Solving America's problem through science and technology

The ScienceDebate is going on and it has caught a lot of media coverage. As a continuation of it in another form, there is a conference coming up titled "Innovation 2008..." at Minnesota on October 20-21st for a very exciting national discussion at the University of Minnesota's Center for Science, Technology and Public Policy.

Keynotes
Nobel laureate Peter Agre
Science broadcaster Ira Flatow

Some of confirmed speakers and panelists
•    Andrew Fire, Nobel laureate and Professor of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University
•    Bill Bates, Vice President of the Council on Competitiveness   
•    Darlene Cavalier, ScienceCheerleader.com
•    Kei Koizumi, Director, R&D Budget & Policy, American Assn for the Advancement of Science
•    Lawrence Krauss, astrophysicist, science policy speaker, and popular author
•    Chris Mooney, Washington Correspondent for Seed and popular author
•    Jan Morrison - Executive Director; TIES Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM
•    Michael T. Osterholm, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP)
•    Shawn Lawrence Otto, screenwriter and CEO, Science Debate 2008
•    Eugenie Scott, Executive Director, National Center for Science Education
•    Alice Seagren, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Education
•    Susan Singer – Carlton College; Board on Science Education of the National Academies
•    Manil Suri, Professor of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore and popular author
•    Susan  Wood, former FDA Director of Women’s Health and Research Professor, GWU
•    Mary Woolley,  President of Research!America,
and many more, along with a few very special surprises.
The Obama and McCain campaigns have been invited.