Chicago Ideas: Conversations That Shape Change

When she was fifteen, Lauren Drain's family joined the Westboro Baptist Church, known for picketing the funerals of veterans and spewing hate speech. Years later, Lauren was banished by her father for questioning their practices. In this interview, she shares her incredible story.

Uploaded 14-03-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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Imagine growing up in Africa's largest slum, where 1.5 million people live in an area the size of Central Park. There are no roads, no sewer systems and few dreams, but here Kennedy Odede is giving the gift of "shining hope" to more 36,000 women.

Uploaded 18-03-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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Are you fearless enough? Have you made your failures matter? Hear Valerie Lies, CEO and president of the Donors Forum and Jean Case, CEO of The Case Foundation, highlight how those two elements have shaped history, the way we learn lessons and the mantra of one of the country's largest private foundations.

Uploaded 18-03-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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There are nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants living in America. Define American Founder and CEO, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and Chicago Ideas Week speaker @joseiswriting is one of them. How do you define American?

Uploaded 24-01-19

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Disruptive innovation is everywhere. From healthcare to social media, education to music, CIW gathers game-changing leaders from across the board to explore the importance of disruption in every corner of business, tech and life.

Uploaded 22-04-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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Why hire a veteran? Hear Major General Marcia Anderson share why the more than 200,000 deployed citizen soldiers of the Army Reserve make five-star employees, and find out how employers can connect with those returning home.

Uploaded 18-03-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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How will the news industry change over the next decade as we become an increasingly social media driven, paperless, and global society? In collaboration with TIME, CIW investigates citizen journalism, digital media and the future of news as we know it.

Uploaded 18-03-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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In this interview by tech writer and entrepreneur Anil Dash, top stakeholders at Facebook discuss navigating modern tech ethics in the new world, where tech dominates our lives. Facebook Vice President of Product Design Margaret Gould Stewart and Facebook Research Manager Sudhir Venkatesh explain how Facebook addresses ethical challenges; how to design for a diverse audience of 2 billion that has varying needs and different morals; and what you might not know about Facebook from the outside looking in.

Uploaded 01-05-18

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What makes you nervous? Have you ever seen a sunset? Where do the stars go? Ponder seven riddles as technologist and Discovery Channel host Jeff Lieberman sheds light on the meaning of life. You'll never take a shower or sit in traffic the same way again.

Uploaded 16-04-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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In the midst of a truly unprecedented year, how does Mayor Lightfoot stay calm and centered? How does she spend her free time (if she actually has any to spare)? These are some of the questions we asked during this insightful conversation, politics aside.

Uploaded 10-11-20

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