

Listen to podcasts of the sessions from Names Not Numbers New York.
Monday
Individual in a mass age:
Ken Auletta, The New Yorker talks to Gillian Tett, Financial Times
Groupthink: Creativity and its discontents
In association with the British Council
Chair: Caroline Daniel, Financial Times
Panel: Clemency Burton-Hill, writer & broadcaster; Sasha Frere-Jones, The Daily; Caryn Mandabach, Caryn Mandabach Productions and Jordan Roth, Jujamcyn Theaters
Groupthink: Celebrity – the ultimate individual?
Chair: Betsy Gleick, PEOPLE Magazine
Panel: Diane Clehane, Madeline Communications; Bob Guccione Jr., media entrepreneur; Mark Harris, writer and Marc Karimzadeh, Women’s Wear Daily
Bright ideas:
Chair: Julia Hobsbawm, Editorial Intelligence & Names Not Numbers
1. Nina Planck, writer & real foodist: ‘Food for pleasure and life’
2. Victoria Floethe, Writer, actor & filmmaker & Kate Rose, Journalist, author & filmmaker: ‘Comedy of Desire’
3. Jon Kamen, @radical.media: ‘What Comes Around Goes Around’
Groupthink: Modern journalism: creative curiousity and the future of news
Chair: Emily Bell, Tow Centre for Journalism, Columbia University
Panel: Gaby Darbyshire, Gawker Media; Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Financial Times; Bob Guccione Jr., media entrepreneur; Martin Nesirky, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations and Indrani Sen, CUNY School of Journalism
Tuesday
Bright ideas:
Chair: Janet Goldsmith, Names Not Numbers New York
1. Pat Mitchell, The Paley Center for Media: ‘How revolutionary is social media?’
2. Aditya Dev Sood, Centre for Knowledge Societies: ‘Technocratic versus Sociocentric Innovation in India (1327-present)’
3. Chrysi Philalithes, (RED)™: ‘(RED) in 140 characters’
Individual in a mass age:
‘What Happens After the Industrial Revolution is Over?’
Seth Godin, Bestseller, instigator & blogger
Groupthink: Creativity in business
Chair: John Gapper, Financial Times
Panel: Matthew Bishop, The Economist; Rob Kaufelt, Murray’s Cheese; Gayle Lemmon, Council on Foreign Relations & author; Lucy P. Marcus, Marcus Venture Consulting and Katherine Oliver, Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment
Bright ideas:
Chair: Michael Vachon, Soros Fund Management LLC
1. Anna Pinedo, Morrison Foerster: 'Is creative finance destructive?'
2. William Cohan, Journalist and bestselling author: 'What we know about individual responsibility in the upper echelons'
Bright ideas:
‘What Happens When the Rich Get Richer - The Flaw in Finance’: Preview of the Sundance-selected documentary film ‘The Flaw’ and Q&A with Louis Hyman, Cornell University
Individual in a mass age:
‘The individual’s moral duty in politics’, P.J. Crowley, former United States Assistant Secretary for State for Public Affairs, followed by
Q&A, moderated by Gillian Tett, Financial Times
Future casting: Will individuality win out over the mass age?
Chair: James Crabtree, Financial Times
Panel: Janet Goldsmith, Names Not Numbers New York; Chris Marchand, Jaguar Land Rover North America; Jacob Weisberg, Slate and Peter York, Editorial Intelligence
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