Tech Summit Wrap-Up: Thanks to an industry

DLA Piper’s Global Technology Leaders Summit was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto but lives on in cyberspace. The website provides access to videos of keynote by Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc. as well as the panels on Financing and Mobile.

The Technology Leaders Forecast was a valuable snapshot of the technology world at one of its most difficult times. The Forecast was the focus of comments by many publications with coverage by the San Jose Mercury News, Wired and Valleywag to the Washington Post, USA Today and San Francisco Chronicle. A complete list of these comments on the Survey can be found here.

Beyond hosting a technology conference, our goal was to convene the global leaders of the technology industry for thoughtful debate and analysis when the future of the industry is so unclear. Green technology, open source, user behavior, regulation, mobility, and other important issues received attention. The se discussions were framed by decline in the domestic economy and potential for global recession. The robust dialogue about the future by some of the most experienced leaders in the global technology business was particularly valuable for the CEOs and other attendees.

We greatly appreciate your thoughts, comments and feedback to our inaugural Technology Summit, either in the comments section or via e-mail. And a very special thanks to all who spoke, participated in and helped organize what we hope to become one of the premier technology industry events in the years to come.