Wednesday, November 23

The Oxford Union, one of the oldest and maybe most venerated debating societies recently debated the following motion, dubbed “the Silicon Valley Debate,”

"This House Believes That the Average Worker is Being Left Behind by Advances in Technology"

Proposition:
Erik Brynjolfsson - Schussel Family Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management & Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business.

Patrick Chung - Co-head of NEA Consumer investing practice.

Reid Hoffman - Co-founder & President of LinkedIn and Co-founder & Vice-President of PayPal.

Andrew McAfee - Principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Opposition:
Tom Hayes - Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Marvell & author of best-selling books on digital business and culture.

Kal Patel - Partner in Vantagepoint Capital Partners.

Kim Polese - Former CEO of SpikeSource. A 'Time' magazine former '25 Most Influential Americans'.

Padmasree Warrior - Chief Technology Officer and former Executive Vice-President of Motorola.

The debate was sponsored by the Said Business School of Oxford University, Oxford, England.