Today, Tina Brown Live Media and Women in the World announced the initial lineup of participants for the 9th annual Women in the World Summit held at Lincoln Center in New York City. This year’s Summit will open at the David H. Koch Theater on Thursday, April 12 and run to Saturday, April 14.

Secretary Clinton will lead a debate on the rise of strongmen in Russia, Turkey, the Philippines and China with four brave journalists from those regions. Among them is: Carrie Grace, former BBC China Editor who led the fight for pay equity at the BBC and testified in Parliament this year.

Since its launch in 2010, Women in the World has established itself as one of the largest, most visible platforms for women to share their stories and showcase the tenacity, joy and effectiveness of a rising global movement. This year’s Summit will feature groundbreaking conversations from the #MeToo fallout, dark new trends in human trafficking, the battle for pay equity, the women transforming the restaurant business, and how digital innovation is disrupting intimate relationships.

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The recipients of the 2018 National Magazine Awards for Print and Digital Media were announced in New York on Tuesday. New York magazine and the New Yorker both won three awards, and GQ won two. Aperture magazine, the international quarterly specializing in photography, has been honored for the second time. This was the fifty-third presentation of the awards.

Known as the Ellies, after the copper reproductions of Alexander Calder’s stabile Elephant that are presented to each winner, the National Magazine Awards are sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

This year, fifty-eight media organizations were honored as finalists in twenty categories, including two new categories, social media and digital innovation. Sixteen print and digital publications won awards.

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The annual conference at Lincoln Center will feature conversations about the #MeToo movement, “strong men” and pay equity.

Less than a month after The New York Times ended its financial ties with Tina Brown’s Women in the World live event conference business, the company has announced that Hillary Clinton, Viola Davis, Ronan Farrow, Sheila Nevins and Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Lisa Murkowski will headline its upcoming 9th annual Women in the World Summit in New York.

The event, which will be held at Lincoln Center from April 12-14, will also feature gun control activist and Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Delaney Tarr, Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee, restaurant workers’ activist Saru Jayaraman, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, the American Ballet Theatre’s Misty Copeland, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, television presenter and actress Jameela Jamil and MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid, Women in the World and Tina Brown Live Media announced Thursday.

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Large crowds gathered at downtown Miami’s Museum Park for the fourth-annual Veuve Clicquot Carnaval on March 10. In addition to salsa dancers, celebrities, drummers, and live music, the event featured endless champagne and the latest Veuve Cliquot release — Veuve Cliquot Rich — with proceeds benefitting the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

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Did you know that IBM merged a number of their top conferences—Interconnect, Amplify, World of Watson, Edge, and Connect—into one in 2018?  If you haven’t already heard about it, IBM Think is IBM’s new flagship business and technology conference, taking place March 19–22, 2018 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

It’s a global event where over 40,000 business and technology innovators, leaders, and thinkers will gather in one place to share ideas, discuss topics like Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Supply Chain, Blockchain, Omnichannel Commerce, Data Analytics, Integration, Security, IoT, and more—and enjoy some exceptional networking, entertainment, and fun along the way.  

While there are many reasons to attend—including a few mentioned in the video below—you may be most interested in reading the highlights so that you can make plans quickly (the event is just weeks away). So, as someone who has attended quite a few conferences over the years, I’ll share in this post what I believe are some of the best reasons to attend. These are in no particular order.

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Anyone searching for female power would have found a flood of it at Glamour’s three-hour-long Women of the Year Awards, held on Monday night at the Kings Theater in Brooklyn.

Beneath an ornate ceiling, one accomplished woman after another took the stage, encouraging the audience to do more, to aim higher and to fear less. It was like thumbing through an all-star issue of Glamour magazine.

Drew Barrymore spoke off-the-cuff about her friend Samantha Bee, the late-night host and an honoree. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of “We Should All Be Feminists,” introduced Maria Grazia Chiuri, the first female creative director of Dior, who used the title of Ms. Adichie’s book on T-shirts in her first collection for the label.

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Glamour’s Women of the Year awards, which took place Monday at Kings Theater in Brooklyn, honored women across a variety of professions including the organizers of the Women’s March.

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For 27 years, Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards has honored game changers, rule breakers, and trailblazers. This year proved to be one of our biggest ever. Watch the show and read our live blog to relive every inspiring moment.

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