September 2010

How the Nature of Data Security Threats Is Changing

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Wed, Sep 15 2010 - 6:00pm

How the Nature of Data Security Threats Is Changing
Eva Chen, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Trend Micro, Inc.
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Cybercrime against businesses has shifted from acts of vandalism to acts of larceny. Stealth has replaced ingenuity as the dominant characteristic of criminally successful malicious software. Given the proliferation of cyber attacks on businesses, executives must understand how to protect their businesses from potentially crippling damage. Read more »

John Roos: US Ambassador to Japan

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Wed, Sep 15 2010 - 6:00pm

Japan, the U.S. and Now China: Implications for a New Order
John V. Roos, U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Ruth Shapiro, Ph.D., Principal, Keyi Strategies - Moderator
The political playing field in Japan has significantly changed since Roos, former CEO at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, was sworn in as ambassador in August 2009. Read more »

Christopher Gergen: Social Entrepreneur Series

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Tue, Sep 14 2010 - 6:00pm

Christopher Gergen
Director, Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute, Duke University
“Entrepreneurs find a way to make things work, no matter the obstacles. That's a great lesson for us all, especially now,” says Gergen, who brings a variety of perspectives to the field of social innovation and entrepreneurship. In addition to holding a professorship at Duke, he serves as the executive director of Bull City Forward and also co-authored Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives. Read more »

Mis-Mapping the Mind

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Mon, Sep 13 2010 - 6:00pm

Mis-Mapping the Mind
Kent Grelling, Ph.D., Psychologist
Monday Night Philosophy explores the issues caused by the shift from a highly subjective to a purely descriptive, categorical approach for defining mental illness. Past diagnostic systems relied heavily on unsubstantiated notions about causes, but during the 1970s, developments in the field resulted in favoring new diagnostic systems based upon a checklist of observable symptoms, regardless of cause. Read more »

Lunch with Fatima Bhutto

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Tue, Oct 5 2010 - 12:00pm

L. W. "Bill" Lane, 1919-2010

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L. W. "Bill" Lane, 1919-2010

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Europe's Social Capitalism vs. America's Wall Street Capitalism

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Thu, Sep 9 2010 - 6:00pm

Europe's Social Capitalism vs. America's Wall Street Capitalism: Which Has the Better Development Model for the 21st Century?
Steven Hill, Political Writer; Author, Europe’s Promise
Hill contends that a quiet revolution has been occurring in post-World War II Europe:  A world power emerging across the Atlantic that is rewriting the rules for how a modern society should provide economic security, environmental sustainability, and global stability. Read more »

John Bul Dau: Lost Boys Go Back to Sudan

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Thu, Sep 9 2010 - 6:30pm

John Bul Dau: Lost Boys Go Back to Sudan
INFORUM’s 21st Century Visionary Award
This program is postponed John Bul Dau, Founder and President, The John Dau Foundation; 2008 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader; Former Lost Boy of Sudan
At 13, Dau became one of the 27,000 orphaned lost boys of Sudan. He fled one of the worst civil wars in near history, walked for 3 months and survived starvation and disease to come to the United States. Read more »

P.J. O'Rourke, Phil Bronstein at The Commonwealth Club

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When you've got a speaker as funny and interesting as political satirist P.J. O'Rourke, you want to team him up with someone who's also a strong figure. Smart, funny, controversial.
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