Past Events

Building Tomorrow’s Best Companies

WHAT:

Unleashed Culture is an interactive 1-day conference that will give CEOs of leading startups and emerging companies the tools and insights they need to build powerful cultures that unleash the potential of their people. The conference will bring together an invitation-only group of CEOs of the most promising fast-growing companies to help plant the seeds for the next generation of America’s leading companies to become thriving organizations where people love to work. Unleashed Culture will NOT be just another conference where participants listen to a series of speakers and soon forget the message. We will create an interactive, participatory and instructive experience – giving CEOs tangible tools, frameworks and insights they can immediately implement to build strong cultures that makes their businesses more successful.

WHEN:

Friday September 10th, 2010

8am – 6pm

WHERE:

InterContinental San Francisco Hotel

888 Howard Street (between 4th & 5th St)

San Francisco, CA 94103

WHO:

Attendees: CEOs of leading startups and emerging companies

Sponsors: A special thanks to our Platinum Sponsors – Rypple and Charles River Ventures (CRV)!!

Speakers: Our amazing lineup of speakers include successful CEOs, practitioners and thought leaders with deep expertise and experience building powerful cultures and thriving organizations.

Joel Peterson Chairman, JetBlue; Lecturer, Stanford Business School

Chip Conley CEO, Joie de Vivre Hospitality; Author, Peak

Patty McCord Chief of Talent, Netflix

Dave Logan Co-founder, CultureSync; Author, Tribal Leadership

Ann Rhoades Former Chief of People, Southwest Airlines; President of People Ink

Scott Weiss Founder/CEO, IronPort Systems

Dan Portillo VP HR Mozilla, Org Dev at Rypple Moderator

Monique Farantzos Co-founder/CEO, doubleTwist

Auren Hoffman Founder/CEO, RapLeaf

Seth Sternberg Founder/CEO, Meebo

Cameron Ring Co-Founder, Plaxo

Jeffrey Kalmikoff VP of Product, SimpleGeo









Panel: Startup Culture-Building: Core or Distraction?

Steve Blank Author, The Four Steps to the Epiphany; Professor, U.C. Berkeley / Stanford / Columbia; Co-founder, E.piphany Moderator

Lori Goler VP of Human Resources and Recruiting, Facebook

James Currier Founder of Tickle, WonderHill

Rashmi Sinha Co-founder/CEO, SlideShare

Tim Wenzel VP of HR, Chegg

Dave ‘Selly’ Selinger Founder/CEO, RichRelevance






WHY ATTEND:

• To create thriving companies where employees love to work.
• To learn what it really takes to build a great culture from some of the most successful CEOs, founders, thought leaders and practitioners who’ve been there and done it.
• To mingle with other CEOs of the most promising startups and emerging companies.

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