Sep 10 2010
San Francisco, CA
Culture Unleashed – "Scaling Culture Panel"
"Unleashed Culture is an interactive 1-day conference that will give CEOs of leading startups and emerging companies the tools and insights they need to build powerful cultures that unleash the potential of their people.
The conference will bring together an invitation-only group of CEOs of the most promising fast-growing companies to help plant the seeds for the next generation of America's leading companies to become thriving organizations where people love to work."
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The conference will bring together an invitation-only group of CEOs of the most promising fast-growing companies to help plant the seeds for the next generation of America's leading companies to become thriving organizations where people love to work."
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Sep 30 2010
Tahoe, CA
Tahoe Tech Talk 2010
(not speaking, just attending!)
Tahoe Tech Talk is not another tech conference.
It's not just about assembling an outstanding lineup of speakers (though we've done that). It's about creating an opportunity for true discussion.
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Tahoe Tech Talk is not another tech conference.
It's not just about assembling an outstanding lineup of speakers (though we've done that). It's about creating an opportunity for true discussion.
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Mar 13 2010
Austin, TX
The Era of Crowdsourcing: Guiding Priciples
Scott Belsky from Behance and I are speaking about the necessary steps to ensure that crowdsourcing remains a viable, powerful new business model and doesn't end up being a fad.
Nov 19 2009
Palo Alto, CA
WebPlay
WebPlay Conference is an annual showcase of industry leaders, market trends, innovation, and the people are changing the world. There will be an accumulation of panels, startup demo, and keynote speeches.
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Nov 16 2009
New York, NY
Web2.0 Expo
"Web 2.0 Expo, co-produced by O'Reilly Media and TechWeb, showcases the latest Web 2.0 business models, development paradigms and design strategies for the builders of the next-generation Web."
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Aug 14 2009
San Francisco, CA
JellyTalks
"JellyTalks is a collaboration between Jelly and the Yahoo! Developer Network to share new ideas and have interesting conversations."
More details to follow...
More details to follow...
Jun 22 2009
The internet!
Mixergy Live Interview
Jun 18 2009
Boulder, CO
TechStars
Giving a modified version of my BIGOmaha presentation to the 2009 class of TechStars.
May 08 2009
Omaha, NE
Big Omaha
Over the past few years, Omaha has been emerging as a hub for creativity and innovation. We want to build on this movement by getting innovators, creatives, and entrepreneurs together here in Omaha to think BIG.
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May 06 2009
Boulder, CO
Walk The Talk Show at Boulder Theater
On Wednesday, May 6th, elephantjournal.com’s “Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis” at the historic Boulder Theater is honored to host Top Chef Hosea Rosenberg, famous yoga teacher John Friend, Titans of New Tech including Jeffrey Kalmikoff of Threadless, Brad Feld, Micah Baldwin of Lijit; music by Paper Bird.
More information here
More information here
Apr 16 2009
New York, NY
The 99 Percent Conference
Jake and I are speaking at the 99 Percent Conference at the Time Center in NYC.
Insights and stories from a diverse set of speakers, the conference will assess productivity in a creative context, offering a sneak peek behind the process, exposing how ideas come to life.
The 99% Conference
Insights and stories from a diverse set of speakers, the conference will assess productivity in a creative context, offering a sneak peek behind the process, exposing how ideas come to life.
The 99% Conference
Apr 03 2009
San Francisco, CA
Web2.0 Expo - "A Conversation With Threadless" (Keynote)
Web 2.0 Expo is a global annual gathering of technical, design, marketing, and business professionals who are building the next generation web. Web 2.0 Expo features the most innovative and successful Internet industry figures and companies providing attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web 2.0 world to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities.
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Apr 03 2009
San Francisco, CA
Web2.0 Expo - "Corralling the Crowdsourced Community" (Panel)
Panelists: Jennifer Pahlka (TechWeb), Jen Bekman (20x200 | Jen Bekman Projects, Inc.), Matt Stinchcomb (Etsy, Inc.), Jeffrey Kalmikoff (Threadless)
Date/Time: 2:40pm Friday, 04/03/2009
Mar 15 2009
Austin, TX
Is Spec Work Evil? panel at SXSWi
Speaking on a panel hosted by crowdSPRING called "Is Spec Work Evil? The Online Creative Community Speaks." Also included on the panel is Jeff Howe and David Carson. I'll be at SXSW from March 12-18, so get in touch if you wanna meet up!
Mar 13 2009
Austin, TX
SX Studio Interview at SXSWi
I'm being interviewed by Christina Warren, writer for the blog TUAW at 3:00pm at Studio SX at the Austin Convention Center during SXSWi.
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Mar 03 2009
Boulder, CO
TechStars For A Day
Jake and I speak to potential TechStars companies.
Feb 09 2009
San Jose, CA
User Generated Conference & Expo
Speaking alongside Bruce Livingston (Founder & CEO, iStockPhoto) and someone from MySpace on a panel moderated by Jeff Howe (Wired, "Crowdsourcing") on the topic of "staying fresh with maturing social networks".
User Generated Content Conference & Expo will bring together the visionaries and innovators in content creation, platform creation, new media and brand presence for this emerging field to interact.
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User Generated Content Conference & Expo will bring together the visionaries and innovators in content creation, platform creation, new media and brand presence for this emerging field to interact.
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Dec 01 2008
Cambridge, MA
Harvard Business School - Threadless Case Study
Helping to present the Threadless Case Study at Harvard Business School which is being taught to over 900 students.
Oct 02 2008
Denver, CO
CSIA Demo Gala
Panelist with Alfred Lin of Zappos
Jun 06 2008
Chicago, IL
SEED Conference
Jake and I are presenting at the SEED Conference in Chicago, "a one-day conference on design, entrepreneurship and inspiration." www.seedconference.com
May 19 2008
Chicago, IL
AIGA "The Business of Design"
From the AIGA site... "The Business of Design series brings together Chicagos business thought leaders in design, marketing, communications, strategy and research. Well tap the genius and the lessons learned from inspiring business leaders who understand the value of design and integrate design throughout their organization."
Nov 07 2007
New York, NY
Future of Web Design
Guest speaker at The Future of Web Design. Not sure what I'm speaking about yet... but I'll have more info soon!
Nov 02 2007
Chicago, IL
IIT Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization Conference
Moderated panel discussion with Mike Evans of grubgub.com about "integrating Web 2.0 into your entrepreneurial venture" at McCormick Place.
Aug 14 2007
Chicago, IL
Double-Click/Performics Client Summit
Panelist on "The Age of Ingenuity" keynote panel for the 2007 Double-Click/Performics Client Summit
Jun 27 2007
Chicago, IL
Red Bull 'Art of the Can'
Guest judge for the Chicago Red Bull "Art of the Can" competition.
Mar 26 2007
San Diego, CA
O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing
I was honored to be invited by Tim O'Reilly to speak with him onstage at the O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (eTech).
Feb 21 2007
The Internets!
Fireside Chat at Signal Vs. Noise
Jacob and I along with Jakob Lodwick and Zack Klein from Connected Ventures get interviewed by SVN.
Feb 10 2007
Palo Alto, CA
Community Next @ Stanford University
Jake and I are speaking at the Community Next Conference. Our speech is entitled "The Patent-Pending skinnyCorp Method for Creating Online Awesomeness and Other Stuff"
Jan 23 2007
Radio!
Mancow
Guest on Mancow to promote our side-project I Park Like An Idiot.
Nov 14 2006
Television!
Chicago Tonight
Jake and I are guests on the TV news program Chicago Tonight on WTTW channel 11, doing a piece on Threadless. Watch the segment here
Nov 04 2006
Chicago, IL
Cut & Paste Competition
Judge for the Cut & Paste competition which pits designers against eachother in a 15 minute design-off!
Sep 06 2006
Television!
Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN
The Jakes and I are featured on Anderson Cooper 360 in his "On The Rise" segment. Watch the segment here
Apr 21 2006
Copenhagen, DK
CustomerMade Student Session
Speaker at student session at IT University @ University of Copenhagen.
Apr 20 2006
Copenhagen, DK
CustomerMade Convention
Speaker at student session at IT University @ University of Copenhagen. Other speakers included people from BBC, Lego, OhMyNews.com, and many others.
Mar 13 2006
Austin, TX
SXSW Interactive Festival
Panelist for "Design for Community with Zero-Advertising Brands" Check out the video here!
Mar 01 2006
Television!
Attack of the Show
Guest on "Attack of the Show" on G4 representing Threadless & ExtraTasty.
Watch the segment!
Feb 28 2006
Los Angeles, CA
UCLA
Speaker at "The Minds Behind Threadless"
Feb 22 2006
Chicago, IL
DePaul University
Speaker at "How The Heck Did They Do That?"
Nov 11 2005
NYC
Parsons School of Design
Panelist for "Apparel and Identity in the City" at Tishman Auditorium
Nov 07 2005
Cambridge, MA
MIT
Speaker at "Community and User Innovation" at MIT Innovation Lab
Sep 09 2005
New York, NY
Semi-Permanent
Speaker at the first U.S. Semi-Permanent Conference at the Lincoln Center.
Apr 29 2004
Chicago, IL
Speak Up's seriouSeries #3
Panelist at the third installment of "seriouSeries" at Coudal Partners.
Nov 08 2003
Chicago, IL
Columbia College Chicago
Speaker at "Academic Computing Lecture Series".
Oct 21 2003
Chicago, IL
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Guest lecture for "The Computer as a Motion Graphics Tool"
Oct 30 2002
Chicago, IL
Columbia College Chicago
Guest teacher for "Elements of Multimedia" class.
Apr 18 2002
Chicago, IL
Version>02 Digital Convergence Festival
Panelist at "Version>02" at the Museum of Contemporary Art.