NYC 17

May 17, 2017 ET

If you want to better understand how companies across the economy are being transformed and how you can leverage new ways of thinking to keep your organization competitive, Techonomy is for you. Techonomy is where leaders conduct a wide-ranging dialogue about tech-driven challenges and opportunities. On May 17 in New York, we brought together an amazing group of leaders to explore how advances in technology are shaping the future. Among our speakers were: Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp, Union Square Ventures Managing Partner Fred Wilson, and the CEOs or founders of AirMap, Tokenize, doc.ai, General Assembly, JPMorgan Chase Institute, PlanGrid, Upworthy and WeWork, plus many other experts in how tech changes everything.

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NYC 17

May 17, 2017

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Speakers

Rodney Brooks

Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus), MIT

Daniel Buchner

Senior PM - Head of Decentralized Identity at Microsoft, Microsoft

Kevin Delaney

Editor-in-Chief and Co-President, Quartz

Meltem Demirors

Director, Development, Digital Currency Group

Diana Farrell

President and CEO, JPMorgan Chase Institute

Charles Ferguson

Founder and President, Representational Pictures

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Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson at TE NYC17

May 30, 2017

An interview between David Kirkpatrick and Fred Wilson, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures. Below is an excerpt from their conversation. You can download the full transcript here. Kirkpatrick: Let me quickly introduce Fred. Fred is the most eminent venture capitalist in New York and I was thinking about Fred’s work and his role in the industry. In a way, you’re the most successful VC of the second generation of the Internet. You funded Twitter and Tumbler, and a bunch of others, Etsy, MeetUp, and Kickstarter—so many great companies. It’s really interesting because you’re often sort of grouped in with, from a slightly earlier generation, John Doerr and—what’s his name, from Benchmark. Well, Gurley of course is a little closer to your generation. Wilson: He’s younger than me, actually. Kirkpatrick: You’ve served on boards with him, I think, haven’t you? But anyway, the fact is that you’re one of the only ones – maybe Gurley would fall in this category too, and that’s why we had him talking about it in November actually, who has never really participated in the founding of one of the giant colossi that is now sort of looming over society with such sort of overbearingness. So maybe we should start with—since I already mentioned it. That did come an awful lot yesterday. We even had somebody from Facebook here and from my perspective as a tech journalist, the role of Facebook, Google, Amazon in particular; but also Apple and Microsoft is increasingly the environmental question that doesn’t affect just the...

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