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The following is the agenda from the 2002 
Nantucket Conference:

Thursday, May 2
     5:30pm - 7:30pm Opening cocktail reception 
     7:30pm Dinner in Nantucket
     9:30pm Private Movie Screening - Gaslight Theater

Friday, May 3
     7:30am - 8:30am Breakfast

     8:30am - 9:00am Introductions

     9:00am - 10:30am Tech Veterans Read the Tea Leaves: What Happened, What’s Happening Now, and What’s Next?

Speakers:
George Bell, CEO, Upromise; Former CEO, Excite@Home
Charles Brenner, Senior Vice President, Fidelity Center for Applied Technology
Marina Hatsopoulos, CEO, Z Corporation
Frank Moss, Chairman, Bowstreet
Bill Warner, Founder, Avid Technology and Wildfire Communications

Moderator:
Scott Kirsner, Contributing editor at Wired Magazine and Fast Company; @large columnist for the Boston Globe

    10:30am - 11:00am Break

    11:00am - 12:00pm Fireside Chat: George Colony, CEO, Forrester Research With Mitch Kapor, Co-founder, Lotus Development Corp. and the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Chairman, Open Source Applications Foundation.

Moderator:
Lew McCreary, Editorial Director of CXO Media Inc.

    12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch

     1:30pm - 2:00pm Let's Do a Deal (game show)

Host:
Patrick Rafter, Director of Corporate Communications at Bluesocket, Inc.

     2:00pm - 3:00pm No Holds Barred: An Unvarnished Assessment of the Venture Capital and M&A Markets

Speakers:
Paul Bowen, Vice President, Robertson Stephens
Paul Deninger, Chairman and CEO, Broadview International
Mike Krupka, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures
Paul Maeder, Founder and Managing General Partner, Highland Capital Partners
Elliot Swan, Managing Director, TD Capital Ventures; Former Director, Intel Capital

Moderator: 
John Landry, Principal, Lead Dog Ventures

     3:00pm - 3:30pm Break

     3:30pm - 4:30pm Small Pieces Loosely Joined: David Weinberger discusses his “Unified Theory of the Web”

Introducer:
Lisa DeSisto, Vice President and General Manager, Boston.com

Speaker:
David Weinberger, Author, “The Cluetrain Manifesto” and “Small Pieces Loosely Joined”; Editor & Publisher, Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization

     4:45pm - 6:15pm Van tour of Nantucket
(Optional: Sign up at registration desk, limited space)

     5:00pm - 6:15pm Guide-Led Walking Tour of Nantucket's Historical District 
(Optional: Sign up at registration desk, limited space, families welcome)

     6:30pm - 9:30pm
Children's Program: movies, dinner and arts & crafts
Harbor House: Sankaty room
(Sign up children at registration desk, limited space)


     7:00pm - 10:00pm Clambake. Entertainment by Ecliff and the Swingdogs.

Saturday, May 4
     8:00am - 9:00am Breakfast

     9:00am - 10:30am Life 2.0: How Advances in Biotech and Medical Devices are Changing What it Means to Be Human

Speakers:
Dr. Noubar Afeyan, CEO, Flagship Ventures
Dr. Jonathan Jay Rosen, Director, CIMIT Office of Technology Development
Dr. John T. Santini, President & Chief Scientific Officer, MicroCHIPS, Inc.
Dr. Mitchel Sayare, CEO, ImmunoGen
Dr. Alison Taunton-Rigby, President, Forester Biotech

Moderator:
John Benditt, Editor in Chief, Technology Review

   10:30am - 11:00am Break

   11:00am - 12:00pm Building Effective Technology Organizations (That Care About the Customer)

Speakers:
Peter Burrows, CTO, Reebok International
Paul Gaffney, CIO, Staples 
Valeri A. Marks, Chairman & CEO, Sockeye Networks
John McEleney, CEO, SolidWorks

Moderator: 
Patricia Seybold, President & CEO, Patricia Seybold Group

   12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch

     1:30pm - 2:30pm Bob Metcalfe Gets the Last Word

Introducer:
Michael Hirshland - General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners

Speaker:
Robert Metcalfe, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners; Founder, 3Com

     2:30pm - 3:45pm Post-conference activities - Lawn Games
     3:45pm - 6:15pm Tour of Cisco Brewery