The Supernova conference explores the transformation of computing, communications, business, and society in the Network Age. Now in its eighth year, Supernova brings together approximately 500 leading executives, entrepreneurs, intellectuals, government officials, and business practitioners to make connections, discuss emerging trends, and discover innovative new ideas and companies.

2009 Theme: Change Networks

Networks are central instruments of the changes sweeping our world… and networks themselves must change to address novel demands. Device innovations such as smartphones and netbooks, the growing power of open source and open standards, social networking in all its forms, the rise of location awareness, the tidal wave of online video, the assembly of vast pools of cloud computing power, and the proliferation of new kinds of organizations all require network infrastructure… but not necessarily today’s infrastructure.

The past year demonstrated both the promise and the peril of our densely connected world. New strategies are needed for the new economic and social reality. Every crisis is also an opportunity for some.

Supernova 2009 sessions will be organized around four core areas:

Changing Networks: The evolving infrastructure
Networks For Change: Public policy and social impact
Strategic Change: Business implications
The Changing World: Daily life and online experiences

Planned session topics include:

• The Stream: From a Web of Pages to a Rich Flow of Interactions
• Government’s New Deal for the Tech Sector
• Managing Amid Abundance: Strategies for a Connected World
• Thinking Locally, Acting Globally
• Telecom as Software
• Clash of the Platforms
• Broaderband: What Comes After Universal Connectivity?
• Technology Meets Sustainability
• Media: The Worst Of Times, the Best Of Times
  
• Up from the Ashes: Innovation after the Financial Crisis
• Fun with Fun
• Show Me the Data
• Life in the 21st Century

At Supernova, we attempt to answer “what’s next” after everything is connected. Supernova is the only event that assembles the most compelling people and companies from the converging worlds of computing, telecom, and digital media to put decentralization issues into meaningful social and business contexts.

Who should attend?

• Technology Executives
• Business Strategists
• Entrepreneurs
• Venture Capitalists
• Technologists
• Policy Makers
• Investors
• Social Media Marketers
• Service Providers
• Industry Media and Analysts