JASON COSTA
Developer Relations, Pinterest
@jasoncosta
JOI ITO
Director, MIT Media Lab
@joi
Jason Costa is a developer advocate at Pinterest where he works with the technology and
partnerships teams to help businesses be successful on Pinterest. Prior to Pinterest, Jason was
Twitter's Developer Relations Manager, and also previously served as Google's manager of
developer products, and as a Facebook product intern.
Media Lab director Joi Ito is a leading thinker and writer on innovation, global technology policy,
and the role of the Internet in transforming society in substantial and positive ways. A vocal advocate
of emergent democracy, privacy, and Internet freedom, Ito has served as both board chair and CEO
of Creative Commons, and sits on the boards of Sony Corporation, Creative Commons, Knight
Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The New York Times Company,
Mozilla Foundation, WITNESS, and Global Voices. In Japan, he was a founder of Digital Garage,
and helped establish and later became CEO of the country's first commercial Internet service
provider. He was an early investor in more than 40 companies, including Flickr, Six Apart, Last.fm,
Kongregate, Kickstarter, and Twitter. Ito's honors include TIME magazine's "Cyber-Elite" listing in
1997 (at age 31) and selection as one of the "Global Leaders for Tomorrow" by the World Economic
Forum (2001). In 2008, BusinessWeek named him one of the "25 Most Influential People on the
Web." In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oxford Internet Institute. In
2013, he received an honorary D.Litt from The New School in New York City.
