Personal Democracy Forum 2008

NYC | Jun 23-24

Day One: Campaigns, Elections, Media

Time	Atrium
7:15-8:30am	Registration & Networking Breakfast
	Rose Theater
8:30-8:40am	Welcome remarks: Andrew Rasiej and Micah L. Sifry
8:40-9:00am	Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential Zephyr Teachout (Howard Dean '04)
9:00-10:00am	A Conversation with Elizabeth Edwards
				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	A New Media System? Or Old Wine in New Bottles? Chuck DeFeo (Townhall.com) and Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post)
11:10-11:25am	Visualizing the Political Blogosphere Anthony Hamelle, (Linkfluence)
11:25-11:40am	When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics Matthew Hurst(Microsoft Live Labs)
11:40-12:20pm	A New Activist System? The Changing Role of the Net-roots and the Right-roots Jane Hamsher (FireDogLake) and Patrick Ruffini (Former RNC e-campaign director)
12:20-12:45pm	Politics As If Everybody Can Participate Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody)
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	First Day Closing Plenary: Inside the Presidential Campaigns: What Worked, What Didn't Peter Daou, Mindy Finn, Justine Lam, Tracy Russo, Joe Rospars, Mark Soohoo, questioned by Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry
	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	The Declaration for Independence Lawrence Lessig (Stanford)
9:30-10:20am	The Power of Information to Transform Government Jonathan Adelstein, (FCC Commissioner), Steven Clift (E-democracy.org), Sheila Campbell (USA.gov)
				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	The Future of the Internet: Towards Civic Technologies Jonathan Zittrain (Berkman Center for Internet & Society)
11:20-12:15pm	Deploying the Cognitive Surplus: How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems Robin Chase (GoLoco), Van Jones (Green for All), and Gilberto Gil (Culture Minister, Brazil)
12:15-12:45pm	Hyperpolitics: What Happens When We Are All Connected Mark Pesce, (Inventor, VRML)
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	Closing Plenary: Redefining Leadership in a Networked Age Scott Heiferman, Craig Newmark, Joe Trippi, Brian Behlendorf, Gina Cooper

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