45th Vice President of the United States

Creator of the Dilbert Cartoon

Opening General Session Speaker
Sunday, 3 June 2007
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Closing General Session Speaker
Wednesday, 6 June 2007
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Since the 2000 election, Vice President Gore re-channeled his energy to focus on an all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In demand by the media, Vice President Gore has been a featured guest on television's most watched programs- The Jon Stewart Show, Jay Leno, Saturday Night Live, and 360 with Anderson Cooper. With a funny, engaging, open and downright-on-fire style, he urgently delivers the stirring truth about what he calls our "planetary emergency".
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During the time that Adams held, in his words, "a variety of humiliating and low paying jobs," he entertained himself during boring meetings by drawing insulting cartoons of his coworkers and bosses. Eventually a bespectacled character named Dilbert emerged from the doodles. In 1988 Adams mailed some sample comic strips featuring Dilbert to the major cartoon syndicates. United Feature Syndicate plucked Dilbert out of thousands of submissions received that year and offered Adams a contract. Dilbert launched in about 35 newspapers in 1989.
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