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| Speakers | | | Annual Summit speakers can be found center stage, in breakout rooms, on the EXPO,
and even at  Boot Camp. Search all sessions and speakers or use the quick links below. - Keynote Speakers
- Concurrent Session Speakers
- Doctors (Doctor Is In: Website Critiques)
- Boot Camp Speakers
- BIG !dea Exhibitor Speakers
View the Speaker Listing. View the full agenda. | | Keynote Speakers | Keynote: Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, AllThingsD.com Wednesday, September 12, 11:00a - 12:00p
Retail to the Power of Digital Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau in 1997. Her column BoomTown originally appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and also online at WSJ.com.
Previously, Ms. Swisher covered breaking news about the Web’s major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper. She has also written a weekly column for the Personal Journal on home gadget issues called Home Economics.
With Walt Mossberg, she currently co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech conference with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many other leading players in the tech and media industries. The gathering is considered one of the leading conferences focused on the convergence of tech and media industries.
Previously, Ms. Swisher worked as a reporter at the Washington Post. She is also the author of “aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web,” published by Times Business Books in July 1998. The sequel, “There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future,” was published in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Books.
She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. |
| Keynote:  Michael Zeisser, Senior Vice President, Liberty Media Corporation Tuesday, September 11, 11:30a - 12:15p
15+ Years of Consumer Internet Industry – What (If anything) have we learned? Michael Zeisser is Senior Vice President of Liberty Media Corporation, a leading media holding company. Michael created and oversees Liberty Media’s eCommerce Group of companies, along with investment activities in eCommerce, interactive gaming and digital media.
Michael has led numerous M&A transactions in the US, Canada, and Korea, and assembled Liberty’s eCommerce Group of companies. Michael serves or has served on the boards of Trip Advisor (Nasdaq:TRIP), IAC/InterActiveCorp. (Nasdaq:IACI), Fun Technologies (TSX:FUN), OpenTV (Nasdaq:OPTV), QVC Inc., Provide Commerce, BuySeasons Inc., Backcountry.com, BodyBuilding.com, CommerceHub, GSN/The Network for Games, GoPets Ltd, and SlingMedia.
Prior to joining Liberty Media in 2003, Michael was a partner at McKinsey & Company in New York, where he co-founded McKinsey’s Internet Practice, and was a member of McKinsey’s Media & Entertainment and Private Equity practices.
Michael is a frequent speaker on industry issues. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Silicon Flatirons Center, University of Colorado, and was named Technology Executive of the Year 2009 by the Colorado Technology Association.
Michael earned a business degree with honors from the University of Strasbourg, France and an MBA with distinction from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was a Procter & Gamble International Academic Scholar. |
| Search all sessions and speakers. View the full agenda. | | Summit 2012 Speakers | The speaker nomination process for the Shop.org 2012 Annual Summit can be found here. |
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