Brain Health

Patty James, M.S. C.N.C., Vital Health Educator; Nutrition Coach
William B. Grant, Ph.D., Health Researcher, SUNARC
Daniel G. Amen, M.D. , Medical Director, Amen Clinics, Inc.
Adam Gazzaley, M.D., Director, UCSF Neuroscience Imaging Center
Phil Jacklin, Ph.D., Past President, Smart Life Forum
Judith Orloff, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA Read more »

News 2.0: Predicting the Future of Media

John Raess, Bureau Chief, Northern California, The Associated Press
Lisa Stone, Co-founder, BlogHer
Louis Freedberg, Director, California Watch
Quentin Hardy, Manager, Silicon Valley Bureau, Forbes
Kevin Yen, Director of Strategic Partnerships, YouTube
Owen Thomas, Online Editorial Director, NBC Bay Area
Sam Whitmore, Founder, Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey - Moderator Read more »

Lessons Learned from the Financial Crisis

Barry Eichengreen, Ph.D., George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, UC Berkeley

This summer marks the second anniversary of the eruption of the subprime crisis. In his presentation, Eichengreen will evaluate the experience of the past two years and chart the way forward for U.S. and global financial systems.

Fooled by Ponzi (and Madoff)

Stephen Greenspan, Ph.D

What causes otherwise smart people to lose everything? Sometimes a healthy dose of skepticism can be a powerful weapon against financial ruin, says Greenspan. Yet intelligent and educated people, some of them naïve about finance and others quite knowledgeable, have been ruined by schemes that turned out to be highly dubious and quite often fraudulent. Greenspan takes a revealing look at Ponzi schemes, investment manias (such as the dot-com bubble) and other forms of financial fraud. Read more »