Doors Open

Complimentary Breakfast (While supplies last)

The New Playbook for Agility During Disruption

Featuring Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO, Stack Overflow; Sam Jordan, Head of Computing and Technology, Future Today Strategy Group and Peter Smart, Chief Experience Officer and Managing Partner, Fantasy
Moderated by Kc Ifeanyi, Executive director of editorial programming, Fast Company

To Be Announced

Resale Revolution: Building the Next Era of Retail

Featuring Phoebe Gates, Founder, Phia and Sophia Kianni, Founder, Phia
Moderated by Rebecca Barker, Event producer, Fast Company

Lunch Break

Complimentary Lunch (While Supplies last)

Innovation on Ice: What Happens When America Squeezes Out Its Global Workforce?

Featuring Yakov Filippenko, Founder and CEO, Intch and Anu Joshi, National Campaigns Director, Immigration, American Civil Liberties Union
Moderated by Tania Rahman, Social media director, Fast Company

To Be Announced

The Long-form Game: Why Enduring Brands Invest in Real Stories

Featuring David Lafitte, President and CEO, Tecovas
Moderated by Jeff Beer, Senior staff editor, Fast Company

Business as Unusual: How to Function at Work While the World Is Burning 

Featuring Morra Aarons-Mele, Author, Leadership Trainer, Researcher, The Anxious Achiever and Laura Hambley Lovett, Organizational Psychologist, Speaker, Author, Podcast Host, Dr.Laura.live
Moderated by Tania Rahman, Social media director, Fast Company

Bull Market: How Texas Could Shift Business Dynamics at Large  

Featuring Michael Sury, Associate Professor, Finance and Director, Center for Analytics, University of Texas at Austin
Moderated by Max Ufberg, Senior editor, Fast Company

Beyond Products: Building Brands That Matter

Presented by Texas A&M University

Featuring Ethan Braden, VP and CMO, Texas A&M University; Kim Chappell, Chief Brand Officer, Bobbie and Ryan Sullivan, Chief Marketing Officer, GoodRx
Moderated by Damian Slattery, Senior VP of Marketing, Fast Company & Inc

Opening Night Party

Presented by Texas A&M University

Doors Open

Complimentary Breakfast (While supplies last)

To Be Announced

Yahoo’s AI Comeback: Inside the Future of Search 

Featuring Jim Lanzone, CEO, Yahoo
Moderated by Brendan Vaughan, Editor in chief, Fast Company

To Be Announced

Lunch Break

Complimentary Lunch (While Supplies last)

Cracking the Cult Brand Code

Featuring Elyse Cohen, Chief Impact Officer; President, Rare Beauty; Rare Impact Fund; Kim Vaccarella, Founder and CEO, Bogg and Jen Zeszut, Cofounder and CEO, Goodles
Moderated by David Salazar, Staff Editor, Fast Company

In Conversation with Athina Kanioura, CEO, Latin America, and Global Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, PepsiCo

Presented by PepsiCo

Featuring Athina Kanioura, CEO, Latin America, and Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, PepsiCo
Moderated by Stephanie Mehta, CEO & chief content officer, Mansueto Ventures

Fighting AI Slop with Real Creativity

Featuring Helen Andrews, CEO, Johannes Leonardo; James Chester, Founder and CEO, WVN and Andy Pearson, VP of Creative, Liquid Death
Moderated by Jeff Beer, Senior staff editor, Fast Company

To Be Announced

Decoding the Future with Amy Webb

Featuring Amy Webb, CEO, Future Today Strategy Group
Moderated by Brendan Vaughan, Editor in chief, Fast Company

Happy Hour

Sponsored by Capital One Business

Doors Open

Complimentary Breakfast (While supplies last)

Gear Shift: What’s Next for Rivian and the Future of EVs

Featuring RJ Scaringe, Founder and CEO, Rivian

All In: Drug Discovery and the Power of Uncertainty

Featuring Robert Plenge, EVP and Chief Research Officer, Bristol Myers Squibb
Moderated by Shibani Joshi, Fast Company Custom Studio

Streaming Main Street: Reinventing Local Media with Zeam

Featuring Jack Perry, Founder and CEO, Zeam and John Stamos, Actor, Producer, Author, and Chief Innovation Officer, Zeam
Moderated by David Salazar, Staff Editor, Fast Company

Lunch Break

Complimentary Lunch (While Supplies last)

The New Rules of Brand Longevity

Featuring Maya Rogers, CEO, The Tetris Company and Christie Sclater, SVP of Global Marketing, Clinique
Moderated by Jeff Beer, Senior staff editor, Fast Company

Innovating Through America’s Healthcare Crisis

Featuring Allison Sesso, President and CEO, Undue Medical Debt; Shelly Towns, Chief Marketing Officer, Lantern and Ambalika Williams, Senior Campaign Strategist for Reproductive Freedom, American Civil Liberties Union
Moderated by David Salazar, Staff Editor, Fast Company

The New C-Suite: How Gen Z CEOs Are Rewriting Workplace Rules 

Featuring Lucy Blakiston, Founder and CEO, Shit You Should Care About; Anam Lakhani, Cofounder and Co-CEO, Alinea Invest and Katie Diasti, Founder and CEO, Viv Period Care
Moderated by Rebecca Barker, Event producer, Fast Company

Purpose Under Pressure: A Conversation with Ben Cohen

Featuring Ben Cohen, Cofounder, Ben & Jerry’s
Moderated by Kc Ifeanyi, Executive director of editorial programming, Fast Company

Happy Hour

Sponsored by Adobe

Doors Open

Complimentary Breakfast (While supplies last)

Lunch Break

Complimentary Lunch (While Supplies last)

Exploring the Final Frontier: How Space Research Is Shaping the Future of Humanity

Presented by Texas A&M University

Featuring Robert Ambrose, Associate Director of the Texas A&M Space Institute, Texas A&M University; Jason Kim, CEO, Firefly Aerospace and  Dave Lavery, Program Executive for Solar System Exploration, NASA (retired)
Moderated by Nicole Sawyer, Executive producer, Fast Company Custom Studio

Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurship: Building Businesses with Extraordinary Impact

Presented by Texas A&M University

Featuring Federico Muyshondt, President and Chief Operating Officer, The Farmer’s Dog; Michelle Peterson, Chief Marketing Officer, Kendra Scott and Liz Teran, Chief Parent Officer, Owlet
Moderated by Ben Baer, Vice president and executive editor, Fast Company Custom Studio

Closing Party

Presented by Texas A&M University