The County of San Diego is already viewed as a technology leader. Through this partnership, we look forward to helping San Diego County introduce new and enhanced technologies to better serve its citizens.

TBTF is not an economic development organization. We are the technology department, if you will, of the Tampa Bay Partnership. As they are talking to companies about locating here or recruiting companies to come here and they're technology companies, they will engage us and we will meet with those people and share our knowledge with them.

In March, I visited the (World Wide Technology) facility in Austin (Texas) during our Piedmont Triad Partnership mission to call on Dell suppliers. Their operations are impressive. As we learned there, WWT warehouses products from more than 50 other suppliers to get those items to Dell as needed.

Kazakhstan will also benefit from its partnership with CNPC, through improvements in oil and gas exploitation technology and supply to the local market.

Through our strong partnership with CSR, XM will have an opportunity to expand the XM service beyond the United States and serve millions of Canadians with compelling Canadian and American programming.

All the solutions necessary are already known ... we have the technology, we don't have the political will yet. We must make decisions now. We need to recognize (that) our climate is in crisis.