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Like a double-stuffed Oreo

by Eric Norlin on May.06, 2008, under conference topics, speakers, sponsors

So much has been happening around Defrag as of late that, while I’ve been letting it all flow out through Twitter, I’ve neglected to update this space. So, a brain dump.

You should (by now) know that our advisory board includes:

Esther Dyson- Founder of PC Forum, and internet wise-person for as long as I’ve known the internet

Chris Shipley - The woman behind DEMO, and one of the smartest startup analysts I know

Paul Kedrosky - VC, TV-star (cnbc), and *the* smartest person I know about technology and all things financial services

Clay Shirky - Probably the most consistently inspiring internet “guru” around, and author of “Here Comes Everybody”

JP Rangaswami - Unquestionably, one of the leading “CIO-types” on the planet, and all around eclectic thinker

And, I’m extremely pleased to have all of them on board.

Recent sponsors that we’ve added include:

Connectbeam - enterprise social bookmarking and social networking

coComment - folks working on the conversation in the comments

Jive Software - enterprise collaboration and community software

blist - democratizing the database

HiveLive - Online community and social networking folks

MindTouch - Open Source wiki and content management

Fuser - tools for simplifying online activities

Talis - Semantic web application platform

….and several others that I can’t speak about yet.

We’ve also confirmed speakers like:

Professor William Duggan - Strategic Intuition and Defrag

Kevin Merritt - The Democratization of Data

Perry Mizota - Knowledge Networking and Ambient Intimacy

Sam Lawrence - On collaboration, analysts, going big and controversy

Charlene Li - Harnessing the Implicit Value of the Social Graph

Marty Betz - Observing the invisible through aggregating information tomography

Paul Miller - On Semantic topics and users connecting the dots

Brian Oberkirch - Under Sousveillance: Personal Informatics & Techniques of the Self

Lane Becker - Being like the internet

Puneet Gupta (and a great customer) - On rolling out a massive social bookmarking project

…and many others.

And, lastly, we KNOW we’re going to cover topics like:

Finding serendipitous information through context

Users connecting the dots - making the unstructured structured

Getting to relevancy through identity

Visualizing Data

Next-level discovery (what the hell does that mean?)

…and you can still tell us what we should add to this.

All of that, and its only May (so it only gets better from here). Needless to say, I’m psyched. And I hope you’ll join us.

1 comment for this entry:
  1. Paul Miller

    A “double-stuffed Oreo” would be a good thing, right? ;-)

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