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8:00 AMBreakfast will be served
REGISTRATION OPENS
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8:45 AM - 12:30 PM
TUESDAY MORNING SESSIONS
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8:45 AMScott Heiferman, Meetup
Technologies of Togetherness
Many think social media drives us apart, but Heiferman remains a software togetherness visionary, who thinks opportunities for tech-based connection remain large. He also has ideas for how the tech industry can do better.
Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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9:10 AMKimberly Bryant, Black Girls CODE
Creating an Inclusive Tech Industry
The future can’t be built by the same old elite. Bryant’s work aims to insure the creators are more inclusive, and to show that girls and girls of color are as talented as anyone.
Interviewer: Dan Costa, PCMag
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9:30 AMCharles Redding, MedShare
Partnering for Good
MedShare has delivered over $220 million in medical aid to communities in 103 countries and combined with Phillips’ state of the art biomedical equipment, is improving the quality of biomedical service offerings in underserved communities around the world.
Rob Stevens, Philips
Moderator: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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9:45 AMMarten Mickos, HackerOne
Hacking a More Secure Society
Open source veteran Mickos now gives bounties to hackers for identifying and helping fix security vulnerabilities.
Interviewer: Dan Costa, PCMag
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10:00 AMSusan McPherson, McPherson Strategies
Tech Tools for Public Servants
With trust in government at an all-time low, the morale of public servants is often overlooked. But they are the largest workforce in the world. Apolitical helps government employees connect to skills, solutions and partners so they can tackle society’s biggest challenges.
Lisa Witter, Apolitical
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10:30 AMChieh Huang, Boxed
Can Anyone Beat Amazon?
Online retail remains a world in flux. Boxed is powering forward despite Bezos & Co. Its experience offers lessons for other companies and industries.
Moderator: Aaron Price, Propelify
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10:45 AMSoumitra Dutta, Cornell University
Can Tech Help Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?
Will tech help us achieve them? Soumitra Dutta of Cornell University explains.
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10:55 AMDipayan Ghosh, Harvard Kennedy School
The Internet Civil War
The net is under assault by both too-powerful companies and ill-equipped countries. We users are getting left behind, and there is real risk the net’s global unity could be compromised. How can the world better oversee and regulate the net?
Scott Malcomson, Strategic Insight Group/FutureMap
Veni Markovski, ICANN
Moderator: Nicholas Thompson, WIRED
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11:30 AMCathy Bessant, Bank of America
Will Tech Unify or Divide?
Cathy Bessant focuses on what constant technology and industry change means for jobs, the future of banking, and how companies of the future are organized.
Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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11:50 AMShannon Lucas, Ericsson
Internet of Things: Turning Hype Into Business
Internet of Things was supposed to revolutionize the world years ago, but has largely failed to live up to its hype. How will it succeed in the future?
Sean Mehra, HealthTap, Inc.
Moderator: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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12:15 - 1:30 PM
LUNCH
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1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
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1:30 PMJutta Steiner, Parity Technologies
Internet & Blockchain: From 'Don’t be Evil' to 'Can’t be Evil'
Steiner was a top Ethereum coder who had a vision for how related technologies could transform the entire internet. How should we think about crypto and blockchain technology now?
Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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1:50 PMLyel Resner, NYU
The New Technologies of Politics
In the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, every politician, party, and activist group realized that tech could be an even more powerful tool for suasion. What are the latest tools for online organizing and how will they change the presidential election?
Pinky Weitzman, ACLU
Moderator: Nicholas Thompson, WIRED
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2:15 PMHicham Oudghiri, Enigma
Fighting Global Atrocities -- with Data
Human trafficking exploits and enslaves a stunning 40.3 million people, and earns traffickers $150 billion yearly. Can data help fight back? Enigma is developing a platform to help financial institutions block the traffickers’ transactions.
Interviewer: Dan Costa, PCMag
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2:30 PMMei Lin Fung, IEEE
Ethical Engineers Make More Impactful Technologies
How do we measure what works and build it into our next generation of tech?
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3:00 PMDavid Eilenberg, ITV America
The Transformation of TV: What Will We Watch?
Eilenberg has created some of the most groundbreaking shows on television. What’s happening now as a result of new entrants, new platforms and shifting consumer tastes?
Interviewer: Andrew Whitehouse, Copperfield Advisory
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3:20 PMMark Brand, Mark Brand Inc.
An Unconventional Urban Activist on Food, Employment, and Upward Mobility
Mark Brand is a new kind of leader. He was once homeless and addicted to drugs. Now, he’s an entrepreneurial chef who runs a series of successful Vancouver-based businesses and projects that use food to open employment opportunities to diverse, vulnerable populations. What can Brand’s experience teach us about resilience, and the power of profit-driven social enterprises?
Interviewer: Steven Gray, Techonomy
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3:40 PMJared Cohen, Jigsaw
Jared Cohen, Jigsaw and author, Accidental Presidents
This State Department veteran is now CEO of Alphabet’s Jigsaw business, which works to make the world safer. He also just wrote a book about Vice Presidents who became President. Seeing connections is his job.
Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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4:10 PMMark Bertolini
Mission-Driven Leadership: My Journey as a Radical Capitalist
The former Aetna CEO was thrust into that role despite his iconoclasm about corporate life and American healthcare. His success tells us a lot about contemporary business. For him, mindfulness was as important as profit.
Interviewer: David Gelles, New York Times
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6:00 PMReception at Hudson Yards with supper and craft cocktails provided by The Table. Co-hosted by SAP
Reception at Hudson Yards
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8:00 AMBreakfast will be served
REGISTRATION OPENS
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSIONS
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9:00 AMDouglas Rushkoff, Author
Team Human
The latest book by this tech-savvy social philosopher is a manifesto, calling us to “take a stand, regenerate the social bonds that define us and, together, make a positive impact on this earth.”
Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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9:30 AMSara DeWitt, PBS KIDS Digital
Tech for Good: How Screens Can Help Kids
Last year at Techonomy the consensus was the opposite, so we’re eager to hear from this expert on children and media.
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9:45 AMJeremiah Owyang, Kaleido Insights
Tech Starts Up Wellness
A new industry is emerging and Owyang’s Kaleido Insights has studied more than 500 startups aiming to help us be healthier, happier, and more centered.
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9:55 AMKarin Klein, Bloomberg Beta
New York Tech and Responsibility in an Age of Data
Karin Klein of Bloomberg Beta in conversation with Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick.
Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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10:10 AMJohn Borthwick, Betaworks
Towards More Humane and Accountable Technology
A longtime investor and supporter of entrepreneurs argues that our entire approach to developing technology has to change. Tech can no longer just hack the world.
Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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10:30 AMBambi DeLaRosa, Ph.D., Micron
Will AI Make Us Healthier?
Medical researchers are using artificial intelligence to identify at-risk patients, predict issues before symptoms arise, and potentially save lives. Collaboration between public and private sector, for example, is leading to groundbreaking new developments to images and detect patterns at massive scale.
Terry Lo, Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University
Moderator: Steven Gray, Techonomy
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11:00 AMAndrew Yang, U. S. Presidential Candidate & Venture for America
Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang
Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang in conversation with David Kirkpatrick and Rich Benjamin.
Interviewers:
Rich Benjamin
David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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11:30 AMJohn Delaney, Presidential Candidate, 2020
Democratic Presidential Candidate John Delaney
Democratic Presidential Candidate John Delaney in conversation with David Kirkpatrick and Rich Benjamin.
Interviewers:
Rich Benjamin
David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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12:00 - 1:15 PM
LUNCH
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1:15 PM - 5:00 PM
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
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1:15 PMEdith Yeung, Proof of Capital
Why I Invest in China
Even as US/China tech relations remain fraught, the country is at the cutting edge of AI, e-commerce, and mobile payments, among others. China investing expert Yeung tells us how to think about the country and where it shows the most promise.
Interviewer: Drew Ianni, CDX
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1:30 PMZachary Karabell, The Progress Network
The US-China Battle Over Tech
Ten years ago, Karabell wrote “Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World’s Prosperity Depends on It.” Then five years ago, renowned economist Roach chimed in with “Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China.” Now these two turn their attention to how these two codependent nations will manage their growing rivalry in tech.
Stephen Roach, Yale University
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1:55 PMKathy Wylde, Partnership for New York
Public-Private Collaboration Improves New York Tech
Wylde is one of NY’s top civic leaders, and her organization aims to stimulate innovation here. The Partnership’s Transit Tech Lab is focusing on the transit system, with special focus on the NY subway system.
Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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2:15 PMMax Furmanov, Accenture
The Agile Enterprise: Talent, Culture, and Digital Transformation
Agile started as a software technique–to move quickly and iterate to achieve breakthroughs. Now entire companies can use the approach to make themselves more innovative. How does it work?
Interviewer: Drew Ianni, CDX
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2:30 PMMehmood Khan, Life Biosciences
The Science & Economics of Aging
This medical doctor recently left his job as vice chairman of Pepsico to head ambitious NY startup Life Bioscience, which focuses on helping aging people to continue contributing to society. It is investing in research and therapies related to six distinct biological pathways.
Interviewer: Josh Kampel, Techonomy
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2:45 PMPhilippa Mothersill, MIT Media Lab
Looking for Humanity in AI
Two designers who work in artificial intelligence discuss the tension between creativity and AI – when is AI enabling and when is it disabling? AI is often thought of as a way to improve productivity but for creatives, productivity also includes time for reflection and serendipity. How do you integrate those intangible human qualities into digital tools?
Joshua Mudgett, J//MUJET
Moderator: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
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3:00 PMKate Merton, JLABS
Unleashing Innovation: How a Healthcare Incumbent Partners with Insurgents
How does a century-old healthcare giant partner with start-ups to deliver life-enhancing health and wellness solutions to people around the globe? What lessons does it hold for other big companies?
Tran T. Huynh, OpticSurg
Venk Varadan, Nanowear
Moderator: Josh Kampel, Techonomy
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3:30 PMNoah Glass, Olo
What You Don’t Know About Food Delivery and Tech
Eating Matters Noah Glass, founder & CEO, Olo; You haven’t heard much about food delivery giant Olo because it works in the background enabling all the ones you have heard of. Glass explains how eating is changing.
Interviewer: James Cakmak, Techonomy
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3:45 PMJasmine Crowe, Goodr
Can Blockchain Help Reduce Food Waste?
Jasmine Crowe of Goodr in conversation with Steven Gray of Techonomy.
Interviewer: Steven Gray, Techonomy
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4:00 PMDesiree Gruber, Full Picture
Why Women are the Future of Tech
Interviewer: Juliet Scott-Croxford, Worth
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4:20 PMConal Byrne, iHeartMedia
Podcasts Are Having Their Moment
Conal Byrne of iHeartMedia in conversation with Josh Kampel of Techonomy.
Interviewer: Josh Kampel, Techonomy
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4:35 PMRudy Cline-Thomas, Mastry, Inc.
Running With Tech: the Athlete Venture Capitalist
As tech becomes ever more central to the future of society, athletes and sports leaders are becoming engaged. Why does Jets star Enunwa care so much about tech?
Quincy Enunwa, New York Jets
Interviewer: Richard Bradley, Worth
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5:00 PM
Closing Reception at Convene
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