Philip Emeagwali - Pan African Conference on Brain Drain

Over the past 15 years, many U.S. and Canadian college campuses have asked famed pioneer of the Supercomputer and Internet, Philip Emeagwali, to speak on Africa Night, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and during Black History Month.

Last year, he delivered a dozen high-profile keynote addresses at colleges and high-tech conferences around the United States. His speeches can be found on YouTube and are known to provoke an avalanche of commentary and debates on blogs, in newspapers and magazine articles, and in letters to editors around the world.

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LONG BIOGRAPHY

"An Unsung Hero" by TIME magazine

http://www.time.com/time/2007/blackhistmth/bios/04.html

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Philip Emeagwali — war survivor, supercomputer pioneer, and according to readers of London-based New African magazine, history's 35th greatest person of African descent — has been described by President Bill Clinton as "one of the great minds of the Information Age," as well as "the Bill Gates of Africa." He has been called "a father of the Internet" by CNN and TIME. Emeagwali won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, the Nobel Prize of supercomputing.

SPEAKING STYLE

Philip Emeagwali's high-content presentations will be customized to fit with your event theme. Regardless of the type of event, you can count on Emeagwali to use his unique skills of creativity, metaphor and innovation, and the hard-won lessons learned from them, to align his presentation closely with your goals. He will also assist listeners as they learn how to create innovative strategies for success in life. Emeagwali brings abstract ideas to life with his energy, emotion and passion.

His lectures on incisive contemporary, technological and futuristic issues that affect the African Diaspora receive standing ovations and have a sense of longevity that finds expression in newspaper headlines and rave reviews on thousands of Web sites long after they are delivered.

ONE SHEET

http://emeagwali.com/booking/speaking/one-sheet.html



SPEAKER INTRODUCTION
http://emeagwali.com/booking/speaking/speaker-introduction.pdf
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_XSrb-vDaHw (video)

TOPICS
creativity, innovation, diversity, globalization, futurism, internet and technology [We have one-sheets for each topic.]

Most requested topics: brain drain, intellectual capital, poverty alleviation, Internet, youth motivation, assemblies, black history, Martin Luther King, Independence and Africa Days Lectures.

BACKGROUND INDUSTRY
A famed pioneer of the Supercomputer and Internet that was recognized by CNN and Time magazine as "a father of the Internet" and by then president Bill Clinton "one of the great minds of the Information Age," as well as "the Bill Gates of Africa."

TESTIMONIALS




"One of the great minds of the Information Age"
— Bill Clinton, The White House


"A Father of the Internet"
— CNN


"Unsung hero ... The Web owes much of its existence to Philip Emeagwali"
— Time magazine

"History's 35th greatest African"
— New African magazine poll

"I have never come across such a speech concentrated on solving the problem of Africa." — Aster Sagai (born in Eritrea), London, England

"Sir, I must say that your speech on that faithful day have enabled me to rediscover myself, and also reminds me that Africa has great potentials that can make Africa rise to its glory." — Sunday Isoni

"Your article [speech transcript] is the most inspirational document I have ever come across my whole life." --- Born in Ghana, living in Minnesota, USA.

"I read with tears in my eyes the brain drain article [speech transcript]. Oh good lord!" — Gboyega
VIDEO TESTIMONIALS
"The Bill Gates of Africa" — Bill Clinton
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6kF3UTxmjuU

"How We Booked Emeagwali" — Meeting Planner
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O9S03wk7F7w

"Why We Booked Emeagwali" — Meeting Planner
http://youtube.com/watch?v=W_IXuSRrMlo

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People & Blogs

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[lanka6000]

RollsRoyceMr,

You are just nothing but a Nazis.Black hater.You better rethink about your attitude towards discrimination especially black against africans.You white rasist think you are the only race in this world that are capable of R&D.

Your Propaganda will never lead you to anywhere because it makes us stronger and more competitive.

thank you.

[Bryantfitzdaddy]

Emeagwali has contributed greatly for making his name, but yet the greatest challange still persist, To all my Africa youths ,the problems in africa are not big, but is too big for one person to handle, whenever I watch the Images of our dead defenseless women and kids been potrayed my tears drops, but when I remember I always know there will be good days ahead, Youths must wake up and face lets face our challanges.

[moondear2000]

WOW 35 PEOPLE..

[jesus1saves1hardmanz]

@schism4291 you absolutely right you have to ignore the evil and respond to positivity I was caught up in american bigotry, but you are free when you love and ignore ignorance.

[schism4291]

@lanka6000 I offer you a kind word of advice. I do not know your age. I assume that you are young. Here is my advice: Do not respond to racists. Ignore them. Contribute your positive comments on the subject at hand. When you ignore them, you've WON. Their intent is to frustrate you and waste your time. They do not have any impact, believe me. Do not give them the HONOR of engaging with you. They get their kicks out of frustrating you. Just ignore them. It's easy to do. Peace.

[schism4291]

If you are a Christian, PRAY. If you are a Muslim, PRAY. If you are a Buddhist, MEDITATE. If you are a Yoruba, especially a Babalawo [of WHATEVER background: Nigerian, Cuban, Brazilian], then how about sending some STUFF against NATO!! We need all the energy, from whatever source, that we can get. Women and children are BLEEDING and DYING. Gadaffi has kept the dream of a united Africa alive, and put is money into that dream. Help him!! Help him NOW. Fight alongside of him. 

[schism4291]

In circles that have examined "Western" thinking carefully, it is common knowledge that the "last frontier," for the West, is Africa. The U.S. is crumbling, and has no solutions to compete legitimately with China, Russia, Brazi, India, Nigeria, etc. It only knows VIOLENCE and war now. It knows that Africa has EVERYTHING it needs. Help your brother, Gaddafi. Lend material and human support to him and the Libyan people. "The Rebels," as you very well know, are traitors.

[schism4291]

The campaign to re-enslave and re-colonize Africa has just begun with the genocidal assault on Libya. The idea of BORDERS, at this point, must now become meaningless: Africans must lend material and human support to Libya and Gaddafi. We know what the game is. Africa inches ever closer to UNITY--a goal that Gaddafi has put his LIFE behind, as well as his oil money. Africa, as a whole, is being attacked by NATO. Somehow, the African populaces must not allow Libya to fall.

[ecko256]

It may be that he has no PhD. But his achievement is still extraordinary because it was a world record in supercomputing at that time, pushing the boundaries to 3.1 billion calculations per second. It must have been an important leap for computing & (I'm no computer scientist) contribution to development of computing, including internet. To say he is Father of Internet is too much. But he says himself there are many fathers (& mothers!) of the internet. Not just one.