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Fortune’s 2016 Most Powerful Women Summit Is Finally Here—And You Can Watch it Live

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We want you to be in the room where it happens.

Fortune‘s annual Most Powerful Women Summit—now in its 18th year—kicks off on Monday, Oct. 17. While the invite-only confab is sold out, you can still catch all the action on our livestream starting Monday at 8:40 pm Pacific.

Tune in to watch all of our main-stage interviews, beginning with Apple (AAPL) retail and online stores SVP Angela Ahrendts and continuing through the closing speaker, Trump Organization EVP Ivanka Trump, who appears Wednesday at 10:50 am. Along the way, there will be conversations between Facebook (FB) COO Sheryl Sandberg and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative co-founder Priscilla Chan, Brandeis University professor Anita Hill and talk show host Chelsea Handler, and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and YouTube star Grace Helbig.

Other highlights from the three-day event include interviews with Fabletics co-founder Kate Hudson, Women’s Heart Alliance co-founder Barbra Streisand, and U.S. CTO Megan Smith.

Follow the Fortune MPW Summit coverage on Twitter at #FortuneMPW. And watch it live on Fortune.com.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17

7:00 PM: Angela Ahrendts, SVP, Retail and Online Stores, Apple


TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18

9:00 am: Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

9:15 am: Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President, and CEO, IBM Corp.

9:35 am: Deborah Lee James, 23rd Secretary, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Department of the Air Force

9:50 am: Jami Miscik, President and Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates; Director, Morgan Stanley

10:05 am: Joanna Barsh, Chairman, Fortune Women’s Leadership Council

10:15 am: Ellen Kullman, Retired Chair and CEO, DuPont

12:00 pm: Priscilla Chan, Co-founder, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook; Co-founder, LeanIn.Org

12:20 pm: Barbra Streisand, Co-founder, Women’s Heart Alliance

12:35 pm: Sandi Peterson, Group Worldwide Chairman, Johnson & Johnson; Anne Richards, CEO-elect, M&G Investments; and Fran Townsend, EVP, Worldwide Government, Legal, and Business Affairs, MacAndrews and Forbes Inc.

2:30 pm: Megan Smith, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, The White House and Michelle Lee, Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

2:45 pm: Grace Helbig, Creator and Host, the YouTube channel and Susan Wojcicki, CEO, YouTube

3:05 pm: Tamara Ingram, CEO, J. Walter Thompson

3:20 pm: Paula Schneider, Former CEO, American Apparel

3:35 pm: Wendy Clark, Chief Executive Officer, DDB North America

3:45 pm: Donna Langley, Chairman, Universal Pictures


WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18

8:40 am: Ruth Porat, CFO, Alphabet and Google

9:00 am: Marne Levine, COO, Instagram

9:15 am: Judy Smith, President & CEO, Smith & Company and inspiration for the TV Show Scandal

9:30 am: Diane Bryant, EVP and General Manager, Data Center Group, Intel

9:45 am: Dayle Haddon, Founder & CEO, WomenOne and Christy Turlington Burns, Founder, Every Mother Counts

9:55 am: Nina Easton, Washington Columnist, Fortune; commentator, Fox News Sunday and Nancy Gibbs, Editor-in-Chief, Time; Editorial Director, Time Inc. News Group

10:o0 am: Kristen Bellstrom, Senior Editor, Fortune; author, The Broadsheet

10:10 am: Anita Hill, University Professor of Law, Public Policy, and Women’s Studies, Heller Graduate School of Policy and Management, Brandeis University and Chelsea Handler, Talk Show Host, Bestselling Author, and Comedian

10:25 am: Kate Hudson, Co-founder, Fabletics

10:40 am: Kristen Bellstrom, Senior Editor, Fortune and author of The Broadsheet

10:50 am: Ivanka Trump, EVP, Development and Acquisitions, The Trump Organization

All times are PST. Click here for more on the MPW Summit and here for more Fortune MPW coverage.

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