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10 THURSDAY, MAY 7TH (CONT'D) IT'S NOT AS SEXY AS IT LOOKS: RECRUITING & MANAGEMENT 14:00 – 14:50 Harrison Discuss the unsexy part of entrepreneurship – building the right team – and how that makes or breaks a company. KASWARA AL-KHATIB co-founded Uturn, an entertainment provider in Saudi Arabia. Uturn is a multi-channel network that produces and features local Saudi content, creating an online viewership community spread across several social media channels. Its original and aggregated content fills a void in many countries where the traditional, government-controlled state broadcasters have failed to engage young audiences. Its award-winning content includes two of the longest running online shows in Saudi, engendering a devoted viewership of 2 million subscribers and followers—the largest in the region. ADOLFO BABATZ is the co-founder & CEO of Clip, a mobile payments company targeting the Spanish-speaking world. The company is based in Redwood City, California and Mexico City. Before Clip, Babatz was responsible for Customer Engagement at PayPal Latin America. Before moving to the engagement team, Babatz led the team that launched PayPal in Mexico. Babatz obtained an MBA at MIT where he specialized in Entrepreneurship & Economics of Information. Prior to MIT, Babatz was part of the founding team at The Carlyle Group Mexico, where he worked as an analyst. THE NEW SILVER SCREEN: MEDIA, ADVERTISING, AND CONSUMER PARTICIPATION IN THE STREAMING AGE 14:00 – 14:50 Scarborough Discuss the shifting media landscape and what it means for digital businesses. SCALING DEMOCRACY: THE FUTURE OF BITCOIN 14:00 – 14:50 Katonah Discuss the ways in which bitcoin will change the 21st century. VINNY LINGHAM is a serial tech entrepreneur originally from Cape Town, South Africa. He has been the founder and CEO of a number of startup companies. His most recent venture, the largest digital and mobile gift card platform, Gyft, which was acquired by First Data Corporation in 2014.