DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF BRANDING

Exhibit and reception hosted by Parsons The New School for Design

WELCOME + OPENING REMARKS

TRACI FENTON, Founder + CEO, WorldBlu

TRAVIS THOMAS, WorldBlu LIVE 2008 Host

MAIN EVENT :: CONTEXT

Today's global landscape requires organizations and leaders to be more agile, accessible, and adaptable than ever before. What exactly are the drivers shaping this uncharted terrain? Explore the distinctive trends remaking business and get a sense of the larger context in which your organization must operate.

MARSHALL INGWERSON, Managing Editor, The Christian Science Monitor

SRIKUMAR RAO, Professor, Columbia Business School + Author, Are You Ready to Succeed: Unconventional Strategies for Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life

INGRID VANDERVELDT, Host, CNBC, "American Made" and CEO + Founder, Club E Network

MARK DOWDS, CEO, Brainpark

MAIN EVENT :: DESIGN

Design has emerged as one of the most powerful forces in the world. How do we design our organizations for optimal performance in a democratic age? Speakers will include the CEOs of WorldBlu List organizations who will share how they've designed their organizations on democratic design principles to achieve industry leadership, breakthrough innovation, sustainable growth, and a reputation for excellence.

SCOTT POBINER, Director, Design and Management, Parsons The New School For Design

BILL SHANNON, Chief Wisdom Officer, DaVita, Inc.

RODNEY NORTH, Vice Chair and Answer Man, Equal Exchange

BRIAN SCUDAMORE, CEO, I-800-GOT-JUNK?

MAIN EVENT :: LEADERSHIP

Goodbye command-and-control; freedom-centered leadership is fast becoming the new model. What are the skills, tools, and mind-set required to lead in a democratic age? Learn how this session's WorldBlu List awardees use freedom-centered leadership to build some of the most successful, profitable, and sustainable organizations in the world.

ALEXANDER KJERULF, Chief Happiness Officer + Author

MIKE FERRETTI, CEO, Great Harvest Bread Company

BERNARD MOHR, Co-Founder + Partner, Innovation Partners Intl.

PHILIP ROSEDALE, Founder + Chairman, Linden Lab

MAIN EVENT :: NEXT

Next-generation business leaders are considered the most entrepreneurial generation in history and are designing, building, and leading some of the most successful democratic organizations in the world. Speakers in this session are CEOs 40 and younger whose organizations appear on the WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces™. They will share their perspective on what it takes to be among those pioneering the next generation of business design.

BRETT JACKSON, CEO, Generation Think Tank

GABRIELA ALBESCU, President, AIESEC International

JENNIFER CORRIERO, Co-Founder and Executive Director, TakingITGlobal

DALLAS KASHUBA, CEO, DreamHost

MAIN EVENT :: STYLE

Organizational democracy is far from prescriptive. Infinitely creative in application, successful implementation comes down to having the right tools and skills to develop an organization with "style." Style speakers are CEOs of WorldBlu List organizations, who will share their secrets and best practices from inside some of the most stylish democratic organizations in the world.

CALI RESSLER & JODY THOMPSON, Co-Authors, Why Work Sucks & How to Fix It

GRAHAM PARKER, Executive Director, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

DAVE BALTER, CEO, BzzAgent

TIM WESTERGREN, Chief Strategy Officer, Pandora

MAIN EVENT :: TRANSITIONS

Not all companies are built democratically from the ground up. Some of the most successful democratic workplaces had to transition from the traditional model to the democratic model. These companies show us how they made the switch - and how it benefited morale and the bottom-line in the process.

KORY KOLLIGAN, COO, Continuuum

BILL MORALES, CEO, Tracer Corporation

GEORGE WOOD, Executive Director, The Forum for Education and Democracy and Principal, Federal Hocking High School

MAIN EVENT :: WORLD

Democracy in the workplace isn't just an American or Western trend. Democratically-run organizations are in operation all over the world. CEOs of democratically-run organizations and other thought-leaders share insights into running a democratic organization in their part of the world and the social and economic impact it can have on communities as well.

TIM SANDERS, Author, Saving the World at Work

MICHAEL REINING, CEO, MindValley

JOHN ENGLE, Co-Director and Co-Founder, Beyond Borders

CHRIS MANN, CEO, Guayaki

CLOSING REMARKS

BILL TAYLOR, Founding Editor, Fast Company magazine, Author, Mavericks at Work

WORLDBLU LIVE AFTER PARTY

Nublu :: 62 Ave C (Between 4th Street and 5th Street)