Computer Technology

Speaker: Tim O'Reilly: Web 2.0 Summit 2010 - Co-produced by UBM TechWeb & ...

Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media (link: https://www.oreilly.com/,) Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O’Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (link: https://www.oscon.com/,) the Web 2.0 Summit (link: https://www.web2summit.com,) and the Gov 2.0 Summit. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar (link: https://radar.oreilly.com/) “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is on the boards of CollabNet and Safari Books Online, and is a partner in O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

[Publish Date: November 15, 2010]

Speaker: Tim O'Reilly: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 - Co-produced by TechWeb ...

Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media (link: https://www.oreilly.com/,) Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O’Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (link: https://www.oscon.com/,) the Web 2.0 Summit (link: https://www.web2summit.com,) and the Gov 2.0 Summit. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar (link: https://radar.oreilly.com/) “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is on the boards of CollabNet and Safari Books Online, and is a partner in O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]

Speaker: Mark Zuckerberg: Web 2.0 Summit 2010 - Co-produced by UBM TechWeb ...

Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of Facebook, which he founded in 2004. Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, families and coworkers. Mark is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for the company. He leads the design of Facebook's service and development of its core technology and infrastructure. Mark attended Harvard University and studied computer science before moving the company to Palo Alto, California.

[Publish Date: November 15, 2010]

Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age: Web 2.0 Expo New ...

By Douglas Rushkoff

We continue to accept new technologies into our lives with little or no understanding of how these devices work and work on us. We do not know how to program our computers, nor do we care. We spend much more time and energy trying to figure out how to use them to program one another, instead. And this is a potentially grave mistake.

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]

Speaker: Leila Chirayath Janah: Web 2.0 Summit 2010 - Co-produced by UBM ...

Leila Chirayath Janah is the founder of Samasource, a social business that connects over 550 women, youth, and refugees living in poverty to microwork — small, computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income. Samasource was a winner in the Stanford Social Enterprise Challenge in 2008 and is a current grantee of the Rockefeller Foundation. In recognition of her work, Leila received the Rainer Arnhold Fellowship and has been invited to serve as a TED and Social Enterprise Institute Fellow. Janah is a frequent speaker on social entrepreneurship, technology, and international development at institutions including MIT, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Harvard. Her work has been profiled by CBS, CNN, The New York Times, The New Scientist, and GOOD, and she is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Social Edge.

[Publish Date: November 15, 2010]

Speaker: Ron Conway: Web 2.0 Summit 2010 - Co-produced by UBM TechWeb & ...

Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail. He was recently awarded Best Angel at The 2009 TechCrunch Crunchies Awards. He was was named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top "deal-makers" in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ron was with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions (1973-1979), Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO (1979-1990) and took Altos public on Nasdaq in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) (1991-1995). PTS was acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft (Nasdaq SKIL). Ron has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg.com, Bright Mail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content, Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo...

[Publish Date: November 15, 2010]

Speaker: Bret Taylor: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 - Co-produced by TechWeb & ...

Bret Taylor is the Chief Technology Officer of Facebook. Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of FriendFeed, which was acquired by Facebook in August 2009. Before starting FriendFeed, Bret worked at Google, where co-created Google Maps, the Google Maps API, and started Google's developer product group. Bret has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]

Speaker: Leila Chirayath Janah: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Leila Chirayath Janah is the founder of Samasource, a social business that connects over 550 women, youth, and refugees living in poverty to microwork — small, computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income. Samasource was a winner in the Stanford Social Enterprise Challenge in 2008 and is a current grantee of the Rockefeller Foundation. In recognition of her work, Leila received the Rainer Arnhold Fellowship and has been invited to serve as a TED and Social Enterprise Institute Fellow. Janah is a frequent speaker on social entrepreneurship, technology, and international development at institutions including MIT, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Harvard. Her work has been profiled by CBS, CNN, The New York Times, The New Scientist, and GOOD, and she is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Social Edge.

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]

Speaker: Charlie Kim: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 - Co-produced by TechWeb & ...

Charlie Kim serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Next Jump, Inc. (link: https://www.nextjump.com/) Mr. Kim founded Next Jump in 1994. He worked in the Information Technology and Human Resources groups of Morgan Stanley in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo from 1995 to 1997. He returned to Boston in April 1997 to grow the business full-time. To grow Next Jump from a one-person operation to a multi-layered corporation, he raised millions in independent investments from Wall Street's most influential players. He graduated with Honors from Tufts University in 1995, where he earned a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Quantitative Economics.

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]

The Robot 2.0 : When Social Robots Dream in the Cloud: Web 2.0 Expo New ...

By Heather Knight

As robots enter everyday human contexts with access to cloud computing, we are facing a functional and behavioral paradigm shift for robots not dissimilar from the Web 2.0 revolution. People engage differently with physically present characters and are more likely to adopt a technology with whom they enjoy interacting.

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]