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Last Update: February 21, 2009. Subject to change.

Tuesday, February 24 We Media Miami

School of Communication Courtyard, University of Miami

5.30 – 7.00
Opening reception
Welcome. Sam Grogg. Dean of the School of Communication
Dale Peskin and Andrew Nachison, iFOCOS
The Way We’ll Be: A conversation with author and pollster John Zogby

 
Wednesday, February 25 Game Changers Program, We Media Miami
7.30
Shuttle leaves Sonesta Bayfront Hotel

Storer Auditorium, School of Business, University of Miami

8.00 – 8.45
We Space
Registration, Breakfast, Networking, Pitch It! Gallery Ground Report Live!
8.45 – 10.45
Game Changing & World Changing – Bold ideas from Game Changers
Sponsored by the McCormick Foundation
ZeFrank | SocialVibe | Innocentive | Freewheelin’ | Ushahidi | Twitter | David Plouffe
10.45 – 11.00
Break
11.00 – 12:30
THE END OF APATHY: An agenda for the new now, foresights for innovation
We share bold ideas and identify opportunities to transform businesses and organizations, navigate new technologies, deal with disrupted careers, mobilize the masses, and discover value that had been hiding in plain sight. At the end of apathy, we call on all Game Changers to express their visions for the connected society by writing news rules for engagment and achievement.
– Forum moderated by Dale Peskin and Andrew Nachison, iFOCOS.
12.30 – 1.30
Patio Food for thought Talk it over at lunch-table conversations
Rapporteurs capture conversations Ground Report Live! with Rachel Sterne
1.30 – 3.15
GAMECHANGER WORKSHOPS – Collaborations for the New Now

Exec Center A
Right Brain Rules to innovate
Innovating out of the creativity recession. Right Brain Rules and tools to create value and redefine success. How to innovate in tough times.
Produced by Dale Peskin, iFocos Exercise by Katherine von Jan, KVJ Company
Exec Center B
Rebooting democracy
Harnessing potential from the relentless flow of pervasive, personal technologies such as those that helped elect Barack Obama and launch massive change.
Discussion and exercise by Brian Reich, iFocos, Limor Schafman, Keystone Technologies
Exec Center C
Getting social, growing audience
Levering worlds of friends for business and pleasure. Using social media to reinvigorate brand, grow audience, market products, renew businesses.
Produced by John Havens, Blog Talk Radio
with Virginia Miracle, Ogilvy; Chuck DeFeo,
Washington Times; Suha Araj; Maria Harrison, iClarity
3.15 – 3.30
Break
3.30 – 5.00
GAMECHANGER WORKSHOPS – Collaborations for the New Now (Cont’d)

Exec Center A
How news companies can change
Making journalism work as news companies struggle for survival.
Produced by Carin Dessauer With
David Bohrman, CNN; Neil Budde, Daily Me; Jennifer Carroll, Gannett; Jan Schafer, J-Lab; Solana Larsen, Global Vocies. Exercise by Dan Suwyn, Rapid Change.
Exec Center B
Reinventing advertising
Where money and messages go. What sticks, what matters in a digital marketplace where personal data and commerce are accessible to all.
Produced by Mark Walsh, Genius Rocket; with Joe Marchese, SocialVibe; Melissa
Godis, Crispin+Porter, and Sheryl Catell
of LGD Communications.
Exec Center C
Digital natives: Who teaches whom?
How to change education as the generation
of digital natives arrive. Preparing them and
us for the connected world.
Produced by Sam Grogg, Dean, UM School of Communication

Sponsored by UPI

Study Center
Decoding The Culture
Decoding culture to envision the future, uncovering opportunities and connecting to societal shifts.
Discussion workshop produced by John Fischer, Anomaly. With The Knot CEO David Liu and Darryl Perkins of the Hip Hop Caucus.
5.15 – 10.00
RECEPTION, MIAMI EXPERIENCE and DANCING WITH THE STARS
5.15 – 6.45
Mojito Reception, We Space, Ground Report Live Mojito reception in The Grove. We Space and Ground Report Live in Storer lobby, courtyard and grove.
6.30
Bus departs for Sonesta Bayfront Hotel
7.00
Entrepreneur Briefing at the Pool Sonesta Bayfront Hotel – Join Doug Poretz, co-founder of Qorvis Communications, for a conversation about how to grow and sustain a successful venture in today’s connected society.
7.30 – 10.30
Culture excursion (Optional sign up. Depart from Sonesta Bayfront Hotel)
- Little Havana Tour & Afro-Cuban Dance
8.00
IdeaBlob and after-dinner drinks, poolside at Sonesta Bay.
Bloblive is the open-mic night for ideas. We provide the venue and brain food. You bring the business ideas, dreams, concepts and comments. If you’re feeling inspired, you’ll share your idea with the crowd. If you’re not, you can hang back and hear from others. We’ll all chime in with our wisdom, and at the end of the night, we’ll be better connected, better informed and better prepared to make our dreams and ideas a reality.
Thursday, February 26 Game Changers & Pitch It!, We Media Miami
7.00
Busses depart from Sonesta Bayfront Hotel
7.30 – 9.00
LIKE-MINDS: SPECIAL INTEREST CAUCUSES. Set an agenda, solve a problem, meet with peers

Exec Ctr A
Social Media caucus
Hosted by Rebecca Watson and Susan Mernit
Exec Ctr B
Storytellers caucus
Hosted by Chris Willis
Exec Ctr C
Entrepreneurs caucus
Hosted by Brian Reich
Exec Ctr E
Public Media caucus
Hosted by Jessica Clark
9.00 – 10.30
PITCH IT! FINALS $50,000 in seed capital for two winning startups
Sponsored by the Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation

Storer Auditorium
Pitch It! Commercial
Exec Center C
Pitch It! Nonprofit
10.45 – 11.00
Break
11.00 – 11.45
Storer Auditorium
Leadership, Inspired: Who leads in the New Now? How?
Conversation with Donna Shalala, president of the University of Miami and former Secretary of Health and Human Services; and Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus. Interviewed by Sam Grogg, Dean of the School of Communications.
11.50 – 12.30
Storer Auditorium
News, Inspired: How news will change and thrive
Conversation with Jim Kennedy, vice president of strategy for Associated Press; and Amra Tareen, founder of AllVoices. Interviewed by George Brock, International editor of Times of London.
12.40 – 1.50
Patio
Working lunch Reports from workshops
2.00 – 2.10
Storer Auditorium
Pitch It! Awards presentation
Andrew Nachison. Brian Reich of iFOCOS | Bob Ross, Ethics & Excellence in Journalism
2.10 – 2.45
Storer Auditorium
Citizens, Inspired: Social citizens, social enterprises and the information needs of communities
Game changer Award to Knight Foundation. Conversation with Alberto Ibargüen CEO and president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and social media expert Allison Fine.
2.45 – 3.15
Storer Auditorium
Innovation, Inspired: Stimulating innovation and sustaining it
Conversation with Adam Sutherland, SVP of strategy for Travel Channel, and David Bohrman, CNN. Interview by Alan Webber, entrepreneur and founder of Fast Company magazine.
3.15 – 3.30
Taking Innovation Home And Back To The Office
Adjourn. Transportation to hotels and airport