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, COO of Comcast
• Steve Case, Chairman and CEO of Revolution
• Peter Chou, CEO of HTC
• John Donahoe, President and CEO of eBay
• Carly Fiorina, Candidate for U.S. Senate, California
• Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the FCC
• Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm
• Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of Dreamworks Animation SKG
• Ted Leonsis, Vice Chairman Emeritus of AOL, Chairman of Revolution Money and Owner of Washington Capitals
• Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford
• Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect of Microsoft
• Richard Rosenblatt, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Demand Media
• Vivian Schiller, President and CEO of NPR
• Paul Steiger, Editor-in-Chief, President and Chief Executive of ProPublica
• Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook
Live blogs and photos from each session will be available on AllThingsD.com during each interview, with video highlights posted shortly afterwards.
The D conference has been sold out since January. For more information, full D coverage and video of past conferences including the historic joint appearance by Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at D5, see http://allthingsd.com/d/.
D8 is sponsored by AMD, Houlihan Lokey, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, NYSE Euronext, Qualcomm and Thomson Reuters.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “JES42” and “Arline M. for the heads up.]
Steve – bring a gun!
@ joey which Steve?
I hope they put ballmer and jobs together that would be entertaining.
“put these top players to the test onstage”
so why is Ballmer there, or Steve Case and Carly Fiorina for that matter
Jobs, don’t bring a knife to a gunfight!
Sponsored by Microsoft?
That’s how Steve Ballmer got invited.
Man-O-Man for Xmas I want All Things D to put El Jobso and Ballmer T. Clown on the same stage. This would be proof there is a Santa Clause.
Ballmer would bring out his BIG MicroSuck Guns and his smarmy salesman sh!t and Jobs will murder him with month old toenail clippings. Aiya let the good times role.
Ballmer and Fiorina will lead the discussion on how to screw-up a company 🙁
But will Ballmer be the Chairman?
Ballmer to Jobs:
I like your strategy—I like it a lot.
Jobs:
Change your strategy, not that big a deal.
Why no Gray Powell?
hahaha
magicword: found
(it’s true!)
Jobs to Ballmer:
Steve, you’re getting to be a bigger rounding error every time I see you
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Celebrity death match… Steve Jobs VS. Steve Ballmer I would actually pay to see that show created if it hasn’t already.
@Joey
Ballmer once following “FAT” 32 has upgraded his weight as did the file system to NTFS as in Neurotically Tempered Fat Shit.. maybe later he’ll become a Zealous Fat Shit
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@Joey
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Ballmer to Jobs: “500 dollars! That’s the most expensive Tablet in the world! And it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good e-mail machine.”
Jobs to Ballmer: I leave that open for discussion with the fine folks here on MDN!
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Oops! Should of said “500 dollars for an iPad!”…
Big Ass Table
enough said.
So, who owns ipad.com?
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(“Oops! Should of said . . .” That’s what I should have said!
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Wasn’t “Gray Powell” the name of Tony Stark’s cabana boy?
Switcherwoo – Nice one regarding the CEO’s.
Cheers!
Any predictions on millions of iPads sold this quarter?
Steve Jobs and James Cameron? Wow. The Great Minds™©® of the U.S. in one venue?
Steve Ballmer?!? Ahhhhh… shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Steve Ballmer? For God’s sake.
Developers – Developers – Developers!
As Bugs Bunny said: What a maroon.
“Steve Ballmer? For God’s sake.”
He agreed to pay for the buffet.
A gathering of brilliant minds as well as Steve Balmer and Carly Fiorina.
I love it. It’s sponsored by Microsoft and Jobs is the main attraction. You can’t make this shit up!