TPS 2008

 

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The 2rd annual Tech Policy Summit was held March 26-28, 2008 at the Renaissance Hollywood hotel in Southern California.  

Hosted by BusinessWeek tech columnist Steve Wildstrom, the 2008 conference featured over 70 speakers and session hosts, including:

  • Commissioner Robert McDowell, FCC
  • Paul Jacobs, CEO, Qualcomm
  • Richard Lynch, CTO, Verizon
  • Walt Mossberg, Personal Technology Columnist, WSJ
  • Gregg Spiridellis, CEO, JibJab
  • Joe Waz, VP, Comcast
  • Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, All Things D
  • Doug Van Houweling, President and CEO, Internet2
  • Hemanshu Nigam, Chief Security Officer, MySpace
  • Vance Ikezoye, CEO, Audible Magic
  • Zahavah Levine, Chief Counsel, YouTube
  • Jim Davis, CIO, University of California at Los Angeles
  • Craig Newmark, Founder, craigslist.org
  • Kai Ryssdal, Host, Marketplace
  • Matt Zinn, VP and General Counsel, TiVo
  • Ellen Miller, Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation
  • Prith Banerjee, SVP of Research, HP
  • Tom Kalil, Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology, UC Berkeley

To listen to free podcasts from the 2008 conference, visit our Media Vault.  

Thanks to the following companies for sponsoring the 2nd Tech Policy Summit:

  • CompTIA
  • HP
  • Cisco Systems
  • Dell
  • Inkling Markets
  • AMD
  • Guidewire Group
  • ICANN
  • TRUSTe
  • Verizon
  • VoterWatch
  • AlwaysOn
  • Ars Technica
  • paidContent.org
  • WIRED