Quartz is in San Francisco today for the latest edition of our flagship events series, The Next Billion, all about the next billion people to come online for the first time, largely on mobile phones. It’s being held at the SFJAZZ Center, and while the event is sold out, you can follow along right here, starting at 9am Pacific time / noon Eastern time.
Here’s the schedule:
8am—Registration and breakfast
9am—Welcome to The Next Billion
Benedict Evans, partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Deb Roy, chief media scientist, Twitter
Sara Menker, founder and CEO, Gro Intelligence
Matt Grob, CTO, Qualcomm
10:40am—Morning break
11:10am—Innovation on the edge
Hans Tung, managing partner, GGV Capital
Brian Behlendorf, executive director, Hyperledger Project
Atlas interlude
Joe DeSimone, founder and CEO, Carbon
Rodney Brooks, founder and CTO, Rethink Robotics
12:40pm—Lunch
2:05pm—The future of education and work
Allen Blue, co-founder, LinkedIn
Rick Levin, CEO, Coursera
Kate Mitchell, co-founder and partner, Scale Venture Partners
Vivek Ravisankar, co-founder and CEO, HackerRank
Kimberly Bryant, founder, Black Girls Code
Atlas interlude
Esther Wojcicki, chief learning officer, Planet3
Russlynn Ali, CEO, XQ Institute; managing director, education, Emerson Collective
3:35pm—Afternoon break
4:10pm—Friction free
Katharina Borchert, chief innovation officer, Mozilla
Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO, Stripe
Atlas interlude
Daniela Perdomo, co-founder and CEO, goTenna
Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder and CTO, Airbnb