Conference discussing the creative economy, innovation and the future. SparkLabs focuses on cultivating and empowering Korean startups to go abroad. In the same spirit, SparkLabs wants to bring the best minds and most innovative people to Korea. We want to enhance Korea's already creative culture with visionaries, investors, corporate leaders and entrepreneurs from other parts of the globe for the first time in Korea to explore our future and innovation across various industries.

1. Conference discussing the creative
economy, innovation and the future

2. Background on SparkLabs
SparkLabs
is
Korea’s
premier
startup
accelerator.
We
provide
a
3-­‐month
long
program
for
seed
to
early-­‐stage
entrepreneurs
who
have
a
vision
beyond
Korea’s
borders.
Entrepreneurs
who
want
to
build
global
companies
and
have
a
vision
to
expand
to
the
U.S.,
China,
Japan
and
elsewhere.
SparkLabs
uniquely
provides
a
world-­‐class
team
of
mentors
to
accelerate
and
guide
each
of
our
companies.
www.sparklabs.co.kr
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3. NEXT Conference
SparkLabs
focuses
on
culGvaGng
and
empowering
Korean
startups
to
go
abroad.
In
the
same
spirit,
SparkLabs
wants
to
bring
the
best
minds
and
most
innovaGve
people
to
Korea.
We
want
to
enhance
Korea's
already
creaGve
culture
with
visionaries,
investors,
corporate
leaders
and
entrepreneurs
from
other
parts
of
the
globe
for
the
first
Gme
in
Korea
to
explore
our
future
and
innovaGon
across
various
industries.
www.nextconference.co.kr
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4. NEXT Conference
DATE:
June
14th
TIME:
9:00am
–
6:00pm
Loca,on:
COEX
ConvenGon
Center
Seoul,
Korea
A.endance:
400
www.nextconference.co.kr
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5. NEXT Conference
A world-class conference discussing the creative economy,
innovation and our future.

6. Speakers
Ray
Ozzie,
Founder
&
CEO
of
Talko
•
Former
Chief
SoUware
Architect
at
MicrosoU,
which
he
took
over
from
Bill
Gates
•
Bill
Gates
called
him
“one
of
the
five
best
programmers
in
the
world.”
Catherine
Mohr,
Director
of
Medical
Research
at
Intui,ve
Surgical
•
Clinical
design
leader
for
the
DaVinci
Surgical
RoboGc
system
•
Featured
speaker
at
TED
conference
in
Long
Beach,
CA
Richard
Florida
Author
of
“Rise
of
the
Crea,ve
Class”
•
Esquire
Magazine’s
“The
Best
and
the
Brightest”
list
•
Fast
Company
dubbed
him
an
“intellectual
rock
star”
•
Time
Magazine’s
“140
Best
Twiaer
Feeds”
in
the
world
Frank
Meehan,
Founder
&
CEO
of
Kuato
Studios
•
EIR
with
Horizon
Ventures
(Li
Ka-­‐shing's
private
VC
firm)
•
Former
board
member
of
SpoGfy
($3
billion
valuaGon),
Siri
(acquired
by
Apple)
•
Current
board
member
of
Summly
(recently
acquired
by
Yahoo!)
Over 20 world-class speakers coming to Seoul
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7. Attendees
Some
of
the
23
SparkLabs’
mentors
a.ending:
• Net
Jacobsson,
former
Facebook
execuGve
(first
internaGonal
execuGve)
• Doug
Glen,
former
CEO
of
Imagi
Studios
(HK)
&
former
President
of
Maael
Media
• David
Song,
General
Manager
for
China
(North
&
NorthEast
Territories)
at
Nike
• Teddy
Zee,
Head
of
CreaGve,
Mobile
Technologies
of
Rambus
&
Film
Producer
• Crick
Waters,
Co-­‐founder
of
Ribbit
(acquired
by
BT
for
$105
million)
• Ann
Greenberg,
Co-­‐founder
of
Gracenote
(acquired
by
Sony
for
$260
million)
• Eric
Kim,
Managing
Director
of
Maverick
Capital
(investor
in
KakaoTalk
&
Coupang)
• CJ
Guinness,
Partner
of
St.
James
Partners
• Eliot
Kang,
former
President
&
CEO
GIIR
• Pavan
Nigam,
Co-­‐Founder
of
Healtheon/WebMD
• Young
Chung,
General
Partner
at
DAG
Ventures
400 Influencers from Korea & Worldwide
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8. Agenda
8:00am
Registra'on
9:00am
Fireside
Chat
with
Ray
Ozzie
&
Moderated
by
Spencer
Reiss
(WIRED)
9:30am
Future
of
Educa=on
Frank
Meehan,
CEO
of
Kuato
Studios
Jeremy
Johnson,
Co-­‐founder
&
President,
Undergraduate
Programs
at
2U
Gene
Wade,
Co-­‐founder
&
CEO
of
UniversityNow
Moderated
by
Zach
Seward
(Quartz)
10:15am
Coffee
Break
10:30am
Future
of
Retail
David
Lee,
SVP
of
Finance
at
Best
Buy
Jonathan
Levine,
Vice
CTO
of
Rakuten
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9. Agenda
11:15am
Search’s
Next
Domain
Pat
Kinsel,
Co-­‐founder
&
CEO
of
Spindle
Tomer
Kagan,
Co-­‐founder
&
CEO
of
Quixey
Moderate
by
Catherine
Hsu
(TechCrunch)
12:00pm
LUNCH
1:00pm
Innova=on
in
Healthcare
Pavan
Nigam,
Co-­‐founder
of
Healtheon/WebMD
Kai
Huang,
Co-­‐Founder
of
Guitar
Hero
Catherine
Mohr,
Director
of
Medical
Research
at
IntuiGve
Surgical
Moderated
by
Susan
Lee
MacDonald
(ArirangTV)
1:45pm
Andrew
Keen,
Author
of
“Digital
Ver,go”
2:15pm
Coffee
Break
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10. Agenda
2:45pm
Innova=ons
in
Cloud
Compu=ng
In
Sik
Rhee,
General
Partner
at
Rembrandt
Venture
Partners
Eiji
Uda,
CEO
of
Salesforce.com
Japan
Amr
Awadallah,
CTO
&
Co-­‐Founder
of
Cloudera
Moderated
by
Serkan
Toto
(TechCrunch)
3:30pm
Innova=ons
in
Mobile
Ivo
Weevers,
Head
of
Design,
Ubuntu
Bin
Lin,
Co-­‐Founder
&
President
at
Xiaomi
InJong
Rhee,
SVP
of
Technology
Strategy
at
Samsung
Electronics
Moderated
by
Jon
Russell
(The
Next
Web)
4:15pm
Ci=es
Leading
Global
Innova=on
Richard
Florida,
Author
of
“Rise
of
the
CreaGve
Class”
Richard
Dobbs,
Director
of
McKinsey
Global
InsGtute
Moderated
by
Spencer
Reiss
(WIRED)
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11. Speakers Bios
Ray
Ozzie,
Founder
&
CEO
of
Talko
Ray
Ozzie
is
an
independent
soUware
entrepreneur
and
pioneer
in
social
producGvity,
an
area
more
known
in
the
field
as
Computer-­‐Supported
CooperaGve
Work.
He
recently
founded
and
serves
as
CEO
of
Talko,
a
startup
focused
on
a
new
generaGon
of
mobile
communicaGons
apps
and
services.
Through
late
2010
he
was
Chief
SoUware
Architect
of
MicrosoU,
the
company’s
most
senior
technical
strategy
&
architecture
role
previously
held
by
Bill
Gates.
Ray
Ozzie
came
to
MicrosoU
in
2005
through
the
acquisiGon
of
Groove
Networks,
a
company
he
founded
in
1997
to
focus
on
soUware
and
services
for
small-­‐team
dynamic
collaboraGon.
Prior
to
Groove,
in
1984
Ozzie
founded
and
led
Iris
Associates,
the
creator
and
developer
of
Lotus
Notes.
A
decade
later,
Iris
was
acquired
by
Lotus
and
then
by
IBM.
Under
his
leadership
during
that
period,
Lotus
Notes
grew
to
be
used
for
communicaGon
&
social
producGvity
by
hundreds
of
millions
at
most
major
enterprises
worldwide.
Before
creaGng
Notes,
he
worked
on
1-­‐2-­‐3
and
Symphony
at
Lotus,
on
VisiCalc
and
TK!Solver
at
SoUware
Arts,
and
on
operaGng
systems
at
Data
General.
Ozzie
studied
computer
science
&
engineering
at
the
University
of
Illinois
Urbana-­‐Champaign,
where
he
has
been
honored
as
a
disGnguished
alumnus.
It
was
there
where
he
first
took
in
the
significance
of
online
community
and
social
interacGve
systems
as
a
systems
developer
on
the
seminal
PLATO
project.
Honored
as
one
of
seven
Windows
Pioneers
by
MicrosoU,
Ozzie
was
named
Person
of
the
Year
by
PC
Magazine,
and
has
been
inducted
into
the
Computer
Museum
Industry
Hall
of
Fame.
He
has
been
honored
as
a
World
Economic
Forum
Technology
Pioneer
and
has
received
numerous
awards
including
the
IEEE
Computer
Society's
W.
Wallace
McDowell
Award
and
the
SDForum
Visionary
Award.
In
2004
Ozzie
was
inducted
as
a
member
of
the
NaGonal
Academy
of
Engineering,
and
in
2010
he
was
named
as
a
fellow
of
the
American
Academy
of
Arts
&
Sciences.
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12. Speakers Bios
Richard
Florida,
Author
of
“Rise
of
the
Crea,ve
Class”
The
Director
of
the
MarGn
Prosperity
InsGtute
at
the
University
of
Toronto’s
Rotman
School
of
Management,
Global
Research
Professor
at
New
York
University,
and
the
founder
of
the
CreaGve
Class
Group,
which
works
closely
with
governments
and
companies
worldwide,
Richard
Florida
is
perhaps
the
world’s
leading
urbanist,
“as
close
to
a
household
name
as
it
is
possible
for
an
urban
theorist
to
be
in
America,”
according
to
The
Economist.
Esquire
has
included
him
on
its
annual
list
of
“The
Best
and
the
Brightest,”
and
Fast
Company
dubbed
him
an
“intellectual
rock
star.”
Florida
is
the
author
of
several
global
best
sellers,
including
the
award-­‐winning
The
Rise
of
the
CreaGve
Class
(“one
of
the
best
business
books
of
all
Gme”—800-­‐CEO-­‐READ),
and
is
a
senior
editor
for
The
AtlanGc,
where
he
co-­‐founded
and
serves
as
Editor-­‐
at-­‐Large
for
AtlanGc
CiGes,
the
world’s
leading
media
site
devoted
to
ciGes
and
urban
affairs.
Florida
appears
regularly
on
CNN
and
other
news
broadcasts
and
is
a
regular
contributor
to
the
op
ed
pages
of
major
newspapers
and
magazines.
TIME
magazine
recognized
his
Twiaer
feed
as
one
of
the
140
most
influenGal
in
the
world.
Florida
previously
taught
at
Carnegie
Mellon
and
George
Mason
University,
and
has
been
a
visiGng
professor
at
Harvard
and
MIT.
He
earned
his
Bachelor’s
degree
from
Rutgers
College
and
his
Ph.D.
from
Columbia
University.
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13. Speakers Bios
Catherine
Mohr,
Director
of
Medical
Research
at
Intui,ve
Surgical
Dr.
Catherine
Mohr
is
currently
the
Director
of
Medical
Research
at
IntuiGve
Surgical,
where
she
develops
new
surgical
procedures
and
evaluates
new
technologies
for
improving
surgical
outcomes.
An
expert
in
the
fields
of
roboGc
surgery
and
sustainable
technologies,
Dr.
Mohr
is
passionate
about
realizing
the
potenGal
benefit
that
appropriately
applied
technologies
can
have
in
our
society.
She
has
had
numerous
arGcles
published
and
been
featured
in
the
news
many
Gmes.
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14. Speakers Bios
Frank
Meehan,
Founder
and
CEO
of
Kuato
Studios
Frank
Meehan
is
Founder
and
CEO
of
Kuato
Studios,
a
next
generaGon
AI
company
focused
on
learning
and
gaming,
backed
by
SRI
InternaGonal
–
the
creators
of
Siri.
He
is
also
EIR
with
Horizons
Ventures,
Li
Ka-­‐shing's
private
VC
firm,
and
was
a
board
director
at
SpoGfy,
Siri,
AffecGva,
Bitcasa
and
Fixmo.
Currently
on
the
boards
of
Summly,
DesG,
Ginger
and
Doubletwist.
Originally
a
coder/troubleshooter
with
Ericsson,
Frank
has
worked
in
mobile
since
1996
in
Asia,
Europe
and
the
US.
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