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The Global Crises of Today: Peak Oil, Global Warming, and Resource Sustainability - Ethan Burke and Alan Palm of BioTour
5:00 PM – Carver 101 - BioTour is a full-size converted school bus that runs on vegetable oil, biodiesel, and has solar panels on top to provide electricity inside the bus. Ethan Burke, Alan Palm and the staff of the BioTour bus offer educational, interactive presentations about energy consumption and climate change, putting those issues in a context relevant to the lives of every American. Activities will take place on central campus throughout the day and end with the 5 p.m. lecture in Carver 101.

The Impact of the Internet - Jeffrey Cole
6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Jeffrey Cole is director of the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and the founder and director of the World Internet Project. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

Arming Campus Police: A Town Hall Meeting
12:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Members of the university community are asked to bring their questions and concerns to an open-mike discussion about whether firearms should be included as part of the equipment carried regularly by all certified and trained Iowa State University police officers. Warren Madden, Vice President for Business and Finance, and Jerry Stewart, Director of Public Safety, will discuss the recommendation to arm university police officers. Panelists include GSB President Brian Phillips and other student representatives.

Globalization and Culture - James Waters
6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - James Waters is Vice President of Production Systems Division for Caterpillar, the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines. Waters has worked in the field of hydraulics systems in Italy, Japan, and England. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Iowa State University in 1981. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Global Technology Sales: Lessons from the Field - Bob John
6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Bob John is Vice President of Technology Sales at TIAX LLC, a technology and innovation company. During a thirty-year career at IBM, he held positions as sales manager, general manager of an IBM subsidiary, Vice President in Technology Group, and Vice President of Channel Financing at IBM Global Financing. John graduated from Iowa State University in 1973 with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. He also holds an M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Town Hall Meeting on Iraq
6:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Speakers include: Jeffrey Weiss, Peace Education Director with the Central Region of the American Friends Service Committee; Sue Dinsdale, who works for awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and to ensure healthcare and readjustment services for our soldiers; and Terri Jones, whose son SPC Jason Cooper took his life four months after returning home from a yearlong deployment to Baghdad. Jones represents Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families for Peace and the Iowa Peace Task Force. This Town Hall Meeting is sponsored by Time for Peace, a secular, nonpartisan effort by members of the Ames community to provide an alternative voice for peace and nonviolence.

Iowa Youth Leadership Town Hall Meeting
5:30 PM – Hilton Colesium, Iowa State Center - The Iowa Youth Leadership Town Hall Meeting brings together students, their families, business leaders, and elected officials from across Iowa in support of Iowa manufacturing and farm families. Dan DiMicco, CEO of Nucor, will be the keynote speaker. He will be joined by 2008 presidential candidates as their schedules allow. The discussion will focus on globalization and the serious impact policies have on our futures and our jobs. A complimentary dinner will be served. RSVP 515-203-9495

2007 Presidential Lecture in Chemistry - Nathan Lewis
8:00 PM – 1148 Gerdin Building - Nathan Lewis is a professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. He also serves as the principal investigator of the Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center at Caltech. His research interests include light-induced electron transfer reactions, photochemistry of semiconductor/liquid interfaces; novel uses of conducting organic polymers and polymer/conductor composites; and the development of sensor arrays from these polymers that use pattern recognition algorithms to identify odorants, mimicking the mammalian olfaction process. Lewis has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and a Presidential Young Investigator. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Everyday Negotiation: Creating the Conditions for Leadership Success - Deborah Kolb
12:00 PM – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building, Iowa State Center - Deborah Kolb is the coauthor of Everyday Negotiation: Navigating the Hidden Agendas in Bargaining and the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women and Leadership at the Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons School of Management. She is an international expert on gender issues in negotiation and other forms of conflict management. Kolb is working on a new book that looks at the challenges women need to negotiate when they take on leadership roles. Part of the 2007 Women's Leadership Summit.

Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki, 2007 Emerging Technologies Conference Keynote Speaker
11:00 AM – Howe Hall - Guy Kawasaki a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, and author of eight books about business. He was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc., where he was one of the individuals responsible for the success of the Macintosh computer. He is also ranked as one of the top 100 bloggers in the world. His eight books include The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a B.A. from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA, as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College. Part of the 2007 Emerging Technologies Conference.