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With Nancy Greco & Wendy Chong (Watson Research Center), Sarah Knapp (Outdoor Fest) & others.
Tue, Apr 28, 2015 @ 05:00 PM   FREE   IBM Watson, 51 Astor Place, 5th Fl
 
     
 
 
              

  
 
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Helvetica; color: #ff2600; text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: terminal, monaco; color: #000000;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="font-size: x-large;">Stories are remembered up to</SPAN> <SPAN STYLE="font-size: xx-large;">22x <SPAN STYLE="font-size: x-large;">more</SPAN></SPAN></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: x-large;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"><STRONG>than facts alone</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Helvetica; color: #ff2600;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #000000; font-family: terminal,monaco; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: large;">Are you interested in learning how to impact audiences through the power of a story? Whether you're talking about an IBM product or program to a client, or sharing with colleagues about why you do what you do, stories can be very powerful.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Helvetica; color: #ff2600;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #000000; font-family: terminal,monaco; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: large;"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Helvetica; color: #ff2600;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #000000; font-family: terminal,monaco; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: large;">Come to this event to experience the art of storytelling. We'll have a variety of storytellers sharing their experiences of "swimming upstream."</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Helvetica; color: #ff2600;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #000000; font-family: terminal,monaco; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: large;">Be prepared to collaborate! We want you to leave feeling inspired to infuse storytelling best practices into your work. You'll have the chance to discuss your burning questions, and spend some time understanding what qualities make a story memorable. taking a crack at sharing your own story</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Helvetica; color: #ff2600;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #000000; font-family: terminal,monaco; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: large;"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Helvetica; color: #ff2600;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: large; color: #000000;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 28.799999237060547px;">Now let's get to know our storytellers:</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Helvetica; color: #ff2600;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: large; color: #000000; font-family: terminal, monaco;"><STRONG>Nancy Greco</STRONG>-</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: medium;">Nancy is a Distinguished Engineer and Director in T J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. She is currently the Director of Research Transition in Worldwide Research Strategy, with the goal of finding new ways of working to drive innovation from Research into the market, faster and more efficiently in lock step with our business units and clients.</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Helvetica; color: #ff2600;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: large; color: #000000; font-family: terminal, monaco;"><STRONG>Wendy Chong</STRONG>-</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top: 1.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 1.0pt; margin-left: 0in;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: medium;">Wendy Chong is a Research Commerce Strategy lead in IBM Research at TJ Watson Research Center. She is part of an organization under WW Research Strategy and operations driving research innovation at speed to the market in tandem with the IBM business units (BU). Her focus is creating new methodologies and partnering with the BU's, analyzing the market opportunity for research assets to a specific targeted industry and client base.</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Helvetica; color: #ff2600;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: large; color: #000000; font-family: terminal, monaco;"><STRONG>Will Ehrenfeld</STRONG>-</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: medium;">Will is aprogram manager in IBM's Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs division, where he is responsible for the flagship Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH), the first school in a movement that will include over 40 sites in 2016. Before IBM, Will was a social studies teacher at P-TECH, where he continues to serve as head coach of the soccer team. He is a Brooklyn resident who believes deeply in the power of sharing stories to change the world.</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Helvetica; color: #ff2600;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: large; color: #000000; font-family: terminal, monaco;"><STRONG>Christian Anthony</STRONG> -</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: medium;">Christian is a fourth-year student at P-TECH, where he has earned a reputation as someone who is passionate about the arts and who is constantly studying and developing new ideas to bring about social balance. He is a firm believer that change is far from impossible, and the first step towards change is building a relationship of respect and understanding with one another. He is an up-and-coming poet who is excited to share his work with a new audience.</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Helvetica; color: #ff2600;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: large; color: #000000; font-family: terminal, monaco;"><STRONG>Sarah</STRONG><STRONG>Knapp</STRONG>-</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: medium;">Sarah is a Brooklyn based entrepreneur whose love for the outdoors and community building led her to the October 2013 creation of OutdoorFest. When not planning the next Mappy Hour, Sarah mentors through the Brooklyn Boulders Foundation and helps organize programming for empowered outdoor females through local nonprofit SheJumps. She has a BA in History, is a Wilderness First Responder and a NY state hiking, camp and boating guide. Her proudest achievement to date is reading the Aeneid in Latin.</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Helvetica; color: #ff2600;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #000000; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: terminal,monaco; font-size: large;">Join us after the event for a <STRONG>happy hour</STRONG> at a local bar (to be determined) to mingle and network with your fellow attendees!</SPAN></P>
 
 
 
 
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