Disruption Now

Propaganda is not spin, marketing or campaigning it’s rapid, repetitive, and it lacks commitment to consistency. The firehose of false propaganda is the biggest threat to our country. To beat it we must first understand how serious of a threat it is.

What You will Learn

What makes propaganda different than campaign or marketing.

How propaganda has evolved into a mix of infotainment and misinformation 

How quantity of information becomes quality to voters and viewers.

What we can do to fight propaganda

Notes

It is also rapid, continuous, and repetitive, and it lacks commitment to consistency. Russian propaganda 

https://apple.news/A6OY4iFovShqQSvsfgZsZWw

At the first Republicans in MI refused to certify votes in Michigan 

https://apple.news/A5MSA0bBoQuuTnB9e7s6gkg

Putin doesn’t recognize Biden as President-elect 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-22/putin-says-he-s-not-ready-to-recognize-biden-as-u-s-president

Trump fighting to overturn legal election 

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/21/937060717/trumps-futile-fight-to-overturn-election-loss-breeds-turmoil-risk?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1VR-FodlAbUWy5ZZZUBahmXMIvmClGmljtlmxcMeTSF_U2zZu552Oy2vU

Fox News becoming a victim of its own propaganda 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/us/politics/Tucker-Carlson-trump.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR1ciY5FIk9_j5h45ZgRTy68F-zsSeYg2xt7oxhKaehCd_5NzPRj6azfcco

How propaganda works

https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

Noelle Silver has spent many years as a trainer, architect, and evangelist for IBM, RedHat, EMC, Amazon and Microsoft. She believes diversity of thought must be applied at every level to ensure tech doesn't become bias.

What You will learn in this episode 

Why Tech like AI is bias and what to do about

Why we need to move from tokenism to real change for inclusion in tech 

The meaning and impact of mindful leadership

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The opening session at the Disruption Now Summit with corporate leaders and entrepreneurs. From survey results, gathered from entrepreneurs we will explore the common questions, pitfalls, and struggles for entrepreneurs seeking access to capital.  

Featured Speakers:
Kevin Cadette—Executive Director Black Angels Miami
Travis Holoway—Solo Funds and Kala Gibson Executive VP 5/3 Bank
Kala Gibson—Executive VP 5/3 Bank
Carmen West—Managing Partner 641B Capital Fund
Moderators: 
Mimi Shalash—Network Director WITI  
Rob Richardson—Disruption Now Host

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She is also the founder of Solid Ground Innovations, LLC  (SGI), a strategic communications and management firm with offices in Baton Rouge and New Orleans that she founded in 2009. Sevetri possesses expertise in strategic communications, brand marketing, technology, public affairs and project management.  In her role at Resilia , Sevetri sets the vision for the company, builds and manages the team, and leads the company’s execution against its strategy. Additionally, Sevetri provides strategic oversight for client project execution while facilitating new market entry and client cultivation. Her technical strengths include business development, communications strategy, market analytics and trends, advocacy and community outreach, team building and coaching, process analysis and project management. 

Some of Sevetri’s clientele over the years have included Fortune 100 and 500 companies, small businesses, government agencies, political figures, and not for profit organizations.  Her work and that of her clients has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times and CNN. In 2010, Sevetri received the National Nobel Prize for Public Service, The Jefferson Award for advocacy and community outreach for the curriculum design she created for a nonprofit and was featured in the Senate’s report to the White House on volunteerism in the country.  In the same year, Sevetri received a proclamation from New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, and was further recognized by former U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu. In 2013, Sevetri received Business Woman of the Year from the Louisiana Legislative Women’s Caucus. 

SGI, the company Sevetri founded in 2009, has received dozens of accolades and awards and has been named to the LSU 100: Fastest Growing Tiger Businesses in the world by the university’s Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute(SEI) for three consecutive years. 

In 2016, Sevetri was appointed to Governor John Bel Edwards’ Economic Development Transition team where she worked with 16 other business leaders from across the state to create recommendations for economic growth in the state of Louisiana. In 2017, Sevetri was appointed to Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome’s transition staff after leading communications in a successful campaign bid for Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish.

This is a re-play from the Disruption Now Summit 2020. Artificial Intelligence is less impactful unless you understand the human connections and problems you are seeking to solve. Artificial intelligence must have empathy and be more connected with the communities it impacts. Learn the tricks of the trade and the latest trends in automation.  

Speakers:
Will Hayes—Lucidworks
Doug McCollough—CIO City of Dublin
Lauren Burke—Women in Analytics
Rob Richardson—Host of the Disruption Now Summit

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Dawn Dickson is well-known for raising capital through crowdfunding means. In 2019, she made history using the same fundraising route usually overlooked by Black entrepreneurs. Dickson became the first Black founder in history worldwide to raise the highest secure token offering (STO) crowdfunding round from the general public. Her company PopCom has raised millions from more than 4,000 investors.

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The closing keynote panel at the Disruption Now Summit focused on what this moment means for black equity. In 2020 it’s now become mainstream to be socially conscious. Everyone from the NFL to the NBA, to startups and corporations, it’s now popular and universally accepted to say black lives matter.  But what does that actually mean for black equity? 
Speakers:

Theo Dumont—Managing Partner of Alta Media and the PR firm for Spike Lee
Karla Ferguson—Yeelen Group
Phylicia Fant—Co-CEO of Urban at Columbia
Brooke Thomas—Journalist and TV host
Rob Richardson— Host of the Disruption Now Podcast

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In this session from the Disruption Now Summit we discuss the best practices and approaches for getting funded as a start-up with Jewel Burks -Solomon. Burks is an advocate for representation and access in the technology industry. As co-founder of Partpic, a startup designed to streamline the purchase of maintenance and repair parts using computer vision, Jewel and her team built groundbreaking technology poised to change the way people everywhere locate products. Partpic raised over $2 million in seed funding from notable investors like AOL co-founder, Steve Case, and Comcast Ventures, and integrated its software into mobile apps/websites of large parts distributors and retailers. Partpic was acquired by Amazon in late 2016 and the technology now powers visual search for replacement parts in the Amazon Mobile Shopping app.

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Maxeme Tuchman is the CEO + Co-Founder of Caribu, an interactive video-calling platform that allows parents and grandparents to read and draw with children when they’re not in the same location. Caribu made Fast Company’s list of World-Changing Ideas for 2019, was named one of the ‘Top Ten EdTech Companies to Watch’ in Forbes, and became one of the most innovative startups in the world by winning the 1776 Global Challenge Cup. Max has been the winner or finalist in 30+ pitch competitions, is the 59th Latina in the US to raise over $1M in venture funding and the first Latina to raise $1M in Equity Crowdfunding, and was recently named as one of INC Magazine’s top 100 Female Founders for 2019.

She has worked in almost every level of education from being a public school teacher, a consultant at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Executive Director of Teach For America, and manager of education projects under NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and DC Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee. Before co-founding Caribu, Max was appointed by President Obama to serve as a White House Fellow at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. She is a first-generation Cuban-American and college student, and a graduate of the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs and the Miami Fellows Leadership Program. Max is a 2018 Toyota Mother of Invention and received her MBA & MPP from Harvard.