Each month, members are able to enjoy topical specialists presenting their views on leading social issues and addressing individual questions from the audience. These weekday evening gatherings start with time to grab refreshments and mingle with colleagues old and new in a relaxed venue. Members can even pre-order a light gourmet meal online to savor during the presentation. The organization prides itself on providing a diverse range of topics that are of interest to its members:
Alternative Energy, Bio-Engineering, Communication, Consumer Responsibility, Copyright, Corporate Responsibility, Disaster Relief, DNA Sequencing, Education 2.0, Global Warming Solutions, Green Design, Healthcare, Innovative Transport, International Diplomacy, Leapfrogging, National Identity, National Security, Pervasive Connectivity, Planet Security, Public Transportation, Social Models, Spectrum Liberalization, Stem Cells, Transparency, Voting, Waste
EXAMPLE
#1 China’s Totally Sustainable Scratch-Built Metropolis with guest speakers who designed it.
#2 Swiss Internet Voting Technology with guest speakers from the Swiss government.
#3 The Future of Internet Video with guest speakers from Google Video, Yahoo Media, MySpace, and Netflix.
To view past and upcoming event topics, click here.
There are thousands of opportunities to change the world each day. We have a preference for out-of-the-box and innovative projects involving advancements in technology, science, and the Internet.
In the coming months, we will be partnering with a new website called Armchair Revolutionary to engage the global public in dozens of our innovative projects with a very dynamic user-experience. We are also building out a hi-tech facility in L.A. with satellites in NY and London to enable our membership to expand into the thousands and have a more sophisticated web-based communications and project management infrastructure for their project work.
EXAMPLE
A top researcher in the U.K. last year invented a high-impact biodegradable plastic for cellphone casings. In a stroke of genius, his team came up with the idea of implanting sunflower seeds in the plastic casings, and when they biodegraded to soil after about 3 months, the sunflower seeds grew into flowers. The idea and the visualization that any plastic device could be thrown away and return as a flower or even a tree is very powerful. And it makes for a great marketing campaign. You can imagine an infinite number of ad spots. Your Volkswagen Bug's interior dash could be disposed of and turn into a tree. Your red iPod casing could be disposed of and turn into a rose.
If The Hollywood Hill were to take this on as an issue/project, the organization would first host a presentation for members on this topic. The presentation would cover the technology and science behind the biodegradable cellphone, as well as the corporate and consumer marketplace for the product. The researcher who invented it would fly out and also take part in the presentation. Members who enjoyed the presentation and wanted to work on the project would then sign-up. Agents, attorneys, and business community members could lobby companies and the plastics industry to start using the plastic. Marketing and creative talent members would craft marketing campaigns to generate public demand for these products.
Lawrence Bender, Producer/Partner, A Band Apart
Mark Canton, Chairman/CEO, Atmosphere Entertainment
Victoria Hopper, Political Consultant
Arianna Huffington, Editor-In-Chief, The Huffington Post
Mike Medavoy, Chairman/CEO, Phoenix Pictures
Larry Winokur, Co-Founder/CEO, BWR Public Relations
Pam Abdy, EVP, Paramount Pictures
Marcos Barron, Producer
Emilio Diez Barroso, President, NALA Films
Michael Birnbaum, Empire Pictures
Jason Blum, President, Blumhouse
Robin Budd, Producer
Kristin Burr, VP, Buena Vista Motion Picture Group
Chuck Bush, Producer/Financier
Bernard Cahill, Partner, ROAR
Stokely Chaffin, Producer
Berly Ellis, Actress
Martha Haight, Head of TV, Rat Entertainment
Keith Kegley, Clearstone Venture Partners
Jon Keidan, Founder, Keidan Management
Jessica Kill, Producer
Ben Kim, Director of Institutional Giving, Sundance
Sam Martin, VP, HBO Films
Alexia Melocchi, Producer, Little Studio Films
Laura Rister, Manager, Untitled Entertainment
Jen Roskind, Producer/Partner, Redbone Films
Mark Ross, Producer/Partner, Maguire Entertainment
Jonathan Segal, Writer/Director
Keri Selig, President, Intuition Productions
Antonio Sosa, Producer/Financier
Madeleine Smithberg, President, Mad Cow Productions
Steven Cohen, Warner Bros.
Callie Khouri, Director/Writer
Julia Jay Pierrepont III, Partner, CreativArts Entertainment Corp.
Scott Ross, Digital Entertainment Pioneer; Founder & Former Chairman/CEO, Digital Domain
Frances Arnold, Founder, Gevo; Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry, CALTECH
Philip Coyle, Senior Advisor, Center for Defense Information
David Howe, Managing Director & COO, Civitas Group
Babak Razi, Founder/Partner, Third Wave Ventures
Alex Steffen, Co-Founder, WorldChanging.com
Jonathan Zittrain, Co-Founder, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard; Chair, Internet Governance, Oxford
Ethan Zuckerman, Fellow, Berkman Center, Harvard