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 2017 conference was held on September 16, 2017, on the school's campus in Boston.
| Year | Theme | Keynote Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1992/1993 | Harvard/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) |
| 1995/6 | Interactive Media, Internet, and Communications | |
| 1996/7 | Digital Field of Dreams | John Sculley (Apple Computer) |
| 1997/8 | The Net Effect | Jerry Yang (Yahoo!) |
| 1998/9 | Net-working | Carly Fiorina (Lucent) |
| 1999/2000 | Leading the Digital Millennium | Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com) |
| 2000/1 | David, Goliath, and Disruption | Tim Koogle (Yahoo!) |
| 2001/2 | High-tech Balancing Act | Thomas Siebel (Siebel Systems) |
| 2002/3 | Finding Hope in the Tech Rubble | Russell Simmons (Def Jam) |
| 2003/4 | Harnessing Technology's Promise | Tony Scott (General Motors) |
| 2004/5 | Realizing the Value of Convergence | F. Thomson Leighton (Akamai) |
| 2005/6 | Techknowledge for Tomorrow | Jim Balsillie (Research In Motion) Geoffrey Moore (Author) |
| 2006/7 | Need Directions? Mapping Future Technology | Marissa Mayer (Google) |
| 2007/8 | Innovation without Borders | Ray Kurzweil |
| 2008/9 | Emerging and Converging | Craig Newmark (Craigslist) Mark Jannot ( Popular Science ) |
| 2010/11 | Battle of the Platforms | Joe Kennedy (Pandora) |
| 2011/12 | Sky's the Limit? | Brad Smith (Intuit) |
| 2012/13 | The Battle for Access | Drew Houston (Dropbox) |
| 2013/14 | Techonomy 2.0 | Travis Kalanick (Uber) |
| 2014/15 | Future Within Focus | Sam Altman (YCombinator) Jennifer Fleiss (Rent the Runway) Zach Nelson and Evan Goldberg (NetSuite) |
| 2015/2016 | ||
| 2016/2017 | Hello World | Brendan Iribe (Oculus VR) Apoorva Mehta (Instacart) |
| 2017/2018 | The Future We're Building | Bozoma Saint John (Uber) Deep Nishar (SoftBank) Carolyn Everson (Facebook) |
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