Supernova 2008: because technology is everyone's business
Supernova 2008
June 16-18, 2008
San Francisco, CA
Supernova 2008
Speakers
Supernova brings together a unique mix of industry heavyweights and bleeding-edge innovators.Confirmed speakers for Supernova 2008 include:
- Raffi Amit (Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship, The Wharton School)
- Jonathan Aronson (Professor, School of International Relations, USC)
- Michael Arrington (Editor, TechCrunch)
- Richard Bennett (Network Architect)
- Eric Bonabeau (CEO, Icosystem)
- Ken Carter (Sr. Consultant, wik-Consult GmbH)
- Tantek Celik (tantek.com)
- Lili Cheng (Group Manager, Social Computing, Microsoft Research)
- Elizabeth Churchill (Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research)
- Jeff Clavier (Managing Partner, SoftTech VC)
- Eric Clemons (Professor, Operations & Information Management, The Wharton School)
- Noshir Contractor (Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern Univ.)
- Susan Crawford (Professor, Univ. of Michigan Law School)
- Leah Culver (Co-founder, Pownce)
- Pierre De Vries (Author and Researcher)
- Raissa D'Souza (Professor, Center for Computational Science and Engineering, UC Davis)
- Esther Dyson (EDventure)
- Dave Elfving (User Experience Designer, SolutionSet)
- Ian Ferrell (Director of Wireless Innovation, Startup Business Accelerator, Microsoft)
- BJ Fogg (Director, Persuasive Technology Lab, Stanford Univ.)
- Umair Haque (bubblegeneration and Havas Media Lab)
- Eszther Hargittai (Professor, Communication Studies and Sociology, Northwestern Univ.)
- Shawndra Hill (Professor, Operations & Information Management, The Wharton School)
- Karthik Hosanagar (Professor, Operations & Information Management, The Wharton School)
- Bernardo Huberman (Sr. HP Fellow, HP Labs)
- Reed Hundt (Former FCC Chairman)
- Bob Iannucci (CTO, Nokia)
- Joi Ito (Neoteny)
- Jeremy Keith (Adactio)
- Raph Koster (President, Metaplace)
- Joe Kraus (Director of Product Management, Google)
- Loic Le Meur (CEO, Seesmic)
- Gerald Lewis (Chief Privacy Officer, Comcast)
- Charlene Li (VP & Principal Analyst, Forrester Research)
- Greg Luib (Deputy Director, Office of Policy Planning, FTC)
- Jim Lussier (Partner, Norwest Venture Partners)
- Doug Mack (VP and GM, Hosted and Consumer Solutions, Adobe)
- Colin Maclay (Managing Director, Berkman Center, Harvard Law School)
- Hugh MacLeod (GapingVoid)
- Fran Maier (Executive Director, TrustE)
- Kevin Marks (Developer Advocate, Google)
- Andrea Matwyshyn (Professor, Legal Studies & Business Ethics, The Wharton School)
- Elliot Maxwell (Fellow, Communications Program, Johns Hopkins Univ.)
- Phil McKinney (CTO, Personal Systems Group, HP)
- Chris Messina (Citizen Agency)
- David Morin (Sr. Platform Manager, Facebook)
- JP Rangaswami (Managing Director, BT Service Design)
- David Recordon (Open Platforms Tech Lead, Six Apart)
- Chris Sacca (Investor)
- Bruce Schneier (CTO, BT Counterpane)
- Jonathan Schwartz (CEO, Sun Microsystems)
- Axel Schmiegelow (CEO, Sevenload)
- Clay Shirky (Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU)
- David Sifry (Founder & Chairman, Technorati)
- Joseph Smarr (Chief Platform Architect, Plaxo)
- Bill St. Arnaud (Director of Network Projects, CANARIE)
- Bret Taylor (Co-Founder, FriendFeed)
- Douglas Thomas (Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, USC)
- Joel Waldfogel (Chair, Business and Public Policy, The Wharton School)
- Kevin Werbach (Conference organizer and Professor of Legal Studies, The Wharton School)
- Susan Wu (Partner, Charles River Ventures)
- Stephan Zimmermann (Leader, Online Services Practice, McKinsey & Co.)
Attendee Roundtable speakers will include:
- Ajit Jaokar (futuretext)
- Jessica Mah (Entrepreneur and Blogger)
- Tom Patterson (Digital Containers)
Pre-conference mixer session leaders included:
- Jeremiah Owyang (Forrester Research)
- Jerry Michalski (Sociate)