OnwardKeynoteSpeaker
I noticed at the Breakthrough's open mic that lots of people felt like they needed to "reclaim" the pride of the programmer. A while back there was a Futurist movement for programmers that talked a little about the same thing. (http:/www.sgi.commiscgraficafuture/ ) Maybe one of those people would be interesting.It might also be nice to get a woman to give a keynote. Does that happen all that often?
We don't, and I find this depressing. We have had more success with women running conferences than keynoting them. I am thinking about a particular woman poet (HeatherMcHugh) to keynote OOPSLA next year, though I might get a former (male) poet laureate instead.
But let's try to find women keynoters, both for Onward! and for OOPSLA. -rpg
- Barbara Liskov
- Mary Beth Rosson
- Rebecca Wirfs Brock
- Mary Poppendick
- Brenda Laurel
- Esther Dyson
- Linda Rising
- Donna Haraway (Manifesto for Cyborgs)
- Sherry Turkle
Architects?
- Christopher Alexander
- Frank Gehry (maybe)
- Rem Koolhaas (maybe)
- Norman Foster (likely wouldn't come)
- Daniel Liebskind?
- Zaha Hadid?
Designers
- Bruce Mau (maybe)
- James Dyson
- Alessi
Filmmakers?
- Richard Taylor (but there's no way you'd get him)
Buddhist Monks
- Sakyong Meepam Rinpoche (head of the Shambhala Meditation group ... gives AMAZING talks about everying in life) (not sure we could get him though)
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