Ben Silbermann; Paul Sciarra; Evan Sharp Peter Vegas & Matt Williams MATERIALS (INDIVIDUAL) FINALISTS Zhenan Bao - Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University Vladimir Bulović - Professor of Electrical Engineering, MIT; Fariborz Maseeh Chair in Emerging Technology; Head of Organic and Nanostructured, Electronics Laboratory; Director, Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MIT; Co-Director, the MIT-ENI Solar Frontiers Center. Alan J. Heeger - Professor of Physics and Materials, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, UC Santa Barbara Thomas Meyer - Arey Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Edwin Thomas - William and Stephanie Sick Dean, George R. Brown School of Engineering, Rice University Zhong Lin Wang - Hightower Chair in Materials Science and Engineering, Regents Professor, Engineering Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Nanostructure Characterization, Georgia Tech. Esko Kauppinen - Professor, Department of Applied Physics, School of Science, Aalto University, Finland Risto Nieminen - Distinguished Professor, Department of Applied Physics, School of Science, Aalto University, Finland OTHER NOMINEES Takuzo Aida Andrea Alù David Carroll Gao Chao Andrea Ferrari Harald Giessen Georges Hadziioannou Jianhui Hou Patrick Chi-Leung Hui Henk Jonkers Susumu Kitagawa Jun Lou Tingrui Pan Matteo Pasquali John Rogers Sugianto Tandio David A. Weitz MATERIALS (CORPORATE) FINALISTS Angstron Materials, Inc. Bayer MaterialScience LLC Natcore Technology, Inc. NeverWet [Ross Nanotechnology, LLC] Arjowiggins Creative Papers OTHER NOMINEES American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) Ancatt Arkema Cima NanoTech Corning Inc. Elevance Renewable Sciences GEVO HRL Laboratories, LLC Materials Innovation Technologies Momentive Nanocomp Technologies Inc. Novamont SpA Opalux Svaya Nanotechnologies MEDIA & JOURNALISM FINALISTS Charles Arthur - Technology Editor, The Guardian Emily Bell - Professor of Professional Practice & Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School, Columbia University Jaron Lanier - Scholar, Live Labs, Microsoft Corporation; Interdisciplinary Scholar-in-Residence, CET, UC Berkeley Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen - Executive Chairman, Google, Inc.; Director, Google Ideas Joshua Topolsky - Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder, The Verge OTHER NOMINEES Byron Acohido Aaron Baker Brian Barrett Brian Bergstein Nancy Blair Steve Butts Dan Costa Scott Dadich Brian Dresher Jonathan Geller Whitson Gordon Paul Grabowicz Arianna Huffington Mike McCue Eric Savitz Paul Smalera Joanna Stern Tim Stevens Kara Swisher Alexia Tsotsis & Eric Eldon Linsey Turrentine Lance Ulanoff Siddharth Varadarajan Tim Weber POLICY FINALISTS Julian Paul Assange - Founder, Wikileaks Ronald Deibert - Director, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies & Citizen Lab., Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada Bill & Melinda Gates - Co-Chairs, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Jennifer Pahlka - Deputy CTO for Government Innovation; Executive Director & Founder, Code for America Labs, Inc Rachel Sterne Haot - Chief Digital Officer, City of New York OTHER NOMINEES Stuart Brotman Steven Chu William J. Clinton Stephen Conroy Bill Greeves Margaret Hamburg John Holdren Omobola Johnson Roya Mahboob Michael McGeary Sascha Meinrath Paul Ohm Shawn Osborne Jeremy Robbins Sheryl Sandberg Eric Schmidt Anne-Marie Slaughter Shailendra Vyakarnam Vivek Wadhwa SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP FINALISTS Anne Githuku-Shongwe - Founder & CEO, Afroes Games Erica Kochi - Co-Founder & Co-Leader, UNICEF Innovation Unit NY, UNICEF Jessica Matthews & Julia Silverman - Co-Founder & CEO, Uncharted Play, Inc. Arnand Shah - Founder & Director, Sarvajal (Piramal Water Private Limited) Lesley Silverthorn Marincola - CEO, Angaza OTHER NOMINEES Jim Ayala Bibhusan Bista Jonathan Cedar & Alexander Drummond Jane Chen Olafur Eliasson & Frederik Ottesen Gopi Gopalakrishnan Salman Khan Mads Kjaer Brij Kothari Deb Levine Roya Mahboob Sanga Moses Arup SenGupta Piya Sorcar Laura Stachel & Hal Aronson SPACE (INDIVIDUAL) FINALISTS Eric Anderson & Peter Diamandis - Co-Founder, Co-Chairman, Planetary Resources, Inc. William Borucki - Principal Investigator, NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA Darlene Damm & Diego Favarolo - Co-Founders, DIYROCKETS, Inc. Michael C. Malin - President & Chief Scientist, Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. Elon Musk - CEO & Chief Designer, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) OTHER NOMINEES Ignazio Ciufolini & Antonio Paolozzi Tim DeBenedictis Myron A. Diftler Stephen Gorevan Martin Hack Jason Held Peter Higgs & François Englert Aaron Kemmer Scott Larson Reuben Metcalfe Peter Platzer Jaspreet Singh Ted Southern Adam Steltzner Ian Webster Carlo Zapponi SPACE (CORPORATE) FINALISTS Deep Space Industries, Inc. Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Saber Astronautics, LLC Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) OTHER NOMINEES AeroJet-General Corporation CERN - The European Organization for Nuclear Research CGS S.p.A. - Compagnia Generale per lo Spazio DARPA - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DIY Rockets Final Frontier Design Litespeed Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) NanoSatisfi Northrop Grumman Ocean Optics Planetary Resources Skybox Imaging Southern Stars Terminal Velocity Aerospace Virgin Galactic CONVENED BY: Convened By The World Technology Network Hunger Initiative WTN Global Challenges 2013 Hunger Initiative View the WebCast What attendees have said about the experience The 2013 © 2013 The World Te
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