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:
"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
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
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
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
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,
To learn more
about the 2008 Web 2.0 Expo San
Francisco and for attendee
registration
information, visit:
