TTI/Vanguard is the advanced technology conference series for senior-level executives. TTI/Vanguard’s member organizations represent global private, public, and academic sectors. TTI/Vanguard introduce, discuss, and evaluate emerging and breakthrough technologies on the two-to-five-year horizon. Through conferences, workshops, and field trips, experts offer perspectives on future technologies and their impact on organizations, infrastructures, policies, and society. The result is a framework for linking strategic technology planning to business success.
TTI/Vanguard is about discovering technological possibilities for the 21st century.

Dan and Dan Jr. have showed how a computer consisting of a nanostructured network can use protein filaments to solve an NP-complete problem (the subset sum problem).