The World Summit on Technological Unemployment

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September 29, 2015
at the TIME Magazine Conference Center in New York City

PROGRAM/AGENDA

Location: class="font0"> 8th floor, TIME & LIFE BUILDING, NYC



7:30 am Registration desk opens (MUST BRING PHOTO
ID.  PLEASE BE SEATED NO LATER THAN 8:30am)

8:30 am James P. Clark, Founder/Chairman,
The World Technology Network

9:00 am

Lawrence H. Summers, former
Secretary of the Treasury (President Clinton); Former
Director, National Economic Council (President Obama);
President Emeritus, Harvard University (via live video)

9:30 am John Hagel, author, Co-Chairman,
Deloitte Center for the Edge (via live video)

9:45 am

Scott Santens, writer; basic income
advocate,; Founder of the BIG Patreon Creator Pledge

10:00 am PANEL: "Educating for the Transition"

Session chair: Lauren Paer, economist; writer;
entrepreneur

Jared Kleinert, co-author, "2 Billion Under 20"

Jules Schroeder, Founder, CreateU

10:25 am Mini-Break

10:30 am

Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary
of Labor (President Clinton); political economist; 
author, "SAVING CAPITALISM"

11:15 am

Joseph Stiglitz,  Nobel
Prize-winning economist; Former Chief Economist, World
Bank; founder, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia
University

12:00 pm

LUNCH

12:30 pm LUNCH speaker: Martin Ford, author
of best-selling "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the
Threat of a Jobless Future  " (via live video)

1:00 pm John Wilmoth,  Director of the
Population Division of the United Nations

1:15 pm Scott Von, psychoanalyst, physician, and philosopher, Founding Director of the New Clinic for Integral Medicine & Psychiatry.

1:30 pm

Patricial Paul,  former union
organizer, community organizer, litigator , and business
founder

1:45 pm

David Nordfors, CEO and co-founder
of IIIJ and the co-chair of the i4j Summit (innovation for
jobs) (via live video)

2:00 pm

PANEL: "Technology and the Future of Work"

Session chair: Irving Wladawsky-Berger
former companywide leader IBM initiatives on Internet,
e-business, supercomputing, and Linux; Strategic Advisor,
Citigroup

David Autor, co-leader of MIT's School
Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (via live video)

John Markoff, Senior Writer, The New York Times,
author (via live video)

2:30 pm FACILITATED IDEA GENERATION: Insight Café

Facilitator:  Meredith Persily Lamel,
President of MPL Partners, LLC, executive coach,
consultant, facilitator and instructor

5:00 pm Break (for facilitators to prepare to
report in)

5:15 pm Faciliators Reporting In

5:45 pm PANEL: Observers Feedback/"Weaving It All
Together"

Chair: James P. Clark

Wendell Wallach, consultant, ethicist, and scholar
at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for
Bioethics

Gerald Huff, Principal Software Engineer at Tesla
Motors

James Hughes, Executive Director of the Institute
for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

6:10 pm
Closing remarks: James P. Clark

6:15 pm Reception (rooftop, weather permitting)

7:00 pm

Onwards into the world…

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