Internet impresario and blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis is a vanguard in the development of online news, media and other forms of collaborative journalism.  He is the creator of one of the Web’s most popular and respected blogs about the internet and media, BuzzMachine.com, as well as the associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. 

Jarivs’ highly influential book, What Would Google Do?, quickly established itself as a critical lodestar in today’s digital age and spent weeks on bestseller lists around the world.  He was named one of 100 worldwide media leaders by the World Economic Forum at Davos in 2007 and 2008, and was the creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly.  A sharp eye for what is relevant, real, and actionable, Jarvis’ presentations offer stimulating insights, thought-provoking observations and valuable examples for individuals and businesses seeking to fully participate in our internet culture and maximize the opportunities it offers.

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An intelligent observer and analyst of technology and media, Jeff Jarvis illuminates the new worldview of the internet generation: a customer-driven, user-generated, niche-market-oriented, customized and collaborative universe that challenges and devastates but also opens up vast new opportunities.  His findings are counterintuitive, imaginative, practical, and above all, visionary, giving audiences a glimpse of how everyone and everything –from corporations to governments, nations to individuals – must evolve in the digital era.

Offering bold thinking and prodigious faith, Jarvis speaks on a wide range of issues relevant to technology and media.  A few highlights include:

• Social Media: What’s Hot, What’s Not and What’s Next
• New Business Reality in the Internet Age
• If Google Ruled the World
• News in the 21^st Century
• Media and Advertising: Evolution and Revolution