• Neil Blumenthal
    Warby Parker
    Participant
  • Jim Breyer
    Accel Partners
    Mentor
  • Jean Case
    Case Foundation
    Mentor
  • Steve Case
    AOL
    Mentor
  • Pete Cashmore
    Mashable
    Participant
  • Josh Harris
    Apollo Global Management
    Mentor
  • Josh Kushner
    Thrive Capital
    Participant
  • Lauren Bush Lauren
    Feed
    Participant
  • Danny Meyer
    Union Square Hospitality Group
    Mentor
  • Malala Yousafzai
    Malala Fund
    Participant

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orbes Under 30 Summit will bring together 1,000+ members of Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ list with business leaders and mentors. The Summit will include panel discussions, keynote presentations, parties and “Shark Tank”-style pitches in front of the world’s top venture capitalists. Forbes will also host an exclusive music festival featuring top ‘30 Under 30 bands’ and a food festival with top ‘30 Under 30’ chefs. The goal: to create partnerships that will change the world over the next 50 years.





Forbes Under 30 Summit
October 19-22, 2014
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Philadelphia, PA
*Please note that this is a Working Agenda and is subject to change
Sunday, October 19th, 2014
4:00pm
Welcome & Music Festival
“Piazza at Schmidt’s”- 1001 N. 2nd St, Phila, PA The Under 30 Music Festival, produced in partnership with Global Citizen and AEG Live, will draw 5,000 people to the Piazza at Schmidt’s in Philadelphia’s Northern Liberties neighborhood for a line-up of the top young acts, mashed up with famous musical mentors. Under 30 Summit attendees will enjoy VIP passes for the entire event, allowing them to eat, drink and chill with the artists and other Summit attendees in our backstage private block party and lounge, with direct access the front of the stage at any time during the show.
9:00pm
Festival ends
Monday, October 20th, 2014
7:30am
The Under 30 Fun Run
Join Celebrities and the top Philadelphia track teams and start the day the Rocky way- with a jog up the beautiful Ben Franklin Parkway, and then up the famous Art Museum steps, Sylvester Stallone-Style - Complete with a musical surprise. All paces welcome.
10:00am
Registration (Ballroom Foyer)

Welcome and Introduction (Ballroom)

Panels, Breakouts
Panels and breakouts at the Philadelphia Convention Center, including keynote addresses, multimedia presentation and the most intense “Shark Tank”-style business plan contest (with the most influential funders) ever attempted.
12:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
Panels, Breakouts
5:00pm
End Program
9:00pm
Philadelphia’s Largest Quizzo Tournament
Quizzo, the now-ubiquitous bar trivia game, was born 20 years ago in Philly. In commemoration, we’re renting out some giant bars for a record breaking Quizzo game. Under 30 Summit mentors and speakers will serve as team captains, as all Summit attendees compete for big prizes.
11:00pm
Quizzo ends
Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
7:30am
The Under 30 Fun Run
Join Celebrities and the top Philadelphia track teams and start the day the Rocky way- with a jog up the beautiful Ben Franklin Parkway, and then up the famous Art Museum steps, Sylvester Stallone-Style - Complete with a musical surprise. All paces welcome.
10:00am

Registration (Ballroom Foyer)

Panels, Breakouts
Panels and breakouts at the Philadelphia Convention Center, including keynote addresses, multimedia presentation and the most intense “Shark Tank”-style business plan contest (with the most influential funders) ever attempted.
12:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
Panels, Breakouts
5:00pm
Program Ends
6:00pm
Under 30 Food Festival
The best young Chefs, winemakers and brewers in America show off their stuff, alongside some new takes on classic Philly cuisine.
8:00pm
Under 30 Bar Crawl
See Philadelphia bar-by-bar, with one of our top speakers situated at each one, to to provide inspiration or lift a glass.
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
10:00am
Follow-up meetings, Philadelphia business plan completion, departure



Panel Topics Include:
The Future of Privacy
In the post-Snowden age, everything we learned about personal privacy is wrong. Edward Snowden’s lawyer, Ben Wizner of the ACLU, leads an all-star panel that will cover everything from the NSA to your unknowing role as a social media guinea pig.

Panelists:
Jonathan Mayer, Cybersecurity fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation
Eric King, Head of research, Privacy International
Evgeny Morozov, Author, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom and To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism.

So You Want to Get Your Company Funded?
Tips and wisdom from some of the most successful VCs and company founders of the past decade.

Show Me the Money!
From digital wallets to Bitcoin and gold, this is how we will transact and store value in the near future.

Billionaire By 40
Never in human history have so many people achieved such dizzying financial success at such a young age. Three prodigious billionaires on how they coped and how they’ve turned their windfalls into forces for good.

Show-and-Tell: These Gizmos Will Change Everything
The world’s greatest inventor, Dean Kamen, leads a panel of the top young engineers and tinkerers, who will each display an invention they think could alter humanity.

Ten Minutes to Change the World: Hugh Evans
The founder of the Global Poverty Project and the Global Citizen Festival, which brings the likes of Jay-Z and Stevie Wonder to Central Park, on how he harnesses music to create a worldwide social movement of millions that forces global government to act.

Ten Minutes to Change the World: Josh Sommer
At an 18-year-old at Duke, Josh Sommer was told he had an incurable bone cancer, Chordoma, that would kill him, on average, in seven years. That was seven years ago. Ever since, Josh has been in race, determined to help cure his own disease in his lifetime.

Music Goes Moneyball
How big data changed what you listen to, and what you share.

For Sponsorship Information
Michael Peck
Director of Conferences
1 (212) 620-2204
mpeck@forbes.com

For Event Management
Julieanna Gray
Event Manager
1 (212) 620-2494
30under30@forbes.com

For Invitation Management/Executive Relations
Anastasia Afendikova
1 (212) 367-4158
30under30@forbes.com

For Press Inquiries
1 (212) 620-1887
pressinquiries@forbes.com