To lay the groundwork for conversations spanning disciplines and traditions, there will be four plenary sessions of invited speakers whose work points to the history, diversity, and innovations across the field of PPSR.
In 2001, after reading a technical article written by Shuji about GaN on GaN LEDs, we began a series of conversations spanning the course of seven years about the potential magnitude of the technology's application to lighting.
We started with Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise," and the conversations spanned a week and covered everything from modern slavery to the root of confidence.
The conversations span a couple of years, including before Hampton Creek had launched its first product.
It is a place where conversations span everything from the novels of James Baldwin to the first nanoseconds of the universe to the challenges faced by democracy at home and around the world.
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In a conversation spanning a variety of topics, you'll hear Ohanian describe how "Lord Jobs" has indirectly contributed to the success of Zappos and Instagram, the gaping opportunities for start-ups to solve, and the attitude adjustment seen in present day investors; swinging a big load of cash (and something else) doesn't cut it with this class of start-ups.
The conversation spanned the world — foreign policy, domestic issues, economics, pretty much everything.
The conversation spanned generations and continents, Johnny Weir, Seneca, Dante, Chatroulette, Foucault.
One patron, a banker whose conversation spanned credit-default swaps to "cardio," said that he ate at Armani often: "It's not a male lunch place, or an estrogen-fest.
Over the course of the day conversation spans the work of Athenian historian Thucydides, the trial of Mexican drug dealer El Chapo, the proper etiquette of Polo, and one of his boyhood heroes, Robin Hood.
