Supernova 2008

June 16-18, 2008

San Francisco, CA
Open Flow

Supernova 2008

Open Flow

Open Flow is what happens when information moves freely among users, websites, and organizations. The power of networks is magnified when technical standards and business practices allow different communities and systems to leverage each other. This “conference within a conference,” sponsored by BT, will bring together leading thinkers and practitioners to discuss innovation at the edges through social networking platforms, microformats, open source, social software, and other manifestations of Open Flow.

Stay tuned for more details!


This will be much more than a typical conference track.

We'll soon launch a wiki site where we'll invite the community to collaborate with us in developing themes for the conversation. The sessions during the conference will be enhanced with a variety of social media tools, as well as real-time illustration by "visual journalist" Eileen Clegg. And after the conference, we'll assemble the multi-faceted output of the discussions into a website, which will carry forward the ideas generated.

TENTATIVE AGENDA -- subject to change


June 17, 2008 -- Wharton West

1:00pm -- Kick-Off Discussion: The Value of Openness
JP Rangaswami
What are the real-world benefits of open systems and standards? How much openness is a good thing? And how do organizations and services changes as open access to data becomes the norm?

1:30pm -- Whose Social Graph?
Tantek Celik (Moderator), Kevin Marks, Joe Smarr, Dave Morin
How are different platforms approaching open standards for information flow across social networks? What are the implications of a social graph centered around the user? Where will things go from here?

2:15pm -- Networked Business Models
Umair Haque (Moderator) Chris Sacca, Joi Ito
What are the new economics of competition and innovation in a networked world? How does strategy change when power moves to the edges? Who is well-positioned to exploit the opportunities of Open Flow, and who will be threatened?

3:00pm -- Bottom-Up Distributed Openness
Jeremy Keith (Moderator), Leah Culver, David Recordon, Tantek Celik, Chris Messina

3:45pm -- Break

4:00pm -- Open Flow Exchange
(Open Forum)

 

 

 

 


SPONSORED BY
BT