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By Julie Blaustein

There were a number of great speakers the first day of the SuperNova Conference, but Chris Anderson made it most clear to the audience. The theme for the conference is “Networks are central instruments of the changes sweeping our world… and networks themselves must change to address novel demands.” The first day of this 3 day conference focused on Changing Networks: The evolving infrastructure.

Chris Anderson is the editor of Wired Magazine and well known for his book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. He also has a degree in physics and has conducted research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. As he sees it, “The past decade was about finding new post institutional models on the web. The next decade will be about applying them to the real world.”

Having recently released his book Free which examines the rise of pricing models which give products and services to customers for free, he spoke about the democratization of tools from the web that make this possible. He talked of how 3D printers started out at about $7,000 and can now be purchased for only about $700. But he really hammered home his point that the web has been democratized and enables all kind of  new possibilities when he talked of his latest company. DIY Drones works with folks that build amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Its a company with no infrastructure, no office and when Chris was seeking a partner, the most qualified, talented candidate found via the Web turned out to be a 19 year old from Tijuana!

If you are unable to make it to the conference, you can tune into USTREAM‘s SuperNova Channel or join the conversation at their Twitter Hashtag #sn09.

Chris Anderson, Speaker at SuperNova Conference

A Forum for Change in the Network Age

Founder Kevin Werbach, Bradley Horowitz of Google, Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard and Werner Vogels of Amazon

by Jacob Morgan

Every year there are a few must attend conferences and Supernova is one of them.  It’s one of the most unique and eclectic conferences you can attend.  Per the Supernova website:

“Supernova is the only forum to examine all of the opportunities and challenges created in the Network Age. With thought-leaders from business, technology and government, we’re building the most powerful human capital network about networks. And, we not only look at what’s happening today, we’re the first to prepare you for what’s coming tomorrow.”

The theme for this years event is: Change Networks and change is something that is taking place on a global scale from both and individual and from a corporate level.  Things are possible now that were simply unheard of even 5 years ago, but what do we do, how do we do it, and how can we get ready for what’s coming next?  These are all key issues that the Supernova conference will address.

The tracks for the conference are going to be broken down into 4 areas:

• Changing Networks: The evolving infrastructure
• Networks For Change: Public policy and social impact
• Strategic Change: Business implications
• The Changing World: Daily life and online experiences

Take a look at some of the folks they have speaking at the event:

• Chris Anderson (Wired Magazine)
• Eric Bradlow (Wharton)
• Paul Brigner (Verizon)
• Sean Ammirati (Read/Write Web)
• Jonathan Christiansen (Skype)
• Peter Guber (Mandalay Entertainment)
• Chris Kemp (NASA Ames Research Center)
• Dave McClure (Founders Fund)

The event is taking place in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference center from December 1-3.  You can register here and if you use the code “gen01″ you will receive $200 off of the registration price.  There are going to be plenty of amazing folks to network with and learn from so come prepared.

I hope to see you there!