Bill Warner, Dharmesh Shah Join XSITE 2012 Lineup: Here’s the Agenda

You’ve been waiting for it. We’ve been waiting for it. Here it is: the full agenda for XSITE 2012 on June 14 at Babson College.

We’re exactly two weeks out from Xconomy’s biggest innovation conference of the year.

We’re really excited to announce that Bill Warner, the angel investor, entrepreneur evangelist, and founder of Avid and Wildfire back in the day, will give a special keynote in the afternoon. Warner’s talk will help set the table for our Startup Xpo, in which a select group of pre-Series A companies, each with the potential to transform its industry, will give short, fun pitches to the audience.

We’re also pleased to announce that Dharmesh Shah, the co-founder and CTO of HubSpot, and an active angel investor himself (he was an early investor in Xconomy), will join our morning panel on the topic of managing growth and evolution. The panel also includes Gail Goodman, the CEO of Constant Contact, and Andy Ory, the CEO of Acme Packet. Moderating the discussion will be Bob Hower of Advanced Technology Ventures.

You can check out the detailed agenda to see who’s speaking when. A few more speakers are still pending, but we will update the agenda as soon as they’re confirmed. (In case you weren’t paying attention, other speakers include Phil Libin from Evernote, Garrett Camp from Uber, Katia Beauchamp from BirchBox, Carl Dietrich from Terrafugia, Mok Oh from Where/PayPal, Dave Balter from BzzAgent, Bettina Hein from Pixability, and the list goes on…)

We’re looking forward to an amazing day of talks, discussions, and networking. In case you haven’t yet, you can still register here, to take advantage of the saver rate (which ends today) or the student/startup rates. See you all on June 14.

Author: Gregory T. Huang

Greg is a veteran journalist who has covered a wide range of science, technology, and business. As former editor in chief, he overaw daily news, features, and events across Xconomy's national network. Before joining Xconomy, he was a features editor at New Scientist magazine, where he edited and wrote articles on physics, technology, and neuroscience. Previously he was senior writer at Technology Review, where he reported on emerging technologies, R&D, and advances in computing, robotics, and applied physics. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Nature, and The Atlantic Monthly’s website. He was named a New York Times professional fellow in 2003. Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.