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Steve Jobs, James Cameron and Steve Ballmer to Speak at the Eighth Annual "D: All Things Digital" Conference
NEW YORK, April 28, 2010 – All Things
Digital today announced the speaker lineup for the eighth annual
D: All Things Digital, The Wall Street Journal's executive
conference to be held June 1-3 near Los Angeles.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be this year's opening-night speaker,
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will make his fourth appearance and
"Avatar" director James Cameron will appear onstage at D for the
first time on the annual event's second night.
Founded by co-producers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher in 2003,
the D conference is a gathering of the most influential figures
in media and technology. Each year, Mossberg and Swisher put
these top players to the test onstage during unrehearsed,
unscripted conversations. The results are candid, entertaining
sessions that provide glimpses into the strategies of the
industry's most creative thinkers.
D8 will also showcase leading executives from the mobile,
digital, media, automotive and political arenas, including:
- Steve Burke, chief operating officer, Comcast
- Steve Case, chairman and chief executive officer, Revolution
- Peter Chou, chief executive officer, HTC
- John Donahoe, president and chief executive officer, eBay
- Carly Fiorina, candidate for U.S. Senate, California
- Julius Genachowski, chairman, FCC
- Paul Jacobs, chief executive officer, Qualcomm
- Jeffrey Katzenberg, chief executive officer, DreamWorks Animation SKG
- Ted Leonsis, vice chairman Emeritus of AOL, chairman of Revolution Money and owner of Washington Capitals
- Alan Mulally, chief executive officer, Ford
- Ray Ozzie, chief software architect, Microsoft
- Richard Rosenblatt, co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer, Demand Media
- Vivian Schiller, president and chief executive officer, National Public Radio
- Paul Steiger, editor-in-chief, president and chief executive officer, ProPublica
- Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive officer, Facebook
Live blogs and photos from each session will be available on
AllThingsD.com during each interview, with video highlights
posted shortly afterwards.
Attendance for the D conference has been sold out since January.
Conference information, full D coverage and video of past
conferences, including the historic joint appearance by Steve
Jobs and Bill Gates at D5, can be found online at
http://allthingsd.com/d/.
D8 is sponsored by AMD, Houlihan Lokey, Juniper Networks,
Microsoft, NYSE Euronext, Qualcomm and Thomson Reuters.
About All Things Digital
All Things Digital (www.allthingsd.com) is devoted to news,
analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media.
Co-edited by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, the site is the
online extension of the annual "D: All Things Digital"
conference started by Mossberg and Swisher in 2003 and attended
by the digital elite. The site is a mix of columns, blogs and
video including Mossberg's Personal Technology, Swisher's
BoomTown, John Paczkowski's Digital Daily, Peter Kafka's
MediaMemo and Katherine Boehret's Mossberg Solution.
The D: All Things Digital logo is available at
http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=5080
About The Wall Street Journal
Founded in 1889, The Wall Street Journal, the flagship
publication of Dow Jones & Company, is the world's leading
business publication and holds 33 Pulitzer Prizes for
outstanding journalism. The Wall Street Journal has a print and
online circulation of more than 2 million, reaching the nation's
top business and political leaders, as well as investors across
the country. The Wall Street Journal boasts the largest
individually paid circulation out of the top 25 U.S. newspapers.
Other publications that are part of The Wall Street Journal
franchise, with a global audience of 3.8 million, include The
Wall Street Journal Asia and The Wall Street Journal Europe. The
Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com is the leading provider of
business and financial news and analysis on the Web with more
than one million subscribers and 26 million users per month.
WSJ.com is the flagship site of The Wall Street Journal Digital
Network, which also includes MarketWatch.com, Barrons.com,
AllThingsD.com and FINS.com. In 2009, the Journal was ranked No.
1 in BtoB's Media Power 50 for the 10th consecutive year. The
Wall Street Journal Radio Network services news and information
to more than 350 radio stations in the U.S.
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