Jared Cohen, US Department of State

March 26, 2010 · Posted in 2010 Speaker Bios · Comments Off

Jared Cohen
Secretary of State Policy and Planning Staff
US Department of State

Jared Cohen is a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, where he has served since September 2006. Initially brought in by Condoleezza Rice as the youngest member in history, he was kept on to serve on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Policy Planning Staff. In this capacity, he focuses on counter-terrorism, counter-radicalization, Middle East, technology and innovation, public diplomacy and strategic communications, and youth issues. In this capacity, he also chairs the Policy Planning Staff’s working group focused on 21st century statecraft. Prior to his work at the State Department, Cohen received his BA from Stanford University and his M.Phil in International Relations from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Cohen has become a specialist in the use of technology to advance American interests throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia. In December 2008, Cohen assembled the first ever Alliance of Youth Movements, which was a summit of 21st century movements that relied almost entirely on technology to affect change. In April 2009, he took senior executives from Silicon Valley to Iraq on the first ever US government technology delegation. Eight months later, Cohen brought Google CEO Eric Schmidt to Iraq in what was the first trip to Iraq by an American CEO from a leading technology company. During June 2009 he intervened to keep the Twitter network online, delaying scheduled engineering work, so that supporters of the Iranian opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, favored by the U.S., could continue using the network to plan anti-government activities. In December 2009, CNN released its top ten Internet moments of the decade, of which Cohen’s call to Twitter was among a list that included the launch of Facebook, the introduction of the iPhone, the 2008 presidential campaign, and the Google IPO. In a Huffington Post article posted on October 20, 2009, Cohen coined the phrase “Connection Technologies” now popularly adopted by senior policymakers and widely used in the technology industry. In February 2010, Cohen co-led the U.S.-Russia Innovation Dialogue in Moscow and Novosibirsk. The Innovation Dialogue served as an important illustration of President Obama’s “reset” policy toward Russia and was the first ever bilateral dialogue on innovation that involved governments and society.

Cohen is author of several books. His first, One Hundred Days of Silence: American and the Rwanda Genocide,”was published in 2006 by Rowman & Littlefield and chronicles U.S. policy toward Rwanda during the 1994 Genocide. His second book,”Children of Jihad: A Young American’s Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East,”was published by Penguin Books (Gotham) in October 2007 and has also been published as an audio book and translated into Dutch and Italian. Cohen’s work on Children of Jihad has received the endorsements of names like Tom Brokaw, Frank Carlucci, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft, Richard Lugar, and Chris Matthews. Children of Jihad was starred by Kirkus Review and selected as one of the “Best Books of 2007.” Additional publications include The Passive Revolution: Is Political Resistance Dead or Alive in Iran (Hoover Digest, 2005), Iran’s Young Opposition (SAIS Review, 2006), and “Diverting the Radicalization Track” (Policy Review, Spring 2009).

Jared frequently appears in the media: he has been featured in The New Yorker”, “Business Week”, “Wired Magazine”, and appeared on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, CNN, CBS, ABC, NPR, Fox News, MSNBC, BBC, Discovery Channel, Headline News, CSPAN2-Book TV, Current TV, and a variety of other TV and radio programs both domestic and international. He is frequently asked to speak at domestic and international conferences hosted by think tanks, the public sector, the military, the private sector, and foundations.

Cohen is actively involved in the Tribeca Film Festival where he serves as an annual judge. He has also been involved in the Tribeca Film Festival’s internationalization by traveling with the Tribeca co-founders to Qatar in October 2009 as part of the inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival.

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Paradigm

March 25, 2010 · Posted in 2010 Exhibitors · Comments Off

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For over twenty-five years Paradigm has set the standard for sonic excellence in every product category we offer. Our focus on providing the best in performance and value continually pushes the boundaries in speaker design.

Stunning accuracy, a spacious soundstage with pinpoint localization, powerful, well-defined bass and thrilling dynamics are hallmarks of Paradigm’s advanced speaker designs.

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Tiffen

March 25, 2010 · Posted in 2010 Exhibitors · Comments Off

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Tiffen has been a leading manufacturer and supplier of photographic filters and lens accessories for the consumer/professional imaging and the motion picture and broadcast television industries for over 70 years.

Today, the company offers a wide range of products from its divisions, which include: Consumer, Motion Picture and Television, Digital, Tripods and Support Systems.

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Txtstation

March 25, 2010 · Posted in 2010 Exhibitors · Comments Off

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Since 2004 Txtstation has been at the forefront of mobile interactivity – creating integrated campaigns that combine the passion of live broadcasts and events with the ubiquity of mobile messaging. We allow broadcasters, event owners, sponsors and general media to communicate with viewers or fans directly through their mobile phones.

Txtstation combines its extensive mobile and interactive formats with its portfolio of leading edge technologies to provide innovative and effective solutions.

We provide interactivity for audiences, thus enhancing their overall experience
We create unique and integrated mobile marketing campaigns for brands to ensure they reach their target market at the right time and in the right place
We deliver meaningful results through real-time reporting and analysis that quantifies campaign effectiveness and ROI
We deliver additional revenues from each premium txt message (SMS), multi-media message (MMS) and content download
We provide opt-in consumer databases for ongoing pre and post-event communications

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Liquid Image

March 25, 2010 · Posted in 2010 Exhibitors · Comments Off

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Liquid Image manufacturers Sport Tech products. Our line includes cameras integrated into masks and goggles for swimming, snorkeling, scuba diving, skiing and snowboarding. New announcements at the CEA Line Show include motocross and motorcycle camera goggles.

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March 22, 2010 · Posted in Right Column 1 · Comments Off

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Ed Baig, USA Today

March 18, 2010 · Posted in 2010 Speaker Bios · Comments Off

Ed Baig
Personal Tech Columnist
USA Today

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thinkeco

March 18, 2010 · Posted in 2010 Exhibitors · Comments Off

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PICOwatt by Tenrehte Technologies

March 18, 2010 · Posted in 2010 Exhibitors · Comments Off

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Tenrehte Technologies creates wireless products to enable connectivity in Smart Grid devices. We empower consumers to take a more active role in the grid, eliminate wasted energy costs, and reduce their carbon footprint.

PICOwatt™ is a Smart Grid ready smart plug that gives you control over your energy consumption. PICOwatt™ uses Wi-Fi connectivity to provide remote energy monitoring, remote power control, timers, load shedding, time of use pricing and demand scheduling.

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Martin LaMonica, CNET News

March 17, 2010 · Posted in 2010 Speaker Bios · Comments Off

Martin LaMonica
Senior Writer
CNET News

Martin LaMonica is a Senior Writer at CNET News where he writes for and edits the Green Tech blog. He has written about energy and environmental technologies since 2005, becoming an authority on a wide range of topics including renewable power, green buildings, and electric vehicles. Before helping launch the Green Tech blog, LaMonica covered Web development technologies and enterprise software for CNET News. Before that, he was executive editor of IT publication InfoWorld and Paris correspondent for the IDG News Service.

CNET’s Green Tech blog was voted the best green science and technology blog by Treehugger in 2010. Green Tech is also a finalist in this year’s EPpy award for the best news or political blog as chosen by the journal Editors & Publishers view .

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