Founder 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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Techonomy 18 Cory Johnson on Moving Money Across Borders with Cryptocurrency
November 19, 2018Techonomy 18 Could We Finally Get the Healthcare System We Need?
November 19, 2018Techonomy 18 A New Approach to Industrialism
November 19, 2018Techonomy 18 Emily Chang on Breaking up the Boys’ Club
November 19, 2018Techonomy 18 Andrew Nash on Identity is the Steam Engine of the Digital Economy
November 19, 2018Techonomy 18 Sanjay Mehrotra on Memory, Artificial Intelligence, and Modern Computing
November 19, 2018Techonomy 18 “Human + Machine” Meets “AI Superpowers”
November 19, 2018Techonomy 18 John Chambers on Leadership in a Startup World
November 19, 2018Techonomy 18 Can Facebook Recover?
November 19, 2018Techonomy 18 Town Hall: Tech Transformation and Last Week’s Election
November 19, 2018John Chambers: Make Every State a Startup State
November 6, 2017The Future of Work: Automation, Training, and the ‘Digital Reckoning’
November 6, 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, 2015
Articles (164)
Why Banks Could Be Your Ally for Managing Identity
March 10, 2019Zuckerberg’s Privacy Contradictions
March 7, 2019The Internet Civil War
February 25, 2019My Trump-Era Davos Takeaways: Optimism on UN & Climate
January 30, 2019David Kirkpatrick’s Travel Journal: JFK-SIN-MUC, Facebook, Sandberg
January 22, 2019Study: AI Fears Diminish, But People Seek Help Reskilling
January 21, 2019What Will 5G Mean?
January 7, 2019Interview with Verizon CEO Vestberg: It’s All About 5G
January 4, 2019Our Theme for 2019: Collaborating for Responsible Growth
January 3, 2019Jeffrey Sachs Gets Heat for Defending Huawei
January 3, 2019What We Learned at Our Conference in a Fraught Time
November 26, 2018How Trump’s Top Tech Advisor Aims to Keep the US Innovative
November 9, 2018Resilience is Key to Modern Leadership
November 8, 2018Tomorrow’s Midterms and Next Week’s Techonomy Conference
November 5, 2018Facing Facebook’s Failure
November 1, 2018Will Software Robots Make Your Job Less Boring?
October 5, 2018We Love Big Questions. It’s the Answers that are Hard.
September 10, 2018AI, China, Data, Good Thinking, and our Fall Conference
August 3, 2018Two Key Questions Zuckerberg Didn’t Answer
July 20, 2018Four Techonomists You’ll Meet at our November Conference
July 19, 2018
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