keynote speakers

WELCOME ADDRESS:
The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu

The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, will open the Conference. Bishop Tutu is one of South Africa's most famous sons, recipient of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, and author of the book "Reconciliation: the Ubuntu Theology". ICSE 2010 is most honoured to have him address us.

Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. In 1984, Tutu became the second South African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Tutu was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). Tutu chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is currently the chairman of The Elders. Tutu is vocal in his defence of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed. Tutu also campaigns to fight AIDS, homophobia, poverty and racism. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, and the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2005.[1] Tutu has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings. [ref: Wikipedia]

Professor Sir David King

Sir David King is the Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the University of Oxford.  He was the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the Government Office of Science from October 2000 to 31 December 2007.  In that time, he raised the profile of the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating the new £1 billion Energy Technologies Institute.  In 2008 he co-authored The Hot Topic (Bloomsbury) on this subject.  As Director of the Government’s Foresight Programme, he created an in-depth horizon scanning process which advised government on a wide range of long term issues, from flooding to obesity.  He also chaired the government’s Global Science and Innovation Forum from its inception.  He advised government on issues including the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic of 2001; post 9/11 risks to the UK; GM foods; energy provision; and innovation and wealth creation.  He was also heavily involved in the Government’s Science and Innovation Strategy 2004-2014.

Sir David was born in South Africa in 1939, and after an early career at the University of Witwatersrand, Imperial College and the University of East Anglia, he became the Brunner Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Liverpool in 1974.  In 1988 he was appointed 1920 Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and subsequently became Master of Downing College (1995-2000) and Head of the University Chemistry Department (1993-2000).  He has published over 450 papers on his research in chemical physics and on science and policy, and has received numerous prizes, fellowships, and honorary degrees.  He continues as Director of Research in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.

Professor Fred B. Schneider

Professor Fred B. Schneider is the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science at Cornell, where he has been on the faculty since 1978. He also serves as Chief Scientist for the NSF "TRUST" Science and Technology Center, and he has been Professor-at-Large at the University of Tromso (Norway) since 1996.

Schneider's research concerns trustworthy systems, most recently focusing on computer security. His early work was in formal methods and fault-tolerant distributed systems. He is author of the graduate textbook "On Concurrent Programming", co-author (with David Gries) of the undergraduate text "A Logical Approach to Discrete Math", and the editor of "Trust in Cyberspace" which reports findings from a US National Research Council's study committee on information systems trustworthiness that Schneider chaired.

A fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE, Schneider was awarded a D.Sc. [honoris causa] from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 2003. His survey paper on state machine replication received a SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award in 2007.

Schneider is a member of the board for the Computing Research Association and the council of the Computing Community Consortium. He serves on the US congressionally mandated Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board, as well as several other federal advisory boards. A frequent consultant to industry, he co-chairs Microsoft's TCAAB advisory board on trustworthy computing, besides serving on the technical advisory boards for Fortify Software and Cigital Corp.

Clem Sunter

Clem Sunter was born in Suffolk, England in 1944 and was educated at Winchester College. He went to Oxford where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics before joining Charter Consolidated as a management trainee in 1966.

In 1971 he moved to Lusaka in Zambia to work for Anglo American Corporation Central Africa. From there he was transferred in 1973 to the Head Office of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa in Johannesburg. He spent most of his subsequent career in the Gold and Uranium Division, serving as its Chairman and CEO from 1990 to 1996. At the time it was the largest gold producer in the world. He was until recently Chairman of the Anglo American Chairman's Fund, which in a recent survey was rated the premier corporate social responsibility fund in South Africa.

Since 1987 he has authored 14 books, some of which have been bestsellers. His other main interest is seeking to mobilise the private sector in the war against HIV/AIDS.

He was recently awarded an Honourary Doctorate by the University of Cape Town for his work in the field of scenario planning. He was also voted by leading South African CEOs as a speaker who has made the most significant contribution to, and impact on, best practice and business in South Africa.