The Free! Summit will take place Monday, May 11, 2009 at the San Mateo Marriott hotel in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The schedule of events is below. Please note that this is subject to change.
Schedule of Events
Monday, May 11, 2009
10:00am – Registration opens
10:30am – Welcome remarks
Mike Masnick, President & CEO of Floor64 and founder of Techdirt
10:40am – Opening Keynote
Chris Anderson, editor in chief of WIRED and author of the forthcoming book, "Free: The Future of a Radical Price"
10:55am – Free! Case Studies
Rich Buchanan, Chief Marketing Officer, Ooma
Ranjith Kumaran, CTO and Co-founder, YouSendIt
Robert Rowley, Chief Medical Officer, Practice Fusion
11:40am – Techdirt Greenhouse: Figuring Out Free
Your Techdirt Greenhouse experience will begin with a series of quick, five-minute presentations by entrepreneurs who are using free as part of their current business model. Unlike a standard product showcase, this is not the "final word." After the presentations, you will head into one of four lunch salons where you will be given a specific issue from one of the presentations to "workshop” with fellow participants.
Everyone will then reconvene for a quick recap of key findings and takeaways for the presenters, and attendees, to consider.
Participants include:
Arik Flanders, Director of Business Development, isleptthroughclass.com
Justin Kan, Founder and President, Justin.tv
Marissa Louie, CEO, AD-Village
John Nahm, Co-founder and CEO, Phonevite
12:00pm – Lunch Salons
There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but there will be a lunch about free with focused discussions as part of Techdirt's Greenhouse.
1:10pm – Greenhouse Recap
Mike Masnick, President & CEO of Floor64 and founder of Techdirt
1:30pm – Keynote
Chris Anderson, editor in chief of WIRED and author of the forthcoming book, "Free: The Future of a Radical Price"
2:00pm – Business Models that Work
6:45pm – Cocktail Reception
Making Music, Making Money: Can setting intellectual property free be good for the bottom line?
Mike Masnick, President & CEO of Floor64 and founder of Techdirt
Dave Allen, Director, Insights and Digital Media, Nemo
Gigi Sohn, Co-founder and President, Public Knowledge
2:45pm – The Danger of Free
Alex Iskold, Founder & CEO of AdaptiveBlue
3:15pm – Business Models that Work
The Future of News: What's next for journalism in the digital economy?
Kara Swisher, Co-executive Editor, AllThingsD
Dan Gillmor, Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, Arizona State University
Alan Mutter, Adjunct Faculty Member, Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and Founder, Reflections of a Newsosaur
Marshall Van Alstyne, Associate Professor of Information Economics, Boston University and Visiting Professor, MIT
4:00pm – Wrap-up
We'll take a few minutes to reflect on lessons learned before enjoying a networking break.
4:30pm – Networking Break
Take a chance to enjoy some caffeine and conversation with fellow attendees before the kick-off of Tech Policy Summit.
5:00pm – Tech Policy Summit opens
Everyone who attends the The Free! Summit is invited to join us (for free) for the opening session of our 3rd annual Tech Policy Summit conference, which is being co-located with Free! Hosted by BusinessWeek technology columnist Steve Wildstrom, Tech Policy Summit will feature leading executives and innovation experts involved in shaping the future of tech policy.
Speakers include:
Meet and mingle with fellow participants from Free! and Tech Policy Summit.
We are no longer accepting speaker proposals for The Free! Summit.
The winner of our Vator.tv competition is a startup named isleptthroughclass.com LLC that enables college students to share lecture notes with each other online, and to win rewards points for uploading their own notes. The director of business development Arik Flanders will be participating in the Greenhouse at The Free! Summit on Monday afternoon.
Thank you to everyone who voted and for the companies who entered the Vator contest, including:
-- isleptthroughclass.com LLC
-- DevHub
-- Phonevite
-- Kosmix
-- WaTunes
-- Filtrbox
-- 15 Minutes and Beyond
Social networking devotees can also connect with Free! at Facebook to find others who share your fascination with free. Okay, maybe it's our fascination with free, but we're willing to share it with you. You can also follow us on Twitter @FreeSummit.
Want more free?
- The Economics of Giving It Away, The Wall Street Journal op-ed by Chris Anderson
- Drummer Takes Tiered Buying Options to Extreme (and Hilarious) Levels, Techdirt post by Mike Masnick
- Interview with WIRED's Chris Anderson on the 'free' business model, ZDNet
- From a Weekend Musician, to Making $4.2 Million...By Giving Music Away Free, Techdirt post by Mike Masnick
- Better Than Free, The Technium post by Kevin Kelly
- Pet Peeve: Anyone Who Says 'Free is Not a Business Model', Techdirt post by Mike Masnick
- Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business, WIRED magazine article by Chris Anderson
- Why Do People Freak Out When They See 'Free' as Part of a Business Model, Techdirt post by Mike Masnick
- Free is Killing Us - Blame the VCs, Silicon Alley post by Hank Williams
- Free 2.0: Don't Blame the VCs, blog post by Mathew Ingram
- Beware of Freeconomics - ReadWriteWeb post by Alex Iskold
- The Business Model of Free, Digital Noise blog post by Matt Rosoff
- Web Work in the Era of Free - Web Worker Daily post by Mike Gunderloy
- Freetards and the Freetardis, broadstuff post by Alan Patrick
- The Freemium Business Model: Anything There for the Media?, Corante post by Ben Compaine
- The Long Tail of Business Models, A VC post by Fred Wilson
- Generosity as a Business Model, post by Zac Echola
- Free Stuff!, radio segment on NPR's 'Talk of the Nation'