Schedule
Below are the confirmed and scheduled talks at Web 2.0 Summit 2008 (schedule subject to change). Please note that Workshops on Wednesday November 5 will be scheduled shortly.
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Wednesday, 11/05/2008
7:30am
Wednesday, 11/05/2008
Location: Sunset Court
Continental Breakfast
(1h)
8:30am
Ross Mayfield (SlideShare, Inc.)
Web 2.0 holds the promise of dramatically increasing business productivity and stimulating greater innovation. Today business organizations shape society more than any other outside force, and social software has demonstrated the ability to create a sweeping change throughout organizational cultures.
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Edward Shenderovich (Kite Ventures),
Aldas Kirvaitis (Forticom Lithuania),
Benjamin Wegg-Prosser (SUP),
David Jones (Friendster, Inc.)
Growth potential outside of Western Europe and the US is far greater and things are happening faster. Through acquisitions, partnerships, and local offices, online players are monetizing their reach where no money was to be found before, discovering new opportunities and new ways to do business.
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Nancy Duarte (Duarte Design)
We live in the most innovative time in history. That, coupled with pressure from a global economy, means our corporate stories need to be told well and resonate deeply. Many times presentations are the final impression a customer has of you or your firm.
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10:00am
Jonah Stein (Its the ROI),
Matt Cutts (Google),
Steve Huffman (Hipmunk),
Jonathan Hochman (Hochman Consultants),
Sanjay Sehgal (Pramana, Inc)
The tremendous success of Web 2.0 and the large number of visitors to popular sites have made it a prime target for spammers, vandals and hackers who want to exploit the trust implicit in this ecosystem for personal gain.
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Paul Parker-Johnson (Juniper Networks)
Web applications continue their phenomenal transformation. What was once a simple http: update is now a fully collaborative, rich media experience. Under the covers, the challenge of assuring a flawless user experience now places huge demands on the network.
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Chas Edwards (Federated Media),
David Knox (Procter & Gamble Corporate Marketing),
Craig Atkinson (OMD),
Michael Hoefflinger (Intel),
Curt Hecht (VivaKi Nerve Center )
Brand managers and senior agency execs from Top 100 consumer brands will share their insights on the risks and rewards of venturing beyond banner ads into the realm of conversational marketing. How much control is worth giving up in order to tap into social-media amplification?
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Ori Amiga (Microsoft)
Take a deep dive into Microsoft’s latest offering for developers – the Live Framework and Mesh Services. It’s not just the Web anymore. It’s a world of connected digital devices. Learn how to use Live Services and program for any device, platform, runtime, and in any programming language.
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Rod Smith (IBM Emerging Internet Technologies ),
Guido Jouret (Cisco Systems, Inc)
Mashups and live video have each seen phenomenal growth in the enterprise. Together, mashups and live video are a powerful combination for creating customized business applications ranging from telepresence to video surveillance.
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Guy Kawasaki (Alltop),
Rashmi Sinha (SlideShare, Inc.),
Jason Yan (Disqus),
Tony Wright (RescueTime),
Kevin Hale (Infinity Box Inc.),
Garry Tan (Posterous.com),
Jeff Vyduna (Poll Everywhere),
Kelly Bennett (MightyQuiz),
Drew Houston (Dropbox),
Ryo Koyama (Yoics)
Watch the demos of ten companies that started in the worst of times with less than $50,000. This is the New, New, New Economy where $50,000, MySQL, Rails, PHP, WordPress, Twitter, and passion go a long, long way.
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11:30am
Raven Zachary (raven.me),
Bill Dudney (Gala Factory Software LLC),
Matt Murphy (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers),
Tom Conrad (Pandora Media)
This year marked the release of iPhone 3G and with it, Apple's launch of the App Store, an online marketplace of downloadable applications for iPhone and iPod touch. In just a few months since the debut of the App Store, thousands of third-party native applications are already available. 2008 will be known as the year that mobile computing changed forever.
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Frank Addante (Rubicon Project),
Curt Hecht (VivaKi Nerve Center ),
David Jakubowski (Specific Media),
Joanne Bradford (Yahoo! Inc.)
For years we’ve been talking about advertising budgets from televisions, newspapers, and radio moving to the web. But are they? Now that the economy has slowed down people are saying online advertising will grow because it’s more accountable? Do advertisers and their agencies actually think this way?
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Dave McClure (500 Hats),
Jeff Clavier (Softtech VC),
Ron Conway (SV Angel),
Josh Kopelman (First Round Capital),
Paul Graham
How are today's angel investors, startup incubators, and VCs different from (or similar to) previous incubators & angel funds from the 90's dot-com boom/bust?
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Adrian Ludwig (Adobe Systems),
Cathy Brooks (Seesmic),
Johann Romefort (Seesmic),
Carnet Williams (Sprout),
Clive Goodinson (Pixton Comics Inc)
From video and audio, to animation and RIA, the Flash Platform powers the most compelling user experiences on the web. With 99% reach and a consistent programming model, Flash also provides one of the fastest ways to bring a new web application to market.
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Chris Kibarian (FindLaw),
Iain Thomson (vnunet.com),
Penny Herscher (FirstRain, Inc.),
David Marks (Loomia),
Fabio Rosati (Elance Inc.),
James Powell (President and CTO ),
Shenly Glenn (University of California, San Francisco)
On this panel, professional service leaders from the Legal, Scientific and Financial worlds will debate the challenges faced by their industries in fully leveraging the power of Web 2.0 technology and the often stark wall of doubt Web 2.0 mania runs into when it slams into the stolid reality of conservative, established industries.
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Xeni Jardin (Boing Boing tv),
Timothy Shey (YouTube Next Lab),
David Prager (Revision3),
Robin Sloan (Current),
Greg Goodfried (EQAL),
Miles Beckett (EQAL),
Andrew Baron (Rocketboom)
Turn the clock back ten years to Internet Video, circa 1998: the first internet celebrity sex tape scandal hit (Pamela Anderson), the first direct-to-web music video release from a Billboard top ten artist happened (Van Halen), Al Gore asked NASA to launch a satellite to beam back 24/7 web video, and viral web entertainment mostly meant "Hampsterdance." Much has changed in a decade.
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2:30pm
Location: Grand Ballroom
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing Inc.),
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
TBD
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2:45pm
Location: Grand Ballroom
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing Inc.),
Larry Brilliant (Google.org)
TBD
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3:20pm
Location: Grand Ballroom
Mary Meeker (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers)
TBD
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3:35pm
3:50pm
Location: Grand Ballroom
John Heilemann (New York Magazine),
John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers)
TBD
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4:20pm
4:35pm
4:50pm
Location: Grand Ballroom
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing Inc.),
Jerry Yang (Yahoo! Inc. )
TBD
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5:30pm
Location: Gold Ballroom
Have a drink and some delectable nibbles as you
re-connect with other conference participants. Don’t
forget to check out the latest products and services from
the Web 2.0 Summit sponsors.
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7:30pm
Location: Grand Ballroom
Richard Rosenblatt (Demand Media Inc. ),
Lance Armstrong (Livestrong)
TBD
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8:15pm
Location: Grand Ballroom
As we have been planning the Web 2.0 Summit this year, we are continually inspired by a theme that asks us to look beyond our immediate needs and into a space that transforms limits into opportunities. It is in that spirit that we have decided to host an auction during the conference to benefit a few innovative and worthwhile organizations.
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9:00pm
Location: Pacific Heights, Sea Cliff, Marina
Wander suite to suite enjoying cocktails and snacks while mingling with other attendees, speakers, and press.
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Thursday, 11/06/2008
8:30am
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing Inc.),
Paul Otellini (Intel Corporation)
TBD
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9:10am
9:20am
Michael Arrington (TechCrunch),
Ralph de la Vega (AT&T Mobility & Consumer Markets)
TBD
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9:50am
Marc Hodosh (TED MED, X PRIZE),
Carol McCall (Humana Inc. ),
Joanna Mountain (23andMe),
Daniel Kraft (Stanford Medical School)
TBD
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11:00am
Jeffrey A. Sorenson (U.S. Army)
Average rating:
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11:55am
Saul Griffith (Makani Power/Squid Labs)
Average rating:
(5.00, 1 rating)
MacArthur Fellow, Dr. Saul Griffith will demonstrate a new, free digital application that allows anyone to more broadly understand their real energy footprint. The rich online audit calculates personal energy consumption from flying, driving, powering a home, eating, shopping, working and even one’s share of the energy necessary to make our society function.
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12:10pm
1:45pm
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing Inc.),
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
TBD
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2:15pm
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.),
Paul Maritz (VMware, Inc.),
Marc Benioff (salesforce.com),
Kevin Lynch (Adobe),
Dave Girouard (Google Enterprise)
TBD
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3:00pm
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing Inc.),
Jack Klues (VivaKi)
TBD
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4:00pm
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing Inc.),
Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures),
Chris Albinson (Panorama Capital),
Michael L. Goguen (Sequoia Capital),
Todor Tashev (Omidyar Network),
Patrick Chung (New Enterprise Associates),
Erik Straser (MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures)
This year, we continue the tradition of Launch Pad at Web 2.0 Summit. VCs and the audience will provide real-time feedback to participating companies.
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5:00pm
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing Inc.),
Chris DeWolfe (MySpace),
Edgar Bronfman Jr. (Warner Music Group)
TBD
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Friday, 11/07/2008
8:30am
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing Inc.),
Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals)
TBD
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8:55am
9:10am
10:45am
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing Inc.),
Elon Musk (Tesla Motors)
TBD
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11:15am
John Heilemann (New York Magazine),
Arianna Huffington (The Huffington Post),
Gavin Newsom (City and County of San Francisco),
Joe Trippi (Trippi and Associates)
TBD
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11:55am
Max Levchin (Slide),
Vic Gundotra (Google),
David Treadwell (Microsoft - Live Platform Services),
Amit Kapur (Gravity),
Elliot Schrage (Facebook)
Max Levchin predicted more than two years ago that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace would become the new operating systems of the web, attracting tens of thousands of developers and offering hundreds of millions of users a new starting point for communication, entertainment and utility.
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2:00pm
2:10pm
2:20pm
2:50pm
Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Media, Inc.),
Greg Skibiski (Sense Networks),
Ted Morgan (Skyhook Wireless),
April Allderdice (MicroEnergy Credits),
Rich Miner (Google)
Location provides context to our every action. Our mobile phones and laptops are with us almost everywhere. It's taken years but finally location-aware apps are available and given their popularity we can expect to see location-awareness in the majority of mobile apps in the next decade.
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4:00pm
4:15pm
4:30pm
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