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Speaker: Israel Hernandez, Assistant Secretary
for Trade Promotion and Director General of the U.S. &
Foreign Commercial Service |
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Israel
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Israel Hernandez
was nominated by President Bush and confirmed by
the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary of Commerce
and Director-General of the U.S. Commercial Service.
The U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service was created
by Congress to assist small and medium-sized American
businesses to export and to protect the business
interests of American companies overseas.
In this capacity, Mr. Hernandez is accountable to
Congress for a number of mission-critical programs
and initiatives. As the single point of contact
in the U.S. government for trade promotion and business
advocacy assistance, Mr. Hernandez oversees a global
operation of more than 1,700 employees—both
American and in-country staff—operating in
47 states and 80 countries.
Mr. Hernandez also works to improve the reach and
exposure of the Commercial Service throughout the
business community at the state and local levels.
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Speaker: Jonathan Trent, PhD, Senior Scientist, NASA Ames
Research Center |
Jonathan
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After receiving
his Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography at Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, Dr. Trent spent six years in Europe at
the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany, the
University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and the University
of Paris at Orsay in France. He returned to the U.S.A. to
work at the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine at Yale
Medical School for two years before establishing a biotechnology
group at Argonne National Laboratory. In 1998 he moved to
NASA Ames Research Center to be part of NASA’s Astrobiology
program. At NASA Ames, he established the Protein Nanotechnology
Group and is currently also an Adjunct Professor in the
Biomolecular Engineering Department at UCSC. For many years
Dr. Trent has been studying the molecular adaptations of
extremophiles—microbes living in extreme environments.
His study of extremophiles address questions in Astrobiology
and the limits of life. Using extremophilic proteins and
combine self-assembly with genetic engineering, his group
is also exploring how biology can be used in nanotechnology.
Most recently, his research team is studying the microbial
ecology of chronic wounds to look for ways of intervening
in the healing process.
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Speaker: Cliff Reeves, General Manager, .NET Platform
Strategy, Microsoft |
Cliff
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Cliff
Reeves has 30 years of experience in the software
industry. He started with IBM Corp. as a programmer
in England in 1971, and has held a wide range of
software product development roles in the areas
of database, application development, communication
and messaging systems. He was an influential figure
in the industry adoption of object technology and
was most recently the senior vice president of Knowledge
Management at Lotus Development Corp. in Cambridge,
Mass. Reeves was closely involved with IBMs acquisition
of Lotus Development in 1995, and he was responsible
for rationalizing the Lotus-IBM product line after
the acquisition. From 1996 through 1999, Reeves
was vice president of Product Management for Lotus
Communications Products, which include Notes and
Domino. Reeves
holds a masters degree in business administration
from Southern Methodist University.
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