Activate New York: agenda
Wednesday November 20 2013
08.30 - 09.00: Registration and coffee morning
09.00 - 09.05: Opening remarks
Jeff Jarvis, professor, CUNY School of Journalism
09.05 - 09.15: Welcome from the Guardian
Janine Gibson, editor-in-chief, Guardian US
09.15 - 09.35 Keynote presentation
Driving business innovation through the cloud
Werner Vogels, vice president and CTO, Amazon.com
09.35 - 09.55: Fireside chat
Michael Bloom, CEO, Guardian US
Chris Dixon, general partner, Andreessen Horowitz
09.55 - 10.15: Keynote interview
The future of journalism
Chris Hughes, co-founder, Facebook & editor-in-chief, The New Republic
Janine Gibson, editor-in-chief, Guardian US
10.15 - 10.40: Lightning presentations
Using the pecha kucha presentation format - 20 slides x 20 seconds - the brightest minds present their visions and explain how they are innovating in the technology space
Stacy Donohue, director, investments, Omidyar Network (chair)
Technology and democracy - Kathryn Peters, co-founder, TurboVote
Crowdfunding and civic engagement - Jordan Raynor, co-founder, Citizinvestor
Technology and development - David Risher, president and co-founder, Worldreader
10.40 - 11.00: Morning break
11.00 - 11.15: Presentation
Content creation, memes and internet culture
Ben Huh, CEO and founder, Cheezburger
11.15 - 11.35: Interview
Creativity, disruption and storytelling in the digital age
Allison Arden, vice president & publisher, Advertising Age
Chuck Porter, chairman, Crispin Porter + Bogusky and chief strategist, MDC Partners
11.35 - 11.40: Activate tech talent winning presentation
Lightning presentation from the winner of the Activate tech talent day
11.40 - 12.20: Panel debate
Finding, funding and nurturing the next generation of tech innovators and grassroots entrepreneurs
Ziv Navoth, advisor, Tech City UK, founder and CEO, Paragraph (chair)
Ricky Engelberg, senior director of innovation for digital sport, Nike
Jim Daily, executive vice president of sales, Ebuzzing
Rachel Haot, chief digital officer, City of New York
Mood Rowghani, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Zach Sims, co-founder and CEO, Codecademy
12.20 - 12.35: Presentation
Civic engagement and technology: shifting the balance of power between individuals and large organisations
Ben Rattray, CEO and co-founder, Change.org
12.35 - 1.35: Lunch
1.35 - 2.20: Panel Debate
Politics, technology, gender and change
Stacy Donohue, director, investments, Omidyar Network
Nisha Chittal, social media content editor, MSNBC
John Hendra, UN assistant secretary-general, deputy executive director for policy and programme, UN Women
Susan Markham, director, women's political participation, National Democratic Institute (NDI)
Erin Vilardi, founder, Women's Leadership Works
2.20 - 2.40: Case study
Creative disruption in international development – implications for Activate participants
Jasmine Whitbread, CEO, Save the Children International
2.40 - 3.10: Afternoon break
3.10 - 3.35: Keynote presentation
Mark Thompson, CEO and president, The New York Times Company
3.35 - 4.00: Lightning presentations
Using the pecha kucha presentation format - 20 slides x 20 seconds - the brightest minds present their visions and explain how they are innovating in the technology space
Stacy Donohue, director, investments, Omidyar Network (chair)
Robotics and the law - Kate Darling, research specialist, MIT
Data and development - David Edelstein, senior vice president, global programmes and director of the Grameen Foundation Technology Center, Grameen Foundation
Data and happiness - John Havens, founder, The H(app)athon Project
4.00 - 5.00: Keynote panel debate
The future of the internet
Post the NSA revelations, we will debate how to balance privacy, publicness and security on the web.
Introduced and moderated by Jeff Jarvis, professor, CUNY School of Journalism
Yochai Benkler, co-director, Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Bob Kerrey, executive chairman, Minerva Institute for Research & Scholarship
Rebecca MacKinnon, senior research fellow, New America Foundation and co-founder, Global Voices
5.00 - 5.20: Closing fireside chat
David Karp, founder and CEO, Tumblr
Jeff Jarvis, professor, CUNY School of Journalism
5.20 - 5.25: Closing remarks
Jeff Jarvis, professor, CUNY School of Journalism
5.25 – 6.30: Drinks reception