Program

Last updated: March 7, 2010
Subject to change at any time.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Location: School of Communication Courtyard

5-7p Reception
5:45 Welcome with Sam Grogg, University of Miami School of Communication
6 A conversation with Paula Kerger, CEO, PBS, and Andrew Nachison, Founder/CEO, We Media

Wednesday March 10, 2010

Location: School of Business Storer Auditorium

7:20 Buses depart from hotels
8 Arrival | Registration

We Media 2010: Almost nothing has been invented yet.
8:30 Dale Peskin and Andrew Nachison, Founders, We Media

Game Changers: Awards and conversations with winners
8:45 Meet the Game Changers
10:15 Break

The Power of Everyone
10:30 Planet 4E, Decade 2010, Dale Peskin
11:00 Keynote: Off the grid with Michael Wolff, Newser founder and Vanity Fair columnist
Questions and conversation with Michael

11:45 Lunch on The Patio & We Media Live

Have Your Say
1 – 2 World Have Your Say, BBC live broadcast moderated by Ros Atkins

How everyone is changing everything
2:10 Stowe Boyd of /Message on social tools
2:30 Steven VanRoekel, Managing Director, U.S. Federal Communications Commission and Ellen Miller, Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation
3:00 Break

Changing the shape of news
3:15 Conversation with Tom Curley, President and CEO, The Associated Press, and Alberto Ibarguen, CEO, The Knight Foundation, moderated by John Hockenberry, “The Takeaway”

Invention sessions: 3rd Floor, Executive Center
4 (Discussion Rm A) Nonprofit journalism
Moderated by Suzanne Turner, CEO, Turner Communications
with:
Ellen Miller, Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation
Andrew Sherry, Senior Vice President, Online Communications, Center for American Progress
Jonathan Aiken, Director of Media Relations, Red Cross
Jim Barnett, Senior Strategic Advisor, AARP

(Discussion Rm B ) Community matters
Moderated by Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix, with Ben Ilfeld, Sacramento Press; C. Renzi Stone, SaxumPR; Anders Gyllenhaal, Executive Editor of the Miami Herald.

(Discussion Rm C) Open: Link economy, linked content
With Oren Michels, CEO, Mashery, with Krista Thomas, VP, Marketing & Communications, OpenCalais

5:15 Break and reconvene in Grove

Celebrate Game Changing, meet the Game Changers
5:30 Mojito reception. We Media Live
Table talk with Game Changer winners and finalists

7 Buses to hotels, dinner on your own

Pitch It! Poolside PrepParty (The Mutiny Hotel)
9 Poolside wisdom, cocktails-with-umbrellas and tips to get yes as an answer. With entrepreneurs, Pitch It! contestants, judges
Host: Brian Reich
Experts include: Diana Wells and Alan Webber.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

School of Business Executive Center

7:20 Buses from hotels

8 Coffee and bagels on arrival at Executive Center
The wake-up call: Invention sessions

(Discussion Rm A) Be The Media
Moderated by David Mathison, Author, Be The Media, with Lauren McCullough, Manager of Social Networks and News Engagement for The Associated Press

(Discussion Rm B) The AllVoices Story
With Aki Hashmi, CMO, AllVoices, in conversation with Dorian Benkoil, Founder, Teeming Media

(Discussion Rm C) How do You Know Your Media Matters?
Moderated byJessica Clark & Tracy Van Slyke with Patrice O’Neill, Executive Producer, NIOT.org

9:15 Reconvene in Storer Auditorium
The Social Life of Innovation
9:30 Andrew Nachison: Media entrepreneurship
9:40 Francois Raignet, Xerox chief of innovation, on the future of documents and 3D visualization of complex information
10 Juliette Powell, media entrepreneur and author, on how to build a successful business with social networking.

10:30 Break

Pitch It! Challenge
10:45 Pitch It! (Beth Laing and Brian Reich)
One year later: Update from Jacob Colker, The Extraordinaries and Ben Berkowitz, SeeClickFix

11 Let the pitches begin: Finalists

Finals Judges:
Andrea McGrath, Center for Applied Philanthropy
Michael Smith, The Case Foundation
Matthew Jacobson, LaunchBox Digital
Steve Rosenbaum, Magnify
Diana Wells, Ashoka
Chair: William Weiss, The Promar Group

12:30 Lunch and Pitch It! deliberations; Meet and greet with finalists in the Innovator’s Gallery

2 Pitch It! awards presentation

What matters now
2:30 Wrap-up with the curators, Dale and Andrew interviewed by Alan Webber, Founder, Fast Co. Magazine

3 Adjourn. Cabs from The Grove