Program

 

Tuesday, November 13th

Time	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
4:00 pm	Registration and Badge Pickup at the Downtown Grand Hotel (4:00pm – 7:00pm)

 

Wednesday, November 14th

Time	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
7:30 am	Breakfast and Registration
8:45 am	Welcome Remarks Eric Ries
9:00 am	Lean Impact: Revolutionizing Social Good with the Lean Startup Eric Ries, Ann Mei Chang
9:40 am	Fireside Chat: Eventbrite’s Journey from Startup to IPO Tamara Mendelsohn
10:00 am	Break & Transition
10:30 am	Mastering Experiment Design Giff Constable, Elliot Susel	Life Is a Startup: Lessons for Team Building Noam Wasserman	Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good Ann Mei Chang, Steve Nagai-Ma	Coaching for Innovation Marilyn Gorman
12:30 pm	Lunch and Networking			Partner Lunch and Learn: AgileCraft
2:00 pm	Vanity vs. Impact: How to Identify your Most Valuable Metrics Using the Customer Journey Brant Cooper	Creating a Startup Culture in Complex Environments: Leading Innovation in the Department of Defense Molly Cain, Marilyn Gorman, Lauren Knausenberger, Christina Monaco	Transforming Your Culture to Support Lean Giff Constable, Melissa Perri	Changemakers Using Lean Startup Methods For Greater Social Impact Ann Mei Chang, Rey Faustino, Emily Joy, Alp Tilev
3:00 pm	Break & Transition
3:30 pm	Lean Startup Where You’d Least Expect it Malcolm Handley, Hisham Ibrahim, Jaya Rao, Greg Piefer, Claudia Recchi
4:15 pm	The Billion Dollar Startup: Innovation at Scale Holly Liu
4:50 pm	The Transformative Power of Lean Storytelling Matt Johnson, Stephen Robert Morse
5:15 pm	End of Day 1 Sessions
6:30 pm	Evening Networking Event: Meetups at the Mob Museum (6:30pm – 8:30pm)

 

Thursday, November 15th

Time	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
7:30 am	Breakfast and Registration
8:45 am	Building the Two-Sided Marketplace Travis Holoway
9:20 am	A New Approach to Measuring Product/Market Fit Dave Binetti
9:40 am	Fireside Chat Eric Ries, Tony Hsieh, Elliot Susel
10:15 am	Break & Transition
10:45 am	A/B Testing Your Way to Growth: The 8 Rules of Testing Lars Lofgren	The Role of Governance: Lessons from Operating an Innovation Growth Board Eric Steege	Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: Writing Effective Problem & Outcome Statements	Anti-Patterns for Enterprise Innovation Teams Cindy Alvarez
11:30 am	Transition
11:45 am	Value Hypothesis: Designing With Emotion Beth Andres-Beck	False Start: Learning from Entrepreneurial Failure Tom Eisenmann, Christina Wallace	Working Backwards: Amazon’s Culture of Innovation Richard Halkett	Using Lean Measurement and Evaluation to Educate the World’s Poor Steve Cantrell
12:30 pm	Lunch & Networking
2:00 pm	Mastering Customer Discovery Giff Constable, Elliot Susel	Innovation Accounting for Profit (and Fun!) Dave Binetti	Empowering Intrapreneurs: Catalyzing Innovation with Design Thinking Hugh Molotsi, Jeff Zias	Don’t Bet on Your First Business Model — Validate It Early Ed Essey, Brady Kalb
3:30 pm	Break & Transition
4:00 pm	Designing WITH Disability Liz Jackson
4:25 pm	Building (and Bootstrapping) Stack Overflow, Glitch, and Trello Joel Spolsky
5:00 pm	Real-world Lessons in Scaling Innovation Inside Large Enterprises Steve Liguori
5:30 pm	End of Day 2 Sessions
6:30 pm	Lean Startup Conference Celebration at Container Park (6:30pm – 9:00pm)

 

Friday, November 16th

Time	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
8:00 am	Breakfast and Registration
8:45 am	Fireside Chat: Innovation in the Age of Millennials Brit Morin, Kathryn Minshew, Marilyn Gorman
9:35 am	The Power of Lean Data Sasha Dichter
10:00 am	How to Reinvent Your Organization Aaron Dignan
11:00 am	Break & Transition
11:30 am	Taking Care of Business AND You: The Human Side of Being a Founder Kara DeFrias, Marissa Lucero, Ari Takata-Vasquez	Planting Seeds for a Grassroots Movement Susan Block, Josh Dorrell, Hisham Ibrahim	The Internet of Things: Turning Products into Services Rob Conant	Lean Approaches to Fundraising Ann Mei Chang, Brady Josephson
12:30 pm	Lunch and Networking
2:00 pm	Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies Reid Hoffman, Robert Sutton
2:35 pm	Closing Session Hugh Molotsi
3:00 pm	Conference Concludes