CHICAGO IDEAS WEEK 2012 ANNUAL REPORT Dear Chicago Ideas Week Supporter,

This year we brought you 235 speakers and connected 25,000 people at hundreds of events across Chicago — all in just seven days.

Chicago Ideas Week attendees and speakers consisted of technologists, musicians, inventors, explorers, engineers, doctors, artists and innovators of all kinds. Our objective was to bring a diverse group of dynamic people together to collaborate, turn great ideas into action and unite over transformative experiences. We’re thrilled to announce that our 2012 program grew tremendously from last year’s inaugural event. In the words of filmmaker Thierry Daher, who spoke at our Fashion Talk, “CIW 2012 was nothing short of phenomenal ... the mix of origins, specialties, personalities and practices created such a vibrant and creative energy that I still feel in my daily life.”

With the help of amazing sponsors, more than 400 volunteers, a dedicated full-time staff and people just like you, Chicago Ideas Week continues to grow exponentially. And without such a strong and supportive community, we wouldn’t have been able to transform Chicago this past October into an intellectual playground and hub of connectivity.

Our annual review will give you a glimpse into our growth since 2011, as well as highlight how this year’s event proved to be a revolutionary platform for innovation, ideas, action and education — not just for a select few, but for all. Our evolution has made us one of the most accessible platforms of its kind in the world. By live-streaming our talks online for free and only charging $15 for anyone to participate in person, we’re breaking down ideological and geographical barriers, bringing Chicago to the world.

We’re proud of CIW’s programming, execution and progress in 2012, and we are grateful for your endless support, suggestions and feedback. We’re excited to watch the thousands of connections made at CIW each year grow stronger over time and achieve great and unexpected accomplishments around the world. And most importantly, we can’t wait to paint the town yellow again next year.

Enjoy this year’s highlights.

Best,

Jessica Malkin Executive Director, Chicago Ideas Week

2 3 CIW TALKS AND SPEAKERS 2012 TALK THEMES

CHECK OUT THIS YEAR’S TALK TITLES: Through our Talks, Chicago Ideas Week brings great minds to the city from all over the world to inspire, “These forums for educate and activate people at 90-minute sessions that people to bounce ideas Art: How It Moves Identity: What Makes Me … Me? Presented by MSL Chicago around are great, because cover topics ranging from social entrepreneurship and Cities: Local Ties, Global Impact Presented by Chase and J.P. Morgan Instigators: Stand for Something they are accelerators. They health to disruptive innovation and identity. Comedy: What’s So Funny? Meaning of Life: What’s It All About? accelerate the speed at which Criminal Justice: Beyond the Verdict Military: From the Front Lines to the Home Front Our speakers have all accomplished the extraordinary: invented ideas spread and percolate.” Democracy: State of Our Union Presented by Chase and J.P. Morgan something of significance, founded a game-changing initiative, Presented by TIME Music: Tuning In – Edward Norton, committed themselves to a cause, created exceptional art, broken Presented by WBEZ Actor, Philanthropist, Design: Shaping Space down barriers and so much more. Co-Founder of Crowdrise Disruptive Innovation: Reinventing Our World Religion: Exploring the Unexpected Presented by TIME Scientific Breakthroughs: Quantum Leaps In just one year, we increased our number of speakers by almost Presented by University of Illinois “I feel connected to every Economy: Checks and Balances 50 percent, hosting 235 world-class visionaries. Those included Presented by The Joyce Foundation Social Entrepreneurship: single one of the speakers; General Colin Powell, renowned journalist Tom Brokaw, spiritual guru Education: New School My Venture Changes the World. Can Yours? Presented by University of Illinois I’m so inspired. And it’s Deepak Chopra, acclaimed actor and philanthropist Edward Norton, Presented by Chicago Tribune Sports: The Making of a Champion only $15. Just go!” businesswoman and supermodel Elle Macpherson and hip-hop icon Energy: Scalable Solutions Explorers: Seeking the Edge Storytellers: The Power of Perspective – Sofia Jouravel, Lupe Fiasco. We were honored to have them share their stories at Presented by Hyatt Presented by Leo Burnett 26, Attendee, Wheeling some of Chicago’s top venues, including the Oriental Theatre and the Fashion: Why Are You Wearing That? Tech: Change is the Constant Museum of Contemporary Art. Presented by Chicago Magazine Presented by Microsoft “Great aural, mental, delicious Food: Returning to Our Roots The Creative Process: Stop Waiting for the Muse Presented by Starcom MediaVest Group food for thought. Thanks Presented by Hyatt Water: The Ripple Effect again for serving it up.” 2011 Future of News: What’s the Story? 160 speakers // 17 Talks/Megatalks Presented by TIME Web: Life Online – Rick Nielsen, Giving: One Matters Presented by Cars.com Lead Guitarist, Cheap Trick 2012 Presented by United Airlines Work: No Longer Business as Usual 235 speakers // 31 Talks/Megatalks Health & Wellness: Power to the Patient Presented by Ernst & Young Presented by Walgreens 4 5 “I walked off the stage and thought, ‘This was the way cooler version of the TED talks.’ The speakers were spontaneous, real and incredibly creative, and not just in the sense of having ‘big ideas’ or inventions that LIST OF SELECTED SPEAKERS changed the world, but in the sense that all art is great, by making your brain work in new and different ways. I really just wanted to hang out with them for, like, the next 3 years.” Here are just a few of the 235 brilliant people who spoke at CIW 2012: – Hanna Rosin, Senior Editor, Atlantic Magazine; Senior Editor, Slate Magazine

Tom Brokaw Richard Stengel Bob Bowman Clemantine Wamariya Renowned Television Journalist and Anchor Managing Editor, TIME Magazine Renowned Swimming Coach of Michael Phelps Survivor, Storyteller, Activist, General Colin Powell Tim Ferriss LeVar Burton and Yale University Student Former U.S. Secretary of State; Angel Investor and Author of Actor, Director, Author, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy National Security Advisor “The 4-Hour Workweek” Producer of Reading Rainbow Academy Award-Winning Journalist and Filmmaker Lupe Fiasco Martin Cooper Felicity Aston Steve Case Award-Winning Hip-Hop Artist Inventor of the Mobile Phone, Explorer, Speaker and Author CEO, Revolution LLC; Chairman, Startup America Ali Velshi Entrepreneur and Futurist Keith Bellows Partnership; Co-Founder, AOL CNN Chief Business Correspondent and Anchor Steve Stoute Editor-in-Chief, National Geographic Magazine Chris Hughes Edward Norton Founder and CEO, Translation; Brad Goreski Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, The New Republic; Actor, Philanthropist, Co-Founder of Crowdrise Author, “The Tanning of America” Celebrity Stylist and Author; TV Personality, Co-Founder, Facebook Mitch Albom Adam Braun Bravo’s “It’s a Brad, Brad World” Jonah Peretti Author and Journalist Founder and CEO, Pencils of Promise Elle Macpherson Founder, BuzzFeed; Co-Founder, The Huffington Post Deepak Chopra Melissa Stockwell Actress and Model; Spritual Pioneer, Founder of The Chopra Iraq War Veteran & World Champion Paratriathlete CEO, Elle Macpherson Intimates Lilly Ledbetter Center for Wellbeing Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger Baratunde Thurston Advocate and Author, “Grace and Grit” Rudy Tanzi International Speaker, Comedian, Blogger and Author, “How to be Black;” Scott Belsky Nobel Prize Nominee, Former Notre Dame Football Player Founder, Cultivated Wit Co-Founder and CEO, Behance Professor at Harvard Medical School Judith Rodin Brandon Boyd Kamala Harris Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. President, The Rockefeller Foundation Visual Artist and Lead Singer, Incubus Attorney General of California President, Waterkeeper Alliance A.J. Jacobs Eboo Patel Glenn Tilton Lisa Niemi Swayze Best-selling Author, “Drop Dead Healthy” Founder and President, Interfaith Youth Core Chairman of the Midwest, J.P. Morgan and Chase Author and Film Director; and “The Year of Living Biblically” Karen Tenkhoff Kelly Grier Widow of Actor Patrick Swayze Natalie Coughlin Development Partner, Walt Disney Chicago Managing Partner, Ernst & Young LLP Rahm Emanuel Most Decorated U.S. Female Olympian Animation Studios Michael Nutter Mayor, City of Chicago AK Pradeep Simon Majumdar Mayor, City of Chairman, Nielsen NeuroFocus Author, Food and Travel Writer

6 7 Exclusive, electrifying experiences This year, CIW curated 100 unique labs, hosted across the city and throughout the Chicagoland area. Here are a few highlights:

Ink Factory Lab: Intelligentsia: You Talk. We Draw. It’s Awesome. Sourcing, Roasting & Brewing Beautiful Coffee The trio of graphic recording wizards at Ink Factory The Intelligentsia Lab took attendees on coffee’s Studios used their walls as a canvas to explain journey from the fields to the cup. Participants and demonstrate how they synthesize words saw how coffee beans are roasted and picked the into visuals. Everyone from magazine editors to brains of the java experts while sipping the hot brain surgeons joined in the Lab, trying their hand drink. For souvenirs, everyone was given the at sketching while learning how to use graphic freshly-packed coffee from their earlier lesson recording to improve their communication skills. on coffee bean roasting.

Goose Island Co.: Fat Cat Guitars: Quality and Innovation Guitar Tasting CIW LABS Goose Island Beer Co. made everyone a taster for the Fat Cat Guitars passed around guitar parts at the day, giving them an experimental pale ale and several Mayne Stage music club to explain the process of other unique beers to rate. The brewmaster said he building a custom instrument from a block of fine was so impressed with our CIW attendees’ feedback wood. Lab attendees got to “taste” the one-of-a- kind pieces by plugging them into various amplifiers “It was all these adults CIW Labs are designed for small groups to get that he wanted them back for more tastings. The group got a behind-the-scenes tour of the company’s and strumming away. Our CIW rock stars included who wanted to make a hands-on, behind-the-scenes glimpse into powerful brewing facilities and barrel aging house, as well as everyone from seasoned musicians to curious first- timers who wanted to try something new. their own robot, and they companies, nonprofits and cultural institutions. conversation time with the brewmaster. were really excited about it. Lyric Opera of Chicago: University of Illinois Vet Clinic: All Hands on Pets! They were like, ‘That’s the best Our goal with the CIW Labs program is to transform people through Engaging Opera Audiences in the 21st Century The state’s only veterinarian college opened up its way to spend a Friday night.’” World-renowned American baritone Thomas doors for Lab attendees to learn the ins and outs unique and eye-opening experiences. While CIW Talks feature the Hampson gave attendees a unique glimpse into of donning the white coat. The University of Illinois – Ann Hoeger, world’s best speakers, CIW Labs provide an opportunity to showcase Chicago’s Lyric Opera House with a grand tour gave CIW attendees pet models to interact with, 43, Fab Lab @ Museum Chicago’s greatest and most innovative organizations. Labs offer of the historical building and a look at how the including animals on which to practice CPR and a of Science and Industry: industry is keeping opera relevant in a multimedia lifelike cow that simulated a calf’s birth. The hands- Innovation Insider an intimate environment where people can easily interact and make entertainment era. on experience had participants reaching their entire connections with hosts and other participants. arms into the simulator to pull out the infant calves. “I loved our lab… it was really Mrs. Judd’s Games: Whether it be tapping into the creative juices of successful CEOs, Children, Technology & Innovation Farmhouse: fun to sort of pull back the Reimagine, Redesign and Remarket an Everyday Object taking part in a cooking demonstration, learning how to make an Mrs. Judd’s Games Lab kicked off with a round of curtain on the radio show!” hide-and-seek inside Merchandise Mart’s 1871. In At the Farmhouse Lab, Leo Burnett’s creative minds electric guitar or zipping down a NASCAR racetrack, we brought it the post-game aftermath, attendees shared their divided attendees into small groups and gave them an – Vanessa Harris, all to our participants for just $15 — and sold-out virtually every Lab. favorite childhood hiding spots while a programmer everyday product to reimagine. The groups created a Marketing Director, and artist built a hide-and-seek video game before prototype and presentation with the help of the Leo Chicago Public Media / WBEZ their eyes. By the Lab’s end, veteran teacher and Burnett team, creating everything from an umbrella that entrepreneur Frances Judd and her team had doesn’t require holding to a rolling pin that has cookie produced a functioning hide-and-seek game for cutters on the outside and shoots dough from the everyone to download and play. inside. After working up an appetite flexing their minds, everyone enjoyed networking over apple pie.

“It was really exciting to try something completely different, that without Shawn Stucky Screen Printing: 2011 Richard Petty Driving Experience: An Art Experience Chicago Ideas Week, I wouldn’t have been able to find on my own. And then NASCAR LAB 40 LABS Artist and designer Shawn Stucky brought CIW into Brave Lab-goers took to the Chicagoland Speedway to have really enjoyed it that much and made that connection with a new his basement studio to walk attendees through his 2012 in Joliet to hit 155 mph while tearing around the digital-to-print design process. The Lab culminated neighborhood and a new community of artists was really valuable.” track with a professional racecar driver. Participants 100 LABS with everyone channeling their inner Picasso, enjoyed racing three laps around the 1.5-mile – Audrey Schield, creating their own works to take home. course — a priceless experience made part of CIW’s 17, Ignite Glass Studios: Glassblowing Workshop affordable Lab program.

8 9 EDISON TALKS

This year, Chicago Ideas Week debuted a new program curated for a global audience of visionaries, leaders and change agents: Edison Talks.

“It’s an invaluable Edison Talks is an invitation-only, daylong gathering created to connect and inspire pioneers from around the world through stunning experience… We absolutely “I really loved Edison Talks. There were so many fantastic speakers, and it was really uplifting, really inspiring and installations, provocative speakers, performance artists, musical really hopeful… You know, I came here more as a guest than as a speaker. I knew that I was speaking, but I came encourage employees to come presentations and much more. In a world where time is a precious because I love to share innovation. I love to hear what people are doing and share what people are thinking.” here, because they are going resource, we offered attendees a condensed platform to expand their – Elle Macpherson, minds as well as their professional and personal circles. to hear things and understand Actress and Model; CEO, Elle Macpherson Intimates things and have conversations In addition to a riveting lineup, CIW allotted time for the approximately that are so far out of the realm 900 attendees to connect with each other throughout the day, ensuring the direct current of ideas didn’t stop at the doors of the of their daily existence. historical Oriental Theatre. It makes them smarter, it makes them more experienced, better at what they do in their “As much as we predate tradition, we need to look for the future… [CIW] was day-to-day lives.” a place of no fear. Smart people, dedicated people working together, open to – Matt Maloney, CEO GrubHub new things. We have more control over our destiny than we think we do.” – Randy Lewis, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Logistics, Walgreens

10 11 “I come to this and leave it remarkably refreshed with renewed faith in humanity and the world.” INSTIGATING CONNECTIONS – Ali Velshi, Chief Business Correspondent and Anchor, CNN

Chicago Ideas Week drew speakers and attendees Attendees also networked, with many crediting the resulting connections from coast to coast and across the globe this year, with with potential job leads, partnership opportunities and friendships. “I was quite surprised when some traveling from as far as Singapore, South America, Attendee Michael Carter, a CIW BHSI Fellow who founded the non-profit Strive for College, said he was able to connect with officials from the [Mitch] introduced me to the Australia, the United Kingdom and Quebec. University of Illinois during Chicago Ideas Week. Carter’s organization audience, and most especially “Chicago Ideas Week is partners undergraduates with low-income high school students to act as with the time he spent with all about making people’s While the majority of our participants hailed from Illinois, about mentors throughout the college application process, and he said he now me before and after the lives better through spreading five percent of attendees came from out of state, including groups hopes to expand the program to University of Illinois campuses. program. Mitch summed it up knowledge. It’s not just lectures. of students who made the trek just to take beautifully when he told us There’s lots of time in between advantage of our programming. But maybe one of the week’s most powerful and emotional moments all to be giving people and to all of the talks for people to followed The Meaning Life Megatalk. An Indiana woman dying of ALS build relationships with others interact. And let me tell you, Speakers like explorer Felicity Aston, Northwestern Women’s Lacrosse came to hear Mitch Albom, author of “,” host the to find meaning in life.” they really do. So we are coach Kelly Amonte Hiller and businesswoman and supermodel Elle sold-out evening event. Eileen McHenry Hasse, 48, could barely speak – E ileen McHenry Hasse, seeing Chicago Ideas Weeks Macpherson said they, too, were learning from each other, both in the and was confined to a computerized wheelchair, which had a screen that 48, Attendee as a picture of the future: green rooms and by attending other CIW Talks. allowed her to type by tracking her blinking and eye movements. Collaboration, technology, In one instance, Chicago Ideas Week brought Sonya Jackson, president For about two years she and Albom had corresponded by e-mail, things happening because “I think there’s a longing in of the United Airlines Foundation, and actor and philanthropist Edward but they had never met in person. When closing the show, Albom people are living those things America for these kinds of Norton together for the first time. Jackson said she was inspired to take acknowledged her onstage before fighting his way through the crowd and not just standing advantage of Norton’s new fundraising platform, and backstage they to meet her in the audience. The two exchanged hugs, and he read a conferences in which we put in a laboratory.” hugged and high-fived each other after their talks. A few short weeks thank you note she had typed on her wheelchair’s computer screen. on the table big ideas that – MARTIN COOPER, later United Airlines was using Norton’s Crowdrise website to raise Her eyes lit up during their quiet conversation, and he signed a few unite us as opposed to small Mobile Phone Inventor money for those devastated by Superstorm Sandy. books for her children before leaving. ideas that divide us.”

– T om Brokaw, At the end of the week, our platform for diverse global thinkers and doers Renowned Television Journalist and Anchor inspired people at the local, national and global levels to take action and make their ideas and dreams — and those of others — a reality.

12 13 “This is the second year we’ve ever had the festival here in the city of Chicago.And Ideas Week is a way to MEDIA COVERAGE AND AUDIENCE REACH bring a lot of energy and ideas and discussion around major topics most affecting the city, the country and global issues. It brings people into the city and it keeps that conversation going.” – Rahm Emanuel, Mayor, City of Chicago Anyone can have a powerful message. It’s what you “We’re still a broadcaster, do with the message that matters. which means we want to talk to everyone and anyone at any BY THE NUMBERS Thanks to fabulous media partners like TIME, WBEZ, NBC 5 Chicago, CIW’s #WhatIfChicago campaign culminated in an event of its own, given time. That being said, the Group, Crain’s Chicago Business and others, CIW’s consisting of a panel of individuals focused on the illegal gun issue. our more loyal viewers have a powerful vision was broadcast from coast to coast and around the world. The panelists, including Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, 1,096,832,850 quality called curiosity. They’re discussed several of the Twitter suggestions, and the sold-out event media impressions interested, and they’re curious. These partners provided generous advertising valued at about $2.8 sparked deep conversations that connected the city both virtually and And I certainly think followers million across all channels, and we totaled more than one billion media physically to improve the status quo. 1,000,000 of Chicago Ideas Week share impressions. And thanks to NBC 5 Chicago, we also live-streamed our approximate page views Talks at the Chicago Ideas Week website. Our page views topped one The #WhatIfChicago campaign drew 187 articles, and wire coverage like of CIW website between that curiosity.” January and October million from January to October, and the Ideasphere CIW Blog drew that of The was picked up by publications across the – Larry Wert, about 10,000 views alone between August and October. country. Just two days after launching the #WhatIfChicago campaign, President and General Manager, 129,606 NBC 5 Chicago Philadelphia launched a similar movement: the #phillypeaceplan. And unique visitors of CIW One of our 2012 landmark innovations was the #WhatIfChicago as the weeks went on, celebrities such as Destiny’s Child’s Michelle website between January campaign, a collaboration between CIW and Leo Burnett that used Williams, Russell Simmons and Lupe Fiasco tweeted about the Chicago and October “The Venn diagram overlap Twitter to crowdsource ways to get illegal guns off the streets after crowdsourcing project. between TIME and Chicago 10,000 Chicago’s homicide rate reached an all-time high. The Leo Burnett and Ideas Week is huge because page views of Ideasphere Starcom MediaVest Group teams spearheaded the venture’s promotion, We’re excited to evaluate the impact #WhatIfChicago has had on the CIW blog between August we’re all in the same market working tirelessly on branding and raising awareness. city, and we’ll include updates in next year’s review. and October of how to put the news and information in context, how 8,700 @chicagoideas to convert information MEDIA COVERAGE HIGHLIGHTS The News-Gazette The Independent CLTV Twitter followers into knowledge.” FOX Chicago (London) WGN TV TIME NBC 5 Chicago Fast Company States News Service The Herald News Chicago Magazine 6,800 – Rick Stengel, The Atlantic WBEZ Chicago Public Forbes Wireless News Entertainment Close-up Newsday Managing Editor, TIME The Huffington Post Media Examiner.com Sunday Gazette-Mail US Fed News Service The Indianapolis Star “likes” on Facebook Comcast SportsNet Chicago Tribune Fontana Herald News (West Virginia) Manufacturing Close-up Fox Orlando 14 The Associated Press ABC 7 Chicago (California) Chicago Sun-Times Yahoo! News Fox Washington D.C. 15 Our phenomenal sponsors believe in innovation and impact just as much as we do. Here are OUR 2012 SPONSORS:

SPONSORS

“It was definitely a great Without the invaluable support of our sponsors, blend of inspiration and this year’s program would not have been possible. imagination. I think it’s that combination that was the Our sponsors became part of the CIW family, their impact extending winning combination…Usually far beyond financial contributions. Many company leaders presented I don’t sit still for even a half a at our Talks and invited their employees to participate at CIW events day, and to be able to stay that both as attendees and volunteers. J.P. Morgan and Chase was one such long and not be fatigued by it partner, sponsoring the Military Talk and making complimentary tickets is, I think, a great tribute to the available for veterans. Additionally, United Airlines, Hyatt Hotels, the quality of the programming.” Ritz-Carlton Chicago and the Four Seasons Chicago ensured superior

– Terry Mazany, travel and hotel accommodations for each of our speakers. President, The Chicago Community Trust The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity also allowed us to leverage private sponsorships to secure public funding “Sponsoring Chicago Ideas through a generous matching grant. Week shows our flyers that we are about innovation. We don’t And Robert Easter, President of the University of Illinois, said the only connect people to places. branding that came with Chicago Ideas Week was tremendous — from We connect people to people the university’s name printed on large boxes as part of the stage sets to they love. We connect people its listing in programs and on big screens at presentations. He described to ideas. We connect people to how the university used Chicago Ideas Week as a hook to draw about Chicago Ideas Week.” 50 entrepreneurs to Chicago to meet with school officials, and that the “They provoke a discussion around new solutions, new ideas, new horizons, for every sector of society all week was a great forum for faculty to showcase their research. the way from the private sector to the public sector and everybody in between. Each one of the segments – Sonya Jackson, President, United Airlines really presents us a wonderful opportunity to invite employees and to invite clients to Chicago Ideas Week.” Foundation and United Airlines – Glenn Tilton, Managing Director of Corporate Chairman of the Midwest, J.P. Morgan and Chase and Community Affairs 16 17 COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Our 200 CIW Community Partners this year included: Our Community Partner program identifies, develops and sustains relationships to weave fresh perspectives

into the CIW fabric. Architecture for Humanity Chicago Metropolitan Planning Council “Being a Chicago Ideas Week Arts Alliance Illinois Midwest High Speed Rail Association Community Partner has been These local, national and global businesses and nonprofit organizations Bright Endeavors National Museum of Mexican Art a great way for Jumpstart all have an impact on Chicago and are dedicated to the mission of Bright Pink Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship Chicago and many other Chicago Ideas Week. CEOs for Cities (NFTE Chicago) organizations like ours to Chicago Botanic Garden Open Books Ltd. network with one another We’re grateful to partner with such an engaging group of businesses Chicago Cares Positive Coaching Alliance — Chicago and learn about all of the committed to promoting our brand. In return, we welcome our Chicago Children’s Museum Social Enterprise Alliance — Chicago Chapter partners to exclusive CIW networking events, early access to ticket good work that is happening StartingUp Now registration, brand promotion and exposure on the CIW website and Chicago Council on Science & Technology all over the city. Being a Student Veterans of America in our show guide. Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs community partner has and Special Events The Academy for Global Citizenship opened doors for us and has Chicago Innovation Awards The Cara Program been an invaluable resource Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning The Conservation Center for making connections. We Donors Forum The Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship are proud to be a Chicago “As a Community Partner of Chicago Ideas Week, Green Chicago Restaurant EMBARC The Kitchen Community Ideas Week Community Coalition was given the unique opportunity to be actively engaged in the Erikson Institute United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Partner and look forward development, promotion and celebration of a truly new and exciting movement. Field Museum Midwest Regional Office to it each year.” Chicago Ideas Week successfully fosters the conversion of ideas into meaningful, Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust Urban Prep Academies Women’s Innovation Network — WIN – Karina Kelly, valuable and inspirational human connections, and our organization is thrilled Goodman Theatre Executive Director, to continue working to encourage CIW’s success in the future.” Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition World Sport Chicago Jumpstart Chicago Year Up — Chicago – Eloise Karlatiras, Illinois Science & Technology Coalition President & CEO, Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition Imerman Angels Zealous Good Jumpstart Chicago

18 19 PROJECT YOU(th)

This year Chicago Ideas Week was proud to launch PROJECT YOU(th), a platform to empower, encourage and inspire the next generation of leaders. “This was a no-brainer… Our kids have just soaked We believe knowledge leads to action. Through PROJECT YOU(th), up all the incredible, we connect students from some of Chicago’s most economically- challenged communities with amazing speakers and visionaries, innovative, amazing ideas and we expose them to experiences that broaden their horizons. “This was a no-brainer…Our kids have just soaked up all the incredible, from the speakers from innovative, amazing ideas from the speakers from around the world.” Chicago Ideas Week selected more than 100 students for PROJECT around the world.” – Terry Mazany, YOU(th) from the following high-impact programs: Epic Academy, President, The Chicago Community Trust – Matthew King, Global Citizenship Experience, EMBARC, Future Founders Foundation Executive Director, and YOUmedia Chicago. Epic Academy

We were thrilled to invite the students to Edison Talks, where they sat beside hundreds of the country’s top executives, philanthropists, “It’s just a great way scientists, entrepreneurs, artists and innovators for a full day of to bring all parts of the city inspiration. The groups were also given exclusive, behind-the- “I feel the love in the room… It’s making me think, ‘Alright, I’m a young scenes access to tour Chicago hotspots and participate in dynamic together to talk about ideas that kid, I have so much time to live, I have so many things to do, why don’t I workshops — and YOUmedia students captured the action by producing could have a real impact.” a digital magazine complete with speaker and attendee interviews. start right now to help the people around who need help?’ ”

– David Hiller, – Paul Ukaegbu, The Robert R. McCormick They networked, participated in group discussions and absorbed the 17, Epic Academy Foundation energy from the entire week. And they learned that anything is possible.

20 21 This year we had more than 200 applicants and narrowed the list down to four revolutionary social innovators. In addition to mentoring, these fellows received $10,000 and took the CIW stage to present their organizations and missions before sold-out crowds.

The 2012 BHSI Fellows include:

Mark Arnoldy, 25 Nyaya Health — South Boston, Massachusetts Mark Arnoldy is the executive director of Nyaya Health, an organization that delivers health services to the poor in rural Nepal. After nearly dying on his first trip to Nepal from a lack of access to health care, he realized how great an issue this was for the people who lived there. Motivated by the opportunity at hand, Mark committed himself to a life of building health systems for Nepal’s RECOGNIZING ACHIEVEMENT poorest through Nyaya Health. Mark is a graduate of Harvard’s Global Health Effectiveness Program and a former Fulbright Scholar to Nepal.

Chicago Ideas Week provides extraordinary opportunities to Michael Carter, 24 Strive for College — Atherton, California extraordinary people, developing programs to give incredible Michael Carter is the founder and CEO of Strive for College, a national nonprofit individuals the opportunity to turn their dreams into realities. dedicated to alleviating the inequality in access to higher education. Launching his company during his freshman year of college, Michael has since grown Strive “We just wanted to give into a national movement with chapters at college campuses across the country, young social entrepreneurs a ThinkChicago, Presented by the University of Illinois where he helps hundreds of low-income high school students gain admission and the City of Chicago to universities. Michael received a full-tuition merit scholarship to Washington platform to tell their story. University in St. Louis and graduated cum laude in May 2010. ThinkChicago gives the top students from regional universities We hope that we can help the chance to visit some of Chicago’s leading tech and start-up Micaela Connery, 25 them further their wonderful companies. Approximately 100 junior and senior students were given Unified Theater — West Hartford, Connecticut the opportunity to network with industry leaders, explore business ideals and ideas, and also Micaela Connery is the executive director of Unified Theater, a student-driven headquarters in Chicago’s booming tech scene, learn about impressive initiative that facilitates inclusion of students with disabilities through the performing arts. Founding Unified Theater when she was just 15, the organization just let the world know all job opportunities and gain free admission to the week’s exclusive event: has since grown to more than 35 programs in high schools and middle schools about what they’re doing. It’s the Edison Talks. Some of their stops included Morningstar, Groupon, spanning six states. In 2010, Micaela was named one of the top five young leaders Accenture, Google, Microsoft and Orbitz. The City of Chicago and the by DoSomething.org. Micaela graduated from the University of Virginia with high just really a brain trust of distinction and a self-designed major in Service, Community and Social Policy. University of Illinois are proud sponsors of ThinkChicago. information and enthusiasm, Toni Maraviglia, 29 Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation Fellowship and just an amazing group of MPrep — Nairobi, Kenya people who are really going to The Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation Fellowship @ Chicago Ideas Week Toni Maraviglia is the CEO and founder of MPrep, Toni Maraviglia is the CEO and recognizes a group of young, socially-conscious leaders who have founder of MPrep, an educational platform based in Kenya that uses simple text change the world.” messaging technology to give students in the poorest areas the ability to prepare developed sustainable ventures addressing social needs. The Fellowship – Leslie Bluhm, for national exams. Started by Kenyan teachers in 2011, MPrep now has more than Entrepreneur; Philanthropist; provides them with exposure to nationally-recognized businesses and 4,000 students utilizing the technology. By 2014, Toni hopes to reach nearly half a Founder, BHSI Fellowship community leaders, funding to support their cause and a platform for million students around East Africa. Toni has been a teacher and educator for more than seven years and began her career as a Teach For America corps member and growth. The Fellowship was created by David Helfand and Leslie Bluhm, program director in New York City. two philanthropists and entrepreneurs dedicated to advancing the next generation of social entrepreneurs and change agents.

22 23 Branding and Awareness

Chicago Ideas Week draped the city in yellow this year The collaborative piece also allowed attendees to physically alter the with balloons, billboards, building light-ups and more. tree through the movement of brushing off leaves, and anyone across “This is a company that the globe could impact its growth, make it flower or bear fruit by tweeting to Chicago Ideas Week or Leo Burnett. “We don’t just work with believes that creativity has But we also ventured outside the box, offering a massive sketchbook for people to sign on the streets in collaboration with our partner, Ink everybody. And CIW are clients the power to change human The Chicago Ideas Week team also took advantage of technology to Factory. The company also created real-time visual art on the themes of engage the public in the weeks and months leading up to the main events. we want to work with, because behavior. What Chicago Ideas each Talk and displayed the finished pieces for the audience to engage Several of our sponsors co-hosted #IdeasChats with us dating back to they understand what we do, Week is about is bringing with during the receptions. April, giving several hundred participants a unique preview and discussion and their clientele and their people together, to inspire of each CIW theme. Leo Burnett helped mastermind the CIW branding this year, enabling attendees understand what we each other to share ideas and us to define the organization and extend our reach well beyond where We’re thrilled by how many people we were able to reach this year with do. Chicago Ideas Week really to talk about the power of the we were in 2011. The Leo Burnett team not only spearheaded the #WhatIfChicago campaign, but they also created interactive art to the help of our partners and pioneering, creative means. We cannot wait sets Ink Factory for the whole idea to do something. And to see what next year brings! harness human energy in ways that have never been done before. Their year, as we meet people that are you just look at all the people digital tree exhibit, known as Harvest, was on display at the Museum movers and shakers and know who showed up and you feel of Contemporary Art. It grew throughout the week from sapling to maturity in lifecycles based on the size and sounds of the CIW crowds. how to harness and incubate the energy in the room and our process into their process.” you just say, ‘Oh my gosh, “This is all about knowledge. People sitting in chairs and thirsting for – R yan Robinson, something really special is Founder, Ink Factory knowledge, and we are the cup that they will drink from.” happening here.’” – Seth Reiss, – Rich Stoddart, Lead Writer, The Onion President, Leo Burnett North America

24 25 FINANCIAL SUMMARY LOOKING AHEAD TO 2013

STATEMENTS Our goal for 2012 was to reach 20,000 people. Period Ending OCTOBER 14-20, 2013 OF ACTIVITIES October 31, 2012 We soared above that benchmark by at least 5,000 — and we’ll continue to make strides as we move into 2013. REVENUE “I’m so pleased that the CONTRIBUTIONS & SPONSORSHIP CONTRIBUTIONS $2,568,717 people of Chicago have come “There’s a very collaborative ENTRANCE FEE INCOME $217,241 Chicago Ideas Week also launched its membership program this year, welcoming about 240 members while breaking six figures in sales. together to give the city this MEMBERSHIP INCOME $111,700 atmosphere with Chicago This program was so successful that we had attendees asking for 2013 week of reflection, this week CONTRIBUTIONS IN-KIND $1,719,485 information before this year’s event came to a close. We’ve already Ideas Week. There’s a lot of of introspection, this week of begun planning a jaw-dropping 2013 program for October 14–20, and TOTAL REVENUE $4,617,143 looking where the future holds.” stimulation for our spirit, our we’re excited to continue working together to make our city and world – G eneral Colin Powell, a better place. EXPENSES Former U.S. Secretary of State imagination, our creativity. and National Security Advisor PROGRAM EXPENSES $2,260,278 Everyone’s excited and all PROGRAM EXPENSES IN-KIND $1,719,485 2013 Chairmen: “Chicago Ideas Week, I say, FUNDRAISING EXPENSES $180,314 we have to do is spark our is a [spa] for the mind!” GENERAL & ADMINISTRATIVE $103,575 – D ennis Hong, imagination and achieve the TOTAL EXPENSES $4,263,652 Brad Keywell Founding Director of Founder & Co-Chairman Virginia Tech’s Robotics impossible, and more.” and Mechanisms Lab

– Deepak Chopra, Spiritual Pioneer, Founder of Mayor Rahm Emanuel “I’ve met some of my heroes The Chopra Center for Wellbeing Co-Chairman that have been my heroes a long time, and I’ve also met some new ones.” Eric Lefkofsky Co-Chairman – F elicity Aston, Explorer & Author 26 27 600 West Chicago, Suite 700, Chicago, IL 60654 [email protected] // chicagoideas.com