Thank you to the following companies for taking an active role in supporting The Free Summit: Silver Sponsors The dynamic and interactive community of Techdirt readers often comment on the addictive quality of the content on the site, a feeling supported by the blog’s 850,000+ RSS subscribers, 35,000+ posts, 250,000+ comments and a consistent Technorati 100 rating. Both Business Week and Forbes have awarded Techdirt with Best of the Web thought leader awards. Every month in the magazine and every day online, WIRED explores the ideas, innovations and people that are reshaping our world.
Founded by Mike Masnick, Floor64 has been generating insights and developing insight platforms for over 10 years -- and doing so in unique and innovative ways designed to help drive businesses forward, rather than keeping them tied to the past.
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Started in 1997 by Floor64 founder Mike Masnick and then growing into a group blogging effort, the Techdirt blog uses a proven economic framework to analyze and offer insight into news stories about changes in government policy, technology and legal issues that affect companies ability to innovate and grow.
In a time of increasingly rapid change and 24/7 access to unlimited information, WIRED determines what to look for: it is the guide to what's to come. WIRED is the only media brand whose mission is to map change – and then turn the points into a chart by which to navigate the future.
Make sure you are at the forefront of this important dialogue about the future of the digital economy by sponsoring The Free! Summit, the only free conference about the impact of free on businesses and consumers.
It's a unique opportunity to showcase your brand to an influential group of tech insiders in an exclusive, interactive setting, and sponsorship rates are priced so that even the smallest startup will be able to enjoy the benefits of being involved.
Sponsoring is about more than logo exposure and links, though those are certainly included. The Free! Summit is about making connections and building relationships.
Whether it's hosting a lunch salon or meeting participants at the post-conference cocktail party, as a Free! sponsor, you'll have a chance to be involved in the conversations that are at the heart of this groundbreaking conference.
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About the Producers
The Free! Summit is produced by SageScape, a privately held company that specializes in developing executive conferences and online communities for the tech industry.
We are best known as the team behind Tech Policy Central, a site for anyone with an interest in better understanding how government policies impact, or stand to impact, technology innovation and adoption.
Through TechPolicyCentral.com and our in-person events like the annual Tech Policy Summit and the TPS: Broadband Innovation conference, we strive to make sure that there is greater accord between what happens in Washington, D.C. and what matters in Silicon Valley...because policy is everybody's business.
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