Supernova 2006: because technology is everyone's business

Supernova 2007

June 20-22, 2007

San Francisco, CA

Speaker List

		Lada Adamic University of Michigan Lada Adamic is an assistant professor in the School of Information. Her research interests center on information dynamics in networks: how information diffuses, how it can be found, and how it influences the evolution of a network's structure. She worked previously in Hewlett-Packard's Information Dynamics Lab on research projects relating to networks constructed from large data sets.
		Michael Arrington TechCrunch Michael Arrington is the founder of the Crunch Network and editor of TechCrunch, the leading blog covering new Internet products and companies. He also co-founded Edgeio, a online classified listing startup. Previously, he worked as a corporate lawyer at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini, worked in sales and business development at RealNames, co-founded Achex, which was sold to First Data Corp., and was COO at Razorgator.
		Nicholas Carr Author and Blogger Nicholas Carr is the author of Does IT Matter? (Harvard Business School Press, 2004) and The Big Switch: Our New Digital Destiny, forthcoming from W.W. Norton. He was formerly the executive editor of Harvard Business Review, where he wrote more than a dozen articles and interviews including "IT Doesn't Matter" and "Hypermediation." Nick is a regular contributor to the Financial Times Digital Business podcast and is a contributing editor at Strategy & Business, where he writes a column on innovation. He has also written for the New York Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, Wired, The Guardian, The Banker, and Business 2.0, among other publications, and he pens the popular blog Rough Type.
		Denise Caruso Hybrid Vigor Institute Denise Caruso co-founded the nonprofit Hybrid Vigor Institute in 2000 to study and practice collaboration in the service of new solutions for complex social and scientific problems. She recently published "Intervention: Confronting the Real Risks of Genetic Engineering and Life on a Biotech Planet", and continues to work on projects both in academia and the private sector to improve the practice of risk analysis for science and technology-related innovations. For the five years prior to founding Hybrid Vigor, Caruso wrote the Technology column for the Monday Information Industries section of The New York Times.
		KC Claffy CAIDA KC Claffy is principal investigator for the distributed Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), and resident research scientist based at the University of California's San Diego Supercomputer Center. kc's research interests include Internet workload/performance data collection, analysis and visualization, particularly with respect to commercial ISP collaboration/cooperation and sharing of analysis resources. kc received her PhD in Computer Science from UCSD in 1994.
		John Clippinger Berkman Center, Harvard Law School John Henry Clippinger directs The Open Identity Meta-system, project for the development of Higgins, an open source, inter-operable identity framework that gives people control over their personal information. Dr. Clippinger co-founded the Social Physics project, and is the author of "A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity." He has consulted to the Command and Control Research Program (CCRP) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks, Information and Integration), and has consulted with numerous other government agencies. He founded several software companies, Brattle Research Corporation, Context Media, Lingo Motors, and more recently, Parity Communications, where he is Chairman.
		Jyri Engestrom Jaiku Jyri is the co-founder and chairman of Jaiku. He has held senior level positions at such leading companies as Nokia, Social Objects, Aula Design, ShiftControl Finland, which he co-founded in 2002, the Tera Group, Satama Interactive and To the Point, among others. He holds patents in remote content delivery and creating shortcuts in a personal communications device. He has led conferences and written extensively on mobile technology and social networking.
		Julie Hanna Farris Entrepreneur A 20 year industry veteran, Julie has guided several early stage consumer internet and enterprise software from obscurity to prominence. She is founder and former CEO of Scalix, where he raised $20M in venture capital and led the company from inception to revenue. She has been an entrepreneur-in-residence at Mayfield and a founding executive of startups - onebox.com (acquired by OpenWave), 2Bridge where she coined "enterprise portal", Portola where she was instrumental in the acquisition by Netscape, and Healtheon, now WebMD. Today, Julie serves on the advisory boards of private companies in the open source and consumer internet markets.
		Craig Forman Earthlink Craig Forman is an executive vice president & president of EarthLink's Access and Audience Business group. Forman was previously a senior executive at Yahoo!, where headed the Media and Information businesses. He served as CEO and co-founder of Success Television and MyPrimeTime Inc., a television production and venture-backed Internet company. Earlier, Forman served as an operating executive at Time Warner's CNN Group and Time Inc. divisions, and at The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones. He also was a member of the management team that took early search-engine Infoseek public. For 13 years prior to his joining Infoseek, Forman served as a general manager, editor, bureau chief, and foreign correspondent at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal.
		Jason Gaedtke Comcast Interactive Media Jason leads a group responsible for assessing technical market dynamics, performing partner diligence and selection, and defining system architectures. Before joining the CIM organization upon, Jason held similar technical roles within Comcast’s Communications Engineering and New Media Development groups, specifically focused on voice and multimedia services enabled by SIP and PacketCable Multimedia (PCMM) architectures. Prior to these roles at Comcast, Jason served as a Project Director at CableLabs where he led the PacketCable Dynamic Quality of Service (DQoS) and Multimedia focus teams in the developing the PacketCable Multimedia specification.
		John Hagel Consultant and Author John Hagel is an independent management consultant and author. He works with senior management of large enterprises around the world to shape business strategies and improve business performance. His experience includes senior management positions in technology businesses and sixteen years as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. He continues to serve as Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Co. Harvard Business School Press has published four books by John, including his most recent, The Only Sustainable Edge, co-authored with John Seely Brown.
		Kaliya Hamlin Identity Woman Kaliya Hamlin works developing social media strategy and blogging for a variety of clients ranging from Broadway musicals to enterprise software companies. Her own blogging has focused on the emergence of persistent digital identity systems at IdentityWoman.net. She serves in a networking role for several organizations at the intersection of information technology and civil society: Planetwork, Identity Commons and Integrative Activism. She is an associate of the Co-Intelligence Institute and regularly volunteers her networking skill for the Interra Project.
		Umair Haque BubbleGeneration Umair Haque studied neuroscience at McGill, did an MBA and econ/strategy research with Gary Hamel at London Business School in 2003, and began working towards a PhD in strategy and innovation at Oxford in 2004. Umair has spent time working in finance/economics, at a venture-backed startup, and as a strategy consultant. He now heads Bubblegeneration, a strategy lab which helps discover strategic innovation. He studies the economics of the future: the impact new technologies, management innovation, and shifting consumer preferences will have tomorrow on the industries and markets of today.
		Reid Hoffman LinkedIn Reid was LinkedIn's founding CEO for the first four years before moving to his role as Chairman and President, Products in February 2007. While CEO, Reid built the company to over 9 million members and profitability. He now drives product and business strategy for LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, Reid was Executive Vice President of PayPal, where he was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Reid also has held management roles in large technology companies, including Fujitsu Software Corporation and Apple. Currently, in addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart and Mozilla Corporation.
		JB Holston NewsGator Technologies JB Holston has run a wide range of technology and media enterprises over the last two decades. As President of Ziff Davis International, Holston managed Ziff Davis' operations across more than 100 countries, and launched Yahoo! Europe. He was part of the senior management team that led the successful LBO of ZD by Forstmann, Little, and subsequent sale to Softbank. Since selling his last technology start-up, Holston has helped create a wide range of for-profit and not-for-profit entities, including Media-x at Stanford. He has also worked as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group, worked in strategic planning for RCA, served on Jack Welch's staff at GE, and overseen strategic planning and NBC's international operations.
		Rick Hutley Cisco Rick Hutley is global lead of the Innovations team in Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). His team is responsible for developing new solutions, architectures, and business cases to help Cisco’s key customers successfully adopt Internet-based technologies. Prior to Cisco, Hutley was chief information officer for British Telecom’s Concert Communications Company. Hutley was also director of information systems for Syncordia Corporation.
		David Isenberg Isen.com David S. Isenberg spent 12 years at AT&T Bell Labs until his 1997 essay,"The Rise of the Stupid Network," was received with acclaim everywhere in the global telecommunications community with one exception -- at AT&T itself! So Isenberg left AT&T in 1998 to found isen.com, LLC (an independent telecom analysis firm based in Cos Cob, Connecticut) and to publish The SMART Letter, an open-minded commentary on the communications revolution and its enemies.
		Van Jacobson PARC Van Jacobson is one of the primary contributors to the technological foundations of today’s Internet, and is renowned for his pioneering achievements in network performance and scaling. Jacobson leads the content-centric networking research program at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Among his many accomplishments, Jacobson's strategy for transmission control protocols (TCP) helped solve the problem of congestion -- and is used in over 90 percent of Internet hosts today. Widely credited with enabling the Internet to expand in size and support increasing speed demands, Jacobson helped the Internet survive a major traffic surge (1988-89) without collapsing. Prior to joining PARC as Research Fellow, Jacobson led networking efforts as Chief Scientist at Cisco Systems and later Packet Networks.
		Marcien Jenckes AOL Marcien Jenckes oversees AOL's community products, including the AIM and ICQ instant messaging services. Prior to this role, Marcien was responsible for launching AOL's free web services by overseeing the design, development and programming of the AOL network. He also led the Strategy & Operations team for all of AOL Programming properties. Before coming to AOL, Marcien worked at McKinsey & Company in Washington, DC and was a member of their Media and Technology practice.
		Ge Jin UC San Diego Ge Jin is a PhD candidate from the Department of Communication at UCSD. He is researching areas of the computer gaming culture in China, real money trade in online games and documentary filmmaking. He has made Gold Farmers--a feature length documentary on Chinese real money traders in MMORPGs.
		Michael Katz Haas School, UC Berkeley Michael L. Katz holds the Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He also holds an appointment as professor in the Department of Economics. Dr. Katz has served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and as Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission. He has published numerous articles on the economics of networks industries, intellectual property, telecommunications policy, and antitrust enforcement.
		Paul Kedrosky Infectious Greed Paul Kedrosky is a venture capitalist, media personality, and entrepreneur. He is a sought-after speaker; an analyst for CNBC television; a columnist for TheStreet/RealMoney; the editor of Infectious Greed, one of the best known business blogs on the Internet; and he is frequently quoted in major publications around the world. Most recently he has been the Executive Director of the William J. von Liebig Center in San Diego, California. He is a venture partner with Ventures West, Canada's largest institutional venture capital firm. In that capacity his interests include consumer technologies, media, semiconductors, and life sciences. He is currently on the board of Marqui Corporation, a marketing automation software firm, as well as Dabbledb, a hosted data management company.
		Andrew Keen Cult of the Amateur Andrew Keen, the author of “Cult of the Amateur”, is a vocal critic of today’s Internet. His book seeks to critically expose the consequences of the Web 2.0 revolution. He is host of afterTV.com and regularly appears on television and radio. His writing can be found on ZDNet.com and Britannica.com, and in traditional publications like the Weekly Standard, Fast Company and Forbes.
		John Kneuer US Department of Commerce As Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, Mr. Kneuer oversees and directs NTIA. NTIA seeks to promote market-based policies which lower prices to consumers and encourage innovation, while harnessing the resources of the federal government to support spectrum-based technologies which enhance efficiency and productivity. Mr. Kneuer joined NTIA in October 2003. Prior to joining NTIA, Mr. Kneuer served as a Senior Associate at the law firm of Piper Rudnick in Washington, D.C., providing regulatory and legislative representation to corporate clients in the telecommunications, defense, and transportation industries.
		Josh Kopelman First Round Capital Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. He currently is Managing Partner of First Round Capital, a seed-stage venture fund focused on technology investments. In 1992, while a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics, which went public in 1996. He founded Half.com in 1999, and led it to become one of the largest sellers of used books, movies and music in the world. Half.com was acquired by eBay in July 2000. In 2003 Josh helped to found TurnTide, an anti-spam company that was acquired by Symantec just six months later. Josh is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship, Internet marketing and the future of Internet services.
		Elizabeth Lane Lawley Rochester Institute of Technology Elizabeth Lane Lawley is the director of the Lab for Social Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she is also an associate professor of Information Technology. Her current teaching and research interests focus on social computing technologies such as weblogs, wikis, virtual worlds, and collaborative information retrieval. She also conducts research and speaks on the topic of gender imbalances in technology and education.
		Max Levchin Slide Max Levchin is CEO and founder of Slide, the popular personal media service that helps people publish, discover and personalize their photos and other digital content. Max is also widely known as co-founder and former CTO of PayPal, which he sold to eBay for $1.54 billion. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine, Max moved to Chicago at the age of 16 and later received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Max is also the chairman of Yelp and founded two other Internet companies before PayPal.
		Norman Lewis France Telecom Norman Lewis is the director of Technology Research for the home division of France Telecom. Prior to this he was the director of technology research at Wanadoo UK (formerly Freeserve.com). Currently, he is an executive board member of the Communications Futures Program at MIT--a global research partnership between industry and six laboratories at MIT in Cambridge, Massachussetts.
		David Liu AOL David Liu, Senior Vice President of AOL Portals, oversees the primary starting points to the AOL Network, personalization and personal media products. In 2004, David led AOL's earliest development and growth of the AOL.com portal and played a key role in launching AOL's free web portal offering and new business model last year. In previous roles at AOL, David helped to lead AOL's Audience Strategy efforts where he played a principal role in identifying and solving strategic business initiatives across multiple business and functional units. Prior to joining AOL, David was a management consultant for A.T. Kearney and Mars & Co.
		Udi Manber Google As a Vice President of Engineering, Udi is responsible for core search. Before joining Google early in 2006, Udi was CEO of A9.com, a Senior VP at Amazon.com, and Yahoo's Chief Scientist. He started working on search algorithms in 1989 with the invention of Suffix Arrays (with Gene Myers) while he was a professor at the University of Arizona, and he was a co-developer of several search packages, including Agrep, Glimpse, WebGlimpse, and Harvest. He started developing search and other software tools for the web 2 months after Mosaic was announced in 1993, and continued ever since. While in academia, he also worked in the areas of theoretical computer science, computer security, distributed systems, and networks. He won a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985.
		Robert Massoudi Cisco Robert Massoudi is the Global lead for Web Services Providers and New Media in the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group, a business strategy consulting team that works with large enterprises, service providers (SPs), and public sector customers to transform their business models through advanced technologies and business process innovation. Before that, Massoudi launched and led the IBSG practice for the Americas International region. He has more than 22 years of International high-technology, sales, marketing, business and management strategy consulting experience with companies such as Amdahl, Sun, Dell, SGI, HP, IBM, and Cisco
		Andrea Matwyshyn The Wharton School Andrea M. Matwyshyn is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on innovation policy, specifically the legal, social, and business implications of information technology and data security. In addition to her appointment at Wharton, she is an Affiliate of the Centre for Economics & Policy in the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge.
		Christopher Meyer Monitor Networks Christopher Meyer is chief executive of Monitor Networks, a unit of the Monitor Group focused on fostering business innovation through designing, growing, and learning from human networks. Chris writes and speaks about the trends shaping business and economic developments. His most recent book is It's Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business (co-authored with Stan Davis). Chris also co-authored the best-selling Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy and Future Wealth with Stan Davis, and has contributed to the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Fast Company, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Business 2.0. Chris’s recent research and consulting have focused on the development of the Adaptive Enterprise, helping companies create the capacity to sense, respond to, and adapt to changes in their business environments.
		Jerry Michalski Sociate Jerry Michalski is a guide to The Relationship Economy. That is, he helps organizations nurture authentic relationships with their natural audiences or customer bases, as well as among their employees. From 1987 to 1998, Jerry was a technology analyst, focusing not on quarterly earnings but rather on which technologies would be useful and which would be distractions, what trends and forces create new potential, and where all these forces might take us over a 20-year timeframe. For the last five years of that period, Jerry was the Managing Editor of Esther Dyson's monthly tech newsletter Release 1.0, as well as co-host of her annual conference, PC Forum. Since 1998, Jerry has been an independent consultant, doing business as Sociate, a name he coined because he is skilled at associating ideas and people, and also because he believes that the social changes that we are going through as a result of all the new connectivity will be more profound than the structural and economic changes we have already seen.
		Nathan Myhrvold Intellectual Ventures At Intellectual Ventures, Myhrvold is focused on a variety of business interests relating to the funding, creation and commercialization of inventions. During his 14-year tenure at Microsoft, Dr. Myhrvold held various positions within the company and was responsible for founding Microsoft Research and numerous technology groups that resulted in many of Microsoft's most successful products. In 1986, his company Dynamical Systems was acquired by Microsoft. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge University and worked with Professor Stephen Hawking on research in cosmology, quantum field theory in curved space time and quantum theories of gravitation. Dr. Myhrvold holds 18 patents and has more than 100 patents pending.
		Elliot Noss Tucows Trained as a lawyer, Noss joined Tucows in 1997 as Vice President, Corporate Services. He was subsequently appointed president and CEO of Tucows Inc. in May 1999. During his tenure, Tucows has grown to become a leading destination for Internet software and application downloads. In 2000, the company created the wholesale domain name registration market with the launch of the OpenSRS (shared registration services) platform. In August 2001, he helped orchestrate Tucows' merger with Infonautics, Inc., under the Tucows name. Since then, Elliot has rapidly expanded Tucows wholesale services to offer digital certificates, DNS, and email services to a growing international Reseller channel. He champions areas of vital interest to the Internet community including; privacy, ICANN reform and registrar matters, the implications of emerging technologies, and the emergence of small and medium-sized ISPs and web hosting companies as the unrecognized backbone of the Internet economy.
		Greg Papadopolous Sun Microsystems As Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development at Sun, Greg Papadopoulos directs the company's approximate $2B in R&D portfolio. His team leads Sun Labs, the DARPA High Performance Computing Systems program, global engineering architecture and advanced development programs. During his tenure with Sun, Papadopoulos has held several positions, including vice president of technology and advanced development for the company's systems business, chief scientist for server systems engineering, and chief scientist for enterprise servers and storage. Before joining Sun in 1994, Papadopoulos was senior architect and director of product strategy for Thinking Machines, where he led the design of the CM6 massively parallel supercomputer.
		Sheryl Sandberg Google Sheryl Sandberg joined Google in 2001 and is currently the Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations. In this role, Sheryl is responsible for sales of advertising and publishing products to the majority of Google's customers worldwide. She also runs sales operations for Google's consumer products and scanning operations for Google Book Search. In addition, Sheryl serves on the board of Google.org/the Google Foundation and directs the Google Grants program, which has provided over $100 million in free advertising to non-profit organizations. Prior to joining Google, Sheryl was the Chief of Staff for the United States Treasury Department, a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and an economist with The World Bank. Sheryl currently serves on the boards of the ONE Campaign, The Ad Council, Leadership Public Schools, the Bay Area Economic Forum and eHealthInsurance.
		Clay Shirky NYU Clay Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web. He is an adjunct professor in NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he teaches courses on the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology -- how our networks shape culture and vice-versa.
		Ellen Siminoff Efficient Frontier Part of the founding executive team of Yahoo!, Ellen Siminoff led business development, corporate development, and eventually ran the small business and entertainment business units. Ellen has served on the board of directors for StuHub, and is currently on the boards of US AutoParts, BuildDirect, 4Info, and Journal Communications. Ellen graduated Stanford's Graduate School of Business with an MBA and has a bachelor's degree in Economics from Princeton University.
		Mike Speiser Yahoo! Mike Speiser is vice president of community products, where he oversees Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! 360° and Bix. In this role, Mike focuses on helping to foster online communities that offer people a place to interact, discover and share knowledge and passions. Mike joined Yahoo! in February 2007 through the acquisition of Bix, a social media service where he served as president and CEO. Prior to co-founding Bix, Mike served as vice president and technical advisor to Symantec CEO, John Thompson. Previously, he was vice president of product marketing and product management at Veritas, which was acquired by Symantec. Mike also co-founded Epinions.com, one of the first user-generated content sites on the Internet, worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and was an analyst with CS First Boston.
		Martin Varsavsky Fon Martin Varsavsky is an Argentine entrepreneur, founder of five successful companies in the past 20 years. In 1984, while still in college, he started his first business, Urban Capital Corporation, a NY-based real estate developer. This was soon followed in 1986 by Medicorp Services, a Canadian biotechnology company, that quickly became a pioneer in AIDS testing. His third business, Viatel, was founded in 1991 and still runs successfully today. Jazztel, launched in 1999, has become Spain’s second largest Internet content company. He is also President and founder of the Varsavsky Foundation, a private, independent grant-making organization dedicated to broadening access to, and improving the quality of education world-wide.
		David Weinberger Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization David Weinberger, Ph.D. (http://www.evident.com) is co-author of the bestseller, The Cluetrain Manifesto and the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined; he writes the well-known blog "JOHO." He is currently a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His work has appeared in many influential media publications. He is a commentator on NPR and is a columnist for KMWorld and Il Sole 24 ore (the leading financial daily newspaper in Italy). He is on the advisory boards of many organizations including Technorati, ITConversations, SocialText, and the Christopher Reeve Foundation. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto. His book "Everything Is Miscellaneous" about the social effect of the new digital ways of organizing knowledge will be published by in 2007.
		Irving Wladawsky-Berger IBM Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger is responsible for identifying emerging technologies and marketplace developments critical to the future of the IT industry. His role in IBM's response to emerging technologies began in December 1995 when he was charged with formulating IBM's strategy in the then emerging Internet opportunity, and developing and bringing to market leading-edge Internet technologies that could be integrated into IBM's mainstream business. He has led a number of IBM's company-wide initiatives including Linux, IBM's Next Generation Internet efforts and its work on Grid computing. Most recently, he led IBM's on demand business initiative.
		David Young Verizon David Young is responsible for items before the FCC dealing with intercarrier compensation, competitive video services and emerging technology issues. Prior to joining the Federal Regulatory Affairs group, he was responsible for developing company policy on Internet and technology issues working with a broad range of internal and external stakeholder groups in various national and international fora. Before joining external affairs in 2000, he spent six years working in Verizon's R&D group on many advanced technologies including VoIP, data network architectures, and audio, video & image compression. He has been awarded ten US patents for his R&D work.

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