Speakers

Keynote Speaker

Bob Young, LuLu.com
"How the Internet is Changing Publishing"

Bob Young is founder and CEO of Lulu.com, an online marketplace for digital content and the world's fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books headquartered in Morrisville, NC, just west of Raleigh. Lulu.com is a web site that allows authors, educators, artists, musicians, businesses and others to publish their own books, images, multimedia and music and sell them to the world; all without surrendering either ownership or control.

Lulu is the latest innovative business started by Young, hitherto best-known as a co-founder of Red Hat, the open source software company that he helped turn into a household name and chief rival to Microsoft and Sun. His success at Red Hat won him many accolades, including the nomination as one of Business Week Magazine's "Top Entrepreneurs" in 1999 and the reputation in some circles as 'the antidote to Bill Gates'.

Young believes that Lulu, with a little help from the Internet and the latest print-on-demand technology, is revolutionizing the publishing industry in the same way that Red Hat and open source revolutionized the software industry; and is doing so by the same process of putting the consumer in control.

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