The gang assembled to deliver the keynote at PUBCON 2006 – Las Vegas brings with it a rich experience in Venture Capitalism, Real world business acumen, and all things related to marketing on the net.

 
Guy Kawasaki: His book, Art of the Start is regarded as essential reading on how small businesses can get out of the garage. One of the few gurus with extensive real world business experience, Guy’s thoughts on venture capitalism and his blog posts are eagerly awaited. This Hawaii-born Stanford graduate champions early-stage technology companies through his firm Garage Technology Ventures.

 
John Batelle: A man of many talents – entrepreneur, journalist, author, and professor, John Batelle is a real multi-tasker and a successful one at that. He is the founder chairman of Federated Media Publishing and one of the original founders of the highly respected Wired magazine. He is involved with the collaborative weblog Boing Boing. His book “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed our Culture” was very well-received and has been translated in several languages.   

 
Jon S von. Tetzchner: Jon heads Opera, which is in direct competition with Microsoft and Mozilla. At PUBCON, Jon will touch upon various subjects such as web browsers, platforms, web standards, and the direction in which the web is headed. Jon’s journey has been the inspiring garage-to-multinational story and he will speak on the obstacles he faced when he decided to compete with the giants. 

Danny Sullivan: Danny’s tale is of following one’s passion and how the Internet allows and enables people to do so, bless the Internet for that!! Danny started off with the site Search Engine Watch, which he later sold to MecklerMedia and which later got sold off in 2006 for a cool $43 million. Danny has worked with the BBC and the Los Angeles Times. He currently resides in Chitterne, England with his better half and two children.