We’ve been working hard on filling up the speakers line up for our Economics of Social Media (EconSM) conference on April 26th at Beverly Hilton in LA…the stage setters confirmed till now:
»  Peter Adderton, Founder and CEO, Amp’d Mobile
»  Simon Assaad, CEO, Heavy.com
»  John Battelle, Chairman, Federated Media
»  Michael Birch, CEO, Bebo
»  Marco Boerries, Senior Vice President, Connected Life, Yahoo
»  Ilene Chaiken, Executive Producer, The L Word/CEO, OurChart.com
»  Alan Citron, GM, TMZ.com
»  Shawn Conahan, CEO, Intercasting Corp
»  Toby Coppel, SVP, Corporate Development, Yahoo
»  Josh Deutsch, CEO, Downtown Records
»  Esther Dyson, Edventure Holdings
»  Jason Hirschhorn, President, Entertainment Group, Sling Media
»  Ross Levinsohn, former President of Fox Interactive Media
»  Hadi Partovi, COO, iLike
»  Larry Shapiro, Executive Vice President, Walt Disney Internet Group
»  Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive
»  Tad Smith, CEO, Reed Business Information
»  Ken Stern, CEO, NPR
»  Kara Swisher, Wall Street Journal
»  Rishad Tobaccowala, CEO, Denuo/CIO, Publicis Media Group
We opened ticket sales last Friday, and thanks everyone for the overwhelming response. We will be closing early bird this weekend, so grab them while they last. They are $495 and will go up to $695 by next week. Go here to register.
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