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TUESDAY, FEB. 25

9:10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Welcome & How communities will compete and succeed in the 21^st century - Text "KMFwelcome" to 313131

Welcome, Alberto Ibargüen, President, Knight Foundation; 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. How communities will compete and succeed in the 21^st century : André Dua, Senior Partner, New York, McKinsey and Company; Karen Freeman-Wilson, Former Mayor, Gary, Indiana; Brian Hooks, President, Charles Koch Foundation and Stand Together; Mariam Noland, President, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. Introduction: Lilly Weinberg, Director, Community Foundations, Knight Foundation.

12:15 – 2 p.m.: Recode Decode: A conversation with Univision’s Jorge Ramos - Text "recode" to 313131

Jorge Ramos, Anchor, Journalist, Univision; Kara Swisher, Co-founder, Recode and New York Times Contributor. Introduction: Jennifer Preston, Vice President/Journalism, Knight Foundation. This plenary will be taped for an upcoming episode of Swisher’s podcast.

3 – 4 p.m.: Emerging models for building local journalism - Text "JRNmodels" to 313131

David Hulen, Editor, Anchorage Daily News; Paul Huntsman, Publisher and Owner, Salt Lake Tribune; and Fraser Nelson, VP of Business Innovation, Salt Lake Tribune; Diane Kaplan, CEO, Rasmuson Foundation; Moderator: Julie Sandorf, President, Charles H. Revson Foundation

4 – 5 p.m.: The internet unleashed: The growing challenge of hateful content online - Text "unleashed" to 313131

Safiya Umoja Noble, Associate Professor, UCLA; Talal Ansari, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal; Joan Donovan, Director of Technology and Social Change, Harvard’s Shorenstein Center; Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the Center for Civic Media, MIT. Introduction: Sam Gill, Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer, Knight Foundation

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26

8:30 – 9:15 a.m.: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor, World Wide Web - Text "www" to 313131

9:20 – 10:20 a.m. : Amplifying voices from underrepresented communities - Text "amplify" to 313131

Maria Hinojosa, President and Founder, Futuro Media Group; Jeff Hirota, CEO, Community Foundation Boulder County; Martin Reynolds, Co-Executive Director, Maynard Institute. Moderator: Jennifer Choi, News Integrity Initiative, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY. Introduction: Karen Rundlet, Director/Journalism, Knight Foundation

10:25 – 11:15 a.m. : Making issues move: the role of data and digital in elections - Text "elections" to 313131

A conversation with Teddy Goff, Founding Partner, Precision Strategies, former Digital Director, Obama for America 2012 and Ory Rinat, Deputy Assistant to the President and Chief Digital Officer, The White House. Moderator: Judy Woodruff, Anchor and Managing Editor, PBS NewsHour

12:45 – 2:15 p.m.: Creating value not content: The importance of original reporting - Text "AGS" to 313131

A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher, The New York Times. Introduction: Alberto Ibargüen, President, Knight Foundation

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