Red Hat Coffee Hour Series: Lessons from the world’s great innovators

Overview

One of our generation's greatest biographers, Walter Isaacson, has authored seminal works covering the history of technology from Leonardo Da Vinci to Steve Jobs and most recently Jennifer Doudna - the inventor of CRISPER. With a penchant for finding the intersection between the arts and sciences, Walter Isaacson brings a wealth of knowledge and understanding of the humanity behind technology to his books.

Join us as Adam Clater, Chief Architect at Red Hat®, and Walter talk about the secrets we have learned from the world's great innovators to being creative and innovative, fostering teamwork and making space for new kinds of thinking in organizations.

Walter Isaacson

President of the Aspen Institute and Best-Selling Biographer of Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson is a Professor of History at Tulane and an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg, a financial services firm based in New York City. He is the past CEO of the Aspen Institute, where he is now a Distinguished Fellow, and has been the chairman of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine.

Isaacson’s most recent biography, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (2021) offers a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. He is also the author of Leonardo da Vinci (2017), The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014), Steve Jobs (2011), Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). He is a host of the show Amanpour and Company on PBS and CNN, a contributor to CNBC, and host of the podcast Trailblazers, from Dell Technologies.

Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952, in New Orleans. He is a graduate of Harvard College and of Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He began his career at The Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune. He joined TIME in 1978 and served as a political correspondent, national editor, and editor of digital media before becoming the magazine’s 14th editor in 1996. He became chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, and then president and CEO of the Aspen Institute in 2003.

He is chair emeritus of Teach for America. From 2005-2007 he was the vice-chair of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, which oversaw the rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina. He was appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate to serve as the chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other international broadcasts of the United States, a position he held from 2009 to 2012. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of the Arts, and the American Philosophical Society.

He serves on the board of United Airlines, the New Orleans City Planning Commission, the New Orleans Tricentennial Commission, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Society of American Historians, the U.S. Defense Department Innovation Board, the Carnegie Institution for Science, and My Brother’s Keeper Alliance.

Adam Clater

Chief Architect, Red Hat Public Sector

Adam works internationally with federal agencies, integrators and Red Hat partners & Communities to promote and define the use of enterprise open source solutions.

Adam has experienced first hand the evolving role that I.T. has played in the federal government for nearly two decades, starting with his role as a Systems Administrator at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1997.

Prior to joining Red Hat, Adam was a senior architect, system administrator and lead for a variety of commercial and government agencies including: Lockheed Martin - U.S. Army, The National Education Association, RSA Security, AOL/Time Warner.

Virtual event details

Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET

Date: April 13, 2022

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REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST	7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
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BREAK NETWORKING	9:15 AM – 9:30 AM
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BREAK NETWORKING & SNACKS	10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
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BREAK NETWORKING	11:45 AM – 12:00 PM
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CLOSING REMARKS John Doe, Partner-In-Charge of Nonprofit	12:45 PM – 12:55 PM
LUNCH & NETWORKING	12:55 PM – 2:00 PM

Lessons from the world’s
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Walter Isaacson

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