DAVID SMITH Vice President, Consulting, Alliances, and Education Technology Futures, Inc. dsmith@tfi.com A noted futurist and technologist with over 30 years of experience, Mr. Smith combines these disciplines to deliver consulting and research services that focus on the broad, emerging trends of the technological future. He is an expert at relating these emerging trends to the specific interests of clients and providing a future-focused analysis of what developments and opportunities can be expected in the near and more distant future in a particular industry or organization. Mr. Smith then assists organizations in determining steps to take to be successful in this emerging environment. He offers expertise in technology transfer, strategic and technology planning, communications, roadmapping, consortia startup and management, and collaborative alliances. Since joining TFI in 1996, he has assisted in creating and implementing plans for a range of industry and academic organizations and govenment agencies, including Bank of America, Boeing, CIA, Coca-Cola, Compaq, Department of Defense, Embraer, Hughes, Intel, Kodak, Kyocera, Lockheed Martin, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (formerly NIMA), National Security Agency, and Sun Microsystems. As a leader in innovation, his work includes establishing the framework and process for In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community's research and development venture capital solution; authoring Research and Technology Grand Challenges 2030 for the image and geospatial community; and producing technology roadmaps for many organizations, including Hughes Space & Communications. Mr. Smith's dynamic keynote presentations are popular at conferences and leadership meetings around the world. He also regularly presents and teaches at university, industry, and conference events. Recent presentations include keynote speeches for the U.S. Senate Conference on Emerging Technology, Information Management Forum-CIO Leadership Conference, 7-11, Chevron-Texaco Visioning Conference, and Lockheed-Martin Technology Leadership Conference. As a noted futurist, Mr. Smith is regularly quoted by newspapers and industry publications. Recent broadcasts of National Public Radio (NPR) and issues of Business Week, American Demographics, and Intel's Circuit News prominently feature his views on technology trends. Mr. Smith was on the start-up teams and held key positions in two of the largest and most successful consortia in the United States-SEMATECH and the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC). Mr. Smith served on the three-person coordination committee and the steering and implementation committees for the highly respected SIA Technology Roadmap Workshop. He also served on the CSIS steering committee drafting proposals for a new mission for the federal labs and worked on consulting projects with several national laboratories. Mr. Smith has served in elected offices of professional associations on the local, regional, and international levels. He has been accepted into the membership of the Association of Professional Futurists. He is a recipient of the SEMATECH Eagle Award for the 1993 Strategic Plan and the Council of Consortia award for Extraordinary Contributions and Achievement in Technology Transfer. Mr. Smith is a senior research fellow at UT's IC2 Institute, and holds a bachelor degree in Radio, Television, and Film from the University of Texas at Austin. Copyright © Technology Futures, Inc. All rights reserved. 13740 Research Blvd., Bldg. C Austin, TX 78750-1859 Toll Free: (800) TEK-FUTR - Local & Outside USA: (512) 258-8898 FAX: (512) 258-0087 - e-mail: info@tfi.com - http://www.tfi.com