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As a keynote speaker, he knows how to command a stage where he can deliver a powerful presentation that will captivate your audience.
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Chris Hughes is a highly-sought keynote speaker and expert covering such topics as marketing, sales, future trends, entrepreneurship, and social media. He is a best-selling author, consultant, media pundit, and thought-leader who has spoken at many conferences around the world where he gives leaders the skills they need to deal with fast, big changes in society, the workplace, and education.
Chris Hughes is hired to speak at events and conferences where he can give expertise on important global business affairs. He has spent his career working at the intersection of politics and technology. He was a co-founder of Facebook, a digital architect for President Obama’s campaign, and the publisher of the digital and print magazine The New Republic. He is the author of the book Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn.
At 25 years old, Hughes has become a technology superstar whose business is people, helping to create two of the most successful start-ups in modern history. With an instinct for building technology that networks the commonality of real people and real communities, he helps organizations understand the limitless power of social networking.
In 2016, he co-founded the Economic Security Project, a project utilizing a network of policymakers, academics, and technologists to explore how to provide financial security for all Americans through cash transfers. Chris Hughes believes that in a time of immense wealth, no one should live in poverty, nor should the middle class be consigned to a future of permanent stagnation or anxiety. Automation, globalization, and financialization are changing the nature of work, and these shifts require rethinking how to create economic opportunity for all.
Chris also works on a range of progressive causes from his home in New York City. He is an investor and board member in several New York- and California-based start-ups, and he graduated from Harvard in 2006 magna cum laude with a degree in History and Literature.
The son of a public school teacher and traveling salesman, Chris Hughes grew up in a small town in North Carolina and got a scholarship to go to Harvard. In 2004 while there, he co-founded Facebook with his roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz. He led communications and feature development in Facebook’s early years and played a role in the development of the early News Feed and sharing functionality that continues to power Facebook today. In 2007, Chris joined Barack Obama’s digital organizing campaign for President and managed the campaign’s social network and the army of digital volunteers. After Facebook’s IPO,and today he focuses on growing the movement to combat income inequality through a guaranteed income.
Chris Hughes speaks on the contents of his book, and about what can be done about the state of poverty in the U.S. He talks about the powerful role of fortune and luck play in today’s economy and how that relates to the super-rich, and those on the other end of the spectrum.
Now the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, a 98-year-old journal of politics and arts, Hughes is shaping the future of one of the most storied and influential intellectual news magazines in the country. Investing in narrative-driven, long-form journalism, he is setting the standard for high-quality analysis adapted to the new media environment.
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