Sage Commons Congress Watch Live 23-24 April!

We're proud to partner with Creative Commons and Sage Commons to webcast the Sage Commons Congress, taking place 23-24 April 2010. For two days, international thought leaders will convene in San Francisco to establish the framework for a unique public resource.

The Sage Commons is a novel information platform being built by an international partnership of researchers and stakeholders to define the molecular basis of disease and guide the development of effective human therapeutics and diagnostics. The public access mission of the Sage Commons requires the development of a new strategic and legal framework to protect the rights of contributors while providing widespread access to integrative genomics resources.

Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.

The Sage Commons Congress is a Sage Bionetworks initiative.

Here's the full agenda:

Day 1 Friday, April 23, 2010

8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 am Plenary Vignettes
Andrea Califano, Columbia University
Lee Hood, Institute for Systems Biology
9:00 am Purpose of the Congress
Stephen Friend, Sage Bionetworks
9:45 am Project Group Reports

• A) End-to-End Pilot Combining Data, Building Models, and Querying Them
  Andrew Kasarskis, Sage Bionetworks
  Ilya Kupershmidt, NextBio

• B) Standards and Ontologies for Integration, Analysis, and Exchange of Global Coherent Datasets
  Jessie Tenenbaum, Duke Translational Medicine Institute

• C) Sage Infrastructure Tools Project
  Carol Goble, University of Manchester
  Ted Liefeld, Broad Institute
  Alex Pico, Gladstone Institutes

• Short Break
  
• D) Internationalization of Sage Efforts
  Carolina Rossini, Berkman Center at Harvard University

• E) Citation of Network Models and Associated Data
  Liz Lyon, UKOLN
  Carol Goble, University of Manchester
  Jonathan Rees, Creative Commons

11:45 am Keynote Speaker 1
Jeff Hammerbacher, Cloudera
12:20 pm Break into Lunch Tables (sponsored by NextBio)
12:30 pm LUNCH & Special Guest Speaker
Josh Sommer, Chordoma Foundation
1:15 pm Plenary Vignettes
Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego
Hiroaki Kitano, Systems Biology Institute
Sam Aparicio, Univ. British Columbia
Rob Epstein, Medco
1:50 pm Simultaneous Working Session for Project Groups:
Reaction & Conversation
3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm Reports Back to Plenary From Project Groups
5:10 pm Plenary Vignettes
Brian Yandell, University of Wisconsin
Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute
5:30 pm Transition to Evening Venue and Refreshments
5:45 pm Keynote Speaker 2
John Wilbanks, Creative Commons
6:20 pm Plenary Vignettes
Eric Schadt, Pacific Biosciences/Sage Bionetworks
Vamsi Mootha, Harvard
Atul Butte, Stanford
7:15 pm Forge Linkages between Workstreams and Objectives
8:15 pm Deposit Suggestions in Mailbox on exit; Post-event socializing

Day 2 Saturday, April 24, 2010

8:15 am Coffee
8:45 am Plenary Vignettes
Daphne Koller, Stanford University
Geoff Ginsburg, Duke University
Ken Buetow, NIH
9:15 am Workstreams Build Synthesis Reports
11:00 am Plenary Vignettes/Speakers
Laura Esserman, UCSF
Garry Nolan, Stanford
Yoshihiden Hayashizaki, Riken
Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance
11:45 am Break into Lunch Tables (sponsored by NextBio)
12:00 pm Keynote Speaker 3 (LUNCH)
Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe
1:00 pm Presentation of Synthesis Reports
2:15 pm Summary of Statements & Next Steps
John Wilbanks, Eric Schadt & Stephen Friend
2:30 pm ADJOURN

We hope you enjoy the live stream and on-demand views for this important event!

Announcing Britannica on FORA.tv!

We're thrilled to tell you today of a new partnership with Britannica. Watching a program and want to know more? Click on the "Britannica" tab and you'll find a Britannica article for more context. Click on the links with the Britannica article and go even deeper on the subject. We hope you enjoy this new feature!


Britannica and FORA.tv to Exchange Articles, Video

Content-sharing agreement will help both companies boost customer offerings

CHICAGO, April 20, 2010—Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. and FORA.tv have reached a marketing and licensing agreement in which they will exchange digital assets for mutual benefit, the companies announced today.

Under the agreement, Britannica will incorporate relevant abridged videos from FORA.tv’s collection into its educational Web sites, and FORA.tv will have access to more than 25,000 articles from Britannica Concise Encyclopedia to incorporate in its site as background and additional information for its vast array of videos.

FORA.tv, known as “The Smart Network” among online video providers, is considered unique in its space for the high-quality and intelligence with which it selects topics and covers them. Both companies agreed that Britannica’s widely respected, trustworthy reference information and FORA.tv’s high-quality videos were a good match.

Encyclopaedia Britannica has a considerable volume of video assets of its own, from the many years in which it produced educational films and videos for schools. Britannica president Jorge Cauz said the agreement gives his company an excellent way to supplement that collection.

“As a digital publisher today, we find that our customers have a need for good video and multimedia,” said Cauz. “There’s plenty of video in the world, of course, but most of it lacks the depth and quality to meaningfully enhance the written word, say, in science, culture, or history. FORA.tv’s videos are different. They have depth. They have ideas. Together, their videos and our editorial content will really help our readers learn and enjoy the experience.”

“People come to FORA.tv for provocative, big-idea video content, and to go deeper than the sound bites passed along by most media outlets today,” said Blaise Zerega, CEO of FORA.tv. “By partnering with Britannica, we’ll be adding authoritative information and deeper context to our videos, and we’ll further delight our intelligent, engaged audience.”

About FORA.tv

FORA.tv is the leading destination and distributor for smart videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world. The company gathers the web's largest collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates at the world's top universities, think tanks and conferences. FORA.tv presents these video programs for anyone to watch, interact with, and share --when, where, and how they want. FORA.tv was founded in 2005 and is funded by a select group of investors led by William R. Hearst III. FORA.tv is based in San Francisco and can be found at http://fora.tv or on Facebook and Twitter.

About Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. is a leader in education publishing whose products can be found in many media, from the Internet to wireless devices to books. A pioneer in electronic publishing since the early 1980s, the company markets a variety of encyclopedias and other reference works, curriculum products for schools, language-study courses and other learning products, many of which are available online at http://store.britannica.com. Britannica is also active on Twitter and Facebook. The company makes its headquarters in Chicago.

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FORA.tv Goes to the United Nations!

Today, FORA.tv goes to the United Nations!

On April 14, 2010, World Entrepreneurship Day is taking place at the United Nations. World Entrepreneurship Day is the internationally-recognized day for the celebration of the world's entrepreneurial heroes. The event will include talks by General Electric’s Beth Comstock, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, designer Mark Ecko, hacker and inventor Pablos Holman, and UN Executive Director Amir Dossal, and several others.

FORA.tv is proud to participate in this event by sending CEO Blaise Zerega to join noted entrepreneur and investor, Esther Dyson, and Google Fiber’s product manager, Anjali Joshi. Blaise will lead a discussion on "Current Tech Trends Affecting the Future Digital Landscape. "

Here's the full agenda:

3:00pm - 3:15pm - Introduction to World Entrepreneurship Day (WED) by Lauren Amarante & Troy Byrd; presentation by WED Oakland Office of the Mayor, WED municipals representative; presentation by Oumar Diaw, WED Africa representative; presentation by Tyler Metcalf, Arizona State University, WED Colleges representative

3:15pm - 3:20pm - Introduction of Amir Dossal by WED Advisor Wendy Diamond

3:20pm - 3:35pm - "Millennium Development Goals: Challenges & Opportunities - Why & How Entrepreneurs Can Get Engaged" Amir Dossal

3:35pm - 4:05pm - "Making the World a Better Place through Entrepreneurship: One Drop at a Time" by Peter Thum

4:05pm - 4:35pm - "The Art of Innovation from the Hacker's Perspective" by Pablos Holman

4:35pm – 4:40pm - "The Artistic Entrepreneur: A Big Pink Vision” by Asa Mathat

4:40pm – 4:50pm – BREAK

4:55pm - 5:20pm - "Funding the Big Idea: Lessons from the Investor Who’s Heard a Lot of Them" by Howard Lee Morgan

5:20pm – 6:00pm. A discussion on "Developing the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs: Innovating Primary & Secondary Education in America" with Marc Ecko, Don Moody, John Petry, Leonard Brody, moderated by Ira Sockowitz

6:00pm - 6:30pm – A discussion on "Championing an Innovative Culture & Embracing Disruptive Ideas in a Global Corporation" with Maria Bartiromo, Beth Comstock, and Anjali Joshi.

6:30pm – 6:35pm - “The Start of a Global Phenomenon” by Chris McCann

6:35pm – 6:40pm – “The Foodtrepreneur: Twitter & Cupcakes”

6:40pm - 7:10pm - A discussion on "Current Tech Trends Affecting the Future Digital Landscape " with Esther Dyson and Anjali Joshi; moderated by Blaise Zerega.


Due to UN policy, we’ll be unable to bring you a live stream of the event, but promise to publish programs from the event the following day. Please watch for them!

FORA.tv Premium Event: ASIL's International Law in a Time of Change

Today the first FORA.tv Premium Event goes live! Join us for the American Society of International Law's Annual Meeting: International Law in a Time of Change, to be held March 24-27, 2010 in Washington, D.C.

FORA.tv will offer a conference pass for $99.95, which provides live viewing of select programs from the event -- as it happens, complete with interactive chat and a Twitter stream -- and on-demand viewing for a 60 day period thereafter.

With more than a century of tradition and experience behind it, ASIL's Annual Meeting has become the most important gathering in the field of international law. More than 1,000 practitioners, academics, and students travel to Washington, D.C. each spring from all over the world to debate and discuss the latest developments in their field. Register today!

FORA.tv Premium Events are fee-based subscriptions to select conferences, program series, and public events. This new feature provides the FORA.tv community with access to even more great video programming. Stay tuned for more announcements!

Live Conversation Today: E-Reader Wars

The Kindle vs the Nook vs the i-Pad vs a slew of other devices!

How will you be reading text in the coming years?

Watch FORA.tv today as the Paley Center for Media hosts a timely panel discussion: Innovation in an Era of Upheaval: The E-Reader Wars, which will take place at 6:45 pm EDT on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 in New York. Join the online chat and follow the Twitter discussion with #paleylive.

Moderator: Josh Quittner, Editor-at-Large, TIME

Panelists: Brooke Gladstone, Host and Managing Editor, On The Media, NPR Keith McAllister, Online Editor, Reuters Scott R. Singer, Managing Director and Head of Media & Entertainment, The Bank Street Group, and author, How To Hit A Curveball: Confront and Overcome the Unexpected in Business Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Chief Marketing Officer, Skif

Watch on-demand programs from Paley Center on FORA.tv, and stay tuned for upcoming live streams!

Just Announced: Live Conversation with Google's Dennis Woodside on March 16

Join us for an interactive live event with Google's Dennis Woodside. Hosted by the Paley Center for Media in New York, the event begins here on Tuesday, March 16 at 8:10 am EDT. Join the online chat and follow the Twitter discussion with #paleylive.

Dennis Woodside joined Google in 2003 and leads the company's North American and Latin American advertising sales and operations teams. Previously, he oversaw Google's sales and operations in the UK, Benelux, and Ireland. Prior to that, Mr. Woodside launched and ran Google's field operations in Central Europe, Russia, the Middle East, and North Africa. He established offices in ten countries including Egypt, Turkey, Russia, and Israel. Additionally, he started the company's inside sales operation in Europe.

The program is hosted by our partner, Paley Center for Media. With locations in New York and Los Angeles, Paley Center leads the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public.

Watch on-demand programs from Paley Center on FORA.tv, and stay tuned for upcoming live streams!

Mike Rowe on Hulu!

In case you haven't checked out FORA.tv on Hulu, now's your chance.

Watch FORA.tv favorites like MythBuster's Adam Savage on colossal failure, Amory Lovins on energy efficiency, and Neil deGrasse Tyson on killer asteroids. We're proud to offer five channels devoted to Science, Technology, Culture, Economy, and Environment.

Last week, Mike Rowe on Discovery, Realization, and Lamb Castration, a brilliant presentation from EG, was promoted on the Hulu homepage:





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