CNBC News Releases

CNBC ANNOUNCES LINE-UP FOR LATEST CNBC EVOLVE CONFERENCE

Conference to Feature CEOs from Walmart, Levi's, Chipotle, Activision and More on November 19th in Los Angeles

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., October 10, 2019 – CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, today announced the line-up for the latest CNBC Evolve conference, which will take place on Tuesday, November 19th in Los Angeles at the Hudson Loft. The event is sponsored by Abbott, City National Bank and ZipRecruiter.

The CNBC Evolve series features iconic legacy companies and executives who are adapting and innovating in this era of disruptive technological change to transform the future. Featuring best-in-class CEOs and innovators in conversation with CNBC anchors and reporters, CNBC Evolve provides a forum for companies to share strategies, tactics and lessons learned in a peer-to-peer environment.

Throughout the half-day event, panel discussions will include how legacy companies like Walmart are competing with upstarts and adapting to the changing consumer, where new disruptive companies see opportunities that are being missed by incumbents, and how great leaders steer their companies through turbulent times.

Featured CNBC Evolve speakers will include:

  • Tim Armstrong, Founder and CEO, The DTX Company; former Chairman and CEO, AOL
  • Chip Bergh, President and CEO, Levi Strauss & Co.
  • Amy Howe, President and COO, Ticketmaster North America
  • Bobby Kotick, CEO, Activision Blizzard
  • Jill Layfield, Co-Founder and CEO, Tamara Mellon
  • Doug McMillon, President and CEO, Walmart
  • Brian Niccol, CEO, Chipotle
  • Eric Ryan, Co-Founder and CEO, Olly

CNBC's Julia Boorstin, Tyler Mathisen, Becky Quick and Kate Rogers will lead the event's on-stage interviews and panel discussions. Interviews and content from the program will also be featured on CNBC's Business Day programming and CNBC Digital, including a special report available at: https://www.cnbc.com/evolve/.

For more information about CNBC Evolve, go to: https://www.cnbcevents.com/series/cnbc-evolve/.

For more information contact:

Jennifer Dauble
CNBC
t: 201.735.4721
m: 201.615.2787
e: jennifer.dauble@nbcuni.com

Erin Kitzie
CNBC
t: 201.735.4739
m: 201.753.8107
e: erin.kitzie@nbcuni.com

About CNBC:

With CNBC in the U.S., CNBC in Asia Pacific, CNBC in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and CNBC World, CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news and provides real-time financial market coverage and business information to 410 million homes worldwide, including more than 90 million households in the United States and Canada. CNBC also provides daily business updates to 400 million households across China. The network's 15 live hours a day of business programming in North America (weekdays from 4:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC's global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and includes reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide. CNBC at night features a mix of new reality programming, CNBC's highly successful series produced exclusively for CNBC and a number of distinctive in-house documentaries.

CNBC Digital delivers more than 55 million U.S. multi-platform unique visitors each month. CNBC.com provides real-time financial market news and information to CNBC's investor audience. CNBC Make It is a digital destination focused on making you smarter about how you earn, save and spend your money by zeroing in on careers, leadership, entrepreneurship and personal finance.

CNBC has a vast portfolio of digital products, offering CNBC content to a variety of platforms such as: CNBC.com; CNBC PRO, a premium service that provides in-depth access to Wall Street; a suite of CNBC mobile apps for iOS and Android devices; Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple Siri voice interfaces; and streaming services including Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV and Samsung Smart TVs. To learn more, visit https://www.cnbc.com/digital-products/.

Members of the media can receive more information about CNBC and its programming on the NBCUniversal Media Village Web site at http://www.nbcumv.com/programming/cnbc. For more information about NBCUniversal, please visit http://www.NBCUniversal.com.