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WIRED Magazine to Host First-Ever WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design

Dépèche transmise le 12 juin 2009 par Business Wire

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WIRED magazine will host its first-ever WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive By Design on Monday, June 15, 2009 at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City. This all day invitation-only conference will feature top industry leaders discussing how to think differently about change and how to use it to your advantage. During presentations, panels and interaction with the speakers, conference participants and attendees will see how disruption is transforming the way smart organizations make decisions, keeping them on a steady path to growth.

Full list of event speakers include:

• Jesper Anderson and Toby Segaran, Co-founders, Freerisk
• Shai Agassi, Founder & CEO, Better Place
• Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, WIRED, Author, Free and The Long Tail
• Jeff Bezos, Founder, Amazon.com
• Tim Cadogan, CEO, OpenX
• Jeff Immelt, Chairman & CEO, GE
• Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer, USA
• Elon Musk, Founder, Tesla Motors; SpaceX
• Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Ubuntu
• Scott Thompson, President, PayPal
• Neil Young, Founder & CEO, ngmoco

Follow day-of coverage of the WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive By Design at: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/category/wiredbiz/. Photos and video clips will also be posted after each session, and follow along via Twitter: @WiredBiz #WiredLive.

Sponsors of the WIRED Business Conference include: Ally Bank, American Airlines, Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., NYSE Technologies, and Panasonic Computer Solutions Company.

For more information and to register for the conference, please contact Jenna Landry at 212-286-6877, Jenna_Landry@wired.com.

About WIRED:

For more than 15 years, WIRED has been the first word on how technology is changing the world. Each month, the magazine delivers a glimpse into the future of business, science, entertainment, education, culture and politics. Under the leadership of editor in chief Chris Anderson, WIRED has been nominated for an unprecedented nine National Magazine Awards including winning the industry's top prize for general excellence in 2005, 2007 and 2009. WIRED magazine and Wired.com reach more than 12 million readers a month.