Name: Brainstorm Tech 2024: Welcome
Uploaded: 2024-07-15
Duration: 8 min 55 s
Description: Maryam Banikarim, Managing Director, Fortune Live Media, Andrew Nusca, Fortune, Alyson Shontell, Fortune

Maryam Banikarim, Managing Director, Fortune Live Media, Andrew Nusca, Fortune, Alyson Shontell, Fortune

Brainstorm Tech 2024: Welcome

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Hey, everybody. How are we doing? Yes, I like the energy. Very good. Very good. All right, good afternoon. And welcome to Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2024. We are so glad you're here and we are so pleased to be back in Park City for another year. Our annual Excuse him Mountain retreat since our very first in 2001 brainstorm has brought together the smartest people we know to tackle the world's problems and interrogate the role that technology plays in them. Veterans of this event? No. How many are veterans? Raise your hand? Oh, yes, I love it. Thank you. Veterans of this event. No, there is nothing like a fortune brainstorm. Each year we host a collective conversation, a dialogue, a discussion, a democratic exchange of ideas. Everyone invited to attend. Brainstorm is accomplished enough to speak and we encourage you to do so at every turn, especially at our signature roundtable sessions, let your ideas flow. And for fans of the TV, show The Bear, I present the following nonnegotiable, an environment that embraces and encourages razzle dazzle and the dream weave. All right. Anyway, there's a lot to talk about this year adversarial artificial intelligence for one regulation is another. Give it up for regulation. No, I'm just kidding. Robots in the workforce making bets in this economy are insatiable hunger for human connection. And there's some sort of election this year. I don't know, we'll talk about it later. Anyway. At brainstorm, we also host conversations with whom we call leading thinkers and thinking leaders to spark discussion among the group. And we're going to do that right here on this stage. You're in for a real treat. This week, the investor Roelof Botha is joining us, the musician and entrepreneur, Alo Black is on the program today. You will hear from Mary Daly, the president of the San Francisco fed tomorrow. You'll hear from the ceos of Grindr Zos ripple runway Lucid Motors. And if you don't stick around for my Wednesday conversation with Kara Swisher, you will surely regret it before I continue, I want to introduce you to the woman who now runs the business of brainstorm. Some of you have already met her in addition to that of fortune's most powerful women franchise. I first met her at this very event a decade ago and I'm delighted to now call her a colleague. Please meet connector community builder and consummate New Yorker, Miriam Bacerra. Um It's so nice to have you all here and I think we need another welcome for Andrew who's returned to fortune there. Just wasn't enough energy in that for me. Andrew. So sorry. Um I couldn't be more excited to lead brainstorm tech and most powerful woman alongside Andrew and the incredibly talented journalists and team that we have. Now, I'm gonna bet that like many of you, I was a kid who wanted to make a difference and I chose to make that difference in the world of business. And that's what actually makes me interested in this role at fortunes because fortune's mission is to change the world by making business better. And for me, that's personal, in a world that is filled with rapid innovation, societal instability and political polarization, we have an opportunity and that's why as I look across this room and I see all you smart, powerful people here coming together to solve some of the big issues of the day. I am hopeful. It's great to be back here. My first fortune brainstorm was in 2014. I love the energy on stage and in the tent. If I haven't had a chance to meet you yet at horseback riding or any of the other events, I'll be looking for you at the tent over to you, Andrew. Oh, thank you. Miriam isn't my only co conspirator for brainstorm. Of course, each year's program is carefully curated by an ace team, you know, some of them and that includes our co chairs and I'd like to introduce them to you. Now, hope please hold your applause until the end. If you don't mind, please meet fortune editor in chief and chief content officer Alison Chantel, fortune tech correspondent, Jason del Rey. Jason, where are you? There we go. And our two multi hyphenate guest chairs this year, the CEO of Pie and co founder of Bonobos Andy Dunn. Here's Andy and the founding partner of human Ventures and CASA Comos brands group, Joe Marchese. Joe. Where are you? There we go. All right, please. A round of applause for everybody. We also had extra help. This year, this year we established what we call our brain trust. It's literally called that an advisory board drawn from this very community. We wanted to hear your voices more powerfully. So we're so grateful for their guidance, the members of the brain trust along the way and I'm going to list them now. A special thanks to Eric Rie Olson, Terry Burns, Jill Greenberg, Chase Lucy Guo, Brooke Hammering, Lena Koko TJ Parker, Raj, Sadr Lila Treo and Ken Washington, a round of applause for all of them, please. So we want to also acknowledge our partners for this event, right? Without their continued support and contribution, this wouldn't be possible sales force our premier partner Lenovo New York Stock Exchange, Qualtrics and Threshold. And of course our sponsor KPMG. Thank you for helping make brainstorm what it is and then making it come to life. Finally, I want to take a moment and do a shout out to our fortune founders forum. I got a chance to meet some of them last night. They're an incredibly special cohort of early stage entrepreneurs that you will want to meet. And we've invited them to join us here in Park City. They're rising stars who are solving some very big problems and you'll be thrilled to welcome them. I am sure. So please look for them. They actually have a lanyard that makes them a little bit more obvious. So want to take it from here. Yes, thank you, Miriam. All right, this morning we kicked off the day with a range. That's a mountain pun. Folks of activities set against the glorious natural backdrop. That is Utah Show of hands. How many people broke a sweat this morning? Yes, me too. I love it. Thank you. That's right. We hiked, we w we whitewater rafted, we fly fished. We even bobsledded. All right, folks who were alive in the nineties, say it with me. Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme get on up it. Thank you, Sanka. Um An important reminder about that actually. Um We are at altitude in case you haven't noticed. So please drink lots of water all the way through the event. We have water stations pretty much all over the place. If you need any before we dive into the program. I want to bring up our editor in chief Alison Chantel for a few words. One about thanks Andrew. And I just want to say a big thank you to all of you for being here with us today. The Fortune's mission for 95 years has been to be the arbiter of truth and high quality journalism for global leaders. It's never been harder for any of us to do our jobs than it is right now. Um And so I think that mission of journalism is ever ever more important, especially as we're looking ahead at what A I will do to the proliferation of things like it'll bring of great change. It will also bring a lot of misinformation, a lot of lack of trust. So I think it is ever more important for all of us to gather in settings like this. I know your time is so valuable. The work we're doing as journalists is valuable too. I think the danger zone is when none of us want to talk anymore. I see that all over my social media feeds. It is so important for us all to be together in this environment, sharing ideas, challenging ideas growing together, making sure that the truth comes to in really responsible ways. So we're investing in bringing people like Andrew NSA back into our newsroom. Uh We're producing our next issue of the magazine coming up. You're going to see a couple of speakers here this week who will be featured in the next issue. But we're continuing to bring the high quality journalism. You need to run your companies to the best of your abilities and please keep talking to our journalists, please speak them out because it is so important for the communication to not stop. So thank you and enjoy brainstorm tech.