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Conference Keynote Speakers
RamEZ Naam
Ramez Naam is a computer scientist, author, and futurist. He spent thirteen years
at Microsoft, where he played leadership roles on early versions of Outlook, Internet
Explorer, and Bing, driving work in information retrieval, high scale systems, machine
learning, and artifcial intelligence.
He’s the H.G. Wells-award and Prometheus-award winning author of four books: The
Infnite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet, which charts a course to
innovate our way past challenges in energy, food, water, and climate; More Than
The Chair Academy’s 24th Annual International Leadership Conference
Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement which showed the
Sponsored by: promise and ethics of enhancing human abilities; and the brain-hacking
science-fction thrillers Nexus and Crux. Nexus was picked by NPR as one of the
best books of 2013 and has been optioned as a flm by Paramount.
Ramez’s work has appeared in or been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal, The Economist, The Atlantic, Slate, Business Week, Discover, Wired,
and Scientifc American. He teaches on innovation, environment, and energy at
Singularity University at NASA Ames and is a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and
Emerging Technologies. He’s appeared on MSNBC, on Yahoo Finance, on Reason
TV, and before live audiences on four continents, from Argentina to Istanbul; from
Shenzhen to Washington DC.
Follow Ramez on twitter: @ramez or visit him at http://rameznaam.com
Ramez Naam will be speaking, Thursday, April 9, 2015
maTT REED
Dr. Matthew Reed is the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Holyoke Community
College. He is also the author of the InsideHigherEd blog “Confessions of a
Community College Dean,” and of the book “Confessions of a Community College
Administrator” (Jossey-Bass, 2013).
Previously, he was the Division Dean of Liberal Arts at the County College of Morris,
in New Jersey. He has also worked in the for-proft sector, at DeVry, in both faculty
and administrative roles.
Sponsored by: He has taught at Rutgers, DeVry, Kean, and the County College of Morris. He has a
doctorate in political science from Rutgers University, and a bachelor’s in political
science from Williams College. He lives with his family in Feeding Hills,
Massachusetts.
Matt Reed will be speaking, Friday, April 10, 2015
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RamEZ Naam
Ramez Naam is a computer scientist, author, and futurist. He spent thirteen years
at Microsoft, where he played leadership roles on early versions of Outlook, Internet
Explorer, and Bing, driving work in information retrieval, high scale systems, machine
learning, and artifcial intelligence.
He’s the H.G. Wells-award and Prometheus-award winning author of four books: The
Infnite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet, which charts a course to
innovate our way past challenges in energy, food, water, and climate; More Than
The Chair Academy’s 24th Annual International Leadership Conference
Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement which showed the
Sponsored by: promise and ethics of enhancing human abilities; and the brain-hacking
science-fction thrillers Nexus and Crux. Nexus was picked by NPR as one of the
best books of 2013 and has been optioned as a flm by Paramount.
Ramez’s work has appeared in or been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal, The Economist, The Atlantic, Slate, Business Week, Discover, Wired,
and Scientifc American. He teaches on innovation, environment, and energy at
Singularity University at NASA Ames and is a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and
Emerging Technologies. He’s appeared on MSNBC, on Yahoo Finance, on Reason
TV, and before live audiences on four continents, from Argentina to Istanbul; from
Shenzhen to Washington DC.
Follow Ramez on twitter: @ramez or visit him at http://rameznaam.com
Ramez Naam will be speaking, Thursday, April 9, 2015
maTT REED
Dr. Matthew Reed is the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Holyoke Community
College. He is also the author of the InsideHigherEd blog “Confessions of a
Community College Dean,” and of the book “Confessions of a Community College
Administrator” (Jossey-Bass, 2013).
Previously, he was the Division Dean of Liberal Arts at the County College of Morris,
in New Jersey. He has also worked in the for-proft sector, at DeVry, in both faculty
and administrative roles.
Sponsored by: He has taught at Rutgers, DeVry, Kean, and the County College of Morris. He has a
doctorate in political science from Rutgers University, and a bachelor’s in political
science from Williams College. He lives with his family in Feeding Hills,
Massachusetts.
Matt Reed will be speaking, Friday, April 10, 2015
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