The Paley Center for Media Unveils International Council Summit Agenda and Additional Speakers Nate Silver and AOL’s Tim Armstrong
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
NEW YORK, October 30, 2013 — TThe Paley Center for Media unveiled today the agenda for its International Council Summit (IC2013) scheduled for November 21-22 in New York and additional speakers Nate Silver and Tim Armstrong, who will join the lineup of previously announced participants including Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. Under the theme The Data Overthrow, IC2013 will explore and debate the new business, advertising, and distribution models in this age of unprecedented access to information about consumers and the way they interact with content. The International Council Summit will mark the first time ESPN’s John Skipper and Nate Silver, statistician, author, and founder of the blog FiveThirtyEight, will engage in a public discussion since ESPN announced their partnership.
The agenda for IC2013 is as follows:
DAY ONE: November 21, 2013
WELCOME from Frank A. Bennack, Jr., Chairman, and Pat Mitchell, President and CEO, The Paley Center for Media
OPENING KEYNOTE: The Data Overthrow
Presentation by Hans Rosling, Cofounder and Chairman, The Gapminder Foundation
Overview from Kenneth Cukier, Data Editor, The Economist; Coauthor, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Studios of the Future
Ynon Kreiz, Executive Chairman, Maker Studios
Nancy Tellem, President, Entertainment and Digital Media, Microsoft
Ronnie Screwvala, Managing Director, The Walt Disney Company India
Rich Greenfield, Managing Director, Media and Technology Analyst, BTIG (Moderator)
PRESENTATION: Rick Smolan, Author, The Human Face of Big Data
Strength in Numbers
John Skipper, President, ESPN, Inc.; Cochairman of Disney Media Networks
Nate Silver, Statistician, Author, and Founder, ESPN's FiveThirtyEight blog
Gaming and the Feedback Loop
Torfi Frans Olafsson, Creative Director, EVE Online; Head of Marketing, Arion
Elísabet Grétarsdóttir, Founding Creative Director, EVE Online
Tommy Palm, “Games Guru,” King.com
Ola Ahlvarsson, Chairman, Result (Moderator)
PRESENTATION: Sree Sreenivasan, CDO, Metropolitan Museum
Keynote Session
A conversation with Chris Hughes, Publisher and Editor in Chief, The New Republic
PRESENTATION: Kris Hammond, Chief Technology Officer, Narrative Science
The News Algorithm
Jonah Peretti, Cofounder and CEO, BuzzFeed
Megan Liberman, Editor in Chief, Yahoo! News
Janine Gibson, Editor in Chief, The Guardian US
Emily Bell, Director, Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School (Moderator)
PRESENTATION: Mark Hansen, Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation
The TransAtlantic Tussle
Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
John Enser, Partner, Olswang LLP
Scaling the World
Uday Shankar, CEO, Star India
Demian Bellumio, COO, Senzari
Drinking from the Firehose
Deb Roy, Chief Media Scientist, Twitter
Oliver Luckett, Founder and CEO, theAudience
Data as the New Currency
Steve Hasker, President, Global Product Leadership, Nielsen
Rob Norman, CDO, GroupM Global
Rich Greenfield, Managing Director, Media and Technology Analyst, BTIG (Moderator)
Keynote Session
A conversation with Tim Armstrong, Chairman and CEO, AOL and Andrew Ross Sorkin, Author, Anchor, “Squawk Box,” CNBC
DAY TWO: November 22, 2013
WELCOME from Frank A. Bennack, Jr., Chairman, and Pat Mitchell, President and CEO, The Paley Center for Media
A Global Entertainment Model
Bruno Wu, Founder, Cochairman, and Co-CEO, BT Capital Group
Aryeh Bourkoff, Cofounder and CEO, LionTree (Moderator)
PRESENTATION: Joe Marchese, CEO, SocialVibe
The New Advertising Game
Steve Stoute, Founder and CEO, Translation
Amy Webb, CEO, Webbmedia Group (Moderator)
PRESENTATION: Tom Doctoroff, CEO, APAC, JWT
The Money Algorithm
Hany Nada, Partner, GGV Capital
Hilary Mason, Data Scientist in Residence, Accel Partners
Scott Kurnit, Founder and CEO, Keep.com (Moderator)
PRESENTATION: Duncan McCall, CEO and Cofounder, PlaceIQ
Data and the Mobile World
Colson Hillier, Vice President, Precision Marketing, Verizon Wireless
Chris Weasler, Director of Global Connectivity, Facebook
Pelle Tornberg, Advisor, Ericsson (Moderator)
PRESENTATION: Nathan Eagle, Cofounder and CEO, Jana
Keynote Session
A Conversation with Eric Schmidt, Chairman, Google
Closing Overview
Andy Bird, Chairman, Walt Disney International
Janet Goldsmith, Advisor, The Paley Center for Media
Geoffrey K. Sands, Director, Media & Entertainment, McKinsey & Co.
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