Honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century,” Tiffany Shlain is founder of The Webby Awards, co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and an award-winning filmmaker. Her films have been selected at over 100 film festivals around the world, including Sundance, Tribeca, and Rotterdam, have won over 20 awards including Audience and Grand Jury Prizes, and have been translated into six languages. Her last two films include “The Tribe,” and “Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness. ”Tiffany and her team have broken new ground with self-distribution by experimenting with all the new tools available to filmmakers with the internet. “The Tribe” had a theatrical release and also hit the #1 most downloaded short film on iTunes. Tiffany lectures worldwide on the Internet and her filmmaking and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Headland Center for the Arts. She founded The Webby Awards in 1996 and was creative director and CEO for nearly a decade transforming it into a global organization honoring the best of the internet. She co-founded The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, today a 550 person organization and served as the on-air internet expert for Good Morning America. Currently, she is working on a new film, “A Declaration of Interdependence,” that will be both a short film and a feature-length documentary. She is the director of The Moxie Institute, an organization that creates films, books, discussion programs and theater experiences around social issues using emerging technologies. Tiffany is a Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute.