The Locus Science Fiction Foundation is pleased to announce that Reid Hoffman is one of our new sponsors. Co-Founder of LinkedIn, co-Founder of Inflection AI, and partner at Greylock, Reid is an accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and investor. He has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses. In 2003 he co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service. In 2009 he joined Greylock. In 2022, he co-founded Inflection AI. He currently serves on the boards of Aurora, Coda, Convoy, Entrepreneur First, Joby, Microsoft, Nauto, Neeva, and a few early stage companies still in stealth. In addition, he serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Kiva, Endeavor, CZ Biohub, New America, Berggruen Institute, Opportunity@Work, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and the MacArthur Foundation’s Lever for Change. He is the host of Masters of Scale, the first American podcast to commit to a 50-50 gender balance for featured guests as well as Possible, a podcast that sketches out the brightest version of the future—and what it will take to get there. He is the co-author of five best-selling books: The Startup of You, The Alliance, Blitzscaling, Masters of Scale, and Impromptu. He is an Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, and a graduate of Stanford University.
Cal Henderson
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation is pleased to announce Cal Henderson as one of our new sponsors. Cal Henderson is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Slack. The day-to-day work of Locus Magazine is currently coordinated exclusively through our very busy Slack account, so we are grateful for the venue! Cal oversees Slack’s world-class engineering team and sets the technical vision for the company.
In 2019, he was named a Fortune 40 Under 40 honoree and recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.
Previously, Cal built and led the engineering teams at Flickr, through its acquisition by Yahoo. An experienced technology leader and a popular speaker on engineering scalability, he authored the best-selling O’Reilly Media book Building Scalable Websites. Cal was also a pioneer in the use of web APIs, and created the basis for OAuth and oEmbed, now used by YouTube, Twitter and many others.
craig newmark philanthropies
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation is pleased to announce that Craig Newmark Philanthropies is now one of the sponsors of the Locus Awards.
Craig Newmark Philanthropies is an organization started by craigslist founder Craig Newmark, who aims to “support and connect people and drive broad civic engagement, working to advance grassroots organizations that are effective and getting stuff done.”
Locus SF Foundation board president Liza Groen Trombi says, “Newmark’s support of the Locus Awards is crucial to our continued work in celebrating quality literature, amplifying new and diverse voices, and increasing interest in speculative fiction throughout the world.”
Since 2006, the Locus Awards Weekend has served as a lodestone event for a growing community of new and experienced writers, readers, fans, artists, publishing professionals, and other genre supporters. The conference consists of author readings, writing workshops, panels on literary and industry topics, and the centerpiece, the presentation of the prestigious Locus Awards. Unlike most other awards in the field, the Locus Awards has an open voting system and allows write-in votes on the ballots. This open voting process allows democratic involvement in honoring the field’s top creators and supporters. The awards include a category to celebrate debut authors, in keeping with the Locus Science Fiction Foundation’s mission to promote new voices in genre works. The LSFF also confers an award for community development upon organizations or individuals who boost marginalized voices or contribute to the genre community in ways that might otherwise go unrecognized.
The Locus Awards Weekend occurs the last weekend of June, with voting for the Locus Awards open on the site, www.locusmag.com, from February 1-April 15, for works published in the previous year.
Our endless gratitude to all of our donors and to present and past sponsors.
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