Half Moon Bay, California, July 21-23, 2008

Overview

In July of 2007, FORTUNE gathered business leaders and digital pioneers to discuss the digital memes driving the future. In 2008, the magazine's technology, media, and Internet editorial talent will again bring together leaders and influencers of the digital world to look at the future of the tech business. Topics range from the greening of the valley, and people driven media to the future of gaming and next-generation mobile internet. Chaired by technology editor David Kirkpatrick FORTUNE Brainstorm: TECH is an invitation-only event for business executives who recognize that their company's future depends on understanding the trends at the core of technology.

Brainstorm: TECH will take place July 21-23, 2008 at the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay California. The meeting will be comprised of a mix of be a mix of one-on-one interviews with FORTUNE editors, panel discussions, small-group roundtables, and working lunch labs.

Confirmed Participants Include

Jeff Bezos

Founder and CEO

Amazon.com, Inc.

Michael Dell

Chairman and CEO

Dell Inc.

Caterina Fake

Co-founder

Flickr

Robert A. Kotick

Chairman and CEO

Activision, Inc.

Lawrence Lessig

Professor of Law

Stanford Law School

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder and CEO

Facebook

Neil Ashe

Chief Executive Officer

CNET Networks, Inc.

Tom Bedecarré

Chief Executive Officer

AKQA

Marc Benioff

Founder, Chairman, and CEO

salesforce.com, Inc.

Danah Boyd

Fellow

Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School

Stewart Brand

Co-founder

GBN Global Business Network

Rodney Brooks

Panasonic Professor of Robotics, EECS

MIT

Jonathan Bush

Chairman and CEO

athenahealth, Inc.

Vinton Cerf

Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist

Google, Inc.

Eva Chen

Co-founder and CEO

Trend Micro, Inc.

John S. Chen

Chairman, CEO and President

Sybase, Inc.

George M. Church

Professor of Genetics and Director, Center for Computational Genetics

Harvard Medical School

Michael V. Copeland

Senior Editor at Large

FORTUNE

Chris DeWolfe

Chief Executive Officer

MySpace

Esther Dyson

Chairman

EDventure Holdings

John H.N. Fisher

Managing Director

Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Gary Hamel

Director, Management Lab

Visiting Professor, London Business School

David Heinemeier Hansson

Partner

37signals

Jessi Hempel

Writer

FORTUNE

Arianna Huffington

Co-founder and Editor in Chief

The Huffington Post

Bob Iannucci

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Nokia Corporation

Vyomesh (VJ) Joshi

Executive Vice President, Imaging and Printing Group

Hewlett-Packard Company

Steve Jurvetson

Managing Director

Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Dina Kaplan

Co-founder and COO

blip.tv

Kevin Kelly

Senior Maverick

Wired Magazine

David Kirkpatrick

Senior Editor, Internet and Technology

FORTUNE

Jim Lanzone

Chief Executive Officer

Ask.com

Adam Lashinsky

Senior Writer

FORTUNE

Loïc Le Meur

Chief Executive Officer

Seesmic

Tara Lemmey

Founder and CEO

LENS Ventures, LLC

Max Levchin

Chairman and CEO

Slide, Inc.

Kevin Lynch

Chief Technology Officer

Adobe Systems Incorporated

Sean M. Maloney

Executive Vice President

General Manager, Sales and Marketing Group

Chief Sales and Marketing Officer

Intel Corporation

James M. Manyika

Director (Senior Partner)

McKinsey & Company

Vineet Nayar

Chief Executive Officer

HCL Technologies Ltd.

Nicholas Negroponte

Founder and Chairman

One Laptop per Child Foundation

Jeffrey O'Brien

Senior Editor

FORTUNE

Eric D. Rasmussen

President and CEO

InSTEDD

Philip Rosedale

Founder and CEO

Linden Lab, Inc.

Jonathan Schwartz

Chief Executive Officer and President

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Ivan Seidenberg

Chairman and CEO

Verizon Communications Inc.

Andy Serwer

Managing Editor

FORTUNE

Dana Settle

Partner

Greycroft Partners, LLC

Richard Siklos

Editor at Large

FORTUNE

David Siminoff

General Partner

Venrock

Charles Simonyi

President and CEO

Intentional Software Corporation

Cameron Sinclair

Executive Director and Co-Founder

Architecture for Humanity

Neville Roy Singham

Founder and Chairman

ThoughtWorks, Inc.

Martin Sorrell

Group Chief Executive

WPP Group plc

Michael Splinter

President and CEO

Applied Materials, Inc.

Sophie Vandebroek

Chief Technology Officer and President, Xerox Innovation Group

Xerox Corp.

Martin Varsavsky

Founder and CEO

FON

Jimmy Donal Wales

Founder

Wikipedia and The Wikimedia Foundation

Padmasree Warrior

Chief Technology Officer

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Andreas Weigend

people & data

www.weigend.com

Jeff Weiner

Executive Vice President, Network Division

Yahoo! Inc.

Ann Winblad

Co-founding Partner

Hummer Winblad Venture Partners