Speaker Notes

One of the great things about attending MIT is having access to the well-known speakers that come in to give talks. I attend as many presentations as possible and blog my notes. Below is a list (in chronological order) of the speakers I've seen so far:

1. Randall Pinkett, Entrepreneur, Apprentice Season 4 Winner
   
2. Tom Kochan, Negotiation and Conflict Management
   
3. Scott Stevens, Vice President, Systems Engineering, Juniper Networks
   
4. Russ Siegelman, Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
   
5. Tim Rowe, Founder and CEO, Cambridge Innovation Center
   
6. Jerrold Grochow, Vice President for Information Services and Technology, MIT
   
7. Michael Hammer, Author, President - Hammer and Company
   
8. Peter H. Diamandis, Chairman & CEO of X Prize Foundation
   
9. Ed Roberts, Author, Entrepreneur, Professor - MIT
   
10. Stephen Wolfram, Author, Scientist, CEO and Founder of Wolfram Research
    
11. Shaygan Kheradpir, CIO, Verizon
    
12. Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft
    
13. Steven Sinofsky, Senior VP, Office, Microsoft
    
14. Startup School 2005
    
15. Lilia Tsalalikhin, VP and CMO, Luxoft
    
16. Greg Blonder, General Partner at Morgenthaler Ventures
    
17. Gary Gregory, CEO and Founder of Sirius Software
    
18. Henry Mintzberg, author of "Managers Not MBAs" and Professor of Management
    
19. Larry Bohen - Venture Capitalist, Doug Levin - CEO of Blackduck Software, Justin Steinman - North America Solutions Manager at Novell, and Bob Gett - President & CEO of Optaros
    
20. Jen-Hsun Huang, President, CEO and Co-founder, Nvidia
    
21. John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems
    
22. Bob Seamans and Sy Liebergot
    
23. Charlie Duke, Former NASA Astronaut
    
24. Jack Welch
    
25. Daryl Morey, SVP Operations and Information, Boston Celtics
    
26. Bill Schnoor, Lawyer
    
27. Dennis Bakke, Author of "Joy at Work", Co-founder of AES, President and CEO of Imagine Schools
    
28. Dan Lickly, Programmer (Apollo), Manager (Apollo and Intermetrics), Professor (Univ of New Hampshire Computer Science)
    
29. Edward Tufte, Professor Emeritus at Yale, Author of Seven Books including "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"
    
30. Bruce Harreld, SVP of Strategy at IBM
    
31. Why Winners Win: The Secrets of Outstanding Performance by Alan Weiss, Ph.D.
    
32. Bob Parker, Former Astronaut, Director of the NASA management office of the jet propulsion laboratory
    
33. Vern Raburn, CEO and President, Eclipse Aviation Corp.
    
34. Peter Senge, Author of "The Fifth Discipline", Senior Lecturer at MIT
    
35. Duane Ackerman, Chairman and CEO of Bellsouth
    
36. Joe Gavin, Former Director of Lunar Module Program at Grumman, Former President of Grumman
    
37. Ken Morse, Senior Lecturer at MIT and Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center, Co-Founder 3-Com and Aspen Technology
    
38. Sallie Krawcheck – Chief Financial Officer and Head of Strategy for Citigroup
    
39. Joe Berardino - Former CEO, Arthur Andersen
    
40. George Mueller – CEO, Color Kinetics
    
41. Cline Frasier – Former Manager, Apollo G&N Project Office
    
42. Frank Biondi – Former CEO, HBO, Viacom, and Universal Studios
    
43. John Osher, Inventor of Crest SpinBrush
    
44. Patrick Kuhse - From Prominence To Prison, My Fall From Grace As A Successful Stockbroker
    
45. Matt Kressy - Industrial Designer
    
46. Sir Martin Sorrell - CEO, WPP
    
47. Scott Anthony - Partner at Innosight
    
48. George Bell, Former CEO Excite and UPromise
    

Last updated: 2005.10.05