Top 5 Panels on Leadership

leaderStartup Leadership as a Ticket to Success

Sunday, March 13
5:00PM – 6:00PM

Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon E
500 E 4th St

This panel will consist of Annie Cardinal, production design engineer for Produktworks Design, Derek Lidow, professor at Princeton, longtime global CEO, innovator and startup coach, along with Guillaume Delepine, Associate at KPMG LLP. The group will discuss the transformation of startup ideas into an enterprise that will have positive impacts and successful outcomes. They will explain and expand upon the problem of most startups failing after being launched. Using video interviews with Wendy Kopp (Teach for America) and Brian O’Kelley (AppNexus), the panelists will discuss the leadership skills that have bolstered their careers. But how can one acquire and teach others about these startup leadership skills? This panel will expand on that and so much more.


articleDisrupting Entrepreneurial Leadership Education

Monday, March 14
11:00AM – 12:00PM

Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon E
500 E 4th St

A number of stakeholders- academics, mentors, investors and entrepreneurs- will come together to discuss the challenges, good and bad, of transforming into an entrepreneurial university. The panelists will go over the different new principles of the Tec21 Educational Model at Tecnológico de Monterrey, preparing students for the heart breaks and opportunities of 21st century entrepreneurship.


imagesLeadership, Innovation and Impact

Saturday, March 12
3:30PM – 4:30PM

Maggie Mae’s
323 E 6th St

Do you have a desire for growth and innovation despite the uncertainty it comes with? This panel is for you.

Julie Goonewardene and Tony Cucolo of the UT System and Author Ori Braf will provide tips and suggestions for the importance and benefits of leadership. They will inspire you to want to be an innovative leader. Regardless of your title, you will leave the room with knowledge on how to develop leadership qualities that will not only prepare you for future goals and ambitions but also empower you to use personal unique abilities and talent to make an impact in the world we live in.


PP52516Org Design: Leadership for a Creative Culture

Monday, March 14
3:30PM – 4:30PM

JW Marriott
Salon 7
110 E 2nd St

Technology changes constantly, and so does the way we interact with each other. We can all learn at least one thing from taking a closer look at digital social behavior. The panelists will discuss the foundation of the Stanford d.school fellowship program and its ability to design creative organizations that enable new ways of working for a high impact in the experts area of expertise. Jason and Justin will expand on the nature of leadership and give advice to attendees about preparing future innovators, designing thinking to inspire, collaboration between different leaders and building solutions upon new ideas.


PP53968Amazing Talent is Grown, Not Born. Learn How.

Friday, March 11
5:00PM – 6:00PM

JW Marriott
Salon 7
110 E 2nd St

We all want to succeed in our careers. Is there a secret formula that we should all know? In the Work and Career track this panel consists of Jeremy Coleman, VP Marketing Technology for Vail Resorts Inc and Kate Matsudaira, Principal for Urban Influence, along with Laura Sawyer PhD, Learning Designer and Facilitator at Hyper Island and Sheldon Monteiro, Global CTO of Yes Prep Public Schools. The group will discuss the transformation from being a T-shaped leader to combining learned skills and possessing diverse roles that are needed in many if not all levels of the workforce.

The group will examine the myth of being born with talent and leadership and contend that it is actually something that can be learned by breaking expectations of ourselves and the work environment.

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