Tag: Robin Chase

Registration NOW Open & Last Call on Early Bird Discount

Posted on by Nicky Yates

Social Media Week is just over a month away. And, as the saying goes, never put off until tomorrow what you can do today—which is register for the events you’d like to attend! That’s right, as of today, attendee registration is open.

Powered globally by Nokia and MKG, this year’s event explores our always on, always connected world through the theme, The Future of Now.

New York will host hundreds of events led by more than 200 unique speakers (including Eli Pariser, Robin Chase, Cindy Gallop, Harper Reed, and Jeffrey Colen), all under one roof at our new Campus at Highline Stages in the Meatpacking District.

We hope you’ll join us. Simply check out the schedule, filter according to your interests and goals, register for the events that pique your curiosity, then share with your friends.

Don’t want to have to choose? (We know, we hate decisions too.) Purchase a pass! Holders of this golden ticket, so to speak, enjoy exclusive benefits, unlimited access to all official events throughout the week, and are sure to deepen their SMW experience. Plus, today is our LAST day to grab our 20% Early Bird Discount.

Sign up soon! Like a 7AM SoulCycle class, spots won’t be open for long.

Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar & Buzzcar: Building a Sustainable Economy through Collaboration

Posted on by Nicky Yates

Few individuals can claim to have impacted the future of transportation more than Robin Chase. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world. And she hasn’t stopped there.

“I’m very interested in looking at excess capacity everywhere.”

Most car owners only use their vehicles 5% of the time. Robin wanted to find a way to create additional resources from that, similar to how Airbnb maximizes additional space for vacationers. Buzzcar is the child of this process, a service that brings together car owners and drivers in a new carshare platform, and GoLoco, an online ridesharing community.

She’s a huge proponent for developing more platforms for participation, so more consumers have more ways to trade resources instead of continually purchasing new items. Robin has declared, “We are transitioning from an industrial economy to a new sustainable collaborative economy.”

We’re thrilled to announce Robin as one of our headline speakers. She is truly a pioneer, bringing social commerce to the forefront with peer-to-peer lending in innovative ways. She has been recognized for her work by being named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company’s Fast 50 Innovators, and BusinessWeek’s Top 10 Designers.

You’ll want to hear what Robin has to say. Join us at Campus this February. Grab your pass here.

Seasons of Change: A New Mayor, A New SMW NYC Vision & Home

Posted on by Nicky Yates

The city has a new mayor, creating a new beginning and shift in the air. And here at SMW NYC, together with the city, we embrace this change. We celebrate change. This February, we’re bringing a new vision; a renewed passion.

This is our sixth year of SMW NYC, and we’re bringing you a totally new experience.

A New Home: Official Campus

We want your SMW14 experience, to be more social, more interactive, and more productive than you ever thought possible. Powered for a third year by our long time partners Nokia, we’ve moved all official programming to our Official Campus venue at Highline Stages to give you a more unified and cohesive experience.

A Unifying Theme: The Future of Now

SMW is where we make progress in terms of how technology and humanity come together. This February we will look at this through our theme The Future of Now, which will explore our always on, always connected world. Driving the conversation will be our keynote speakers, which this year include:

+ Steve Case – Revolution, founder of Case Foundation, and founder & former CEO of AOL
+ Robin Chase – co-founder of Zipcar and CEO of BuzzCar

Both Steve and Robin have built and sold hugely successful businesses, and both continue to drive change in their respective fields. In addition to these pioneers in business, you will also hear from:

+ Nancy Lublin – DoSomething.org
+ Doug Rushkoff – Author of Present Shock
+ Eli Pariser – UpWorthy
+ Scott Heiferman – Meetup
+ Cindy Gallop – MakeLoveNotPorn.tv
+ Soraya Darabi – Zady

We will be making many more speaker announcements over the coming weeks, but for now we have a really exciting offer to get in early! All events at Campus will require a pass, and today we are announcing an incredible offer, just for you, our existing community.

Because you’ve been a long standing member of our community, we want to thank you with a special offer. If you buy your pass in the next 24 hours and share it with your friends, you get 50% discount. SMW is designed to be social, so invite your friends.

Three floors of activities; four stages of content; four days of programming; and four ways you can experience it all.

Learn more and get the pass that’s right for you here.

Thanks and we can’t wait to show off all we’ve been working on this February!