(NEW YORK, NY) July 29, 2010 –The Economist announced today that it will hold its next conference, Ideas Economy: Human Potential, on September 15-16 at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers in New York City. Ideas Economy: Human Potential will draw together top experts from business, government, academia, and other disciplines to discuss and debate how to boost productivity by harnessing the potential of individuals and societies. Human Potential is the second conference in The Economist’s recently launched Ideas Economy event series.
With a spike in the number of young people in the developing world, a generation of new workers demanding entirely different work environments, and an aging population that requires heavy resources—the nature of work and talent development must evolve dramatically over the next few decades. Ideas Economy: Human Potential will explore these and other related issues including the cyber schools of the 21st century, the convergence of work and life, the future of social media, health care for an aging workforce, immigration and mobility, artificial intelligence, and more.
“Population growth, technological advances, and related trends over the next century will undoubtedly change the way we live and engage with others,” said Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor and Schumpeter Columnist for The Economist. “Ideas Economy: Human Potential will examine the critical issues of tomorrow in hopes of preparing managers to make decisions today.”
Some of the speakers and journalists already confirmed to take part in September include:
Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics, Duke University
June Arunga, Founder, Open Quest Media
Michael Beer, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School
Matthew Bishop, US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief, The Economist
Paul Bloom, Psychologist, Yale University
Yaron Brook, President, The Ayn Rand Institute
David Brooks, Columnist, The New York Times
Jordi Canals, Dean, IESE Business School
Rob Carlson, Principal, Biodesic, Author, Biology is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life
Steven W. Casteel, Senior Vice-President, Raphael Group
Jan Chipchase, Executive Creative Director of Global Insights, Frog Design
Jim Clifton, Chief Executive Office, The Gallup Organization
Doug Conant, Chief Executive Officer, Campbell’s Soup
Cristóbal Conde, President and Chief Executive Officer, SunGard
Scott Cook, Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Intuit
Massimo d’Amore, Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo Beverages Americas
Don Eckenfelder, Chief Executive Officer, Social Operating Systems Ltd
Tammy Erickson, Author, “What’s Next, Gen X?”
Georgia Everse, Partner, Genesis Inc.
Richard Florida, Author, “The Great Reset”
Dr. Jim Goodnight, Chief Executive Officer, SAS
John Hagel, Co-Chairman, Deloitte LLP Center for the Edge
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Founding President and Chairman, Center for Work Life Policy
Zabeen Hirji, Chief Human Resources Officer, RBC
Neil Howe, President, LifeCourse Associates
Amy Kaslow, Senior Fellow, Council on Competitiveness
Joel I Klein, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education
Joel Kotkin, Author, “The Next Hundred Million”
Jeffrey Lehman, Chancellor, Peking University School of Transnational Law; Professor of Law and Former President, Cornell University
John Maeda, President, Rhode Island School of Design
Peter Merholz, President, Adaptive Path
Eva Moskowitz, Chief Executive Officer, Success Charter Network
Douglas Nagan, President, Nagan Research Group
Susan Peters, Vice President, Executive Development and Chief Learning Officer, GE
Edmund Phelps, Director, Columbia University, Center on Capitalism and Society
Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education, New York University
Sir Ken Robinson, Author, “The Element”
Paul Romer, Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Colleen Fahey Rush, Executive Vice President of Strategic Insights and Research, MTV
John Sexton, President, New York University
Clay Shirky, Author, “Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age”
Tom Standage, Business Affairs Editor, The Economist
Linda Stone, Writer and Generalist, LindaStone.net
Alexandra Suich, Finance Correspondent, New York, The Economist
Shirley Tilghman, President, Princeton University
Lynn Tilton, Chief Executive Officer and Principal, Patriarch Partners
Alan Tripp, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, InsideTrack
Bridget Van Kralingen, General Manager, IBM North America
Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Correspondent, The Economist
Sohrab Vossoughi, Founder and President, Ziba Design
Vivek Wadhwa, Visiting Scholar, University of California at Berkeley
Ben Wildavsky, Senior Fellow, Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
William Julius Wilson, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Chief Executive Officer, 20-first
Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor and Schumpeter Columnist, The Economist
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