Silicon Valley and Los AngelessEPTEMBER 30 THROUGH OCTOBER 4, 2013
the next generation of storytelling is here
overviewmorning
9/30
10/1
10/2
10/3
10/4
9/29
afternoon evening
Conversations About Disruption
Twitter HQ Visit
A Visit With Youtube
Space is the Place: Changing the World by Changing the Way We Work
Streams of Dreams: Premium Content via the Cloud
From the Studio to the Data Center: Digital Cinema in Action
From Sand to Silicon: Where LA Startup Culture is Going
Creating New Worlds: Immersive Content via new Technology
arrival
icebreaker event
see back for map of venues & restaurants
Almost Human: AI is the New UI
When Newton met Von Neumann: Remixing Atoms and Data
Orange Fab Demo Day
The Next 100 years: Hollywood’s Digital Century
Narratives in Public: Story-telling in Prac-tice and Theory
Dinner at Chateau Marmont
Devoe HouseInterview w/ Rob Friedman
Narratives for the New Enterprise
Digital First Studios: The Rise of Entertain-ment Platforms
Warner Bros Studio Tour
icebreaker eventseptember 29, 7:30pm—8:30pmRedwood Room at the Clift hotel
All Orange Institute sessions begin with a pre-event gathering - time enough for a glass of wine and a chance to introduce each other. This is an important beginning - please plan to be there, and even if you are a bit late, we look forward to seeing you in the Redwood Room at the hotel.
key contactsMark Plakias, project manager mobile: +1 (650) 452 4257 twitter: @map650Anne-Catherine Moreno, client support mobile: (+33) 6 73 62 76 45 Romeo Machado, client support mobile: (+33) 6 32 95 85 02Guillaume Payan, associate mobile: +1 (408) 628 8648 twitter: @gpayanPascale Diaine, associate mobile: +1 (650) 392 5091 twitter: @pascaleAnca Ranta, associate mobile: +1 (415) 407 6271 twitter: @AncaRanta
In SF: Shakira Mongul, producer mobile: +1 (415) 298 6777In LA: Brad Bethune, producer mobile: +1 (425) 241 9238
hotel informationClift San Francisco
495 Geary St. San Francisco, CA 94102phone number: (415) 775-4700
The London West Hollywood
1020 N. San Vicente Blvd.West Hollywood, CA 90069phone number: (310) 854-1111
dress codebusiness casual, no ties or suits required
silicon valley
los angeles
Deanna Palagallo, producer mobile: +1 (636) 346 6141
morning Orange Silicon Valley, San Francisco
Disruption is not a stroke of genius, but a concerted effort to displace incumbents with entrenched ways of doing things. Savvy investors have rules and criteria for picking startups who do this : we’ll talk to one of the Valley’s best-known VCs who funds disuptors to make out-sized returns.
Lessons from the Consumer Web have changed the $350 Bn Enterprise Software business forever. The ‘consumerization of IT’ has exploded in the past few years to create new enterprise service providers who have leveraged Big Data and ‘push-button’ interfaces into healthy IPOs and market caps.
september 30
8:45
10:30
11:30
9:15
10:50
10:00
11:10
12:00
Mike Maples, Founding Partner, Floodgate
Elissa Fink, CMO, Tableau
welcome remarks, Stephane Richard, CEO, Orange
Sanjay Dholakia, CMO, Marketo
Richard Borenstein, VP, Itson
break
Jeremy Howard, CEO, Kaggle
Lunch and transfer to Autodesk
Conversations About Disruption
Narratives for the New Enterprise
afternoon Autodesk Gallery, San Francisco
Orange Silicon Valley, San Francisco
Artifical Intelligence/Machine learning + APIs + sensors/devices + speech recognition is the new math for crafting user experiences that mimic the way humans interact with each other. Virtual Personal Assistants and hi-tech wearables are just two new product categories springing to life from this trend: ‘talk to me’ is the new ‘click here’.
Algorithmic intervention into the physical and built world is dragging us quickly to the Internet of Things (IoT). We present three wildly eclectic talks on how we connect objects -- even natural phenomena -- with data in new ways.
Special event: Before we meet the six companies that passed through the first wave of the Orange Fab Accelerator Program, we’ll have a special conversation between Silicon Valley and Europe in the persons of blue-chip VC Ben Horowitz of Andressen-Horowitz, and Stephane Richard, CEO of Orange.
september 30
1:30
4:00
3:30
3:00
2:00
4:30
2:30
5:00
Thierry Donneau-Golencer, Co-Founder, Tempo AI
Jennifer Healey, Research Scientist, Intel
Maurice Patel, Manger, Film, Television, Movie, Autodesk
David Kenny, CEO, Weather Company
Peter Platzer, Founder/CEO, Nanosatisfi
break
Shai Leib, Founder/CEO, Ask Ziggy
refresh and rejoin at Orange Fab Demo Day
Almost Human: AI is the New UI
When Newton met Von Neumann: Remixing Atoms and Data
Orange Fab Demo Day
5:30—7:30
morning Stanford University Faculty Club, Palo Alto
Both physically and operationally, new models for the way we work are constantly being born in Silicon Valley. Everything from physical design of the workplace, to the way we design questions, to the way we define success, is up for grabs in this exploration of the many meanings of space.
Special Visit: New Building, New Twitter
In a first-ever Institute visit with Twitter, we will be meeting with key executives responsible for monetization, the most important topic in a company headed for an IPO the world is already watching. Adding to the excitement is the building itself, a new landmark in San Francisco’s digital terroir.
A Visit With Youtube
We will be visiting the original YouTube location in San Bruno, and exploring the production of original content, which is a $100 Million+ annual investment by YouTube. This is the first-ever visit by Institute to YouTube.
october 1
12:15
1:15
2:30
12:45
1:45
Chris Thierfelder, XPrize Foundation
Denise Cherry, Principal, Studio O+A
Auren Hoffman, Founder/CEO, LiveRamp
transit to NVidia
lunch
Space is the Place: Changing the World by Changing the Way We Work
8:45
10:45
Twitter HQ Visit Adam Bain, President, Global Revenue
Youtube Visit Tom Pickett, Vice President, Youtube Content
afternoon NVidia Campus, Santa Clara
october 1
Insight into how creatives and geeks collaborate in Silicon Valley is gained by looking at advances in digital distribution of premium content. Give artists and designers direct access to distribution pipes, add algorithmic recommendations, and watch digital and artistic worlds combine.
3:00
4:30
3:30
5:00
4:00
Matt Mason, VP, BitTorrent
Phil Eisler, GM, GRID Cloud Gaming, NVidia
Speaker to be Announced
break
depart for San Jose Airport
Streams of Dreams: Premium Content via the Cloud
morning MTI Film, Los Angeles
Academy of Motion Pictures, Beverly Hills
Post-production in the movie business has always pushed the technology envelope, from high-speed pipes to massive image processing. Today’s post-production house resembles a modern high-performance computing platform, we’ll see one in action.
Behold the startups that are Digital Natives, born as digital, and restructuring audience in a social age for new paths to markets for visual and musical entertainment.
october 2
8:30
11:30
9:00
10:30
12:00
9:45
11:00
John Stevens, VP Engineering, MTI
Jared Gustadt, CEO, Jingle Punks
lunch
transit to MTI Film
Ezra Cooperstein, COO, FullScreen
depart MTI to AMPAS
Johnny Shin, VP, Ad.ly
From the Studio to the Data Center: Digital Cinema in Action
Digital First Studios: The Rise of Entertainment Platforms
afternoon Warner Bros, Burbank
october 2
The film industry is a 100-year old institution ripe for disruption. Digital distribution to multiple devices, social media, and the economics of big-budget film-making are all on the agenda as studios embrace Digital as the gateway to the next 100 years. This in-depth visit with one of the world’s greatest studios will focus on a variety of topics with key executives leading Warner’s digital strategy. Moderated by Daniel Ornstein
The history of Chateau Marmont goes back to the 1920’s, and will extend into immortality as the fabled scene of real-life and fictional dramas. We’ll dine under the stars, with the stars, as you never know who is going to drop in.
The Next 100 years: Hollywood’s Digital Century
Chateau Marmont
5:15
2:00
4:15
7:30
return to hotel
Daniel Ornstein, Director of Business Development, Warner
Studio Tour, Warner Lot
Dinner at the Chateau Marmont
morning General Assembly, Santa Monica
LA is a creative capital, and like the other capital on the other Coast (New York), is jumping with tech startups flourishing in the intersection of entertainment and the Sharing Economy. We’ll engage with several investors and startup incubators emblematic of this vibrant ecosystem.
october 3
9:30
9:00
11:00
1:00
10:00
11:30
10:30
12:00
Peter Pham, Co-Founder, Partner, Science
Sarah Tilton, Regional Director, General Assembly West
Shauna Nep, Goldhirsh Foundation, LA2050
Mark Suster, Partner, UpFront
Sam Teller, Founder, LaunchPad LA
break
transition to Fox Studio
James Siminoff, Founder, Edison Jr
lunch
From Sand to Silicon: Where LA Startup Culture is Going
october 3afternoon
evening
21st Century Fox, Los Angeles
Devoe House, Los Angeles
From insights into the neuroscience of storytelling, to the globalization of stories in the digital/social sphere, to the world’s theatrical distribution channels, insights into story-telling and its impact on us are coming fast and furious. This session will feature an eclectic mix of theory and practice, on how the digital global village is transforming how we share stories.
The Story is Changing: New Trends, New Audiences for Narrative
3:30
5:00
3:00
4:30
7:30
4:00
8:30
Oliver Luckett, CEO, theAudience
Fox Studio Tour w/ Doug Van Praet
Hardie Tankersley, VP Digital Product, Platforms, & Innovation, Fox Broadcasting
return to hotel
Daniel Solnicki, Head of Worldwide Franchise Development, Dreamworks Animation
Devoe HouseInterview w/ Rob Friedman, Co-Chairman, Lionsgate Entertainment
closing dinner follows
morning Oblong Industries, Los Angeles
In this penultimate session we visit the red-hot Arts District to apprehend the next stage of story-telling: immersive, experiential stories that are not told to us but happen to us. In this session Hollywood’s real-life technical wizards will preview how we will experience content in the digital landscape of creative and emergent technology.
october 4
9:00
10:45
9:15
11:15
10:00
11:45
John Underkoffler, Chief Scientist, Oblong
Alex McDowell, Creative Director, 5D Organization
Mark Plakias, Project Manager, Orange Institute
break
lunch
demos
Wrap up
Creating New Worlds: Immersive Content via New Technology