8/11: SV Lunch - Exploring Tech Policy with Nicklas Lundblad, Head of Public Policy at Google (NEW DATE)

Please join us on August 11, 2010 (NEW DATE), from 11:45 to 1:30 at Wallenberg Hall, Stanford campus [top of Palm Drive], for a Silicon Vikings lunch. The featured speaker is Dr. Nicklas Lundblad,Senior Policy Counsel and Head of Public Policy,Google speaking on “Exploring Tech Policy”. The event is co-organized with the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication.

Technology changes and is changed by society. There may be few other change agents as powerful as technology in our society, and the companies innovating in this space will inevitably have to ask themselves difficult questions about tech policy. In this talk, Dr Lundlad will explore some of the future challenges as we move into the next phase of an information society slowly transforming into a noise society.

Please join us for this very interesting lunch. This is a free event but seating is limited and to insure that there is enough food for everyone, pre- registration is required. Lunch will be provided courtesy of Google.

To sign-up use the sign up for this event link at the bottom of this page, send an email to lunches@siliconvikings.com or sign up on our Facebook page.

AGENDA

11:45 AM - Guests Arrival

12:00 PM - Welcome and Introduction by David Nordfors PhD, Executive Director of Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication

12:10 PM - Talk by Nicklas Lundblad PhD, Head of Public Policy at Google

12:40 PM - Q & A Session

1:00 PM - Event ends

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Dr. Nicklas Lundblad is senior policy counsel and head of public policy for Google in Mountain View where he leads a small team of policy experts in analyzing and advising on public policy. He has worked with tech policy since he wrote his first article on the politics of crypto in 1994. Prior to joining Google he was senior executive vice president of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and co-founded Swedish current affairs magazine Neo.. He currently serves on the Swedish ICT-council, advising the Swedish ICT-minister, works as a member of Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt's reference group on Internet Freedom and has been a member of several corporate and organizational boards. Nicklas was recently elected member of the Royal Engineering Academy in Sweden and is an Eisenhower fellow. In 2009 he was recognized as ICT-person of the year by Swedish publications Computer Sweden and Affarsvarlden. He holds a B.A. in philosophy, a L.LM and a PhD in applied information technology. He is also a level 72 rogue in World of Warcraft, complaining that he never finds the time to level (but enjoys levelling slowly).

Dr. David Nordfors is co-founder and Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication at Stanford University and a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University's H-Star Institute. He coined the concepts of Innovation Journalism and Attention Work and started the first innovation journalism initiatives, in Sweden and at Stanford. Nordfors is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism. He was Special Advisor to the Director General at VINNOVA, the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems. He was the initial Director of Research Funding of the Knowledge Foundation, KK-stiftelsen, one of the largest Swedish research foundations. He initiated and headed the first hearing about the Internet to be held by the Swedish Parliament. Dr. Nordfors has a Ph.D. in molecular quantum physics from the Uppsala University, where he was recruited as a Ph.D. student by Prof. Kai Siegbahn (Nobel Prize in Physics 1982). He is an adjunct professor and advisor to the Dean at the Samy Ofer School of Communication at IDC Herzliya in Israel. He is a visiting professor in Journalism and Mass Media at the School of Government, Social Sciences and Humanities, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. He is also a visiting professor and senior media advisor for Innovation Journalism at the Deutsche Welle Akademie, Deutsche Welle, Bonn, Germany.