Bruce Mau, Peter Kageyama to headline YP Summit on Feb. 29

The 2012 Young Professionals Summit, an event produced by the Greater Omaha Young Professionals, will return this year on Wednesday, Feb. 29 at CenturyLink Center Omaha. Seeking to inspire ideas and creativity, the day-long conference will bring together young professionals interested in contributing to both the business and community dimensions of Omaha. Throughout the day,…

Last year, Mayor of Newark N.J. Cory Booker shook the crowd with inspiration, this year look for keynote lunch speaker Bruce Mau to do the same at the 2012 YP Summit.   

The 2012 Young Professionals Summit, an event produced by the Greater Omaha Young Professionals, will return this year on Wednesday, Feb. 29 at CenturyLink Center Omaha.

Seeking to inspire ideas and creativity, the day-long conference will bring together young professionals interested in contributing to both the business and community dimensions of Omaha. Throughout the day, breakout sessions and activities will focus on building and maintaining professional relationships and highlight leadership development, community and civic responsibility and inclusivity. The Summit will also connect its networking activities with a midday non-profit fair to raise awareness for local causes and to support the overarching theme of the Summit: placing professionals in the middle the bigger picture for the metro.

Throughout this day of networking and breakout sessions, the schedule will be peppered with mainstage keynote presentations. The welcome by Joe Gerstandt and Jason Lauritsen of Talent Anarchy will set the tone for the day’s collaborations with a talk titled “Social Gravity: Building Influence, Attracting Opportunity and Changing the World;” Bruce Mau will keep up the cadence provoking “Now that we can do anything, what will we do” as the mainstage lunch presenter; and Peter Kageyama will close the conference with his “For the Love of Cities” presentation.

Among the breakout sessions will be our own Danny Schreiber, who is leading a panel titled “People Magnet: Attracting and retaining talent to make Omaha the center of the universe.” Joining him will be Tom Chapman of Nebraska Global and Amanda Styron of Seed Here for a discussion that stems from Chapman’s articles on increasing the region’s population through migration and college students.

Personally, I am familiar with Mau as I’m a fan of his “Incomplete Manifesto for Growth.” If you’ve ever read through the 43-point manifesto, it will be interesting to see how he will incorporate elements of strategy and his beliefs into his talk on motivation. To read more about the headlining speakers, Mau and Kageyama, see their bios below (taken from their websites).

Bruce Mau

Bruce Mau, a world-leading visionary, innovator, designer and author, will be the keynote lunch speaker. Mau is the co-founder of Massive Change Network, an organization committed to developing purposeful projects in education, health, leadership and security. He is also the founder of the Institute without Boundaries – an innovative, studio-based postgraduate program in collaboration with George Brown College, Toronto. Mau partnered with his students to write the best-selling book “Massive Change.”

Follow on Twitter @brucemaudesign

 

Peter Kageyama

Peter Kageyama is the co-founder and producer of the Creative Cities Summit, an interdisciplinary event that brings together citizens and practitioners around the big idea of the city. Peter is the former President of Creative Tampa Bay, a grassroots community change organization. He has spoken all over the world about bottom up community development and the amazing people that are making change happen. His book, “For the Love of Cities,” was recently recognized by Planetizen as a Top 10 Book for 2012 in urban planning, design and development.  

Follow on Twitter @pkageyama

As the event approaches, we’ll have additional information and details. In the meantime, learn more about the Summit at omahayoungprofessionals.org/ypsummit, follow Omaha Young Professionals on Twitter, @omahayp and see the schedule outline below.

For more on the Omaha Young Professionals Summit, see our posts covering past years.

Purely Social: YP Summit Pre-Party

When: Thursday, Feb. 16, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Where: Crave (200 South 31st Ave.)

Cost: $5 at the door or register online in advance

Register for the YP Summit Pre-Party

2012 Young Professionals Summit

When: Wednesday, Feb. 29,  8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.

Where: CenturyLink Center Omaha (455 N. 10th St.)

Cost: $125 for full day attendance, $75 for the lunch only, from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Register for the YP Professionals Summit

Young Professional Summit After-Party

When: Wednesday, Feb. 29, 4:30 p.m.

Where: DJ’s Dugout, (1003 Capitol Ave.)

Cost: Free for Summit attendees with a hand stamp, $5 for those without a hand stamp  


Images credits: Photo credit: Steve Kowalski; Mau photo from tcg.org, Kageyama photo from Facebook.

Disclosure: Silicon Prairie News is a media sponsor of the Greater Omaha Young Professionals’ YP. Summit.

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