See the agenda for Ad Age Next: A day and a half of insight into the future
You know Ad Age Next, our biggest annual event, is slated to feature speakers from Alexis Ohanian to Bozoma Saint John, and companies from Virgin Hyperloop to MedMen. Now you can see exactly how it will unfold over a day and a half this November.
TUESDAY, NOV. 13
12:00 p.m. Networking lunch
1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. General sessions
Opening keynote: Oath "digital prophet" David Shing on screens and
our mental health
Reddit Chief Operating Officer Jen Wong on the future of trust
Jason Mars, CEO of Clinc, on the future of conversational AI
Randall Wilkinson, CEO and co-founder of The Wilkinson Group, on the future of food and his company's robotic Wilkinson Mini Bakery
Vertly's Claudia Mata, MedMen's David Dancer and Anomaly's Jason DeLand on the cannabis boom
Closing keynote: Sophia Amoruso on connections as the future of currency
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Next Titans
Six startups pitch live to former Mondelēz chief media and
e-commerce officer Bonin Bough, BlueRun Ventures General Partner
Cheryl Cheng, former GE chief marketing officer Beth Comstock,
MediaLink Chariman and CEO Michael Kassan and VaynerX chairman Gary
Vaynerchuk.
7:00 p.m. Opening-night cocktails
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14
8:00 a.m. Networking breakfast
9:00 .a.m - 10:30 a.m. General sessions
Opening keynote: Alexis Ohanian on how his seed-stage venture fund
seeks, evaluates and creates innovation
Natalia Oberti Noguera of Pipeline Angels and Dara Treseder of GE Ventures on changing the "white bro" culture of Silicon Valley
Kass Dawson, global head of marketing at Softbank Robotics, on the future of human-robot interactions
10:30 a.m. Networking break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Tracks: Choose mobility or retail and e-commerce
Next mobility
Waymo's Meiling Tan on bringing self-driving cars to the public
Virgin Hyperloop One's Ryan Kelly and Revel's Frank Reig on policy
pile-ups in mobility and the public-private solution
Harman CMO Ralph Santana on the 65-mile-per-hour living room
Next retail and e-commerce
Story Founder Rachel Shechtman and BuzzFeed's Ben Kaufman on
reimagining commerce through offline and online experiential
retail
Jordan Fisher of Standard Cognition on AI and cashierless
stores
*Additional speakers and sessions to be announced
12:30 p.m. Networking lunch
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Tracks: Choose esports and gaming or media tech
Next esports and gaming
Twitch's Sharmeen Browarek on using machine learning to fight bias
in gaming
Activision Blizzard Esports Leagues' Brandon Snow and Momentum
Worldwide's Glenn Minerley on brands' role in the entertainment
culture ahead
PlayVS Founder Delane Parnell and Bumble sociologist Jess Carbino
on the future of building identities online
Next media tech
Amy Emmerich on the mission-driven, trust-building content of the
future
Google's Sam Cox, Beeswax's Ari Paparo and Index Exchange's Drew
Bradstock on what's next in ad tech and programmatic TV
Megan Maloney and Manoush Zamorodi on blockchain and crypto in
advertising and media
3:00 p.m. Networking break
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. General sessions
Pras Michél on creating while black
Lagunitas Brewing Company Founder Tony Magee on the next buzz
Closing keynote: Bozoma Saint John on how individuals and
businesses can stay ahead of disruption (or even drive it)
Agenda subject to change