Future of Media Kick-Off Breakfast

Speakers

• Tami Hultman

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  CEO, AllAfrica Foundation

  Tami Hultman is co-founder and chief content officer of AllAfrica Global Media/allAfrica.com and CEO of the AllAfrica Foundation. She oversees AllAfrica’s content expansion, working to extend innovative social software and information-delivery technologies for communities and media and to expand collaborations with AllAfrica’s media partners across the continent. She has reported, edited, consulted and produced for a range of international news organizations, including the BBC, CNN, South African Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio (U.S.), International Television News (UK), NBC Television (U.S.), the Washington Post, the New York Times and Le Monde Diplomatique. Her prize-winning reporting and production work includes designing and serving as Executive Producer for a U.S. National Public Radio/AllAfrica collaboration – a year-long project involving teams of researchers, reporters, hosts, producers and engineers in eight countries. She also oversaw pan-African coverage for the launch of SABC Africa, a South African Broadcasting Corporation television channel for Africa. Her undergraduate degree is from Duke University and her Masters and PhD are from the University of North Carolina. She was founding Director of the Center for Africa and Media at Duke University, where she conducted one of the first Internet courses, “News in a Global Village,” linking classes at universities in Ghana and South Africa with Duke and with Florida A&M. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (U.S.) and the International Women’s Media Foundation. In 2001, she was named co-recipient of the Special Recognition Media Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Africa America Institute in New York.

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• Patrice Schneider

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  Chief Strategy Officer, Media Development Investment Fund, Inc.

  Patrice Schneider started his publishing career as a journalist reporting from conflicts in Central Asia in the 1980s. Following a 20 years career in publishing (Time Warner Group, Lagardère Active) and international organisation (World Economic Forum), he now works as the Chief Strategy Officer for the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) which invests in independent media around the world providing the news, information and debate that people need to build free, thriving societies. Since 1996, MDIF - a three consecutive years winner of the ImpactAssets 50 awards - has provided more than $153 million in affordable financing in more 100 clients across 39 countries, writing off less than 7% of the total loaned and invested. MDIF has returned $33.2 million to investors. It has a current portfolio of $59 million in outstanding loans and investments. Patrice is a Board Member of the EVPA – the European Venture Philanthropy Association.

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• Stephen King

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  Partner, Omidyar Network

  As a partner at Omidyar Network, Stephen brings exceptional experience in applying media and technology to create positive social impact. Stephen leads the global Governance & Citizen Engagement initiative and a portfolio that includes a broad range of national and global organizations. Many are innovators in the use of technology to help make governments more responsive and aid citizens in holding their governments to account. The portfolio includes: change.org, Global Witness, mySociety, Co-Creation Hub, Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente and Janaagraha, among others. Prior to Omidyar Network, Stephen served as the chief executive of BBC Media Action, where he led a period of sustained growth that included building programs in more than 40 countries in the developing world. Stephen helped establish the organization’s international reputation as one of the largest and most successful organizations using media and communications to improve the lives of the world’s poor and promote better governance and transparency worldwide. Prior to the BBC, Stephen held executive positions at several non-profit organizations based in the United Kingdom and the developing world. Stephen is based in London and is a board member of mySociety, Praekelt Foundation and the Advisory Board of Global Witness. He holds an MA in Oriental and African Studies from the University of London.

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• Laura Flanders

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  Author, Writer, Founder & Host GRITtv, The Laura Flanders Show

  Journalist, author and media entrepreneur, Laura Flanders is the host of the Laura Flanders Show, "Where the people who say it can’t be done take a back seat to the people who are doing it.” Online, on TV and on radio, The Laura Flanders Show features real stories of shifting power from the few to the many. The Laura Flanders Show is a nationally syndicated co-production of New York's CUNY TV. Flanders is also a best-selling author of six books including BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species, and Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians. She is a contributing writer for the Nation Magazine as well as the Media Fellow at the Next System Project, where her most recent paper is "Next System Media, An Urgent Necessity." You can find the LF Show week on KCET/LINKtv and public cable and satellite stations across the US. It’s also available as a free podcast. Follow @GRITlaura or visit LauraFlanders.com.

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• Pat Mitchell

  Moderator

  Founder and President, Pat Mitchell Media

  Co-Founder of Connected Women Leaders Forums and Co-Founder, Host, and Curator for TEDWomen

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• Marina Gorbis

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  Executive Director, Institute for the Future

  MARINA GORBIS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE Marina Gorbis is a futurist and social scientist who serves as executive director to the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a Silicon Valley nonprofit research and consulting organization. In her 18 years with IFTF, Marina has brought a futures perspective to hundreds of organizations in business, education, government and philanthropy to improve innovation capacity, develop strategies, and design new products and services. Marina’s current research focuses on how social production is changing the face of major industries, a topic explored in detail in her book, The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World. She has also blogged and written for BoingBoing.net, FastCompany, Harvard Business Review, and major media outlets. A native of Odessa, Ukraine, yet equally at home in Silicon Valley, Europe, India, and Kazakhstan, Marina is particularly well suited to see things from a global viewpoint. She has keynoted such international events as The Next Web Conference, NEXT Berlin, the World Business Forum, the National Association of Broadcasters annual convention, and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges annual conference. She holds a BA in psychology and a master’s of public policy from UC Berkeley.

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• Drew Sullivan

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  Co-founder and Publisher, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

  Drew Sullivan co-founded the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) in 2007 where he serves as publisher. Before that, he founded the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN) in Bosnia. When Drew serves as editor, OCCRP won more than 100 investigative journalism awards including the European Press Prize, IRE award and the Global Shining Light. OCCRP is one of the world’s largest investigative media with more than 50 investigative editors on six continents. Before OCCRP, he was a reporter for the Tennessean newspaper and the Associated Press. Before becoming a journalist, he was an aerospace engineer on the Space Shuttle project for Rockwell Space Systems. He has been an actor in four movies and plays the Bodhran and sings in the Balkans only authentic Irish band.

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• Matt Bannick

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  Managing Partner, Omidyar Network

  Matt is managing partner of Omidyar Network, where, since 2007, he’s led the expansion of the firm from its Silicon Valley roots. Omidyar Network now operates on four continents, across six initiatives, and has invested nearly $1 billion in early stage for-profit and nonprofit ventures. Matt brings a wide range of executive, international, and multi-sector experience to his role. He served in a number of senior executive positions at eBay, and as the president of eBay International, he was largely responsible for building eBay’s global footprint and bringing the power of eBay to the developing world. Matt also served as PayPal’s first president after the eBay acquisition and established PayPal as the global standard for online payments. A recognized leader in the impact investing field, Matt serves as a member of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group, and he led the U.S. National Advisory Board on Impact Investing as its co-chair. Matt teaches a course on new business models in emerging markets at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and he earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree, Phi Beta Kappa, in international studies and economics from the University of Washington.

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