Eric's academic background gives him a unique profile among his digital media peers and a natural inclination toward trend analysis and thought leadership. He holds a PhD ABD in Cultural Theory from Washington State University, and a Masters degree in the Humanities from Marquette University.

Before coming to White Horse, he served as creative director for a Portland-based advertising agency where he managed the development of Web, print, radio, and television advertising. During Eric's nine years with White Horse, he has led the company's marketing services offering and provided marketing and messaging consultation. He currently leads the agency's emerging media practice.

At White Horse, he has applied his passion for big-picture conceptualization to mapping the digital media landscape and has shared his insights in authored articles, speaking engagements, and numerous interviews. He blogs on digital marketing and other cultural topics at www.unsettler.com and is currently at work on a book-length study of social media trends entitled Surviving the Customer: Game Theory and the Emergence of Social Media Marketing.

Yuri Arcurs is the world's top selling microstock photographer and sells over 1,1million individual licenses per year. The list of clients that have bought and used his pictures, include Time Magazine, MTV, Sony, MSN.com, Microsoft, Samsung, Hewlett Packard, Tyra Banks Show, Late Night Show and many more.

Adryenn Ashley is the classic American story with a twist; she utilizes her unique talents to help others monetize their personal passion. She has built an empire with companies as varied as 21st Century Pictures, ChickLit Media Group, and Wow! Is Me. The first film Adryenn produced was the award winning indie favorite "Metal", about an average man's struggle to free himself from the poverty and hopelessness surrounding him, which is now celebrating it's Tenth Anniversary with a television premiere and DVD launch. In addition to her success behind the camera, Adryenn is an award winning, best selling author of the book ,"Every Single Girl's Guide to Her Future Husband's Last Divorce", an insightful and comedic take on the legal and financial ramifications of marrying a divorcee. Capitalizing on her past successes, marketing and production skills, with Wow! Is Me Adryenn now transforms everyday entrepreneurs into wildly successful business celebrities.

Most recently Mr. Balagia served as SVP/Dir. of Creative Marketing FOX BROADCASTING NETWORK, Los Angeles where he worked on the launch of American Idol and The OC. Prior to that, Mr. Balagia was executive creative director at some of the largest advertising agencies in the world. He has created ad campaigns for many major brands including Toyota, Nabisco, Blue Cross, Activision, GM, Sony, Proctor&Gamble, to name a few. Mr. Balagia's career includes stints as:

• EVP/Executive Creative Director/Co-Managing Director DMB&B, Los Angeles
• EVP/Executive Creative Director, Saatchi & aatchi/Canada:
• Creative Director Saatchi & Saatchi, Los Angeles
• Co-founder/President Third Channel Communications, Century City: A digital entertainment company for the mobile space

Bryan Barletta is the Associate Editor for MobileAppsToday and MobileDevicesToday at Mediabistro.com. Prior to working with MediaBistro, Bryan helped start AppVee.com and AndroidApps.com, the two largest video review sites for iPhone and Android applications, where he was personally responsible for over 700 reviews. Before AppVee he worked as both a Freelance Copywriter and Marketing Consultant for companies such as Zipvo, LLC., PrimaryDrive, LLC., and PatientAssistance.com, Inc.. Bryan is currently living in Massachusetts and has the best job in the world - playing with mobile apps and devices all day.

Ryan Barrett is a co-founder of Google App Engine and the lead engineer on the datastore. He's a systems engineer at heart who got sidetracked into making webapps scale. Before App Engine, Ryan worked on transaction processing, database sharding, distributed and grid computing, network protocols, and open source. Outside of work, Ryan hobnobs with celebrities, wins Nobel Prizes, cures cancer, and recently achieved nirvana. (That was on Tuesday.)

Lane Becker is co-founder and President of Get Satisfaction, a web startup dedicated to fostering new methods of communication and collaboration between companies and their customers. Previously, Lane was co-founder of Adaptive Path, a user experience strategy, research, and design consultancy, known for, among other things, coining the technology terms "blog" and "ajax."

Rick Becker-Leckrone has worked in the commercial stock photography business for over 17 years. In various roles as a photographer, editor, creative director, and technologist, Rick has had an opportunity to work with many of the top photo agencies and commercial advertising photographers in the U.S. and abroad. As Director of Content and Technology at upstart agency Digital Stock, Rick had an integral role in the development of the company and eventual sale to Bill Gates' Corbis Images in 1998. Upon Digital Stock's acquisition, Rick was promoted to Co-Director of Commercial Photography and had a unique opportunity to oversee the creative efforts and content development efforts of this world-class image collection. In 2001 Rick left Corbis to create imagery full time for Corbis, Getty Images and PictureArts. In 2004, Rick founded Blend Images, a stock collection emphasizing ethnic diversity. Blend Images is distributed by over 250 agencies world-wide. Blend Images has gained wide acceptance of as one of the strongest niche commercial stock collections in the industry.

Leigh Behrens is an award-winning social media entrepreneur and the President of pnn.com, the Personal News Network, a unique "global water cooler" where women worldwide share diverse views on everything from politics to parenting.

Her previous roles include leading the national entertainment brand metromix.com, and developing, launching and directing innovative online initiatives for the New York Times Co. and Chicago Tribune.

In 1991, Mr. Benson began his career as the Director of Radio Promotions for Walt Disney's newly founded record label, Hollywood Records. Three years later, Mr. Benson segued to A&M Records where he oversaw radio promotion for the likes of Mint Condition and Barry White.

In 1995, Mr. Benson would embark upon his most storied musical journey, as the Director of Rhino Records Urban Division. In this capacity, Mr. Benson created, produced, and marketed over 47 CD releases, over a nine year span.

Making the transition from the traditional record business to digital music was seamless for Mr. Benson, given his extensive experience. In 2003, Mr. Benson was at the ground floor of ringtone/mobile phone entertainment technology, working as a Director of Merchandising for InfoSpace Mobile. Mr. Benson was then tapped to head Digital Marketing for Universal Music Group/Interscope/Geffen/A&M.

In 2008, Barry launched his own digital music marketing company called Stratus Digital Music Marketing, based in Los Angeles, California. SDMM focuses on implementing online campaigns with recording artists. Mr. Benson also oversees the Urban, Electronic, Jazz, and World Music, content and marketing strategy for the iTunes Essentials Store. He also hosts a weekly podcast, along with the iTunes music team, entitled iTunes Weekly Rewind. His latest endeavor includes online content creation and strategy for Vivendi/Universal, CodeBlack Entertainment.

David Berkowitz is Director of Emerging Media & Client Strategy for 360i, a leading digital marketing agency. He helps 360i's leading brands in media & entertainment, retail, and other verticals leverage marketing opportunities at the nexus of search engine marketing and social media. Additionally, he has penned a weekly column for MediaPost (Search Insider and Online Spin) since 2004, with 200 columns written to date.

Prior to 360i, he served as director of marketing for Viewpoint's rich media advertising group Unicast and search engine marketing firm iCrossing. Previously, with research firm eMarketer, he interviewed 175 executives, authors, and analysts on the cutting edge of technology and business. His writing has also appeared in Ad Age, DM News, MarketingProfs, iMedia Connection, and other publications. Mr. Berkowitz has also blogged extensively, launching MarketersStudio.com, an Ad Age Power 150 media & marketing blog. He has contributed to MarketingVox, nowEurope, AdTechBlog, ReverseDirectMarketing.com and Rich Media Today.

He's been spotted and heard on the airwaves (CBS, NBC, CNBC, Canada's ROB TV, Bloomberg Radio, CNET Radio, Reuters TV) in print (CNN.com, Reuters, Associated Press, DM News, Ad Age, Adweek, BtoB), and online (MediaPost, iMedia, ClickZ) commenting on internet, advertising, media, and technology trends.

John Bevilaqua currently serves as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Digital College Network. John has spent over 25 years in marketing, communications, public relations, special events and sports marketing. He began his career with Coca-Cola USA and served as National Sports Marketing Manager and 1984 Olympic Project Manager. In 1983 John was "loaned" to the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee where he served as Director of Corporate Relations, Director of Public Relations and Vice President of Communications managing a wide variety of external relations activities.

Upon returning to Atlanta in the Fall of 1984, John founded Bevilaqua International, Inc. and for the ensuing 12 years consulted to corporations and special events such as: 1986 Goodwill Games (Moscow); 1986 (Soccer) World Cup (Mexico City); 1992 Olympic Games (Barcelona); 1996 Olympic Games (Atlanta); 1996 Paralympic Games and other international events. His agency also provided marketing counsel to a variety of corporations including: 3M Corp, York International, IBM, Coca-Cola, EDS, Chase Manhattan Bank, Turner Broadcasting, First Union Bank, Gulfstream, AT&T and others.

Since 1994 John has served as President and CEO of Creative Marketing Strategies headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Bevilaqua has created a variety of strategic communications programs and platforms for a wide range of clients. Integration of new technologies with traditional strategic marketing counsel has been the hallmark of John's most recent professional development.

As Director, Commercial Media Partners and Community Content, Aaron Booth is responsible for designing and managing the product sourcing strategy for the Corbis and Veer brands. In this role, he manages creative directors and product managers for photography, illustration, type and community content. Aaron is based in Calgary, Canada.

Prior to joining Corbis in 2008, Aaron was Director of Products at Veer, responsible for managing Veer's third-party image strategy and supplier relationships, image editing and Veer's Hispanic brand, Somos.

Before entering the stock photography industry, Aaron was a founding member of Viewit.ca, a successful online property advertising platform in Toronto, becoming the company's national Photographer Operations Manager.

Outside of the stock photo business, Aaron is an independent singer-songwriter and music producer, having released five albums since 2001, licensed his songs for TV and film and has toured Canada, USA, Japan and Europe.

Ellen Boughn was the founder of the early commercial, rights managed stock photo agency After-Image that ultimately became part of Getty Images. She has held executive positions at Corbis Images, Getty Images (Stone), Workbookstock, Punchstock, UpperCut Images and SuperStock. Current she is the Director of Content for the microstock company, Dreamstime, as well as acting as an independent consultant and appraiser of intellectual property and an expert witness in matters relating to the commercial value copyrights associated with photography. She writes a weekly informative blog for the over 1 million members of Dreamstime and is currently under contract to write a book about the microstock business. Her special skills include extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of the stock photo industry, including editing, licensing, contracts, acquisitions, pricing and general executive management.

Since co-founding Idée, Leila has been instrumental in making Idée the leader in image search and identification. Named as one of the top ten Canadian software companies to watch, Idée is redefining image and video search. Idée does for images what Google does for text.

With clients such as Adobe Systems, Associated Press, Agence France Press and the world largest entertainment and celebrity photo agencies and image recognition technology that is "indistinguishable from magic" Idée is a world leader in content search and identification.

As an entrepreneur, Leila brings over a decade of experience in the technology sector to her CEO role. Leila is an outspoken participant in the software and search industry, an active supporter of entrepreneurship in Canada and a mentor to young women in technology. She blogs at hyperbio.net. She is a keen long distance runner, traveler and lives in Toronto, Canada. Her next trip is a 5000 miles journey through Africa.

Chad Bridwell was appointed Fotolia's Director of US Operations in February of 2005, using his 15+ years of traditional and digital photography experience to lead all marketing and sales activities to US customers as well as photographers. Prior to Fotolia, Chad was the Business Development Manager for PhotoWorks.com. He joined PhotoWorks after it acquired PhotoAccess.com where Chad managed marketing and sales operations for four years. He was educated at Rochester Institute of Technology, one of the top photography schools in the US. In his spare time, he continues to build his photography portfolio and spend time with his wife and two daughters.

Nate is currently the founder and CEO of Groupable.com, a group sponsorship marketplace servicing large brands and local merchants by providing them direct access to their target markets through offline groups, such as Little League teams, soccer mom organizations and singles clubs.

Prior to Groupable, Brochin founded Rare Medium Group in 1995, helping to build one of the leading Internet consultancies in the world and managing its growth with $85 million in revenue and over 900 employees in 5 years.

Following his success with Rare Medium (RRRR), Brochin founded and served as President and COO of Savos, Inc., the first company to deliver streaming audio to mobile phones. Brochin was a patent co-author of the proprietary hardware/software product, eventually purchased by GiantBear, Inc. and released as a service offering by InfoSpace in 2002.

Nate has been invited to speak at conferences on topics that include "Managing Rapid Growth", "Professional Responsibility", "Youth Marketing" and "Mobile Marketing Trends."

Brochin received an MBA from the London School of Economics, an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BA from Oberlin College. Mr. Brochin also serves on the board of Clancy Productions, an award-winning off-Broadway production company specializing in intellectually engaging contemporary American theater.

Leonard is Co-Founder and CEO of a crowd-sourced, participatory news network that mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In its short history, the company has become the largest news organization of its kind. The Guardian has named NowPublic.com one of the top five most useful news sites on the Web and Time Magazine named it one of the Top 50 Websites for 2007

Leonard is also a Venture Partner at Growthworks Capital, one of Canada's largest national technology funds, and acts as an advisor to venture capital funds in the US, Europe and Asia. He is also an advisor to several companies including the Associated Press, Red Herring and Sonic Foundry. Leonard is currently an advisor to the Canadian Ministry of International Trade and a Director of Canada's largest technology association, CATA.

Leonard holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from Queens University, a law degree from Osgoode Hall and is a graduate of the Private Equity Course at the Harvard Business School.

After getting a Computer Science degree from Case Western Reserve University, Paul worked at Intel, and then Google. There, he was the engineer behind Gmail. Paul is also responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto and the first prototype. He left Google in 2006 and co-founded FriendFeed in October, 2007. Paul got married in a tiger suit.

Ryan Buckley is Vice President & CFO of Scripped, Inc. At Scripped, Ryan is responsible for business development and legal strategy. Prior to his role at Scripped, Ryan worked in the corporate litigation group at Navigant Consulting. Ryan is currently enrolled in a joint Master's degree program with MIT Sloan and the Harvard Kennedy School, where he is focusing on entrepreneurship and political Internet campaigns. Ryan also holds a dual B.S./B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in economics and environmental sciences.

Blake Cahill is the Senior VP of Sales and Marketing at Visible Technologies where he is responsible for executing marketing strategies, thought leadership, and analyst relations to increase market and customer awareness for revenue growth. Blake has more than 15 years of executive management experiences leading marketing, sales, product management, and customer support organizations both domestically and internationally in a variety of technology, consumer, and telecommunications companies such as SafeHarbor Technology Corporation, AT&T, Belgacom, Qwest, SBC, and ServiceMaster.com. Through these diverse experiences Blake has witnessed the intersection that drives businesses and their results are uniquely conjoined to "listening to the customer" and he has developed some insights about the intersections of customer experience, brands, and technology. Blake holds bachelor's degrees in political science, history, and business from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.

Jim Caparro is an accomplished Chief Executive with broad-based expertise in managing and evaluating business solutions and developing effective solutions. He founded the Entertainment Distribution Company, a neutral provider of complete supply chain solutions for the entertainment industry. As well as the Island Def Jam Music Group, creating one of the largest and most profitable record labels in the industry. He also created PolyGram Group Distribution, which became one of the largest and respected full service entertainment distribution companies in the US.

Caparro redefined and developed varied businesses including Video, Special Markets, Merchandising and Diversified Entertainment, New Media, Business Development and Independent Distribution. He has more than 25 years of execution management experience in marketing, sales and operations and has achieved international recognition for repeated "start-up and turnaround" success. Caparro is an established respected leader in building highly motivated and dedicated staffs and holds a proven track record for successfully integrating and optimizing merged operations and cultures.

Chris Chinn is the vice president of sales for Watercooler and is responsible for revenue generation. He has been in media advertising sales for more than 19 years with online and broadcast television companies ranging from media conglomerates to startups. Chris realized the potential of social media's impact on advertising and has contributed to several industry-leading companies such as AOL Instant Messenger, Facebook, Bebo and SocialMedia. Some of the key marketers Chris has worked with include Nike, Coca-Cola, Apple, HP, Nintendo, McDonald's, Sony and Universal Pictures. Chris built the U.S. sales team for Bebo, which was acquired by AOL in early 2008. Prior to Bebo, Chris ran Northwest regional sales at Facebook where he led the iTunes partnership, which was the largest-ever iTunes music promotion for Apple to date. While at AOL, Chris oversaw U.S. sales for Netscape and regional sales for AOL's Web Properties over nearly seven years.

Kevin Chou is the CEO of Watercooler, the world's largest fan community online for sports and TV audiences. Kevin has led the company from its founding to over 25 million application installations users across the Watercooler network. Watercooler's products enable passionate fans to connect with other fans inside their favorite social networks. Prior to Watercooler, Kevin spent several years at the global venture capital firm Canaan Partners investing in digital media, consumer internet services, and online advertising companies. Kevin took part in funding 10 companies during his tenure at Canaan Partners, deploying part of the firm's $2.3 billion of capital. Earlier in Kevin's career, he advised public technology companies on M&A and corporate finance as part of Deutsche Bank's investment banking arm in San Francisco. Kevin holds a BS from University of California, Berkeley in Business Administration, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Dawn Clark is a sensitive and pioneer in Cyberenergetics, a field that influences game theory, psychology, biological systems, organizational structure, systems theory, architecture and more. Her deep insights in energy dynamics at the sub-atomic level are relevant for developing strategic direction, alignment, and understanding how products engage, engross, and become viral.

Where most people see empty space, Dawn perceives wave form, frequency, and interaction. Recognizing her natural gifts, a former elite US counter intelligence agent trained her in the art of spycraft and developed her skills in remote viewing, subtle energy perception and engagement. Rather than work in the government arena, Dawn chose instead to create solutions to help people and organizations realize their potential. Internationally published, Dawn has guided clients with Fox Entertainment, ABC, PBS, Wall Street Journal, 2010 Olympics, creative artists, and entrepreneurs. Faculty at Omega Institute, she is a member of the AHP, ISSSEEM, and FMBR.

Kelly Cline is a Seattle photographer specializing in shooting Food and Food Lifestyle images. She has been dubbed by many as a "Food Pornographer."

Kelly's work has been featured in several magazines, newspapers, books, billboards and television. She was the sole photographer for the New York Times Best Selling Cook Book from Hungry Girl. She currently resides and maintains a studio in Seattle, Washington.

Mr. Collier has over twenty years of experience in corporate finance, accounting, and computer science. He specializes in the development and financing of early stage/growth companies and has provided his clientele with comprehensive business services which have included: strategic planning; corporate formation; branding and positioning; mergers and acquisitions; business development; business plan compilation; reverse mergers; equity and debt structure and financing; augmentation of management; capital restructuring; joint ventures; and procurement of channel partners.

Concurrently, Mr. Collier is a Managing Member and Co-Founder of C2 Capital, LLC, a private financer providing bridge loans and financing the cost for private companies to go public. From May of 2005 to the beginning of August 2007, Mr. Collier was the Managing Director and CEO of Greenbridge Capital Group, Inc., a company specializing in developing and financing early stage companies. From October of 2004 to April 2005, Mr. Collier was a Venture Consultant to Funk Ventures Business Services, LLC and from January of 2003 to January of 2005, Mr. Collier was the president of EuroBancorp a multi-faceted corporation with services including business development and investment banking consultancy and prior to that, Mr. Collier held the position of President with Fillet Capital Corporation an international investment banking firm established in 1953.

In 2000 and 2001, Mr. Collier was the Southern California Regional Co-Chair for the United Association of Equipment Leasing, and in 2001 was the keynote speaker at Euromoney's Equipment Leasing Conference of the Americas.

Marty Collins is a Group Marketing Manager in the Windows consumer marketing group at Microsoft. As leader of the Windows Social Media Team she is responsible for building a strong community ecosystem for Windows and Windows Live customers using social networking techniques.

Before joining the Windows Live marketing team Marty worked in the Developer Platform & Evangelism group at Microsoft focused on building technical community. Prior to Microsoft Marty worked at Oracle focusing on user groups, and in New York City marketing for professional services.

Marty was born and raised in Seattle; she has a BA from the University of Washington and an MBA from Seattle University. You can find her at martycollinsblog.spaces.live.com

Jerome Conlon is president and founder of Brand Frameworks, LLC, a national business consultancy based in Portland, Oregon that focuses on brand, marketing and business development. Brand development always starts on the inside. Jerome first looks through the lens of internal strengths and cultural values before devising strategies for growth. Jerome's career experience spans a range of brands and industries. He was the Director of Marketing Insights and Planning for Nike, Inc. for the ten years of greatest % growth (1986 - 1996). He then went on to be the Director of Brand Planning, Marketing Insights and Category Development at Starbucks Coffee Company (1996-1998) and; he was Senior VP Marketing and Program Development Research at NBC Entertainments (1998-2000); and CMO at Internap Network Services (2000-2002).

Jerome has 25 years experience in categories that include: new media, automotive, entertainment, healthcare, beverages, financial services, retailing, real estate, education, sports footwear & apparel, quick service restaurants and internet services. He is a (magna cum laude) graduate of Gonzaga University 1978 in Economics & Accounting and in 1980 with a Masters in Business Administration.

As CTO, Tom Conrad leads the Pandora product organization, which includes product management, user interface design, software development, and network operations. Over the years, Tom has led numerous engineering and product design teams across a wide range of applications - from operating systems and enterprise software to video games and consumer web sites. Before joining Pandora, Tom was the Vice President of Engineering at Kenamea, Inc. where he led the teams responsible for the design and development of an award-winning Internet-scale messaging system. Tom previously was the Technical Director for the successful video game series "You Don't Know Jack." Past experience also includes engineering management positions at Berkeley Systems, Relevance Technologies, Documentum, Pets.com, and Kenamea. Tom began his career at Apple Computer developing user interface elements for the Mac OS. Tom holds three U.S. patents and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Widely recognized for his pioneering work in online communities in business, Joe serves as Lithium Technologies' Chief Community Officer. In this role, Joe is responsible for thought leadership, research, and innovations that will drive the next generation of successful enterprise customer communities.

His prior experience included work with AT&T, Cisco Systems, IBM, Microsoft, and many other leading companies. Joe's work with online communities began in 1996, when he conducted the first comprehensive research study into successful practices for managing online communities.

In addition to his work with clients, Joe has devoted significant time to advancing the understanding of online communities in business. With partners in academia, he studied the impact of online communities on marketing (Texas A&M University), social and organizational dynamics (University of Toronto), and social networks (University of Virginia). His work has been cited in more than 50 books on the subject of online community, collaboration, commerce, and knowledge management.

Joe divides his time between San Francisco, CA and his home in Ann Arbor, MI. He holds an M.A. from the University of Michigan and an B.A. from the University of Toledo.

David is a passionate voice for fully considering Internet / search engine marketing and social media strategy at the c-level executive and board of directors level and integrating the activities into corporate culture. His interests are in seeing organizations outperform by acting nimbly, with a bias for action and utilizing current marketing technology to create customer focused experiences that drive revenue growth. You may ask David to speak at your conference or private session and seek his consulting, read his executive leadership credentials, visit his Internet Marketing Management Strategy blog or .

Dr. Shay David is a scholar and serial entrepreneur who specializes in collaborative and open-source information and communication systems. Shay is the co-founder of Kaltura, a pioneer in collaborative media, where he oversees technology and strategy. Kaltura has developed the world's first open source video solution stack, and is empowering the next generation of Wikipedia and sites like the UN's with collaborative rich media functionalities. Prior to Kaltura, Shay was a co-founder of Destinator Technologies, a leader in mobile-GPS-navigation software, and MindEcho, a collaborative filtering software company. Shay was involved for many years in cutting edge software research, combining open source and proprietary software.

He lead various product development cycles from concept to market and consulted on open systems to Fortune 500 companies like Toyota and Becton Dickson. Shay holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, from Tel-Aviv University, and an M.A. from New York University. Shay wrote his PhD dissertation on 'The social construction of participatory information networks' at Cornell and he is also a fellow at The Information Society Project at the Yale Law School. Shay has published extensively in leading academic journals, and has presented his work all over the world. He lives in New York City with his wife Ofri, an artist who works on large-scale video art projects.

Salil is a General Partner at Bay, and focuses on areas in which he has operating experience and thus some intuition. These include infrastructure software, open source, consumer finance, and apps over social graphs. In addition to traditional early stage investments, Salil is leading Bay's Seed Program, a fast-track process for investing $250K-$750K in out-of-the-box capital-efficient ideas. Prior to Bay, Salil was founder and CEO of Customware, a CORBA services company (acquired and now part of Borland), co-founder and CEO of The Middleware Company (acquired and now part of Symantec), and of TheServerSide.com network of social media sites (acquired by TechTarget).

Jay Durgan serves on the Board of Directors to technology incubator/VC Outhink Media, Inc. - www.outhink.com - and provides consulting services to its subsidiaries, MEDIAmobz, Inc., SpinXpress and OurMedia.

Durgan also actively participates in advisory boards to and/or has minority equity interests in mobile application provider TagText, London, England and speech replication technology company Voxonic, New York.

He has exceptional experience and extensive knowledge: 1) building businesses; 2) developing and exploiting brands; 3) generating new revenue sources for established products; 4) identifying new technologies that represent valid business opportunities; and 5) in many countries, economies, political circumstances and other unique climates.

Prior to joining Outhink Media, Jay headed Warner Music International's business development efforts throughout the world excluding USA from their London headquarters. Durgan also served as Warner's head of global marketing between 2000 and 2004 and held similar positions at both Universal Music Group and PolyGram between 1996 and 1999.

As Chief Executive Officer, Fred is responsible for setting the overall vision and strategy of CafePress. He also oversees the running of all business units and operations. Prior to starting CafePress.com, Fred and fellow business partner Maheesh Jain launched over ten companies - most failed. In 1999, taking the best elements from two of their failures, they launched CafePress. Since then, Fred has steered CafePress's growth from two people in a dusty garage to the recognized leader in user generated commerce with over 400 employees in two locations and a community of 6.5 million members. While he never finished high school, he did end up with a political science degree from Northwestern. A vegetarian and spiritual monist, he nonetheless has a soft-spot for vehicles: "Think Gandhi with wheels". He currently drives a 56 Bel Air, '62 Fiat Multipla, a '68 cinquecento, and a two-wheeled Triumph Bonneville.

As President of Gigya, Rooly oversees U.S. corporate operations and supervises overall product strategy and development along with the CEO. He is a veteran of the Internet advertising and marketing industry, with a focus on product development. Before joining Gigya Rooly served on the board of Metacafe, held the position of General Manager at SmartShopper, and was the VP of Products & Marketing at Hotbar. Rooly holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Pratt Institute in New York City.

Jay is a technopreneur, startup junkie, and code jockey. From 2002 to 2008, Jay was founder and CEO of Airborne Access, the Philippines' pioneer and largest Wi-Fi service provider. After building the company for almost 6 years, Jay and the other founding shareholders fully divested their equity in the company, now fully owned by SMART Communications, the country's largest mobile phone carrier. With almost 20 years of tech experience, Jay has been involved in many startup ventures in various internet and technology concerns including new media, applications development, and VOIP. Jay plays Division 2 soccer, is a voracious reader, and a history buff.

Curtis has invested in enterprise software, data center systems, and wireless infrastructure technologies. He is also interested in SaaS, open source, and capital efficient software companies. Curtis has served on 13 boards, both public and private, and has been a managing director at Voyager Capital since 2000 when he opened the Silicon Valley office. In 2006, Curtis was appointed by the President of the United States to be a Trustee of the Presidio Trust.

Before joining Voyager, Curtis was the first Executive Vice President of the newly formed Stanford Management Company. He was responsible for investing and managing real estate and other asset classes including private equity and venture capital. Before joining Stanford, Curtis was managing partner for Trammell Crow in Seattle, with $700 million of assets under management. Curtis has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a B.S. in mechanical engineering, magna cum laude, from Texas A&M University.

Scott Fennel is a member of ICCS Partners, a Los Angeles-based consultancy where he creates and executes consumer-facing business and marketing strategy for start-ups and Fortune 100 companies. Among Mr. Fennel's current engagements are an advertising agency and motion picture studio venture creating a long-term strategic plan for an existing film and television character; a national law firm expanding its presence in California and Nevada; multiple consumer products; and a record label / management company start-up focusing on A&R for emerging artists. Prior to ICCS, Mr. Fennel practiced law from 1988 - 2003, focusing on IP and Entertainment litigation and strategy for studios, labels and corporations. Additionally, Scott operated Serious Music, LLC and its related labels / publishing companies; created and produced Spanish DVD's in the fitness market; and is a founder of the first independent anti-doping agency in professional cycling.

Dennis (a.k.a. Thresh) was previously a die-hard PC gamer as the world champion of Doom, Doom 2, Quake, and Quake 2 and was called the "Michael Jordan of Videogames" by the Wall St. Journal. These days, you're more likely to find him playing Guitar Hero (X360), Starcraft (PC), Bejeweled 2 (XBLA), and Desktop Tower Defense (Flash). Dennis founded Raptr out of his frustration of not being able to easily keep track of his friends playing across so many platforms. Prior to Raptr, Dennis co-founded three successful startups: Xfire, Lithium, and Gamers.com.

As Creative Director, Miles Forman visits college campuses to create original programming for DCN that features students and faculty.

Miles, a native of Fort Lauderdale, attended the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and has worked on a wide variety of projects since graduating.

He got his start working on the film Striptease, featuring Demi Moore. Shortly after, he traveled to New York to produce his first film, The Ride. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he produced See Dick Die, a horror film based on Jack Kevorkian.

It was during the filming of See Dick Die that he met Doug Deluca, a longtime producer of Jimmy Kimmel's Man Show, Crank Yankers and Jimmy Kimmel Live. Miles would remain in LA and work on a wide variety of projects from feature films to television programs.

In 2003, Miles began production on Fatboy: The Movie, a documentary that tells the story of Miles' mission to lose more than 50 pounds. Fatboy: The Movie went on the festival circuit and brought home five awards and much national praise from festivals and critics alike.

Evan Forster is Chairman of Forster Brothers Entertainment LLC, a niche consulting firm that focuses on marketing strategies and brand development for artists and businesses in the entertainment industry. Prior to founding Forster Bros Entertainment, Evan was the Head of the Crossover division at Universal Music Group where he spearheaded the launch of several platinum recording artists. His music career began when Evan was recruited out of a talent agency mailroom to head up a start up division for A&M Records, where he soon became President and GM of Tuff Break Records, the first hip hop label in the companies 50 year history. Evan is also CEO and President of TUFF BREAK, the first multi platform feedback based intermediary for aspiring artists in the entertainment industry. He is also an accomplished screenwriter, published author and runs Huddies Buddies, a charitable organization which provides toys to children in need.

For more than fifteen years, Jonnie Forster has thrived as a successful entrepreneur in a number of industries. Best known for his establishment in the music entertainment business, Forster created the diversified entertainment marketing firm, Forster Bros Entertainment in Los Angeles. A well-connected man in the entertainment industry, Forster began his career at Capitol Records and quickly rose to become the youngest director in the worldwide EMI family of labels. Realizing his need to be his own boss, Forster soon opened his own company with his two brothers and quickly secured production ventures with Warner Bros. Records, Sony Music, BMG, and EMI while simultaneously creating the premier music supervision company for the video game industry with a roster of clients that includes EA Sports, Sony Computer Entertainment America, and Activision. Prior to Forster Bros. Entertainment, Forster was a marketing executive at Capitol Records where he was an essential leader in widely successful campaigns for The Beatles, Frank Sinatra and Jimi Hendrix. In addition, he executive-produced funk legend George Clinton's "Greatest Funkin' Hits" album and hosted the first-ever live Internet webcast with Clinton and Macromedia. He presently works closely with the Bob Marley Estate and his recording studio, Forster Sound.

Laura leads efforts to build CafeMom's profile with consumers, businesses and the media. She also oversees the strategy and research teams, and is responsible for proving the value of advertising programs, sharing insights with our partners, and generally establishing CafeMom as a leading source of mom expertise and insights in the marketplace.

Laura was previously CafeMom's senior vice president of Sales Strategy and Operations, where she was responsible for developing and marketing the company's sales offerings, and overseeing the production, management and measurement of all advertising programs. Prior to joining CafeMom in 2006, she held executive positions in sales and business development at Time Warner's CNN, CNN.com and CNNmoney.com, and prior to that, at Viacom's Nickelodeon. Laura holds a BA in East Asian Studies from Princeton University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and three young sons.

Zachary Freer is VP and Co-Founder of Scripped.com, a free screenwriting software and community for professional and aspiring writers of new media including videos, webisodes, tv shows, and films. Prior to Scripped, he graduated from Claremont McKenna College and earned his MFA from the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California's Cinema School. He has worked as an independent producer and is also an award-winning writer/director.

Using his combined experience in the entertainment industry and new technologies, Zachary brings his unique perspective to industry relations, product development, business strategy, and user interface design for Scripped.com.

Peggy Fry is Senior Vice President at Clearspring Technologies, managing the company's business development and client services business.

Previously, Ms. Fry was Vice President of Ad Sales for Netflix where she developed and launched an online and offline targeted advertising platform for the entertainment community.

From 2002-2005, Ms. Fry served as president of Smashing Entertainment, a film production and co-financing company she helped create to produce films for television and theatrical distribution. The company's productions have appeared at the Sundance Film Festival and on Showtime, as well as direct-to-DVD.

From 1997 to 2002, she held a series of increasingly senior sales positions at America Online, including vice president of interactive marketing for the AOL Entertainment Group. In this role, she was responsible for AOL's studio relationships covering both filmed and home entertainment.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Fry held sales positions at several large print publishing concerns, including Hearst Publishing, Family Media and Lang Communications.

Amit Gadhia is founder and CEO of Artyllect, a web2.0, open source and mobile application development consulting company. Artyllect is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Mumbai. Amit and his engineering team are experts in the art and science of extreme programming and rapid prototyping. Artyllect i.e. a mind of the artistic and the intellect helps entrepreneurs develop a social application distribution strategy that includes facebook application development, iphone gadgets/widgets and Google's open-social and Android sandbox suites. Apart from strategy and application development, Amit also helps entrepreneurs raise venture capital and team building. Amit holds a Bachelors in Business from Kennesaw State University.

Jordan Gimbel is Counsel at Jones Day and has experience in patent litigation involving pharmaceuticals and chiral compounds as well as software, telecommunications, and electronic devices. Additionally, Jordan assists clients in securing their intellectual property rights and prosecuting such rights before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in similar foreign governmental offices. Before joining Jones Day, Jordan represented clients in negotiations involving entertainment and media properties and drafted a variety of licenses. His experience with media and licenses involving multimedia extend back to the years he worked as director of business development at a national multimedia company based in Los Angeles.

A native of the San Francisco Bay area, Dan Greenberg is responsible for operations, sales and customer development at 750 Industries. Greenberg is a 2007 graduate of Stanford University with a BA in Economics. In 2008, he dropped out of a Stanford Masters program in Management Science and Engineering to work full time building 750 Industries. While an undergrad at Stanford, Greenberg studied persuasive technologies and later was the lead course assistant for the first-ever "Facebook Class" in the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, exploring how persuasion strategies and digital technology can bring about behavioral change. While still at Stanford, Greenberg and fellow student Matt Monahan co-founded The CoMotion Group, a consulting company that helped large companies design successful viral video campaigns. Through CoMotion and the Stanford research experience, Greenberg and 750 co-founders Keintz, Monahan and Fan identified a need for scalable technologies to help brands reach target audiences via evolving media, leading to the formation of 750 Industries.

Jim Greer is the co-founder and CEO of Kongregate, a startup that combines over 2800 user-submitted Flash games with achievements, high scores, chat, and other community features. Developers share in ad and microtransaction revenue, and retain the rights to their games. Before founding Kongregate in June 2006, Jim was Technical Director for Pogo at Electronic Arts.

Adam is an expert in virality, engagement on social networks, and distributed outsourcing/offshoring. He got his start in the online restaurant space with a website called Nishnash, devoted to presenting the world's restaurant information and providing relevant online services. By growing a team and developing a distributed small-task engine (think mechanical turk), Adam helped grow Nishnash into a platform for UGC and services such as ordering online. Nishnash was sold to DiningIn in 2007.

More recently, Adam co-founded Social Dynamics, a social-platform app company that built applications for Facebook and Opensocial. While at Social Dynamics Adam developed Naughty Gifts and co-led development of Nicknames, which respectively reached 4 and 10 million users. Social Dynamics was sold to the Social Gaming Network in April 2008.

Today, Adam is interested in iphone and social network platforms as well as in the diet/health space. Adam holds a B.Sc/B.A. in Neuroscience/Economics/ Psychology from Brandeis University.

John Griffin is a former Wall Street stock trader turned entrepreneur. He founded Cutcaster in the spring of 2006 and launched the site into beta in April of 2008. The education he got while working with electronic trading platforms on Wall Street, his passion for media of all types and his A.D.H.D, led him to create a dynamic marketplace that could be used by anyone to buy, sell and request digital photos, vector illustrations and videos seamlessly over the internet.

Originally from Syracuse, NY, John went to boarding school at Philips Exeter and to college at the University of Pennsylvania where he received a BA in International Relations and in German. John resides in New York City.

Gannon leads product and marketing for Kyte, including market strategy, product road map, user experience, corporate communications, messaging and branding.

Gannon is an award winning technology and marketing professional, bringing to the company 15 years experience in both emerging and established consumer internet and enterprise software. Prior to joining Kyte, Gannon was Principal at Horn Group, Inc., a premier digital marketing and public relations agency with offices in San Francisco, New York, Boston and Washington DC. As head of the agency's New York office, Gannon was responsible for client strategy, business development and operations. Under his leadership the New York office won several prestigious branding, digital marketing and public relations awards.

Prior to Horn Group, Gannon led Hall Consulting, an award winning San Francisco interactive design, development and marketing consultancy that he founded in 1994. Clients included a diverse set of emerging and established enterprise software companies including Vitria, AvantGo (Sybase), Commerce One, and PlaceWare (Microsoft).

Gannon began his career as a web developer and consultant for companies including Pacific Telesis Group and US Web San Francisco, where he helped design and build websites for clients including Rolling Stone Magazine, Proxim and Flextronics.

Richie Hecker is a Cereal Entrepreneur residing in New York City. Once the youngest interactive advertising executive, he has grown up amongst the interactive community and remembers when people used to tell him to get offline and "get a real job." He previously was a cofounder of ClickZen Worldwide, a profitable ad network & agency in the web 1.0 days and has since built a successful outsourcing company and has been involved with over a dozen startups. He currently runs Bootstrapper.com, a popular blog featuring entrepreneurs & investors and is very active in the New York Startup Community, having been ranked #5 Most Influential Person in Silicon Alley. Richie is currently building two revolutionary advertising platforms and enjoys high impact sports and advising startups.

Liz Heller, Buzztone's CEO, is recognized as a media innovator and marketing pioneer with an award-winning career that spans film, music, technology and marketing. Since 2000, Buzztone has been a leading experiential marketing firm which has successfully connected leading brands to consumers by leveraging unique metrics-based online and offline services with its proprietary marketing tools. Liz and her company have recently bee focusing Buzztone's efforts on a media platform entitled Assignable Spaces that allows content from many different sources, including UGC, to be aggregated together in a unique interface, recently deployed by TV Guide, the Emmy's, theshouldLA and the Cabbage Patch Kids 25.

Liz has sat a number of content, tech and entertainment company boards and is currently on the board of Uwink, a publicly traded company. Prior to founding Buzztone, Heller served as Executive Vice President of Capitol Records and led the charge in developing award- winning websites such as Hollywoodandvine.com and Bluenote.com. Liz also oversaw Capitol's soundtrack department. Liz began her career as VP of Artist Development for MCA Records.

Ellen Herbert is a long term professional in the photography industry with a diverse and comprehensive background. Her previous positions include: Managing Director of Adventure Photo and Film, a specialized agency representing film makers and pioneering photographers in the adventure sports field; Digital Stills Editor for the Democratic National Convention 2000; Associate Producer/Photography Archivist for Tell the Truth Pictures, an Academy Award winning documentary film company ; Director of International Relations for PictureArts Corporation and, just prior to joining Jupiter Images, Head of Art Buying for IgnitedLA, a boutique advertising agency in Los Angeles.

Ellen joined Jupiter Images in January of 2006 and is currently the Senior Creative Director, Photographer Relations.

Ellen is also involved in the photographic community, working on the board of the ASPP West as events coordinator, and is a former PACA board member.

Ms. Hill (aka: thehill88) is one of only a handful of online video creators who recently was paid a fee for her YouTube contributions. One of her videos, featuring her "almost singing", has racked up over 4,000,000 views. She understands all aspects of user-created content, including methods of community building and identifying marketable video artists. She has been featured on Australia's version of "60 MINUTES", "A Current Affair", "Today Tonight" and in numerous newspaper articles. Ms. Hill was recently awarded with the Medal of Honor from The National Arts Club in New York.

Adam Hirsch is the COO of Mashable, responsible for event planning, partnerships, marketing and client relations. Since joining Mashable in 2007, Adam's initiatives include the MashMeet events and the Open Web Awards. Adam is a New York City native and a graduate of Cornell University.

Celia Hirschman oversees a wide scope of music business. With 29 years experience behind her, she runs the marketing company she founded, Downtown Marketing. Ms. Hirschman also runs the UK based independent label, One Little Indian, in North America, overseeing the marketing for such artists as Bjork, The Twilight Singers, Pieta Brown, Lloyd Cole and others.

In addition, Ms. Hirschman is a weekly commentator on Los Angeles NPR station KCRW, speaking on issues affecting the music business. Her show, "On The Beat" airs at 4:44 on Wednesdays, right in the middle of NPR's, "All Things Considered". "On The Beat" is podcast around the world, via KCRW, Itunes, and many other nationally known outlets. Ms. Hirschman also serves as guest host for KCRW's half hour radio show, "The Politics of Culture" as well as a guest commentator on the National radio show, "Marketplace", and XM's "Musician's Radio".

She resides in San Francisco.

Stock photographer Jack Hollingsworth steers the helm of JackHollingsworth.com, a new breed of stock content provider with offices in Austin, TX and Chatham, MA. With production contacts in every corner of the world—from Beijing to Mexico City—Hollingsworth is one of a few American shooters set up to meet the growing market demand for world photography. His imagery, a fusion of lifestyle and ethnic photography, is represented by every major stock agency in the industry, including Corbis, Getty, Jupiter and Blend.

John Horodyski is an Account Manager with Work at Play, a leader in social gaming and virtual storefront / digital item management for the entertainment and knowledge management industries. He comes from the interactive entertainment industry, most recently from Electronic Arts working in production and project management. Specifically, he has managed some very large online launches including social networking web sites and console games within the EA SPORTS brand on a variety of platforms. John is an experienced project management professional having worked on several large global IT projects and has led, consulted or trained on product development, software delivery, marketing and branding projects at several organizations. He teaches a graduate online course at San Jose State University in Digital Asset Management and has been published and presented on metadata in video games at various conferences.

Ryan Hupfer is the Communicator of Awesomeness for HubPages and loves talking about himself in the third person. Currently you can find him out and about finding new writers and future HubFreaks, who are the foundation of the super-fatastic HubPages community, and helping them succeed beyond their wildest dreams. With a near-creepy infatuation with the world of social media and how it is affecting our lives, Ryan loves to be in the middle of where all of the action is happening. Since joining HubPages Ryan has also been sucked into the world of monetizing user generated content and is now enjoying the constant balancing act of keeping a community alive, active and growing all while keeping the ever present business plan chugging along (I mean, we do need to make some money, right?). Other random facts about Ryan include

• He's the author of MySpace For Dummies
• He's been a local TV personality for an NBC affiliate in Indiana
• He created a two week long, cross-country bus tour for no apparent reason
• He has the most amazing fiancee', ever: www.HupandSteph.com
• He has owned and lost 2 full-size vans (have you seen them?)
• He loves working out almost as much as he loves the Internet

Richard is a veteran Internet executive whose media experience includes leadership roles across the media spectrum: as a client, at an agency, as a publisher, and with an advertising network. As CEO of Technorati, he oversaw the acquisitions of BlogCritics.org and the AdEngage self serve advertising platform and the launch of Technorati Media which now reaches an audience of 65 million. Prior to Technorati, he worked as an M&A and strategy consultant for several Internet properties and investment firms, and also served as SVP of Corporate Development for Exponential Interactive, Tribal Fusion's parent company. Previously, he was SVP of Business Development for Fox Interactive Media, and was the Vice President of Business & Corporate Development at IGN Entertainment (acquired by Fox Interactive), where he led the company's M&A, business development and international activities. Before joining IGN, Richard led national accounts sales at Lycos, was Vice President of Business Development at Neopost Online, served as Senior Vice President/Managing Director of Answerthink, and founded K23 Creative Services in Singapore. His early career included management roles for Ford, IBM and Siemens, and he has a B.S. in business administration from the University of Southern California and an M.B.A. from the University of Washington.

Jeffrey is your average 29-year-old tattooed metal-head with an eye for design and nose for tomfoolery. The focus of his work as chief creative officer for the Chicago-based, community-business-centric skinnyCorp is design and strategy for their numerous community-based web projects. These projects range in scale from Threadless, a multi-million dollar tee shirt business and ongoing open-call for tee shirt design submissions which sells more than 100,000 tees per month and has over 850,000 registered users, to YayHooray, a just-for-fun design and technology community site with only a few thousand members.

His work has been published numerous times, and he's had the pleasure of speaking all over the world from MIT to the University of Copenhagen to CNN to NPR. You can check out his personal site at callmejeffrey.com

Guy Kawasaki is a founding partner and entrepreneur-in-residence at Garage Technology Ventures. He is also the co-founder of Alltop.com, an "online magazine rack" of popular topics on the web. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of eight books including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

Maria Kessler is the Vice President of Creative Business Affairs at Jupiterimages Corp., where she oversees the content production teams and image partner relationships. She started her professional career in licensing at the National Basketball Association where she was part of many business development opportunities and the team that launched NBA.com. Her image experience started with FPG International. She also worked at Digitas, an interactive agency, before coming back to the images industry.

Ms. Kessler is a graduate of Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts and she has a JD from St. John's University School of Law. She is the current president of the Picture Archive Council of America.

Tim Kring is creator and executive producer of "Heroes," NBC's Emmy nominated epic saga that chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities.

Kring attended the master of fine arts program at the University of Southern California's renowned film school and worked his way up in production as a grip, gaffer and on camera crews. He continued working in production until selling his first pitch for an episode of "Knight Rider" in 1985. Kring spent the next eleven years writing feature films, including the sequel "Teen Wolf II," series pilots and television movies such as "Bay Coven" and "Falling for You."

In 1996, Kring became a producer on the popular television series "Chicago Hope" and became the supervising producer on the series a year later. In 1998, he co-created the series "Strange World" and served as co-executive producer on the drama "L.A. Doctors." Kring joined the staff of NBC's "Providence" in 1999 as co-executive producer and signed an overall deal with NBC Studio. In 2001, Kring created the procedural drama "Crossing Jordan," which ran for 6 seasons and over 100 episodes.

Scott Lange is presently Senior Vice President, Strategic Business Development at Centra Marketing & Communications, LLC. Centra is an integrated marketing service agency serving clients such as Bosch, E&J Gallo Winery, Pinnacle Foods, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, JetBlue and Volvo Cars of North America. Scott's role at Centra is to spearhead the agency's efforts in winning new accounts and expanding its capabilities.

Prior to Centra, Scott served as VP, Sr. Account Director for Euro RSCG Impact on new business development and client account management. He won assignments from Charles Schwab, Chase Bank, The Economist Magazine and National Beverage Corporation. As an independent marketing consultant, Scott worked with clients such as Ford Motor, Tommy Fragrances/Estée Lauder, Kodak and The Gates Project for Central Park by Christo and Jeanne Claude^TM a spectacular work of art for public viewing in February 2005.

Earlier in his career, Scott co-founded the first entertainment programming service targeting the college students, Campus Network, National College Television (NCTV). He began his career in the advertising agency business working on Pan Am, Dunlop Sports, US Shoe, Citibank, and Jeep.

Satva Leung has a background in branding and marketing experience Action Sports. He has over ten years of experience in video production, editing and filming as well as having been a professional skateboarder. Satva currently works for vimby.com and mediamobz.com and DJs every Friday night in North Beach, San Francisco.

Kevin Leversee is a passionate entrepreneur, lifelong student and Cluetrain Evangelist. From a telecommunication engineering root in the United States Army Signal Corp, to a career focusing on sales and marketing Kevin has always sought to understand communication flow. Prior to DesireMesh (Manila/San Francisco) he founded PandoraSquared (Sydney, Australia) and Zed Tycho (Sydney, Australia) a social software company. PandoraSquared at one time was voted No. 39 out of Australia's Top Web 2.0 companies. He has worked as an Interactive Consultant for; TMP Worldwide in San Francisco, where he was in an infomercial for Monster.com - so somewhere in the world, late at night you're going to be seeing Kevin wearing a BRIGHT ORANGE SWEATER telling people how Internet Technology is going to change their lives. Kevin accomplished eBusiness projects under budget and on time for $2 million in annual sales for Thomas Kinkade (then NSYE: MDA)

Kevin has a son Parker, Kevin resides in Manila Philippines, cooks Mexican Food, struggles with Spanish, Tagalog and of course as a geek he reads avidly.

Jonathon Linner is a serial entrepreneur who sees the world without strings, borders or limitations. His industry-leading career spans two continents, three successful start-ups and a range of media, marketing and technology businesses.

Currently, Jonathon is co-founder and CEO of the world's largest, fastest growing mobile social networks. The award winning privately held company is headquartered in Burlingame, Calif. and has over four million opted-in members. Limbo is backed by three of the world's top Venture Capital funds: Azure Capital Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and New Enterprises Associates.

Prior to launching Limbo, Jonathon was CEO and a co-founder of Enpocket, the world's largest mobile marketing firm (which was acquired by Nokia in 2007). And previously, Jonathon was worldwide head of the Engage wireless business and a member of the team that developed the company's industry-leading media analytics offering, AdKnowledge.

Jonathon graduated from the University of Miami and has an MBA from Cornell University.

Eric Litman is Chairman and CEO of Medialets, a New York-based premium advertising network and analytics provider for mobile platforms such as iPhone and Android. Eric began his career with technical and software engineering positions at GEnie, a pre-Internet online service provider, and NeXT Computer. He is a pioneer of the Internet's commercialization, and as a co-founder of Proxicom, helped to build one of the first, largest, and most successful publicly traded interactive agencies. Eric most recently served as Managing Director of WashingtonVC, an early-stage fund and incubator. Previously, Eric held senior executive roles in high-growth Internet businesses, as founder and CEO of Viaduct Technologies, a global Internet and mobile interactive agency. Previously, he was instrumental in building digitalNATION, a world leading web hosting and services provider, from its launch through its $100m acquisition by Verio Internet/NTT (NYSE: NTT).

Bruce Livingstone is the chief executive officer of iStockphoto, which he founded in 1998 and where he introduced the $1 user-generated image and the concept of micropayment stock imagery. As Getty Images' senior vice president of the consumer market, Livingstone leads the upcoming consumer offering, a brand new growth opportunity for the company. Getty Images was the first to recognize micropayment as the next evolution in the industry and acquired iStockphoto in February 2006.

Livingstone is a former graphic designer and lifelong entrepreneur who has started several businesses including, Evolvs Media, a design firm; PaperThinWalls.com, an independent music website; and Webcore Labs, which offers professional Linux Web hosting. PaperThinWalls.com and Evolvs Media were purchased by Getty Images in 2007.

Aaron Lubin has been working as Edward Burns' producing partner at Marlboro Road Gang Productions for the past nine years, recently producing PURPLE VIOLETS written and directed by Burns and starring Selma Blair, Patrick Wilson, Debra Messing alongside Burns. That film gained notoriety when it became the first feature film to premiere exclusively on iTunes, in November of 2007.

Lubin produced the ensemble comedy THE GROOMSMEN, which was released in 2006, starring Burns, Brittany Murphy, John Leguizamo, Jay Mohr, Matthew Lillard and Donal Logue, and written and directed by Burns.

Lubin and Burns also partnered with THINKfilm to distribute Burns' digital feature LOOKING FOR KITTY starring Burns and David Krumhotlz which was shot on a miniscule budget of just more than $200 thousand. The film was released in 2006 to favorable reviews including "Two Thumbs Up" from Ebert and Roeper.

Lubin also served as a producer on Burns' films ASH WEDNESDAY starring Elijah Wood, Rosario Dawson, Oliver Platt and Burns, as well as SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK, starring Brittany Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Heather Graham, David Krumhotlz, Stanley Tucci and Burns.

Additionally, Lubin worked on the NBC television show THE FIGHTING FITZGERALDS starring Brian Dennehy, as well as several Saturn commercials, in producing capacities.

Prior to Marlboro Road Gang, Lubin was a creative executive at Kopelson Entertainment, where he worked on such films as THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE and US MARSHALS.

Lubin is a graduate of The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Loyola Law School. He recently became a member of the Board of Advisors for www.scripped.com, a new website, which hosts a blog co-authored by Lubin and Burns.

Thaine Lyman is Vice President of Production Management at Activision Publishing and has been responsible for overseeing production of videogames across a variety of genres and themes, most recently including Kung Fu Panda, James Bond: Quantum of Solace, and Call of Duty: World at War. Thaine has been at Activision for over 11 years, originally joining as an attorney. Prior to that, he served in the Business Affairs department at Capitol Records. Thaine holds a JD from the UCLA School of Law and BA from Grinnell College, and is a hardcore gamer and avid Chicago Cubs fan.

Troy Marshall is currently the Vice President of Rap Promotion for Interscope Geffen and A&M Records (IGA).

Prior to his arrival at IGA, Mr. Marshall served in the same capacity at the Universal Motown Records Group. Before Universal Motown, Mr. Marshall served at Warner Bros. Records in Los Angeles, where he helped develop artists. He held a ten year stint at MCA Records (before the company was absorbed into Geffen Records) from 1994 to 2004 in the promotion arena. Mr. Marshall's began his career in the music business in 1994 at MCA as a music coordinator.

"The music industry continues to evolve and I've watched it transition from 12inch singles, cassettes and CDs, to social networks, digital downloads, MP3s and Ipods. Regardless of the mode in which we deliver music, it always comes back to having a great song, coupled with expert promotion, marketing and branding. I hope to continue with that philosophy as I continue down my career path."

Rachel Masters is Vice President of Strategic Relationships for Ning, Inc., social networking service with a twist - it empowers people to create their own social websites and social networks. Previously Rachel was the Associate Director of Strategic Relationship and Business Development at Warner Music Group. In this role, she launched new relationships with innovative digital media companies such as YouTube. Rachel also oversaw WMG's investments in digital media companies including Emotive, a next-generation ring tone provider and advised Warner Music Group International on new companies and strategic relationships. Prior to Warner Music Group, she was an Associate at StarVest Partner, L.P. a New York-based venture capital fund whose portfolio companies include NetSuite and iCrossing. Rachel was also a television producer at Cablevision, Fox and MTV Networks. She holds a B.A. from Brandies University, where she was named a University Scholar and graduated cum laude and with High Honors. Rachel also received a MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business. Outside of the office she likes to ski down fresh powder, see live music and travel.

Phil Miano is the National Director for Platform-A Mobile Advertising which includes the AOL mobile properties, Third Screen Media network, and mobile carriers Verizon Wireless and Virgin Mobile. In this role Phil leads a team of talented mobile specialists who teach brands how to be successful in their mobile advertising endeavors.

Prior to joining Platform-A, Phil was the first mobile advertising specialist in the US for Microsoft where he had previously helped launch the sales efforts for adCenter, Microsoft's paid search platform.

Phil has been involved with digital media since 1997. He has held senior sales positions with: Time Inc. New Media, The i-Turf Network, 360hiphop/Bet.com, and PRIMEDIA.

Phil is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and the US Army's, John F Kennedy Center for special warfare.

Mashery's co-founder and CEO has a record of success in a variety of executive positions spanning multiple industries. Oren co-founded and managed WiFinder, an international provider of directory services for public access wi-fi hotspots. He has served as president for two companies: Colt HR, a leading provider of mid-market benefits administration software and services; and Winebid.com, a leading online wine auction service. He also served as president and CEO of The Groundlings, a Hollywood-based entertainment production company, and has held COO positions at manufacturing companies. Prior to joining Mashery, Oren worked as vice president of business development at Feedster, where he managed the company's activities in China and negotiated partnerships with AOL, Real Networks, and Mitsui.

Oren began his career as a software designer for Hughes Aircraft. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial studies from UCLA's Anderson School.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Neu has been involved in a wide range of leading companies and organizations, both technology and non-technology related. He was a founding member a development firm in Sydney, Australia focusing on Mobile Technology and Wireless Content Delivery. He also worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Legal Protection unit, working with Asian Pacific Governments to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems.

In 2004, Mr. Neu became a founding member of CharityHelp International, where he currently serves as Vice-President and is on the Board of Directors. CHI is a leading non-profit organization in use and deployment of technology in developing nations, fostering the growth and establishment of grass roots projects.

In 2007, Jeffrey Neu founded J. C. Neu and Associates, a law firm which specializes on the needs of technology companies and their related concerns including Intellectual Property, emerging technologies, and virtual exchanges. The firm works with companies of all sizes and shapes from basement start-ups to multinational corporations and Fortune 500 companies.

Craig is customer service rep and founder of craigslist.org. In 1995 while Craig was working at Schwab, he 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.

Mr. Norlin is the CEO of Pixsy Corporation, the leading distributor of video and image search. Mr. Norlin has spent the last 15 years in the Internet and digital media industries. Prior to Pixsy, Mr. Norlin served as a senior executive at ValueClick (NASDAQ:VCLK) where he managed publisher distribution and emerging technologies for the ValueClick display ad network, paid search, and comparison shopping divisions.

Prior to ValueClick, Mr. Norlin held the position of Senior Business Development Consultant to InfoSpace (NASDAQ:INSP) charged with publisher distribution and emerging applications for the paid search division. Previously, Mr. Norlin developed Sony's first online photo sharing venture and founded the web's first video sharing company ShareYourWorld. Mr. Norlin also served as an EIR at Boeing Ventures in launching Boeing's (NYSE:BA) online photo and video licensing division.

Mr. Norlin has served on the advisory board of CampusPoint and currently serves on the advisory boards of AdBid Central, VideoThang, Platform264, PickupPal and Adgregate. He received his BA from UC Berkeley and MA from The University of Chicago and is a regular speaker on digital media, online advertising, and search. Recent speaking engagements include the Goldman Sachs 9th Annual Global Media Conference, Goldman Sachs 17th Annual Communacopia Conference, Bear Stearns Annual Media Conference, OMMA, NATPE, iMediaConnection, Monaco Media Forum, AlwaysOn, TheDeal, Gnomedex, PubCon, and Digital Hollywood.

Joe joined Hub Strategy near the end of 2005 with the goal of helping the growing agency achieve its full potential. As the General Manager, Joe is in charge of account management and brand strategy for all Hub clients as well as Hub internal operations.

Before he joined Hub, Joe was the Account Director at Duncan Channon Advertising, where he oversaw most of the agency's accounts including Hard Rock (Cafes, Hotels and Casinos), Heavenly Ski Resort, Konami Digital Entertainment, Eidos Interactive, Sega of America, Listen.com, Sammy Studios, Glu Mobile, Working Assets Long Distance, AltaVista and Sony Metreon.

Previous to this, Joe started his advertising career at two large multi-national advertising agencies: Lowe & Partners and Foote, Cone and Belding, both in San Francisco. At Lowe, Joe supervised the Eddie Bauer and Autoweb.com accounts and at FCB, Joe worked on a variety of accounts including Dockers, Goldwin Golf, Teledyne Water Pik, Keds Shoes and Armor All.

Joe has a B.S. in Biology and Human Development from the University of California at Davis. He loves to ski, rock climb, travel and eat. A lot.

Okum, a recognized industry leader in social marketing, is responsible for overseeing marketing, strategic planning and overall business development for StreetWise. Okum is also responsible for managing bottom-line financial performance and pursuing growth opportunities. Okum joined the company in 2003, and has worked with a myriad of StreetWise's leading brands, including Coca-Cola, Nokia, EB Games, Activision, Warner Brothers, Live Nation and FUEL TV. In his former role as vice-president interactive entertainment, Okum was responsible for leading the company's video game division, which has an impressive roster of leading brands such as Activision, Atari, Capcom, Namco, NCsoft and Ubisoft.

Prior to joining Streetwise, Okum was the co-founder of Shine.com, Inc., a leading venture funded technology company that assisted non-profit organizations with online fundraising and corporate clients with the automation of workplace giving systems. In 1999, he lead Shine.com through its' acquisition by Charity Online, Inc. Okum grew up in Encino, CA and is a graduate of The Buckley School.

Okum attended the University of Southern California where he studied Marketing and Religion.

Drew and the internet go way back. He has been consulting in various forms of media on the internet since 1996 and has a love for content generated by people.

He is the founder and former host of the "Best Damn Tech Show, Period" 3 year running podcast, one half of the team behind the web show "scriggity", and is known best for such projects as Gmail4Troops and BlogAbroad. His success has come with his understanding of social networking and getting the word out about his and others projects via blogs, podcasts, and video in a true "grassroots" way. From a short internship at Digital City Philadelphia (AOL) to working with colleges and universities at EDU, and now with Strands, Drew's enthusiasm about people and the internet are his driving force.

Tyler Olson is the owner / moderator of MicrostockGroup.com - the most active microstock focused forum on the web. Tyler got involved in microstock photography at the beginning of 2004, and after seeing the need for an unbiased central microstock community, started MicrostockGroup.com in January 2006. Tyler has a formal education in Photography, with a B.F.A. from the University of Saskatchewan and currently works as a full time microstock photographer in Norway.

Ben has 15 years of media marketing experience, including 10 years focused on Internet advertising sales and business development. Positions include Sales and Product Management roles at Doubleclick, Advertising Director at Condenet and Director of Advertising Sales at Travelzoo where Ben helped the company go from $15M to $70M in advertising revenue in three years and saw the company through a successful IPO on NASDAQ.

Rahul Pathak is the CEO & Founder of LookStat - a web platform for microstock contributors that allows them to track their earnings, analyze their performance and ultimately, automate their work flow. Before founding LookStat, he was the VP of Product Management at Judy's Book, a user generated local reviews and savings site. Prior to working at Judy's Book, Rahul was a co-founder at Quova and worked in private equity at Advent and was a strategy consultant at Monitor Company. He holds a degree in Computer Science & Engineering from MIT and currently resides in Seattle.

Justin Ramers oversees social media initiatives for The Active Network's family of online properties including Active.com, eteamz.com, CoolRunning.com, LaxPower.com and the SportsPower franchise. In addition, Ramers is responsible for leveraging social media to promote Active's consumer products and online properties throughout the Internet.

Prior to joining The Active Network, Ramers was the founder and President of Axia Golf Solutions which was acquired by The Active Network in March 2006. Axia published the widely popular website FreeGolfInfo.com which grew to the largest online community and social network for golf lovers.

Sunil Rajaraman is the President and CEO of Scripped Inc. As CEO of the web-based screenwriting software company, Sunil guided the growth of the site to over 11,000 users. Prior to his role at Scripped, Sunil was a Senior Strategy Consultant at Navigant Consulting Inc., where he worked on the King Drew Medical Center project. Sunil is a 2008 graduate of the UCLA Anderson School of Management where he was the 2008 winner of the Young President's Organization Scholarship, and Editor-in-Chief of the UCLA Anderson Exchange. Sunil graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 2001 with a degree in Economics and Accounting, where he was Class President and Captain of the NCAA 11th ranked Division III tennis team.

Portrait photograper, writer and image inspector with iStockphoto, Rasmus has been involved with microstock since 2000 and written an e-book about it, "The Microstock Photographer's Guide". Originally from Denmark, he now lives in Seattle with his wife and fellow photographer, Kelly Cline. Rasmus does not refer to himself as a professional microstock photographer, but claims to know what it takes to become one. He offers portfolio consultations, tips and ideas through his writing for Zoom In Online and on his personal blog, .

As the Development Manager, Melissa is responsible for managing all fundraising activities for Creative Commons organization-wide. Outside of Creative Commons, Melissa volunteers for First Exposures, a youth mentoring program, where she teaches black and white photography. Melissa holds an MA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Art and Design Education and a BFA in Studio Art / Photography from Texas State University. She has been active in photography for over 14 years.

Jason Christian Ricks (aka J.C. Ricks) got his start in the music industry during the early 1990s doing street marketing with his colleague Brian Samson to form Blueprint Promotions. J.C.'s first record company job was with Steve Rifkind's Loud Records where he was Head of Promotions (working with the Wu-Tang Clan and Twista). He would segue to Capitol Records, as Head of Street Marketing & Promotions. This was followed by Noo Trybe/Virgin Records, working with Hip-Hop luminaries the Luniz, DJ Premier, Gangstarr, Scarface, the Geto Boys, and more. During the mid-1900s, J.C. landed at Arista Records as Co-Head of Rap Promotions. J.C. would eventually go to work for L.A. Reid at a restructured LaFace Records, as Senior Director of Promotions--working with the label's premier artists: Outkast, Toni Braxton, TLC, and Usher.

In 2000, J.C. started his own indie promotion company, J. Christian Entertainment, and in 2006, launched Earful Music Publishing with business partner Airron McCoy. Together they work with a hungry group of young songwriters and producers out of Los Angeles' Inglewood area called Woodworks. Comprised of brothers Daniel & Davion Farris, and Tiffany Gouche, Earful Music formed a non-exclusive venture with Warner Chappell Music Publishing, placing songs with Jaheim, Lloyd f/Ludacris, JOE, Missy Elliott, the Pussycat Dolls, and a host of others. Woodworks has collaborated with producers the Co-Stars, Ro & Sauce (Something for the People), the Stereotypes and Grammy winners Bryan Michael Cox and Raphael Saadiq.

Danae Ringelmann is a founder of IndieGoGo, an online social marketplace connecting filmmakers and fans to make independent film happen. The platform provides filmmakers the tools for project funding, recruiting, and promotion, while enabling the audience to discover and connect directly with filmmakers and the causes they support.

Danae founded IndieGoGo to democratize the film funding process, and often speaks on DIWO (Do-It-With-Others) Filmmaking. Recent speaking engagements include LA Film Festival, Producer's Guild of America, Int'l Doc. Assn, Women in Film & TV, IFP Labs, and UC Berkeley.

Danae brings entertainment industry and film finance expertise. Prior to IndieGoGo, Danae was a securities analyst at Cowen & Co. where she covered entertainment companies including Pixar, Lions Gate, Disney, and Electronic Arts. Danae also focused on cable network, NFL, newspaper and hedge fund clientele while at JPMorgan's Investment Bank and Private Bank. In the wake of 9/11, Danae co-produced a concert reading of Incident at Vichy, an Arthur Miller play addressing the politically charged topic of racial profiling.

Danae is a CFA charterholder and holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Danae was also a Morehead Scholar and Varsity Rower at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Eric Robinson began his career as a musician, but quickly discovered that capturing performances to tape was his true calling. After writing an email to producer Steve Lillywhite when he was 19, Eric landed an internship with the band Phish. From there, he cut his teeth at Royaltone Studios in Los Angeles with artists such as the Barenaked Ladies and Ricky Martin. In 2006, Eric met producer/songwriter Marshall Altman and the two struck up a working relationship. Working as Altman's engineer and mixer, Eric has made records with Matt Nathanson, Kate Voegele, Elliott Yamin, William Fitzsimmons and many others. Eric continues to play music as a session and touring sideman with Sara Bareilles, Joshua Radin, Cary Brothers and Jessie Baylin.

Andres Rodriguez is a London based photographer specializing in shooting models. Meticulously researching his shoots has helped him become one of the world's top selling microstock photographers.

Andres is Colombian born but based in the UK. Educated at Oxford, he started his career as a web designer which led him to microstock. He started contributing in December 2004, turned pro in May 2006, and then quickly rose to the top of the contributor rankings.

Andres has a portfolio of over 12,000 images and sells more than 500,000 licenses per year. He finds his photos in use in books, brochures, online and on billboards all over the world and his clients include, Dell, Yahoo!, HP, Microsoft, IBM, Forbes, National Geographic among others.

A visionary and veteran of the Internet and wireless industries, Iain brings more than 18 years of technical and operations experience drive ImageSpan towards its mission of leading the market in automated digital content licensing and royalty settlement. Under Iain's leadership, ImageSpan has filed multiple patents, secured significant funding in financing led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments and Alan Patricof and his venture fund, Greycroft Partners, and forged strategic partnerships with Adobe, Omnicom, and Bertelsmann. His experience in entrepreneurial settings and vertical markets includes his role at ERUCES, a data security company, where as VP, Business Solutions, he focused on deploying a high volume of data encryption and key management platform into the wireless, healthcare, finance, government and media industries. Previously, as CTO of Livemind, a wireless commerce and technology services company, Iain secured tier 1 venture capital through institutional investors. The architect of Livemind's product platform, Iain scaled the company infrastructure and engineering operations to service global telecommunications clients. Previous to Livemind, Iain was a member of the ClickAction Company (NASDAQ: CLAC) executive team, building an Enterprise Marketing Automation platform.

Prashant Shah, Managing Director, joined Hummer Winblad in December 2000. He has been instrumental in many investments including Baynote, Bridgestream, Cenzic, InMage, Jareva Technologies, Krillion, Scalent, SyncVoice, Tizor and Voltage Security. He also observes a number of these boards. In addition, Prashant is an active Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley, where he is Chair of the Software SIG; and a member of the Board of Trustees for Astia.

Prior to Hummer Winblad, Prashant spent many years defining and launching high tech products. His background spans all seven layers of the OSI stack with product management roles at enCommerce (acquired by Entrust), Cypress Semiconductor and AT&T. Prashant received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

During business hours, Craig Sherman lives in gaiaonline.com, the leading teen hangout on the web. Craig leads the company's strategic planning, management, and technology development. Prior to joining Gaia Online, Craig served as Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. Craig was also COO of MyFamily.com (ancestry.com), where he helped grow the company from $23 million to $150 million in sales and transform it from an advertising-based site to a highly profitable consumer subscription business. Before this, Craig held senior positions at American International Group, where he ran all marketing and internet sites for AIG in Japan and Korea. Previous to AIG, Craig was CEO of Cendant Japan, a joint venture founded by Cendant and Mitsubishi Corporation. Craig currently holds director or advisor positions on the boards of Homestead, Myheritage, Netquote and Singlefeed. Previously, Craig also held board positions with Photobucket, prior to its sale to the Fox network, and Logoworks, prior to its sale to Hewlett Packard. Craig has a BA from Princeton University.

Matt co-founded Indaba Music in 2007 to help artists take advantage of radical changes happening in technology and in the music industry. As Co-CEO Matt is responsible for overall vision and strategy, as well as the management of Indaba's website and operations. Since early 2007 Indaba has grown into a community of over 100,000 musicians from over 175 countries around the world, and has attracted artists like Mariah Carey, The Roots, Yo-Yo Ma, and Third Eye Blind to the platform for innovative user generated content-based marketing campaigns. Prior to starting Indaba Matt worked as a management consultant with Katzenbach Partners, LLC in New York, and in 2003 he co-founded Harvard University's student record label Veritas Records with future Indaba business partner Dan Zaccagnino. His greatest accomplishment came many years earlier when, as a child actor, he invented the Jell-O Jiggler lips.

Robin Sloan is Current's new media strategist, responsible for charting the company's course on the web and other platforms. He was part of the small team that launched Current's initial site in 2005 - the world's first open, collaborative TV production studio, and was instrumental in conceiving, designing, and launching the new Current.com in 2007.

Prior to joining Current, he was a reporter and producer at the Poynter Institute, a journalism school and think tank. There, he co-produced , a viral video view of the future of media.

Sloan has given talks at The Supernova Conference, Yale Law School, The Society for News Design and The Institute for the Future.

Andrew guides all revenue generation efforts at Associated Content including advertising and sponsorship sales, content syndication, and custom content and distribution partnerships. Prior to joining Associated Content, Andrew served as VP, Digital Media Advertising Sales at Discovery Networks, where he managed all aspects of the company's US digital advertising sales and strategy, including online, mobile, broadband, and video on demand. During his tenure, Discovery Digital Media established new cross-platform marketing platforms, forged new relationships with brands including Amgen, Ford, GE, Merck, and Toyota, and acquired Petfinder.com, and Treehugger.com. Before Discovery Networks, Andrew was Director, Midwest & East Coast Sales for ESPN.com, with responsibility for driving online, mobile, fantasy game, and broadband sales. Andrew's career in interactive media sales began in 1995 at Seattle-based Starwave. Andrew is a graduate of Whitman College and resides in Montclair, NJ.

Brian Solis is globally recognized for his views and insights on the convergence of PR, Traditional Media and Social Media. He contributes his thoughts and experiences through speaking appearances, books, articles and essays to help the marketing industry understand and embrace the evolving dynamics of new communications, marketing, and content creation.

Solis is Principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning PR agency in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. He blogs at PR2.0, bub.blicio.us, TechCrunch, and BrandWeek.

With Geoff Livingston, Solis released "Now is Gone" an award-winning book that helps businesses learn how to embrace Social Media. His next book, "Putting the Public back in Public Relations," with co-author Deirdre Breakenridge, will be released in Q1 2009. He has also written several ebooks on the subjects of Social Media, New PR, Customer Service, and Blogger Relations.

PR 2.0, www.briansolis.com, is a top 2,500 Technorati blog and is ranked in the top third of Ad Age's Power 150 index of leading marketing bloggers.

Sanjay Sood is Associate Professor of Marketing at the Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA. His research and teaching expertise lies in the area of brand equity and consumer decision making. Using psychological principles, Sanjay examines how firms can best build, manage, and leverage strong brand names. This includes investigating what brand names mean to consumers, how to use brand slogans and characters to build equity, how to use brand naming strategies to launch new products, and how to protect brand names from becoming diluted over time and across geographical boundaries. His research has been published in leading marketing and psychology journals including the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, and Cognitive Psychology. Sanjay is an associate editor at the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and is on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Marketing Research. He has also written marketing cases on Nike and the California Milk Processor Board (Gotmilk campaign) for Keller's book entitled Strategic Brand Management, as well as a case on Sears, Roebuck and Co. for Harvard Business School.

Sanjay obtained his Ph.D. in Marketing from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Sanjay also received an MBA degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, majoring in marketing and strategy. Actively involved with industry, Sanjay has consulted with several leading marketing companies, including Intel, Starbucks, Levi-Strauss, IBM, Microsoft, Kaiser Permanente, Sprint, Cablevision, Miller, and Jose Cuervo.

Reuben Steiger is the CEO of Millions of Us, a company dedicated to helping businesses understand and harness the power of virtual worlds and online communities.

Prior to founding Millions of Us, Steiger was the Evangelist for Linden Lab, creators of the 3-D virtual world Second Life. In that role, he was responsible for business development efforts and bringing the first wave of corporations and commercial developers into Second Life.

Until 2002, he was Chief Development Officer at OVEN Digital, where he helped build that company into the world's largest privately-owned Internet consultancy with 11 offices and 350 employees worldwide.

Steiger holds a BA in English Literature from Brown University and lives in Marin County with his wife and two young children.

Jeff Straughn is the Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Island Def Jam Music Group. While at IDJ, Mr. Straughn has been responsible for building year-long relationships with many consumer and auto and electronic brands where both partners feed off each others assets and develop fully integrated and sound partnerships. Mr. Straughn was also instrumental in creating and launching Tag Records with IDJ and Procter & Gamble.

Straughn came to IDJ after nine years at Octagon Sports and Entertainment (a member of Interpublic group), where he was Vice President of Music & Entertainment. He began his career in advertising in 1989, as Assistant Account Executive at API Advertising (a subsidiary of Saatchi/Saatchi). In 1992, he moved to Bozell Advertising, where he was Senior Account Executive for three and a half years. He joined ADV Marketing in 1996, as Account Director. Mr. Straughn graduated from Bradley University in Illinois, with the Bachelor Of Science Degree in Advertising & Public Relations. He received his Associates degree in Communications from Keystone College in Pennsylvania.

Philip J. Strina. Mr. Strina is an entertainment attorney who serves as the Senior Vice President of Business Affairs at Inferno Entertainment, a film production and sales company located in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Strina's primary duties include negotiating and drafting rights, finance, sales agency, co-production, and talent agreements, and managing the company's corporate affairs. Prior to joining Inferno, Mr. Strina worked as Counsel in the Business & Legal Affairs department at New Line Cinema where he was primarily responsible for New Line's film acquisitions, co-productions, and negative pick-up transactions.

Ian Swanson is founder and CEO of Sometrics, the first analytics company to focus on social networking platforms. He and his team created a way to provide detailed analytics of millions of daily users of social platforms like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and others. The Sometrics solution helps developers and advertisers better understand how people are using social media, so developers can monetize their applications and advertisers can more effectively reach their target audiences.

Before launching Sometrics, Swanson was business development manager for Userplane, an AOL company that provides social media apps to hundreds of thousands of online communities, supporting millions of users daily. Swanson was instrumental in helping the company extend the reach of its hosted chat, IM and other communications apps, and in building the company's ad network. Before Userplane, he was an executive with Sprint and helped launch two mobile web startups.

As a social media insider, Swanson has been invited to speak on many social media topics relating to platform apps, social marketing and performance-based analytics. Swanson actively advises several successful social networking applications, Fortune 500 companies and startups with their brand and marketing strategies within the social media ecosystem.

Swanson earned his bachelor's degree in economics from University of California, Santa Barbara.

Yuval Tal is CEO and founder of Payoneer, the online mass payout solution that pays directly to universally accepted Prepaid MasterCard® cards. He has over 20 years of experience in Internet commerce-related technology startups, with in-depth expertise in prepaid card applications, currency exchange and security technologies.

Before founding Payoneer in the spring of 2005, Yuval co-founded E4X, a provider of services that expedite cross-border payments on the Internet. The company was one of the first in the industry to provide an efficient infrastructure for global e-commerce. He grew the company to over $500 million in processing volume and achieved profitability in record time by winning numerous blue-chip accounts. Yuval also served as vice president of business development for RADWARE (NASDAQ: RDWR) and in an elite combat unit of the Israel Defense Forces.

Thompson is the chief operating officer of iStockphoto, the world's leading community-powered marketplace for stock photography, illustrations, and most recently, stock video clips. iStockphoto was one of the first online communities to actually make anyone money (in some cases, a whole lot of it), by monetizing contributor content. Image prices still start as low as $1.

Thompson has helped grow the company from a small social network for a few thousand graphic designers with digital cameras, to the world's busiest image market, which sold 18.25 million royalty-free stock images and videos in 2007. He led the marketing strategy behind iStock's expansion into member-contributed video clips for as little as $15.

Thompson holds a computer science degree from the University of Calgary. Prior to iStockphoto he was senior brand manager at the enterprise search company Verity, Inc.

Lee Torrens is the author of Microstock Diaries where he blogs about his experiences as a microstock photographer and reports on the microstock market. He started the blog in early 2007 to share what he was learning about the industry and it has since grown into an entrepreneurial venture and a passion for Lee. Milking this wild ride for all he can, Lee has taken opportunities to present at conferences and mingle with some of the world's top stock photographers and industry notables. Until he can sell enough of his own stock photos to earn a living, he's not unhappy writing about those who do so instead.

The original idea for mediabistro.com was cooked up in 1994, when Laurel-then a freelance business writer and Glamour magazine contributor-and a friend decided to host a mixer for media people. About 20 editors, writers, and other content creators came to that original cocktail party at Jules Bistro in the East Village. Attendees bought their own drinks and enjoyed casual after-work bonding in the company of like-minded people. The parties quickly grew, and soon Laurel had 4,000 of New York's top media talent on her email list. After creating a website in 1996 and adding features such as job listings, bulletin boards, classes, e-classes, media and a freelance marketplace, Touby's business began to take off. Today, the site also includes news, events and "learn" emails, as well as media industry blogs. More than 850,000 media professionals have registered for various mediabistro.com services around the world.

Laurel started her career at Young & Rubicam/NY in the media planning department. She left Y&R to become an editorial assistant at Working Woman, moved on to Business Week as a staff editor, and in 1993 began editing and writing a column on workplace issues for Glamour. She has covered everything from travel to business to breast cancer for a variety of publications, including New York, Travel + Leisure, Self, Redbook, McCall's, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, Working Mother, and the New York Daily News. Born in Oahu, Hawaii, Laurel grew up in Miami (before South Beach existed) and graduated from Smith College with a degree in economics.

Ms. Tune is Counsel at Pillsbury's San Francisco office, and leads the firm's Copyrights practice and Media & Entertainment industry teams. Her practice includes a wide variety of intellectual property issues, including copyrights and trademarks, as well as a broad array of entertainment, licensing and E-Commerce matters. Ms. Tune represents a variety of clients in connection with music, video, multi-media and other entertainment projects and has extensive experience enforcing rights in entertainment-related intellectual property. Most recently, Ms. Tune was named one of 2008's Top 10 Copyright Lawyers in California by The Daily Journal.

Rod Underhill made his initial splash in the technology sector when he co-founded MP3.com, an Internet business that became worth more than six billion dollars. He is the author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Millions on the Internet" and other technology books. In 2008 he received a Webby Award, honoring his work in mobile technology relating to Podlinez.com. Attorney, law professor and technologist, Professor Underhill serves as an advisor to technology start ups.

He works with software companies and web based businesses as well as providing pro-bono advisory services to noted cancer research scientists and medical research driven universities. His help spans venture capital expertise to technology development as well as legal issues and business modeling and has two significant patents pending before the US Patent Office. Recently, the New York Times praised his Podlinez.com project by making it a "Tech Tip of the Week." Underhill is currently assisting several new start ups to reach their goals. He has appeared on the Geraldo Show and NPR and was profiled in Rolling Stone Magazine.

Rod has served as an adjunct professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, where he has taught technology/internet law and music law. He resides in the remote mountain village of Julian, California with his wife and two children.

Patricia Vargas is the Senior Director for Content Development and User Generated Content at Jupiterimages, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation and, oversees the day-to-day content and community operations for Stockxpert.com. She has 18 years of combined experience in content production, acquisition and product management and considers her time behind the lens as a photographer for the Canadian government, one of the many highlights of her career. Patricia works from the Canadian office in Gatineau, Quebec.

Image Source is world's leading independent producer of high end royalty free stock photography with offices in London, New York and Cologne. Image Source has an exceptional reputation in working with professional photographers to deliver outstanding creative and commercial excellence.

Image Source employs over 70 people across its three offices as well as a large team of freelance photographers, producers and stylists worldwide, organising photo shoots in places as wide apart as CapeTown, Tokyo, Shanghai, Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Miami and New York.

During her career, Christina has worked in several sectors of the stock photography industry, in senior creative and business development roles in the United States, Germany and France as well as in the UK. She has won several awards for entrepreneurial ship, innovation and service to industry.

Christina graduated from the University of London with a BA Honours in European Studies. She speaks French and Spanish and her interests include foreign culture and travel, sports and the outdoors as well as good food and good friends.

Image Source holds the Queens Award for International Enterprise, has been shortlisted by The Sunday Times Best Employers 2008 as One to Watch and is in The Guardian's 2008 Book of Top Employers.

Matt is the Ex Director of Community Management for Yahoo. As the Director of Community Management, Matt developed and executed the Community strategy for products such as Groups, Messenger, Profiles, and Mail. Matt's team was responsible for community input/advisory panels, product blogs, community events, and engagement programs. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Matt spent 8 years working for eBay. While at eBay, Matt managed several components of eBay's Community Management team, including input programs, events, and forums.

Andrew Warner is an ambitious internet entrepreneur. In 1998 he used credit card debt to launch Bradford & Reed, an online greeting card company which reached annual revenues of over $38 million. After selling the company in 2003, he launched Mixergy.com, where ambitious startups learn from experienced entrepreneurs.

Larry Weintraub is CEO and Co-Founder of Fanscape, the leading Digital Engagement Marketing Agency reaching and activating consumers to foster targeted word-of-mouth marketing through online and emerging media. Fanscape's online influencer marketing experts have in-depth understanding of niche audiences and consumer behaviors across the Web, providing highly measurable, earned media strategies for major corporations and leading entertainment, technology and mobile companies, including: AT&T; Samsung; Paramount Pictures; M&Ms; State Farm Insurance; MTV, Universal Music Group, and more. After more than 25 years of expanding the careers of multi-platinum musicians by filling the communicational gaps between artists and fans online and holding such positions as Vice President of Artist Development/Artist Relations at A&M Records, Weintraub co-founded Fanscape with President Terry Dry in 1998. Weintraub was twice named "Pollstar Magazine's Artist Development Executive of the Year," an accolade granted to him through a peer vote.

Brooke Wentz is a seasoned intellectual property rights executive who founded The Rights Workshop, a consulting and mediation business, in 2002. Author of Hey, That's My Music! Music Supervision, Licensing and Content Acquisition (Hal Leonard, 2007), Wentz brings twenty-five years of experience in music licensing and publishing, record production and performing rights organization administration to clients of The Rights Workshop.

Prior to founding The Rights Workshop, Ms. Wentz spent six years as Music Director for ESPN, the largest US cable network, administering legal policy and overseeing all music rights including music for the X Games, World Cup and Sports Century telecasts. She initiated the company's publishing efforts, spearheading relationships with foreign sub-publishers and was responsible for original scores, commercial music clearance, and production music libraries. Ms. Wentz exercised options for all 50 Greatest Athletes programs that continued for two years after the Millennium. Earlier in her career Wentz worked for Arista Records and the Reich Music Foundation.

An accomplished producer, Ms. Wentz has released over 25 critically-acclaimed recordings. She received recognition from Hillary Clinton for Global Divas, an album produced for the 1996 Third World Conference on Women held in Beijing. Ms. Wentz won a Billboard Award for Global Meditation, a 4CD box set of international music.

Ms. Wentz is a frequent guest speaker and educator on content acquisition, digital rights and the future of media. She has been hired as an expert witness for copyright infringement cases and is a TASA-registered expert witness. Ms. Wentz has served on the faculty of San Francisco State University and Baruch College, and currently teaches the Business of Music at Pyramind: The Institute for Digital Audio Training. She is an active governor on the NARAS board.

Ms. Wentz holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Barnard College and a MBA from Columbia University.

James West, 35, is the co-founder and CEO of Alamy, the world's largest online stock photography library. He started the business in 1999, pioneering the concept of establishing an unedited collection of images and returning the majority share of each sale to the photographer.

Alamy has grown rapidly to build the largest and most comprehensive collection of commercial photography on the web with more than 14 million images from thousands of photographers and hundreds of agencies worldwide.

James, a graduate of Edinburgh University, UK, is a keen diver and sailor who also pursues interests in climate change and other projects. Alamy provides around $1.5 million a year to a number of medical research projects and operates a programme to reduce its impact on the environment.

Brian Wilcove joined Sofinnova Ventures in 2006 as a Partner on the Technology investment team. Brian focuses on investments in the communications, networking, and mobility markets. His current investments include ConteXtream, Guavus and microAzure.

Prior to joining Sofinnova, he spent five years with TeleSoft Partners, where he was responsible for a number of investments, including BayPackets (GENBAND), Calix, Internet Photonics (Ciena), LogLogic, OnFiber (Qwest), Tele Atlas (Tom Tom), and VoiceObjects. Earlier in his career, Brian was a co-founder of Virtela Communications, a managed services company, where he served as VP of Marketing and Business Development. Previously, Brian was responsible for Qwest's IP product portfolio, where he launched and managed the P&L of several business units, including DSL, Virtual Private Networking, and Internet Access. Brian began his career at America Online.

He graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Rebekah Wu founded Right-Hand Partners based on her own experiences as an entrepreneur seeking start-up capital. During those years, she attended and presented at venture conferences, built out a team, developed the products, and hired consultants. Even after spending thousands of dollars and hours, she was often unsatisfied with the results for her money and time. She found very few providers that produced deliverables that proved they could see through the eyes of the entrepreneur and the venture capitalist.

Therefore, Rebekah decided to be THE "solution" for entrepreneurs... someone that could be counted upon as a "right-hand partner": to often make the first move on behalf of her clients, to facilitate critical introductions, and to catalyze business transactions that will catapult them to the next level. Right-Hand Partners has done just that, working selectively with cutting-edge startup companies and leading venture capital and angel groups throughout the SF Bay Area.

Since founding RHP in 2001, Rebekah has coached 28 companies raise over $160M of venture capital. 6 of those companies have been acquired. She has produced hundreds of events bringing together active VCs and quality entrepreneurs.

Rebekah was not only an experienced Founder of a software startup, but she was previously the E-Commerce Strategy Mgr. at Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, and a Regional Mgr. of Internet Solutions at AT&T. Rebekah's #1 passion is singing sacred early music (music from the renaissance and baroque period) and is currently the soprano soloist at St. Francis Lutheran in San Francisco.

Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO at iWidgets, and has 15 years of experience helping companies to adapt new technology platforms. Peter was most recently the Founder and CEO at ActiveGrid, a commercial open source company delivering the LAMP stack to the enterprise. Previously, he was CTO of Sun Microsystems' Liberty Network Identity initiative. Peter was also CTO of Sun Microsystems' Application Server Division. Before its acquisition by Sun, Peter served as CTO of NetDynamics, which pioneered the then-leading J2EE application server. Earlier, he was Founder and CEO of JRad Technologies, an enterprise Java company acquired by NetDynamics. Peter holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.

Dan co-founded Indaba Music in 2007 to help artists take advantage of radical changes happening in technology and in the music industry. As Co-CEO, Dan is responsible for overall vision and strategy, as well as the management of Indaba's website and operations. Since early 2007 Indaba has grown into a community of over 100,000 musicians from over 175 countries around the world, and has attracted artists like Mariah Carey, The Roots, Yo-Yo Ma, and Third Eye Blind to the platform for innovative user generated content-based marketing campaigns. Dan has been a recording and performing musician since his childhood and has worked at major record labels. He is a member of the Steering Committee for Education Through Music, a NY-based non-profit that offers music education to disadvantaged schools in order to enhance students' academic performance and general development, and is also a member of the Recording Academy. In 2003 he co-founded Harvard University's student record label Veritas Records with future Indaba business partner Matt Siegel.