The first Web 2.0 conference was held October 5-7, 2004 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, and is believed to be the point at which the term Web 2.0 came into popular usage. Web 2. ...

Speakers at Web 2.0 Conference 2.0, 2004

• Jeff Bezos
• Mark Cuban
• John Doerr
• Mary Meeker
• Craig Newmark
• Marc Andreessen
• George Conrades
• James Currier
• Cory Doctorow
• Bill Gross
• Bill Gurley
• William H. Janeway
• Brewster Kahle
• Lawrence Lessig
• Udi Manber
• John McKinley
• Halsey Minor
• Louis Monier
• Richard F. Rashid
• Martin Nisenholtz
• Mike Ramsay
• Dan Rosensweig
• David L. Sifry
• Michael Weiss
• Jake Winebaum
• Jerry Yang

Jeff Bezos on the cover of TIME as Person of the Year 1999 Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is the president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon. ... Mark Cuban Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)[1] is an American entrepreneur and billionare. ... L. John Doerr (born June 29 in St. ... Mary G. Meeker (born September ??, 1959 in rural Portland, Indiana, USA) is an influential[1] Wall Street securities analyst and investment banker primarily associated with dot coms and the 1990s internet bubble. ... Craig Alexander Newmark (born circa 1952 in Morristown, New Jersey) is best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based Internet website known as craigslist. ... Plaque commemorating the creation of Mosaic web browser by Bina and Andreessen, new NCSA building, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ... Cory Doctorow at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a blogger, journalist and science fiction author in favor of liberalizing copyright laws, and a proponent of Creative Commons. ... Bill Gross (fl. ... Brewster Kahle speaking 20 November 2002 Brewster Kahle (last name pronounced kale, like the vegetable) was an early member of the Thinking Machines team and later went on to found WAIS (sold to AOL) and later Alexa Internet (sold to Amazon. ... Lawrence Lessig Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic. ... Udi Manber is one of the authors of Agrep and GLIMPSE. He also has an interest in computer networks. ... John McKinley (May 1, 1780-July 19, 1852) was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama and an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. ... Halsey Minor (born 1965 in Charlottesville, Virginia) is a technology entrepreneur who founded CNET in 1992. ... Founder of internet search engine AltaVista, currently working at Google. ... Yahoo! Inc. ... Pianist, composer Michael Weiss, best known for his fifteen year association with saxophonist Johnny Griffin, has forged a solid reputation accompanying jazz luminaries such as Art Farmer, Charles McPherson, Slide Hampton, George Coleman, the Heath brothers, the Jazztet, Lou Donaldson, Pepper Adams, Bill Hardman, Junior Cook, Wynton Marsalis and the... Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Traditional Chinese: 楊致遠; pinyin: Yáng ZhìyuÇŽn; born November 6, 1968) is the Taiwanese American co-founder of Yahoo! Inc. ...

See also

• Web 2.0 Conference (2005)