Live Stream Of the Wisdom 2 Conference!

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Thursday, February 23rd

(Thursday, Session One)
9:00am - 9:15am - Introduction and welcome by Soren Gordhamer, Founder, Wisdom 2.0

9:15am - 9:40am - Talk: "The Case for Wisdom in the Modern World"
by Jack Kornfield, Spirit Rock

9:40am - 9:55am - Talk: "Our Digital Life: What the Research Shows"
by Lee Rainie, Pew Research Center

9:55am - 10:20am - Panel: "Social Good, Giving, and Technology: The Promise and Challenge of
Social Change" with Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog; Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Giving 2.0; and Premal Shah, Kiva.org

10:20am - 10:40am - Break

 

(Thursday, Session 2)
10:40am - 11:15am - Talk and Interview: "Mindfulness and the Brain"
by Daniel Siegel, Mindsight Institute. Talk then interview by Michelle Gale, Twitter

11:15am - 11:45am - Interview: "Wisdom, Games, and Mindfulness,"
with Jane McGonigal, Social Chocolate, and Kelly McGonigal, Stanford

11:45am – 12:15pm - Talk: "Zynga Meets Zen: Exploring Attention, Technology, and True Connectivity"
with Eric Schiermeyer, Zynga, and Joan Halifax, Upaya Zen Center

12:15pm - 12:30pm - 1440 Challenge announcement by Scott Kriens, 1440 Foundation

12:30pm - 2:00pm - Lunch

 

(Thursday, Session 3)
2:00pm - 2:30pm - Panel: "Zen and the Art of Design: The Role of Mindfulness in Design"
with Irene Au, Google, and Cordell Ratzlaff, Cisco

2:30pm - 2:45pm - Talk: "Wisdom in the Modern World: My Secret to Jolliness"
by Meng Tan, Google

2:45pm - 3:10pm - Interview: "The New Temple: Can Online Social Networks like Facebook
Support Understanding & Compassion?" with Arturo Bejar, Facebook

3:10pm - 3:30pm - Break

 

(Thursday, Session 4)
3:30pm - 4:00pm - Panel: "Consciousness-Based Venture Capital. Come on, Really?"
with Luke Nosek, Founders Fund, and Gus Tai, Trinity Ventures; moderated by Joe Hyrkin, Wordnik

4:00pm - 4:30pm - Meditation by Eckhart Tolle, Author, A New Earth

4:30pm - 5:10pm - Interview: "Presence in a Connected Age"
Eckhart Tolle in dialogue with Rich Fernandez, Google

5:10pm - 5:30pm - Closing

 

Friday, Febuary 24th

(Friday, Session 1)
9:00am - 9:10am - Opening

9:10am - 9:45am - Interview: "Wisdom-based Practice & Leadership"
Padmasree Warrior, Cisco, in dialogue with Soren Gordhamer

9:45am - 10:00am - Talk: "Wisdom in the Modern World: The Yoga and Dharma of Technology"
with Gopi Kallayil, Google

10:00am - 10:30am - Interview: "An Obvious Intersection: Wisdom and Technology"
Evan Williams, Obvious and Twitter, in dialogue with Padmasree Warrior

10:30am - 10:50am - Break

 

(Friday, Session 2)
10:50am - 11:25am - Interview: "Why Mindfulness, Why Now?"
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness Teacher, in dialogue with Karen May, Google

11:25pm - 11:40pm - Talk: "Wisdom in the Modern World: Dharma Comics: The Search for Meaning
is Funny That Way. " by Leah Pearlman, Happiness Institute

11:40am - 12:30pm - Panel: " A Mindful Approach to Learning & Development: Addressing the Whole Person"
with Stuart Crabb, Facebook; Karen May, Google;
Michelle Gale, Twitter; & Cherie Gardiner, Zynga

12:30pm - 2:00pm - Lunch
 

(Friday, Session 3)
2:00pm - 2:30pm - Interview: "Spiritual Activism in a Connected World"
Seane Corn, Spiritual Activist, in dialogue with Tami Simon, Sounds True

2:30pm - 2:40pm - Mindfulness Practice

2:40pm - 3:15pm - Interview: "Building a Mindful Nation and Recapturing the American Spirit"
U.S. Congressman Tim Ryan, interviewed by Scott Kriens

3:15pm - 3:35pm - Break

 

(Friday, Session 4)
3:35pm - 4:05pm - Interview: "The Asana Experiment: Lessons from a Mindfulness-Based Start-up"
with Dustin Moskovitz, Asana, and Justin Rosenstein, Asana

4:05pm - 4:15pm - Talk: "The Place for Compassion in a Modern Age"
by Jim Doty, CCARE

4:15pm - 5:00pm - Dialogue: "Ancient Wisdom and Modern Life"
with Pierre Omidyar, eBay and Thupten Jinpa, Buddhist Scholar

5:00pm - 5:30pm - Closing

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