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KEYNOTES 2:00PM IN BALLROOM D OF THE CONVENTION CENTER & SIMULCAST THROUGHOUT VENUES FESTIVAL SESSIONS 7 3 2 0 1 6 S X S W I N T E R A C T I V E P R O G R A M G U I D E K E Y N O T E S Casey Gerald • Friday, March 11 Cofounder and CEO of MBAs Across America Opening Keynote: Casey Gerald Casey Gerald is the Cofounder and CEO of MBAs Across America, a national movement of MBAs and entrepreneurs working together to revitalize America. He began his career in economic policy at the Center for American Progress and has worked with nonprofit and for-profit ventures ranging from The Future Project to The Neiman Marcus Group. He has been featured in The New York Times, Financial Times and on the cover of Fast Company, which named him one of the "Most Creative People in Business." A native Texan, Gerald received a BA from Yale and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he delivered a commencement address that, along with his work, has made him an influential voice on the awakening that is changing business and society – making purpose the new bottom line. Dr Brené Brown • Saturday, March 12 Founder and CEO of The Daring Way™ and COURAGEworks Daring Greatly Dr Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past 13 years studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness and shame. Brown is the author of three #1 New York Times bestsellers: Rising Strong, Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfec- tion. She is also the Founder and CEO for The Daring Way™ and COURAGEworks – an online learning community that offers ecourses, workshops and interviews for individuals and organizations ready for braver living, loving and leading. Brown's 2010 TEDxHouston talk, The Power of Vulnerability, is one of the top five most viewed TED talks in the world, with over 25 million viewers. Brown lives in Houston with her husband, Steve, and their two children, Ellen and Charlie. Michele Madansky and Trae Vassallo • Sunday, March 13 Elephant in the Valley Kevin Plank • Monday, March 14 Founder, Chairman and CEO of Under Armour How a Sports Giant Is Now Tackling Your Health While playing football at Maryland, Kevin Plank was inspired to create a better kind of T-shirt – one that could keep athletes cool, dry and light. Upon graduating in 1996 with a business degree, Plank started to turn his idea into a reality. He went on a mission to find the perfect fabric – performance synthetics – and combined it with an athlete's perfect fit – compression. His discovery ultimately led to the launch of Under Armour as the high performance answer to the sweat-drenched cotton dilemma. After twenty years of outfitting athletes with the world's most innovative performance apparel, footwear and equipment, Plank oversees a global company of 14,000 employees with total revenues of nearly $4 billion. The Under Armour Connected Fitness Platform powers the world's largest digital health and fitness community through a suite of applications. True to his vision Plank and Under Armour are committed to empowering athletes everywhere . . . and they are just getting started. Andy Puddicombe • Tuesday, March 15 Cofounder of Headspace Why Happiness Is Hard and How to Make It Easier Andy Puddicombe is a meditation expert and Cofounder of Headspace. In his early twenties, midway through a university degree in Sports Science, Andy made the unexpected decision to travel to the Himalayas to study meditation. It was the beginning of a 10-year journey, which took him around the world, culminating with ordination as a Tibetan Buddhist monk in Northern India. His transition back to lay life in 2004 was no less extraordinary. Training briefly at Moscow State Circus, he returned to London where he completed a degree in Circus Arts with the Conservatoire of Dance and Drama, whilst drawing up the early plans for what was later to become Headspace. The Headspace app has now been downloaded more than five million times. João Canziani Danny Clark