Press Release
March 19, 2008
Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco Announces Keynote Lineup
Marc Andreessen, Max Levchin and Johnathan Schwartz Join Dozens of
Others to Examine the Future of the Web
SEBASTOPOL, March 19, 2008 Sebastopol--TechWeb (formerly CMP) and
O'Reilly Media, Inc., co-producers of Web 2.0 Expo, today announced the
lineup of keynotes scheduled to appear at the upcoming Web 2.0 Expo San
Francisco 2008 -- a list that includes Marc Andreessen, Max Levchin and
Johnathan Schwartz, and many others. Web 2.0 Expo is the global annual
gathering of developers, designers, marketers, and business professionals
building the next generation Web, taking place April 22-25, 2008 at
Moscone West. Registration is now open at:
http://www.web2expo.com/sf.
"For Web 2.0 Expo, keynotes are an opportunity for conversations with
some of the most intriguing figures in the industry, visionary talks
representing the best thinking on the future of the internet, and some
great brain candy in the form of cool data visualizations," said Jennifer
Pahlka, Web 2.0 Expo Co-Chair. "We're also looking forward to some
interesting announcements from the Web 2.0 Expo stage."
Here's some of who will be in the spotlight:
Marc Andreessen is a well renowned Silicon Valley investor, co-author
of Mosaic and co-founder of Ning, company which provides a platform for
social-networking Web sites, as well as co-founder of Netscape
Communications Corporation. Previously, Andreessen was the chair of
Opsware, a software company he founded originally as Loudcloud, acquired
by Hewlett-Packard.
Max Levchin is the visionary behind Slide, the largest social software
company in the world and co-founder of PayPal. Before starting Slide,
Levchin was an integral player in several other start-ups, including
Yelp, where he sits as Chairman of the Board today.
Charlene Li is an analyst at Forrester Research and a driving force
behind Forrester's Social Computing and Web 2.0 research, and examines
how companies can use technologies like blogs, social networking, RSS,
tagging, and widgets for marketing purposes.
Jonathan Schwartz is chief executive officer and president of Sun
Microsystems. A leader behind many of Sun's open source and standard
setting initiatives, Schwartz has been an outspoken advocate for the
network as a utility outside of computing -- for driving economic, social
and political progress.
Mitchell Baker is the Chairman of the Mozilla Foundation and Chairman
and former Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, a
subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the
open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox
web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client.
Clay Shirky is an adjunct Professor at New York University's (NYU)
graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and author of "Here
Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations."
Jonathan Zittrain is the chair for Internet Governance and Regulation
at Oxford University, director and founder of Harvard Law School's
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and the author of "The Future of the
Internet-And How to Stop It."
Aristotle Balogh is Chief Technology Officer at Yahoo!. He is
responsible for company-wide product development which includes
optimizing resources, speeding innovation, and ensuring the quality
of Yahoo!'s products and services. He is focused on establishing a common
architecture and building blocks to drive development aligned with corporate
strategy and on improving the overall effectiveness of Yahoo!'s engineering
efforts.
Edwin Aoki is a technology fellow at AOL, previously working at Apple
Computer, Go Corporation, and Intuit before joining Netscape
Communications in 1996. Holding a joint degree in Computer Science and
Sociology from Harvard College, Aoki believes strongly in the ability of
technology to bring people closer together and to make our lives easier.
Dan Lyons is a senior editor at Forbes and the author of The Secret
Diary of Steve Jobs. In the persona of Fake Steve, Lyons authored
"Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs," a novel, and two previous works of
fiction, a novel and a collection of short stories. Lyons joined Forbes in 1998
and before that wrote for various computer trade publications including CRN
and VARBUSINESS.
Ofer Shaked is chief architect for Current TV, a global media company
founded by Al Gore, heading up their Internet presence team. Prior to
joining Current TV, Ofer headed up the Social Search business for Yahoo
Inc., co-founded and was CTO for FareChase Inc., was technology group
leader for Tecnomatix and started his career in the prestigious ATUDA
program, leading development of real time data mining technology for the
Israeli Intelligence Corps.
Matt Cutts joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000 and
heads up the Webspam team. Cutts wrote SafeSearch, which is Google's
family filter, previously holding top-secret clearance while working
for the Department of Defense.
A forum for creativity, engineering, and innovation, Web 2.0 Expo San
Francisco includes a multi-track conference, an "unconference" program
called Web2Open, major tradeshow, and many networking events. Web 2.0
Expo welcomes industry leaders that are participating and exhibiting in this
year's show including Diamond sponsor Etelos, IBM, Microsoft; Platinum
sponsors Adobe, Cynergy, Nokia, Springnote, and WebEx; Gold sponsors AOL,
Citrix, Coghead, Disney, EffectiveUI, F5, HCL, Intuit/Quickbase, Oracle,
S60, Spinscape, Sun, Symphoniq, Tele Atlas, and Vidoop; Silver sponsors
Amazon, Atlassian, Awareness, Broadsoft, Curl, Denodo, Dixero, Force10,
Inpowr, Intel, JackBe, Jaduka, Jive, Juniper, Kapow, Keynote, Leverage
Software, Liquid Apps, Lithium Technologies, LongJump, Morfik, Mzinga,
Octopz, ONEsite, OpSource, Panther Express, Profy, Real Time Content,
Rearden, Remy Corporation, Reply, Spigit, StreamVerse, StrikeIron, xbo,
and Znakit!.
To learn more about the 2008 Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco and for attendee
registration information, visit:
http://www.web2expo.com/sf
To apply for a media pass, visit:
http://en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/public/content/media
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http://radar.oreilly.com/
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