Nate Silver, John Skipper and More to Speak at Paley Center's IC2013, 11/21-22

The Paley Center for Media unveiled today the agenda for its International Council Summit (IC2013) scheduled for November 21-22 in New York and additional speakers Nate Silver and Tim Armstrong, who will join the lineup of previously announced participants including Google Chairman Eric Schmidt.

Under the theme The Data Overthrow, IC2013 will explore and debate the new business, advertising, and distribution models in this age of unprecedented access to information about consumers and the way they interact with content.

The International Council Summit will mark the first time ESPN's John Skipper and Nate Silver, statistician, author, and founder of the blog FiveThirtyEight, will engage in a public discussion since ESPN announced their partnership.

The agenda for IC2013 is as follows:

DAY ONE: November 21, 2013

WELCOME from Frank A. Bennack, Jr., Chairman, and Pat Mitchell, President and CEO, The Paley Center for Media

OPENING KEYNOTE: The Data Overthrow

Presentation by Hans Rosling, Cofounder and Chairman, The Gapminder Foundation

Overview from Kenneth Cukier, Data Editor, The Economist; Coauthor, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

Studios of the Future

Ynon Kreiz, Executive Chairman, Maker Studios

Nancy Tellem, President, Entertainment and Digital Media, Microsoft

Ronnie Screwvala, Managing Director, The Walt Disney Company India

Rich Greenfield, Managing Director, Media and Technology Analyst, BTIG (Moderator)

PRESENTATION: Rick Smolan, Author, The Human Face of Big Data

Strength in Numbers

John Skipper, President, ESPN, Inc.; Cochairman of Disney Media Networks

Nate Silver, Statistician, Author, and Founder, ESPN's FiveThirtyEight blog

Gaming and the Feedback Loop

Torfi Frans Olafsson, Creative Director, EVE Online; Head of Marketing, Arion

Elísabet Grétarsdóttir, Founding Creative Director, EVE Online

Tommy Palm, "Games Guru," King.com

Ola Ahlvarsson, Chairman, Result (Moderator)

PRESENTATION: Sree Sreenivasan, CDO, Metropolitan Museum

Keynote Session

A conversation with Chris Hughes, Publisher and Editor in Chief, The New Republic

PRESENTATION: Kris Hammond, Chief Technology Officer, Narrative Science

The News Algorithm

Jonah Peretti, Cofounder and CEO, BuzzFeed

Megan Liberman, Editor in Chief, Yahoo! News

Janine Gibson, Editor in Chief, The Guardian US

Emily Bell, Director, Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School (Moderator)

PRESENTATION: Mark Hansen, Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation

The TransAtlantic Tussle

Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

John Enser, Partner, Olswang LLP

Scaling the World

Uday Shankar, CEO, Star India

Demian Bellumio, COO, Senzari

Drinking from the Firehose

Deb Roy, Chief Media Scientist, Twitter

Oliver Luckett, Founder and CEO, theAudience

Data as the New Currency

Steve Hasker, President, Global Product Leadership, Nielsen

Rob Norman, CDO, GroupM Global

Rich Greenfield, Managing Director, Media and Technology Analyst, BTIG (Moderator)

Keynote Session

A conversation with Tim Armstrong, Chairman and CEO, AOL and Andrew Ross Sorkin, Author, Anchor, "Squawk Box," CNBC

DAY TWO: November 22, 2013

WELCOME from Frank A. Bennack, Jr., Chairman, and Pat Mitchell, President and CEO, The Paley Center for Media

A Global Entertainment Model

Bruno Wu, Founder, Cochairman, and Co-CEO, BT Capital Group

Aryeh Bourkoff, Cofounder and CEO, LionTree (Moderator)

PRESENTATION: Joe Marchese, CEO, SocialVibe

The New Advertising Game

Steve Stoute, Founder and CEO, Translation

Amy Webb, CEO, Webbmedia Group (Moderator)

PRESENTATION: Tom Doctoroff, CEO, APAC, JWT

The Money Algorithm

Hany Nada, Partner, GGV Capital

Hilary Mason, Data Scientist in Residence, Accel Partners

Scott Kurnit, Founder and CEO, Keep.com (Moderator)

PRESENTATION: Duncan McCall, CEO and Cofounder, PlaceIQ

Data and the Mobile World

Colson Hillier, Vice President, Precision Marketing, Verizon Wireless

Chris Weasler, Director of Global Connectivity, Facebook

Pelle Tornberg, Advisor, Ericsson (Moderator)

PRESENTATION: Nathan Eagle, Cofounder and CEO, Jana

Keynote Session

A Conversation with Eric Schmidt, Chairman, Google

Closing Overview

Andy Bird, Chairman, Walt Disney International
Janet Goldsmith, Advisor, The Paley Center for Media
Geoffrey K. Sands, Director, Media & Entertainment, McKinsey & Co.

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