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HBS Tech Conference (Formally named "Cyberposium") is the largest MBA technology and media conference in the world. Held at Harvard Business School since 1992, the conference draws some 1,300 attendees from the tech industry as well as from the VC and startup communities. Held on the campus of HBS, the Tech Conference is the primary campus event of Harvard Business School's Tech Club. The HBS Communications Industry Club, now known as the HBS Tech Club, was established in 1992 by Co-Presidents and Founders Courtney Crowley and Mark Pincus.

Marking 30 years since its inauguration (December 5th, 1992), the 2022 HBS Tech Conference was held on February 26, 2022, at Klarman Hall on the school's campus in Boston.

History

YearThemeKeynote Speaker(s)
1992/1993Harvard/MIT Communications 2000 Symposium at the Harvard Business School:

The Dawn of a $3.5 Trillion Communications Mega-Industry - Information Access, Processing and Distribution in a Digital World

John Sculley (Apple Computer)
1995/6Interactive Media, Internet, and Communications 
1996/7Digital Field of Dreams John Sculley (Apple Computer)

Halsey Minor (CNET)

1997/8The Net Effect Jerry Yang (Yahoo!)

Eric Hippeau (Ziff Davis)

1998/9Net-working Carly Fiorina (Lucent)

Guy Kawasaki (garage.com)

Bob Lessin (WIT Capital)

1999/2000Leading the Digital Millennium Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com)

Dave Wetherell (CMGI)

2000/1David, Goliath, and Disruption Tim Koogle (Yahoo!)

Hank Barry (Napster)

Jim Barksdale (Netscape)

2001/2High-tech Balancing Act Thomas Siebel (Siebel Systems)

Dean Kamen (Segway)

2002/3Finding Hope in the Tech Rubble Russell Simmons (Def Jam)

Eric Janszen (BlueSocket)

2003/4Harnessing Technology's Promise Tony Scott (General Motors)

Eric B. Kim (Samsung)

Linda Sanford (IBM)

2004/5Realizing the Value of Convergence F. Thomson Leighton (Akamai)

Fred Weber (AMD)

2005/6Techknowledge for Tomorrow Jim Balsillie (Research In Motion)

Geoffrey Moore (Author)

Elon Musk (SpaceX)

2006/7Need Directions? Mapping Future Technology Marissa Mayer (Google)

Ed Colligan (Palm)

Steve Papa (Endeca)

2007/8Innovation without Borders Ray Kurzweil

Philip Rosedale (Linden Lab)

Walt Mossberg ( The Wall Street Journal )

2008/9Emerging and Converging Craig Newmark (Craigslist)

Mark Jannot ( Popular Science )

2010/11Battle of the Platforms Joe Kennedy (Pandora)

Peter Chou (HTC)

2011/12Sky's the Limit? Brad Smith (Intuit)

Jack Trenton (Sony)

Katie Mitic (Facebook)

2012/13The Battle for Access Drew Houston (Dropbox)

Lee Hower (LinkedIn)

Alexa Hirschfeld (Paperless Post)

2013/14Techonomy 2.0 Travis Kalanick (Uber)

Rich Miner (Google Ventures)

Bill Clerico (WePay)

2014/15Future Within Focus Sam Altman (YCombinator)

Matt Wallach (Veeva Systems)

Jennifer Fleiss (Rent the Runway)

Zach Nelson and Evan Goldberg (NetSuite)

Chris Hulls (Life360)

2015/2016
2016/2017Hello World Brendan Iribe (Oculus VR)

Max Levchin (PayPal)

Apoorva Mehta (Instacart)

2017/2018The Future We're BuildingBozoma Saint John (Uber)

Deep Nishar (SoftBank)

Carolyn Everson (Facebook)

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