Cyberposium
Cyberposium is the largest MBA technology and media conference in the world. Held at Harvard Business School for the past 19 years, the conference draws some 1,000 attendees from the tech/media industries as well as the VC and startup communities. Held on the campus of HBS, Cyberposium is the primary campus event of Harvard Business School's TechMedia Club.
The 2014 conference will be held on Saturday, November 1, 2014, on the school's campus in Boston. Please see the Official Cyberposium website for more information.
History
| Year | Theme | Keynote Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1992/1993 | Harvard/MIT Communications 2000 Symposium at the Harvard Business School:
The Dawn of a $3.5 Trillion Communications Mega-Industry - Information Access, Processing and Distribution in a Digital World |
John Sculley (Apple Computer) |
| 1995/6 | Interactive Media, Internet, and Communications | |
| 1996/7 | Digital Field of Dreams | John Sculley (Apple Computer) |
| 1997/8 | The Net Effect | Jerry Yang (Yahoo!) |
| 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) |
| 2001/2 | High-tech Balancing Act | Thomas Siebel (Siebel Systems) |
| 2002/3 | Finding Hope in the Tech Rubble | Russell Simmons (Def Jam)
Eric Janszen (BlueSocket) |
| 2003/4 | Harnessing Technology's Promise | Tony Scott (General Motors)
Linda Sanford (IBM) |
| 2004/5 | Realizing the Value of Convergence | F. Thomson Leighton (Akamai)
Fred Weber (AMD) |
| 2005/6 | Techknowledge for Tomorrow | Jim Balsillie (Research In Motion)
Geoffrey Moore (Author) |
| 2006/7 | Need Directions? Mapping Future Technology | Marissa Mayer (Google)
Ed Colligan (Palm) Steve Papa (Endeca) |
| 2007/8 | Innovation without Borders | Ray Kurzweil
Walt Mossberg (Wall Street Journal) |
| 2008/9 | Emerging and Converging | Craig Newmark (Craigslist)
Mark Jannot (Popular Science) |
| 2010/11 | Battle of the Platforms | Joe Kennedy (Pandora) |
| 2011/12 | Sky's the Limit? | Brad Smith (Intuit)
Jack Trenton (Sony) Katie Mitic (Facebook) |
| 2012/13 | The Battle for Access | Drew Houston (Dropbox)
Lee Hower (LinkedIn) |
| 2013/14 | Techonomy 2.0 | Travis Kalanick (Uber)
Bill Clerico (WePay) |
| 2014/15 | Future Within Focus | Sam Altman (YCombinator)
Matt Wallach (Veeva Systems) Jennifer Fleiss (Rent the Runway) Zach Nelson and Evan Goldberg (NetSuite) |