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Fiverr®, Podio, and Aon Support the Work Revolution Summit

September 16, 2013 by

We’re excited to welcome Fiverr®, Podio, and Aon as sponsors of the Work Revolution Summit.

Our Presenting Sponsor, Fiverr® (http://fiverr.com/) creates jobs for talented people. As the leader of the Gig Economy, Fiverr is proving that everyone has a chance for financial independence by doing what they love. Fiverr is the worlds largest marketplace for Gigs (services), currently listing 2 million+ Gigs in 120 categories across more than 200 countries. Fiverr is one of the top 200 websites in the world according to Alexa.com. Fiverr, founded by Micha Kaufman and Shai Wininger, has a team of 85 people with offices in New York and Tel Aviv. The company is backed by Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and angel investors.

Our Revolutionary Sponsor, Podio (https://company.podio.com/), now part of Citrix Systems, is an online work platform with a new take on how everyday work gets done. Podio gives people more power than ever before to manage their work in their own way and is trusted by thousands of teams, companies and organizations worldwide. Podio users create workspaces to collaborate with specific groups of people, use an Employee Network for company-wide communication across departments and locations, and get their work done using Podio Apps. Anyone can build their own Podio Apps without any technical skills, and can choose from hundreds of readily available, free apps in Podio’s App Market. These apps add structure to any business process or project and are connected to social, collaborative activity streams used for commenting and discussion.

Our Champion Sponsor, Aon (http://www.aon.com/), is the leading global provider of risk management, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human resources solutions and outsourcing services.

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The Summit Is Official!

July 16, 2013 by

New York, NY — NY Tech Meetup and The Work Revolution announce their first invitation-only Summit, to be held at the Centre of Social Innovation in New York City on September 20-21, 2013.

The event will bring together a group of leading entrepreneurs, startup investors, futurists, organizational designers, and technology experts, and aims to fundamentally re-design the “operating software” of business, with the express purpose of providing startups and entrepreneurs the tools they need to maintain an astonishingly “human” company culture as they grow and scale their organizations.

“We have an opportunity to completely re-imagine the good things business can do for the world. In a decade, businesses could be sitting at the epicenter of human wellbeing. In order to do this, though, we need a revolution. If we want better organizations in 5/10/20/50 years, entrepreneurs have to start thinking about company culture before they hire even one employee,” said Work Revolution co-organizer Josh Allan Dykstra.

“Entrepreneurs are faced with a unique opportunity to not only build innovative products but also to build companies that forge a new path for what a workplace that helps both the employee and the employer reach their full potential can look like. The world will get better when we build better organizations, not just when we build better products,” said Work Revolution co-organizer and NY Tech Meetup Executive Director, Jessica Lawrence.

The Work Revolution Summit is organized by NY Tech Meetup and The Work Revolution. NY Tech Meetup is a non-profit working to build a sustainable and diverse technology industry in New York (nytm.org). The Work Revolution is a movement + campaign that advocates for life-giving work environments by facilitating collisions of revolutionary individuals and sharing the stories of startup gurus, entrepreneurs, change agents, and thought leaders who are actively making the workplace more human and meaningful (workrevolution.org).

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