Renaissance Weekend
Sample Program
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7:15 AM |
BREAKFAST BUFFET (TILL 9:15) |
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7:30 AM |
Healthy Starts (Fun Run/Vigorous Walk through Points of Local Interest ... Pilates & Yoga) |
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8:00 AM |
ACADEMIES: (3-hour in-depth presentations & discussion) How the Future Works! (Geeks, Gizmos, Gear & Gadgets: Closer Looks at New Technologies) Wars that "Can't Be Won" (What's Working, What's Senseless, What's Misleading in the Wars on Cancer, Poverty, Drugs, Foreign Oil-dependency, Drunk Driving, Teen Pregnancy & Other Ills) The Post-PC, Post-Internet World (What's Computing's Future? Time to Retire Laptops? The Web's Balkanization — Net Neutrality, Firewalls, Fragmentation, Proprietary Islands of & the War for Control) The Coarsening of American Culture (Virtue, Values, Customs & Style: What America Has Lost, Re-found & Gained) |
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8:00 AM |
PARTICIPANTS PANEL DISCUSSIONS: Can (Business and Social) Entrepreneurs Save the World? Boardroom Briefings (Executive Comp, Cheap Debt, CEO Stress, Payout Ratios, Corporate Social Responsibility, Board Composition & Other Current Governance Issues) The End of the Binge? (How Have the Past Few Years Affected Savings Habits & Investment Choices?) Inside Scoop (Especially Well-informed Perspectives on Current Issues) Forces of Nature (Models of Conservation & Historic Preservation) Emerging Emerging Markets Scorecards Care-giving — The Need & the Responsibility (What Choices Make Most Sense?) Impact (When Particular Gifts Made Extra-ordinary Differences to Non-profits) |
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9:00 AM |
SEMINARS: The $3 Trillion Hole (How Do America's States & Companies Pay for Benefits They Cannot Afford?) Is the Organized Church's End in Sight? (Church Leaders', Clergys' & Theologians' Assessment) Tomorrowland's Urban Landscape (Transportation & Infrastructure Issues) Hey Gutenberg, We're Turning a New (Paper or Plastic?) Page (Will New Media Technologies Change the Works They Transmit? What Will This Mean for Readers & Reading?) Snap, Crackle, Pop (Artists', Curators' & Collectors' Lives in the Arts) Financial Planning 101 (What Strategies Are Most Prudent Today?) "It's in the Male" (Impotence, Infertility, Male Menopause & Other Personal Stuff) Head-hunting (How Executive Search Firms Work, How to Use Them Most Effectively) |
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10:00 AM |
CORNERSTONE PRESENTATIONS: Lives Less Ordinary (Interview of Extraordinary Risk-takers, Inventors & Pioneers) Elevator Pitches (Incredible Innovators' Inventive Ideas, Distilled to 3-minutes) |
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11:00 AM |
PARTICIPANTS PANEL DISCUSSIONS: Strange Brew (What Does the Tea Party Really Say about America?) Is the Search Party Over? (Where's Google Going? Will Facebook's Messaging & Other New Competitors Mean the Demise of Gmail & e-mail as We Know It?) How Established Companies Grow New Businesses Making It in Hollywood without Losing Your Integrity Enviro-friendly (Innovations in Fuels, Design, Materials & Buildings) What I've Learned about Love Geek Parents (How to Smarten Up Kids on the Sly) Bucket Lists (Our Not-to-be-missed Places, Activities & Experiences) YOUTH SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS: What Constitutes "Privacy" in the Age of the Internet? |
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12:00 PM |
LUNCH-ON-YOUR-OWN (Recommendations available from Concierge) |
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2:00 PM |
RENAISSANCE FILM FESTIVAL MATINEE: (Current Motion Picture Screening: Discussion with Producers/Protagonists) |
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4:00 PM |
Jewish Shabbat Service |
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6:00 PM |
RENAISSANCE COMEDY CLUB |
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7:00 PM |
INTERNATIONAL BUFFET |
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8:15 PM |
ENTERTAINMENT by Renaissance Family Singers |
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8:45 PM |
PLENARY: Something That's Been Buggin' Me Lately |
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10:30 PM |
DESSERT PARTY: Auld Lang Syne, Sing-along, DJ & Dancing |
