Code Conference: What to expect today

Code, our annual executive conference, continues today outside of Los Angeles. (You can catch up on yesterday's highlights here.)

Sessions run all day, starting with Mary Meeker's annual state of the internet presentation and ending with a nightcap interview featuring Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Both of those should be excellent.

Other highlights:

• Sundar Pichai will give his first Code interview as CEO of Google.
• Bill and Melinda Gates will appear together with Walt Mossberg.
• Twitter/Square CEO Jack Dorsey will speak along with #BlackLivesMatter activist DeRay Mckesson.
• Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and CTO Mike Schroepfer will chat with Kara Swisher.

And more! (Plus Gawker's Nick Denton on Thursday.)

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