Founder, host, and CEO of Techonomy, David Kirkpatrick is a journalist, commentator about technology, and author of the bestselling book “The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World,” published in 32 countries. He spent 25 years at Fortune, and founded and hosted its Brainstorm and Brainstorm Tech conferences. In addition to writing for Techonomy, he contributes to Forbes and Vanity Fair. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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May 30, 2017Techonomy NYC A Conversation with John Martin
May 30, 2017Techonomy NYC A Conversation with Fred Wilson
May 30, 2017Techonomy Health A Conversation with Dr. Dean Ornish
May 30, 2017Techonomy Health The New Media of Healthcare
May 30, 2017Techonomy Health How Does Technology Transform the Practice of Medicine?
May 30, 2017Techonomy Health How Do We Redesign Healthcare?
May 30, 2017Techonomy Health Artificially Intelligent Healthcare
May 30, 2017Traversing Europe's Stellar Tech Firmament
June 23, 2017Beyond Technology And Data at DLD17
January 24, 2017Niall Dunne with David Kirkpatrick at WEF 2017
January 24, 2017Without Design, Innovation Doesn't Happen: A Conversation with Paola Antonelli
April 6, 2016When Everything Gets Connected, How Does it Transform the System?
October 30, 2015Tech Leaders: Cooperation with Government Can Move U.S. Forward
June 11, 2015Reflections from Ross: DLD in New York and Policy in DC
May 12, 2015Techonomy Policy 2015 Live Webcast
May 8, 2015Meat Without Animals and Sequencing the Planet at Techonomy Bio
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Talking with Tezos Co-Creator Kathleen Breitman
July 7, 2017R. Luke DuBois: An Artist Who Just Happens to Use Computation
July 6, 2017“Omigod!”…and other Exclamations Upon Reading WSJ’s Piece on Facial Recognition in China
June 27, 2017The Biggest Question Facing Internet Technology
June 26, 2017Traversing Europe’s Stellar Tech Firmament
June 23, 2017Why Twitter and eBay Rely on 100-year-old Pitney Bowes
June 9, 2017Impressive Bipartisan Senate Action Promotes Online Healthcare
April 14, 2017A User’s Manual to Techonomy Health and NYC in Mid-May
April 7, 2017At Eyebeam, Tech Meets Poetry and Aesthetics
March 16, 2017Tech:NYC Celebrates and Shapes New York’s Tech Industry
March 7, 2017Wary of Insecure IoT, Hotels Reconsider Old-Fashioned Keys
January 31, 2017More Companies Think Techonomically at CES
January 10, 2017The Short-Term Triumph of Short-Termism
January 5, 2017Amazon IS Santa Claus
December 22, 2016The Fuzzy Future of AI and Jobs
December 9, 2016How The Internet of Things Will Fight Climate Change
November 22, 2016Unlocking Healthcare’s Data
November 7, 2016Techonomy 2016: A Chat with Zuckerberg, and Much More
October 27, 2016Tech Challenges for the Next U.S. President: Techonomy’s Community Weighs In
October 27, 2016Clinton, Trump, and the World’s Choices
October 3, 2016
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