Speakers

We're confirming speakers as we go, so a lot more to come.
Here are already some amazing speakers for the upcoming conference.

Alexis Ohanian

Co-founder Reddit and Hipmunk

Alexis is young, smart and very successful. He co-founded the humongously popular Reddit and started Hipmunk out of Ycombinator. We can imagine why Forbes selected Alexis in the 30 under 30 list.

Chad Hurley

CEO of Delicious

After founding YouTube and leading it into the biggest video platform of the world, Chad is taking on a new adventure. He bought Delicious from Yahoo and is back in the game as CEO.

Mark Randall

Chief Strategist at Adobe

Mark is a successful serial entrepreneur who sold his last company to Adobe and he took on the role of Chief Strategist for Digital Media. After last years standing ovation at TNW2011 we asked him to come back with a new story.

Kevin Rose

Angel investor and entrepreneur

Kevin made his name by founding Digg, now he's leading Milk and he is one of the hottest angel investors in the tech scene with investments in Zynga, Twitter, Square, Facebook, Foursquare and many other awesome companies.

Werner Vogels

CTO of Amazon - Summit only speaker

Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & CTO at Amazon.com. He has held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in a range of companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry. A guest and friend of TNW Conference for many years.

Alex Huot

Head of Social Media IOC

Alex Huot is Head of Social Media of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and responsible for the Social Media strategy and engagement of online communities during the upcoming Olympics in London

Gabe Zichermann

CEO Gamification

Gabe Zichermann is an entrepreneur, author and gamification thought-leader. He co-authored the book “Game-Based Marketing" and is the chair of the Gamification Summit and Workshops.

Ross Dawson

Futurist

Ross is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, business strategist, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of 4 books.

Susan Crawford

Professor

Susan Crawford served as Special Assistant to President Obama for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. She is a professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City and a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy.

Alan Cooper

CEO Cooper

Alan Cooper is widely known as ‘the father of Visual Basic’ and is founder of Cooper. He also authored several books on designing successful technology products such as ‘About Face 3’.

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