Supernova 2008: because technology is everyone's business
Supernova 2008
June 16-18, 2008
San Francisco, CA
Supernova
2007 Speakers
Supernova brings together a unique mix of industry heavyweights and bleeding-edge innovators.
Supernova 2007 general session speakers included:
- Lada Adamic (University of Michigan)
- Michael Arrington (Founder, TechCrunch)
- Denise Caruso (Founder, Hybrid Vigor Institute)
- Nicholas Carr (Author, Does IT Matter?)
- KC Claffy (Principal Investigator, CAIDA)
- John Clippinger (Social Physics)
- Jyri Engestrom (Co-Founder, Jaiku)
- Julie Hanna Farris (Entrepreneur)
- Craig Forman (EVP, Earthlink)
- Jason Gaedtke (Chief Architect, Comcast Interactive Media)
- John Hagel (Consultant and Author)
- Kaliya Hamlin (Identity Woman)
- Umair Haque (BubbleGeneration)
- Reid Hoffman (Chairman, LinkedIn)
- JB Holston (President and CEO, NewsGator)
- Rick Hutley (IBSG Global Innovation Lead, Cisco)
- David Isenberg (Isen.com)
- Van Jacobson (Research Fellow, PARC)
- Marcien Jenckes (SVP, Messaging and Social Media, AOL)
- Ge Jin (Producer/Director, “Chinese Gold Farmers")
- Michael Katz (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley)
- Paul Kedrosky (Infectious Greed)
- Andrew Keen (Cult of the Amateur)
- John Kneuer (Assistant US Secretary of Commerce)
- Josh Kopelman (Managing Partner, First Round Capital)
- Elizabeth Lane Lawley (Rochester Institute of Technology)
- Max Levchin (CEO, Slide.com and co-founder, PayPal)
- Norman Lewis (Director of Technology Research, Orange France Telecom)
- David Liu (SVP, Portals & Personal Media, AOL)
- Udi Manber (VP, Engineering, Google)
- Robert Massoudi (Global Lead, IBSG, Cisco)
- Andrea Matwyshyn (The Wharton School)
- Chris Meyer (CEO, Monitor Networks)
- Jerry Michalski (Founder, Sociate)
- Nathan Myhrvold (CEO, Intellectual Ventures and former CTO, Microsoft)
- Elliot Noss (CEO, Tucows)
- Greg Papadopolous (CTO, Sun Microsystems)
- Sheryl Sandberg (VP, Global Online Sales & Operations, Google)
- Clay Shirky (Author and Consultant)
- Ellen Siminoff (CEO, Efficient Frontier)
- Mike Speiser (VP Community, Yahoo!)
- Martin Varsavsky (CEO, Fon)
- David Weinberger (JOHO)
- Irving Wladawsky-Berger (VP, Tech. Strategy & Innovation, IBM)
- David Young (VP, Federal Regulatory, Verizon)
Supernova 2007 Challenge Day speakers included:
- Lee Berke (President & CEO, LHB Sports, Entertainment & Media)
- Chris Brogan (Network2.tv)
- Cathy Brooks (Guidewire Group)
- Elizabeth Charnock (CEO, Cataphora)
- Jeff Clavier (SoftTech VC)
- Aaron Coldiron (Windows Product Mktg., Microsoft)
- Ron Conway (Angel Investors)
- Dick Costolo (CEO, Feedburner)
- Ron Dreben (Partner, Morgan Lewis & Bockius)
- Julius Genachowski (Rock Creek Ventures)
- Flip Gianos (General Partner, Interwest)
- Alex Gove (WaldenVC)
- Howard Greenstein (Social Media Strategist, The Harbrooke Group)
- Mary Hodder (CEO, Dabble)
- Joanne Hovis (President, Columbia Telecommunications Corp.)
- Denise Howell (Bag and Baggage)
- Leszek Izdebski (Director, New Media and Web Service Providers, Cisco)
- Max Kalehoff (VP Marketing, Nielsen BuzzMetrics)
- Sandra Kearney (Director, Virtual Worlds & 3D Internet, IBM)
- Ellen Konar (Google)
- Raph Koster (Founder, Areae)
- JD Lasica (Remix Politics)
- Zahavah Levine (General Counsel, YouTube)
- John Markoff (New York Times)
- Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger (Kennedy School, Harvard)
- Peter Merholz (President, Adaptive Path)
- Mark Morril (Deputy General Counsel, Viacom)
- John Muleta (CEO, M2Z Networks)
- Barney Pell (CEO, Powerset)
- JP Rangaswami (CIO, BT Global Services)
- Andrew Rasiej (Founder, Personal Democracy Forum)
- Scott Rosner (The Wharton School)
- Jeremy Ruston (Head of Open Source Innovation, BT)
- Deborah Schultz (CEO, MMI, Inc.)
- Robert Scoble (PodTech.net)
- Ted Shelton (VP, Business Development, Technorati)
- Amy Shenkan (McKinsey & Co.)
- Doc Searls (Linux Journal)
- Nova Spivack (CEO, Radar Networks)
- Reuben Steiger (CEO, Millions of Us)
- Susan Tenby (TechSoup)
- Tim Tuttle (SVP, Video, AOL)
- Fred von Lohmann (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- Esme Vos (Founder, MuniWireless.com)
- Evan Williams (Founder, Obvious Corp.)
Speaker Submission
Speaker selection for Supernova 2007 is now complete. Supernova speakers are generally selected by invitation, to produce the best mix of perspectives. The bulk of the speaker selection takes place between December and April, although we make decisions on a rolling basis. We do not have a formal call for papers or submission deadline. This website has information about the themes we plan to explore at this year’s conference. However, in selecting speakers, we look more for compelling people than for specific topic proposals.