Nate Silver – Editor-in-Chef, FiveThirtyEight

 

Dean Kamen – Founder, FIRST

 

Alexis Ohanian – Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Initialized Capital & Co-Founder, Reddit

 

Jason Robins – CEO & Co-Founder, DraftKings

 

Jessica Gelman (Moderator) – CEO, Kraft Analytics Group

 

Reddit, the Segway, Daily Fantasy Sports, and predicting presidential elections. Over the past decade, meet the inventors and entrepreneurs who have created lasting change affecting how consumers engage with information, data, and the world. How did they conceive of their ideas? What challenges did they face in their journey to create the product and build the business? How would today’s technology accelerate their original ideas? While some have made their mark in the sports industry by identifying changing consumer preferences and technological advances, others find inspiration from other industries. This panel will share learnings across industries, analyze how serial entrepreneurs build innovative ideas and ideate on where they see opportunities in sports.