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Brad Smith
IN CONVERSATION WITHDavid Kirkpatrick
DISCUSSING HIS BOOKTools and Weapons: The Promise and the
Peril of the Digital Age
October 4
7:45am Continental Breakfast
8:15am Talk
Gensler, Downtown Los AngelesBrad Smith is Microsoft’s president, where he leads a team
of more than 1,400 business, legal and corporate affairs
professionals working in 56 countries.
InTools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the
Digital Age, Brad Smith brings us a captivating narrative
from the cockpit of one of the world’s largest and most
powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of
some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These
are challenges that come with no preexisting playbook,
with huge ramifications for communities and countries,
and Brad Smith provides a thoughtful and urgent
contribution to that effort.
“From privacy to cyberattacks, this timely book is a
useful guide for how to navigate the digital future.”
—Walter IsaacsonDavid Kirkpatrick is founder of
Techonomy. He is a journalist,commentator about
technology, and
author ofThe
Facebook Effect:The
Inside Story of the
Company that isConnecting the World. He spent 25 years atFortune, and
founded and hosted its Brainstorm and Brainstorm Tech
conferences. In addition to writing forTechonomy,he
contributes toForbesandVanity Fair.Mike Isaac
IN CONVERSATION WITHNick Bilton
DISCUSSING HIS BOOKSuper Pumped: The Battle for Uber
October 16
7:30pm, Cross Campus,
Downtown Los AngelesMike Isaac is a
technology reporter
atThe New York
Timeswhose
coverage of Uber
won the Gerald
Loeb Award for
distinguished business reporting.
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uberis a story of how
rapid developments in technology can crash into long-
entrenched labor systems, throw urban development into
upheaval, and overturn an entire industry in a matter of
years. It is the story of a deeply sexist industry, fueled by
gender imbalance and a misguided belief in a tech-
supported meritocracy, blind to its own biases.“The tale of Uber, the queen of the so-called ‘unicorns,’
is a parable about power—and the lengths to which
some startup founders will go to amass it and hold onto
it. Aside from being a delicious read, Mike Isaac’s
account is also teeming with new revelations that will
shock and outrage you.” —John CarreyrouNick Bilton is a Special Correspondent forVanity Fair,
where he writes about technology, politics, business and
culture. A columnist and reporter forThe New York Times
for over a decade, Bilton is a bestselling author,
screenwriter, CNBC contributor and host of theVanity Fair
podcast,Inside the Hive.Yancey Strickler
DISCUSSING HIS BOOKThis Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto
For a More Generous World
November 13
7:45am Continental Breakfast
8:15am Talk
Cross Campus, Downtown Los AngelesYancey Strickler is a writer and the cofounder and former
CEO of Kickstarter, the company that pioneered
crowdfunding. He was one ofFortune’s 40 Under 40, on
Vanity Fair’s New Establishment list, and a World
Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Yancey Stricker has a vision for building a society that
looks beyond money and toward maximizing the values
that make life worth living.
This Could Be Our Futureis about how we got here,
and how we change course. While the pursuit of wealth
has produced innovation and prosperity, it also established
an implicit belief that the right choice in every decision is
whichever option makes the most money. The answer isn’t
to get rid of money; it’s to expand
our concept of value. By assigning
rational value to other values
besides money—things like
community, purpose, and
sustainability—we can refocus
our energies to build a societythat’s generous,
fair, and ready for
the future. By
recalibrating our
definition of value,
a world of scarcity
can become a
world of
abundance.
Hopeful but
firmly grounded, full of concrete solutions and bursting
with creativity,This Could Be Our Futurebrilliantly
dissects the world we live in and shows us a road map to
the world we are capable of making.
“Starting in the 1970s, new ideas were proposed about
how business should run—ideas that prioritized
short-term over long term, profit before people, selfish
decisions over selfless ones. Those ideas blossomed in
the 1980s and ’90s and today they consume too many
of the standard business practices. Yancey Strickler is
one of the voices that is helping to reverse those ideas in
favor of a people before profit model that benefits ALL
stakeholders. Preach on Yancey!!”— Simon SinekBUSINESS FORUMSis a dynamic series of on-stage
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