Here’s the 30,000 ft/11 Hour Question: Can a single transatlantic flight help change the world?
In June, British Airways put 100 brilliant innovators on one plane for 11 hours to find out. Join us at the Apple Retail Store on North Michigan Avenue in Chicago at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, October 24 as we reunite 3 travelers from that UnGrounded flight for a conversation on the challenges and creative solutions of hacking at 30,000 feet. Peter Sheehan, Director of Sales, TeraMedica and Laura Pincus Hartman, Vincent de Paul Professor of Business Ethics, DePaul University are joined by WIM’s Kelly Hoey, for a discussion of what happens when some of the most forward-thinking founders, CEOs, venture capitalists, and technology game-changers, are hand-picked and put on a flight from San Francisco to London.
About Our Panelists:
Laura Pincus Hartman is Vincent de Paul Professor of Business Ethics at DePaul University’s College of Commerce and is Founder / Board Chair of the School of Choice, a high quality elementary school in Haiti serving children in poverty. She has received DePaul’s Excellence in Teaching Award, the Spirit of DePaul Award, the Woman of Spirit Award in honor of St. Louise de Marillac, the University Public Service Award, and the College Outstanding Service Award. From 2009-2012, Laura was Director of External Partnerships for Zynga.Org, through which Zynga players of FarmVille, Words with Friends and other online games have contributed more than $14 million toward the both domestic and international social causes.
Peter Sheehan is Director of Sales at TeraMedica. TeraMedica is privately held company, was formed in 2001 to advance a research project initiated at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The challenge was to develop a clinical image archive that could accommodate the size of Mayo’s practice – one of the largest in the country – and provide access to images for clinicians wherever and whenever it was needed. TeraMedica developed the easy-to-use, robust, reliable solution that healthcare enterprises across the country have come to rely on.
About Our Moderator:
Listed in Forbes as one of five women changing the world of VC/Entrepreneurship, one of 40 women over 40 to watch and by Fast Company as one of the “25 Smartest Women On Twitter”, Kelly Hoey is a founder of Women Innovate Mobile (WIM), the first startup accelerator focused exclusively on accelerating the growth of early-stage mobile technology ventures with gender-diverse founding teams. . She sits on the advisory boards of tech startups: Lion’esque Style, The Levo League, Notorious, BuzzTarget, Canvs.co and Best Fashion Friend. A business strategist and startup advisor since 2009, Kelly’s clients have looked to her as their “chief connections officer, interactive creative director, social networking curator, business relationship strategist & corporate network builder”. She can be found on Twitter @jkhoey