As Michael mentioned in his
blog post earlier this week, we're excited to team up with the White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Domestic Policy
Council for a day-long strategy session on promoting innovation
through the use of prizes and challenges. We're equally excited to bring
some of the key experts who will be sharing their insights with
Friday's attendees directly to you for a special edition of our CaseSoup
interactive Q&A sessions live from the event. These sessions
will take place exclusively on our site beginning at 11 ET on Friday
morning. The schedule of sessions is listed below, so mark your
calendars and don’t miss out on this opportunity to ask your questions
of these trailblazers in prizes, challenges and open grantmaking:
- 11:00-11:30: Bonin Bough, Director of Global Social Media at PepsiCo and
Tara Roth McConaghy, GOOD, Inc.
- 12:00-12:30: Peter Diamandis, Chairman and CEO of the X Prize
Foundation, and Tom Kalil, White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy and National
Economic Council
- 1:00-1:30: Sonal Shah, Director of the Office of Social Innovation & Civic Participation, and Jonathan Bays, Consultant with McKinsey & Company and Co-Author of the recent report, And the winner is…: Capturing the Promise of Philanthropic Prizes
- 2:00-2:30: Aneesh Chopra, U.S.
Chief Technology Officer
- 3:00-3:30: Jim Bennett, former Vice President Netflix, and Rob McEwen, Chairman and CEO of US Gold and Lexam Explorations and Founder of Goldcorp
- 4:00-4:30: Beth Noveck, Assistant Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government, and James Shelton, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement, Department of Education
To read the full, original article click on this link: Promoting Innovation: We want you to join the discussion!
Author: Kristin Ivie
