Personal Democracy Forum 2012

Personal Democracy Forum, the world’s leading conference exploring and analyzing technology's impact on politics and government, returns to the NYU Skirball Center June 11-12, 2012. Hundreds of individuals interested in how technology is changing politics, governance and society will gather at the ninth annual Personal Democracy Forum conference in New York City. Early bird registration has opened. For information, you can check back here or join our mailing list and be the first to know.

We wanted to give you an early preview of just a few of the great speakers that we've got lined up for this year's event. We've always prided ourselves on bringing you a diverse array of talented speakers from across the technology and politics spectrum, and this year is no exception. We're pleased to announce that we'll be joined by:

• Arianna Huffington, President and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group

• Prof. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of      Pennsylvania and founder of FlackCheck.org

• David Karp, Founder and CEO of Tumblr

• Sascha Meinrath, Director of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation

• Gigi Sohn, co-founder of Public Knowledge

• Baratunde Thurston, comedian and Director of Digital for The Onion

• David Weinberger, author of Too Big To Know and The Cluetrain Manifesto

Register Here