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 it's inception. These influential minds offer insight, strategies, and commentary on understanding and using this increasingly important medium.
Chris Hughes
Co-founder of Facebook and the mastermind behind My.BarackObama.com, two of the most successful startups in modern history, Chris Hughes has spent his brief career developing technologies to make social communication and political organizing easier and more efficient. A true visionary, he is a sought after speaker on ...
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.com, a geolocation-based mobile application, Darabi – who ...
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 ...
Barry Libert
Barry Libert is a recognized expert on innovative strategies and leadership techniques that draw on social technologies, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, to help guide corporate executives to transformational business success.
Esther Dyson
As Chairman of EDventure Holdings, Dyson focuses on emerging technologies and business models, artificial intelligence, and the Internet. Author of Release 2.0, Dyson helps citizens and policymakers think analytically about the world they are creating as they run companies and use the Internet in their daily lives.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cory Doctorow
Doctorow is a blogger, journalist and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is in favor of liberalizing copyright laws, and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, and uses some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights ...
Chris Brogan
Chris Brogan, the president of New Marketing Labs, is a pioneer in the social media revolution. An eleven 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.
Suzanne Seggerman
Suzanne Seggerman is President and Co-founder of Games for Change (G4C), a nonprofit movement promoting a new genre of videogames: games that engage players in the most pressing issues of our day: climate change, poverty and global conflicts. She is a well informed and passionate speaker of such global issues.
Anastasia Goodstein
Anastasia Goodstein is an award-winning blogger and often-quoted expert on American tweens, teens and early twenty-somethings. She has worked in media for the past 15+ years, having helped launch youth oriented web and television properties for brands like Oxygen, AOL and Current TV, and is currently Director of Digital ...
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 ...
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 ...
Garrett Graff
Editor of the Washingtonian, Garrett M. Graff was the first blogger accredited to cover the White House. A founder and vice president of communications at EchoDitto Inc., a multimillion-dollar internet strategy firm, Graff frequently speaks on blogging and the intersection of politics, journalism, and technology. ...
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