Cyberposium

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Cyberposium is an annual technology leadership conference held at Harvard Business School. Now in its 12th year, the conference is organized entirely by current MBA students and is the primary campus event of the school's TechMedia Club.

This year's topic was "Need Directions? Mapping the Future." The conference was held on November 11, 2006, on the school's campus in Boston.

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[edit] Keynotes

Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products & User Experience, Google

Ed Colligan, President and Chief Executive Officer, Palm, Inc.

Carl Bass, President and CEO of Autodesk.

[edit] Panels

  • Reboot your Doctor (Healthcare Informatics)
  • The state of venture capital (Financing Technology)
  • Personal Privacy and Security in the Future (Privacy and Security)
  • Oil Efficiency vs. Alternative Energy: Fulfilling the Exploding Demand for Energy (Energy)
  • The future of the mobile consumer electronics devices (Mobile Devices)
  • A "crystal ball" look into Web 2.0: Predicting the next goldmine (Web 2.0)
  • Financial Future of Space Exploration (Space)
  • Future Growth in Telecommunications (Telecomm)
  • Open Source: Impact on Businesses and Society at Large – today and tomorrow (Open Source)
  • The global video gaming industry (Video Games)

[edit] Leadership Team

  • Jonathan Bankard - Co-Chair
  • Michael Cohen - Co-Chair
  • Fabian Seelbach - Co-Chair
  • Chris Montgomery - Operations
  • Sudha Varadarajan - Marketing
  • Ryan Buell - Marketing
  • John Shapiro - Public Relations
  • Arijit Roy - Sponsorships
  • Edward Naim - Sponsorships
  • Bryan Langley - Entrepreneurship Fair
  • Frederic Etheve - Panels
  • Jamie Linden - CFO
  • Matthew Witheiler - Cyberposium | West

[edit] History

Year Theme Keynote Speaker(s)
1995/6 Interactive Media, Internet, and Communications  
1996/7 Digital Field of Dreams John Sculley (Apple Computer)

Halsey Minor (CNET)

1997/8 The Net Effect Jerry Yang (Yahoo!)

Eric Hippeau (Ziff Davis)

1998/9 Net-working Carly Fiorina (Lucent)

Guy Kawasaki (garage.com)

Bob Lessin (WIT Capital)

1999/2000 Leading the Digital Millennium Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com)

Dave Wetherell (CMGI)

2000/1 David, Goliath, and Disruption Tim Koogle (Yahoo!)

Hank Barry (Napster)

Jim Barksdale (Netscape)

2001/2 High-tech Balancing Act Tom Siebel (Siebel Systems)

Dean Kamen (Segway)

2002/3 Finding Hope in the Tech Rubble Russell Simmons (Def Jam)

Erik Janszen (BlueSocket)

2003/4 Harnessing Technology's Promise Tony Scott (General Motors)

Eric B. Kim (Samsung)

Linda Sanford (IBM)

2004/5 Realizing the Value of Convergence Tom Leighton (Akamai)

Fred Weber (AMD)

2005/6 Techknowledge for Tomorrow Jim Balsillie (Research In Motion)

Geoffrey Moore (Author)

Elon Musk (SpaceX)

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