PROGRAMME

MONDAY 20th JUNE - MORNING

09.00 - 09.30

Arrivals; Coffee

09.30 - 09.45

Welcome; scene-setting; VT support messages

09.45 - 10.15

Individual in a Mass Age:
Ken Auletta, The New Yorker interviewed by Gillian Tett, Financial Times

10.15 - 11.25

Groupthink:
CREATIVITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Sponsored by the British Council
Where does creativity thrive? What troubles the creative individual? How truthful is creativity in this ‘reality’ era in TV, documentary and the movies?
Chair: Caroline Daniel, Financial Times
Panel to include: Clemency Burton-Hill, BBC; Caryn Mandabach, Caryn Manadabach Productions; Jordan Roth, Jujamcyn Theaters; Mary Schmidt Campbell, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

11.25 - 11.35

Quick Coffee and Mobile Media break

11.35 - 12.45

Groupthink:
CELEBRITY - THE ULTIMATE INDIVIDUAL?
Is the modern era best defined by celebrity and is the
expression of individuality possible without it?
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.

12.45 - 14.15

Lunch
Kindly hosted by Edelman
 

MONDAY 20th JUNE - AFTERNOON

14.15 - 14.30

Welcome Back

14.30 - 15.30

Individual in a Mass Age 2:
Neil Gaiman, bestselling author and writer - “The lone individual writing for many masses”, in conversation with John Hodgman, Famous minor TV personality

15.30 - 16.00

Bright Ideas1:
Chair: Julia Hobsbawm, Editorial Intelligence
1 Nina Planck, Real Foodist
“Food for pleasure and life”
2 Victoria Floethe & Kate Rose
“Women’s desire”
3 Jon Kamen, Radical Media
"What comes around goes around"

16.00 - 16.15

Refreshment Break

16.15 - 17.45

Groupthink3:
MODERN JOURNALISM: CREATIVE CURIOSITY 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
 

18.00 – 20.00

End of Day Wrap followed by drinks
Kindly hosted by Gawker Media

TUESDAY 21st JUNE - MORNING

09.00 - 09.45

Bright Ideas 2
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 Studies
“Technocratic versus Sociocentric Innovation in India (1327-present)”
3.Chrysi Philalithes, (RED)
"(RED) in 140 characters’"

09.45 - 10.15

Individual in a Mass Age 3:
Seth Godin, Bestseller, instigator, blogger
“What Happens After the Industrial Revolution is Over?”

10.15 - 11.30

Groupthink3:
CREATIVITY IN BUSINESS
Chair: John Gapper, Financial Times
Panel: Matthew Bishop, The Economist; Rob Kaufelt, Murray’s Cheese, Gayle Lemmon, Council on Foreign Relations and author 'The Dressmaker of Khair Khana'; Lucy P.Marcus, Marcus Venture Consulting; Katherine Oliver and Commissioner, Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment.

11.30 - 11.45

Refreshment Break/mobile media break

11.45 - 12.30

Individual in a Mass Age 4:
Steve Bratt, World Wide Web Foundation; "power and the internet" followed by a Q & A, moderated by Derek Wyatt, Oxford Internet Institute and Internet Policy Institute

12.30 - 12.50

Abigail Disney - "Women, War & Peace"

12.30 - 14.00

Brown Bag lunch/ Break
 

TUESDAY 21st JUNE - AFTERNOON

All day kindly hosted by JWT

14.00 - 14.45

Bright Ideas 3:
Chair: Michael Vachon, Soros Fund Management LLC
1. Anna Pinedo, Morrison Foerster
“Is creative finance destructive?”
2. William Cohan Best selling Author and Journalist
"What we know about individual responsibility in upper echelons of finance"

14.45 - 15.15

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

15.15 - 15.30

Refreshment Break

15.30 - 16.00

Individual in a Mass Age 5:
PJ Crowley, former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
‘the individual’s moral duty in politics’ followed by a Q&A moderated by Gillian Tett

16.00 - 17.15

Closing Session:
FUTURECASTING: WILL INDIVIDUALITY WIN OUT
OVER THE MASS AGE?
Chair: James Crabtree, Financial Times
Panel to include: Janet Goldsmith, Names Not Numbers New York; Chris Marchand, Executive Vice President, Operations, Jaguar Land Rover North America; Jacob Weisberg, Slate Group and Peter York, social commentator.

17.15 - 18.15

Transit to Drinks

18.15 - 20.00

Cocktails hosted by BBC.com with opening remarks by Herb Scannell, President, BBC Worldwide America

19.00 - 19.45

Mrs Moneypenny, Financial Times does her ‘One Woman Show’ + Q&A