Web 2.0 Expo’s Jennifer Pahlka In Conversation

  1. [...] the Web 2.0 Expo starting in SF on March 31. After interviewing the Expo’s general manager, Jennifer Palka, for Women 2.0 recently, I’m rather jazzed to be able to offer an additional pass (the $1,400 [...]

  2. [...] of Threadless brick and mortar locations in Chicago. They were introduced by conference chair Jennifer Pahlka as the “Harvard Business School example of crowdsourcing,” but it’s important to [...]

I’m fortunate to get to run around the Bay Area with education democratizer  Saroj Yadav and editor extraordinaire  Jazmin Hupp, two smart, hard-working people on the Women 2.0 In Conversation interview team. Creating the series has given us a chance to ask women entrepreneurs about their advice, motivation, and mistakes they’ve made. I’d love it if people far outside Silicon Valley are able to get answers to questions they might not be able to ask these founders and thinkers one-on-one.

Our latest conversation features Jennifer Pahlka, the co-chair and general manager of the Web 2.0 Expos for TechWeb, talking about navigating the games conference circuit and working with Tim O’Reilly. We had a great time chatting with Palka about the importance of good communication in highly technical fields and our communal anticipation for hearing the Threadless founders at the upcoming SF Expo.