Posted on August 8, 2008 - by CDS, 0 Comments

Web 2.0 Summit, 2008

This years Web 2.0 Summit looks very, very promising. Al Gore just joined the top notch lineup of speakers that includes Dave Girouard (Google), Tony Hsieh (Zappos), Kevin Johnson (Microsoft), Kevin Kelly (Wired), Kevin Lynch (Adobe), Elon Musk (Tesla Motors), Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly, Inc.), Paul Otellini (Intel), Padmasree Warrior (Cisco), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Lance Armstrong, and many, many, many more web and related experts.

“In the first four years of the Web 2.0 Summit, we’ve focused on our industry’s challenges and opportunities, highlighting in particular the business models and leaders driving the Internet economy. But as we pondered the theme for this year, one clear signal has emerged: our conversation is no longer just about the Web. Now is the time to ask how the Web—its technologies, its values, and its culture—might be tapped to address the world’s most pressing limits. Or put another way—and in the true spirit of the Internet entrepreneur—its most pressing opportunities.

As we convene the fifth annual Web 2.0 Summit, our world is fraught with problems that engineers might charitably classify as NP hard—from roiling financial markets to global warming, failing healthcare systems to intractable religious wars. In short, it seems as if many of our most complex systems are reaching their limits.”

Source: Web 2.0 Summit