This October 17-19, Web 2.0 Summit returns to San Francisco’s Palace Hotel. Join the Internet’s brightest and most influential leaders as we shake up the stage with rapid-fire conversations, dynamic high order bits, and stories from industry speakers— never before shared. Just a few of the big thinkers, idealists, tinkerers, and disruptors (more coming soon) you’ll hear from: Steve Ballmer CEO, Microsoft Corporation Genevieve Bell Fellow and Director, Intel Marc Benioff CEO, Salesforce.com Tony Conrad Founder & Entrepreneur, True Ventures Dick Costolo CEO, Twitter Dennis Crowley Co-founder, foursquare Michael Dell CEO, Dell, Inc. Gil Elbaz Founder, Factual Stephen Elop CEO, Nokia James Gleick Author, The Information Vic Gundotra SVP Social, Google MC Hammer Co-founder and CEO, Alchemy MMA Reid Hoffman Partner at Greylock, and Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at LinkedIn David Hornik Partner, August Capital Ted Leonsis Founder & Chairman, Monumental Sports & Entertainment Ross Levinsohn EVP of Americas Region, Yahoo! Andrew Mason Founder, Groupon Hilary Mason Chief Scientist, bit.ly Mary Meeker Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Jeremie Miller Founder, Singly & the Locker Project Beatriz Perez Chief Marketing Officer for North America, Coca-Cola Richard Rosenblatt Co-founder, Chairman & CEO, Demand Media, Inc. Peter Vesterbacka Mighty Eagle, Rovio / Angry Birds Tim Westergren Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Pandora Anne Wojcicki Co-founder, 23andMe Susan Wojcicki SVP Advertising, Google John Battelle Founder & CEO Federated Media Publishing Tim O’Reilly Founder & CEO O’Reilly Media, Inc.

See the full, initial speaker line-up.

Data has taken center stage in the networked economy, so this year we’re using this core resource as the framing device to understand and discuss the future of the Web. For key points of control such as location, mobile platforms, gaming, content, social—who is winning and who is falling behind? Who is innovating and where are the opportunities?

Now in our eighth year, our goal with Web 2.0 Summit is to answer those questions through the most energetic and information-packed Summit you’ve ever experienced. Stick with us to get more exciting program and speaker news in the months to come.

As a friend of Web 2.0 Summit, take advantage and secure early pricing for your seat at this year’s event. Register now and save over 20%. Early registration ends June 6.

Web 2.0 Summit returns to the Palace Hotel in San Francisco October 17-19, 2011. Sign up before all seats are sold out—as they always do.