Johnson Club of New York City Inaugural Predictions Dinner-SOLD OUT
Grand Hyatt New York
Park Ave at Grand Central 109 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017, United States
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Founder of Priceline.com, Chairman, US Patent Utility and Chairman and Curator, TEDMED
"Six Super-Forces Will Create The Next Trillion-Dollar Industry"
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Reception: 6:00 p.m. | Dinner: 7:00 p.m.
Alumni and guests: $90/person | Early bird: $80/person if you register by 12/18
Students and guests: $50/person
Fees include reception and three-course meal
Where
Grand Hyatt New York
Park Ave at Grand Central 109 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017, United States
Speakers
Jay Walker, BS 77
Curator and Chairman
TEDMED
Jay Walker is curator and chairman of TEDMED, the health and medicine edition of the world-famous TED organization, whose online talks have been watched more than one billion times. TEDMED is a global community of leading doers and thinkers from all walks of life and every sector of society.
With no agenda and no policy prescriptions, TEDMED seeks to serve the nation and the world by creating a safe place where people with very different ideas can come together to make unexpected connections, combine the best thinking from every field, and create infinite new possibilities while celebrating innovation, imagination and inspiration.
Jay is also Executive Chairman and Lead Inventor of Patent Properties, Inc., a public company that is developing a private-enterprise solution to diffuse more innovation through the U.S. economy in a way that is simple and affordable for all.
A serial entrepreneur, Jay is the founder of three companies that each serve more than 50 million customers. He is best known as the creator of Priceline, which created a new level of value for the travel and hospitality industries. Priceline has grown into a business with a $60 billion market cap, second only to Apple computer on the S&P as the company with the highest 10-year compounded growth rate.
Jay is the worldÔÇÖs 11th most patented living inventor. He is a named inventor on more than 700 U.S. patents. His inventions provide unique business systems and solutions across a dozen different industries.
A noted expert on imagination, Jay created and curates one of the worldÔÇÖs great private libraries: The Library of The History of Human Imagination. Filled with books, manuscripts, historical artifacts and treasures of all kinds, especially in the field of medicine, the facility was described by Wired magazine as ÔÇ£the most amazing library in the world.ÔÇØ
In addition to serving as an active member of The PresidentÔÇÖs Circle of the National Academies, Jay is also a member of The Atlantic Council and the non-profit TED.