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To: fi n r km n Cc: From: Lesley Groff Sent: Tue 2/9/2016 10:30:54 PM Subject: Re: Confidential - Dinner Invitation - Wednesday, February 17th - Vancouver Hello John...I wanted to let you know Jeffrey WILL attend your dinner! thank you! Lesley On Jan 22, 2016, at 1:32 PM, John Brockman < > wrote: > • THE EDGE DINNER 2016 - INVITATION > Dear Jeffrey, > • Please join Katinka and myself for this year's dinner in Vancouver, which marks the 20th anniversary of EDGE. > Date: Wednesday, February 17th > Time 7:30pm > Place BLUE WATER CAFE • The Oceans (private dining room) • 1095 Hamilton Street @ Helmcken St. • Vancouver BC V6B 5T4 • http://www.bluewatercafe.net • Map: http://bit.ly/1fY1Jm9 > rsvp: asap, please > The restaurant, Blue Water Cafe, is in the Yaletown neighborhood, a 5-minute taxi ride from the Convention Center. We will be in "The oceans", a private dining room with a separate entrance - a door to the right of main entrance's revolving doors (Or, just go to main entrance and receptionist will take care of you). > Confidential, please. Please keep this invitation, which is for you only, under the radar. > KM and I look forward to seeing you! > JB > John Brockman mobile > • February 15-18 Vancouver I Fairmount Pacific Rim Hotel > Edge Foundation, Inc. tel: x110 fax: > • Visit the EDGE Website at: edge.org > • • "The World's Smartest Website. EDGE is a salon for the world's finest minds." —THE GUARDIAN > • "We'd certainly be better off if everyone sampled the fabulous Edge symposium EFTA_R1_00604274 EFTA02059515 which, like the best in science, is modest and daring at once."—David Brooks, THE NEW YORK TIMES > • "An epicenter of bleeding-edge insight with some of our era's greatest thinkers A lavish cerebral feast." —THE ATLANTIC > • "Not just wonderful, but plausible."—THE WALL STREET JOURNAL > • Fantastically stimulating...It's like the crack cocaine of the thinking world. —BBC RADIO 4 > • "Deliciously creative, the variety astonishes. Intellectual skyrockets of stunning brilliance." —ARTS & LETTERS DAILY > • "Take a look. No matter who you are, you are bound to find something that will drive you crazy."—THE NEW YORK TIMES > • "Open-minded, free ranging, intellectually playful ... an unadorned pleasure in curiosity, a collective expression of wonder at the living and inanimate world ... an ongoing and thrilling colloquium."— Ian McEwan, THE TELEGRAPH > • More: edge.org/edge-in-the-news EFTA_R1_00604275 EFTA02059516