CAA Launches New Business Summit for Young Executives (Exclusive)

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CAA launches new business summit for young executives

The agency is launching CAA Convene, a new invitation-only, cross-industry program for executives under 40. The inaugural 150-member cohort, dubbed Ojai Fellows, will meet at the Ojai Valley Inn for a two-day flagship event that kicks off June 26.

"You have these incredible spaces where people gather – whether it's Sun Valley, Aspen, Google Camp, et cetera – but those gatherings are really for people who are at the pinnacle of their careers," CAA chief innovation officer Michelle Kydd Lee tells. "We're providing the same caliber of speakers and opportunity at a younger stage in their professions, when they're more open in their development to a lot of learning.

The Fellows were each nominated as potential future C-suite occupants by their companies, which include IBM, Bose, LiveNation, CBS, Google, the NBA, TOMS, Lyft, JP Morgan Chase, Peloton, Shondaland, EBG, the Walt Disney Company, General Mills, TPG, Wieden & Kennedy, the PGA Tour, Bad Robot, WarnerMedia, Airbnb, adidas, Mattel, Nike and Discovery.

CAA Convene's first lineup of speakers includes Brian Grazer, Arianna Huffington, Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers, MIT Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini , MIT Space Exploration Initiative founder Ariel Ekblaw, best-selling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin, TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie, MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative director Neha Nerula, SKDKnickerbocker crisis communications expert Hilary Rosen, FIGS co-founder and co-CEO Trina Spear, The Dalai Lama...

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