David Kirkpatrick

CEO of Techonomy Media

David Kirkpatrick is CEO of Techonomy Media, and host of its annual Techonomy conference, taking place this year in November near Tucson. He is also author of the definitive history and explanation of Facebook, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World. Techonomy focuses on the centrality of technology and innovation for business and human progress .Participants will include Jack Dorsey, Jim Breyer, Marc Benioff, Jeff Katzenberg, Marissa Mayer, Jeff Weiner, Sean Parker, Tyler Cowen, Hamadoun Toure, Bill Gross and many others of note. Last year’s conference included Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt, among other luminaries. Kirkpatrick’s bestselling book on Facebook has been published in 28 countries and was a finalist for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year as well as the Gerald Loeb Award. He was for many years senior editor of Fortune magazine where he wrote cover stories on technology subjects and created Fortune’s Brainstorm conference. Kirkpatrick writes regularly for Vanity Fair and The Daily Beast. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and appears frequently on television, radio, and various Internet media.