Featured Speaker:

Katie Couric

Award-winning journalist and best-selling author

Katie Couric is an award-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author and a co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer.

She was the first woman to solo anchor a network evening newscast, serving as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from 2006 to 2011, following 15 years as co-anchor of NBC’s Today show. She also hosted a syndicated show and served as the Yahoo Global News Anchor until 2017.

She won a duPont-Columbia, a Peabody, two Edward R. Murrows, a Walter Cronkite Award and multiple Emmys. She was twice named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people and was a Glamour Magazine woman of the year three times.

Couric co-founded Stand Up To Cancer, which was launched in 2008. It has raised more than $746 million to support cutting-edge collaborative science and its research has contributed to the FDA approval of nine new cancer therapies, including breast, colorectal, ovarian, pancreatic and prostate cancers, and difficult-to-treat leukemias in children and young adults.

Couric received numerous awards for her cancer advocacy work; honored by both the Harvard and Columbia schools of public health, the American Cancer Society and The American Association of Cancer Researchers.

In 2017, she founded Katie Couric Media (KCM), which has developed a number of media projects, including a daily newsletter, a podcast, digital video series and several documentaries. KCM works with purpose-driven brands to create premium content that addresses important social issues like gender equality, environmental sustainability and mental health.

In addition to writing The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives, Couric’s newest book and memoir, Going There, was released in October 2021.