Conversations with the most influential figures in media and technology.
May 27-29, 2008
Carlsbad, California
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Speaker
Jeffrey L. Bewkes 
President and CEO
Time Warner
While Jeff Bewkes only recently became president and CEO of the media behemoth at the beginning of this year, he has long been an influential executive at Time Warner HQ. Mr. Bewkes has been COO, as well as president, since 2005 and has run major parts of the disparate businesses of the conglomerate. That has included its digital assets, like AOL, despite the fact that he was also a prescient critic of the merger of AOL and Time Warner. Mr. Bewkes made his chops in the entertainment arena, especially at Time Warner's HBO division in its glory days of growth. With an undergraduate degree from Yale University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, he also has an impressive educational pedigree. With all this, we'll want to know what he can dream up to keep Time Warner relevant in the Internet business.
Posts With Jeff Bewkes
Sorry, Cord-Cutters! Still No “Game of Thrones” for You.
That thing we sorta said last month? Just kidding!
How Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Sees the Future: Netflix Wins, Apps Win and So Do HBO, ESPN and the Cable Guys
An 11-page guided tour of the future. If you’re in a hurry, we’ve got the Cliff’s Notes here.
Why The Time Inc. Spinoff Could Work! (Spoiler: Requires Miracle.)
After all, it worked, more or less, for AOL and Time Warner Cable. Alas, Time Inc. is a different story.
Voices
TV Is Changing Before Our Eyes
I believe we live in a show-based world, and that shows delivered over IP allow for the slow unbundling of television.
Time Warner Dumps Time Inc., and Wall Street Loves It
Even if the Meredith deal doesn’t go through — and it should — Jeff Bewkes is out of the magazine business. Investors are partying like it’s 2007.
Time Warner Put the “For Sale” Sign on Time Inc. Last Fall
Jeff Bewkes and company used to insist they wanted to hang on to their magazine business. They stopped saying that in September.
Time Inc. Layoffs Will Cost $60 Million
Firing 6 percent of your workforce isn’t cheap.
HBO Go Is Coming to Apple TV. Why Isn’t Everything Coming to Apple TV?
It’s 2013, so “App Comes to Box” shouldn’t be a headline. But when it comes to outsiders who want to play on his hardware, Tim Cook is treating Apple TV very differently from the iPhone.
Time Warner Cashes Another Check From the Albanian Army
It was fun for Jeff Bewkes to tease Netflix a couple years ago. But now he’s happy to take Reed Hastings’s money.
Amazon Adds a Couple More Time Warner Streaming Shows You Can’t See on Netflix
Jeff Bezos ponies up for “The Closer” and “Falling Skies.”