John Battelle

John Battelle
Program Chair, Web 2.0 Summit; Founder & CEO, Federated Media Publishing

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John Battelle is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor, and author. Currently founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing, he is also a founder and executive producer of conferences in the media, technology, communications, and entertainment industries and “band manager” with BoingBoing.net. Previously, Battelle was founder, chairman, and CEO of Standard Media International (SMI), publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. Prior to founding The Standard, Battelle was a co-founding editor of Wired magazine and Wired Ventures. He is the author of The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture” (Portfolio, 2005).

Sessions

2:30pm Wednesday, 11/05/2008
Opening Welcome
Keynote
 Location: Grand Ballroom
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing), Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
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2:45pm Wednesday, 11/05/2008
A Conversation with Larry Brilliant
Conversation
Location: Grand Ballroom
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing), Larry Brilliant (Google.org)
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4:50pm Wednesday, 11/05/2008
A Conversation with Jerry Yang
Conversation
Location: Grand Ballroom
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing), Jerry Yang (Yahoo! Inc. )
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8:30am Thursday, 11/06/2008
A Conversation with Paul Otellini
Conversation
Location: Grand Ballroom
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing), Paul Otellini (Intel Corporation)
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1:45pm Thursday, 11/06/2008
A Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg
Conversation
Location: Grand Ballroom
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
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3:00pm Thursday, 11/06/2008
A Conversation with Jack Klues
Conversation
Location: Grand Ballroom
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing), Jack Klues (VivaKi)
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4:00pm Thursday, 11/06/2008
Launch Pad
Launch Pad
 Location: Grand Ballroom
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing), 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. Read more.
5:00pm Thursday, 11/06/2008
A Conversation On The Future Of Music with Chris DeWolfe and Edgar Bronfman
Other
 Location: Grand Ballroom
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing), Chris DeWolfe (MySpace), Edgar Bronfman Jr. (Warner Music Group)
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8:30am Friday, 11/07/2008
A Conversation with Michael Pollan
Conversation
Location: Grand Ballroom
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing), Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals)
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10:45am Friday, 11/07/2008
A Conversation with Elon Musk
Conversation
Location: Grand Ballroom
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing), Elon Musk (Tesla Motors)
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And Now, A Word From Our...
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing)
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The Future of Advertising
John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing), Jack Klues (VivaKi)
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  • Adobe Systems, Inc.
  • Enterprise Ireland
  • IBM
  • IDA Ireland
  • Juniper Networks
  • Microsoft
  • Thomson Reuters
  • Yahoo! Inc.
  • Accenture
  • CareerBuilder.com
  • iQuestions.com
  • Searchme
  • Socialtext
  • SourceForge.net
  • Microsoft
  • MySpace.com
  • Mohr Davidow Ventures
  • New Enterprise Associates
  • Omidyar Network
  • Panorama Capital
  • Silicon Alley Insider
  • Topix
  • Wired

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