There they will attend a dinner, dine with world leaders, and set the agenda for the next two days of discussions aimed at using entrepreneurship to solve the world's biggest problems.
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The most powerful meeting of young Silicon Valley players you've never heard of
After they arrive in New York City on April 20, the 200 young fellows of Kairos Society will board helicopters bound for the Rockefeller Estate north of Manhattan.
Kairos founders (Left to Right) Ryan Bloomer, Alex Fiance, Ankur Jain
That, after all, is what Kairos does — gathers together the brightest young minds and connects them with leaders who are grappling global issues.
At April's meeting, like every Kairos meeting, there will be leaders from a wide range of sectors and disciplines — from former CIA head Michael Hayden to Amazon CTO Werner Vogels; Starwood Group founder Barry Sternlicht, to George Whitesides, the CEO of Virgin Galactic. The list goes on.
Kairos Society was founded as a fellowship program in 2008 by then-UPenn student Ankur Jain. Since then it has expanded to 55 countries, finding the best and brightest students with a knack for starting businesses, and helped to launch companies around the world.
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Events are free for fellows, but again, they are selective. Perhaps that's why Kairos meetings, despite boasting attendees like President Bill Clinton and
m (it's called Abaris), to a Colombian company called Mi Aguila tackling the transportation network for the Colombian workforce.
After dinner at the Rockefeller estate, Kairos will take over the top of One World Trade Center for a two-part brainstorming meeting. First,
On day three, the top 50 Kairos fellow companies will present before their peers and investors from all over the world on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
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