Gil Penchina
CEO, Wikia.com

Gil is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Wikia.com, the largest commercial wiki information and news site, that generates hundreds of millions of page views per month via 800,000 pages of content created in 70 languages in the last three years. Previously, Gil was an executive at eBay for 8 years, most recently as a regional VP. Before eBay, Gil worked at General Electric, Bain & Co. and started two small technology companies. He has a Bachelors in Engineering from University of Massachusetts and MBA from Kellogg.

Craig Newmark
Founder, Craigslist

Craig started craigslist as an email list for friends and co-workers about events going on in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1999, Craig retired from IT consulting to work full-time on craigslist. What started as a fun side project in Craig's living room has since grown into one of the busiest sites on the internet, helping people with basic day-to-day needs such as finding a job, an apartment and a date, all within a culture of trust. Craig graduated from Case Western University.

Steve Souders
Technical Scientist, Google

Steve Souders currently works at Google researching and evangelizing web performance. Prior to that Steve worked at Yahoo! as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, where he developed a set of best practices for making web sites faster. His book, High Performance Web Sites, explains these best practices along with the research and real world results behind them. Steve is the creator of YSlow, the performance analysis extension to Firebug.

Joseph Cothrel
Vice President, Lithium

Widely recognized for his pioneering work in online communities in business, Joe leads Lithium's community management and moderation Professional Services Group. As consultant and researcher, Joe has worked with more than 200 organizations who have deployed online community technologies and other social software for interacting with customers, partners, and employees. Joe's experience includes three years as vice president of research at Participate Systems.

George Fletcher
Chief Architect Identity Services, AOL

George has 17+ years of experience in architecting, designing and implementing dynamic, networked systems. These systems cover a wide variety of disciplines including artificial intelligence, real-time media processing, graphical information systems, consumer electronic devices and large scale internet deployments. As chief architect for AOL Identity Services, George is currently focusing on the application of identity standards to internal and external services.

Dave Carroll
Developer Evangelist, Salesforce.com

Dave’s focus is on building the developer community and inspiring developers to think creatively about using various Web 2.0 technologies with the company’s Salesforce on-demand platform and AppExchange marketplace. He was instrumental in launching the company’s first Web services API. Carroll has led and participated in the creation of many developer tools, including the Flex Toolkit for Apex.

Raju Vegesna
Evangelist, Zoho

Raju is an evangelist for Zoho and is one of the foremost thought leaders in the Office 2.0 revolution. Raju is one of the key people responsible for developing the strategic direction of the Zoho Suite. He is an avid blogger (see: blogs.zoho.com), and users of Zoho are encouraged to contact him directly. Prior to joining AdventNet, Raju co-founded an Internet services company serving the educational market. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science.

Chris Keene
CEO, Wavemaker

Christopher Keene (www.keeneview.com) is the CEO of ActiveGrid, an Enterprise Web 2.0 company in San Francisco and sits on the boards of Kapow and Reportive. In 2006, he was a professor of entrepreneurship at INSEAD in Paris. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of NASDAQ-listed Persistence Software, and has worked at McKinsey & Company, Hewlett Packard and Ashton Tate.

Anshu Sharma
Senior Director, Platform Strategy, Salesforec.com

Anshu is responsible for SaaS platform strategy at Salesforce.com. Prior to this, Anshu lead the Oracle SaaS Platform for server technologies division. He served at Oracle for 9 years in various senior product and engineering management roles focusing on SOA, Identity Management and SaaS.

Paul O'Brien
Marketing Director, Zvents

O'Brien is head of Marketing for local event search engine Zvents helping users discover things to do. Previously, Paul directed interactive and search marketing for HP's Home & Home Office Store prior to which he managed Advertising Solutions at Yahoo!. He has managed advertising in Yahoo! Small Business, Shopping, Search, early instances of Yahoo! Tech, and sponsorships of their Homepage. He regularly writes on seobrien.com.

Andreas Mueller
CTO, Bloofusion

Andreas is the co-founder and strategist behind Bloofusion, an online marketing agency that enables companies to take advantage of search engines, turning web sites into effective sales and marketing channels. Andreas frequently participates in seminars and moderates panels that focus on SEO. One of the favorites has been the Bloofusion Search Engine Boot Camp series in both the US and Europe. He has a bachelor's degree from Alma College, Michigan and a Master's Degree from the UC Davis, CA.

Kevin Hakman
Director Developer Evangelism, TIBCO

Kevin is Director of Developer Evangelism for TIBCO General Interface, the award-winning Ajax and Rich Internet Application framework and toolkit. He co-founded General Interface in 2001 which was later acquired by TIBCO in 2004. Kevin is a contributor to the Web Services Journal and AJAX Developers Journal and has spoken at events including AJAXWorld Conference, the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, SOA Enterprise Open Source Conference, Ajax Experience and Web Builder 2.0.

Neil Patel
Internet Marketing Consultant, PronetAdvertising

Neil Patel is an Internet marketing consultant and the founder of ACS which was started in 2002. He has lead Internet marketing strategies for small and medium sized businesses as well as ew products and services, evaluating new markets, and assessing and integrating partner technologies. He also held the positions of Director of Strategic Partnerships and Senior Manager of Sales Operations.

Jonathan Abrams
Founder & CEO, Socializr

Jonathan is the Founder & CEO of Socializr. Jonathan is an award-winning entrepreneur who created the pioneering social networking service Friendster. Jonathan is the inventor of a U.S. Patent for a "System, method, and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks." Previously, he was founder & CEO of HotLinks, and a software engineer at Netscape and Nortel. Jonathan holds an Honors B.Sc. in Computer Science.

Ismael Ghalimi
CEO, Intalio

Ismael Ghalimi is a passionate entrepreneur and fervent industry observer, founder and CEO of Intalio, creator of BPMI.org and initiator of Office 2.0. Ismael is an advisor to several high-tech companies, including Zoho, EchoSign, EveryTrail, Open IT Works, ThinkFree, and 3TERA.

Rod Johnson
CEO, SpringSource

Rod is the founder of the Spring Framework, which began from code published with Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development. Along with Juergen Hoeller, he continues to lead the development of Spring. Rod is one of the world's leading authorities on Java and J2EE development. He is a best-selling author, experienced consultant, and open source developer, as well as a popular conference speaker. He has been recognized as a leader in the Java community through his invitation to Sun's Java Champions.

Tom Chi
Senior Director, Yahoo!

Tom is a Senior Director at Yahoo! and has worked as each of Designer, Product Manager, Developer, and Consultant. He was a key design driver on products, including Yahoo Answers, the new Yahoo Search, Microsoft Outlook, and several enterprise applications. Tom is a co-creator of OK/Cancel, and has published over 200 comic strips about user experience in a variety of online and printed publications.

Brett Crosby
Group Manager, Google Analytics

Brett is the Group Manager of Google Analytics. He has been shaping the Web Analytics industry for ten years as the co-founder of Urchin Software Corporation and more recently as a senior product leader at Google. He is currently responsible for product positioning, feature roadmap development and all external product communications. Brett holds a degree from USC in Political Science and International Relations.

Jeremiah Owyang
Senior Analyst, Forrester Research

Jeremiah is Senior Analyst of Social Computing at Forrester. He previously lead the social computing program at Hitachi Data Systems from 2005-2006 as the online community marketing manager, then left to join PodTech Network, an online video and podcasting company as the director of corporate media strategy. According to Technorati, Jeremiah is one of the top 1% of bloggers, and his blog is listed as the 19th ranked blog according to Advertising Age (Nov '07). He is also a video blogger & podcaster.

Luke Kowalski
Corporate UI Architect, Oracle

Luke helps with technology policy and serves as the corporate UI architect at Oracle. His role bridges the user interface design groups at Oracle, and he works as an evangelist for effective UI technology, on legal aspects of UIs, business context and partnerships, as well as cross-divisional IA integration. Before Oracle, he worked for startups as director of UI & Web and for Netscape. He holds UI patents, CPE Certification, and is an ISO rep for ANSI US. He has degrees from UTA, Pratt, and Columbia.

Lars Leckie
Associate, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

Lars is an Associate at Hummer Winblad. Prior to this, he was involved in founding and operational roles at start-up companies. He was a co-founder of AutoFarm (now Novariant), a company focused on GPS, robotics and automation of industrial equipment. Lars was in charge of strategy, product marketing, business development and building the sales team across three continents. He is the holder of two US patents.

Cam Balzer
Vice President of Emerging Media, DoubleClick Performics

Cam Balzer is an online marketing strategy expert with a proven track record of driving results and delivering innovation in the search engine marketing arena. Cam's expertise is based on more than a decade of experience across all online marketing channels. Cam is currently vice president of emerging media for DoubleClick Performics, the performance marketing division of DoubleClick.

Bill Scott
Director of UI Engineering, Netflix

Bill is Director of UI Engineering at Netflix. Previously, Bill led engineering for Yahoo! Teachers, a web 2.0 community allowing teachers to gather, organize & share web resources. Also, as an Ajax Evangelist at Yahoo! he focused on spreading "rich and sane" Ajax design & development. Bill is a frequent speaker on the nuances of good design and the challenges of great engineering. At Yahoo! Bill was also the Design Pattern curator where he launched the public Yahoo! Design Pattern Library.

Jeremy Ashley
Vice President, Applications User Experience, Oracle

Jeremy has built a multidisciplinary organization bringing together the former user experience teams from Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, and Agile to meet the challenges of defining and delivering the user experiences of the next generation of enterprise applications. He previously worked for Taligent and Apple and supported Oracle’s business intelligence apps. He is a member of the Design Management Institute and publishes on related issues.

John Panzer
Technical Lead Manager, Google

John Panzer is a Technical Lead Manager at Google, currently working on Blogger and OpenSocial. He has been involved in standards efforts including AtomPub, Microformats, OpenID, and OAuth. Previously he helped AOL launch launch various web based community and social products including groups, polls, and blogs.

Jonathan Arnowitz
User Experience Architect, Google

Jonathan has over 20 years experience in designing user experiences. Previously, he worked as a Senior Interaction Designer for PeopleSoft and as User Experience Architect for SAP Labs. Jonathan is former editor in chief of Interactions Magazine and most recently the Design Community co-chair for CHI2008. Jonathan is also the author of Effective Prototyping for Software Makers published by Morgan-Kaufman. He is also the author of 'Effective Prototyping Tactics' expected in fall 2008.

Barbara Ballard
Founder & President, Little Springs Design

Barbara is founder and President of Little Springs Design, a full service design agency providing companies the tools to optimally engage with their clients over mobile phones. She has been working on mobile services, devices, web sites, and applications since 1998. Barbara contends that mobile user experience goes beyond designing for the small screen as mobile is more & less than the PC. She has published "Designing the Mobile User Experience".

Jonathan Rochelle
Sr. Product Manager, Google

Jonathan is responsible for the development of the spreadsheets app within the Google Docs and Google Apps product set. Prior to Google, he co-founded ITK Solutions and 2Web Technologies which developed the XL2Web product acquired by Google as the technology behind Google spreadsheets. Jonathan has 16 years of prior experience as a software engineer and apps development manager. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the State University of NY.

Hooman Radfar
CEO & Founder, Clearspring

Hooman is founder and CEO of Clearspring Technologies, the leading provider of widget syndication services to publishers and advertisers. He was named one of Tech's Best Entrepreneurs in BusinessWeek and was nominated for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year. He is a frequently requested speaker and authors a blog, Widgify, is ranked one of the top blogs of 2007. Radfar holds degrees in Economics & Computer Science from the Univ. of Pennsylvania and an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon.

Scott Wilder
GM, Online Communities, Intuit

Scott is the GM for Intuit's Small Business Online Communities. Before joining Intuit, Scott was the VP of Marketing and Product Development at KBToys and eToys, the director of Internet services at Borders.com and Apple Computer, and has held senior management positions at American Express and Silicon Graphics. Scott worked on eWorld at Apple, Borders Cafe at Borders.com, KBToys Community at KBToys.com. He holds graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins, New York, and Georgetown Univ.

Sylvia Marino
Executive Director - Community Operations, Edmunds.com Inc.

Sylvia is the Executive Director of Community Operations for Edmunds, the premier resource for automotive information. She is responsible for managing all consumer-generated content and interaction including forums, blogs, and reviews on the four Web sites that make up the Edmunds Automotive Network: Edmunds.com, Inside Line, CarSpace and Auto Observer.

Robert Rueckert
Senior Investment Manager, Intel Capital

Rob deals with investments in internet solutions and enterprise software with focussing on Web 2.0 technologies and emerging enterprise solutions. Rob created and is leading the efforts behind SuiteTwo, wikis (SocialText) and RSS (NewsGator & SimpleFeed) business software. Other investments include Iovation, Jajah, Datallegro, Arch Rock and InSync Software. Rob holds a BS Information Systems from Brigham Young Univ. and MBA from Univ. of Chicago.

Pradeep Javangula
Founder & CTO, Tumri

Pradeep is responsible for Tumri’s core technology and product strategy. Pradeep has held architecture and management positions at Inktomi, Verity and was the co-founder of iLeverage, acquired by e.Piphany. Pradeep started his career at JavaSoft (Sun Microsystems) after doing research in Computational Number Theory at OSU. Pradeep also holds a double major in Mathematics and Engineering from BITS, Pilani in India.

Johannes Ernst
Founder & CEO, NetMesh

Johannes started NetMesh, a startup that assists web businesses take advantages of user-centric technologies. He pioneered URL-based, user-centric digital identity with the Light-Weight Digital Identity (LID) project, a precursor to OpenID. He also co-initiated Yadis, and the Open-Source Identity System (OSIS) project. He is a board member at the OpenID Foundation.

Nico Popp
VP, Authentication Services, VeriSign

Nico is Vice President of Innovation at VeriSign and is responsible for the development of new infrastructure services around identity and content. Nico joined VeriSign in 2002 and served both as CTO of Security Services and General Manager of VeriSign Authentication Services

Ajay Gandhi
Senior Director, Enterprise Social Computing, BEA Systems

Ajay is a Senior Director of Product Marketing for BEA where he currently leads the worldwide strategy, partnership and marketing initiatives for BEA’s portal solutions and Web 2.0 social computing products. Prior to BEA, Ajay held senior product management positions at several software companies developing products in CRM, analytics and collaborative dev. Ajay has an MBA from Wharton and BASc in Computer Eng. from Waterloo.

Shreyas Doshi
Sr. Product Manager, Identity Products, Yahoo! Inc.

Among other things, he leads Yahoo!'s open authentication initiatives, including BBAuth and OpenID. Prior to Yahoo!, he worked on enterprise products at EDS in technical and product management roles. He has an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine and B.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India.

Charles DiFazio
Software Engineer, Google

Charles has been with Google since July 2006, working as a software engineer in web search quality. Prior to that, he received his B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Aaron Strout
Vice President, New Media, Mzinga

Aaron is VP of New Media at Mzinga where he focuses on blogging, podcasting, webinars, blogger relations, and evangelizing the benefits of community. In addition to his knowledge of the interactive and new media landscape, Aaron has more than 15 years of online marketing and advertising experience, with a strong background in integrated and online marketing. Prior to this, Aaron worked at Fidelity Investments. Aaron holds a BA from University of Massachusetts and is an alumnus of Georgetown U.

Rajiv Parikh
CEO, Position2

With 20 years of sales, marketing and entrepreneurial experience, Rajiv leads the worldwide team at Position2, a leading search engine marketing firm. He is Co-Founder and Board Member of Apieron Biosystems and MetroFi. He founded and grew the AltaVista Business Solutions Group to $40 million in revenues. He also led Marketing and Business Development groups at 4Info, Sun Microsystems, NCR, and AT&T. Rajiv has a MBA from Harvard Business School and BS in Electrical Engineering from Univ. of New Hampshire.

Lila Tretikov
Chief Information Officer, SugarCRM

Lila is responsible for Information Technology and Operations at SugarCRM including growing and scaling Sugar On-Demand and SugarCRM services infrastructure. Lila has a rich background in enterprise software spanning multiple verticals from financial to bioengineering to high-tech. She focuses on building robust, redundant, top-performance, high-availability networks and software. Lila studied computer science and design at UC Berkeley and Lomonosov Moscow University.

Treb Ryan
CEO, OpSource

Since 1996, Treb has been instrumental in defining and creating services organizations that improve the quality and reliability of the technology infrastructures businesses depend on for communications and commerce. Prior to co-founding OpSource, Treb was President of the Americas for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). Treb joined MFN from SiteSmith, a company that he co-founded and ultimately sold to MFN for $1.4 billion. Prior to this, he was VP of Professional Services for GlobalCenter. He attended UCLA.

Barbara Coll
Founder & Search Specialist, WebMama

Ms. Coll is a recognized expert on search engine marketing. Her company now exclusively focuses on search engine marketing for B2B and B2C businesses. Barbara and her team have executed low-cost, high-gain methods of internet marketing. She is familiar with the product directions and general health of the search engines, and has expertise on paid and organic search marketing. Her knowledge extends to how search engines use and display blogs, rss, video, etc.

Kim Polese
CEO, SpikeSource

As CEO of SpikeSource, Kim Polese is responsible for guiding the company's business vision: enabling businesses to harness the power of open source as a flexible, reliable and cost-effective solution for business-critical needs. Prior to SpikeSource, Kim cofounded Marimba in 1996, and as President and CEO she led the company to profitability and a successful public offering. Kim holds a Bachelor's degree in Biophysics from U.C. Berkeley and studied Computer Science at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Joe Keller
CMO, Kapow Technologies

Joe is CMO at Kapow and is responsible for defining and driving its award-winning products, services and technologies into the marketplace. Kapow Technologies is the expert in providing mashable public and private web intelligence with software that turns the web into the worlds largest database. Kapow powers solutions for over 250 customers worldwide in Reputation Management, Competitive Intelligence, Asymmetric Intelligence, Content Aggregation, Content Syndication, Content Automation.

Michael Sikorsky
CEO, Cambrian House

Michael's most recent startup Cambrian House launched in 2006 and has become an internationally-recognized leader in crowdsourcing. As CEO, Michael has been invited to speak about Web 2.0, entrepreneurship and crowdsourcing at Cyberport Hong Kong, Harvard Business School, MIT, Community 2.0 Las Vegas, MESH Toronto. He received a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Alberta and holds a software patent related to innovative rendering techniques.

Anil Rathi
CEO, Idea Crossing

Anil founded Idea Crossing with the vision of facilitating innovation in the global marketplace. His management philosophy strives to give individuals the opportunity to showcase their ideas and provide a path to implementation. He has eleven years of software product management experience in Internet applications, syndication technologies, and industrial automation systems. Anil holds a BBA from University of Wisconsin with a BBA and an MBA from Thunderbird-The Garvin School of Intl Management.

Julie Ask
Vice President & Research Director, Jupiter Research

As a Research Director with JupiterResearch, Julie focuses on trends in the telecom – specifically wireless - industry, examining both the marketing and technology issues these companies face as they look to deploy new technologies and services to enhance their businesses. JupiterResearch's wireless coverage examines business models, trends, etc. Ask holds a B.S. in Elec. Eng. and a M.S. in Elec. Eng. & Comp. Sc. from the MIT and M.B.A. from Univ. of Michigan.

Lance Loveday
CEO, Closed Loop Marketing

As founder and CEO of Closed Loop Marketing, Lance's primary goal is helping organizations rethink and revitalize their approach to online marketing. CLM provides results-focused consulting on the entire 'closed loop' of an effective online marketing campaign, from initial strategy development to execution to ROI analysis, and has earned high praise from Hewlett-Packard, Quicken Loans, SalesForce.com, and many others for engineering results for them.

Gary Baker
CEO, ClipBlast!

Gary Baker, founder and CEO of ClipBlast!, has focused his 20-year career at the intersection of television, interactive media, and the Internet. He previously served as a management consultant for IBM Interactive Media, leading Internet strategy, live webcasts and web application development for clients including Hertz, Toyota, the Grammys, PGA Tour, and CompUSA. Independently, he consulted and provided strategic direction to CinemaNow, Inc.

Kent Lindstrom
President, Friendster

Kent is Friendster's President and manages the day to day business operations at the company. Prior to this, he served as Friendster's CFO. Kent joined Friendster in 2002 as one of the company's first employees. Kent has over 15 years of experience in finance and management consulting, including significant large-firm management experience. Kent is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Todd Rosenberg
Business Development Manager, Userplane

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Matt Asay
General Manager of the Americas and VP of Business Development, Alfresco

Matt is general manager of the Americas and vice president of business development at Alfresco, and has nearly a decade of operational experience with commercial open source and regularly speaks and publishes on open-source business strategy. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network.

Ain Indermitte
Senior Developer Relations Manager, Nokia

Ain has more than sixteen years of experience in the wireless communications and software development industries and is currently a senior developer relations manager at Nokia. In this position, Ain is evangelizing Nokia's developer programs and ensuring commercial success of Nokia partners. Ain holds a master's degree in computer engineering and a master of business administration degree in international business.

Chris Marino
CEO, SnapLogic

Chris is CEO of SnapLogic and is responsible for strategy, operations and execution. Chris has over 20 years of experience designing, implementing and marketing hardware and software systems. Prior to SnapLogic, Chris was an investor and adviser to several start-ups, as well as the Founder and CEO of Resonate, a pioneer of Internet infrastructure for server load balancing. Resonate went public in 2000 and was sold in 2003. Chris holds a BS/EECS from Columbia, a MS/EECS from Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford.

Reshma Kumar
Vice President, WebGuild

Reshma is the VP of the WebGuild. She is also the User Experience Design Manager for VeriSign's Global Web Properties. Prior to joining VeriSign, Reshma was at Intel, eBay, and Cisco. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Ryerson University, Certificate of Completion in Project Management Mastery from Stanford University, and is currently pursuing a Masters in Information Systems Management at Harvard University.

Brad Lassey
Mozilla

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