Techonomy Media Announces Techonomy Conference 2011

NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Techonomy Media, today, announces the second annual Techonomy Conference, devoted to accelerating innovation.  The conference will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain Resort in Tucson, Arizona.  Host of the conference is Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick.

"We created Techonomy because we believe that leaders in business and society don't sufficiently appreciate the pace and gravity of technological change, and the opportunities that represents," said Kirkpatrick.  The event brings together a diverse group of leaders with the goal of accelerating innovation both in the U.S. and globally.  This year's Techonomy aims to further advance the global dialogue about the centrality of technology and innovation in driving progress for both business and society.

Among the attendees at Techonomy 2010 was Jim Breyer of Accel Partners and a board member of  Facebook, Dell and Wal-Mart.  Says Breyer, "At Techonomy I found not only a range of topics that were fundamentally compelling and interesting, but a very deep experience base from across a range of industries,  which allowed me to test my long-term investment hypotheses in a really meaningful way."

Techonomy will partner with Ashoka, one of the premier social sector organizations, as its activation partner. Ashoka and its global network of nearly 3,000 leading social entrepreneurs will provide a range of opportunities to move forward the most promising ideas, partnerships and initiatives coming out of the event.

Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka said, "The only thing more powerful than an innovative idea in the hands of a entrepreneur who aims to change the world is when these innovators come together and start collaborating, as we saw in last year's Techonomy conference. Ashoka is eager to help Techonomy turn this year's conversation into collaborative action and impact."

About Techonomy:

Techonomy is organized by Techonomy Media, Inc. It is an intimate invitation-only conference for leaders which aims through intense multidisciplinary dialogue to drive the conversation forward. The debut conference was at Lake Tahoe in August 2010.  Last year's conference speakers included Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Sean Parker, John Doerr, Bill Joy,  Jim Breyer, Maria Bartiromo, Neelie Kroes of the European Union, Cisco's Padmasree Warrior, Citi's Deborah Hopkins, Stewart Brand, Reid Hoffman, Nobuyuki Idei, Nicholas Negroponte and many others. Sponsors included Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Citi, Chevron, Juniper Networks, McKinsey, CA Technologies, CNBC, Centerview Partners, and Hill & Knowlton.

Stay tuned for further details on speakers, partners and sponsors at www.techonomy.com.

Techonomy's partners include:

David Kirkpatrick:  Founder David Kirkpatrick is a journalist, commentator and author of The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World.   David was also founder and host of Fortune's Brainstorm conference series from 2001 through 2006 and for the Brainstorm Tech conferences from 2007- 2009.

Mike Federle:  Federle oversees Techonomy's strategic partnerships, sponsorships and the Techonomy Fellows Program.  Previously, Federle was publisher of Fortune Magazine from 1998 to 2007 and has invested in a wide range of media companies. 

Simone Ross:  Ross oversees the Program for Techonomy as she has since its founding.  Previously, Ross served as program director for Fortune Magazine's Conference Division from 2004 to 2009.    

The company's future plans include other events as well as the production of textual and video content.

About Ashoka:  Founded in 1981, Ashoka is the world's working community of nearly 3,000 leading social entrepreneurs.  It champions the most important new pattern-changing ideas and supports the entrepreneurs behind them by helping them get started, grow, succeed, and collaborate.  As the rate of change in the world continues to escalate exponentially, social entrepreneurs must play a special role in helping the world evolve new systems designed to serve the good of all.  Ashoka, its leading social entrepreneurs across the globe, and its other partners ranging from highly successful business entrepreneurs to teenaged Youth Venturers are all contributors – individually and collectively – to helping the world make the transition to its "everyone a changemaker™" future. For more information, visit www.ashoka.org.

SOURCE Techonomy Media