The Four Seasons
January 15 and 16, 2002
KEY QUOTES

"Privacy hinges on the freedom to choose what individuals can learn about you and how your personal information is circulated."
Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D., Commissioner, Information and Privacy Commission/Ontario

"In times of economic downturn or tightness many people think that we're living in a world of over capacity. The problem is never over capacity. Never was. Never will be. The problem has always been and will always be under imagination."
Edie Weiner, President, Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc.
"Most of us are looking for both the adrenaline highs of high pace, but also are turning to marketers in many areas to help us find retreats of high peace."
Carolyn E. Setlow, Group Senior Vice President, RoperASW
"I wore my adrenaline addiction as a badge of honor. When I cut my schedule to three days a week, I became depressed. I am looking for the next new thing, but I'm making my choices from a free place."
Toddi Gutner, Associate Editor, Business Week Magazine
"Everyone used to be able to describe their enterprise. Now, companies don't really know where they begin and end. The boundaries are very fluid. Information has no borders."
Rena Mears, Partner, Deloitte & Touche
"The fact that we can do two things at once, pull brands and companies together, work virtually etc., doesn't mean we should be doing it. If we're going to merge or move into new areas of business or disband with our historical businesses, we had better be sure that we can do it well, or we're just defusing our organization's value."
Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure Holdings
"We have to tell our employees, students, and children about how we got to where we are. That includes telling them about our failures. Many young people make the assumption that if there were no glass ceiling, it would be easy for anyone to be CEO. It isn't. Tell people how hard it is, how long it takes and how many times you fell flat on your face."
Dr. Una Ryan, President & CEO, Avant Immunotherapeutics
"Nanotechnology and biotechnology doesn't end at the border. There are questions around who is going to innovate and how we will deal with that innovation. We cannot think about these advances from a strictly scientific, marketing, or manufacturing perspective. We must think about the legislative or value perspective."
Judith Wolfson, President & CEO, Interac Association
"Yesterday, medical researchers may have told us that hormones are good for women, and tomorrow they will tell us that they're really bad. It's not that doctors and the media are misinformed, it's that they're doing the best they can in a very rapidly evolving and fluid environment."
Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Medical Correspondent, ABC News and Co-Founder, Illuminari, Inc.
"We are rapidly moving to the convergence of information, communications, biotechnology, biology, and material sciences. Imagine a world where computing activity will be all around you and within you."
Jennifer Giottonini, Vice President, Business Development, ISIS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
"I choose, therefore, I am. We create from our minds and imaginations. That's what makes us human."
Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure Holdings
"When you are holistically experiencing yourself, you are thinking, breathing, and feeling, and it's an incredibly powerful experience. Life doesn't allow us much time for this and society doesn't put much value on it, and we really need to."
The Rev. Pamela Cooper-White PhD, Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology, Lutheran Theological Seminary
"Put one woman in a room of nine men, and she will be ignored. Put 10 women in a room of 100 men, and they will connect. Suddenly, they'll get noticed. We are moving towards a world that is both connected and decentralized."
Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure Holdings
I don't want women, who have always been outsiders to be absorbed into the mainstream. We really want the mainstream to react and adapt to us. Our outsiderness gives us a clarity of vision, and it's important that we maintain this."
Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure Holdings