Former Digg CEO Jay Adelson, CK '88, to Speak in Ann Arbor

Jay Adelson, CK '88, former CEO of Digg and one of Time's Top 100 Most Influential People in the World, will be speaking at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor on Friday, April 16th at 3:30 pm in the Stamps Auditorium on North Campus.

As CEO of Digg, Adelson guided all aspects of the company’s development, growth and management. Under his leadership, Digg grew to 40+ million visitors per month, and is now considered one of the top socially focused Web sites.

Adelson is also chairman of the board of the Internet Television Network Revision3, where he provides strategic direction to the company.

Prior to Digg, Adelson founded Equinix, Inc (Nasdaq: EQIX), a leader in the data center and Internet infrastructure space. Equinix operates Internet data centers where more than 200 network service providers and hundreds of enterprises and content companies, including nine of the top ten Web properties, locate their Internet operations.

Adelson was also a co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation's highly regarded Palo Alto Internet Exchange (PAIX) and a founding employee of Netcom On-Line Communications, Inc., one of the nation’s first Internet Service Providers.

A well-recognized expert on technology and the Internet, Adelson has spoken at a variety of industry events and investor conferences, including Future of Online Advertising, Tech Crunch 40, Supernova, Web 2.0 Summit, Tech Policy Summit,, ISPCON, the Colocation & Hosting Summit, Next Generation Networks (NGN), NANOG, and Gilder’s Telecosm. In May 2008, Adelson was recognized in Time Magazine’s Time 100 – The Most Influential People in the World.

The event is free to the public and is sponsored by the University of Michigan College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE). For more information about the event, please click here.