I’m speaking tomorrow in New York at Ketchum’s day-long conversation / debate “about the role companies can (and should or should not) play in shaping online culture.” There will also be speakers from ROFLCon, Buzzfeed, VICE, Gawker Media, MIT, and Harvard. My talk is going to be about DIY innovation and why it’s smart for companies to become “maker friendly.”

It should be interesting! You can watch a live feed of the event here.

Speakers:

Mark Frauenfelder, the editor of Boing Boing and MAKE Magazine 


Jonah Peretti, founder of Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post 


Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit and founder of Breadpig 


Tim Hwang, co-founder of ROFLCon 


Grant McCracken, anthropologist and author of the highly-praised book Chief Culture Officer 


Alex Pasternack, editor of Motherboard.tv, VICE Magazine’s science and technology culture site 


Irin Carmon, blogger for Jezebel 


Christina Xu, co-founder of ROFLCon and of Breadpig 


Jeff Simmermon, Director of Digital Communications for Time Warner Cable 


Scott Heiferman, co-founder & CEO of MeetUp.com 


N’Gai Croal, founder of Hit Detection, video games expert & blogger for Newsweek 


Patrick Davison, one third of MemeFactory, researcher at the Web Ecology Project 


Joe Brown, blogger and reporter for Gizmodo and WIRED 


Greg Leuch, the genius who created “Shaved Bieber” & a member of F.A.T. Lab 


Mike Rugnetta, one third of MemeFactory, the definitive performance art piece about internet culture 


Lilit Marcus, co-founder of Save The Assistants, editor-in-chief of TheGloss.com If you are interested in attending the live event in NYC tomorrow (it’s free but space is limited), reserve a spot here. (password is “ketchum”)