A national conference hosted by Children Now and The Future of Children includes a keynote address from Milton Chen, executive director of The George Lucas Educational Foundation, and panel discussions among top experts in the field.

Welcome and Keynote
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Chris Anderson, the groundbreaking author of the ‘Long Tail’ outlines a dramatic new change in the way our economy functions. 

Speakers: Gerd Leonhard, media futurist, author and blogger; Richard Titus, Controller of Future Media, Audio, Music & Mobile, BBC; David A. Smith, chief executive of Global Futures and Foresight (GFF).

Chair: Ralph Simon, CEO, The Mobilium Advisory Group and Chairman Emeritus & Founder, Mobile Entertainment Forum - Americas.

Local newspapers across the country are in crisis. Closures, lay-offs, and decreased circulation have resulted in less news coverage and diminished transparency. What does that mean to the public and how does that affect the democratic process?  Keynote by Paul Starr, Prof. of Communications and Public Affairs at Princeton University`s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Don Tapscott, business strategist, consultant and author of Wikinomics.

Discussants: Andrew Keen, writer, entrepreneur and author of The Cult of the Amateur: how the internet is killing our culture; Dan Hind, editorial director, The Bodley Head and author of The Threat to Reason: how the enlightenment was hijacked and how we can reclaim it; Professor Lord Eatwell, economist and President, Queens College, Cambridge.