Early Bird Registration
(before March 15)
$195
Pre-Registration
(before April 1)
$325
Registration $395
Stanford Students & Staff $10

Stanford's MediaX and Accel Partners have organized this 14th Symposium to explore and highlight emerging trends and potential obstacles surrounding the Future of Advertising in Digital Media. This Symposium brings together the Stanford research community, high-technology business leaders, and entrepreneurs who are collectively driving developments in this rapidly changing arena.

Please join us for a candid discussion of how explosive innovation and demand in digital media are leading to new advertising-supported business models.

Confirmed speakers include:
  • Sir Martin Sorrell, Founder & CEO, WPP
  • Beth Comstock, President, Digital Media & Market Development, NBC Universal
  • Samir Arora, Founder & CEO, Glam Media
  • Ashwin Navin, Co-Founder & COO, BitTorrent
Past speakers have included:
  • Andy Bechtolsheim, Co-Founder, Sun Microsystems
  • Bill Coleman, Co-Founder / former CEO, BEA
  • Ken Goldstein, SVP & GM, Disney Online
  • Diane Greene, Co-Founder & Pres, VMWare
  • Jonathan Schwartz, CEO, Sun Microsystems
  • Mark Cuban, Founder & CEO, Broadcast.com
  • Rob Burgess, Chairman, Macromedia
  • Jeremy Allaire, Founder, Chairman & President, Brightcove
  • Rob Glaser, Chairman & CEO, RealNetworks
  • Reed Hastings, Founder & CEO, Netflix
  • Dan Rosensweig, Former COO, Yahoo!
This 14th Symposium will explore and highlight emerging trends in digital media, online advertising, and delivery models. Questions include:
  • Where will the next $10B of offline advertising transition online?
  • Is user-generated content monetizable through advertising? If so, how?
  • Will long-form, downloadable video content grow most rapidly in pay-per-use or ad-supported formats?
  • What's the next major advertising business model innovation after cost-per-click?
  • What new forms of content or content companies might emerge?

Tuesday, May 1, 2007, 8:00am - 5:30pm
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center at 326 Galvez Street Stanford University