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| Startonomics Hawaii Startup2Startup Hawaii | Sustainability | Blogworld Social Media Business Summit East Meets West | Geeks Off The Grid |
| 8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast Waikiki Beach Marriott Outside "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower | 8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast Waikiki Beach Marriott Outside "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower | 8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast Waikiki Beach Marriott Outside "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower | Thank you to Neenz Faleafine, Curator of TEDxHonolulu for inviting [Re]Think : Hawaii participants to attend. |
9:00 - 9:45 Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower Startonomics Welcome Startup Metrics for Pirates Dave McClure - Founders Fund This is a 5-step model for creating a metrics framework for your business & customers, and how to apply it to your product & marketing efforts. The "pirate" part comes from the 5 steps: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, & Revenue (AARRR!) 9:45 - 10:30 Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower Creating Something from Nothing: Product Management for V1 Products Dan Olsen, Founder, YourVersionCreating a brand new V1 product from scratch has unique challenges compared to just making improvements to an existing product. This talk will cover best practices in V1 Product Management including: understanding customer needs, problem space vs. solution space, user interface design principles, prioritization, and metrics. 10:30 - 11:00 Kona Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:45 Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower Design 101 For Startups Jason Putorti, Lead Designer, Mint.com Everyone knows good design is important, but not how to create it or why it matters so much. This talk will focus on several ways you can use the power of design, branding, and usability to build a defensible business advantage for your startup. 11:45 - 12:30 Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower Building Web Properties That Convert Dan Martell, Co-Founder, Flowtown After you have managed to attract people to your Web site, how do you get visitors to convert into customers? What are the tricks in getting them to make a purchase, fill out a contact form, or make a phone call. Dan Martell promise to offer nine tactics focused on Web conversions and user retention to drive real results. 12:30 - 2:00 Room "Salon B" 3rd Floor, P Tower Entrepreneurs Wanted Launch (Lunch) Neenz Faleafine / Ed Young 2:00 - 2:45 Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower Sit, Stay, Click! User Engagement & Retention Ted Rheingold - Founder / CEO, Dogster 2:45 - 3:30 Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower Scalability For Startups Frank Mashraqi, Co-founder and VP Technology at XGraph 4:15 Pick up for Waikiki Dinner Cruise meet at tour bus pick up driveway of Waikiki Marriott. bus leaves promptly at 4:00pm! 5:00 - 7:30 Startup2Startup Waikiki Dinner Cruise (private) for those not on the tour bus, please meet at Aloha Tower. Dinner cruise departs promptly at 5:00 8:00 - 9:30 GeeksOnAPlane Drinks (open) Waikiki Beach Marriott 3rd floor, "P" Tower - cash bar All in Hawaii's tech sector open to joining Geeks On A Plane and attendees of [Re]Think: Hawaii for drinks & convo. 9:30 - 11pm Girls In Tech After Party (open) Tiki's Bar & Grill All in Hawaii's tech sector open to joining Girls In Tech for late night drinks & convo next door at Tiki's Bar & Grill. | 9:00 - 9:45 Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower Panel: Environmental Innovation Moderator: Neil Blecherman - Global Director, Intel Corp. Panelists: Jill Buck - Founder, Go Green Initiative Jeff Mikulina - Exec Dir, Blue Planet Foundation Leah Lamb - Producer, Current.com Green 9:45 - 10:30 Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower Panel: Sustainable Hawaii Moderator: Leah Lamb, Current TV Panelists: Representative Hermina Morita Kevin Vaccerello - Founder/ Dir, SustainHawaii.org Ramsay Taum - Pres, World Business Academy Shana Faith Trevenna - Youth Leader, UH Kory Payne - Policy Portal Our panel is designed to foster a plethora of perspectives about the challenges that Hawaii faces and addresses in the sustainability arena. The intention is to bring together a strong network within the Hawaiian community while utilizing the off island networks present at the conference and creating long term connections and learning, and potential collaborations. 10:30 - 11:00 Kona Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:45 Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower Go Green Initiative Jill Buck - Founder, GGI The Go Green Initiative is a simple, comprehensive program designed to create a culture of environmental responsibility on school campuses across the nation. Founded in 2002, the Go Green Initiative unites parents, students, teachers and school administrators in an effort to make real and lasting changes in their campus communities that will protect children and the environment for years to come. 11:45 -12:30 Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower The Kanu Vision James Koshiba - Executive Director Olin Lagon - Kanu Hawaii Kanu Hawaii uses island values and unique web 2.0 tools to empower people to build sustainable, compassionate, resilient communities. Using a commitment-based model of engagement, Kanu has attracted 8,000 members in its first year and a half -- including 2,000 people outside Hawaii spread across 12 countries and 300 communities across the mainland U.S. Several national and international NGOs are now seeking to use Kanu's web tools and model of community organizing. James Koshiba, Co-Founder and Executive Director, will share Kanu's story, its experience to date, and the new national and international partnerships the organization is now pursuing from Hawaii. 12:30 - 2:00 Room "Salon B" 3rd Floor, P Tower Lunch 2:30 - 6:00 GeeksOnAPlane Visits Pearl Harbor (private) GeeksOnAPlane & Pacific Aviation Museum 6:30 - 9:30 What Gives!? Cocktail (Week Pass & Sustainability Day Pass holders) Kaiwa sponsored by Cause Media Group in partnership with Share Your Table What Gives!? presents an opportunity for sustainability day attendees to relax, reflect and connect about the things that matter to us in an intimate environment with great food and drinks organized by Share Your Table. 9:30 - 11:00 After Party (TBA) | 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome Message Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower Social Media Business Summit Rick Calvert - Founder/CEO, Blogworld 9:00 - 9:45 The Basics of Social Media and Participatory Marketing BlogWorld Social Media Business Summit Jim Turner - One By One Media Many businesses are hearing about social media and they want to jump on the bandwagon and implement a social media strategy, but have no idea where to begin. This session is a quick look at implementing social media into your existing business plan and not using it as a spamming tool. Case Studies: Social Media For Business BlogWorld Social Media Business Summit Moderator: Rick Calvert, Founder, Blogworld BlogWorld - Social Media Business Summit Neenz Faleafine - Founder, Pono Media Jay Talwar - Sr. VP Marketing, HVCB Robert M. Murray - VP, Social Media, NatGeo Nathan Kam - Incoming President, PRSA Hawaii Todd Castor - Marriott e-commerce Using Social Media to gain market share, to expose your customer to your product or just making the change from old school traditional media to the exciting world of new media, this session takes a look at ways business are making the shift and changing the way the do business to keep up with cutting edge practices. 10:00 - 10:45 Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower Social Media For Social Good BlogWorld Social Media Business Summit Chris Noble, CEO Cause Media Group Chris Noble talks about the intersection of social media and cause and how non-profits are leveraging social media for raising awareness of their cause, fund raising and creating online communities to support their mission. The Parent Track Moms & Dads in Social Media A discussion with: Beth Blecherman - Founder, Techmamas.com Jim Turner - Founder, One By One Media Many of us get our start in learning social media tools by blogging about a topic they're passionate about. Social media is also about good story telling and raising kids can provide the best stories. Learn and share with a panel of mommy and daddy bloggers on how they share their stories, expand network and connect with brands & companies who want to reach this large online community. 10:45 - 11:15 Kona Coffee Break 11:15 - 12:00 Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower Twitter As A Power PR Tool BlogWorld Social Media Business Summit Deb Micek Twitter is all the rage. Mainstream media has adopted it, kids are using it, and every form of business is now using it. How can you use Twitter as a powerful PR tool? This session will teach the basics of how to best use Twitter to your advantage. Overview of Asia's Tech Sector East Meets West Moderated by: Eric Nakagawa, ADAM Panelists: Kaiser Kuo - China Joyce Kim - Korea Paul Papadimitriou - Japan, SE Asia Elliott Ng - US / China Cross Border Dave McClure - US / Asia Cross Border 12:00 -1:45 "Birds of a Feather" Lunch Not like any other networking lunch. Tables will be marked with a sector/topic of interest allowing those in the room to connect with peers in the same sector or meet and learn from conversations surrounding a new area of interest. Very casual environment, people can move around, hang out at different tables and listen in or actively participate in the discussion. Tables in 3 rooms will be marked: I Am A Geek Travel Bloggers Non-Profits East Meets West Angels & Entrepreneurs Green Mommy & Daddy Bloggers 2:00 - 2:45 Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower Case Studies: Social Media For Non-Profits BlogWorld - Social Media Business Summit Chris Noble - CEO, Cause Media Group Amanda Rose - Founder, Twestival Olin Lagon - Kanu Hawaii Jill Buck - Go Green Initiative Using Social Media to raise awareness of a cause, grow and mobilize a grassroots community and fund raising for non-profits is the topic of discussion. Case studies and discussion on key learnings including what worked, didn't and what's around the corner for non-profits. Fast Pitch 101 : How To Pitch An Investor Geeks On A Plane Moderator: Dave McClure - Founders Fund Panel: Dean Gardner - Crossover Capital Dan Martell - angel investor Eric Nakagawa - angel investor Elliott Ng - angel investor 3 startups have the opportunity of pitching their idea to a panel of VCs and angels in a room of other entrepreneurs who want insight into the process of how to pitch an investor. 3:00 - 3:45 Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower Opening The Social Media Toolbox - Chris Pirillo BlogWorld - Social Media Business Summit Chris Pirillo - Founder, Gnomedex & CNN.com Tech Expert Blogs, Podcasts, Lifestreaming, Video, Twitter, Facebook and many other examples of social networks are the tools that we have available to us. What are they and how are they being used? These are questions answered by this session from one of the top experts in social media today. Social Media Case Studies: Steve Langill - Dir of Marketing, Mint.com Jeremiah Owyang - Partner, Altimeter Group Todd Castor - Marriott, e-Commerce Division 4:00 - 4:30 Kona Coffee Break 4:30 - 5:30 Room "Salon A" 3rd Floor, P Tower Closing Keynote Address: Where Are We Going? The Future of Social Media & Business BlogWorld - Social Media Business Summit Jeremiah Owyang - Partner, Altimeter Group Many are saying that the corporate website is irrelevant. The real time web and business merge. Communities and conversations are changing the face of business. This session provides information about your business and where it needs to look for the future online. 5:30 - 6:30 Social Media Business Summit Cocktails 6:30 - 9:30 What Gives?! Presents: Geeks and Glamour Grammy Foundation Charity Luau Sponsored by: What Gives!? Hosted by: Chris Pirillo & Shira Lazar Benefiting: Music Education in schools via Grammy Foundation and Makana's I Ho'ili Kamali'i (IHK) Venue: Outrigger Waikiki A night of raising awareness of the importance of music education in schools, Grammy Foundation, Makana and What Gives!? invite everyone to an evening at the Outrigger Waikiki to announce a new initiative by Cause Media Group in support of music education in Hawaii's schools. Join us for that announcement! About I Ho'ili Kamali'i -- Started in 2008 by Makana, Hawai'i's youngest slack key guitar master and rising international music star, I Ho'ili Kamali'i (IHK) serves the children of Hawai'i by bringing culturally oriented music experiences into classrooms across Hawai'i. | 9:00 - 3:00 What They Don't Teach You In Business School Larry Chiang Panel: VC Secrets Moderated by: Larry Chiang Photo Camp Hawaii Kris Krug5:00 - 8:00 Fresh From The Grill TechKaraoke Party Sponsored by Grilled Cornbread, LLP |