Cyberposium
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Cyberposium is the largest MBA technology and media conference in the world. Held at Harvard Business School
for the past 15 years, the conference draws some 1,000 attendees from the tech/media industries as well as the VC and startup communities. Held on the campus of HBS, Cyberposium is the primary campus event of Harvard Business School's TechMedia Club.
The conference will be held on Saturday, November 5, 2011, on the school's campus in Boston
. Please see the Official Cyberposium website for more information.
Peter Chou, CEO of HTC
Diane Greene
, Founder of VMware
Brad Garlinghouse
, President of AOL
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...
for the past 15 years, the conference draws some 1,000 attendees from the tech/media industries as well as the VC and startup communities. Held on the campus of HBS, Cyberposium is the primary campus event of Harvard Business School's TechMedia Club.
The conference will be held on Saturday, November 5, 2011, on the school's campus in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
. Please see the Official Cyberposium website for more information.
2010 Keynotes
Joe Kennedy, CEO of PandoraPandora
In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman. As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts...
Peter Chou, CEO of HTC
HTC
-Companies:*HTC Corporation, a Taiwanese manufacturer of handheld devices*Harrisonville Telephone Company, a telephone company in Waterloo, Illinois*Horry Telephone Cooperative, a telephone cooperative in Horry County, South Carolina...
Diane Greene
Diane Greene
Diane Greene was a founder of VMware and the CEO from 1998 to 2008.Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion founded VMware in 1998....
, Founder of VMware
VMware
VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....
Brad Garlinghouse
Brad Garlinghouse
Bradley Kent "Brad" Garlinghouse is currently President of Consumer Applications at AOL which includes services such as AOL Mail, AIM and Mobile. Prior to AOL, Brad was Senior Vice President at Yahoo! running its Communications business...
, President of AOL
AOL
AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...
History
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| 1995/6 | Interactive Media, Internet, and Communications | ||
| 1996/7 | Digital Field of Dreams | John Sculley John Sculley John Sculley is an American businessman. Sculley was vice-president and president of PepsiCo , until he became CEO of Apple on April 8, 1983, a position he held until leaving in 1993... (Apple Computer Apple Computer Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad... ) Halsey Minor Halsey Minor Halsey McLean Minor is a technology entrepreneur who founded CNET in 1993 . Minor ran CNET for 8 years during which time it became one of the Internet's first companies to achieve profitability. From 1999 to 2001, CNET was a member of the NASDAQ-100 index... (CNET CNET CNET is a tech media website that publishes news articles, blogs, and podcasts on technology and consumer electronics. Originally founded in 1994 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie, it was the flagship brand of CNET Networks and became a brand of CBS Interactive through CNET Networks' acquisition... ) |
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| 1997/8 | The Net Effect | Jerry Yang (Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,... ) Eric Hippeau Eric Hippeau Eric Hippeau is a partner at Lerer Ventures, a prominent New York City based angel fund specializing in financing technology startups. Prior to this, Hippeau was the CEO of the Huffington Post which he joined in June, 2009, after investing through SoftBank Capital and taking a Board seat in 2006... (Ziff Davis Ziff Davis Ziff Davis Inc. is an American publisher and Internet company. It was founded in 1927 in Chicago by William B. Ziff, Sr. and Bernard G. Davis. Throughout most of its history, it was a publisher of hobbyist magazines, often ones devoted to expensive, advertiser-rich hobbies such as cars,... ) |
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| 1998/9 | Net-working | Carly Fiorina Carly Fiorina Carly Fiorina is an American business executive and a former Republican candidate for the United States Senate representing California. Fiorina served as chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005 and previously was an executive at AT&T and its equipment and technology spinoff,... (Lucent) Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, bestselling author, and Apple Fellow. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984. He is currently a Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, and has been involved in the rumor reporting... (garage.com) Bob Lessin (WIT Capital) |
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| 1999/2000 | Leading the Digital Millennium | Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos is the founder, president, chief executive officer , and chairman of the board of Amazon.com.-Early life and background:... (Amazon.com Amazon.com Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and... ) Dave Wetherell (CMGI CMGI ModusLink Global Solutions, formerly CMGI Inc., is an American technology and venture capital company, headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company supplies a range of internet and communications services, mostly to computer companies, its biggest customer being Hewlett-Packard Company... ) |
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| 2000/1 | David, Goliath, and Disruption | Tim Koogle (Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,... ) Hank Barry (Napster Napster Napster is an online music store and a Best Buy company. It was originally founded as a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that emphasized sharing audio files that were typically digitally encoded music as MP3 format files... ) Jim Barksdale |
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| 2001/2 | High-tech Balancing Act | Thomas Siebel Thomas Siebel Thomas Siebel is a business executive. He is the chairman of First Virtual Group, a diversified holding company with interests in commercial real estate, agribusiness, global investment management, and philanthropy.-Education and Work:... (Siebel Systems Siebel Systems Siebel CRM Systems, Inc. was a software company principally engaged in the design, development, marketing, and support of customer relationship management applications. The company was founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993. At first known mainly for its sales force automation products, the company... ) Dean Kamen Dean Kamen Dean L. Kamen is an American entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire.Born in Rockville Centre, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for drug infusion pump AutoSyringe... (Segway Segway Inc. Segway Inc. of New Hampshire, USA is the manufacturer of a two-wheeled, self-balancing electric vehicle, the Segway PT, invented by Dean Kamen... ) |
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| 2002/3 | Finding Hope in the Tech Rubble | Russell Simmons Russell Simmons -External links:** * * * * * * from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum* *... (Def Jam) Eric Janszen Eric Janszen Eric Janszen is an economic commentator and former venture capitalist. He founded the financial advisory company iTulip.Janszen wrote an analysis of economic bubbles in a 2008 Harper's Magazine article predicting a future alternative energy bubble bursting in the mid 2010s... (BlueSocket) |
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| 2003/4 | Harnessing Technology's Promise | Tony Scott Tony Scott Anthony D. L. "Tony" Scott is an English film director. His films include Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, Spy Game, Man on Fire, Déjà Vu, The Taking of Pelham 123, and Unstoppable... (General Motors General Motors General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010... ) Eric B. Kim Eric B. Kim Eric B. Kim is a Korean American businessman in the technology field.Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1954. At the age of 11, his family moved to Los Angeles, in the United States... (Samsung Samsung The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea... ) Linda Sanford (IBM |
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| 2004/5 | Realizing the Value of Convergence | Tom Leighton (Akamai Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an Internet content delivery network headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.The company was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel M. Lewin, and MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton... ) Fred Weber (AMD) |
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| 2005/6 | Techknowledge for Tomorrow | Jim Balsillie Jim Balsillie James Laurence "Jim" Balsillie is a Canadian businessman and co-CEO of the Canadian company Research In Motion. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, a private political organization... (Research In Motion Research In Motion Research In Motion Limited or RIM is a Canadian multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada that designs, manufactures and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market... ) Geoffrey Moore Geoffrey Moore Geoffrey Moore is a Silicon Valley based high technology consultant, venture partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures and author.His books are derived from his Silicon Valley consulting work at The McKenna Group and The Chasm Group , and earlier work by Everett Rogers on adopter categories and diffusion... (Author) Elon Musk |
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| 2006/7 | Need Directions? Mapping Future Technology | Marissa Mayer Marissa Mayer Marissa Ann Mayer is Vice President of Location and Local Services at the search engine company Google. She has become one of the public faces of Google, providing a number of press interviews and appearing at events frequently to speak on behalf of the company.-Education and career :After... Google Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program... ) Ed Colligan Ed Colligan Ed Colligan was president and CEO of Palm, Inc. Colligan is currently working at the private equity firm Elevation Partners, a major financial backer of Palm.... (Palm) Steve Papa (Endeca) |
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| 2007/8 | Innovation without Borders | Ray Kurzweil Philip Rosedale Philip Rosedale Philip Rosedale is an American entrepreneur, best known as the creator of the virtual world Second Life. Within the Second Life metaverse, his avatar is known as Philip Linden.... (Linden Lab Linden Lab Linden Research, Inc., d/b/a Linden Lab, is a privately held American Internet company that is best known as the creator of Second Life.... ) Walt Mossberg (Wall Street Journal) |
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| 2008/9 | Emerging and Converging | Craig Newmark Craig Newmark Craig Alexander Newmark is an Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based international website Craigslist.-Biography:... (Craigslist Craigslist Craigslist is a centralized network of online communities featuring free online classified advertisements, with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.... ) Mark Jannot |
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| 2009/10 | Battle of the Platforms | Joe Kennedy (Pandora Pandora In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman. As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts... ) Peter Chou (HTC |
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| 2010/11 | Sky's the Limit? | TBD TBD TBD is an abbreviation often meaning in ordinary writing "to be discussed" "to be done", "to be defined", "to be decided", "to be determined", etc... |