{"id":5477,"date":"2009-05-26T11:57:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T18:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5477"},"modified":"2009-05-26T13:17:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T20:17:54","slug":"d7-all-things-digital-starts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5477","title":{"rendered":"D7 | All Things Digital Starts Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Allthingsd\"<\/a><\/p>\n

At this moment some of the biggest names in digital technology are cueing up at Carlsbadistan’s<\/em> The Four Seasons Aviara<\/a><\/strong> (if that’s what it’s still called<\/a><\/strong>) for The Wall Street Journal’s D | All Things Digital Conference<\/a><\/strong> which runs May 26-28, 2009. And that means it’s time for our annual All Things Barged<\/a><\/strong> expedition. We’re not as excited this year because the line-up of tech players this year while strong isn’t exactly a list of people that we’re interested in, but there are still some extremely heavy hitters. Here’s who will be speaking in Carlsbadistan<\/em> over the next three days:<\/p>\n

Irving Azoff <\/strong>| CEO of Ticketmaster Entertainment
\nMitchell Baker<\/strong> | Chairman of Mozilla
\nSteve Ballmer <\/strong>| CEO of Microsoft
\nCarol Bartz<\/strong> | CEO of Yahoo
\nMark Cuban<\/strong> | Chairman of HDNet and Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters and Magnolia Pictures
\nEve Ensler <\/strong>| Playwright and Founder of V-Day
\nArianna Huffington<\/strong> | Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post
\nOlli-Pekka Kallasvuo<\/strong> | CEO of Nokia
\nMike Lazaridis<\/strong> | Co-CEO of Research In Motion
\nJohn Lilly<\/strong> | CEO of Mozilla
\nJohn Malone<\/strong> | Chairman of Liberty Media Corporation
\nRoger McNamee<\/strong> | Partner, Elevation Partners
\nJon Miller<\/strong> | Chief Digital Officer of News Corp.
\nJon Rubinstein <\/strong>| Executive Chairman, Palm
\nRandall Stephenson<\/strong> | CEO of AT&T
\nBiz Stone<\/strong> | Co-Founder of Twitter
\nOwen Van Natta<\/strong> | CEO of MySpace
\nKatharine Weymouth<\/strong> | Publisher of the Washington Post
\nEvan Williams<\/strong> | Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter
\nJeff Zucker<\/strong> | CEO of NBC Universal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now that we think about it, if we made a list of people in the tech business who had some serious explaining to do it would look a lot like the D7 speakers list. Here’s a little of what we mean: <\/p>\n