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Panels and Keynotes

Women in Entrepreneurship: Investment and Opportunity” – with Deborah Jackson, ’80BUS, and Hayley Barna, Co-Founder of Birchbox

Facts, Alternative Facts, and Innovations in the Media in Response to the Post-Truth Era”- with Jacob Weisberg, Chairman of Slate Group

Climate Change: Fact, Fiction, Innovations and Solutions” – With Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia’s Earth Institute

Fostering Innovation in the NYC Life Science Ecosystem” – Columbia Professor Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic National Academies of Engineering, Medicine & Inventors

Columbia Founders Fare” – With more than 20 Columbia-founded food startups feeding our attendees.

Closing Keynote – will.i.am,  founder of i.am.angel Foundation, ill.i Optics, consumer electronics brands “dial” and” button” and he is a founding member of the music group, Black Eyed Peas

For more details on all our speakers and panels, download the full press kit here.