PdF 2008

June 23-34, 2008

Jazz at Lincoln Center • New York, NY

Tagline:

Campaigns, Elections, Media

Briefing:

The Personal Democracy Forum will feature keynote speeches and interactive panels with technology leaders and political strategists who are rewriting the rules of political contests and redefining democracy in our wired world. Learn how to optimize the use of technology in campaigns, how to master the new media system of blogs, social networks, virtual communities, podcasting, mobile phones and online video; and how to raise money, move messages and impact voting more effectively.

Description:

Steve Grove, YouTube
Catherine Geanuracos, LiveEarth
Mary Katherine Ham, Townhall.com
Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake
Anthony Hamelle, Linkfluence
Justin Hamilton, Rep. George Miller
Scott Heiferman, Meetup.com
Amy Holmes, CNN
Matthew Hurst, Microsoft
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post
Alex Hunsucker, Eventful.com
Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine
Van Jones, Green For All
Kate Kaye, ClickZ
Cyrus Krohn, Republican National Committee
Justine Lam, Ron Paul ’08
Brian Lehrer, WNYC
Lawrence Lessig, Change Congress
Peter Leyden, New Politics Institute
Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo
Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation
David Moore, OpenCongress.org
Vijay Ravindran, Catalist
Craig Newmark, craigslist.org
Wendy Norris, Colorado Confidential
Beth Noveck, New York Law School
Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed
Mark Pesce, Co-inventor, VRML
Jay Rosen, PressThink
Alec Ross, Barack Obama ’08
Tracy Russo, John Edwards ’08
Patrick Ruffini, The Next Right
Douglas Rushkoff, author, Open Source Democracy
Liza Sabater, Daily Gotham
Sarah Schact, Knowledge As Power
AJ Schuler, Commonsense Media
Robert Scoble, FastCompany.tv
Matthew Sheffield, Newsbusters.org
Clay Shirky, Author, Here Comes Everybody
Ben Smith, Politico.com
Tom Steinberg, mySociety.org
Sarah Stirland, Wired
Victoria Stodden, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard
Matt Stoller, OpenLeft.com
Mark Tapscott, Washington Examiner
Zephyr Teachout, Duke Law School
Joe Trippi, John Edwards ’08
Mike Turk, Consultant, eCampaign Director, Bush-Cheney ’04
Michael Van Winkle, Sam Adams Alliance
Jose Antonio Vargas, Washington Post
Katrin Verclas, MobileActive
Austin Walne, Fred Thompson ’08
MP Tom Watson, UK Cabinet Office
Morley Winograd, Co-author, Millennial Makeover
Randall Winston, Facebook Causes
Tim Wu, Columbia Law School
Ethan Zuckerman, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard
And Surprise Guests TBA

Sessions:

All Sessions

The Internet’s Still Unrealized Potential

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 8:40 am
Location: Rose Theater

A Conversation with Elizabeth Edwards

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 9:00 am
Location: Rose Theater

Breakout: New Tools for Political Transparency Press Briefing, Sunlight Foundation

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 10:00 am
Location:

A New Media System? Or Old Wine in New Bottles?

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 10:30 am
Location: Rose Theater

Visualizing the Political Blogosphere

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 11:10 am
Location: Rose Theater

When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 11:25 am
Location: Rose Theater

A New Activist System? The Changing Role of the Net-roots and the Right-roots

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 11:40 am
Location: Rose Theater

Politics As If Everybody Can Participate

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 12:20 pm
Location: Rose Theater

Data Geeks Unite! Building the new tools for getting out the vote, getting out the corruption, and going hyper-local

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 2:00 pm
Location: Breakout B

Yahoo! Presents Building Communities Online

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 2:00 pm
Location: Breakout D (Mezzanine)

ElectionMall presents: On-Demand Politics: 2.0

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 2:00 pm
Location: Breakout C

Building and Using the World LIVE Web

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 2:00 pm
Location: The Allen Room

Making “ONFFline” magic: Converting online “friends” to on the ground activists

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 2:00 pm
Location: Breakout A

Covering the “Click-ocracy”: Tracking the Internet’s Impact on Politics and Journalism

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 2:00 pm
Location: Rose Theater

Reinventing Political Media: The Rise of Semi-pro Journalism

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 3:45 pm
Location: Rose Theater

Profiles in Anti-Competition

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 3:45 pm
Location: Breakout C

Platform-A Presents: Beyond Blogs: Online Political Advertising in 2008

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 3:45 pm
Location: Breakout D (Mezzanine)

The Internet Fundraising Frontier: How to Generate a “Money Bomb”

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 3:45 pm
Location: The Allen Room

Mobile Politics: How to Unblock the Future

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 3:45 pm
Location: Breakout B

Building a Better Debate, With and Without TV

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 3:45 pm
Location: Breakout A

First Day Closing Plenary: Inside the Presidential Campaigns: What Worked, What Didn’t

Speaker:
Date: June 23, 2008 5:00 pm
Location: Rose Theater

A Return to Common Sense: 7 Bold Ways to Revitalize Democracy

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 7:30 am
Location: Breakout A

The New Renaissance

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 8:30 am
Location: Rose Theater

The Rise of a Civic Generation

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 8:45 am
Location: Rose Theater

The Declaration for Independence

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 9:00 am
Location: Rose Theater

The Power of Information to Transform Government

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 9:30 am
Location: Rose Theater

The Future of the Internet: Towards Civic Technologies

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 10:50 am
Location: Rose Theater

Deploying the Cognitive Surplus: How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 11:20 am
Location: Rose Theater

Hyperpolitics: What Happens When We Are All Connected

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 12:15 pm
Location: Rose Theater

All Politics is Local (And the Blogs are Proving It)

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 2:00 pm
Location: Breakout B

Design Principles for Online Democracy: Connecting Government and Constituents in the Internet Age

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 2:00 pm
Location: Breakout A

Mastering the New World of Online Political Video

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 2:00 pm
Location: The Allen Room

National Tech Policy: Which Way Forward?

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 2:00 pm
Location: Rose Theater

Campaign-Blogger Relations: Best Practices

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 2:25 pm
Location: Breakout C

New Ways of Making (and Spending) Money Online

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 3:45 pm
Location: Breakout B

The Cross-Partisan Movement for Political Transparency and Watchdogging Government from Below

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 3:45 pm
Location: Breakout A

Ideas that Spread Win: Going Viral Online

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 3:45 pm
Location: Rose Theater

Think-tanking 2.0: How to Move Ideas and Policy in a Networked Age

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 3:45 pm
Location: Breakout C

Great New Political Applications

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 5:00 pm
Location: Rose Theater

Closing Plenary: Redefining Leadership in a Networked Age

Speaker:
Date: June 24, 2008 5:15 pm
Location: Rose Theater
Day One
Day Two
Archived Agenda
Time
Atrium
7:15-8:30am

Registration & Networking Breakfast
 
Rose Theater
8:30-8:40am

8:40-9:00am
9:00-10:00am
 
 
Breakout
 

10:00-10:30am
Networking Coffee Break,
Sponsored by VShift
New Tools for Political Transparency Press Briefing, Sunlight Foundation
Networking Coffee Break,
Sponsored by VShift
 
Rose Theater

10:30-11:10am

11:10-11:25am

11:25-11:40am

11:40-12:20pm

12:20-12:45pm
12:45-2:00pm
Networking Lunch
 
Rose Theater
The Allen Room
Breakout A
Breakout B
Breakout C
Breakout D (Mezzanine)
2:00-3:15pm

Covering the "Click-ocracy": Tracking the Internet's Impact on Politics and Journalism

Jeff Jarvis (moderator), Jose Antonio Vargas, Ben Smith, Ana Marie Cox, Sarah Lai Stirland

Building and Using the World LIVE Web

Esther Dyson (moderator), Robert Scoble, Bhaskar Roy, Max Haot, Keith McSpurren

Making "ONFFline" magic: Converting online "friends" to on the ground activists

Mike Turk (moderator),
Matt Ewing, Austin Walne, Joe Green,
Cyrus Krohn

Data Geeks Unite! Building the new tools for getting out the vote, getting out the corruption, and going hyper-local

Lynne Johnson (moderator),
Vijay Ravindran, Greg Elin, John Geraci, Noah Richmond

ElectionMall presents: On-Demand Politics: 2.0
Ravi Singh, Adi Sideman, Dan Burton

 

Yahoo! Presents Building Communities Online.

Diane Rinaldo (moderator),Brian Keeler, Elizabeth Apelles, Greg Smith
3:15-3:45pm
Networking Coffee Break,
Sponsored by VShift
3:45-5:00pm

Reinventing Political Media: The Rise of Semi-pro Journalism

Brian Lehrer (moderator), Jay Rosen,
Mary Katherine Ham, Mayhill Fowler, Amy Holmes

Building a Better Debate, With and Without TV

Tom Bevan (moderator), Sam Feist,
Lee Brenner, Dan Gillmor, David Colarusso

The Internet Fundraising Frontier: How to Generate a "Money Bomb"

Julie Barko Germany (moderator),
David All,
Matt DeBergalis,
Justine Lam

Mobile Politics: How to Unblock the Future

Katrin Verclas (moderator),
Catherine Geanuracos, Jed Alpert, Becky Bond, Scott Goodstein

Profiles in Anti-Competition

Adam Green (moderator), Marvin Ammori, Amol Sarva, Mary Hodder, Christopher Libertelli

 

Platform-A Presents:
Beyond Blogs: Online Political Advertising in 2008

Eric Frenchman, Michael Bassik, Will Castleberry

 
Rose Theater
5:00-6:15pm
 
The Allen Room
6:30-8:00pm
Cocktail sponsored by MySpace

Day Two: Governance and Civic Engagement

Time
Breakout
7:30-8:30am

A Return to Common Sense: 7 Bold Ways to Revitalize Democracy

Breakfast
with Brennan Center Executive Director, Michael Waldman
 
Rose Theater
8:30-8:45am
The New Renaissance

Douglas Rushkoff (author, Open Source Democracy; Cyberia)

8:45-9:00am
The Rise of a Civic Generation

Morley Winograd (co-author, Millennial Makeover)
9:00-9:30am
9:30-10:20am
 
 
Breakout
  
10:20-10:50am
Networking Coffee Break,
Sponsored by VShift

Internet For Everyone Campaign Press Conference
, Free Press
Networking Coffee Break,
Sponsored by VShift
 
Rose Theater

10:50-11:20am

11:20-12:15pm

12:15-12:45pm
12:45-2:00pm
Networking Lunch
 
Rose Theater
The Allen Room
Breakout A
Breakout B
Breakout C
Breakout D (Mezzanine)
2:00-3:15pm

National Tech Policy: Which Way Forward?

Andrew Rasiej (moderator), Vint Cerf, Alec Ross, Josh Silver, Claudio Prado

Mastering the New World of Online Political Video

Steve Grove (moderator), Josh Marshall, Robert Greenwald, Matthew Sheffield

Design Principles for Online Democracy: Connecting Government and Constituents in the Internet Age

Alan Rosenblatt (moderator),
Sarah Schacht, Tom Steinberg, Steven Clift,
Sheila Campbell

All Politics is Local (And the Blogs are Proving It)

Alex Hunsucker (moderator),
Wendy Norris, Isabel Santa, Ed Cone, Liza Sabater

This breakout starts at 2:25*
Campaign-Blogger Relations: Best Practices
Josh Levy (moderator), Patrick Hynes, Peter Daou

  
3:15-3:45pm
Networking Break,
Sponsored by VShift
3:45-5:00pm

Ideas that Spread Win: Going Viral Online

Heather Holdridge (moderator), Jason Calacanis,
Jonah Peretti, Ami Dar, Sean Parker

Idea Market...

The Cross-Partisan Movement for Political Transparency and Watchdogging Government from Below

Ellen Miller (moderator),
Mark Tapscott,
Matt Stoller,
W. David Stephenson

New Ways of Making (and Spending) Money Online

 

Ari Melber (moderator), Kate Kaye ,
A.J. Schuler, Henry Copeland, Ben Geyerhahn

Think-tanking 2.0: How to Move Ideas and Policy in a Networked Age

Allison Fine (moderator),
Robert Bluey, Peter Leyden

 
 
Rose Theater
5:00-5:15pm
Great New Political Applications

David Moore, (OpenCongress.org) Michael Dale (Metavid.org)
5:15-6:15pm