Nantucket Conference 2014: Audio from selected sessions

Sharing some audio from last week's Nantucket Conference, including sessions with the CEOs of Etsy, Warby Parker, Shutterstock, Constant Contact, Indiegogo, and Birchbox. Only a few "off-the-record" moments were clipped out, but otherwise these are the sessions in their entirety. You can click play below, or click the "down arrow" once you've selected a track to download it for later listening.

Also... here's the video that Slava Rubin showed during his session.

And here's a montage of photos from the 2014 gathering. Thanks to everyone who participated and helped out!

Photo montage from the 2014 Convergence Forum

Featuring speakers, participants, and lots of lobsters. More detail about the Convergence Forum on Healthcare Innovation here.

Audio from the 2014 Convergence Forum on Healthcare Innovation

Sharing some audio here from the 2014 edition of the Convergence Forum, held May 15 and 16th in Chatham, Massachusetts. We had 13 sessions this year, including our smaller lunchtime conversations; this is the audio from five of the sessions in their entirety. To be added to the invite list for future editions, fill out this quick form.

Click any of the track titles above to begin playing them. (Pictured above are Cubist CEO Michael Bonney and Vicki Sato, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School.)

The "Young Entrepreneurs" cohort for Nantucket Conference 2014

Each year, a group of organizations and individuals underwrite free passes to the Nantucket Conference for a select group of founders under the age of 30. This year, the 15th year of the conference, our underwriters were 10X Venture Partners, Dyn, Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot, Alex Goldberg of Canary Ventures, Scott Weller of SessionM, Verizon, and the UNH Center for Entrepreneurship. We're grateful to them, and to everyone who applied for a pass. (It's not a scientific process — underwriters get to choose from the list of applicants.)

Here's the 2014 cohort of young entrepreneurs:

• David Brown, ReachPeeps
• Chris Cicchitelli, CastleOS Software
• Brent Grinna, EverTrue (also our newest Nantucket Conference advisory board member)
• Kris Hopkins, SkiSmart
• John Kelleher, Bitcoin Bills
• Jonathan Kim, AppCues
• Akansh Murthy, HermesIQ
• Moritz Plassnig, Codeship
• Nick Rellas, Drizly
• Bobby Touran, ApplyKit
• Laura Wallendal, EdTrips

We hope to see you next month on the island, when our featured speakers will include Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker, Slava Rubin of Indiegogo, Gail Goodman of Constant Contact, and Prat Vemana of Staples, among others. And if you haven't received an invite, you can request one here.

(Pictured above are past Young Entrepreneurs Program participants Peter Boyce, now an associate at General Catalyst Partners, and Ryan Dawidjan, now at WildCard.)

Apply now: Sponsored passes to Nantucket 2014 for founders 30 & under

The Young Entrepreneurs Program continues at Nantucket 2014, June 5-7. We offer a small number of passes to founders age 30 and younger, courtesy of underwriters.

Entrepreneurs can learn more or apply for one of these passes here. And we're always looking for more generous companies & individuals to underwrite passes. (You'll receive receive copious thanks and adulation at the event.) Learn about that opportunity here.

Speakers at this year's conference include CEOs and founders of Warby Parker, Etsy, Constant Contact, Birchbox, DataXu, Indiegogo, and Dragon Innovation. We hope to see you there.

Future Forward 2013: New Format / New Location / Your Ideas?

At the very first Future Forward conferences, in 2001 and 2002, you could have:

• Learned about why speech interfaces on mobile devices were going to matter
• Seen a demo of how wireless networks everywhere would facilitate the emergence of the "Internet of things"
• Ridden the Segway before anyone else (OK, so it didn't exactly revolutionize personal transportation...)
• Met the co-founder of E Ink, years before their displays were integrated into the Amazon Kindle
• Heard about consumer applications of robotics from the co-founder of iRobot... before they launched the Roomba.

We're continuing that tradition of glimpsing the future with a group of New England's most forward-thinking techies, entrepreneurs, and investors.

This year, it happens Tuesday, November 19th in downtown Boston. We're doing it as a half-day event, starting in early afternoon and closing with cocktails. And the format is new: you'll get a series of 5- and 10-minute briefings and demos, each followed by time for debate and discussion. We'll focus on technologies with the potential to create or transform industry sectors, and new investing dynamics or company-building strategies.

So: if you have an idea for a short presentation on a technology, business, or design trend that will be big in 2014, or want to give a dazzling demo of something new or not-yet-released, drop us a note. We're especially looking for presentations that can be done in five slides or fewer, or with just a whiteboard.

And if you'd like to be in the audience — space is extremely limited, and attendance is complimentary thanks to our sponsors — request an invitation here. Our focus is founders, investors, and senior execs at fast-growing companies.

Thanks to our 2013 sponsors: McGladrey and Goodwin Procter.

Introducing the 2013 class of Nantucket Conference Young Entrepreneurs

Thanks to a group of generous underwriters, each year we set aside seats at the Nantucket Conference on Entrepreneurship & Innovation for several first-time entrepreneurs under the age of 30. They get a chance to explain to the rest of the group what they're working on, and solicit advice and guidance over the course of the two-and-a-half day gathering. Their registration fees are covered by underwriters. (We always like to give credit to Brad Feld of Foundry Group for kick-starting the program, now in its third year.)

We had a record number of applicants this year, from which the underwriters and conference organizers chose this set of 10 high-potential young entrepreneurs.

• Christopher Cicchitelli, CastleOS (underwritten by Dyn)
• Michelle Darby, Roomzilla (Boston Seed Capital)
• Ryan Dawidjan, Blank Label (Objective Logistics)
• Charles Denault, Simple Charters (University of New Hampshire)
• Jay Kaplan, Synack (10X Venture Partners)
• Nishon Radhakrishnan, FuneralProposal.com (10X Venture Partners)
• Andrew Richards, TechLok (Dyn)
• Eliot Sun, Kloudless (Dyn)
• Danielle Weinblatt, Take the Interview (Canary Ventures)
• Julia Winn, BetterFit (Data Point Capital)

We're glad to have them as part of the Nantucket Conference community.

(If you are interested in being an underwriter for 2013 or a future year, please get in touch with sgilbert - at - nantucketconference.com.)