Suzy Welch
Suzy Welch is a New York Times bestselling author, commentator, and business journalist. The weekly column, The Welch Way, that she writes with her husband, Jack Welch, appears in BusinessWeek magazine and is published by the New York Times syndicate in more than 45 major newspapers around the world.
John Wood
Founder & Executive Chairman of Room to Read left an executive career track at Microsoft Corporation to form Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that "combines the heart of Mother Theresa with the scalability of Starbucks" to help empower children across the developing world to break the cycle of poverty through the power of education. Room to Read developed from a singular idea and a donkey-load of donated books into a global education movement. So far, Room to Read has build over 7,000 libraries and 765 schools impacting more than 3.1 million children in 9 countries.
Kyra Gaunt
Kyra Gaunt is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and an Associate Professor of anthropology, ethnomusicology, and black studies at Baruch College-CUNY. A 2009 TED Fellow, Gaunt is an award winning author voicing what matters through song, scholarship and social media.
Paul Steely White
Paul Steely White is the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, the non-profit advocacy group that is catalyzing the rapid growth of New York City's bicycle lane network and car-free public spaces. Paul joined Transportation Alternatives in 2004 after seven years as Projects Director for the New York City based Institute for Transportation and Development Policy.
Perry Chen
Perry Chen is co-founder and CEO of Kickstarter, a new way to fund ideas and endeavors. Kickstarter allows people to offer goods, services and other unique (and frequently, whimsical) benefits in return for funding.
Chris Elam
Chris Elam is the founding Artistic Director for Misnomer Dance Theater, an award-winning dance and innovative arts software company in New York. Mr. Elam blends his background in choreography, public policy, and computer science, and the breadth of his work is exemplified by the range of Misnomer's initiatives, including artistic projects with Bjork, the Sundance Channel, and Apple Computers. In addition to creating widely acclaimed choreography, Misnomer is the creator of the Audience Engagement Platform (AEP) for the Arts, a disruptive web-system to give audiences greater access and ability to interact with artists and their art. AEP has received wide recognition in the business, technology, and arts communities.
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Dr. William Duggan
Dr. William Duggan teaches strategy and leadership at Columbia Business School. He has 20 years of experience as a strategy advisor and consultant. He is the author of several books on strategy including "Strategic Intuition, the Creative Spark in Human Achievement."
Rachel Sterne
Rachel Sterne is Founder and CEO of GroundReport.com, a news platform that helps people across the globe participate in the media. Previously, Rachel worked in Business Development at LimeWire and as political reporter on the Security Council for the US Mission to the United Nations. Rachel has written for The Huffington Post and think:act magazine and spoken at major universities, NBC Universal, Digital Hollywood, Networked Journalism Summit and Waldzell Institute, where she was honored as a 2007 Architect of the Future.
Corwin J. Stone
Corwin J. Stone started his design career at Apple and quickly developed a passion for developing online experiences and helping clients bring their creative visions to life. Corwin launched Themilkfarm in 1999 and later went on to be Creative Director for Gyro International, the UK's largest B2B marketing agency.
Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa
Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa is the creator of THE 99-the first group of superheroes born of an Islamic archetype. THE 99, has received positive attention from the international media including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Newsweek Magazine, Wired, Elle, The Washington Post and The Guardian. Recently, Forbes named THE 99 as one of the top 20 trends sweeping the globe.
Scott Heiferman
Scott Heiferman is Co-founder and CEO of Meetup, an organization dedicated to 21st century local community organizing. Millions of people, in over 100 countries, now use Meetup.com to self-organize local community groups of all kinds, with thousands of Meetups (real community meetings) happening daily. Previously, Heiferman co-founded Fotolog, currently a top social network in South America, and i-traffic, a top online ad agency in the 90s.
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Our first event:
Developing World Ideas
November 6, 2009
For our first event, we sought to examine ideas that are driving innovation and change both locally and globally. Here is a look at some images of what proved to be an incredible day.
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