Schedule

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September 16: Workshops
September 17: Keynotes, sessions, and Expo Hall
September 18: Keynotes, sessions, and Expo Hall
September 19: Keynotes and sessions

Tracks:

Tuesday, September 16


9:00AM - 12:00PM		Building Successful Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications Dion Hinchcliffe -- 1A23 & 24
		Casing the Startup Joint: Real Life Examples of Startup Opportunities, Issues, & Strategic Decision Making Charlie O'Donnell, Albert Wenger -- 1A06 &07
		Designing and Developing for the Future of Mobile Garrett Murray -- 1A08 & 10
		Online Customer Communities that Connect and Thrive: Creating the Right Mix of Purpose, Passion, People, and Platforms Lois Kelly, Francois Gossieaux -- 1A12 & 14
		Rich UX Documentation John Yesko -- 1A21 & 22

12:00PM - 1:30PM		Lunch

1:30PM - 4:30PM		Designing for Community Joshua Porter -- 1A21 & 22
		Enterprise 2.0 Jumpstart Thomas Vander Wal -- 1A06 &07
		Free Traffic: SEO/SMO 101 (Search Engine & Social Media Optimization) Neil Patel, Chris Smith -- 1A12 & 14
		Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches Cal Henderson -- 1A23 & 24
		Secrets of JavaScript Libraries John Resig -- 1A08 & 10

Wednesday, September 17


8:00AM - 9:00AM		Breakfast

9:00AM - 9:50AM		Building a People-powered Company Eileen Gittins, Richard Moross, michael galpert, Michael Brill, Matt Stinchcomb -- 1A06 &07
		Customer Service is the New Marketing Lane Becker -- 1A12 & 14
		Extreme Data Storage - Prayers Answered Srik Venkataseshu -- A04&05
		Knowledge Sharing by Design Doug Solomon, Gentry Underwood -- 1A23 & 24
		Lessons from Visual Programming with JavaScript John Resig -- 1A08 & 10
		The Moonwalking Bear: What Traditional Business Really Needs to Know About Web 2.0 -- A01&02
		Universal Design for Web Applications Matt May, Wendy Chisholm -- 1A21 & 22

9:50AM - 10:05AM		Break

10:05AM - 10:55AM		10 Things We've Learned at 37signals Jason Fried -- 1A23 & 24
		Forecast: Partly Cloudy Albert Wenger -- 1A06 &07
		Moving Pictures Cal Henderson -- 1A08 & 10
		Realizing Business Value from Web 2.0: An IBMer's Perspective on ROI, Metrics and Anti-Patterns Aaron Kim -- A04&05
		Running Your Enterprise in the Cloud: Lessons from IT Innovators Kendall Collins -- A01&02
		Tap is the New Click: Designing Gestural Interfaces Dan Saffer -- 1A21 & 22
		The Power of Mobile Internet - Interact in Real Time Oren Levine -- A03
		Viral Marketing 2.0 Jonah Peretti -- 1A12 & 14
		Web2Open: Welcome and Introduction -- Web2Open

10:55AM - 11:10AM		Break

11:10AM - 12:00PM		Bottoms Up and End to End: Apply the Wisdom of Crowds to Businesses Ramez Naam -- 1A23 & 24
		Data Center Containers: Hype or The Next Big Thing? Steve Cumings -- A01&02
		Design for Sign-up Joshua Porter -- 1A21 & 22
		Go REST with Rails David Heinemeier Hansson -- 1A08 & 10
		Platform Wars: A Brief History Rolf Skyberg -- A04&05
		The Real, Long-lasting (and Negative) Impact of Web 2.0 on Technology Adoption Fraser Kelton -- 1A06 &07
		Web 2.0 and the Reinvention of Marketing and PR Brian Solis -- 1A12 & 14
		Web2Open: Sessions (Rooms 1, 2, 3, hybrids) -- Web2Open

12:00PM - 1:20PM		Lunch

12:30PM - 1:20PM		Web2Open: Sessions (Rooms 1, 2, 3) -- Web2Open

1:20PM - 2:10PM		Disruption in the Music Industry Ali Partovi, Hadi Partovi -- 1A06 &07
		Electricity as the New Internet James Governor -- 1A23 & 24
		Just How Context Aware Are You? Mobility, Datastreams, and What Inferencing Does and Doesn't Make Possible Dawn Nafus, Ken Anderson -- 1A21 & 22
		Lessons Learned in Scaling and Building Social Systems Joshua Schachter -- 1A08 & 10
		Leveraging the Clouds for Reliable Web Applications Thorsten von Eicken -- A03
		Seven Habits of Highly Successful SaaS Companies Mark Trang, Kirk Krappe -- A01&02
		Web 2.0 Compatibility: How to Stay Ahead of the Game Jefferson Fletcher -- A04&05
		Web Analytics 2.0: Rethinking Decision Making in a "2.0" World Avinash Kaushik -- 1A12 & 14
		Web2Open: Sessions (Rooms 1, 2, 3) -- Web2Open

2:10PM - 2:40PM		Break

2:40PM - 2:45PM		Keynote Opening Welcome Jennifer Pahlka, Brady Forrest -- Special Events Hall

2:45PM - 3:10PM		New York's Web Industry From 1995 to 2008: From Nascent to Ascendent Fred Wilson -- Special Events Hall

3:10PM - 3:20PM		The Death of the Grand Gesture Deborah Schultz -- Special Events Hall

3:20PM - 3:35PM		High Order Bit Jason Fried -- Special Events Hall

3:35PM - 3:45PM		The DIY Guide to Growing a Company Maria Thomas -- Special Events Hall

3:45PM - 4:00PM		Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape Gary Vaynerchuk -- Special Events Hall

4:00PM - 6:00PM		Booth Crawl -- Expo Hall

7:00PM - 8:00PM		Health 2.0 - Transforming an industry though Social Networks, Open Standards and Web 2.0 -- Gallery B - Hudson Hotel
		Higher Education and the Web 2.0 World -- Boardroom C-Hudson Hotel
		How Much is Too Much? Where is the Value in Attending Conferences? -- Boardroom A-Hudson Hotel
		Server to Browser Data Synchronization Using XSTM and GWT -- Boardroom B-Hudson Hotel
		The Virtual Startup -- Gallery A - Hudson Hotel

7:30PM - 10:30PM		Official Web 2.0 Expo Conference Attendee Party -- The Park

8:00PM - 9:00PM		Best Practices in Venture Capital Deal Origination -- Boardroom A-Hudson Hotel
		Building a Kickass Network -- Boardroom C-Hudson Hotel
		Cloud Watching - Managing and Monitoring Your Virtual Computing -- Boardroom B-Hudson Hotel
		Location-based Social Networking - Today and the Near Future -- Gallery B - Hudson Hotel
		Starting an Internet Startup Without Internet Experience -- Gallery A - Hudson Hotel

9:00PM - 10:00PM		Anatomy of a Highly Scalable Facebook Application -- Gallery B - Hudson Hotel
		Sales Not What You Hoped? -- Boardroom B-Hudson Hotel
		The Virtual Handshake: How to Accelerate Professional Services Sales using Web 2.0 Technologies -- Boardroom A-Hudson Hotel
		Web 2.0 Testing in a Cloud Computing World -- Gallery A - Hudson Hotel
		What's It Like Setting Up a Business in Malaysia... -- Boardroom C-Hudson Hotel

Thursday, September 18


8:00AM - 9:00AM		Breakfast

9:00AM - 9:05AM		Welcome and Morning Keynotes Jennifer Pahlka, Brady Forrest -- Special Events Hall

9:05AM - 9:35AM		Enterprise Radar Tim O'Reilly -- Special Events Hall

9:35AM - 10:00AM		It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure. Clay Shirky -- Special Events Hall

10:00AM - 10:30AM		Break

10:30AM - 11:20AM		Building in the Clouds: Scaling Web 2.0 Jason Hoffman, Alistair Croll, Alex Barnett, Dwight Merriman, Jinesh Varia, Pete Koomen -- 1A23 & 24
		Coding the Clouds: Building Enterprise Apps Using Force.com and Other Cloud Services Dave Carroll -- A01&02
		Good to Great: Achieving Product Excellence in Web 2.0 Dan Olsen -- 1A21 & 22
		Making Sense of Rich Internet Applications Ryan Stewart -- 1A08 & 10
		Man Versus Machine: The New Conundrum of Web 2.0 Advertising Automation David Kidder, Max Kalehoff, Jim Barnett, Mike Kelly, Tim Hanlon -- 1A12 & 14
		Surviving and Thriving Amidst Information Overload Paul Christen, Joe Lichtenberg -- A04&05
		The Emerging Business Risks of Web 2.0 Models Drew Bartkiewicz -- 1A06 &07
		Using Enterprise Mashups: What IBM Has Learned About Where They're Helpful Mark Heid, Bobbie Cochrane -- A03
		Web2Open: Sessions (Rooms 1, 2, 3) -- Web2Open

11:20AM - 11:35AM		Break

11:35AM - 12:25PM		Best Practices in Theming and How They Relate to Popular Platforms Michael Caccavano, Amy Cham -- 1A21 & 22
		Chrome Developer Session Ojan Vafai -- Special Events Hall
		Going Fast on the Mobile Web Jason Grigsby -- 1A23 & 24
		How to NOT Fail in Social Computing for Business - Examples from Real World Customers Alina Fu, Paolo Tosolini, Ludovic Fourrage -- A01&02
		Measuring ROI around Web 2.0 Dave Carter -- A04&05
		Starting Up in Silicon Alley Nate Westheimer, Karin Klein, Kevin Ryan, David S. Rose -- 1A06 &07
		Trends and Technologies in Where 2.0 Andrew Turner, Mikel Maron -- 1A08 & 10
		Web2Open: Sessions (Rooms 1, 2, 3, hybrids) -- Web2Open
		Why Brand Advertisers Will Be the Biggest Beneficiaries of Social Media and How You Can Participate Michael Lazerow -- 1A12 & 14

12:25PM - 2:00PM		Lunch

1:10PM - 1:50PM		Web2Open: Sessions (Rooms 1, 2, 3) -- Web2Open

2:00PM - 2:50PM		Best-kept Secrets to Search Engine Optimization Success: the Art and the Science Stephan Spencer -- 1A12 & 14
		Cashing Out: When, How, and How Much Henry Blodget, Kevin Ryan, Michael Lazerow, Lorien Gabel -- 1A06 &07
		Designing for the Internet(s) of the Future Genevieve Bell -- 1A21 & 22
		Getting More Traffic from Search: Advanced SEO for Developers Nathan Buggia -- 1A08 & 10
		Performance & Scalability of Web Servers running on HP Server Platforms Eddie Martinez -- A01&02
		Scaling Digg and Other Web Applications Joe Stump -- 1A23 & 24
		Web2Open: Sessions (Rooms 1, 2, 3) -- Web2Open
		Why Do Web Sites All Look Alike? Escaping Web 2.0 Design Conformity Dave Wolf -- A04&05

2:50PM - 3:05PM		Break

3:05PM - 3:55PM		Cloud Computing and the iDataPlex Platform Scott Gerard -- A03
		Internet Explorer 8: A Modern Development Platform Pete LePage -- A04&05
		The Ecosystem of Corporate and Social Data Toby Segaran -- 1A08 & 10
		The Post-Hype State of Virtual World Marketing: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why W. James Au -- 1A12 & 14
		The Seduction of the Interface: Merchandising in Interactive Product Design Christopher Fahey -- 1A21 & 22
		The Sequel to SQL: Why You Won't Find Your RDBMS in the Clouds Geir Magnusson Jr -- 1A23 & 24
		Understanding the Basics of Personal Data: Vendors, Users, and You Chris Saad, Daniela Barbosa -- 1A06 &07
		Web2Open: Sessions (Rooms 1, 2, 3) -- Web2Open

4:10PM - 5:00PM		10 Tips for Managing a Creative Environment Bryan Mason, Sarah Nelson -- 1A21 & 22
		Advanced OAuth Wrangling Kellan Elliott-McCrea -- 1A08 & 10
		Hitting Them Where They Live: The Emergence of Local Online Advertising Chris Tolles, Steven Berlin Johnson -- 1A12 & 14
		Scaling Synchronous Web Apps: Lessons Learned from Meebo Sandy Jen -- 1A23 & 24
		Video 2.0: Filling In Gaps in The Video Content Ecosystem kenyatta cheese, Timothy Shey, Jim Louderback, Ricky Van Veen -- 1A06 &07
		Web2Open: Sessions (Rooms 1, 2, 3) -- Web2Open

5:15PM - 6:05PM		How to Run Your Startup on Amazon Web Services Alex Iskold -- 1A23 & 24
		Monitoring Social Media for Fresh, Contemporary, and Reliable Sources Andrew Baron -- 1A12 & 14
		User Analytics: Building Flickr Stats Paul Hammond -- 1A08 & 10
		Using Real Time Game Concepts to Increase Engagement Charles Forman -- 1A21 & 22
		We are Smarter Than Me: Unleashing the Power of Crowds in Your Business Barry Libert -- 1A06 &07

7:00PM - 8:00PM		Britain’s Got Digital Talent -- Gallery B - Hudson Hotel
		Observing the Web 2.0 Application in Production -- Boardroom C-Hudson Hotel
		Social Butterflies: Using Social Media to Strengthen Developer Communities -- Boardroom A-Hudson Hotel
		The Future of Travel on the Net -- Gallery A - Hudson Hotel
		Theming Best Practices Followup Discussion -- Boardroom B-Hudson Hotel

8:00PM - 9:00PM		Adding Online Payments – Developer Best Practices -- Boardroom C-Hudson Hotel
		Creating Interactive Educational Content: Who, What, When, Where, and How? -- Gallery A - Hudson Hotel
		Government 2.0 - Bridging Government and the People Through Social Web -- Boardroom A-Hudson Hotel
		How to Ensure Email Deliverability for Web 2.0 Company -- Boardroom B-Hudson Hotel
		Kaleidoscope Twitterbase: Using Twitter as a Semantic Database Frontend -- Gallery B - Hudson Hotel

Friday, September 19


8:00AM - 9:00AM		Breakfast

9:00AM - 9:05AM		Welcome to Morning Keynotes Jennifer Pahlka, Brady Forrest -- Special Events Hall

9:05AM - 9:35AM		Arianna Huffington in Conversation with Tim O'Reilly Tim O'Reilly, Arianna Huffington -- Special Events Hall

9:35AM - 9:45AM		(Re)making the Internet: Accounting for the Future of Information, Communication and Entertainment Technologies Genevieve Bell -- Special Events Hall

9:45AM - 9:55AM		What ManyEyes Knows Irene Greif -- Special Events Hall

9:55AM - 10:05AM		Organizing Chaos: The Growth of Collaborative Filters Jay Adelson -- Special Events Hall

10:05AM - 10:15AM		Because We Make You Happy Ben Huh -- Special Events Hall

10:15AM - 10:25AM		Next Generation of Video Games Shana Fisher -- Special Events Hall

10:25AM - 10:45AM		The Real Future of Technology Dan Lyons aka Fake Steve Jobs -- Special Events Hall

10:45AM - 11:00AM		Break

11:00AM - 11:50AM		Content Matters Liz Danzico, Jeffrey Zeldman, Alex Wright, Kristina Halvorson, Paul Ford, Bre Pettis -- 1A21 & 22
		Micro-Interactions: How Brands Can Influence Consumer Behavior in a 2.0 World David Armano -- 1A12 & 14
		Politics in a Networked Age Andrew Rasiej -- 1A06 &07
		The Future of Browsers Dion Almaer, Ben Galbraith, Chris Wilson, Brendan Eich -- 1A08 & 10
		Wall Street's New Operating System Douglas Atkin -- 1A23 & 24

11:50AM - 12:05PM		Break

12:05PM - 12:55PM		Design Case Studies: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly David Karp, Avi Muchnick -- 1A21 & 22
		From Modern Times to Open Times: Best Buy BlueShirt Nation Case Study Peter Hirshberg, michele azar -- 1A06 &07
		From Paper to QQ and Beyond: The Evolution of Currency Tristan Louis -- 1A23 & 24
		State of Web Development Dion Almaer, Ben Galbraith -- 1A08 & 10
		What Would Google Do? How Media Must Revolutionize Their Thinking Jeff Jarvis, John Byrne, Steve Adler -- 1A12 & 14

12:55PM - 2:25PM		Lunch

2:25PM - 3:15PM		Comet: Reversing the Web with Ajax 2.0 Ric Smith, Jonas Jacobi -- 1A08 & 10
		Design and User Experience in an Agile Process M. Jackson Wilkinson -- 1A21 & 22
		Early Adopters of Finance in a Web 2.0 World Brian Jurutka -- 1A23 & 24
		Enhancing Engagement and User-Experience Beyond the TV Screen: Some Lessons Learned from a Transition to Web 2.0 Tony Carbone -- 1A06 &07
		Future of Mobile Social Activity Chad Stoller, Conor Brady -- 1A12 & 14

3:15PM - 3:30PM		Break

3:30PM - 4:20PM		A New Marketplace for Preferred Equity Adeo Ressi -- 1A23 & 24
		Agency 2.0 Rick Webb, Romi Mahajan, Pete Stein, Susan Credle, David Thorpe -- 1A12 & 14
		Design Prototyping Fidelity Ryan Lane, Matthew deStwolinksi -- 1A21 & 22
		Internet Business in EU: Big Opportunity or Big Hassle for U.S. Entrepreneurs and Investors? Lukasz Gadowski, Oliver Jung -- 1A06 &07
		Tying it All Together: Implementing the Open Web Joseph Smarr -- 1A08 & 10

Schedule

Tuesday, September 16

Wednesday, September 17

Thursday, September 18

Friday, September 19

Talks I'm Interested In