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Session 2: Mastering Technology—A Survey
Learn about available hardware and software— and some that are coming down the pike—that can make our lives easier.
Presentations
Stephen Wildstrom: If Blackberry Gets Smushed...
Links of Interest
Business Week Technology section
Speakers
Chris Varvares
President
Macroeconomic Advisers
Chris Varvares is President of Macroeconomic Advisers, a company he co-founded with Joel Prakken and Laurence Meyer as Laurence H. Meyer & Associates in 1982. The firm became Macroeconomic Advisers in June of 1996 when Dr. Meyer joined the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Mr. Varvares has roughly 25 years of experience in macroeconomic forecasting and policy analysis, both as a principal of Macroeconomic Advisers (1982 to present) and as a member of the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers (1981-1982). While at the Council, he served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the OECD in April 1982. Mr. Varvares is a Director of the National Association of for Business Economics (NABE), a member and former President of the St. Louis Chapter of NABE, and is a member of the American Economic Association. He participates as a guest panelist for the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers, serves as a member of Time Magazine's Board of Economists, is member of New York State's Economic Advisory Board, and has been a panelist for the World Economic Forum.
Mr. Varvares holds a B.A. in Economics from the George Washington University and received his graduate training in economics from Washington University in St. Louis.
Steve Wildstrom
Technology Reporter
BusinessWeek
Steve Wildstrom created BusinessWeek's Technology & You column in 1994. The goal of the column, which appears weekly with regular supplements at BusinessWeek Online (www.businessweek.com/technology/), is to help readers understand and use personal technology to enhance their jobs and their lives.
Before starting Technology & You, Steve served as senior news editor in BusinessWeek's Washington bureau and edited the Washington Outlook column. Since joining the magazine in 1972, he has served in variety of capacities, covering politics, economics, and labor in Washington and Detroit and was also deeply involved in the computerization of editorial operations in the 1980s.
Steve also has deep interests in education and the arts. He is a founderboard member of the Children's Chorus of Washington. He served as a member of local arrangements committee and as the volunteer publicity director for the International Math Olympiad 2001.
A native of Detroit, Steve is a graduate of the University of Michigan. He lives with his wife Susan, a mathematics teacher, in Kensington, Maryland. They have two children, Jonathan, a software engineer in Austin, Tex., and David, a graduate student at the University of California at San Diego.
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