More now from the National Competitiveness forum with the focus on Public Private partnerships and manufacturing. This is an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. Its great to be back with the council again. So i only have half a voice, im afraid. I left the other half in stockholm a couple days ago. I was very privileged to get to attend the nobel prize ceremonies because the National Science association supported the 3 physicists that won the prize for Gravitational Waves for 40 years. I think thats a good place to start. [ applause ] its good for all of us to appreciate just what a high risk high reward investment is all about. So that was a progress of technology and super duper engineering challenges that had to be overcome. A lot of people, as you might guess, came and went. It involved multidisciplinary teams of people who did the numerical relativity using Super Computers so we actually knew when the first gravitational wave was detected, what the source was, that it was two
Welcome to the 2017 National Competitiveness forum. I hope all of you that were with us last night had a lovely evening at the University Club for our annual dinner. I know we were all absolutely blown away by the fantastic talk that was given on sustainability. Thank you again for that wonderful poor divorce of the imperative for sustainability in our future. Allow me to recognize and thank our sponsors for their support and commitment for the council of work and i want to recognize the company and Lockheed Martin are premier sponsors and want to recognize our national for pepsico, deloitte, our chairman sponsor asu, university of california san diego as well as the benefactors and patrons a ten tv and Michigan State university, university of action, verizon, Marquette University and whitecap investment. We cannot do that for him and i thank you very much for that. We have a full day, very exciting talks, as well as the relief of some of the critical annual policy work of the council
And digital currency. This is just under 2 1 2 hours. Hello. Thanks for having me. My name is adam piore, and im glad to be here. Im here to talk about my book, the bodybuilders inside the science of the engineered human, and some of the trends that i reviewed. Its funny to be here, because i left d. C. I used to cover im a journalist. I used to cover capitol hill. About 20 years ago i left and said i was never coming back. And actually, i covered congress for a newspaper in new jersey, and i left in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. My job was to stand off the house floor and ask every congressman what they thought of the days news. So, i quit my job and i went about as far away as i could go, and i moved to the country of cambodia. And i spent a year and a half there reporting on events there, and it was an amazing experience. People were the country was emerging from 30 years of civil war, from a genocide in which one in four people died of murder, starvation, and disease.
Good afternoon. Im senior fellow with National Security program. Its my great honor to welcome Peter Frazier who is the head of gas, coal for the International Energy agency. He is here to launch the coal 2017 coal has been the worlds dominant fuel for a century. Certainly the robust deployment of renewables but then combined with the cheap gas and has been putting quite a bit of pressure on the generation. So the coal 2017 is one of the ieas signature publications. Its previously known as a midterm coal Market Report. It provides comprehensive analysis heater is here to walk us through some of the analysis and help us better understand where the markets are headed to in the near to midfuture, i guess through 2022. Previously between 1998 and 2004 he was a senior electricity policy adviser. This is his second tour. In between peter worked at the Ontario Energy board. From 1989 to 98 he was an Energy Policy adviser at the ontario ministry. It is with my great pleasure. He will speak for
To be here. Im here to talk a little bit about my book which is called the body builders, inside the science of the engineered human and some of the trends that i reviewed. Its funny to be here because im i left d. C. , i used to cover capitol hill a few years ago, i left and said i was never coming back. It actually relates because i covered congress for a newspaper in new jersey and i left in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. My job was to stand off the house floor and ask every congressman what they thought of the days news. So i quit my job and i went about as far away as i could go and i moved to the country of cambodia and i spent a year and a half there reporting on events there and it was an amazing experience, people were the country was emerging from 30 years of civil war, from a genocide in one one in four people died of murder, starvation and disease. What really struck me while i was there was this theme of human resilience and it was a very valuable experience af