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

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.

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Confirmed Speakers Include:

Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos

Founder and CEO

Amazon.com, Inc.

Michael Dell
Michael Dell

Chairman and CEO

Dell Inc.

Robert A. Kotick
Robert A. Kotick

Chairman and CEO

Activision, Inc.

Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig

Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Founder, Center for Internet and Society

Mark Anderson
Mark Anderson

Chief Executive Officer

Strategic News Service LLC (SNS)

Neil Ashe
Neil Ashe

President

CBS Interactive

Rodrigo Baggio
Rodrigo Baggio

Founder and Executive Director

Committee for Democracy in Information Technology (CDI)

Zoë Baird
Zoë Baird

President

Markle Foundation

Tom Bedecarré
Tom Bedecarré

Chief Executive Officer

AKQA

Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff

Founder, Chairman, and CEO

salesforce.com, Inc.

Katie Benner
Katie Benner

Writer/Reporter

FORTUNE

Seth Berkley
Seth Berkley

President, CEO, and Founder

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

Charles Best
Charles Best

Founder and CEO

DonorsChoose.org

Grady Booch
Grady Booch

Chief Scientist, Software Engineering

IBM Research

Steve Boom
Steve Boom

Senior Vice President, Connected Life

Yahoo! Inc.

Andrew Braccia
Andrew Braccia

Partner

Accel Partners

Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks

Panasonic Professor of Robotics, EECS

MIT

Michael D. Capellas
Michael D. Capellas

Chairman and CEO

First Data

Vinton Cerf
Vinton Cerf

Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist

Google, Inc.

Eva Chen
Eva Chen

CEO and Co-founder

Trend Micro, Inc. (USA)

John S. Chen
John S. Chen

Chairman, CEO and President

Sybase, Inc.

Peter Chernin
Peter Chernin

President and COO

News Corporation

George M. Church
George M. Church

Professor of Genetics and Director, Center for Computational Genetics

Harvard Medical School

Lynda M. Clarizio
Lynda M. Clarizio

President, Platform-A

Executive Vice President

AOL, LLC

Michael V. Copeland
Michael V. Copeland

Senior Editor at Large

FORTUNE

Arthur W. Coviello, Jr.
Arthur W. Coviello, Jr.

Executive Vice President, EMC Corp.

President, RSA, The Security Division of EMC

Philippe Dauman
Philippe Dauman

President and CEO

Viacom Inc.

Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe

CEO and Co-founder

MySpace

Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson

Chairman

EDventure Holdings

Chris Elam
Chris Elam

Founder and Director

Misnomer Dance Theater

Adam Elend
Adam Elend

Executive Producer

CBS Interactive

Drew Endy
Drew Endy

Cabot Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering

MIT

Dennis Fong
Dennis Fong

Founder and CEO

Raptr

Jon Fortt
Jon Fortt

Senior Writer

FORTUNE

Robert Glaser
Robert Glaser

Founder, Chairman and CEO

RealNetworks, Inc.

John Hagel III
John Hagel III

Co-chairman, Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation

Deloitte

Gary Hamel
Gary Hamel

Director, Management Lab

Visiting Professor, London Business School

David Heinemeier Hansson
David Heinemeier Hansson

Partner

37signals

Jessi Hempel
Jessi Hempel

Writer

FORTUNE

Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington

Co-founder and Editor in Chief

The Huffington Post

Rod Humble
Rod Humble

Senior Vice President and Head of Studio, The Sims Label

Electronic Arts Inc.

Bob Iannucci
Bob Iannucci

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Nokia Corporation

Joichi Ito
Joichi Ito

CEO, Creative Commons

Chairman, Six Apart Japan

Leah H. Jamieson
Leah H. Jamieson

John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, Purdue University

Board Director, IEEE

Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson

Chief Executive Officer

ChoiceStream, Inc.

Vyomesh (VJ) Joshi
Vyomesh Joshi

Executive Vice President, Imaging and Printing Group

Hewlett-Packard Company

Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson

Managing Director

Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Dina Kaplan
Dina Kaplan

Co-founder and COO

blip.tv

Amit Kapur
Amit Kapur

Chief Operating Officer

MySpace

Daniel Kaufmann
Daniel Kaufmann

Director, Governance and Anti-Corruption

World Bank Institute

Chris Kelly
Chris Kelly

Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Global Public Policy

Facebook

Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly

Co-founder and Senior Maverick, Wired Magazine

Editor and Publisher, Cool Tools

David Kirkpatrick
David Kirkpatrick

Senior Editor, Internet and Technology

FORTUNE

Tariq Krim
Tariq Krim

Founder and Strategic Advisor

Netvibes

Adam Lashinsky
Adam Lashinsky

Senior Writer

FORTUNE

Loïc Le Meur
Loïc Le Meur

Chief Executive Officer

Seesmic

Tara Lemmey
Tara Lemmey

Founder and CEO

LENS Ventures, LLC

Michal Lev-Ram
Michal Lev-Ram

Reporter

FORTUNE

Max Levchin
Max Levchin

Founder, CEO and Chairman

Slide, Inc.

Bernard Liautaud
Bernard Liautaud

General Partner, Balderton Capital

Founder, Business Objects

Mark M. Little
Mark M. Little

Senior Vice President and Director

GE Global Research

Robert Lloyd
Robert Lloyd

SVP, U.S., Canada, and Japan

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Kevin Lynch
Kevin Lynch

Chief Technology Officer and SVP, Experience and Technology Organization

Adobe Systems Incorporated

Om Malik
Om Malik

Founder, Giga Omni Media, Inc.

Executive Editor, GigaOM.com

Sean M. Maloney
Sean M. Maloney

Executive Vice President

General Manager, Sales and Marketing Group

Chief Sales and Marketing Officer

Intel Corporation

James M. Manyika
James M. Manyika

Director (Senior Partner)

McKinsey & Company

Paul Maritz
Paul Maritz

Chief Executive Officer

VMware, Inc.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

Vice President, Search Products and User Experience

Google, Inc.

Ross Mayfield
Ross Mayfield

Chairman, President and Co-founder

Socialtext

Brian McAndrews
Brian McAndrews

Senior Vice President, Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group (APS)

Microsoft Corp.

David Miller
David Miller

Chief Security Officer

Compuware Covisint

Steve Mitgang
Steve Mitgang

Chief Executive Officer

Veoh Networks, Inc.

Vineet Nayar
Vineet Nayar

Chief Executive Officer

HCL Technologies Ltd.

Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte

Founder and Chairman

One Laptop per Child

Zach Nelson
Zach Nelson

President and CEO

NetSuite

Jeffrey O'Brien
Jeffrey O'Brien

Senior Editor

FORTUNE

Koji Omi
Koji Omi

Founder and Chairman, Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum

Member of the House of Representatives

Former Minister of Finance of Japan

Iqbal Z. Quadir
Iqbal Z. Quadir

Founder and Director, Legatum Center in Developmental Entrepreneurship

MIT

Eric D. Rasmussen
Eric D. Rasmussen

President and CEO

InSTEDD

Steve Rechtschaffner
Steve Rechtschaffner

Chief Creative Officer, Humanature Studios

NEXON Publishing NA

Danny Rimer
Danny Rimer

Partner

Index Ventures

Mark Rolston
Mark Rolston

Chief Creative Officer

frogdesign, inc.

Philip Rosedale
Philip Rosedale

Founder and Chairman

Linden Lab

Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg

Chief Operating Office

Facebook

Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt

Chairman and CEO

Google, Inc.

Jonathan Schwartz
Jonathan Schwartz

Chief Executive Officer and President

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Peter Schwartz
Peter Schwartz

Co-founder and Chairman

Global Business Network

Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble

Managing Director, Fast Company.TV

Video Blogger, Scobleizer.com

Ivan Seidenberg
Ivan Seidenberg

Chairman and CEO

Verizon Communications Inc.

Pattie Sellers
Pattie Sellers

Editor at Large

FORTUNE

Andy Serwer
Andy Serwer

Managing Editor

FORTUNE

Dana Settle
Dana Settle

Partner

Greycroft Partners, LLC

Premal Shah
Premal Shah

President

Kiva.org

Dan Shine
Dan Shine

Vice President, 50x15 Initiative

President, 50x15 Foundation

AMD

Richard Siklos
Richard Siklos

Editor at Large

FORTUNE

David Siminoff
David Siminoff

General Partner

Venrock

Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi

President and CEO

Intentional Software Corporation

Cameron Sinclair
Cameron Sinclair

Executive Director and Co-Founder

Architecture for Humanity

Marc Singer
Marc Singer

Director, San Francisco Office

McKinsey & Company

Neville Roy Singham
Neville Roy Singham

Founder and Chairman

ThoughtWorks, Inc.

Brad Smith
Brad Smith

President and CEO

Intuit Inc.

Quincy Smith
Quincy Smith

Chief Executive Officer

CBS Interactive

Michael Splinter
Michael Splinter

President and CEO

Applied Materials, Inc.

Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher

Co-Executive Editor, AllThingsD.com

The Wall Street Journal

Paul Thelen
Paul Thelen

Founder, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer

Big Fish Games, Inc.

Jack Tretton
Jack Tretton

President and CEO

Sony Computer Entertainment America

Sophie Vandebroek
Sophie Vandebroek

Chief Technology Officer and President, Xerox Innovation Group

Xerox Corp.

Martin Varsavsky
Martin Varsavsky

Founder and CEO

FON

Mike Volpi
Mike Volpi

Chief Executive Officer

Joost

Gregory Waldorf
Gregory Waldorf

Chief Executive Officer

eHarmony

Daniel Wallach
Daniel Wallach

Executive Director

Greensburg GreenTown

Padmasree Warrior
Padmasree Warrior

Chief Technology Officer

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Andreas Weigend
Andreas Weigend

people & data

www.weigend.com

Jeff Weiner
Jeff Weiner

Executive in Residence

Accel Partners & Greylock Partners

Linton Wells, II
Linton Wells, II

Transformation Chair

Distinguished Research Professor

National Defense University (NDU)

Stan Williams
Stan Williams

Senior Fellow and Director, Information Quantum Systems Lab

Hewlett-Packard Co.

Todd Woody
Todd Woody

Senior Editor

FORTUNE

Tae Yoo
Tae Yoo

Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Neil Young
Neil Young

Singer, Songwriter, Musician

Christiane zu Salm
Christiane zu Salm

Member of the Board

Hubert Burda Media

Shoshana Zuboff
Shoshana Zuboff

Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Retired

Harvard Business School