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RoboNexus Special Press Event |
Dear RoboNexus
Co-sponsors and Exhibitors,
On behalf of Robotics Trends, I would like to invite you
to attend a special press event we are holding on Thursday,
October 21, 2004 from 6:00-7:30pm. Please see the complete
agenda below.
To register, please
email me as soon as possible.
Regards,
Howard Weinman
Vice President
Sales and Business Development
Robotics Trends
(508) 351-6606 x103
hw@roboticstrends.com
Robotics - The
Next, 'Next Big Thing'
October 21, 2004 - 6:00pm -7:30pm
Great American Ballroom J - Santa Clara Convention
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The PC, the Internet, wireless - what comes next? Why
robots of course! Today robots are vacuuming floors in
our homes, cleaning ships, inspecting oil wells,
planting seeds on commercial farms, assisting in surgery
and performing many other tasks most of us are unaware
of. These robots and robotic technologies have an
intellectual and emotional appeal that transcends any
other type of engineered product, and this appeal is
equal applicability across all forms of media - print
press, Web press, film, and radio.
Join the producers of RoboNexus, the consumer,
educational and business development event for
intelligent, mobile robotics, their guests, and the
world's top roboticists at an invitation only press
event to learn what all the fuss is about and get a
sneak peek at the RoboNexus robots before the event
open. |
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AGENDA |
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6:00 - 6:15 |
Refreshments and mingle with the
roboticists. |
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6:15 - 6:30 |
 Why
Robots, Why Now?
Dan
Kara, Conference Chair, President, Robotics Trends
- Introducing RoboNexus
- What's Hot at RoboNexus
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6:30 - 6:40
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 The
Next Big Technology Market
Neena
Buck
Vice President, Emerging Frontiers Practice
Strategy Analytics
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6:40 - 6:50 |
 Humanoid
Robotics and Robotics in Japan
Tadahiro Kawada
Managing Director
Kawada Industries |
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6:50 - 7:00
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 Robots
as a Growth Business
Helen Greiner
Co-founder and Chairman
iRobot
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7:00 |
Sneak peak at the robots on the RoboNexus expo floor |
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Speaker bios |
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Dan Kara is
President/Co-Founder of Robotics Trends
Robotics Trends is
an integrated media firm serving the burgeoning
personal, service and mobile robotics markets. He also
serves as Editor of
RoboticsTrends.com, a news and analysis
serving those markets. He is also the Chairman of
RoboNexus and past chairman of Robotics Trends' Emerging
Robotics Technologies and Application Conference. Prior
to founding Robotics Trends, Dan was co-founder, EVP and
CTO of Intermedia Group, a leading integrated conference
and media company focused on emerging information
technology markets. He has also served as VP of Advanced
Information Technology Research at Sentry Group, VP and
Director of Research at Ullo International, and as
Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of
Software Productivity Group, an integrated publishing,
conference and analyst services firm focused on the
enterprise software marketplace. |
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Neena Buck,
Vice President, Emerging Frontiers Practice, Strategy
Analytics
Neena Buck is Vice President of the Emerging Frontiers
practice at Strategy Analytics, an industry analysis and
market research firm. Emerging Frontiers examines the
confluence of future-generation intelligent computing
and communications systems with the needs of
leading-edge businesses and consumers. Previously, Ms.
Buck was the founder of Common Knowledge Cambridge, a
research, analysis and technology strategy firm focused
on tracking under-the-radar technologies and their
impact on businesses,
consumers and society. |
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Tadahiro Kawada
is Managing Director at Kawada Industries, a
Japan based steel fabricator and construction firm, as
well as President of General Robotix, a developer and
distributor of the Humanoid Robot Software Platform,
OpenHRP, the software for the Humanoid robot HRP-2 made
by Kawada Industries. |
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Helen Greiner
is Co-founder and Chairman, iRobot.
Under Helen Greiner's leadership, iRobot
Corporation is delivering robots into the industrial,
consumer, academic, and military markets. Recently, she
was named the Ernst and Young New England Entrepreneurs
of the Year for 2003 (with iRobot co-founder Colin
Angle) and was honored in Fortune Magazine's Top 10
Innovators of 2003. She has also been honored as a
Technology Review Magazine "Innovator for the Next
Century," invited to the World Economic Forums as a
Global Leader of Tomorrow, and awarded the prestigious
DEMO God Award at the DEMO Conference. Her 15 years of
experience in robotic technology includes work at NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory and MIT's Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory. |
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