Ready To Propel? Check the agenda for each stage and event area below:
- Stage of Wisdom (North)
- Stage of Inspiration (SOUTH)
- Exhibitors
- Interactive
Doors Open at 9AM!
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM

Roger Osorio (EMCEE),
Speaker, Coach, Educator
IBM
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
WELCOME

Mayor Dawn Zimmer,
City of Hoboken

Aaron Price,
Propelify
10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
Track: Entrepreneurship
Event: Fireside
Finance Grind to Startup CEO to Working Alongside Gary VaynerChuk

Jeremy Smerd,
Editor of Crain's NY Business

Ryan Harwood,
PureWow
10:40 AM - 11:05 AM
Track: Future of Intelligence
Event: Panel
Smarter Humans: Turning Data

Justin Hendrix,
NYC MediaLab

Michael Won, Jet.com

Hicham Oudghiri,
Enigma.com

Frida Polli,
Pymetrics
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM
Track: Performance
Live From Tomorrow ft. Academy Blues Project

11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Track: Future of Work
Event: Solo
Future of Work with ADP

Stuart Sackman,
CTO of ADP
11:50 AM - 12:15 PM
Track: Future of Media
Event: Panel
Evolution of Media and Streaming

Chris Williams, iHeart Media

Jesse Hertzberg, livestream

Hope King,
Cheddar
12:15 PM - 12:40 PM
Track: Corporate Innovation
Event: Fireside
Partnering With Companies as a Path To Innovation

Kristina Hahn,
Google

Beth Polish,
Critical Junctures Group
12:40 PM - 1:05 PM
Track: Entrepreneurship
Event: Fireside
Bootstrap to Billions: Building a Global Startup

Divyank Turakhia,
Media.net

Abby Ellin,
The New York Times
1:05 PM - 1:30 PM
Track: Entrepreneurship
Event: Panel
Hiring and Getting Hired at Growth Stage Co's

Rebecca Price, Enigma.com

Holly Rose Faith,
NEA

Avery Blank,
Forbes
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Track: Corporate Innovation
Event: Solo
Forget Machine Learning if You Don’t Own User Learning

Jack Hanlon,
Jet.com
1:45 PM - 2:10 PM
Track: Corporate Innovation
Event: Solo
The Future of all Things and the Creation of Time

Marcus Weldon,
Nokia Bell Labs
2:10 PM - 2:25 PM
Track: Future of Transportation
Event: Solo
Uber & the Future of Urban Mobility

Jason Post,
Uber
2:25 PM - 2:30 PM
Track: Entrepreneurship
Event: Solo
Linchpins of Growth in the Tech Ecosystem

David Sorin,
McCarter & English
2:30 PM - 2:55 PM
Track: Venture Capital
Event: Panel
VC or Corporate VC?
How Do you Choose?

David Sorin,
McCarter & English

Paul Martino, BullPen Capital

Gus Warren, Samsung
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Track: Venture Capital
Event: Keynote
The Zeitgeist Entrepreneur

Laurel Touby,
Flatiron Investors

Arianna Huffington,
Thrive Global
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Track: Performance
Academy Blues Project

3:45 PM - 4:10 PM
Track: Entrepreneurship
Event: Panel
Accessing the VC Landscape

Alex Konrad,
Forbes

Liza Benson, Starvest Partners

Albert Wenger,
Union Square Ventures
4:10 PM - 4:25 PM
Track: Entrepreneurship
Event: Solo
Live Without Limits.
Change the World

Dillian DiGiovanni,
Coach & Consultant
4:25 PM - 5:05 PM
Track: Entrepreneurship
Startup Competition Finale

Michael MacCombie (Emcee),
Evertrue Ventures

Natasha Young, Staples

Jenny Fielding, Techstars

Vincent Tang, Samsung NEXT

Paul Magnone, Google Cloud

Michael Hoeppner, GK Training & Communications (Pitch Critique)
5:05 PM - 5:15 PM
Track: Entrepreneurship
Event: Solo
Communicating at Different Stages

Michael Chad Hoeppner,
GK Training & Communications
5:15 PM - 5:20 PM
Startup Competition Results

Judges announce results
5:20 PM - 5:40 PM
Garden of Stephen

Performer
5:40 PM - 6:05 PM
Track: Future of AI
Event: Panel
Solving Real World Problems with Machine Learning

Jordan French (moderator),
BeeHex, Inc

David Spangenthal,
Google Cloud

Alyx Baldwin,
Kip
6:05 PM - 6:20 PM
Track: Entrepreneurship
Event: Solo
Execution > Ideas Every Time

John Henry,
Cofound Harlem
6:20 PM - 7:10 PM
Track: Entrepreneurship
Event: Panel
Future of Media

Matt Lieber,
Gimlet Media

Alex Blumberg, Gimlet Media

John Henry,
Cofound Harlem
7:10 PM - 7:30 PM
The Future of Health

Robert C. Garrett,
Hackensack University Medical Center
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Track: Entrepreneur
Event: Solo
How to Throw a Festival with a Distributed Team

Aaron Price,
Propelify
8:00 PM - 8:45 PM
Performance

Beatie Wolfe and Band
8:44 PM - 8:45 PM
Closing Remarks

Aaron Price,
Propelify
8:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Fireworks
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