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10:00am
Registration Desk Opens
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12:30 – 3:00pmPurisima Creek Redwood Preserve Hike hosted by Castlight Health
Coastal Bike Ride with Oympians hosted by Glo Science, SHO-AIR International, and TWENTY16
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4:00 – 4:10pm
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4:10 – 4:35pm
Fusion
Bringing together great ideas and pressing concerns to fuel TE14 and power its conversations. A variety of Techonomists weigh in to begin our conference.
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4:35 – 5:05pm
Two Friends on Innovation, Obstacles, and Future Revolutions
How and where is society moving in this era of innovation, entrepreneurship and rapid change? Two masters of the genre talk about the next big disruptions and where they’re most needed. Where do they agree, and where do they disagree?
Peter Thiel, Thiel Capital & The Founders Fund
Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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5:05 – 5:45pm
The Next Revolution Will Be Biologized
Innovation in biology is accelerating at a rate that makes Moore’s Law look leisurely, throwing open doors to opportunities unimaginable. From food to fuel, manufacturing to medicine, business to buildings, what do the visionaries see just beyond the horizon?
Brian Frezza, Emerald Therapeutics
Nancy J. Kelley, Nancy J. Kelley & Associates
Floyd Romesberg, The Scripps Research Institute
Moderator: Marcus Wohlsen, WIRED
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5:45 – 5:50pm
180º Shifts
“The Science of Diversity” Laura Mather, Unitive
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“(bio)Hacking Startups” Ryan Bethencourt, Berkeley Biolabs & Indie.Bio
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5:50 – 6:10pm
A Conversation with Patrick Collison
Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick sits down with the co-founder and CEO of Stripe.
Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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6:15 – 7:00pm
Reception
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7:15 – 8:30pm
Dinner
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8:45pm
Can Tech Bring Equality and Peace?
Some talk as if a digital utopia is within our grasp, but could tech in fact be widening the gulf between rich and poor? It’s impossible not to worry about growing global discord. Will tech bring us together, or drive us further apart?
Jack Dorsey, Square & Twitter
David Miliband, International Rescue Committee
Nandan Nilekani
Moderator: James Surowiecki, The New Yorker
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7:00am
Registration Desk Opens
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7:00 – 8:00amSunrise Yoga hosted by Castlight Health
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General Breakfast
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A Scrum on the Future of Media
The future of media remains one of the world’s biggest ciphers. Join industry leaders to discuss the who, what, where, when, why and how at the intersection of media, tech, users and business.
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8:30 – 8:35am
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8:35 – 9:10am
A Future Without Industries
Tech and the Internet blur borders between industries. Meanwhile, connectedness is accelerating globalization. We’re redefining what a company does and where it is. What does the new borderless world of business mean for incumbents, and for the next generation corporation?
Scott Cook, Intuit Inc.
Ray Ozzie, Talko Inc.
Moderator: Eric Kutcher, McKinsey & Company
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9:10 – 9:15am
180º Shifts
“Infrastructure on a Roll” Curren Krasnoff, Cortex Composites
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“When Local Means Your Kitchen” Gabe Blanchet, Grove Labs
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9:15 – 9:30am
A Conversation with Fadi Chehadé, President and CEO, ICANN
As threats to the Internet grow, ICANN fights to protect it.
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9:30 – 10:05am
Rethinking International Development: Big Ideas from the Invention Generation
How is Africa’s youthful population preparing to write a chapter in the history of development through game changing inventions? Where do they find inspiration? Join a remarkable conversation with three innovators from across Africa.
Leroy Mwasaru, Human Waste Bioreactor
David Moinina Sengeh, Global Minimum Inc. & MIT Media Lab
Moderator: Kate Krontiris, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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10:05 – 10:15am
180º Shifts
“Rare Unlocks the Common” Matt Wilsey, Grace Wilsey Foundation
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“Mapping the Policy Genome” Marci Harris, POPVOX
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10:15 – 10:40am
The Federation: Tactical Evolution or Management Revolution?
EMC’s three component bosses appear on a public stage together for the first time. What does a “federation” mean, for EMC and its customers? The clamor for dissolution is growing; what’s the argument to stay together? How are the needs of enterprises changing as tech, the Net and cloud computing keep evolving at breakneck speed?
David Goulden, EMC Corporation
Paul Maritz, Pivotal Software, Inc.
Moderator: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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10:40 – 11:00am
Break
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11:00 – 12:00pm
Techonomy Labs
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Faith in Data or Faith in the Crowd?
Will companies drive us forward with data? Or will the crowd drive us forward with values? Data and the crowd, can these two most modern of memes find a way to align themselves for the betterment of both business and society? Do they compliment or compete?
Adam Kocoloski, IBM
Balaji Prabhakar, Urban Engines
Yan Qu, ShareThis
James Surowiecki, The New Yorker
Moderator: Dave Morgan, Simulmedia, Inc.
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Civil Defense Against Data Assaults
Admiral Mike McConnell, former director of national intelligence, says a catastrophic data breach is probably inevitable. Power grids, air traffic control, water treatment, personal and corporate finance: all are data dependent and all are vulnerable. So how do we prioritize where to start? And how do we shift the needle from “inevitable” to “preventable?”
Jeremiah Grossman, WhiteHat Security, Inc.
Amit Mital, Symantec
Erin Nealy Cox, Stroz Friedberg
Todd Simpson, AVG Technologies
Moderator: Laura Mather, Unitive
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How Good Can Technology Make Our Governments and Communities?
Over the past 10 years or so, a field has emerged to promote greater civic engagement through the use of technology. The effort involves civic technologists, government officials, funders, advocates, journalists and others, and it has emerged to address two important phenomena in the U.S.: 1) ever decreasing engagement in civic life, and 2) ever increasing power of technology to connect people for collective action.
Jerry Paffendorf, LOVELAND Technologies
Kathryn Peters, Democracy Works
Matt Stempeck, Microsoft New York City
Facilitator: Kate Krontiris, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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Navigating China’s Internet Maze
China’s Internet and e-commerce economy is becoming one of the most important elements in the global economy. The recent IPO of Alibaba, the global ambitions of Tencent, the rampant M&A activity inside China, and the continued fertile landscape of domestic Chinese network innovation are critical for business and government leaders to understand.
Gary Rieschel, Qiming Venture Partners
Moderator: Zachary Karabell, The Progress Network
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Mobile Omnipotence: How the New Nomads Challenge Business and Reshape Society
Our entire economy must now be redesigned to take into account the reality that people are carrying connected computers with them wherever they go. What are the next industries to be impacted as our mobile obsession continues to change behaviors of consumers and users?
Ilya Fushman, Dropbox
David Helgason, Unity Technologies
Jack Krawczyk, Pandora
Moderator: Tom Gardner, The Motley Fool
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12:00 – 12:15pm
Switch Break
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12:15 – 1:15pm
Lunch
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1:15 – 1:30pm
Switch Break
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1:30 – 2:30pm
Techonomy Labs
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Will Every Industry Have its Tesla?
An increasing number of companies refuse to follow the rules. Tesla is no longer just a car company; it’s a transportation, fuel and energy-storage company. Companies must embrace the foundational change being driven by tech every day. What must business leaders do to be the disruptors rather than the disrupted?
Dane Howard, eBay Inc.
Scott Sanborn, LendingClub
Jake Seid, Stone Bridge Ventures
Moderator: Dan Elron, Accenture
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The New Geology of Intelligence
When the Ubernet gives us universal access to all human knowledge and we see the world through multiple data layers, will myth, ignorance and conspiracy theory recede? When all the world is a library, who guides you through the stacks?
Richard Levin, Coursera
Ijad Madisch, ResearchGate
Dr. Anthony W. Marx, The New York Public Library
Rohini Nilekani, Arghyam
Moderator: David Callaway, USA TODAY
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Things United on a Global Platform: The New Distributed Intelligence
How do you program a fully intelligent world? As intelligence pervades every corner of our lives and the programmable world becomes reality, the resulting web of connectivity emerges as a truly global platform. How are companies building new businesses that take advantage of this fundamental new facility?
Kelly Liang, SmartThings
Charles Meyers, Equinix, Inc.
Moderator: Zachary Karabell, The Progress Network
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Confronting the Internet Counter-Reaction
Erdogan turns off Twitter and YouTube. Putin seizes Russia’s biggest social network Vkontakte. Europe considers restrictive privacy laws. And with continuing revelations of U.S. government misdeeds flowing from Edward Snowden’s trove, who will replace the U.S. as the credible guardian of openness? What would a balkanized Net mean for the global economy?
David Gorodyansky, AnchorFree Inc.
Theresa Swinehart, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau, European Commission
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Germany & Spitzberg Partners LLC
Moderator: Andrew Keen, Andrew Keen Productions Inc
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Innovating Our Selves
In 1995 Bill Gates wrote in The Road Ahead that we will all eventually have chips implanted in our brains. Grinders, postmortals and transhumanists are now well on their way as we move from wearables to implantables. How will augmented humans interact with digitized corporations? And where does humanity fit in a posthuman world?
Carlos Olguin, Autodesk Research
Drew Purves, Microsoft Research
Moderator: Marcus Wohlsen, WIRED
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2:30 – 2:45pm
Switch Break
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2:45 – 2:55pm
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2:55 – 3:05pm
From Genius to Table: Organic Innovation
Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick interviews Reputation.com CEO Michael Fertik about his latest take on innovation.
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3:05 – 3:45pm
Preemptive Innovation
Innovation is happening faster because it’s getting better organized. Incubators of all stripes are sprouting all over the world. Large corporations are spinning in talent and building internal startup labs. Leaders know they can’t just wait around for inspiration to strike, they have to seek it out or grow it themselves.
Deborah Hopkins, Citi & Citi Ventures
Guy Wollaert, The Coca-Cola Company
Moderator: Michael Chui, McKinsey & Company
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3:45 – 3:50pm
180º Shifts
“The End of Reality as You Know It” Andy Lowery, DAQRI
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“What Really Drove the Green Revolution” Drew Purves, Microsoft Research
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3:50 – 4:20pm
Just Make It: The Evolution of Manufacturing
Trends in openness, access to technology and an expansion of new resource channels combined with a burgeoning hacker mentality mean doors are starting to open to an industry long closed off to startups. What does the future of making things look like as the hardware changes and software evolves? What is the new infrastructure of manufacturing?
Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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4:20 – 4:25pm
180º Shifts
“Connect, Collaborate, Close the Skills Gap” Jacqueline Jones, Kaplan Higher Education Group
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“How to Fix U.S. Politics” David Burstein, Run for America
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4:25 – 4:45pm
A Conversation with Jeff Weiner
Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick sits down with the CEO of LinkedIn.
Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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4:45 – 5:30pm
How to Meet the World’s Grand Challenges
The best opportunities will come from creating the greatest impact on the biggest realms of human activity, like healthcare, food, water, energy, and education. How can businesses rise to the occasion and focus on the things that really matter? How can they best partner with governments and NGOs to implement the solutions?
Geno Germano, Pfizer Inc
Leila Janah, Sama Group
Rima Qureshi, Ericsson
Moderator: Matthew Bishop, The Economist
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5:30 – 6:15pm
Break
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6:15 – 7:00pm
Reception
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7:15 – 8:30pm
Dinner
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8:45pm
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7:00am
Registration Desk Opens
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7:00 – 8:00amSunrise Yoga hosted by Castlight Health
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7:30 - 8:45am
General Breakfast
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Breakfast Sessions
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Information Generation
Today, information is the business catalyst—failure to focus means second-tier status. The rise of new technologies is fundamentally changing the way we live, transforming consumer expectations and behaviors that in turn compel businesses—from medicine and education, to utilities and manufacturing—to redefine themselves in order to survive. What are the essential drivers that keep businesses relevant, notable and profitable in the Information Generation?
Mike Liebhold, Institute for the Future
Rachel Maguire, Institute for the Future
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Internet Governance: Of, By and For the World?
Virtually all businesses are dependent upon the Internet, but current policies have not been designed to regulate and protect the vast amounts of processes and information that circulate there. As a result, many stakeholders are calling for new norms to find consensus among the myriad legal, political and business considerations. To continue to reap value from the Internet, a robust Internet-governance ecosystem is required across industries and countries.
The results of these discussions will feed into the high-level session at the Annual Meeting 2015.
Nora Abusitta, Digital Ethos Foundation
Prith Banerjee, Accenture
Elena Kvochko
Dan’l Lewin, Computer History Museum
Jessica Rosenworcel, Federal Communications Commission
Ken Washington, Ford Motor Company
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8:45 – 9:00am
Switch Break
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9:00 – 9:05am
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9:05 – 9:35am
Who Owns the Future?
Why didn’t the rise of network technologies bring great wealth to the world in the last decade? Instead of experiencing excellent financial health because of the efficiencies of digital technologies, those efficiencies are having the effect of concentrating wealth while reducing overall growth. How can we better apply these powerful tools to promote greater balance, clarity, focus and genuine human connection?
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9:35 – 9:45am
180º Shifts
"Owning Your Identity" Moderator: Stan Stalnaker, Hub Culture/Ven Currency
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“The Bright Future of Illumination” Colleen Costello, Vital Vio
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“What Will We Remember?” Oren Boiman, Magisto
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9:45 – 10:00am
From Here to Where? Following the Brain Map
The human brain, a super organ of around 100 billion nerve cells, remains the single most powerful, complex and least understood computer on the planet. Cracking its code will allow us to better utilize our brains, and to drive the creation of better artificial intelligences. The applications span from marketing to medicine and education to warfare. How will how we work, live and play be changed by these new neuro-discoveries?
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10:00 – 10:25am
A Conversation with David Marcus
Facebook’s new head of messaging products sits down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang.
Interviewer: Emily Chang, Bloomberg Television
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10:25 - 10:35am
The Internet Is Not the Answer
The author and tech-polemicist discusses his latest book.
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10:35 – 11:20am
Man, Machines and How the Future Works
It’s 2020—robots and automation have replaced workers in droves. So what are all the people doing? What new systems must emerge to employ and engage people, and what new policies and regulations will be needed to protect them?
Jessica Rosenworcel, Federal Communications Commission
Ken Washington, Ford Motor Company
Philip Zelikow, Markle Foundation & University of Virginia
Moderator: John Markoff, Stanford
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11:20 – 11:55am
A Conversation with Marc Benioff
Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick sits down with the Salesforce chairman and CEO.
Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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12:00pm
Conference Adjourns
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Coastal Bike Ride
Enjoy a scenic ride along Half Moon Bay’s coastal trail, led by an experienced guide who provides insightful information about the area and the history of Half Moon Bay. Sunday’s South Coast 2.5 hour ride along Cowell-Purisima Trail will include 2012 Olympic Gold medalist, Kristin Armstrong, and 2000 Olympic Silver medalist, Mari Holden.
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Golf Clinic
Home of the men’s US Open Qualifier, the Old Course at Half Moon Bay features 36 holes of championship golf designed by legendary golf course architects Arnold Palmer and Francis Duane. The clinic will take place on the Ocean View Practice Green – covering the basic fundamentals and working into skilled techniques. Club rentals will be provided at no charge.
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Purisima Creek Redwood Preserve Hike
Hike Purisima Creek Trail and experience the natural beauty of this preserve. Located on the western slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking Half Moon Bay, Purisima Creek Preserve includes developed trails, historical logging roads and is home to many towering redwoods.
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Sunrise Yoga
Start your day with classic Hatha Yoga. All levels are welcome.
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