Featured Speaker
John Doerr
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
InterContinental Hotel, Bank of America Conference Center
9801 Carnegie Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
Chairman, Kleiner Perkins
Ideas for Tomorrow: John Doerr
Ideas for Tomorrow is an ongoing speaker series that provides a forum for the world’s most distinguished thinkers, speakers and personalities to engage in a dialogue with members of our community.
Register NowJohn Doerr is an engineer, acclaimed venture capitalist, and the chairman of Kleiner Perkins. For more than 37 years, John has served entrepreneurs with ingenuity and optimism, bringing ideas worth spreading to disruptive leaders and teams.
In 2018, John authored Measure What Matters, a handbook for setting and achieving audacious goals. Through his book and platform, WhatMatters.com, he shares valuable stories and lessons from innovators.
John was an original investor and board member at Google and Amazon, helping to create over 500,000 jobs and the world’s second and third most valuable companies. He’s passionate about helping entrepreneurs reimagine the future, from health care transformation to machine learning. Outside of Kleiner Perkins, John works with social entrepreneurs for change in public education, the climate crisis, and global poverty. John serves on the board of the Obama Center and ONE.org.
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Note: Seating is first-come, first-serve in the amphitheater. No seat-saving.
Overflow seating will be available when the amphitheater reaches capacity.
Upcoming Speakers
Kevin Plank
Date: Monday, December 17, 2018
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
InterContinental Hotel, Bank of America Conference Center
9801 Carnegie Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
CEO of Under Armour
Ideas for Tomorrow: Kevin Plank
Ideas for Tomorrow is an ongoing speaker series that provides a forum for the world’s most distinguished thinkers, speakers and personalities to engage in a dialogue with members of our community.
In the sweltering Mid-Atlantic summer heat of 1995, Kevin Plank helped lead his teammates through grueling two-a-day workouts as special teams captain for the University of Maryland football program. Tired of changing his sweat-soaked cotton T-shirts over and over again throughout the day, he was inspired to create a better kind of T-shirt—one that could wick sweat and keep athletes cool, dry, and light.
Upon graduating from Maryland in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, Plank started to turn his idea into a reality and, as a result, began redefining the way athletes dress. That year, he went on a mission to find the perfect fabric—performance synthetics—and combined it with an athlete’s perfect fit—compression. What started out as one tight shirt ultimately led to the launch of Under Armour as the high-performance answer to the sweat drenched cotton dilemma.
With 22 years of outfitting athletes with the world’s most innovative performance apparel, footwear, and equipment, Plank oversees a global company of 14,000 employees with total revenues of $5 Billion. Under Armour products are sold globally and are worn by athletes at all levels. The Under Armour Connected Fitness platform powers the world’s largest digital health and fitness community through a suite of applications: UA Record, MapMyFitness, Endomondo and MyFitnessPal.
True to his vision Plank and Under Armour are committed to inspiring you with performance solution you never knew you needed, but can’t imagine living without…and they are just getting started.
Note: Seating is first-come, first-serve in the amphitheater. No seat-saving.
Overflow seating will be available when the amphitheater reaches capacity.
Speaker Archives
Many thought leaders have participated in the Ideas for Tomorrow speaker series. Previous speakers are listed below along with links to their presentation videos where available.
Ginni Rometty
Chairman, President and CEO of IBM
Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, DPhil
Oncologist and Author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene: An Intimate History
Satya Nadella
Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft
Sheryl Sandberg
Chief Operating Officer at Facebook
Angela Duckworth
Founder and Scientific Director of the Character Lab
Frederick W. Smith
Founder and CEO of FedEx Corporation
Adam Silver
National Basketball Association Commissioner
Dan Gilbert
Majority Owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers
Fred McLeod
Play by Play Announcer for the Cleveland Cavaliers
David Gergen
CNN Senior Political Analyst; Harvard Kennedy School Professor and Director
David Agus
New York Times Bestselling Author; Physician and Professor of Medicine and Engineering, University of Southern California
Jim Free
Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's John H. Glenn Research Center
Jim Colins
Author and Lecturer
David Gregory
Author and Former Moderator of Meet the Press
Admiral Michael Rogers
Commander, U.S. Cyber Command; Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Cenpal Security Service
Marissa Mayer
President & CEO, Yahoo
Candice Bergen
Actress and Author
Jack and Suzy Welch
Executive Chairman of the Jack Welch Management Institute and Author
Lord Norman Foster
Founder of Foster + Partners, Architect
Thomas Friedman
Author & Journalist, The New York Times
Gentry Lee
Chief Engineer for the Solar System Exploration Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California
Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
Former CEO of Google, Current Google's Executive Chairman; Google Advisor
Michael Govan
CEO and Walps Annenberg Director
Sebastian Thrun
Co-Founder and CEO, Udacity
Dr. Donald Berwick
Former Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Founding CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Mark Tercek
President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy
Arianna Huffington
Chair, President and Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post Media Group
Karim Sadjadpour
Author and Middle East Expert
Daniel Yergin
Author and Authority on Energy, International Politics and Economics
Jack Dorsey
Creator, Co-Founder, and Executive Chairman of Twitter, Inc.; Co-Founder and CEO of Square, Inc.
Warren Buffet
Business Leader, Philanthropist
Vladimir Pozner
Russian Journalist and Author
John T. Chambers
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco
Kevin Johnson and Michelle Rhee
Mayor, City of Sacramento and CEO/Founder, StudentsFirst
Diane von Furstenberg
Fashion Designer
General Stanley A. McChrystal
Former commander of U.S. and International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) Afghanistan; Former commander of the Premier Military Counter-Terrorism Force, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)
Dr. Ben S. Bernanke
Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve System
General James L. Jones, USMC (Ret.)
National Security Advisor
Dr. Atul Gawande
Practicing Surgeon, Accomplished Writer, Teacher and Speaker
Victor L.L. Chu
Chairman of the First Eastern Investment Group
Dean Kamen
Inventor and Physicist
Craig Mundie
Chief Research and Strategy Officer at Microsoft Corp.
Michael Dell
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Dell
H. Lee Scott, Jr.
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Walmart)
Tom Kelley
General Manager of IDEO
Michael E. Porter
Glen Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School
His Excellency Yousef Al Otaiba
Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States of America and Mexico
Mike Milken
Philanthropist, Chairman of Milken Institute
Doris Kearns Goodwin
World-Renowned Historian
Stephen Kappes
Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Tom Brokaw
NBC News Special Correspondent
Glenn D. Lowry
Director of The Museum of Modern Art
Steven A. Burd
CEO of Safeway Inc.
Oprah Winfrey
Worldwide Media Leader, Philanthropist and Television Host
J. Craig Venter, PhD
Founder, Chairman and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute
John Glenn
Astronaut and Senator
William McDonough
World-Renowned Architect and Designer
Peter Lewis and Frank Gehry
Architects
Anne Mulcahy
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Xerox Corp.
Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
