Speaker : David Sifry

Founder and CEO, Technorati
Blog : Sifry's alert

David Sifry is Founder and CEO of Technorati, a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs. A serial entrepreneur with more than 19 nineteen years of software development and industry experience, before founding Technorati, Sifry was cofounder and CTO of Sputnik, a Wi-Fi gateway company. Before that, he cofounded Linuxcare, where he served as CTO and vice president of engineering. Sifry also served as a founding member of the board of Linux International and was on the technical advisory board of the National Cybercrime Training Partnership for law enforcement. He appears frequently on panels and lectures on a variety of technology issues, ranging from wireless spectrum policy and Wi-Fi, to weblogs and open-source software. Sifry earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science at Johns Hopkins University.