World Wide Web Inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and others at Technology and Science Symposium at Embassy of Finland 10/8

World Wide Web Inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and others at Technology and
Science Symposium at Embassy of Finland 10/8

WHAT:
Symposium "Next Decade Technologies Changing the World" with Millennium
Technology Prize laureates:

Sir Tim Berners-Lee -inventor of the World Wide Web
Shuji Nakamura - inventor of bright-blue LEDs and the blue laser
Robert Langer - innovations in controlled drug release and tissue regeneration

Moderator Steven Lohr of The New York Times will conduct a one-on-one
discussion with each of the Millennium Technology Prize laureates.

The event will be hosted by His Excellency, Ambassador Pekka Lintu, and Stig
Gustavson, Chairman of Finland's Technology Academy Foundation, a
Helsinki-based, public-private organization which awards the world's most
important science and technology innovators with a 1 million EURO prize. The
prize is awarded every two years with the next selection to be announced in
2010.

To watch the symposium live on the Web please visit:
http://www.livestream.com/technologyacademyfoundationfinland

For more information on the Millennium Technology Prize:
www.millenniumprize.fi

WHEN:
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
4:00-6:00 p.m.

WHERE:
Embassy of Finland
3301 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.

CONTACT:
Kent Holland
Office: 202.629.3450
Cell: 917.561.9684
Email: kholland@plesser.com

/PRNewswire -- Oct. 7 /

SOURCE Finland's Technology Academy Foundation