Speakers
Supernova brings together a unique mix of industry heavyweights and bleeding-edge innovators.
Supernova 2006 general session speakers include:
- Jeremy Allaire (CEO, Brightcove)
- Jeffrey Belk (Sr. VP Marketing, Qualcomm)
- Gary Benitt (Co-Founder, Goowy)
- Leila Boujnane (CEO, Idée)
- Kyle Brinkman (Co-Founder, MySpace)
- Lise Buyer (Founder, Class V Group)
- John McCrea (VP, Marketing, Plaxo)
- Lawrence Catchpole (Co-Founder, M1 Global)
- Lili Cheng (Director, Windows User Experience, Microsoft)
- Michael Copps (Commissioner, FCC)
- Pierre De Vries (Sr. Fellow, Annenberg Center for Communications, USC)
- Doug Failor (Joint Futures Lab, US Dept. of Defense)
- Usama Fayyad (Chief Data Officer, Yahoo!)
- John Garstka (Asst. Director, Office of Force Transformation, US Dept. of Defense)
- Dan Gillmor (Director, Center for Citizen Media)
- Seth Goldstein (Founder, Root Markets)
- Mary Hodder (CEO, Dabble)
- Bradley Horowitz (VP, Product Strategy, Yahoo!)
- Dan Hunter (Professor, The Wharton School)
- Vernon Irvin (EVP, Verisign)
- Rajesh Jain (CEO, Netcore)
- Lyn Jeffery (Institute for the Future)
- Amy Jo Kim (Creative Director, Shufflebrain)
- Saul Klein (VP Marketing, Skype)
- Jim Lanzone (CEO, Ask.com)
- JD Lasica (Ourmedia)
- Robert Levitan (CEO, Pando)
- Selina Lo (CEO, Ruckus Wireless)
- Kevin Lynch (Chief Software Architect, Adobe)
- Om Malik (Business 2.0)
- John McCrea (VP, Marketing, Plaxo)
- Charles Moore (Head of Innovation & Technology Insight, Reuters)
- Craig Newmark (Founder and Customer Service Rep., CraigsList)
- Tom Ngo (NextPage)
- Sean Park (Head of Digital Markets, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein)
- Gil Penchina (CEO, Wikia)
- Kim Polese (CEO, SpikeSource)
- Philip Rosedale (CEO, Linden Lab)
- Linda Sanford (SVP, IBM)
- Jonathan Schwartz (CEO, Sun Microsystems)
- Tina Sharkey (SVP, Instant Messaging and Social Media, AOL)
- Eric Shepcaro (SVP, Business Development, AT&T)
- Dan Shine (Program Manager, 50x15, AMD)
- Chris Shipley (Guidewire Group)
- David Sifry (CEO, Technorati)
- Jonathan Taplin (USC Annenberg School and former CEO, Intertainer)
- Chris Thomas (Chief Strategist, Intel)
- Kapenda Thomas (CEO, Jookster)
- Mena Trott (Co-Founder, Six Apart)
- Juergen Urbanski (General Manager, Fon US)
- Werner Vogels (CTO, Amazon.com)
- David Weinberger (JOHO)
- Kevin Werbach (Supernova Group; conference organizer)
- Michael Zyda (Director, GamePipe Lab, USC)
Supernova 2006 workshop speakers include:
- Larry Alder (Product Manager, Google)
- Matt Augustine (Microsoft)
- Andrew Baio (Yahoo!)
- Robert Barr (Berkeley Center for Law and Technology)
- Pete Blackshaw (Nielsen Buzzmetrics)
- Paul Bragiel (CEO, Meetro)
- Corey Bridges (Multiverse)
- Dalton Caldwell (CEO, Imeem)
- Tantek Celik (Technorati)
- Helen Cheng (Seriosity)
- Jeff Clavier (Founder, SoftTech VC)
- Brian Dear (Founder, EVDB)
- Nicolas Ducheneaut (PlayOn Group, PARC)
- Yael Elish (CEO, eSnips)
- Francois Gossieaux (Corante)
- Peter Harter (Intellectual Ventures)
- Tara Hunt (Citizen Agency)
- Brett Hurt (CEO, Bazaarvoice)
- Max Kalehoff (Nielsen Buzzmetrics)
- Matt Kaufman (Edgeio)
- Rohit Khare (CommerceNet)
- Kevin Lawver (AOL)
- Oliver Luckett (Co-founder, Revver)
- Jeff Nolan (SAP)
- Beth Simone Noveck (Professor, NY Law School)
- Jerry Paffendorf (Electric Sheep Co.)
- Wayne Paugh (US Department of Commerce)
- JP Rangaswami (CIO, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein)
- Greg Richardson (Founder, Civitium)
- Peter Rip (LeapFrog Venture Partners)
- Robert Scoble (Technical Evangelist, Microsoft)
- Cydni Tetro (VP, Product and Corporate Marketing, NextPage)
- Esme Vos (Founder, MuniWireless.com)
- Mark Wallace (3PointD)
- Michael Wiley (Director of New Media, General Motors)
- Brian Zeug (Yahoo!)
Speaker Submission
Speaker submission for Supernova 2006 is now closed. Supernova speakers are generally selected by invitation, to produce the best mix of perspectives. We do not have a formal call for papers or submission deadline. We welcome speaker proposals by . Due to Supernova’s popularity and format, however, we are unable to accommodate most unsolicited submissions.