NIWeek Preliminary Conference Program 2008 - (Page 7) Wednesday, August 6 A Look into the Future of Graphical System Design John Pasquarette Director of Software Marketing National Instruments Each day at National Instruments, new ideas from the community are transformed into cutting-edge technologies and architectures that have the power to help engineers and scientists build more efficient and cost-effective applications to improve everyday life. Get a sneak peek at these evolving technologies as NI R&D engineers demonstrate some “still in the lab” developments for advanced control, design, test, and data acquisition applications. Thursday, August 7 Change Your World – Become an Engineer Ray Almgren Vice President of Academic Marketing National Instruments What do you get when you combine imaginative minds with creative, hands-on projects and a fun way to learn? Millions of future engineers. Across the world, budding engineers of all ages are getting involved in technically challenging, socially relevant engineering and science projects from robotics to green engineering. Watch as student teams from primary, secondary, and higher education demonstrate how they are changing the world. Thursday, August 7 Green Innovations Andrew Hargadon Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, The University of California, Davis Author, How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth about How Companies Innovate Andrew Hargadon is one of the most informed and influential voices at the center of renewable energy challenges and the process of innovation. Hargadon, with more than a decade of work on the origin of inventions, shares a new perspective on the process and delivers strategies for breakthrough innovations. Discover how innovation can answer the planet’s energy challenges. 07
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