Columbia Entrepreneurship

Work Awesome - A Day on the Future of Work
2016-06-23 07:45 - 18:30 UTC | Knotel, 1 State Street 25th floor, New York, NY, United States
Work Awesome is on June 23rd at 1 State Street, 25th fl, NYC
It’s one big day on the future of work. We begin at 7:45 am.
The after party starts at 6:00 pm.
Register Today!

WORK AWESOME is here to connect you with the most inspiring people and thought-provoking insights into what work will be like tomorrow. Join us on June 23, 2016 at Knotel @ The Battery, 1 State Street (25th fl), New York City.
SOME OF OUR TOPICS
– Artificial Intelligence. If smart machines learn to execute more and more cognitive tasks – does that steer us towards a post-work-society?
– Gig Economy. If the gig economy grows further, will that eventually replace the 9-to-5 model?
– The new new workplace. Needs and cultures at work are changing radically. What about chairs, tables, rooms and buildings?
– Teamwork and Leadership. Why are so many companies changing their way of working together? And what are the learnings of self-organizing, hierarchy-abandoning firms?
SPEAKERS

Geetu Ambwani, Principal Data Scientist, Huffington Post
Sara Armbruster, VP Strategy, Research & New Business Innovation, Steelcase
Antoine Blondeau, CEO & Co-founder, Sentient Technologies Holdings Limited
Milena Berry, CEO/Co-Founder, PowerToFly
Corey Booker, United States Senator, New Jersey (invited)
Alex Chung, CEO, Giphy
Zofia Ciechowska, Strategy & Operations, Spotify
Scott Cohen, Co-founder, New Lab
Joshua Cooper Ramo, “The Seventh Sense”
Jen Dennard, Culture & Diversity, Medium
Charlene Johnson-Hadley, Executive Chef, American Table
Scott Lamb, VP International, BuzzFeed
Marlon Litz-Rosenzweig, Co-founder, Mylittlejob
Will Prince, Architect, PARC Office
David Mandell, CEO, PivotDesk
Dennis R. Mortensen, CEO, x.ai
Kevin Slavin, Professor, MIT Media Lab
Leah Reich, User Researcher, Slack
Nina Temple, Global Staffing Lead, Google
Jeff Wald, Co-founder, Work Market
Albert Wenger, Partner, Union Square Ventures
Lizzie Widdicombe, Writer, The New Yorker
Chris Wiggins, Chief Data Scientist, The New York Times
Luke Winston, Head of Customer Development & Services, Formlabs
and take an inspiring trip into the future – to learn and benefit of what’s next.

ATTENDEES
Expect 150+ founders and leaders from startups to Fortune 500 companies, including Allianz, BMW, Buzzfeed, City of New York, GE, German Press Agency dpa, Google NYC, Kisi, MIT, Roland Berger, Steelcase, The New York Times, Thrillist, United Nations, Yahoo!
