Supernova brings together a unique mix of industry heavyweights and bleeding-edge innovators.

Supernova 2006 speakers will be announced soon. (See below for speaker submission information.)

Last year, our general session speakers included:

• Jeremy Allaire (Chairman and President, BrightCove)
• Chris Anderson (Editor in Chief, Wired)
• Marc Benioff (CEO, Salesforce.com)
• Robert Blau (VP, Public Policy Development, BellSouth)
• John Seely Brown (Former Chief Scientist, Xerox)
• Marc Canter (Co-founder, Ourmedia.org)
• Suranga Chandratillake (Co-Founder, Blinkx)
• Lili Cheng (Director, Windows User Experience, Microsoft)
• John Clippinger (Founder, SocialPhysics)
• Hossein Eslambolchi (Pres., AT&T Global Networking Tech. Servs.; AT&T CTO & CIO)
• Philip Evans (Senior VP, Boston Consulting Group and Co-author, Blown to Bits)
• Caterina Fake (Co-Founder, Flickr)
• Dennis "Thresh" Fong (Chief Gaming Officer, Xfire)
• Alan Ganek (GM, Autonomic Computing, IBM)
• Lawrence Gelburd (Lecturer, The Wharton School)
• Julius Genachowski (Chief of Business Operations, IAC/InterActiveCorp)
• Dan Gillmor (Founder, Grassroots Media, Inc.)
• Steve Gillmor (Columnist, ZDNet)
• Cmdr. Greg Glaros (US Navy)
• Patrick Grady (CEO, Rearden Commerce)
• John Hagel III (Author and Consultant)
• Dick Hardt (CEO, Sxip Identity)
• Stuart Henshall (Publisher, Skype Journal)
• JC Herz (Founder, Joystick Nation)
• Mike Homer (Chairman & Co-Founder, Kontiki)
• Amy Jo Kim (Founder, SocialDesigner.Net)
• Raph Koster (Chief Creative Officer, Sony Online Entertainment)
• Tara Lemmey (Founder, LENS Ventures)
• Greg Lloyd (President and Co-founder, Traction Software)
• Kris Lichter (Project Director, The Gengraphic Project, IBM)
• Udi Manber (CEO, A9.com)
• Andrew McLaughlin (Senior Policy Counsel, Google)
• Jane McGonigal (42 Entertainment)
• Sean Park (Managing Director, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein)
• Peter Quintas (CTO, SolidSpace)
• Byron Reeves (Professor of Communication, Stanford)
• Glenn Reid (CEO, Five Across)
• Philip Rosedale (CEO, Linden Lab)
• Greg Rogers (State Regulatory Director, Level 3)
• Bill Schlough (CIO, San Francisco Giants)
• Jonathan Schwartz (President, Sun Microsystems)
• Dorée Duncan Seligmann (Dir., Collaborative Apps Research, Avaya)
• David Sifry (CEO, Technorati)
• Peter Sisson (CEO, Teleo)
• Robin Sloan (Co-creator, EPIC 2014)
• Linda Stone (Founder, Virtual Worlds Group, Microsoft)
• Matt Thompson (Co-creator, EPIC 2014)
• Mena Trott (President, Six Apart)
• David Weinberger (Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization)
• Evan Williams (Co-Founder, Blogger and Odeo)
• Jeff Weiner (SVP, Search and Marketplace, Yahoo!)
• Kevin Werbach (The Wharton School; conference organizer)
• Bill Woodcock (Research Director, Packet Clearing House!)



Supernova 2005 workshop presenters included:

• Bill Barhydt (CEO, Sennari)
• Pete Blackshaw (Intelliseek)
• Ian Bogost (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Betsy Book (Virtual Worlds Review)
• Stowe Boyd (President, Corante)
• Susan Bratton (Founder, Cendara)
• Jonathan Carson (CEO, BuzzMetrics)
• Tantek Çelik (Technorati)
• Suw Charman (Author and blogger)
• Janice Fraser (CEO, Adaptive Path)
• David Goldberg (Yahoo!)
• Robin Hanson (George Mason University)
• David Hornik (Partner, August Capital)
• Bernardo Huberman (HP)
• Peter Kaminski (CTO, Socialtext)
• Charlene Li (Principal Analyst, Forrester Research)
• Cory Ondrejka (VP of Product Development, Second Life)
• John Patrick (Founder, Attitude LLC)
• David Pennock (Yahoo!)
• Robert Scoble (Windows Evangelist, Microsoft)
• Emile Servan-Schreiber (Newsfutures)
• Michael Sippey (VP of Product, Six Apart)
• Cydni Tetro (VP, Product and Corporate Marketing, NextPage)
• Walter Yuan (Technical Manager, CalTech)