Schedule

Wisdom 2.0 2012 Schedule

(Subject to change)

The regular conference (for 2-Day and 4-Day Ticket Holders) will be held Thursday, February 23rd and Friday, February 24th, from 9am - 5:30pm at the Hotel Sofitel. (See unconference details below)

Thursday, February 23rd

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 

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 

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

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

6:30pm - 10:00pm     -      Evening Reception, Sponsored by MailChimp

Friday, Febuary 24th

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

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

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

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

7:30pm - 10:30pm     -      After-Party at Hotel Sofitel, brought to you by Wisdom 2.0

The Unconference (for 4-Day Ticket Holders) will be held Saturday, February 25th and Sunday, February 26th, from 9:30am to 4:30pm at Google, located in Mountainview.

The unconference day's agenda is determined completely by the participants. On that morning, people introduce topics of interest to them, and groups self-organize based on those interests. So one group may have ten people discussing mindfulness programs in businesses, and another group may be discussing how to create wisdom-based I-phone applications.

Whatever your specific interest, you will have the chance to share it and discuss with others. It is a great way for people to connect around shared interests, and many of those connections extend beyond the conference. For many people last year, it was the highlight of the conference.

You can see pictures from last year's unconference here, which may help to give you a feel for the day.

Purchase a Ticket:

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Join the Wisdom 2.0 Party on February 24th:
Please join us the evening of Friday, February 24th at Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City from 7:30pm to 10:30pm for the Wisdom 2.0 2012 Conference Bash. There will be music, dancing, small group discussions, a cash bar, and ways to connect with others.
If you have a 2-day or 4-day ticket to the conference, it includes entrance to this party; if you're not attending the conference but want to join us for the evening, you may purchase your tickets here!