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Daily Beast Innovators Summit: The Full Program

The Daily Beast's Innovators Summit brought together like-minded global leaders to discuss how to Reboot America. Watch the full videos of all the panels and events.

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New Orleans Innovators: Welcome

Speakers: LaToya Cantrell, President, Broadmoor Improvement Association and Broadmoor Development Corp. Wendell Pierce, Actor and President, Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corp. Sister Mary Lou Specha PBVM, Executive Director, Reconcile New Orleans, Inc. Robbie Vitrano, Co-Founder and Chief Brand Architect, NakedPizza

New Orleans: Eyes Wide Open with Mayor Landrieu and Bob Schieffer

Speakers: Mayor Mitch Landrieu, City of New Orleans Interviewed by Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News and Moderator of Face the Nation

HBO Presents: Culture as a Political Act

Speakers: Rita Benson LeBlanc, Owner and Executive Vice President, New Orleans Saints Spike Lee, Film Director, Producer, President of 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Inc., and Artistic Director and Professor of NYU Graduate Film School Wendell Pierce, Actor and President of Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corp. David Simon, Co-Creator, HBO’s Treme Interviewed by Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute

Friday Welcome

Speakers: Tina Brown, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast Stephen Colvin, President, The Daily Beast Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer, HP Intro Tim Williamson and Idea Village

You Have No Idea What Trouble We're In! With Glenn Hutchins and Sir Harold Evans

Speakers: Glenn Hutchins, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Silver Lake Interviewed by Sir Harold Evans, Author, They Made America and Editor-at-Large, The Week

And Here's How To Get Out of It

Speakers: Sheila Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor, Harvard Business School Glenn Hutchins, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Silver Lake Peter Orszag, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, Peter G. Peterson Foundation Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor, Columbia University Moderated by Sir Harold Evans, Author, They Made America and Editor-at-Large, The Week

Against the Grain: My Money's On...

Speakers: Vinod Khosla, Partner, Khosla Ventures Interviewed by David Kirkpatrick, Author, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World and Contributor, The Daily Beast

Getting It Done: How We Can Change The Equation

Speakers: John Kao, Chairman, Institute for Large Scale Innovation David Neeleman, Chairman and CEO, Azul Airlines Michael Polsky, Founder and CEO, Invenergy LLC Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer, HP Beth Galante, Director, Local Green’s New Orleans Resource Center and Office Moderated by Gillian Tett, U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times

Investing In Visionaries: Cheryl Dorsey and Echoing Green

Speakers: Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green Interviewed by Tina Brown

Driving Back To The Future

Speakers: Johan de Nysschen, President, Audi of America, Inc. Interviewed by David Kirkpatrick, Author, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World and Contributor, The Daily Beast

Staying Ahead Of The Curve: Diane von Furstenberg

Speakers: Diane von Furstenberg, CEO and Founder, DVF Studio Interviewed by Bianna Golodryga, Anchor, Good Morning America Weekend Edition and Business Correspondent, ABC News

How To Own The Digital Experience

Speakers: Michael Mendenhall, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, HP Sean Parker, Managing Partner, Founders Fund Lori Senecal, President and CEO, kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners Lauren Zalaznick, President, NBC Universal Women & Lifestyle Entertainment Networks Moderated by Ken Auletta, Writer, The New Yorker and Author, Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

The Puma Pioneer: Jochen Zeitz Breaks the Rules

Speakers: Jochen Zeitz, Chairman and CEO, Puma, Chief Sustainability Officer, PPR, and Founder, Zeitz Foundation Interviewed by Tina Brown, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast

The Risk Factor with Barry Diller

Speakers: Barry Diller, Chairman and CEO, IAC Interviewed by Ken Auletta, Writer, The New Yorker and Author, Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

Up From Zero: Braddock, PA & Its Revolutionary Mayor, John Fetterman

Speakers: John Fetterman, Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania Interviewed by Dan Senor, Investor, Bestselling Author, and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations

After the Drug Cartels: Reviving Medellin

Speakers: Sergio Fajardo, Former Mayor of Medellin, Colombia Interviewed by Maureen Orth, Special Correspondent, Vanity Fair

Counterinsurgency & The Gangs of L.A.: One Woman's Dangerous Mission

Speakers: Connie Rice, Co-Director, The Advancement Project in Los Angeles Interviewed by Tina Brown, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast

General McChrystal (USA-Ret.): Lessons of Leadership

Speakers: Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal (USA-Ret.), Former Commander of U.S. and International Security Assistance Forces Afghanistan; Joint Special Operations Command Interviewed by Frances Townsend, Senior VP, MacAndrews and Forbes and Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

General McChrystal (USA-Ret.) Leadership Lab: Leading Against The Tide

Speakers: Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor, Harvard Business School Theodore Forstmann, Chairman and CEO, IMG David Neeleman, Chairman and CEO, Azul Airlines Michelle Rhee, Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools

A New Generation of Innovators

Speakers: Kara Bobroff, Founder, Native American Community Academy Rafiq Kalam Id-Din, Founder, Teaching Firms of America Ashni Mohnot, Founder, Enzi Jennifer Schnidman, Founder and CEO, Drop the Chalk Hosted by Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green

Education: The Time Is Now

Speakers: Joel Klein, Chancellor, New York City Schools Paul Pastorek, State Superintendent of Education, Louisiana Michelle Rhee, Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools Moderated by Steven Brill, The American Lawyer and Court TV and Co-Founder, Press+

Saturday Welcome/Doug Schoen

2010: The Midterm Rumble

Speakers: James Carville, Political Consultant Harold Ford, Jr., Executive Vice Chairman, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Chairman, Democratic Leadership Council Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Leslie Sanchez, Founder and CEO, Impacto Group LLC Moderated by George Stephanopoulos, Anchor, Good Morning America and Chief Political Correspondent

The View From India's Innovation Czar

Speakers: Sam Pitroda, Adviser to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information, Infrastructure and Innovations Interviewed by James Hoge Jr., Counselor, Executive Office, Council on Foreign Relations and Former Editor, Foreign Affairs

India & China: The Advancing Giants

Speakers: Robert Hormats, Undersecretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Yasheng Huang, Professor of International Management, International Program Professorship in Chinese Economy and Business, and Founder of China Lab and India Lab, MIT Sloan School of Management Dambisa Moyo, Economist and Author of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa Tarun Tejpal, CEO, Tehelka Interviewed by James Hoge, Jr., Counselor, Executive Office, Council on Foreign Relations and Former Editor, Foreign Affairs

New Faces, New Ideas

Speakers: Jane Chen, Founder, Embrace Global David del Ser, Founder, Frogtek Mark Hanis, Founder, Genocide Intervention Network

Tim Williamson presented product by HP

My Passion, My Purpose: How I Started My Company

Speakers: Robin Chase, CEO, Meadow Networks and Founder, Zipcar Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green Marc Koska, Founder, The SafePoint Trust Moderated by Ralph Simon, Chairman Emeritus and Founder, Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas and CEO, Mobilium International

Summit Wrap: Solutions To Go Home With

Featuring Tina Brown and the editors and writers of The Daily Beast.

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