Jim Buckmaster
CEO, Craigslist, Inc.
CEO since November 2000, Jim has led craigslist to be the world’s most used classifieds in any medium, and one of the most popular websites in the world (trailing YHOO, TWX, MSFT, EBAY, GOOG, NWS in page views) — while maintaining its renowned public service mission, non-corporate vibe, and headcount of less than 20. Formerly served as craigslist’s lead programmer and CTO, contributing the site’s multi-city architecture, search engine, discussion forums, flagging system, self-posting process, homepage design, personals categories, and best-of-craigslist. Before joining craigslist, directed web development for Creditland (defunct) and Quantum. In 1994-95, built a terabyte-scale database-driven public website for ICPSR at U-Mich. Graduated summa cum laude from Virginia Tech with a bachelors in biochemistry, and studied medicine and classics at the University of Michigan.
David Kirkpatrick
Senior Technology & Internet Editor, Fortune
David Kirkpatrick is senior editor for internet and technology at Fortune magazine. Consistently rated one of the most influential tech journalists in the U.S., he has written cover stories on Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Sun, as well major features on blogging, open source software, 64-bit computing and numerous other topics. His weekly column appears on Fortune.com, CNNMoney.com and by free email subscription. He is also the organizer and moderator of the annual Brainstorm conference, co-hosted by Fortune and the Aspen Institute, which for the past five years has brought together a diverse group of global leaders from business and other fields to better understand the future. After growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, as well as a year and a half in Nigeria, Kirkpatrick attended Amherst College. He also spent two years at art school in New York. His video art has been shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
Register now for the Software and Information Industry Association’s annual Information Industry Summit, January 30-31 at Cipriani in New York.
During the past five years, the SIIA Information Industry Summit has earned its reputation as the digital information industry’s flagship conference. This annual Summit of industry leaders is one of the very few forums providing strategic guidance to the information industry’s senior business leaders, bankers and technologists.
Thought-leadership: The Information Industry Summit features global thought-leaders offering their unique perspectives on the industry through a series of panels, debates, keynotes, and interviews. As a speaker or attendee, you will join your peers for an open dialogue around the economic, technological, competitive, and strategic marketing forces that impact the industry and, most importantly, your company.
Networking: The Summit provides significant networking opportunities among the people whose companies create, distribute and aggregate content; as well as the bankers, consultants, recruiters and technology providers that assist them. To facilitate networking, we will provide the contact list of registrants to all pre-registered attendees on Friday, January 19, 2007 and again on Friday, January 26, 2007.
Strategy: To fully leverage the value of the Information Industry Summit, we encourage your company to send its senior management team to participate.
About the Conference Producer: The Software & Information Industry Association is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 800 leading software and information companies. For further information, visit http://www.siia.net
