FORA.tv Goes to the United Nations!

Today, FORA.tv goes to the United Nations!

On April 14, 2010, World Entrepreneurship Day is taking place at the United Nations. World Entrepreneurship Day is the internationally-recognized day for the celebration of the world's entrepreneurial heroes. The event will include talks by General Electric’s Beth Comstock, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, designer Mark Ecko, hacker and inventor Pablos Holman, and UN Executive Director Amir Dossal, and several others.

FORA.tv is proud to participate in this event by sending CEO Blaise Zerega to join noted entrepreneur and investor, Esther Dyson, and Google Fiber’s product manager, Anjali Joshi. Blaise will lead a discussion on "Current Tech Trends Affecting the Future Digital Landscape. "

Here's the full agenda:

3:00pm - 3:15pm - Introduction to World Entrepreneurship Day (WED) by Lauren Amarante & Troy Byrd; presentation by WED Oakland Office of the Mayor, WED municipals representative; presentation by Oumar Diaw, WED Africa representative; presentation by Tyler Metcalf, Arizona State University, WED Colleges representative

3:15pm - 3:20pm - Introduction of Amir Dossal by WED Advisor Wendy Diamond

3:20pm - 3:35pm - "Millennium Development Goals: Challenges & Opportunities - Why & How Entrepreneurs Can Get Engaged" Amir Dossal

3:35pm - 4:05pm - "Making the World a Better Place through Entrepreneurship: One Drop at a Time" by Peter Thum

4:05pm - 4:35pm - "The Art of Innovation from the Hacker's Perspective" by Pablos Holman

4:35pm – 4:40pm - "The Artistic Entrepreneur: A Big Pink Vision” by Asa Mathat

4:40pm – 4:50pm – BREAK

4:55pm - 5:20pm - "Funding the Big Idea: Lessons from the Investor Who’s Heard a Lot of Them" by Howard Lee Morgan

5:20pm – 6:00pm. A discussion on "Developing the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs: Innovating Primary & Secondary Education in America" with Marc Ecko, Don Moody, John Petry, Leonard Brody, moderated by Ira Sockowitz

6:00pm - 6:30pm – A discussion on "Championing an Innovative Culture & Embracing Disruptive Ideas in a Global Corporation" with Maria Bartiromo, Beth Comstock, and Anjali Joshi.

6:30pm – 6:35pm - “The Start of a Global Phenomenon” by Chris McCann

6:35pm – 6:40pm – “The Foodtrepreneur: Twitter & Cupcakes”

6:40pm - 7:10pm - A discussion on "Current Tech Trends Affecting the Future Digital Landscape " with Esther Dyson and Anjali Joshi; moderated by Blaise Zerega.


Due to UN policy, we’ll be unable to bring you a live stream of the event, but promise to publish programs from the event the following day. Please watch for them!