
The Institute at the Golden Gate renews its commitment to "Turning the Tide" as the signature program to convene the heralded icons, driven activists and progressive funders from the global environmental community to showcase inspiring environmental action; deepen the relationships with the Institute, the National Park Service and the broader environmental community; and provide the forum and energy for these agents to connect.

SYPartners Leadership Lab: Leading Through the Unknown, is a mini-consulting Lab led by SYP executives, peer-to-peer learning, and exercises focused on the participant's specific challenges. SYP teaches tools and methods to help those who want to increase their capability to envision, build, test, experiment, learn, and generate solutions to prototype and create extraordinary new business models, customer experiences, products, and services.

The IT Executive Symposium is an exclusive gathering of 100 senior technology decision makers that will focus on best practices and future trends at the intersection of business and information technology. The symposium's unique educational element is designed to help participants hone their strategic business skills and expand their value to their organizations.

The Techonomy 2010 conference will explore entrepreneurial ways to accelerate the development of emerging technologies that will propel our economy, enhance our lives and preserve our planet. Uniquely designed to foster compelling exchanges between industry's most influential "tech giants" and emerging innovators, Techonomy 2010 will spark a new way of thinking about the world and harness the power of collaboration as a means to capitalize on breakthrough ideas.

The forth annual gathering that convenes global stakeholders and influential leaders from the public, private and social sectors in the field of sustainable African agriculture. Participants will discuss, collaborate and chart the course to reduce hunger and poverty in alignment with the UN Millennium Development Goals.

The Cisco CIO Summit will host more than 100 chief information officers representing global Fortune 500 companies, as well as leaders from government and education to collaborate and share strategies on today's key business issues. Interactions among thought leaders will lead to lively discussions and healthy debates on a range of topics including globalization, the evolving nature of the CEO-CIO relationship, collaboration and the use of Web 2.0 technologies, the advent of the new green business, and strategies driving global IT innovation. Cisco CEO John Chambers and CIO Rebecca Jacoby will spearhead the two-day dialogue.