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The Arts & Business Council of New York has added a new feature to its longest-running hit, the annual Encore Awards.  Capitalizing on 45 years access to business-like artists and creative business people, ABC/NY seeks to foster conversation across the arts and business communities, identify opportunities, and imagine practical solutions.  We call it the Encore Exchange.

In the inaugural Encore Exchange, we are privileged to have Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum Director Bill Moggridge and New York Public Radio President Laura Walker in a conversation on “Being Entrepreneurial,” moderated by author and journalist Kurt Andersen.

KURT ANDERSEN is a writer.  Author of bestselling award-winning novels as well as screenplays and stage plays.  He was a columnist with Time, The New Yorker, and New York;  edited New York and  co-founded the transformative independent Spy magazine; and contributes  to Vanity Fair and New York. As the host of Studio 360, the Peabody Award-winning cultural magazine produced by WNYC and Public Radio International, he reaches more than 500,000 listeners each week.   In 2004, Andersen curated “Faster, Cheaper, Newer, More: Revolutions of 1848” at the Cooper-Hewitt and has since joined their board.

BILL MOGGRIDGE is the director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. Moggridge is credited with designing the first laptop computer, the Grid Compass. He describes his career as having three phases, first as a designer with projects for clients in ten countries, second as a co-founder of IDEO where he developed design methods for interdisciplinary design teams, and third as a spokesperson for the value of design in everyday life, writing, presenting and teaching, supported by the historical depth and contemporary reach of the museum.

LAURA R. WALKER is President of New York Public Radio, comprised of WNYC-FM, WNYC-AM, and Classical 105.9 WQXR.  WNYC produces more than 350 hours of original news and cultural programs each week, heard on air and online by more than 1.1 million New Yorkers and millions more nationwide.  Walker led the transformation of WNYC from a city-owned agency into an independent nonprofit and led the acquisition of WQXR.  She received a Peabody Award for Broadcast Excellence, has been recognized as one of the Most Influential Women in NYC Business, and received Public Radio International's Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.