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A Forum Agenda
Pages 27-28

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... There is general consensus that this crisis was precipitated by building far too much of our economy on vaporous transactions that did not create real value. To emerge from this financial crisis and set a sound 21st century course, we must turn our attention to unleashing technological innovation to create products and services that add actual value.
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... Moderator: Ali Velshi, chief business correspondent and co-host of Your Money, CNN Panel: • Jean-Lou Chameau, president of Caltech and former provost of Georgia Tech • Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation • Judy Estrin, former CTO of Cisco, serial entrepreneur, and author on innovation • Chad Holliday, former chairman and CEO of DuPont • Steve Koonin, U.S. Under Secretary of Energy for Science, former vice president of BP, and former provost of Caltech • Raymond Lane, managing partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and former president of Oracle • Tony Tan Keng Yam, former deputy prime minister of Singapore, now chairman of the National Research Foundation (of Singapore)
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