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Palace Hotel


Wharton West

Speakers



Supernova brings together a unique mix of industry heavyweights and bleeding-edge innovators.

Supernova 2006 speakers will be announced soon. (See below for speaker submission information.)

Last year, our general session speakers included:

Jeremy Allaire (Chairman and President, BrightCove)
Chris Anderson (Editor in Chief, Wired)
Marc Benioff (CEO, Salesforce.com)
Robert Blau (VP, Public Policy Development, BellSouth)
John Seely Brown (Former Chief Scientist, Xerox)
Marc Canter (Co-founder, Ourmedia.org)
Suranga Chandratillake (Co-Founder, Blinkx)
Lili Cheng (Director, Windows User Experience, Microsoft)
John Clippinger (Founder, SocialPhysics)
Hossein Eslambolchi (Pres., AT&T Global Networking Tech. Servs.; AT&T CTO & CIO)
Philip Evans (Senior VP, Boston Consulting Group and Co-author, Blown to Bits)
Caterina Fake (Co-Founder, Flickr)
Dennis "Thresh" Fong (Chief Gaming Officer, Xfire)
Alan Ganek (GM, Autonomic Computing, IBM)

Lawrence Gelburd (Lecturer, The Wharton School)
Julius Genachowski (Chief of Business Operations, IAC/InterActiveCorp)
Dan Gillmor (Founder, Grassroots Media, Inc.)
Steve Gillmor (Columnist, ZDNet)
Cmdr. Greg Glaros (US Navy)
Patrick Grady (CEO, Rearden Commerce)
John Hagel III (Author and Consultant)
Dick Hardt (CEO, Sxip Identity)
Stuart Henshall (Publisher, Skype Journal)
JC Herz (Founder, Joystick Nation)
Mike Homer (Chairman & Co-Founder, Kontiki)
Amy Jo Kim (Founder, SocialDesigner.Net)
Raph Koster (Chief Creative Officer, Sony Online Entertainment)
Tara Lemmey (Founder, LENS Ventures)
Greg Lloyd (President and Co-founder, Traction Software)
Kris Lichter (Project Director, The Gengraphic Project, IBM)
Udi Manber (CEO, A9.com)

Andrew McLaughlin (Senior Policy Counsel, Google)
Jane McGonigal (42 Entertainment)
Sean Park (Managing Director, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein)
Peter Quintas (CTO, SolidSpace)
Byron Reeves (Professor of Communication, Stanford)
Glenn Reid (CEO, Five Across)
Philip Rosedale (CEO, Linden Lab)
Greg Rogers (State Regulatory Director, Level 3)
Bill Schlough (CIO, San Francisco Giants)
Jonathan Schwartz (President, Sun Microsystems)
Dorée Duncan Seligmann (Dir., Collaborative Apps Research, Avaya)
David Sifry (CEO, Technorati)
Peter Sisson (CEO, Teleo)
Robin Sloan (Co-creator, EPIC 2014)
Linda Stone (Founder, Virtual Worlds Group, Microsoft)
Matt Thompson (Co-creator, EPIC 2014)
Mena Trott (President, Six Apart)
David Weinberger (Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization)
Evan Williams (Co-Founder, Blogger and Odeo)
Jeff Weiner (SVP, Search and Marketplace, Yahoo!)
Kevin Werbach (The Wharton School; conference organizer)
Bill Woodcock (Research Director, Packet Clearing House!)



Supernova 2005 workshop presenters included:

Bill Barhydt (CEO, Sennari)
Pete Blackshaw (Intelliseek)

Ian Bogost (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Betsy Book (Virtual Worlds Review)
Stowe Boyd (President, Corante)
Susan Bratton (Founder, Cendara)
Jonathan Carson (CEO, BuzzMetrics)

Tantek Çelik (Technorati)

Suw Charman (Author and blogger)

Janice Fraser (CEO, Adaptive Path)
David Goldberg (Yahoo!)

Robin Hanson (George Mason University)

David Hornik (Partner, August Capital)
Bernardo Huberman (HP)

Peter Kaminski (CTO, Socialtext)

Charlene Li (Principal Analyst, Forrester Research)

Cory Ondrejka (VP of Product Development, Second Life)

John Patrick (Founder, Attitude LLC)
David Pennock (Yahoo!)

Robert Scoble (Windows Evangelist, Microsoft)

Emile Servan-Schreiber (Newsfutures)
Michael Sippey (VP of Product, Six Apart)

Cydni Tetro (VP, Product and Corporate Marketing, NextPage)

Walter Yuan (Technical Manager, CalTech)



Speaker Submission

Supernova speakers are generally selected by invitation, to produce the best mix of people and content. We do not have a formal call for papers or submission deadline. We welcome speaker proposals by , although, due to Supernova's popularity, we are unable to accommodate the vast majority of requests.

 




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