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This is a leadership retreat, but we think of it as an advance. Together, we advance new opportunities, new ideas and new relationships.

Brainshare. Thinkfest. Business opportunity. MediaMorphosis brings together the liveliest minds in news, business, media, research and technology for a global, cross-industry expedition into the future of media and the media business.

The conversations will include representatives of an eclectic international mix of media and technology companies, such as Qualcomm, Motorola, Intel, Salon.com, The BBC, Reed Elsevier, The New York Times, Hearst, MSNBC, Red Herring, PR Newswire, Knight Ridder, AOL, Nando Media, Gannett and Tribune Co.

You’ll hear from, meet and talk with experts and thinkers shaping consumer media, media businesses and the media-centric life - people like media strategy guru Jeffrey Rayport, Global Business Network founder Lawrence Wilkinson, tech investor/analyst Esther Dyson, venture capital investor/telecom advisor Edward Horowitz, culture watcher and "Smart Mobs" author Howard Rheingold, Sanford Bernstein Media Analyst Tom Wolzien, Red Herring Publisher and CEO Alex Vieux and CBS.MarketWatch founder and CEO Larry Kramer.

Jeff Greenfield, senior analyst at CNN and host of the CEO Exchange, moderates the stage-setting opening conversation, produced by the best in the business, Fred Friendly Seminars.

They’ll participate in conversations with executives, thinkers, innovators and pioneers like you. They’ll provide prescient insights, emerging intelligence and dazzling demos. -- you bring your brain and business card. It’s the one event on media that will change your point of view and, very likely, your business.

Need to know more? Contact Gloria Pan at gpan@mediacenter.org or 703-620-3611, Dale Peskin at dale@mediacenter.org or 214-929-0292, or Andrew Nachison at Andrew@mediacenter.org or 703-715-3318.