Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Media Summit 2009 Thursday, March 19th 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Keynote Speaker Steven A. Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Corporation Steven A. Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates. Since then, Ballmer's leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company. Together with Gates and the company's other business and technical leaders, Ballmer is focused on continuing Microsoft's innovation and leadership across the company's seven businesses. Microsoft's goal is to provide an integrated platform to enable a seamless experience across a wide range of computing and non-PC devices and services. Variously described as ebullient, focused, funny, passionate, sincere, hard-charging and dynamic, Ballmer has infused Microsoft with his own brand of energetic leadership, vision and spirit over the years. Ballmer was born in March 1956, and grew up near Detroit, where his father worked as a manager at Ford Motor Co. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics. While in college, Ballmer managed the football team, worked on the Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the university literary magazine, and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates. After college, he worked for two years at Procter & Gamble Co. as an assistant product manager and, before joining Microsoft, attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business. In a One on One Conversation with: Stephen J. Adler, Editor-in-Chief, BusinessWeek: Steve Adler was appointed editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek in December, 2004. Adler began his career at the Tampa Times. In 1983, he joined The American Lawyer and later became editor. In 1988, Adler joined The Wall Street Journal as legal editor. He was named deputy page-one editor in 1997. Between 1995 and 1999, he directed teams that won three Pulitzer Prizes. Adler became the Journal's assistant managing editor in 1998 and deputy managing editor in 2000. His book The Jury: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom won the American Bar Assn.'s Silver Gavel Award in 1995. He co-edited Letters of the Century and Women's Letters with his wife, Lisa Grunwald. Adler received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.