Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored NY (Use Code “NYEBNVIP” to Save 10%)
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Innovation Uncensored turns Fast Company’s coverage into a real-world conversation during a day of visionary speakers, groundbreaking ideas, and valuable connections that will supercharge your company and your career.
AGENDA
8:00AM
• Doors Open, Breakfast Served
8:45AM
• Opening Remarks with Fast Company’s Robert Safian
8:50AM
• Baratunde Thurston, CEO, Cultivated Wit provides insights on the day ahead
9:00AM
• Technology's Transformative Value: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Empowerment with Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation and Chad Dickerson, CEO of Etsy
9:40AM
• Community, Creativity and Commerce: The New Customer Experience with Sophia Amoruso, CEO of Nasty Gal and author of #GirlBoss
10:05AM
• The Secrets to Building a Cult Brand with Sophia Amoruso, Tough Mudder CEO Will Dean and Blue Bottle Coffee’s Founder James Freeman
10:30AM
• Networking Break
10:50AM
• A Look Inside…Uncharted Play: The Combination of Science, 3-D Printing, and Fun, with CEO and Founder Jessica Matthews
11:00AM
• What Happens When Competitors Cooperate with Seamus Mullen and Christian Pappanicholas of Gotham West Market
11:30AM
• How to Lead a Creative Company with Ed Catmull, President of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios
12:30PM
• Lunch
2:00PM
• After Lady Gaga: Atom Factory CEO Troy Carter on setbacks and comebacks
2:30PM
• A Look Inside…Local Projects: Brand Experiences as Innovation with Principal Jake Barton
2:40PM
• Education 2.0: How Crowdfunding Will Continue to Disrupt the Classroom with Anil Dash and DonorsChoose.org Founder and CEO Charles Best
3:10PM
• Networking Break
3:25PM
• Evernote’s China Cheat Sheet: CEO Phil Libin on cracking the market
3:50PM
• Inside PepsiCo's playbook with Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi
4:30PM
• Why Aereo Will Prevail with CEO Chet Kanojia
5:00PM
• Announcement Coming Soon
5:30PM
• Innovation Observations with Baratunde Thurston
5:40PM
• Cocktail Reception
*Please Note: Agenda is Subject to Change
SPEAKERS
• Chelsea Clinton - Vice Chair of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation
Throughout her life, Chelsea Clinton has had a rare view of the world’s biggest problems and the impact of public service. That perspective has profoundly influenced her recent work. Since 2011, she’s served on the board of her family foundation, focusing on a diverse range of issues: clean drinking water in East Africa; childhood obesity in the United States; chronic disease in Latin America. In 2012, following Hurricane Sandy, she launched the Clinton Foundation Day of Action to boost volunteerism in needy communities. Previously, she was a consultant for McKinsey & Co. and an associate for the hedge fund Avenue Capital Group. While working full-time, she earned a Masters degree in public health from Columbia University, where she has also taught a class in cross-national health policy. Currently, she’s working on a PhD in international relations from Oxford University.
• Indra Nooyi - CEO of Pepsico
Nooyi runs the largest food and beverage company in the United States and the second largest in the world. PepsiCo employs nearly 280,000 people and generates some billion a year in revenue. More than 20 of its brands (Gatorade, Quaker Oats, among others) are billion-dollar businesses in their own right. Nooyi has been in charge of PepsiCo’s long-term corporate strategy since she went to work there in 1994. In 2006, she became CEO, the first woman, the first foreign-born executive, and the first vegetarian to lead the company. With obesity at epidemic levels in the U.S., Nooyi is focused on expanding PepsiCo’s business by developing healthier products.
• Ed Catmull - President & Author at Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios
Ed Catmull runs one of the most creative and successful companies on the planet. Pixar’s movies have won 27 Academy Awards, grossed more than billion, and changed the face of animation. Catmull has guided the studio in creating some of the most beloved movies of our generation: Toy Story, The Incredibles, Monsters, Inc.,WALL-E, Up, —the list goes on. Catmull’s book, “Creativity Inc.”, which comes out in April, has been called “the best book ever written on what it takes to build a creative organization."
• Phil Libin - CEO at Evernote
Libin runs Evernote, the company behind the note-taking and archiving app with a famously devoted following. Some 80 million users store photos, web links, documents and other material on its cloud-based service. Over the last two years, Libin has aggressively expanded Evernote, launching an online store featuring organizational goods, from stylish commuter bags to Moleskine notebooks. Libin has also focused on boosting the company’s presence in China, the world’s largest smartphone market. In a six-month period last year, Evernote doubled the number of users on the Chinese version of its service, to more than 8 million. China now represents Evernote’s largest user base outside of the U.S. At Innovation Uncensored New York, Libin will be sharing his insights on this dynamic market.
• Chad Dickerson - CEO at Etsy
Chad is the CEO of Etsy, the innovative online marketplace for handmade goods that serves more than a million sellers from around the world. Last year, with Etsy’s gross sales at .35 billion, the company launched its craft entrepreneurship program which is designed to give unemployed or underemployed people who have craft talent the skills to launch their own businesses. At Innovation Uncensored New York, Dickerson, who was previously Etsy’s Chief Technology Officer, will be speaking with Chelsea Clinton about how technology can empower entrepreneurship and serve as force for social good.
• Sophia Amoruso - Founder and CEO, Author of #GIRLBOSS, Nasty Gal
Amoruso, just 29, is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in fashion and retail today. In 2006, she started selling vintage women’s clothing on an eBay page called Nasty Gal. A recent college dropout with no retail experience but an exquisite eye for style and bargains, she launched NastyGal.com; in a matter of several years, she was selling more than 0 million in apparel and accessories annually to a devoted twentysomething customer base. Today, Nasty Gal is one of the fastest-growing brands in retail, with more than half a million shoppers—the top 10% of whom shop there 100 times a month on average. Amoruso is the author of the forthcoming book, #GirlBoss: How to Write Your Own Rules While Turning Heads and Turning Profits, due in May.
• Jake Barton - Founder & Principal at Local Project
Barton, one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People 1000, marries storytelling, design, and technology to create memorable interactions at museums and other public spaces. Over the past 10 years, his media design firm, Local Projects, has gathered more than 100,000 stories from ordinary people and shared them through their immersive installations, apps, and websites. For the soon-to-open 9/11 Memorial Museum, Barton reimagined the museum experience, turning visitors into participants who share memories of that tragic day.
• Charles Best - Founder & CEO at DonorsChoose.org
DonorsChoose.org is a crowdfunding site that allows users to support an individual class or project. Over the past eight years, the online charity has become an education juggernaut, raising 5 million and funding more than 400,000 projects that benefit 10 million students. Now Best is exploring new, highly innovative ways of tapping the power of his DonorsChoose crowd—which includes Bill and Melinda Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, and Stephen Colbert—to improve public education.
• Troy Carter - Founder & CEO at Atom Factory
Carter is a new breed of entertainment executive, a creative, hyperconnected entrepreneur who’s bridging Hollywood and Silicon Valley. As Lady Gaga’s former manager, he helped transform a little-known performance artist into an international pop star—and a global brand. In recent years, Carter has turned his attention to Silicon Valley, where he’s an investor in more than 50 startups, including Uber and Dropbox. A onetime rapper and concert promoter, he runs Atom Factory, a pioneering music-management company that represents John Legend, John Mayer, and other artists.
• Anil Dash - Co-Founder & CEO at ThinkUp
Dash is one of the enduring and leading voices of the Internet age. An entrepreneur, technologist, and writer, he focuses on the impact of technology on society, particularly the intersection of online communities, policy, and data. He’s been blogging at dashes.com since 1999, and he helped build Six Apart, which created the popular blogging platforms Moveable Type and TypePad. Currently, Dash runs ThinkUp, a platform designed to make social media more meaningful; he’s also co-founder and managing director of Activate, a strategy and consulting firm.
• Will Dean - Founder & CEO at Tough Mudder
In just four years, Dean’s company—an extreme obstacle course—has made the leap from a business plan at Harvard Business School to a white-hot company with 0 million-plus in revenue. Tough Mudder hosts more than 50 events a year in six countries, where participants pay to overcome challenges together like the Electric Eel —a muddy crawl under 10,000-volt live wires. Along the way, Tough Mudder has cultivated a deeply passionate community (3.7 million Facebook likes) who revel in its physical challenge and emotional highs.
• James Freeman - Founder & CEO at Blue Bottle Coffee
Freeman creates the java that fuels Silicon Valley, which in turn is fueling the growth of his business. In January, Blue Bottle Coffee received .75 million in funding from investors such as Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom. A former classical musician, Freeman has turned his longtime love of pour-over coffee into a string of wildly popular cafes–a dozen locations in San Francisco and New York (and more on the way) – and legions of deeply passionate fans.
• Chet Kanojia - Founder & CEO at Aereo
Kanojia is the brains behind one of the most clever and contentious inventions of recent years: an antenna the size of a Tic Tac that captures broadcast TV signals and delivers them to your computer, bypassing cable TV. This streaming shortcut has won Kanojia, who holds 14 patents in robotics and data communications, a rapidly expanding pool of customers. Meanwhile, the NFL and MLB have warned that Aereo could doom free televised sports. And the TV networks, which claim Aereo is stealing their content, have sued. Kanojia, who sold his previous startup to Microsoft for some 0 million, says his platform is a novel – and legal –way of accessing free broadcast signals. Twelve days after Kanojia appears on Fast Company’s stage, Aereo will go before the US Supreme Court, which will decide its fate.
• Jessica O. Matthews - Founder & CEO at Uncharted Play
Jessica is the CEO and Founder of Uncharted Play, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in Sports. Matthews’ research and career has focused on the ways in which social entrepreneurship, technology, and a sense of play can lead to innovation around the world’s biggest issues. In 2008, during her junior year at Harvard, Matthews and a classmate invented SOCCKET, a soccer ball that can generate enough electricity to power small appliances using kinetic energy. Shortly after graduation, Matthews launched Uncharted Play, and continues to develop products that create social change. She will join the stage at Innovation Uncensored New York to demonstrate Uncharted Play’s latest products, including a jump rope called Pulse, that can charge a smartphone.
• Seamus Mullen - Chef/Owner at Tertulia and El Colmado
Mullen runs Tertulia, one of the top Spanish restaurants in New York. He spent years honing his knowledge of Spanish cuisine and culture and establishing his reputation at top restaurants in San Francisco and New York (and on the Food Network, where Mullen was one of three finalists on The Next Iron Chef). Tertulia, which opened in 2011, was a James Beard finalist for best new restaurant. Last year, Mullen expanded his business with El Comado, a tapas bar, in Gotham West Market, a 10,000-square-foot food hall that opened on Manhattan’s West Side. He’ll be speaking with his fellow Gotham chefs about cooperative entrepreneurship.
• Christian Pappanicholas - Chef/Owner at Resto and the Cannibal
Pappanicholas operates a popular and growing restaurant business in New York. Resto, his smash debut, serves some of the city's best Belgian cuisine, including a burger that is a perennial pick for New York’s top burgers. Building on that success, Pappanicholas launched The Cannibal Beer & Butcher Shop, a hybrid sandwich shop, small-plate restaurant, butcher shop, and beer place, all in one. His latest creation is a counter version of The Cannibal in Gotham West Market, a 10,000-square-foot food hall on Manhattan’s West Side. Pappanicholas will be speaking with his fellow Gotham chefs about cooperative entrepreneurship.
• Baratunde Thurston - CEO, Cultivated Wit; Authour of How to be Black
Baratunde Thurston is a politically-active, technology-loving comedian from the future. He co-founded the black political blog, Jack and Jill Politics and served as Director of Digital for The Onion before launching the comedy/technology startup Cultivated Wit. Then-candidate Barack Obama called him "someone I need to know." Baratunde travels the world speaking and advising and performs standup regularly in NYC. He resides in Brooklyn, lives on Twitter and has over 30 years experience being black. He writes the monthly backpage column for Fast Company, and his first book, How To Be Black, is a New York Times best-seller.
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