March 18th, 2005
PC Forum here we come...
Starting Monday, David and I will be posting from Esther Dyson’s PC Forum conference in hopefully sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. Stay tuned for our coverage, including some podcasts and live action photos. The "PC" in PC Forum was about the personal computer when the conference started 28 years ago. Now "PC" has come to mean pervasive computing–information technology pervades every aspect of modern life and business. Here are some of the sessions we will be covering at PC Forum:
Symantec CEO John Thompson and Scott Charney, head of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing initiative, discuss the identity tools, technologies and policies needed to ensure real security.
Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy, Sun president Jonathan Schwartz and Lenovo CEO-designate Steve Ward divulge the secrets to success in the worldwide IT market.
HP executive VP Ann Livermore won’t talk about why Carly left. Instead, she’ll talk about the real issues facing HP and the industry as a whole in the current worldwide market. A9.com CEO Udi Manber, ChoiceStream CEO Steve Johnson and Google’s Marissa Mayer peer into the future of search as a personal, contextual service. Harvard’s educator Howard Gardner, Service Employees International Union president Andy Stern and Yahoo!’s Jerry Yang each share their views of the world wide world outside IT, yet still around us. …along with the varied and energetic technologists making commercial use of RSS, developing bottom-up "folksonomies," going beyond MyYahoo! in personalizing the Net…and much more.
Mozilla Foundation president Mitchell Baker and SpikeSource CEO Kim Polese talk about the rules and tools needed to make open source work. (Hint: It’s not magic.)
John Seely Brown and John Hagel assert that the pursuit of friction-free commerce may turn out to be a dead-end. In other words, friction can be good.
Dan Farber, editor-in-chief of CNET News.com, has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
