Message-ID: <18724763.1075852656344.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:58:01 -0700 (PDT) From: neil@wtn.net To: jeff.skilling@enron.com Subject: (TIME SENSITIVE), Mr. Jeffrey Skilling, You have been nominated for a World Technology Award Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: neil@wtn.net (Neil Davison)@ENRON X-To: Skilling, Jeff X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \JSKILLIN (Non-Privileged)\Deleted Items X-Origin: Skilling-J X-FileName: JSKILLIN (Non-Privileged).pst THE WORLD TECHNOLOGY NETWORK London, United Kingdom THE WORLD TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT & THE WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARDS in association with NASDAQ, "Business Week", CNBC, "Nature" and GlaxoSmithKline. Dear Mr. Jeffrey Skilling, It is with great pleasure and a grand sense of history that we write to notify you that you have been nominated for the 2001 World Technology Award for Commerce. The Nominators for the Award include: Dr Gerhard Fasol Professor Soumitra Dutta Professor Chong-ji Choi Mr David Ticoll The World Technology Awards process is designed to identify those who are the most innovative people in the technology world. They are about honouring those who are doing the work of the greatest likely long-term significance for business and society. And, they are also a vetting process for invitation to the World Technology Summit. This year not only will be having the second Awards ceremony on the evening of this coming July 2nd at the National Museum of Science & Industry here in central London, but we will also be holding the first World Technology Summit next door on the campus of Imperial College of Science, Technology & Industry on July 1st and 2nd. The Summit will occur over those two days, capped on that final evening by the presentation of the second annual World Technology Awards at the UK National Museum of Science & Industry. Although a minority of the Summit delegates will be non-members, selected by a rigorous "by application only" process, the majority of the few hundred delegates will be WTN members (primarily Winners, Finalists, and Nominators for last year's World Technology Awards 2000 cycle). As a nominee, of course, you NOT REQUIRED to pay a registration fee to attend. Finalists and winners in each category will be announced at the Awards ceremony. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SUMMIT AND/OR TO REGISTER NOW (note: of course, as a nominee, your Summit registration fee is waived), please go to the following website address: >>>>> http://www.wtn.net/Summit2001/ <<<<< We look forward enormously to seeing you at the World Technology Summit. Congratulations on your nomination. You are a maker of history and this Summit is definitely history in the making. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Neil J. Davison Assistant to the Chairman & Membership Manager On behalf of James P. Clark, Chairman, The World Technology Network Telephone: +44 (208) 983 3068 Email: neil@wtn.net _____________________________________ THE WORLD TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT & THE WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARDS in association with NASDAQ, "Business Week", CNBC, "Nature" and GlaxoSmithKline. _____________________________________ What is the World Technology Network (WTN)? WTN is a global association of some of the most important and innovative people in the technology world, focused on making a wide range of emerging technologies (info. tech., biotech/medical, new materials, energy, communications, and space-related technologies, etc.) happen sooner and better than they might have otherwise. WTN is made up of not just of the technologists, but also the financiers, marketers, journalists, policy makers, etc. -- all of those who have a role, at one time or another, in making technological concepts come to fruition. We are identifying the people who will likely play a key role in the technological drama over the next years and decades and bringing them together to create relationships that will accelerate the application of these technologies. We are trying to increase the chances of the 'happy accidents' which can occur when cutting-edge ideas, entrepreneurial people, and institutions with vision collide to create innovation. We like to say that our main goal is 'encouraging serendipity.' Who is a WTN member? WTN's membership is primarily composed of laureates of our World Technology Award program, who are selected through a rigorous process involving over 100 nominators and judges. It includes leading technology and business innovators such as Steve Jobs of Apple, John Chambers of Cisco, Masayoshi Son of Softbank, etc. These are the people driving the future and they are the sort of people brought into the Network. Other Finalists or Winners for the 1999/2000 World Technology Awards, who were, therefore, inducted as members, included: Jeff Hawkins/Donna Dubinsky (co-creators, Palm Computer) for IT-Hardware; John Sulston (Director, Sanger Centre) for Biotechnology; Dave Thompson (founder, Orbital Sciences) for Space; Amory Lovins (co-founder, Rocky Mountain Institute) for Environment; Geoffrey Ballard (founder, Ballard Power Systems) for Energy, etc. A full list of the laureates can be found on the WTN web site (http://www.wtn.net). The WTN membership is truly extraordinary and the WTN membership is the core of who is invited to the World Technology Summit. What is the World Technology Summit? The World Technology Summit is an historic two-day gathering (July 1/2, 2001) of several hundred of the world's key technology players - scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs, industrialists, financiers, journalists, and policy-makers - to explore and catalyse the emerging technologies that will have the greatest impact upon industry and society in the 21st Century and to create the relationships which will help those technologies and the companies behind them to succeed. The Summit brings together Network Members, Fellows and other specially invited delegates to think deeply about emerging technologies - how they will likely impact tomorrow on today's industries and those industries yet to be born. The Summit will cover six key technologies - information, communications, materials, energy, biotechnology/medicine, and space - as well as developments in the other related areas - of finance, marketing, policy, etc. - which determine whether a good idea ever becomes more than an idea. Where Will the World Technology Summit Be Held? The Summit will be hosted at one of the most prestigious scientific institutions in the world -- Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine in London. Located in the beautiful South Kensington area of London, nestled amongst the National Museum of Science & Industry, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Natural History Museum, and the Royal Albert Hall, Imperial College was recently ranked second, above Oxford University, in the UK university league tables. Sir Richard Sykes, the new head ("Rector") of Imperial College, who also serves as Chairman of the newly merged GlaxoSmithkline, will be actively participating in the Summit, both as a speaker and in his role as "host." What about the World Technology Awards? The last evening of the Summit will be capped by a gala ceremony during which we will present the second annual World Technology Awards, recognising those involved in technology who are taking the actions and making the decisions with the greatest likely long-term impact on business and society. Awards are given in 24 categories. The World Technology Award for: information technology/hardware information technology/software communications technology biotechnology space health & medicine energy materials policy entrepreneurship design the arts media & journalism finance commerce marketing communications law transportation environment education entertainment social entrepreneurship ethics Innovator of the Year Each of the cutting-edge Award finalists and eminent nominators will be invited to be key participants in the World Technology Summit, and simultaneously will be given membership in The World Technology Network. Are the World Technology Summit and the World Technology Awards truly historic? There has never been a gathering of so many of the leaders of so many technological fields in one place at one time before in history. They will be there not because they were paid to be there or because they have to be there, but because they have been selected by their peers to honor each other. They are gathering to meet the only group of people with whom they do not have to be on the defensive - other people equally or more innovative than each of them believe they are themselves. Only that level of "elite"-ness can create the intrigue that cuts through the usual and defines the historic. What about the World Technology Awards ceremony? This year's (2001) World Technology Awards ceremony will be held in the new Wellcome Wing of the Science Museum, immediately adjacent to the World Technology Summit site on the campus of Imperial College. The new wing is the largest museum facility in the world devoted to new technologies and it's a wonderfully appropriate site to recognise history in the making. An interactive exhibit is also being developed which will enable thousands of Museum visitors to vote and comment on Finalists for the World Technology Awards during the week leading up to the Awards on the evening of July 2nd. The physical Awards themselves are also worth noting. Richard Meier, the world-famous architect, is designing them as contribution to these initiatives. Meier's most renowned projects include, among many others: the Getty Center in Los Angeles; the High Museum in Atlanta; the Frankfurt Museum for Decorative Arts in Germany; Canal+ Television Headquarters in Paris; the City Hall and Central Library in the Hague; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona; and, the Church of the Year 2000 at the Vatican. What's the Summit agenda? The World Technology Summit will feature leading speakers from both technology and industry, all the way from the laboratory to the boardroom; Mostly drawn, of course from the WTN membership. The Summit will consist of both plenary meetings and breakout sessions. Keynote speakers will provide a visionary overview of the interacting roles of technology and business. Session speakers will provide insights into their own particular specialty. Panel speakers will intellectually challenge each other in open session. And, all will contribute to a stimulating debate. The World Technology Summit is a gathering where ALL participants are key players with a crucial role to play in the unfolding drama of technology. Sessions will focus on a range of goals -- providing a good grounding in all six of the major emerging tech. areas; on networking opportunities for participants; and, on developing new ideas for new businesses, new corporate initiatives, new partnerships, and even new industries. A primary feature of the Summit will be a series of 23 concurrent two-hour breakout workshops in each of the Award categories. These Summits-within-the-Summit will be made up of the delegates themselves. As each of them are amongst the key leaders globally in their own field, simply gathering them in a room creates an important mini-summit... catalytic in and of itself. Another very exciting feature of the Summit will occur just before its conclusion. All of the delegates will be assigned to work in small roundtable groups of ten. Their charge: to create an ideal emerging technology based business for the 21st Century. Each roundtable group will include an assortment of top-level expertise and will be given a topic/field in which to focus. We expect more than a few new lines of businesses, joint ventures, investment and acquisition strategies, and even altered career paths to grow out of what with any ordinary group of people would just be considered a simple "exercise." All Summit delegates and sponsors/partners will, of course, receive outlines of all of the new "businesses" created. We also working on organising a plenary session focused on social and/or environmental "global challenges". The potential for substantive social partnership between the WTN membership and organizations active in addressing global problems is enormous. We do not intend to waste the opportunity. Whether it's the plenary sessions, the Summits-within-the-Summit; the new business creation process, or, of course, the ongoing interaction within the Network throughout the year... what happens when you bring together the people who are creating the future and who are changing the world? We'll soon find out.... ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________