Learn about the technologies and emerging trends happening on the web from the entrepreneurs and founders of some of the most successful digital media ventures such as Facebook, Monster, and Twitter, in addition to the bloggers and journalists who tracked the industry's news since its inception. These influential minds offer insight, strategies, and commentary on understanding and using this increasingly important medium.
Chris Hughes
A technology superstar whose business is people, Hughes has helped create two of the most successful startups in modern history: Facebook and MyBarackObama.com, the campaign apparatus that helped elect a US President. With an instinct for building technology that networks the commonality of real people and real ...
Jeff Taylor
As founder of Monster and Eons, Jeff Taylor is recognized as an innovator and visionary business leader in the Internet and careers industries. As an inspirational and enthusiastic keynote speaker, Taylor zeroes in on what lies ahead by drawing on his experience as a big picture entrepreneur and expert at technology, ...
Soraya Darabi
At the young age of 23, social media maven Darabi became Manager of Digital Partnerships and Social Media at The New York Times and single-handedly established award-winning social media campaigns across multiple platforms. Now co-founder of Foodspotting, a geolocation-based mobile application, and a digital ...
Sarah Lacy
Sarah Lacy knows Silicon Valley and the power of the Web 2.0 technology like few others. As a veteran reporter covering start ups—from technology innovation to cultural underpinnings—Lacy is an expert in translating the mystique and the might of this hub of technology to the rest of the world.
Dave Morin
Currently the co-founder and CEO of Path, a mobile-focused internet startup, Morin is perhaps best known as one of the co-inventors of Facebook Platform. An instrumental player in expanding the groundbreaking site’s capabilities, Morin played significant roles in the areas of product strategy, marketing, and management ...
Riley Crane
Riley Crane is the Society in Science (Branco Weiss) senior postdoctoral fellow in the Human Dynamics Group at the Media Lab at M.I.T. His research is focused on understanding the hidden patterns behind collective social behavior. A physicist by training, he has spent the last several years quantifying human behavior and ...
Sam Graham-Felsen
Sam Graham-Felsen is a pioneer in the rapidly growing fields of emerging media and movement building, both as a strategic advisor and as a key member of President Barack Obama's online campaign team.
Chris Sacca
A leading Silicon Valley venture investor, private equity principal, and company advisor focusing on consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology, Sacca most was the face and voice of Google, Inc. serving as Head of Special Initiatives. Now a formal advisor to the social networking phenomenon Twitter, Sacca also served ...
Kevin Colleran
Facebook's pioneering sales executive and among its first ten employees, Kevin Colleran was an integral part of the social networking behemoth's sales force. As the company's Global Partnership Lead, he was responsible for creatively monetizing the site without hampering user experience.
Troy Carter
Troy Carter is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Coalition Media Group, a talent management and full-service film and television production company. Carter is responsible for establishing the careers of numerous recording artists, including multi-platinum Grammy award winner Lady Gaga.
Beth Simone Noveck
Beth Simone Noveck served in the White House as the founder and director of the White House Open Government Initiative and United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer (2009-2011), where she was responsible for developing and coordinating President Obama's Administration policy on government innovation. Prime Minister ...
Sean Garrett
Sean Garrett played a crucial role in Twitter's important rise. As the former vice president of communications, he created, built & led Twitter's communications team from 2009-2011.
William Powers
William Powers is the author of the New York Times bestseller Hamlet's BlackBerry, which has been widely praised for its insights on the digital future. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic & others.
Ayesha Khanna
Ayesha Khanna is Partner of Hybrid Realities, a research and consulting firm headquartered in New York, and Director of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a think tank which explores human-technology co-evolution in the "hybrid age" and its implications for society, business, and politics. She is a strategy advisor with over ...
Chris Brogan
Chris Brogan, the president of Human Business Works, is a pioneer in the social media revolution. An 11-year veteran of using social media like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, Brogan speaks on using both web and mobile technologies to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals.
Jeff Jarvis
Named one of the 100 most influential and respected media figures in the world by the World Economic Forum, Jeff Jarvis writes about media, technology, and business on his blog, Buzzmachine.com, and works as a columnist for The Guardian in London. From newspapers to magazines to blogs – he has established himself ...
Ari Berman
Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute. He has written extensively about American politics, foreign policy and the intersection of money and politics.
Mark Cuban
Cuban purchased the Dallas Mavericks in 2000 and has since been credited with revamping the entire entertainment experience. Prior to his purchase of the Mavericks, Cuban co-founded Broadcast.com, the leading provider of multimedia and streaming on the Internet, in 1995, selling it to Yahoo! in July of 1999. Before ...
Tim Sanders
Sanders is the former Leadership Coach at Yahoo! and author of Love is the Killer APP. Prior to his current position, Sanders was the Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo!, where he was in charge of delivering next-generation marketing programs to world class brands. A dynamic and skilled speaker with years of debating ...
Terry Jones
As founder of Travelocity.com, chairman of Kayak.com, and Chief Information Officer at American Airlines/Sabre, Terry Jones is on the cutting edge of innovation and change in the new information age. Now, Jones teaches audiences how to keep up with this rapidly changing world in a series of educational and actionable ...
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