Below is a list of the luminaries who joined us at the first D conference in May of 2003.
Bill Gates | Chairman, Microsoft
Steve Jobs | CEO, Apple Computer
Steve Case | Chairman, AOL Time Warner
Larry Page and Sergey Brin | Founders, Google
Barry Diller | Chairman & CEO, USA Interactive and Vivendi UNIVERSAL Entertainment
Meg Whitman | CEO, eBay, Inc.
Hilary Rosen | CEO, Recording Industry Association of America
Jack Valenti | President & CEO, Motion Picture Association of America
Rob Glaser | CEO, Real Networks. Founder, MusicNet
Joe Kraus | Co-founder, Digitalconsumer.org. Co-founder, Excite
Dennis Mudd | Co-founder, Chairman & CEO, MusicMatch
Terry Semel | Chairman & CEO, Yahoo! Former Chairman & Co-CEO, Warner Bros.
David Pottruck | President & Co-CEO, Charles Schwab Corporation
Norm Pearlstine | Editor-in-Chief, Time, Inc.
Ted Leonsis | Part-owner of the Washington Capitals NHL team and the Washington Wizards NBA team. Vice-chairman, America Online
Mark Cuban | Founder, HDNet. Owner, Dallas Mavericks NBA team. Former CEO, Broadcast.com
Dr. Richard Klausner | Executive Director of Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Former director of the National Cancer Institute
Dorothy J. Gaiter & John Brecher | Authors of “Tastings,” the weekly wine column of The Wall Street Journal