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David Kirkpatrick

David Kirkpatrick is senior editor for internet and technology at Fortune magazine. Consistently rated one of the most influential tech journalists in the U.S., he has written cover stories on Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Sun, as well major features on blogging, open source software, 64-bit computing and numerous other topics. His weekly column appears on Fortune.com, CNNMoney.com and by free email subscription.
He is also the organizer and moderator of the annual Brainstorm conference, co-hosted by Fortune and the Aspen Institute, which for the past five years has brought together a diverse group of global leaders from business and other fields to better understand the future.
After growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, as well as a year and a half in Nigeria, Kirkpatrick attended Amherst College. He also spent two years at art school in New York. His video art has been shown at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

 

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