
What does The Future of Work hold? How will it impact your field and your work? What will you do to be a part of creating the future?
Join dynamic debates, fireside Chats, and keynotes with experts, thought leaders, and visionaries from leading organizations and institutions to explore the impact of paradigm shifts in education, technology, industry, and society on the future of work.
SOLD OUT
Wednesday, August 30th, 2017
8 am - 7 pm
326 Galvez St., Stanford, CA 94305
(Park at L-96 on Galvez and use event code 1600)
+ BONUS
Pre-Symposium Workshop:
Reinventing College Career Services
Tuesday, August 29th, 2017
12 pm - 5 pm
563 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CA 94305
(Park at Wilbur underground Parking)
Stanford Lodging Guide: visit.stanford.edu/plan/lodging.html
Carlos is an entrepreneur and Emmy-winning journalist based in Silicon Valley. He's the founder and CEO of Ozymandias (“OZY”), a breakthrough digital news and culture magazine that launched in September 2013. Custom built for the Change Generation, OZY helps its readers get caught up on the most important news, and vault ahead with 5-10 original profiles of new people, places, trends, ideas, and opinions each day. Carlos brings to OZY a textured background in both business and media. In the media world, Carlos anchored shows for CNN and MSNBC and hosted a series of Emmy-winning interview specials in 2007. As a businessman, Carlos built Achieve a College Prep Services into one of the nation's largest college prep companies before selling it to the Washington Post/Kaplan. He also worked as the Global Head of Education Investment Banking for Goldman Sachs and as a management consultant for
McKinsey & Company. Carlos grew up in Miami and holds an A.B. in Government from Harvard University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Professor of Practice in the Department of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford University
Dr. Tina Seelig is Professor of the Practice in the Department of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford University. She is also director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering. She teaches courses on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the dept of MS&E and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford. In 2014, Dr. Seelig was honored with the SVForum Visionary Award, and in 2009 she received the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, recognizing her as a national leader in engineering education. Dr. Seelig earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in 1985 where she studied Neuroscience. She has worked as a management consultant, as a multimedia producer, and was the founder of a multimedia company called BookBrowser. She has also written 17 books, including Insight Out (2015), inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity (2012), and What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 (2009), all published by HarperCollins.
Senior Vice Provost for Education
Vice President for the Arts
Freeman-ThorntonVice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University
As a scholar of social protest theater, performance and popular culture, and African American drama, Professor Harry Elam enjoys sharing his fascination with theater as a means of social change with students through his teaching, advising, and directing. He is the author and editor of seven books including, Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka, The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson, winner of the Errol Hill Award and Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Performance and Popular Culture. His articles have appeared in top journals around the world. Some of his many awards include: he Betty Jean Jones Outstanding Teaching Award from the American Theatre and Drama Society and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Theatre Research. He received his AB from Harvard College and his Ph.D. in Dramatic Arts from the University of California Berkeley.
Deborah is the Founder and Managing Partner of GSV Acceleration, a venture capital fund investing in great entrepreneurs and their companies in the $75B education and talent technology sector. The GSV Accelerlation portfolio of 26 companies includes Andela, Begin, CampusLogic, Clever, ClassDojo, Course Hero, Coursera, CreativeLive, Degreed, Educents, GuideOn, Handshake, HotChalk, Lightneer, MasterClass, MasteryConnect, Motimatic, Nearpod, NoRedInk, Pluralsight, Raise.me, Remind, TARA, Turnitin, Tynker, and Voxy. Deborah is also an active angel investor with over 21 holdings outside of the fund. In addition she is the co-founder of the ASU GSV Summit, an annual event, now in its 9th year, with over 3,500 in attendance, that celebrates innovations and innovators across the global “preK to Gray” learning and talent landscape.
Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) &
Professor of Political Science &
Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University
Margaret Levi is the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford, Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies, University of Washington. She became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 2002, a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015, and a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2017. She served as president of the American Political
Science Association from 2004 to 2005. In 2014 she received the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science.
She earned her BA from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and her PhD from Harvard University .
Jeff Maggioncalda joined Coursera as CEO in June 2017. He previously served for 18 years as the founding CEO at Financial Engines Inc, a company co-founded by economist and Nobel Prize winner William Sharpe. Financial Engines grew rapidly under Jeff's leadership, providing high-quality online investment advice that has helped millions of people save and prepare for retirement. Jeff has also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and Cornerstone Research, and continues to serve as a Director of Silicon Valley Bank, Inc. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor's degree in Economics and English from Stanford University. In his free time, Jeff is a lifelong learner and proud dad, and enjoys studying music theory and spending time with his wife and three daughters.
Joelle Emerson is the Founder and CEO of Paradigm, a diversity and inclusion strategy firm that partners with leading technology startups and Fortune 500 companies to build stronger, more inclusive organizations. Founded in 2014, Paradigm has partnered with companies like Airbnb, Lyft, Slack, The New York Times, and Visa to design and implement effective diversity and inclusion strategies. Paradigm’s approach is data-driven and evidence-based: by using data to identify barriers and designing solutions grounded in research, Paradigm helps its clients drive meaningful change. Before founding Paradigm Joelle was a women's rights lawyer, representing clients in gender discrimination litigation and advocating for local, state, and federal policies to ensure equal pay for women. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School.
Michael Moe is founder of GSV and GSV Asset Management. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, CEO, and Chief Investment Officer of GSV Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: GSVC) since the company’s inception in 2011.Michael conceived of GSV Capital as an opportunity for public investors to invest in late stage, high growth venture backed companies in five sectors: Education Technology, Social/Mobile, Cloud and Big Data, Marketplaces, and Sustainability. Driven by the fundamental structural change in the IPO market and in the characteristics of companies going public today, GSV Capital was the first publicly traded security enabling all investors to capture the dramatic growth and value creation taking place in the private marketplace. Additional noteworthy private investments by GSV Capital include Spotify, Snapchat, Coursera, Facebook, Course Hero, Enjoy, Palantir, Lyft, and Dropbox. Michael is regarded as one of the world’s preeminent authorities on growth investing and was the first analyst to write research on Starbucks.
Jeffrey Housenbold was the Chief Executive Officer and President of Shutterfly from 2005 to 2016. Prior to that, he served in various leadership capacities at eBay, including Vice President of Business Development & Internet Marketing, Vice President and General Manager of Business-to-Consumer Group, Vice President of Corporate & Business Development, and Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions at eBay Inc. Jeff also held leadership roles at AltaVista where he served as Vice President & General Manager of Products & Marketing and Vice President of Corporate & Business Development. Jeff served on the board of directors at various companies, including Chegg, Clover, Munchery, Groupon, TouchCommerce, Digital Chocolate, and Caesars Entertainment Corporation. Jeff holds two Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University, where he currently serves on the board of trustees, and an MBA from Harvard University.
Dr. Crystal Rose is the driving force behind OZY’s rocket-launch into the EDU world. Seeking to instill new guidelines to elevate news journalism, Dr. Crystal Rose works to make OZY a shining beacon in an era where academic discourse and current events should be two sides of the same coin. Since completing her M.D./PhD at University of Heidelberg and Harvard, she has worked with top universities globally. Before joining OZY, Dr. Rose was part of an educational coalition that worked with Yale, Harvard and Stanford graduate students in medicine, law, business and engineering to identify sustainable solutions (health services, clean water, etc.) for distressed regions of Brazil, South Africa and beyond. Now, as OZY’s Executive Director of Academic Affairs, she continues to collaborate with schools and universities — all in an effort to bring the real world into the classroom.
Dr. Farouk Dey is leading the expansion of career education at Stanford and implementing a new vision and a reinvented model of connections, communities, purpose learning, and meaningful work for college students and alumni. Dr. Dey has held executive leadership roles at Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Florida, the National Association for Colleges and Employers (NACE), and the American College Personnel Association (ACPA). His credentials include a PhD in Higher Education Administration, EdS in Higher Education Administration, MBA, MEd in Counseling Psychology, and BBA in Finance. Author of several publications, Dr. Dey has served as a consultant for many organizations and universities, faculty at several institutes, as well as a keynote speaker at many conferences in the US and around the world.
Katharine Boshkoff is an advocate for international employment and an expert in trends in the changing demand for global talent. At Hult International Business School she leads the global Career Development and Alumni Relations Organizations with the mission of advancing student and alumni employment outcomes. She is constantly in touch with global employers to better understand their talent needs and advises Hult students on how best to align their skills and education with market demand. As a member of Hult’s leadership team she brings the market voice to the curriculum and supports the school’s vision to provide all students with relevant and pragmatic business skills to empower them for Day 1 employment. During her 4-year tenure, MBA 3-month post-grad employment rates have increased from 81% to 90%.
Julia joined Coursera in 2012 as the company's first business hire and 12th employee. She previously managed the North America sales and global community management team for Google Apps for Education, helping extend that product’s reach to 70 of the top 100 U.S. universities and to over 18 million active students, faculty and staff. Julia started her career with Teach for America as a fourth grade teacher in East San Jose. She then went on to manage and lead professional development for new teachers as a Teach for America Program Director. Julia holds a BA from Pomona College, an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and an MA in Education from Stanford University.
Bill Burnett is an award-winning Silicon Valley designer and the Executive Director of the renowned Design Program at Stanford University. He directs the undergraduate and graduate program in design at Stanford, both interdepartmental programs between the Mechanical Engineering department and the Art department. A Stanford alum, he is the co-author of 'Designing Your Life', an empowering book that shows people of any age how to design a life in which they can thrive. Burnett worked on the design of the award-winning Apple PowerBooks and the original Hasbro Star Wars action figures. He holds a number of mechanical and design patents, including the first “slate” computer.
Swati is Founder and Managing Partner at Incite Ventures. She was previously a Partner on the venture capital team at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where she focused on consumer digital and hardware investments. Before KPCB, Swati built the international business and product marketing efforts at Square, a financial services company that levels the playing field for small business. She previously led client services and sales at Quid, a data analytics company. Swati also serves on the non-profit boards of B Lab, Bayes Impact, and the Boston Review. Swati graduated from Harvard with an AB in Development Studies, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and a Truman Scholar. She also holds an MPhil in Economic History from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
Adjunct Lecturer, Product Design Program at Stanford, Management Consultant, and co-founder of Electronic Arts, Stanford University
Academician and Co-author of 'Design Your Life', Dave holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford and a graduate diploma in Contemplative Spirituality from San Francisco Theological Seminary. Having participated in forming the corporate cultures at Apple and EA, Dave decided his best work was in helping organizations build creative environments where people could do great work and love doing it. Dave has been passionate about start-up teams, corporate executives, non-profit leaders, and countless young adults who share the same question: “What should I do with my life?” Helping people get traction on that question finally took Dave to Cal and Stanford and continues to be his life’s work.
Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, an early-stage venture capital firm backed by Bloomberg L.P. that invests in the future of work, with a focus on machine intelligence. He co-chaired, with New America’s Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Shift Commission on Work, Workers, and Technology, a national effort to understand the 10-20 year future of work in America.
Roy’s a lecturer at UC Berkeley, was the founding chairman of OUYA, a Kickstarter-backed game console, and president of IGN Entertainment. He is a board member at the Center for Investigative Reporting and educational non-profit CodeNow. He was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, and has served in government and led a non-profit in addition to his work at established corporations and day zero startups. He graduated from Harvard College, and was a Rhodes Scholar.
Caroline Fairchild is a senior editor on the global editorial team at LinkedIn. She is also the host of Work In Progress, LinkedIn's podcast on the future of work. She reports on the prominent voices, trends and issues facing the technology industry. Fairchild also works with leaders across tech, venture capital and startups who regularly publish and share insights on LinkedIn. Previously she was a business reporter at Fortune magazine, where she founded the Broadsheet, a popular daily newsletter on women in business. Over the span of her career, Fairchild has interviewed some of the world's most successful business leaders, including Melinda Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Bill Gurley and Warren Buffett.
Jason Weingarten is the co-founder and CEO of Yello, which helps companies humanize the candidate experience by providing unprecedented speed and transparency throughout the candidate journey. As one of Chicago’s fastest-growing tech companies, Yello helps organizations go from “hello” to “hire” on a single platform developed to meet, engage, capture and nurture the right job candidates. Under Jason’s helm, Yello’s enterprise-level client partners, including more than 70 Fortune 500 companies and dozens
more high-growth organizations, rely on Yello to power their recruitment programs. Jason’s serial entrepreneurship and business savvy have been noticed by other investors, as well. The company’s funding rounds have exceeded $46M, led by JMI Equity, First Analysis and Argentum. Jason holds a B.S. degree in Marketing from Miami University.
Dereca is an educator, facilitator and spiritual activist with over 25 years experience supporting communities in radical healing and strategic development. She has worked with a wide variety of corporate, government, nonprofit and community-based groups to facilitate “uncommon conversations” on issues of race, gender, class and social justice.
Dereca is also a Stanford alum with a distinguished history of leadership and service in local and national organizing efforts on subjects as diverse as ethnic studies and police accountability, including serving as a lead architect in the movement for justice in the murder of Oscar Grant, III in Oakland, California. She is co-instructor for Psych 103 Intergroup Communication, an experiential course that examines and explores group identity. Additionally, Dereca is co-founder of Aya Unlimited, LLC, a social-justice consulting firm that specializes in research on the intersection of race, gender and class.
An outspoken thought leader on the future of work, Jody has been featured in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Business Insider, The Economist, The Financial Times, CNN, Stanford University, Fox Business and Bloomberg. Clay Christensen in the Harvard Business Review cited BTG as a “disrupter” of the traditional consulting model and Fast Company referred to Miller as a “workplace innovator.” Miller has a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.Miller also served as a special assistant in the Clinton White House. Earlier, she helped launch a documentary TV division for Time-Life Television.
Founding CEO of Beats Rhymes and Life, Inc., Founder of Hip Hop Therapy Global Institute, SEERS Fellow & Adj. Lecturer for Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University + Ashoka Fellow
Tomás is a leading social entrepreneur known for trailblazing work using Hip Hop Therapy to promote mental health and wellbeing among youth of color, for which he was named a CNN Hero, Ashoka Fellow, + NBC Top 20 Latino Innovator. Tomás is a clinically trained social worker specializing in asset-based, bottom up approaches that enable young people to direct their own care while developing the skills to become change makers in their community and beyond. He founded and served as the CEO of Beats Rhymes and Life, Inc. (BRL) where his vision and leadership helped to establish the organization as a prominent player. In 2015, he launched the Hip Hop Therapy Global Institute (HHTGI) and focus his efforts on field-building projects that give rise to collective impact. In 2016, he joined the Children’s Wellbeing Initiative, a joint project between Ashoka and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; cultivating a culture of wellbeing for all children in the U.S. Tomás also serves as a private and non-profit sector consultant for projects focused on employee wellbeing, diversity, inclusion, and equity.
Dr. Kristen Swanson is the Director of Learning at Slack. Her programs at Slack support both employees and customers, and she is passionate about transforming how people work every day. A lifelong educator, Kristen also founded Edcamp, a non-profit organization that brings organic professional development to teachers across the globe. In 2015, Edcamp was named one of the 10 most innovative companies in education by Fast Company.
Kristen has also published 3 books on learning design, and her work has been featured at TEDxPhiladelphiaED, Educon, PBS Newshour, and more. In 2015, Kristen was named one of "18 Women All Educators Should Know" by Education Week.
Derek graduated from Yale in 2017 majoring in computer science and statistics with distinction. In 2016, Derek was featured by Business Insider in their list of 13 of the most impressive students at Yale. While finishing his senior year of college he created an education app called Py that teaches people how to code. Py was accepted into Y Combinator and was recently featured on the App Store and TechCrunch. It has over 100,000 learners.
Founder, The Neurodiversity Project. Writer at UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, Susan Cain's Quiet, Fast Company
Jenara Nerenberg is a journalist, entrepreneur, and author of the forthcoming book, Divergent Mind. She joined the tech and business magazine, Fast Company, after graduating from the Harvard School of Public Health and continues to publish there, the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, Susan Cain's Quiet Revolution, the Garrison Institute, and elsewhere. Jenara is the founder of The Neurodiversity Project, an advocacy and consulting service for workplaces, schools, and families. She splits her time between the SF Bay Area and Asia and publishes widely on neurodiversity, innovation, and psychology.
Trent is the CEO and Co-Founder of MindSumo. In this capacity, he has connected students and recent grads to over 1,000 remote projects for the world's largest businesses, including Walmart, Pfizer, Pepsico, GM, American Express, and Unilever. A graduate of Stanford in Product Design, Trent has previously worked on the strategic design team at Ford and on mobile applications at Virgin America. He enjoys racket sports, cooking, and mentoring early entrepreneurs through the StartX accelerator program.
Kathryn Gillam joined the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute in December 2013. As Executive Director she works closely with the Founding Director, other Stanford faculty and external advisors to develop the vision and mission of the program and to execute the results of strategic planning efforts. She manages and directs the program’s activities and supervises the staff, and she coordinates fund-raising and grant writing activities.
Before coming to the DCI, Kathy served as Director of the University Conflict of Interest Program and Associate Director of Population Health Sciences. Prior to that she served for 10 years as Senior Advisor to the Dean of the School of Medicine, and from 1990-2002 she was Senior Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Foundation Relations. Kathy began her Stanford career as Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs in the School of Humanities and Sciences after having served on the faculty at the University of Redlands. She holds a BS degree from Allegheny College, a PhD from the University of South Florida, and an MLA from Stanford University.
Scott Carlson, author of 'Future of Work', writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He writes about a range of issues: college management and finance, the cost and value of higher education, buildings, campus planning, energy, architecture, and sustainability. He also contributes to ideas coverage in The Chronicle Review. He has been a speaker at conferences and colleges across the US and in Canada, talking about libraries, architecture, and sustainability. In 2006, Carlson was awarded first prize for beat reporting from the National Education Writers Association for his work covering academic libraries.He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where he studied English literature, with a concentration on contemporary literature and utopian/dystopian literature.
Handshake was started in 2014 by Garrett Lord, Scott Ringwelski and Ben Christensen - three students from Michigan Tech, an engineering school in the far reaches of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Garrett was particularly frustrated about the difficulty Michigan Tech engineering students faced in getting in the door at top tech companies. So after hustling nonstop to get a Silicon Valley internship of his own, he took matters into his own hands and started brokering intros for his classmates to Bay Area companies. He earned $60k in referral bonuses in less than a year, and paid his way through college.
Encouraged by the impact one person could make at one campus, he formed Handshake to transform university recruiting for the 20 million higher education students across the country and ensure that every student would have the same access to every job, no matter where they go to school.
Frida Polli is an award-winning Harvard + MIT neuroscientist turned CEO, and a thought leader on neuroscience, big data, and women in entrepreneurship. She is the CEO and co-founder of pymetrics, a predictive analytics company using neuroscience and AI to predict talent success without bias. pymetrics has the world’s largest dataset linking cognitive and emotional traits to careers, which is used to source, select, and develop talent while removing any gender, ethnic, or pedigree-based biases. Frida was a predoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, and a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. She was also a Life Science Fellow at Harvard Business School, where she received her MBA. She has been featured on CNN, CNBC, and the Wall Street Journal, among other outlets, and she regularly contributes to Forbes.
Dr. Lucas Puente is the in-house economist at Thumbtack, an online marketplace that helps over 250,000 local service professionals find new customers. At Thumbtack, he studies the company's marketplace dynamics and the policy challenges facing small businesses. Passionate about using data to better understand the American economy, Lucas’ previous research topics include decision making at the Federal Reserve and the role of technology in the contemporary labor market. He has a master's degree and Ph.D. from Stanford University and is a graduate of the University of Georgia.
Jeffrey Moss is the Founder and CEO of Parker Dewey LLC, a company focused on addressing the challenges associated with college-to-career transitions through micro-internships.
Prior to founding Parker Dewey, Jeffrey spent much of his career as a venture capital investor with Summit Partners, Sterling Partners, and Susquehanna Growth Equity, supporting technology-enabled organizations in the education, business services, and software sectors. Some of his investments include Connections Education (acquired by Pearson), Fleetcor (NYSE: FLT), Ashworth College, ProClairty (acquired by Microsoft), and Progressus Therapy (acquired by Invo HealthCare). In addition, Jeffrey served in senior operating roles with Educational Testing Service (ETS) and Specialized Education Services (acquired by Catapult Learning).
Roberto drives AfterCollege's vision of helping college grads discover their career path. He works with the management team and the company’s board to ensure that everyone executes that vision. Roberto is also the CEO of Recruitology, a leading recruitment platform helping small and medium employers connect with the right candidates at the right time.He co-founded AfterCollege while at Stanford University, where he majored in Economics. AfterCollege has grown into one of the largest career networks for college students and college grads. He collaborated with President Obama’s Administration on various initiatives, including the launch of Summer Jobs+, which created summer opportunities for youth ages 16-24. He also co-founded US2020.org, an initiative to engage STEM professionals as mentors to students in kindergarten through graduate school. Roberto is an authority in entry-level recruiting, and is currently writing a book on the topic in the “For Dummies” series.
Vikrum Aiyer is the head of Public Policy and Strategic Communications for Silicon Valley based on-demand technology platform, Postmates. Previously, he was as a senior official in the Obama Administration serving as both the Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of Commerce and as President Barack Obama’s Senior Advisor for innovation and manufacturing policy in The White House National Economic Council.
As Postmates creates new opportunities for brick & mortar businesses to distribute their products in the era of e-commerce, connects citizens with the cities around them, and offers workers the chance to flexibly supplement their income in over 200 U.S. cities--Aiyer helps lead the legislative, regulatory, and policy discussions at the federal, state, and municipal levels which are shaping the Future of Work and on the On-Demand industry. In the Obama Administration, Aiyer served as the principal political and policy advisor to the U.S. undersecretary of commerce for IP, where he coordinated a $3.2B budget, in support of the bureau’s 13,000 employees, to execute the daily operations, policies priorities, and global communications of the president’s intellectual property agenda.
Donna Wells is an accomplished Fortune 500 executive and a successful serial entrepreneur. She is a recognized thought-leader on Diversity in Tech and the Future of Work and translates that passion into action through her work, Board service and writing (The Learning Curve column for Inc.com). From 2000 to 2017, Ms. Wells was CEO of Mindflash Technologies, Inc., a market-leading cloud-based platform for corporate, customer and channel training. Prior to joining Mindflash in 2010, Ms. Wells had a 25-year career in the financial services and software industries. She began her career at global brands including American Express, Charles Schwab, Intuit and Expedia before tackling leadership roles with some of the best-known disruptors in those same industries, including MyCFO Wealth Management (sold to Harris Bank) and Mint.com (sold to Intuit) where she was CMO and employee #9.
Brian leads the product team at TaskRabbit. The company's technical co-founder, Brian built and launched the TaskRabbit platform. He codes less these days, spending more time with designers, data scientists, and product managers. Every day, they try to learn more about connecting people to get things done out there in the real world. Together, they turn those learnings into better experiences for Clients and Taskers.
Guy Berger is LinkedIn’s Economist. In this capacity, he directs research within the Economic Graph program. His team's core publication is the monthly LinkedIn Workforce Report. His research interests include skills gaps, unemployment and inactivity, regional economies, productivity growth, and the impact of technology on the global workforce. Before joining LinkedIn, he was a macroeconomist at Bank of America and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Guy completed his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. He completed his Ph.D. at Yale, where his dissertation focused on international and development economics.
Addie Swartz has spent her career building mission-driven companies to empower women. In 2013, she launched reacHIRE to build a systematic pathway for exceptional women to get back into the workforce. Partnering with innovative companies, reacHIRE designs custom programs that help recruit, develop and retain a gender diverse workplace, thereby helping businesses tap into a new talent pool -- the 1.6 million women who after a career break are ready to re-enter the workforce. Prior to reacHIRE, Addie founded two companies designed to empower women and girls. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Crain's Business, Inc., Boston Globe, NPR, Bloomberg, MSNBC, among many other outlets. Addie holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Eric Feng rejoined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2015 and focuses on consumer Internet investments and incubations. Eric was previously with the firm in 2010, where he worked across the sustainability and digital practices and was Chief of Staff to Vice President Al Gore. Prior to KPCB, Eric was the chief technology officer at KPCB portfolio company Flipboard, a personal magazine application for mobile devices with more than 100MM users worldwide that has raised more than $200MM in funding. Before joining KPCB, Eric was the founding CTO and head of product at Hulu, a joint venture of NBC Universal, News Corp. and The Walt Disney Company. Earlier in his career, Eric’s experiences include leadership roles at Microsoft Research and founding two startups which were both acquired.
Anant Agarwal is the CEO of edX, an online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT. Anant taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He has served as the director of CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab, and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He is a successful serial entrepreneur, having co-founded several companies including Tilera Corporation, which created the Tile multicore processor, and Virtual Machine Works.
Anant won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture, and MIT's Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. He is also the 2016 recipient of the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize for Higher Education, which recognized his work in advancing the MOOC movement. Additionally, he is the recipient of the Padma Shri award, the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India. He holds a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array, and is an author of the textbook "Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits."
Scientific American selected his work on organic computing as one of 10 World- Changing Ideas in 2011, and he was named in Forbes' list of top 15 education innovators in 2012. Anant holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's from IIT Madras.
Track 1: Confidence to Compete
(McCaw Hall)
Moderator:
Py: Derek Lo
Speakers:
Donna Wells, Board Director + Entrepreneur
Eric Feng, Partner, KPCB
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Track 2: Skills of the Future: Finding Top Talent
(Barnes Hall)
Moderator:
Farouk Dey; Associate Vice Provost and Dean of Career Education, Stanford University
Speaker:
Jason Weingarten, CEO of Yello
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Track 3: Going Global
(Lane Hall)
Speakers:
Katharine Boshkoff, VP, Hult Business School
Lucas Puente, Economist, Thumbtack
Diversity in the Matrix –
Signature Panel:
Click below to submit questions for the panel speakers: ***DELVING INTO DIVERSITY - AUDIENCE ASKS QUESTIONS*****
Moderator:
Crystal Rose, Executive Director, OZY EDU
Speakers:
Tomás Alvarez, Ashoka Fellow, Social Entrepreneur
Dereca Blackmon, Associate Dean and Director, Diversity & First Generation Office Stanford University
Addie Swartz, CEO of reacHire
Kathryn Gillam, Executive Director, Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute
Jenara Nerenberg, Journalist + Activist + Lecturer
Track 1: Connecting People
(Lane Hall)
Moderator:
Scott Carlson, Chronicle of Higher Education
Speakers:
Trent Hazy, co-founder, MindSumo
Garrett Lord, co-founder, Handshake
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Track 2: Connecting Resources
(McCaw Hall)
Speakers:
Frida Polli, co-founder and CEO, Pymetrics
Swati Mylavarapu, startup investor
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Track 3: Connecting Data
(Barnes Hall)
Presenter:
Jeffrey Moss, CEO of Parker Dewey
8/29/17
Pre-Symposium Workshop: Reinventing College Career Services
Contact StanfordBEAM@stanford.edu to arrange for a parking permit
Park at the Wilbur underground parking structure on Campus Dr.
Proceed to 563 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CA 94305
1. The Future of College Career Services
2. Experiential Branding for Gen Z in Career Services
3. Project 2020: Engaging Students in Career Education since Day One
4. Daring Greatly: Cultivating Courageous Career Educators
What's next in college career services and how to prepare higher education for a rapidly changing world of work?
How Stanford's BEAM transformed its brand using experiential branding for Gen Z.
How a cohort program the class of 2020 on the path to meaningful work since day1
How Stanford career educators choose courage over comfort to maintain a culture of innovation and transformation, based on the work of author Brené Brown.
1. Transformative Connections: Building Engaged Career Communities
2. Why I'm So Fli: Empowering First Gen and Low Income Students through Story Telling
3. Coaching, Curriculum, and Collaboration: Approaches to the Humanities and Sciences
4. PhD Pathways to Meaningful Work
How community development and authentic connections spontaneously created meaningful moments that transform students' career trajectories.
Innovative approaches to helping first generation and low income students use story-telling to connect with community & meaningful work.
Insights from experiments of scaling programs and collaborating with alumni to improve career engagement among students in the humanities and sciences.
How Stanford career educators have paved meaningful pathways for PhDs and Postdocs to make connections and find career success.
1. Career Education Courses and Curriculum of the Future
2. Mentoring Matters: Cultivating Student-Alumni Career Connections
3. Creative Approaches to Employer Engagement
4. Fireside Chat with Farouk Dey, Stanford's AVP & Dean of Career Education
How Stanford enrollment in career courses increased X4 in 3 years using design thinking, alumni engagement, and meaningful communities.
How Stanford BEAM's targeted alumni engagement taps its strong alumni network for mentoring and career education.
How customized connections and community engagement drive innovations in employer engagement at Stanford.
Get to know the story of transformation of Stanford Career Education. Chat about the challenges, speed pumps, and successes of a rapidly growing organization.
1. Career Education Courses and Curriculum of the Future
2. Mentoring Matters: Cultivating Student-Alumni Career Connections
3. Creative Approaches to Employer Engagement
4. Fireside Chat with Farouk Dey, Stanford's AVP & Dean of Career Education
How Stanford enrollment in career courses increased X4 in 3 years using design thinking, alumni engagement, and meaningful communities.
How Stanford BEAM's targeted alumni engagement taps its strong alumni network for mentoring and career education.
How customized connections and community engagement drive innovations in employer engagement at Stanford.
Get to know the story of transformation of Stanford Career Education. Chat about the challenges, speed pumps, and successes of a rapidly growing organization.
1. Transformative Connections: Building Engaged Career Communities
2. Why I'm So Fli: Empowering First Gen and Low Income Students through Story Telling
3. Coaching, Curriculum, and Collaboration: Approaches to the Humanities and Sciences
4. PhD Pathways to Meaningful Work
How community development and authentic connections spontaneously created meaningful moments that transform students' career trajectories.
Innovative approaches to helping first generation and low income students use story-telling to connect with community & meaningful work.
Insights from experiments of scaling programs and collaborating with alumni to improve career engagement among students in the humanities and sciences.
How Stanford career educators have paved meaningful pathways for PhDs and Postdocs to make connections and find career success.
1. The Future of College Career Services
2. Experiential Branding for Gen Z in Career Services
3. Project 2020: Engaging Students in Career Education since Day One
4. Daring Greatly: Cultivating Courageous Career Educators
What's next in college career services and how to prepare higher education for a rapidly changing world of work?
How Stanford's BEAM transformed its brand using experiential branding for Gen Z.
How a cohort program the class of 2020 on the path to meaningful work since day1
How Stanford career educators choose courage over comfort to maintain a culture of innovation and transformation, based on the work of author Brené Brown.
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