TPS 2007
Produced by SageScape, Tech Policy Summit provides an independent, nonpartisan forum for prominent executives, nonprofit leaders, government officials, academic experts and journalists to collaborate on strategic policy issues impacting technology development and deployment.
The inaugural Tech Policy Summit was held at the Dolce Hayes Mansion in Silicon Valley on February 26 & 27, 2007.
CNBC's Silicon Valley Bureau Chief Jim Goldman served as emcee for the conference, which featured over 50 leading speakers from the public and private sectors including:
- Federal Trade Commission chair, Deborah Platt Majoras
- LinkedIn CEO, Reid Hoffman
- Congressman Howard Berman
- digg CEO, Jay Adelson
- Assistant Secretary of Cybersecurity and Telecommunications, Greg Garcia
- Sybase CEO, John Chen
- USPTO Director, John Dudas
- Autodesk CEO, Carl Bass
- Sun Microsystems CEO, Jonathan Schwartz
- Motorola CTO, Padmasree Warrior
- VeriSign CEO, Stratton Sclavos
- Mark Bregman, EVP and CTO of Symantec
- Electronic Frontier Foundation president, Shari Steele
In addition, Karen Tumulty of TIME, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher of The Wall Street Journal, Steve Wildstrom of Business Week, Steven Levy of Newsweek, Elizabeth Corcoran and Kerry Dolan of Forbes, Om Malik of GigaOm, Andrew Noyes of National Journal, Larry Magid of CBS News, Declan McCullagh of CNET, Richard Waters of The Financial Times, Drew Clark and Esther Dyson participated as session hosts.
To listen to free podcasts from the 2007 conference, visit our Media Vault.
Thanks to the following companies for sponsoring the first Tech Policy Summit:
- DLA Piper
- SAP
- Micron
- HP
- Cisco Systems
- Intel
- AMD
- AT&T
- Verizon
- Technology Daily
- WIRED
