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Los Angeles

Date
Sunday, September 18, 2011
10:30am to 5pm

Location
TreePeople, 12601 Mulholland Drive
Beverly Hills 90210

**Registration for workshops onsite

  • 10:30am – 11:15am – Registration

    Location: ELC

  • 11:15am – 11:30am – Welcome

    Juliet Gorman, Editorial Director at Etsy.com, Mark Barker of Good and TreePeople
    Location: Conference Center

  • 11:30pm – 12:30pm – Keynote: Micki Krimmel and Dana Mauriello

    Keynote discussion between Micki Krimmel, founder of NeighborGoods.net, and Dana Mauriello, Co-Founder & President of ProFounder. and moderated by Grace Kim of Good.
    Location: Conference Center

  • 12:30pm – 1:30pm – Lunch

    **Local LA Food Trucks, Heirloom-LA and Hungry Nomas  or avoid the line and bring your own!
    Location: Amphitheater

  • 1:00pm – 1:30pm – Andy Lipkis, Founder and President, TreePeople

    Location: Amphitheater

  • 1:30pm – 2:30pm – Workshops
    **Registration for workshops onsite, first come first serve

    a. Discussing: What is a local living economy?

    Greg Wendt, VP Sustainable and Responsible Investing at EP Wealth Advisors, Inc.
    location: Conference Center

    b. Learning: Swap + Meet (Profounder)

    Swap + Meet, Dana Mauriello, Co- Founder and President of Profounder
    Location: ELC

    c. Making: Craft and Folk Art Museum: Materials provided

    Location: Picnic Tables

    d. Stream: Berlin talk TBD

    Location: Conference Center

  • 2:30pm – 2:45pm – Break/coffee/etc.

    ** served in Conference Center

  • 2:45pm – 3:45pm – Workshops II

  • **Registration for workshops onsite, first come first serve

    a. Learning and Hiking Presented by Tree People

    Location: Conference Center

    b. Learning: Finances 101

    with Ryan Thompson, VP Business Development, Outright.com
    “Finance 101 will teach you some of the simplest ways to measure your business successes and challenges, without finance jargon and complex math.
    Location: ELC

    c. Making: Craft and Folk Art Museum: Materials provided

    Location: Picnic Tables

    d. Stream: Berlin talk TBD

    Location: Conference Center

  • 3:45pm – 4:15pm – Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) *rebroadcast

    Our economy is swiftly evolving, as we head from the few and big to the small and many. Imagine a farmers market not just in carrots but in electrons, for instance. We’re moving into a world where we connect more deeply on very practical things than we have in the last fifty years–and about time, since the ongoing climate crisis is going to make this not just attractive but necessary.
    Location: Main conference room

  • 4:15pm – 5:15pm – Local Networking Mixer

    Location: Amphitheater

Speaker Bios

Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time Magazine called him ‘the planet’s best green journalist’ and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was ‘probably the country’s most important environmentalist.’ Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges, including the Universities of Massachusetts and Maine, the State University of New York, and Whittier and Colgate Colleges. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dana Mauriello (@teamprofounder) is the Co-Founder & President of ProFounder, a crowdfunding platform that provides tools for entrepreneurs to raise investment capital from their communities. Her passion for entrepreneurship was born from helping start and run multiple family businesses in a wide range of industries and seeing first hand what an empowering force entrepreneurship can be.
Prior to ProFounder, Dana worked on the Corporate Product Innovations team at Estee Lauder, creating new product concepts and bringing them to market. Her unique skills in this role lied in developing deep customer understanding and using this empathy to drive product development.
Dana created a unique major at Stanford University, earning her BA in Product Development, and double-dipped to earn her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business a few years later.
She is a champion powerlifter, and die-hard New Yorker.
Micki Krimmel (@Mickipedia) is the founder of NeighborGoods.net, a community where you can save money and resources by sharing stuff with your neighbors. Why buy when you can borrow?
Micki has been building online communities for almost a decade. She founded the interactive department at Participant Media, where she created the company’s first online community and led the social media efforts for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. She also ran the community department at Revver.com and has provided product and social media consulting for numerous startups and media companies.
Micki blogs for WorldChanging.com, The Huffington Post, Shareable.net, and Mickipedia.com. She is also an all-star roller derby skater with the Los Angeles Derby Dolls.


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