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<A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.workawesome.org" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></A>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?
- HR and recruiting  The Ever More Difficult War for Talent – New tools and strategies for HR and recruiting
 
CHECK OUT THE SCHEDULE
7:45 // Awesome Breakfast
8:15 // Wake Up Awesome - Meditate!
Dina Kaplan, Founder, The Path
8:40 // Crunching The Numbers: 10 minutes on what jobs will be left in 10 years
Moshe Y. Vardi, Professor of Computer Science, Rice University
9:00 // New York, Rio, Tokyo – How BuzzFeed, Spotify and Medium are rethinking teams
Jen Dennard, Culture &amp; Diversity, Medium Zofia Ciechowska, Strategy &amp; Operations, Spotify Alexis Gonzales-Black, Principal Designer, IDEO Scott Lamb, VP International, BuzzFeed Moderator: Athena Diaconis, Co-founder, The Median
9:50 // Light at the End of the Channel – How successful companies organize communication and knowledge
Leah Reich, Senior User Researcher, Slack Moderator: Lizzie Widdicombe, Journalist, The New Yorker
10:20 // The New New Workplace – Needs and cultures at work are changing radically. What about chairs, tables, rooms and buildings?
Sara Armbruster, VP, Strategy, Research &amp; New Business Innovation, Steelcase Scott Cohen, Co-founder, New Lab David Mandell, CEO, PivotDesk Will Prince, Architect, PARC Office
11:10 // The Future of Work is Fun – 10 organizational learnings from building Giphy
Alex Chung, CEO, Giphy
11:35 // Coffee Break
11:55 // How to Build High Impact Teams for 10x Solutions
Katy Kasmai, Team Exponent, Google
12:30 pm // Awesome Lunch
1:00 pm // Lunch Talk: Mise-En-Place!
Charlene Johnson-Hadley, Executive Chef, Samuelsson's American Table Café and Bar Dan Charnas, Journalist, “Work Clean - The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind” Moderator: Sam Sifton, Food Editor, The New York Times
1:30 pm // Startupping Politics
Cory Booker, United States Senator, New Jersey (Invited)
2:00 pm // Say Hi to Your New Colleague! – How smart machines, A.I. and deep learning are transforming the way we work
Geetu Ambwani, Principal Data Scientist, Huffington Post Antoine Blondeau, CEO &amp; Co-founder, Sentient.ai Dennis R. Mortensen, CEO, x.ai Chris Wiggins, Chief Data Scientist, The New York Times
2:50 pm // The Era of Speed - How do we keep up with the robots?
Joshua Cooper Ramo, "The Seventh Sense"
3:15 pm // Coffee Break
3:30 pm // 3DMe – How digital printing and manufacturing will be changing everything we make (again)
Luke Winston, Head of Customer Development &amp; Services, Formlabs
3:50 pm // The Ever More Difficult War for Talent – New tools and strategies for HR and recruiting
Nina Temple, Global Staffing Lead, Google Milena Berry, CEO/Co-Founder, PowerToFly Marlon Litz-Rosenzweig, Co-Founder, Talerio/Mylittlejob Michael Solomon, Co-Founder, 10x Management Moderator: Adrian Granzella Larssen, Editor-in-Chief, The Muse
4:40 pm // Out Of Office - How to (not) work in the age of 24/7 information overload
Fred Stutzman, CEO, Freedom Alexander Steinhart, CEO Offtime Moderator: Lars Gaede, Journalist
5:05 pm // Gigomania – Why temporary work is here to stay. How do we make the best out of it. And what comes next?
Jeff Wald, Co-founder, Work Market John Vars, CPO, Taskrabbit Devin Fidler, Director, Institute for the Future; Co-founder, Rethinkery Labs Steven Hill, “Raw Deal: How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers” Moderator: Neil Irwin, Senior Economics Correspondent, The New York Times
5:50 pm // What is Work? And can we do without it?
Albert Wenger, Partner, Union Square Ventures Moderator: Diane Brady, Journalist
6:20 pm // Work Awesome Afterparty 
 
THE AUDIENCE
Expect 150+ founders and leaders from startups to Fortune 500 companies, including Allianz, Bertelsmann, BMW, City of New York, Droga5, Estee Lauder, GE, Google NYC, Kisi, MIT, R/GA, Roland Berger, Steelcase, The New School, United Nations, Yahoo! and more. Media involved include NYT, BuzzFeed, FastCo, The Muse, Medium, NPR.

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