COCKTAIL RECEPTION
7:00 pm
(Milton Hershey Suite)
LUNCH
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
(Garden Terrace WEST)
Panel I – CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: ENTREPRENEURS ON CAMPUS: CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH AND AMAZING SPINOFFS
1:15 pm – 2:15 pm
(Garden Terrace EAST)
- Donald K. Carter – Panel Moderator (Adjunct Professor, Director, Remaking Cities Institute)
- Luis von Ahn (Assoc. Professor, Founder of ESP Game and reCAPTCHA)
- Priya Narasimhan (Assoc. Professor, Founder, YinzCam, Inc.)
- Jessica Trybus (Alumnus, Adjunct Professor, CEO and Founder of Etcetera Edutainment
Since 2007 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has ranked first in the country among universities without medical schools in the number of startup companies per research dollar spent. Over 200 startup companies have been launched by CMU faculty and graduates, creating 9,000 new jobs in Pennsylvania. This represents 34% of university research spinoff jobs in the state. In June 2011 CMU announced a new initiative, “Greenlighting Startups,” an internal support system that will accelerate the entrepreneurial pace by providing early stage financing and streamlining the legalities of the commercialization process. The Keystone Weekend panel will feature three CMU faculty entrepreneurs who recently have spun-off high-technology ventures.
Solo I – IMPACT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT: WHY EDUCATION MATTERS
2:15 pm – 2:45 pm
(Garden Terrace EAST)
- Marcus Allen (CEO and Founder of AchieveAbility)
- Harold Barrow (Staff and former client of AchieveAbility
Shanay was accepted to college when she graduated high school, but couldn’t afford tuition. She found ACHIEVEability when she and her young daughter had exhausted all of their resources and had to move to a homeless shelter. ACHIEVEability allowed Shanay to focus on getting her life in order: she is now financially stable, working toward a bachelor’s degree and gearing up to buy a home of her own. Shanay’s story is just one of many that show the impact of ACHIEVEability’s work helping families achieve self-sufficiency. This session, facilitated and designed by ACHIEVEability, will showcase how ACHIEVEability’s model has led to success for both its participating families and the community for which it serves. Presenters will demonstrate how engagement and a focus on education has led to economic growth for Pennsylvanians.
COFFEE BREAK
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm
Solo II – ART WITH SCIENCE: USING DESIGN AND RESEARCH TO FORM ARCHITECTURE
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
(Garden Terrace EAST)
- James Timberlake (Architect – KieranTiberlake Firm
Renowned architect, James Timberlake, will discuss how his firm bridges art and science through relentless inquiry. Pursuit of answers to culture, material, system, process, and environment driven questions holistically forms lasting, beautiful results. Citing examples from one of KieranTimberlake’s latest commissions, the design of the United States Embassy in London, he will demonstrate how collective intelligence, formed by a collaborative not singular process, creates an inclusive vision that achieves all of its programmatic objectives, while setting a paradigm for sustainable construction and an icon of diplomacy.
Panel II – CYBER TERRORISM AND YOU – ITS ALL CONNECTED
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
(Garden Terrace EAST)
- Moderator: Brian P. Tierney, Esq. (CEO, Brian Communications)
- Major General George J. Allen (Director, J-5, U.S. Cyber Command)
- Dean Picciotti (CEO, Lexington Technology Auditing, Inc.)
- Joe Ruggiero (Architectural Technologist / Strategist, Microsoft)
The Earth is crisscrossed by networks of wires, cables, waves, pulses and signals. The computer systems that operate this world are all around us, yet just under the surface. Imagine these systems infiltrated by malware, crashing, rendered useless, at least temporarily. The Data grid falls. The Power grid falls. The Communication grid fails. The Transportation grid fails. Private industry is incapacitated. Imagine the potential for panic- financial and otherwise- in the face of cascading network failures. The Federal Government and the Military are taking appropriate precautions. However, they cannot and should not be protecting everything. Each leader, in state/local government and private industry, has an obligation to their stakeholders to understand the threats to their IT infrastructure.
Solo III – SAVING OUR FUTURE WITH THE TRANSACTION TAX
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
(Garden Terrace EAST)
- Moderator: Honorable Rob McCord (Treasurer of Pennsylvania)
- Congressman Chaka Fattah
The U.S. economy has bounded to the headlines as Congress and the President struggle with polarizing issues of debt ceilings, debt reduction and taxation. Congressman Fattah will discuss his unique and innovative proposal to reduce the deficit and forever change the way Americans contribute to their government with State Treasurer Rob McCord.
COCKTAILS
7:00 pm
(Fountain Lobby Deck)
- Performance by Milton Hershey senior, Joshua Guider on the piano playing Polonaise, Op.40, No.1 by Chopin
DINNER
8:00 pm
(Castilian Room)
- Prepared by Chef Michael Solomonov (2011 James Beard Award Winner
ENTERTAINMENT
- Eva Katherine
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
7:30 am – 8:45 am
(Garden Terrace WEST)
Panel III – RESTRUCTURING THE TROUBLED MUNICIPALITY
8:45 am – 10:00 am
(Garden Terrace EAST)
- Jeff Werbalowsky (Co-CEO, Houlihan Lokey)
- Kelly Beaudin Stapleton (Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal)
- Stephen Spencer (Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey)
- William Roberti (Head of Public Sector Services, Alvarez & Marsal)
- Robert Lapowsky, Esquire (Stevens & Lee)
From Vallejo, California to Harrisburg Pennsylvania, from Alabama to Illinois, an increasing number of municipalities are encountering deepening financial distress. What happens when the options run out, when increased taxation and decreased spending are unavailable and/or insufficient, and a major city looks into the financial abyss as many experts believe will occur in the near future? Nationally recognized restructuring experts theatrically depict the plight of the fictional city of Portent Falls by exploring the perspectives of civic officials, unions, bondholders, retirees, citizens, and the advisors tasked with shepherding it through a full blown financial and operational restructuring. No one will be seated during the final act.
Solo IV – LEADING WITH A HOLISTIC BOTTOM LINE
10:00 am – 10:30 am
(Garden Terrace EAST)
- Jeff Brown (CEO, Brown’s Super Stores, Inc. and Chairman of UpLift Solutions)
Mr. Brown presents his ideas in the creation of his nationally recognized supermarket model for serving under privileged communities. He will also share his recent efforts in utilizing grocery stores as aggregators of solutions to overcome additional social challenges prevalent in these communities. He will discuss how holistic thinking has the potential to support improved business success, while also improving the lives of employees and the communities being served.
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 am – 10:40 am
Lt. Governor Jim Cawley – State of the State address
10:40 am – 11:10 am
(Garden Terrace EAST)
Panel V – PASSION, POWER, AND SUCCESS: THE URGENCY, RELEVANCY AND NECESSITY OF ARTS EDUCATION
11:10 am – 12:30 pm
(Garden Terrace EAST)
- John Esposito (WEA Corp. President and CEO, President of Warner Music Nashville)
- Varissa McMickens (Director at ArtsRising, Philadelphia)
- Jamie Kasper (Associate Director at Arts Education, Pittsburgh)
- H. Bernard Hall (Hip Hop Educator, Doctoral Candidate, Temple University, Philadelphia)
This session, facilitated and designed by Philadelphia’s ArtsRising initiative, will address the powerfully engaging nature of the arts, and the growing body of research and data that link the passion of arts-based learning to academic and personal success in life.
LUNCH
12:45 pm
(Garden Terrace WEST)
