Calit2 & Thursday: Highlights

"CTO Design Challenge" Breakout: Envisioneer Robert Twomey assists while a panel of experts works on ways to improve firefighting results

FiReStarters Exhibition: An OpenLabs demo is watched with interest by [L-R] Lynne Mercer, Marcel Vinay, David Steakley, Jonathan Wilkie, and Mark Turrell

FiReStarters Exhibition: OpenLabs CEO Hank Coleman [back, L] listens to his rep's demo along with [front, L-R] Mark Turrell, Jonathan Wilkie, and David Steakley

Tour of Next-Generation Visualization and Networking Facilities, Calit2, UCSD: OptiPortal Australia talks in realtime with FiRe participants in the Calit2 auditorium -- it doesn't get more high-def than this

Calit2, UCSD: OptiPortal Australia talks in realtime with FiRe participants in the Calit2 auditorium: [foreground, L-R] Per-Kristian Halvorsen, Christopher Ireland, Kelly Ireland, and Bill Spencer

Calit2, UCSD: OptiPortal Australia talks in realtime with FiRe participants in the Calit2 auditorium: [foreground, L-R] host and director Larry Smarr, SNS CEO Mark Anderson, Michael Pfeffer, and Martin Tobias

Calit2, UCSD: OptiPortal Australia talks in realtime with FiRe participants in the Calit2 auditorium: [foreground, L-R] host and director Larry Smarr, SNS CEO Mark Anderson, and Michael Pfeffer, Managing Partner, Kolohala Ventures

Tour of Next-Generation Visualization and Networking Facilities, Calit2, UCSD - where the food is also superb: [foreground, L-R] Bill Spencer, Max Chertoff, Thorgeir Einarsson, and Kelly Ireland

Tour of Next-Generation Visualization and Networking Facilities, Calit2 (the "FiRe Lab"), UCSD

"Mind the Bots!" Next-Generation Visualization and Networking Facilities, Calit2 (the "FiRe Lab"), UCSD: Gizmo Wi-Fi robots

Next-Generation Visualization and Networking Facilities, Calit2 (the "FiRe Lab"), UCSD: Richard Elkus Jr., Director of Lam Research, discusses a point of interest with a Calit2 expert

Next-Generation Visualization and Networking Facilities, Calit2 (the "FiRe Lab"), UCSD: Doug Smith (foreground) and Bill Haseltine

Host Kamran Elahian (L), arriving in “business shorts,” gets the best of guest Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, at the opening of “Google’s Role in ‘Rapid Response to Climate Crisis’”

“Google’s Role in ‘Rapid Response to Climate Crisis’”: Host Kamran Elahian (L), Chair and Board Member of Beceem Communications, with guest Larry Brilliant, Executive Director, Google.org

“Google’s Role in ‘Rapid Response to Climate Crisis’”: Host Kamran Elahian (L), Chair and Board Member of Beceem Communications, with guest Larry Brilliant, Executive Director, Google.org

Between the scenes: [L-R] Mark Anderson, CEO, Strategic News Service; Kamran Elahian, Chair and Board Member of Beceem Communications, and Martin Tobias, past CEO, Imperium Renewables

"FiReStarters I": [L-R] Mark Turrell, CEO, Imaginatik; Tim Johnson, CEO, High Throughput Genomics; Bill Spencer, CEO, Hawaii Oceanic Technology; Mike Gering, President, Global Solar Energy; and Roy Schoenberg, CEO, American Well Systems

"FiReStarters I": [L-R] Moderator Steve Evans, BBC Worldwide Service; and FiReStarters Tim Johnson, CEO, High Throughput Genomics; Bill Spencer, CEO, Hawaii Oceanic Technology; and Mike Gering, President, Global Solar Energy

"Fixing Healthcare I: Bringing Third-World Costs to the U.S.": Host Tom Krazit [L], CNET Networks, with William Haseltine, Chair of Haseltine Global Health LLC and Founder, Human Genome Sciences

"Fixing Healthcare I: Bringing Third-World Costs to the U.S.": Host Tom Krazit [L], CNET Networks, with William Haseltine, Chair of Haseltine Global Health LLC and Founder, Human Genome Sciences

"Fixing Healthcare II: [L-R] Moderator Doug Smith, Chief Information and Quality Officer, Martin's Point Heath Care, with panelists Roy Schoenberg, CEO, American Well Systems, and Peter Neupert, Corporate VP, Health Solutions Group, Microsoft

"Fixing Healthcare II: [L-R] Moderator Doug Smith, Chief Information and Quality Officer, Martin's Point Heath Care, and Peter Neupert, Corporate VP, Health Solutions Group, Microsoft

"Collaborative (Green) Innovation": [L-R] Moderator Robert Anderson, Director, Technology Transfer and IP, Illinois Institute of Technology; Mark Atkins, Chair, President, and CEO, Invention Machine Corp.; and Mark Turrell, CEO, Imaginatik

"Collaborative (Green) Innovation": [L-R] Moderator Robert Anderson, Director, Technology Transfer and IP, Illinois Institute of Technology; Mark Turrell, CEO, Imaginatik; and Prith Banerjee, Senior VP, Research, and Director, HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard