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Mark Cuban, Cindy Robbins, and more: new IGNITION speakers

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Two months from now we’ll be kicking off our ninth annual
IGNITION conference in New York City.

We’re excited to announce the latest round of additions to our
packed agenda.


Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban.
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  • Prolific entrepreneur Mark Cuban will
    return to the stage after speaking at 2014’s event. He’ll be
    joined by Felicity Conrad and Kristen
    Sonday,
    the cofounders of one of Cuban’s business
    investments, the legal startup Paladin. Paladin aims to help
    legal teams sign up for pro-bono opportunities and enables
    coordinators to track lawyers’ work.
  • Barbara Corcoran, the legendary real-estate
    mogul and “Shark Tank” star, will be at IGNITION discussing
    her decades-long entrepreneurial career.


Barbara Corcoran
Barbara
Corcoran.


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  • Cindy Robbins is the president and chief
    people officer at Salesforce. She spearheaded a companywide
    initiative, helmed by CEO Mark Benioff, to close the gender
    wage gap. The tech company has since dedicated $6 million
    toward correcting compensation differences. Learn more about
    Salesforce’s unique company culture and benefits, and how
    Robbins is continuing to scale new initiatives paving the way
    for other companies.
  • Legendary businessman and venture capitalist Steve
    Case
    will be joined onstage by several of the
    entrepreneurs he’s invested in, including Craig
    Fuller,
    the CEO of FreightWaves — the largest provider
    of news, content, data, and analytics for the freight and
    logistics markets — and Tye and Courtney
    Caldwell,
    the cofounders of B2B beauty-tech platform
    ShearShare.
  • Rachel Holt leads Uber’s New Modalities unit,
    which oversees the company’s initiatives around bikes,
    scooters, transit, hourly rentals, and more. Ryan
    Rzepecki
    is the CEO and founder of JUMP Bikes, the
    dockless electric-bike-sharing startup that Uber recently
    acquired. The two will take the IGNITION stage together to
    discuss the future of urban transportation.
  • Cal Henderson is the cofounder and chief
    technology officer of Slack, the team-communication and
    workplace-messaging platform. Henderson will share how Slack’s
    technology is transforming and streamlining the modern work
    environment, and how it aligns with boosted employee time
    management and productivity.

Take a look at the full lineup of
speakers
confirmed so far.

This event will sell out, so get your tickets now to ensure you
don’t miss a moment.

For updates on new speakers, sign up for our
IGNITION mailing list
.

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