David Kirkpatrick

David Kirkpatrick was the founder, host, and program director for Fortune’s Brainstorm conference series from 2001 through 2006 in Aspen, and for the Brainstorm Tech conferences in 2007, 2008 & 2009. In June, Simon & Schuster will publish his book The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World. At Fortune, he wrote a column about matters technological entitled Fast Forward. Kirkpatrick is a big believer in conferences, and regularly attends the World Economic Forum in Davos, DLD in Munich, TED, D, and other seminal events. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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  • Paranormal Immersion

    Author, paranormal researcher, and radio host Dave Schrader discussed his lifelong immersion into the paranormal that began with visitations from his dead grandmother at the age of three, and growing up in a haunted house. He also had a communication from his deceased...More »
  • The Facebook Phenomenon

    Senior tech writer at Fortune magazine, David Kirkpatrick discussed the origins of the social network Facebook from a Harvard dorm room to a worldwide, game changing cultural phenomenon. First hour guests, researcher Christian Wilde and Dr. Nabil Dib talked about stem cell...More »

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