RELEVENTS Launches the Anti-SummitTM at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards

    NEW YORK, NY, April 22, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- More than 300 renowned innovators, social entrepreneurs, subversives and iconoclasts will gather at the Anti-SummitTM at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, taking place during the Tribeca Film Festival, to shape the future of knowledge-sharing and commercial activism.

Produced by RELEVENTS in collaboration with the Disruptor Foundation, and co-curated by Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), the beta event and business experiment takes place at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards throughout various venues in New York City on April 23rd and 24th, 2015.

The Anti-SummitTM is an extreme transformative experience that explores the collision of arts, sciences, humanities, technology and business and their inevitable impact on the future of innovation. Participants are expected to roll up their sleeves and jump in to create actionable solutions to tangible problems in Do Tanks, parties, simulations, expeditions and one epic failure festival.

Renowned disruptors, inventors, and rule-breakers from all walks of life and industries - like Thomas Suarez, the 15-year old who is creating the world's fastest 3-D printer, Ted Leonsis, Jason Silva, Bre Pettis, and Desi Matel-Anderson, will form Do Tanks, coming together toward a common goal of solving existing problems in areas such as healthcare, design, technology, economics, the future of food, and disaster relief.

"RELEVENTS is focused on the future and creating movements - not just an event in time. We believe in the power of positive disruption and further empowering the right mix of people to help solve problems, together."

About the Anti-SummitTM
Learn more at http://antisummit.relevents.com

About RELEVENTS
Learn more at http://relevents.com/

About The Disruptor Foundation
Co-founded by Professor Clayton Christensen, Irwin Kula, and Craig Hatkoff in 2009, the Disruptor Foundation is a private 501(C)3 non-profit whose mission is to raise awareness of and encourage the advancement of disruptive innovation theory and its application in societally-critical domains.

The Foundation's marquee event, the annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, is presented in collaboration with the Tribeca Film Festival and the Harvard Business School's Professor Clayton Christensen, originator of disruptive innovation theory.

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