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Harvest Summit

November 4, 2016 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

A Unique Innovation  Field Trip

Private Estate in Sonoma County California

 

Harvest Summit Experience

Dirt under your feet. Fresh air leads to fresh perspective.

Face-to-face connections. Unexpected Pairings. Unscripted conversations.

Experience the cross-pollination of influential people and breakthrough thinking to solve vexing problems.

Say goodbye to the stuffy ballroom, monologues, PPT presentations, passive learning and rubber chicken lunches.

Say HELLO to an incredible modern estate, engaging dialogues, interactive collaborations and immediate business impact enhanced by a world class culinary and entertainment experience.

More information

harvestsummit.com


(707) 243-3123

Agenda:

7:15 am
Early Morning Meditation
Begin centered with a guided meditation.

Juliet
Kaska
Fitness and Wellness Expert
7:45 am
Breakfast & Registration
Eat local. Breakfast provided in partnership with Back to the Roots, Taylor Maid Farms Coffee, and Alvarado Street Bakery.
8:30 am
Big Barn Kickoff
8:30 am
Setting the Stage
Jessica Kilcullen, Founder, Harvest Summit
8:40 am
Moon Shots
The architecture of incremental and exponential thinking, tinkering and teamwork to create something that’s never existed in the world before.

Marcus
Shingles
CEO, XPRIZE Foundation

Kathleen D
Kennedy
President, MIT Enterprise Forum

Hans-Peter
Brondmo
GM of Robotics, X (formerly Google[x])
9:05 am
Hacking Cancer
Innovation engineered to save lives. Fighting cancer requires real collaboration, ambitious research fueled in part by big data and an interdisciplinary approach.

Jeffrey
Bluestone
CEO and President, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

Suzanne
DiBianca
Executive Vice President, Corporate Relations and Chief Philanthropy Officer, Salesforce
9:25 am

Innovating the Restaurant Experience

Chef Kyle Connaughton
Co-Founder, Pilot R+D; Chef/Owner, Single Thread Farm-Restaurant-Inn
9:35 am
Networking Break
Think. Talk. Taste.
10:00 am
Discussion Sessions
Choose the discussion you most want to participate in, or wander through a couple, no signup necessary.

Innovate

The process and framework to create your innovation action plan.

Bill
O’Connor
Innovation Strategist, Autodesk

Michael
Perman
Imaginative Innovation Leader, C’EST WHAT?

Val
Wright
Leadership and Innovation Expert; President, Val Wright Consulting and author of Thoughtfully Ruthless

Give

Explore how social impact is becoming core to missions everywhere.

Daniel
Meyer
COO, The Global Good Fund

Jake Kloberdanz
CEO and Founder, ONEHOPE

Analyze

Discover how data can fuel innovative insight.

Cathy
Huyghe
Co-Founder, Enolytics

Kamakshi Sivaramak-rishnan
CEO and Founder, Drawbridge

Megan
Mokri
CEO and Founder, Byte

Connect

IoT business strategies. The proliferation of connected devices opens a rich supply of transformative data and insight.

Trevor
Curwin
Editor-In-Chief, ReadWrite

David
Parker
Executive Partner, Internet of Things, Global Business Services, IBM

Scott
Zoldi
Chief Analytics Officer, FICO

Hadi
Nahari
Author; Founder and CEO, Cognomotiv

Jill
Dyche
SAS

Policy Hack-a-thon

Immigration Reform. Agriculture and technology workforce considerations.

Mike
McGuire
Senator, California, Second District

Steve
Dutton
President and Proprietor, Dutton Ranch, Dutton-Goldfield

Karissa
Kruse
President, Sonoma County Wine Grape Growers

Growth

Industry leaders discuss how they think about—and deliver—transformative vs. incremental growth.

Rob
McMillan
EVP and Founder, Silicon Valley Bank Wine Division

Ken
Courtright
Founder and CEO, Income Store

Annie
Kadavy
Partner, Charles River Ventures

Eat

The future of food.

Dustin
Valette
Chef/Proprietor, Valette

Nikhil Arora
and
Alejandro Velez
Founders, Back to the Roots
11:15 am
Networking Switch Break
Think. Talk. Taste.
11:45 am
Discussion Sessions
Choose the discussion you most want to participate in, or wander through a couple, no signup necessary.

Tell

Super storytellers and leading brand stewards share the creative process.

Chip
Bowers
CMO, Golden State Warriors

John
Canning
Chair of New Media Council, Producers Guild of America and VP of Interactive Experiences NBC

Nancy
Duarte
CEO and Best-Selling Author, Duarte, Inc.

Make

An interactive, hands-on workshop with innovators and creators; what we can learn from the maker movement.

Dale
Dougherty
Founder & CEO, Maker Media, Inc.

Scott
Kirsner
Editor, Innovation Leader

The Power of Women

The ROI of women in the workplace – diverse thinking and business impact.

Sandy
Carter
Best Selling Author, Geek Girls Are Chic and Get Bold!

Trish
Costello
CEO, Portfolia

Elizabeth
Gore
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Dell

Stephen
Paljieg
VP Corporate Partnerships, Portfolia

Execute

Innovation without operational excellence doesn’t scale. Lessons learned from the trenches.

Steven
Aldrich
Chief Product Officer, GoDaddy

Neal
Thornberry
CEO, Imstrat, LLC, Director of innovation strategies, Naval Post Graduate School

Reinvent

Serial entrepreneurs and founders share their journeys about their second acts and process of reinvention.

Bill
Price
Founder and Principal, Three Sticks Winery

Carl
Sjogreen
Founder, Seesaw; creator, Google calendar; former Facebook executive

Eileen
Gittins
Founder, Blurb; co-Founder Bossygrl

Eat

Packaged to sell. Branding for the savvy consumer.

Ted
Robb
CEO, InHouse Creative

Jon
Sebastiani
Founder and CEO, Sonoma Brands

Sangita
Forth
VP for Marketing & Innovation, Revolution Foods
1:00 pm
Lunch
THINK. TALK. TASTE. Enjoy lunch as well as wine tasting and other local treats.
2:30 pm
Reboot
Afternoon meditation.

Juliet
Kaska
Fitness and Wellness Expert
2:30 pm
Discussion Sessions
Choose the discussion you most want to participate in, or wander through a couple, no signup necessary.

Fail

Fail fast. Fail forward. Hear from founders and investors on how to think about failure as part of the innovation continuum.

Sheryl
O’Loughlin
CEO, REBBL Inc.

Patrick
O’Loughlin
Innovation Business Leader, The Clorox Company

Greg S
Reid
Author, Speaker, Filmmaker, The Millionaire Mentor, Inc.

Millennials

The generational mindset and cultural trends affecting digital marketing and beyond.

Issa
Sawabini
Partner, Fuse

Sumeet
Jain
General Partner, LUMA Capital

Kevin
Weil
Head of Product, Instagram

Komal
Ahmad
Founder and CEO, Copia

Invent

Blow your mind. What’s possible today with holographic computing, AR/VR and more.

Robert
Scoble
Entrepreneur in Residence, Upload VR

Ilan
Spillinger
Corporate Vice President of HoloLens and Silicon, Microsoft

Water

Oceanic stability and times of drought the neuroscience of being around water.

Wallace J
Nichols
Author of New York Times Bestseller, Blue Mind

Joy Anne
Sterling
CEO, Iron Horse

Live

The work life balancing act. Living simply to the fullest.

Alejandro
Foung
Co-founder, Lantern

Jean Charles
Boisset
Proprietor, Boisset Collection

Learn

Learning as a Lifestyle. How to prepare kids for a constantly-changing world.

Leila
Toplic
Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer, LRNG

Esther
Wojcicki
Founder, Palo Alto High Journalism; Blogger, HuffingtonPost; Author, Moonshots in Education

Eat

Good food, good health. Why quality, healthy food matters.

Neka
Pasquale
Founder and President, Urban Remedy

Cathryn
Couch
Founder and Executive Director, Ceres Project
3:45 pm
Networking Switch Break
THINK. TALK. TASTE. Sample snacks and have a sip from local wineries
4:15 pm
Chef Perspectives
Restaurant and food trends

Douglas
Keane
Cyrus, Two Birds One Stone, Healdsburg Bar and Grill, Top Chef Master Season Five Winner

Dustin
Valette
Chef/Proprietor, Valette

Leslie
Sbrocco
TV Personality, Wine Educator, Author
4:35 pm
Design
From smart homes to alternative energy, how design is changing our world.

Rob
Angel
Inventor, Pictionary

Clement
Mok
Instigator, The Design Office of Clement Mok

Ivy
Ross
Vice President, Head of Design / User Experience for all Hardware Products, Google

Sam
Yen
Chief Design Officer, SAP
5:05 pm
Super Storytelling
Your story matters. Global and personal brand steward perspectives.

Adam
Harter
VP Cultural Connections, Media & Digital / Sports / Music / Culture, PepsiCo Beverages North America

Christen
O’Brien
Managing Director – Early Stage Tech, Silicon Valley Bank

Shuly
Galili
Founding Partner, UpWest Labs
5:25 pm
Disruptors, Innovators and Makers
Disruptors, Innovators and Makers: How Great Stories are essential to propelling your ideas and inventions

Mark
Burnett
President, Television & Digital Group, MGM
5:55 pm
Closing
Jessica Kilcullen, Founder, Harvest Summit
6:00 pm
Innovation Happy Hour
7:30 pm
Evening Close

Details

Date:
November 4, 2016
Time:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Website:
http://harvestsummit.com

Venue

Private Estate
CA United States + Google Map