The Changing World of Work: Does the Collaborative Economy Foster Trust or Inequity?
Speakers
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Founder CEO, Traity
Juan is founder and CEO of Traity, a reputation platform that aims to help people trust each other for any sort of transactions between strangers, like a tenant renting a house from a landlord. Juan was formerly in strategy and product management in the telecoms industry. Juan holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth with High Honors and MEng in Electrical Engineering with Honors. In his free time, Juan plays capoeira, a Brazilian martial art.
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Director (2009-2016), Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Dr. Pamela Hartigan was Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Said Business School at the University of Oxford from 2009 until her passing in 2016. She was also founding partner of Volans Ventures, an organization focused on building innovative scalable solutions to challenges affecting our future.
Prior to starting Volans, Dr. Hartigan spent eight years as the Founding Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sister organization of the World Economic Forum, where she was also a member of the Managing Board.
Of Ecuadorian origin, Dr. Hartigan first came to the United States at 17 years of age to study at Georgetown University; she went on to complete a PhD in human developmental psychology at the Catholic University of America. Throughout her career, she held varied leadership positions in multilateral organizations and educational institutions, as well as in entrepreneurial ventures. She was responsible for conceptualizing and creating new organizations, departments, and programs across a variety of institutions and platforms.
Dr. Hartigan was a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship and innovation at graduate business schools in the USA, Europe, and Asia, and an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia Business School and at the University of Technology Sydney. She co-authored a book with John Elkington, founder of SustainAbility (UK), entitled The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets to Change the World, which was published by Harvard Business Press in 2008.
She was a trustee of social investment organizations, publicly listed companies, and social impact focused organizations around the world.
Dr. Pamela Hartigan died on August 12, 2016, at her home in France.
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Author & Lecturer, Collaborative Lab
Rachel Botsman is an author, lecturer and the global authority on the power of collaboration and trust enabled by digital technologies to change the way we live, work, bank and consume.
She is known for originating the theory of ‘collaborative consumption’ with her acclaimed book, What’s Mine is Yours (Harper Collins, 2010). The concept was subsequently named by TIME as one of the ‘10 Ideas that Will Change the World’ in 2011 and the book was shortlisted for the 800-CEO-Read Business Books Awards in 2010. Her TED talks on the topic have been viewed more than two million times. In 2015, she designed the world’s first M.B.A. course on the collaborative economy, which she teaches at Oxford University’s Saïd School of Business.
Rachel is a regular writer and commentator in leading international publications including The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Rachel is a contributing editor for Wired and writes a monthly column for the Australian Financial Review, which explores the mindset of entrepreneurs who see the world differently.
In 2013, World Economic Forum named her a ‘Young Global Leader’ and Fast Company named her as one of the ‘Most Creative People in Business.’ She is a much acclaimed speaker and was named by Monocle as one of the world’s top 20 speakers to keynote your conference. Recently she won the Thinkers 50 2015 Breakthrough Idea Award for ‘recognizing an idea which has the potential to change the way we think about business forever.’
She received her B.F.A (Hons) from the University of Oxford and attended Harvard University for her post-graduate studies. Rachel s currently working on a new book on trust in the digital age.
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Executive Director, Freelancers Union
As Freelancers Union's Founder and Executive Director, Sara Horowitz has been helping the new workforce build solutions together for two decades. A MacArthur Foundation "Genius" fellow and Deputy Chair of the Federal Reserve of New York, Sara is a leading voice for the emerging economy. Today, 53 million Americans are independent workers - about one-third of the entire workforce. With a membership of more than 250,000 nationwide, Freelancers Union is building a new form of unionism through creative, cooperative, market-based solutions to today's social challenges.
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Director, Beyond Jobs
Wingham Rowan is Director of the “Beyond Jobs” project in London, UK.
Beyond Jobs grew out of multiple UK government investments to create advanced markets for low silled people seeking non-standard employment. Wingham oversaw these projects and market launches. He now works with cities in Europe and the USA.
Many years before “The Sharing Economy”, he authored two books (one published internationally) and countless articles about the potential of new markets for irregular economic activity in communities. At the time he was producing and hosting what became the UK’s longest running TV series about the Internet.
He has written multiple policy papers about the “grey zone” between structured work and unemployment in cities. His papers arguing employment policy needs to support better markets for non-standard work have been published by institutes from the anti-poverty left to the free-market right.
