Top tech CEOs join this year’s Brainstorm Tech conference
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It took us a little while to find our way, but Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference is still on this year, running December 1 and 2, all virtually, of course.
Even in the year of COVID, we will hear from some of the leading figures in the tech industry including IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, who is unmaking part of his company so as to better remake the rest of it, Rakuten CEO Mickey Mikitani, who is at the forefront of using 5G to actually do something, and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, who shook up the Googleplex culture with the power of empathy.
And we will focus discussions on some of the most important issues raging in the world of tech. Assistant Attorney General and boss of antitrust Makan Delrahim and other experts in the field will offer perspectives on what’s become the most important year for suing tech companies since 1998. Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield joins a host of other leaders of companies that have benefitted from some of the changes to business wrought by the pandemic. And Under Armour CEO Patrik Frisk headlines a conversation about how tech is changing how we sweat and what we measure when we do.
If you are interested in attending this year’s virtual Brainstorm Tech conference, please check out the registration link.
Elsewhere in the Fortune multiverse, our year-end issue contains a package of stories to guide investors in 2021. I chuckled to read that the tech sector was left out of the main essay on the “21 best stocks to buy for 2021,” though my colleagues sneakily included Taiwan Semiconductor in the “International” category and a couple of cellphone tower plays like Crown Castle and Cellnex under “Energy and Infrastructure.”
One of my all-time favorite editors, Matt Heimer, played talk-show host to a panel of investors as they discussed some of the biggest risks and opportunities they see in the year ahead, as well as the implications of the IPO and SPAC boom, which seems like a microcosm of all of the risks and opportunities we face.
Aaron Pressman
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