Mark Anderson is the founding CEO of startup Pattern Computer Inc. and chair of the annual Future in Review (FiRe) conference (www.futureinreview.com), launched in 2003, which The Economist has named “the best technology conference in the world.” He is the chair of Strategic News Service (SNS, www.stratnews.com) and publisher of the weekly SNS Global Report on Technology and the Global Economy, read by Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Vint Cerf, Michael Dell, Craig Venter, Jeff Bezos, Bill Janeway, Paul Jacobs, Leroy Hood, and technology executives and investors worldwide.

Mark’s work includes the creation of INVNT/IP (Inventing Nations vs. Nation-sponsored Theft of IP, www.invntip.com), a global consortium of corporations and government agencies; SNS Project Inkwell, the first global consortium to bring vendors, educators, and students together to accelerate the deployment of appropriate technology into K-12 schools; SNS iNews (www.snsinews.com), using patented processes to bring daily interactive communications “About Leaders, For Leaders” worldwide; a new Global Rescue System (GRS) for victims of human trafficking, in concert with Julia Ormond’s ASSET program; Orca Relief Citizens’ Alliance (ORCA: www.orcarelief.org), the sole nonprofit organization working to reduce the mortality rate of the Southern Resident Killer Whale; and Nutritional Microanalysis, a new field of medical research and practice aimed at connecting biochemical descriptions of food with health. The subscription-based SNS FiReFilms (www.firefilms.org) was created in 2009 to identify, support, and promote potentially world-changing documentary films in which technology improves the human condition. SNS FiReBooks publishes books on how technology drives the global economy.

Mark is credited with accelerating the deployment of 3G wireless in Iceland; helping design Sweden’s wireless auction process; assisting Eastern Germany’s technology programs; creating “Project Intelligent Response,” the first post-911 manual for the US government on the use of technology to combat terror; and being the first to fully document the central role of stolen intellectual property in China’s national business model. His successful predictions include the Great Financial Collapse of late 2007 (made in March of that year, on CNBC Europe’s PowerLunch); the contemporary outbreak of “currency wars” and the first modern use of the term; the advent and success of the CarryAlong computer category as the fastest-growing and largest in the industry, now represented by pads and netbooks (predicted in 1997); the first detailed description of the Internet Assistant category, currently represented by Siri, Google Now, and Dragon Go! (in 1998); and the global currency crisis of late 1997 (in April of that year) – contributing to a publicly graded 94.5% prediction accuracy record since 1995. He is the only person to have publicly predicted both the Great Financial Collapse and the Oil Price Collapse, the two most important economic events of modern times.