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A Thought Leadership Forum for Change in the Network Age

Thank You For Attending Supernova 2009! The brightest minds of the Network Age gathered in San Francisco December 1-3, 2009 for the eighth annual Supernova Conference (#sn09).

Supernova is the only forum to examine all of the opportunities and challenges created in the Network Age. With thought-leaders from business, technology and government, we're building the most powerful human capital network about networks. And, we not only look at what's happening today, we're the first to prepare you for what's coming tomorrow.

Change is upon us. Make the most of your connections in the Network Age.

Thoughts Provoked


Jonathan Zittrain: Beware the Rise of Closed Platforms

danah boyd: Identity and Perception

Kevin Werbach interviews Alec Ross, Craig Newmark and Jimmy Wales

Chris Anderson: Atoms Are The New Bits

John Hagel on Employees With Passion

Catharine Hays on the Future of Advertising

Peter Guber: Entertainment in the Network Age

Rashmi Sinha, Dave McClure, Christine Herron and Bruce Jenett: Startups, Up From The Ashes

JP Rangaswami on Connections in the Network Age

Susan Wu, Nicole Lazzaro and Amy Jo Kim: Fun with Fun

Anna-Christina Douglas: Frontiers of Real-Time Collaboration

Tim O'Reilly and Dick Costolo: Going With The Flow

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Broadband Strategy Week’s Interview with Verizon’s Paul Brigner

Leave A Comment | Howard Greenstein | December 17th, 2009 | Changing Networks, Video

David Weinberger’s Broadband Strategy Week interview with Paul Brigner from the Supernova Conference.

Brigner, in Weinberger’s summary, “says what he would tell the Broadband Strategy Initiative: Build on our this country’s current success providing access to the Internet. Do no harm (=…

Linda Stone on Inspiration Replication

Leave A Comment | Howard Greenstein | December 17th, 2009 | Networks for Change, Video

From David Weinberger’s interview with Linda Stone at Supernova, the idea of how to replicate inspiration across this country.

Esme Vos on Broadband Competition

Leave A Comment | Howard Greenstein | December 8th, 2009 | Changing Networks, Video

In this video, David Weinberger interviews Supernova attendee and MuniWireless founder Esme Vos on
“the benefits of competition among access providers, and what we’ve learned from countries that have enforced a structural separation between those companies that provide access to the…

Elliot Noss and David Weinberger on Broadband Strategy

Leave A Comment | Howard Greenstein | December 8th, 2009 | Uncategorized

Elliot Noss of Tucows

In this video from David Weinberger’s Broadband Strategy Week, Elliot talks about the lessons that we in the US can learn from Canada on the Broadband initiative.

This is sourced from David’s blog.

David Weinberger and Anil Dash on Expert Labs

1 Comment | Howard Greenstein | December 8th, 2009 | Networks for Change, Video

At Supernova, David Weinberger interviewed Anil Dash about his new project, Expert Labs.

David’s original post is over here.

Alec Ross on Innovation in Diplomacy

1 Comment | Howard Greenstein | December 6th, 2009 | Networks for Change, The Changing World, Video

Alec Ross is Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Clinton at the State Department, and is in charge of maximizing the potential of technology and innovation in service of America’s Diplomatic and Development goals. He is trying to “take advantage of…

Deborah Schultz on Data in the Network Age

Leave A Comment | Howard Greenstein | December 6th, 2009 | Strategic Change, Video

Deborah Schultz, partner in the Altimeter Group, discusses the value of Data in the Network Age. As someone who’s been working with top consumer packaged goods companies, Deborah has good clarity about what data is out there about customers. In…

Umair Haque on the Economic Value Crisis

Leave A Comment | Howard Greenstein | December 6th, 2009 | Strategic Change, The Changing World, Video

Umair Haque spoke on the first day of Supernova, and appeared on the “Crisis? What Crisis? Strategies for a Connected World” panel on day 2.
In our talk, he summarizes his talks, giving us understanding of his theories about thick and…

Doc Searls on Telecom and Project VRM

Leave A Comment | Howard Greenstein | December 6th, 2009 | Changing Networks, Strategic Change, Video

Doc Searls, Fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard, moderated the panel on Telecom as Software at Supernova on Day 3. Doc observed that it is still very early in the current cycle of telecom innovation, and even though we…

Harriet Pearson of IBM on Privacy in Enterprise Social Media

Leave A Comment | Howard Greenstein | December 6th, 2009 | Strategic Change, Video

Harriet Pearson,Vice President, Security Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer at IBM, discussed Social Media in the Enterprise and how employees must consider both their public and corporate social media presences. There are challenges for security and corporate information as well…