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    Accel Partners
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    Thrive Capital
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    Case Foundation
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    Tinder
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    Thrillist Media Group
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    LearnVest
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    Union Square Hospitality Group
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    Apollo Global Management
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    The Malala Fund
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    Half.com
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    Rent the Runway
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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

*All Sessions subject to change.
Sunday, October 19th, 2014
3:45pm
Registration
(Piazza at Schmidt’s-1001 N. 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA. Entrance TBD)
4:00pm
Welcome & Music Festival (Piazza at Schmidt’s)
The Under 30 Music Festival, produced in partnership with Global Citizen and AEG Live, will draw more than 5,000 people to the Piazza at Schmidt’s in Philadelphia’s Northern Liberties neighborhood for a for a lineup of trending new 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 at the private block party in our backstage lounge, with direct access to the front row at any time during the show.
8:30pm
Registration closes
9:00pm
Music Festival ends

Monday, October 20th, 2014
7:30am
The Under 30 Rocky Run
Start the day the Rocky way, jogging up the beautiful Ben Franklin Parkway, led by a pace team of Philadelphia’s top athletes and track stars. It culminates in the run Sylvester Stallone made famous, up the legendary steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum for a fist-pumping moment of immortality, complete with a musical surprise. All paces welcome.
9:30am
Registration (Pennsylvania Convention Center - Ballroom Foyer)
10:00am
Welcome and Introduction (Ballroom)
10:10am
Keynote Interview: Peter Thiel—The Next Great Startup
Arguably the most disruptive thinker in America, Peter Thiel has reinvented money (by co-founding Paypal), spying (by co-founding Palintir) and human interaction (he was the first investor in Facebook). He has helped fund, either individually (LinkedIn, Yelp) or through his Founders Fund (Airbnb, Space X) some of the great companies of the digital age. His Thiel Fellowships grant $100,000 to 20 people under 20 on the condition they drop out of college to pursue their entrepreneurial ideas. He shares his new vision for building the next great startup—one which involves not beating the competition, but eshewing it altogther.

Peter Thiel, Legendary Tech Investor & Entrepreneur

Interviewer: Pete Cashmore, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Mashable
10:30am
Roundtable: Is College For Suckers?
Three Thiel Fellows (and 30 Under 30 Members) join Peter Thiel to debate the perils and opportunities inherent in dropping out to pursue your dreams.
10:45am
Spotlight: Monica Lewinsky and the Internet’s Reputation Shredder
In January 1998, Monica Lewinsky made Internet history: before Facebook or Twitter or even Google existed, the 24-year-old became the first person to have her reputation globally destroyed via the Internet. Lewinsky, of course, quickly emerged at the center of a scandal that led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. He and the rest of the world moved on—but she could not, a fate now realized, on various scales, by millions of people—from Jennifer Lawrence to random junior high schoolers—who find themselves tarred in public, permanent ways. Lewinsky, who last talked publicly 13 years ago, will offer a singular perspective on what happened to her, and the scourge of harassment in the digital age.
11:10am
Surprise Panel
11:40am
Spotlight: Afrojack: DJs and the Art and Science of Leading a Crowd
At 29, Nick “Afrojack” van de Wall has emerged as one of the world’s most popular DJs, ranking sixth on the most recent Forbes DJ rankings with $22 million in annual earnings. But getting an arena or a club to move in unison isn’t a simple matter of mixing good songs. It’s leadership. Afrojack will demonstrate the art and science of how he reads a room – and then leads it.
12:10pm
Networking Break - Lunch (Ballroom Foyer)
12:30pm
Breakout Panels (Main floor - below Ballroom)

Including:
How To Manage Your Future Millions
Let’s bet on the upside: Someday you will be filthy rich, and by the time you are, entirely new and disruptive ways of managing your money will emerge to make your money… make even more money. Meet the people harnessing technology and millennials’ distrust of big banks to build the lenders, money managers and financial advisors of the future.

Alexa von Tobel, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, LearnVest
Jon Stein, Chief Executive Officer & Founder Betterment
Josh Reich, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder Simple

Moderator: Samantha Sharf, Reporter, Forbes Media

Music Goes Moneyball
How big data changed what you listen to, and what you share—and whether, somehow, there is something wrong with that.

Alex White, Founder, Next Big Sound
Taylor Hanson, Musician, Hanson
Sachin Doshi, Vice President of Content & Distribution, Spotify

Moderator: Zack O’Malley Greenburg, Senior Editor, Forbes Media

In Business, it’s Personal: Tales of Successful Women
Three women in their 30s, breaking barriers in business and beyond, share their stories about getting through their 20s, navigating their 30s amid relationships and biological clocks, and making their mark. How to become president of a $1 billion company by age 32 . . . or help start a revolution in Afghanistan at 30.

Ruzwana Bashir, Founder, PEEK.com
Kat Cole, President, Cinnabon
Shannon Galpin, Founder, Mountain2Mountain

Moderator: Denise Restauri, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, GirlQuake

Can Computers Make You Healthy?
Medicine is finally being dragged into the digital age with apps that aim to help patients lose weight, manage diabetes,and more. Can technology empower patients, or is this just more marketing noise?

Joshua Liu, Co-founder, SeamlessMD
Grant Verstandig, Founder, Audax Health

Moderator: Matthew Herper, Senior Editor, Forbes Media
2:30pm
Networking Break (Ballroom Foyer)
3:00pm
Keynote Interview: Sean Rad, Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder, Tinder
The hottest dating app in the world might soon be one of the most valuable startups in America. The same technology that creates some 5 million matches a day could change any number of human interactions. The 27-year-old Tinder Co-founder reveals what’s coming next.

Interviewer: Steven Bertoni, Associate Editor, Forbes Media
3:30pm
10 Minutes to Change the World
3:40pm
The Under 30 Fashion Show
Who’s making it big in the cut-throat world of fashion? And where are styles heading? Four designers from the Forbes 30 Under 30 join Petra Nemcova to tell their stories—and show off their latest collection as the Pennsylvania Convention Center becomes the world’s largest fashion runway.
4:20pm
10 Minutes to Change the World
4:30pm
So You Want to Get Your Startup Funded?
There’s never been a better time for young entrepreneurs to drum up big money. What are the trick and tips that get the top VCs in the world to say yes in today’s fundraising environment? Two all-time investing legends (including the billionaire who gave Facebook its first venture investment) and two of the most influential VCs under 30 share what it takes to bring home the big money.

Jim Breyer, Founder, Breyer Capital; Partner, Accel Partners
5:00pm
Wrap Up
6:00pm
Dinner on your own (Private dinners across the city)
9:00pm
Philadelphia’s Largest Quizzo Tournament
(Field House Sports Bar-150 Filbert St)
Quizzo, the now-ubiquitous bar trivia game, was born 20 years ago in Philly. In commemoration, we’re renting out a giant bar 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.
12:00am
Quizzo ends

Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
9:30am
Registration (Pennsylvania Convention Center - Ballroom Foyer)
10:00am
Welcome and Introduction
The Honorable Michael Nutter, Mayor, City of Philadelphia
10:10am
Keynote Interview: Palmer Luckey, Founder, Oculus Rift
Early this year, at age 21, Palmer Luckey shocked the world by selling his virtual reality headset company, which had no revenue, to Facebook for $2 billion. What drove the deal? His product, the Rift, may change the way we all see the world. Luckey explains how he started his company and his Facebook courtship—and reveals how Oculus’ plans to redefine reality.
10:30am
10 Minutes to Change the World
10:40am
Keynote: Sara Blakely – Billionaire by 40
Sara Blakely’s first job out of college was walking around in the Goofy costume at Disney World. The pantyhose they forced her to wear were uncomfortable and old-fashioned. So she invented Spanx, plowing her $5,000 life savings into it. It’s the only investment she ever needed. She is now the world’s youngest-self-made female billionaire, according to Forbes’ most recent Billionaire issue. An inspiration to thousands, she’ll discuss how she bet it all in her 20s – and won.
11:10am
10 Minutes to Change the World
11:20am
The $400,000 Pressure Cooker
Build a better mousetrap, and this panel might throw a half-million dollars at you. Participants pitch their ideas—live!—to the world’s most influential funders. The reward: an investment of more than $100,000 from Steve Case and Forbes, plus hundreds of thousand of dollars in free services and support. Total prize: between $400,000 and half-million. No pressure!

Judges:
Steve Case, Chief Executive Officer, Revolution LLC; Co-Founder, America Online
Mike Perlis, Chief Executive Officer, Forbes Media; Former partner, Softbank Capital

Moderator: Bruce Upbin, Managing Editor, Forbes Media
12:10pm
Networking Break - Lunch
12:30pm
Breakout Panels

Including:
Tomorrow’s Medicine Today
The science that will lead to the next leap forward in medicine. How biology is changing prenatal testing, the way we understand disease, and the very idea of what a gene is.

Mitchell Guttman, Assistant Professor, Caltech
Cigall Kadoch, Assistant Professor, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Adam de la Zerda, Assistant Professor, Stanford

Moderator: Matthew Herper, Senior Editor, Forbes Media

The Revolution in E-Commerce
Emergence of young female tech founders and executives reflects sweeping change in the worlds of start-up companies and angel funding. There’s a pressing need for commerce sites that cater to women, who control 70% of online purchases worldwide, underscoring the enormous purchasing prowess of women online. Who are the women fueling innovation and reimagining the possibilities of the digital economy?

Jenny Fleiss, Founder, Rent The Runway

Moderator: Moira Forbes, Editor Forbes Women
2:30pm
Networking break
3:00pm
Two Years to Build a Billion-Dollar Brand
Creating a product has never been easier. Creating a global brand? That’s still a riddle, albeit one now solvable via a host of new tactics that have revolutionized marketing. FEED’s Lauren Bush Lauren and Warby Parkers’ Neil Blumenthal join Under 30 mentor John Paul DeJoria—who has branded his way to a billion-dollar fortune twice (Paul Mitchell hair products and Patron Tequia)—for a discussion of what it takes to make your product universally coveted.

Lauren Bush Lauren, Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder, FEED
Neil Blumenthal, Co-Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder, Warby Parker
John Paul DeJoria, Co-founder, Paul Mitchell/The Patron Spirits Company
3:30pm
10 Minutes to Change the World
3:40pm
Show and Tell: America’s Best Under 30 Inventors Face-Off
Four brilliant inventors. Four gizmos that will blow your mind. Watch, listen—and buckle up.

Moderator: Michael Noer, Executive Editor, Forbes Magazine
4:10pm
Ten Minutes To Change the World
4:20pm
Keynote Interview—Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai just told everyone she wanted to go to school. For that crime, the Taliban shot her in the head, and left her for dead. But Malala miraculously survived the assassination attempt and, at 17, has become the planet’s leading voice on the rights of girls to attend school. And a global inspiration. The youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize, who detailed her amazing story in her bestseller “I Am Malala... " takes the stage at the Under 30 Summit, to reveal her new initiatives that she believes can help millions achieve their goal of going to school.
5:00pm
Closing remarks
7:00pm
Under 30 Food Festival (South Camac Street)
The best young chefs, winemakers and brewers from the Forbes 30 Under 30 list show their stuff amid a giant block party—and compete for the title of America’s best young chef, as judged by Questlove, Danny Meyer—and the attendees of the Under 30 Summit.

Chefs Include:
Philip “Ippy” Aiona, The Three Fat Pigs and Ippy’s Hawaiian BBQ
Christopher Coombs, Deuxave
Sam Gorenstein, My Ceviche
Luke Holden, Luke's Lobsters
Joseph “JJ” Johnson, The Cecil
Adam Leonti, Vetri
Jason Pfeifer,Maialino
Jesse Schenker, Recette
Max Sussman, The Cleveland

Chocolate/Ice Cream:
Natasha Case, Coolhaus
Aditi Malhotra, Tache Chocolate
9:00pm
Under 30 After-Party (Trocadero)
The Food Festival, and last full day of programming ends with a bang. The legendary leader of The Roots, Questlove, will serve as the night’s DJ.

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
10:00am
The Science and Health Innovation Tour
Join America’s greatest scientific minds for a brainy field trip, as we visit some of the most cutting-edge labs in the country to find out what breakthroughs come next.

OR

Young Entrepreneurs Summit
Looking to back start-ups? Acquire great talent? Partner with breakthrough products? Under 30 Summit entrepreneurs and the best and brightest startups from Philadelphia will hear keynote speaker, network—and pitch an all-star line-up of venture capitalists.

OR

Social Entrepreneurship Tour
Case Foundation Chief Executive Officer Jean Case and Malala Fund Chief Executive Officer Shiza Shahid lead the greatest young philanthropists and social entrepreneurs on a site visit of some of America’s innovation social entrepreneurship initiatives.
3:00pm
Departures

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 and Press Passes
Wendy Furrer Egan
Senior Director of Editorial Publicity
212 366 8848
Wfurrer-egan@forbes.com

Laura Daunis
Senior Manager of Corporate Communications
212 367 4874
Ldaunis@forbes.com