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Confirmed Speakers Previously, he was at The Economist, where he served as U.S. Business Editor, Asia Business Editor and Technology Editor. He started The Economist’s Internet coverage in 1994 and directed its initial web strategy. Mr. Anderson's media career began at the two premier science journals, Nature and Science, where he served in several editorial capacities. Prior to that he worked as a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s meson physics facility and served as research assistant to the Chief Scientist of the Department of Transportation. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from George Washington University and studied Quantum Mechanics and Science Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. Anderson is a member of the Young Presidents’ Association and a regular speaker and participant at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Mr. Allen is also a founding member and bass player for the post-punk band Gang of Four who recently completed a world tour after an entirely unexpected three year reunion. His past career includes time spent at Intel as Director, Business Development, where he negotiated music licensing contracts for Intel’s Internet-connected products such as MP3 players and home entertainment servers. Prior to Intel, he served as General Manager, Los Angeles, for EMusic.com where he was in charge of licensing music catalogues for the online distribution of music in a DRM-free MP3 format. Mr. Allen has spent the last decade attempting to reduce the transactional friction that occurs between music lovers, musical artists and copyright holders when music is distributed on the internet. His highly trafficked music and MP3 blog, Pampelmoose.com, gives insight into his thinking about how the major label recording industry has been derailed by the Internet. With previous experience at SuperMac Technologies, Radius, Creative Labs, Rendition, and Raycer Graphics, he has deep retail consumer electronics and OEM experience. While at Creative Labs, Rich was responsible for product marketing and for introducing the sound card and CD-ROM player to the consumer electronics world, helping to take Creative Labs to $1.5B in annual sales. He was promoted internally at Creative to GM of the OEM Business Unit, an International Creative Technology Ltd. division responsible for $400M in annual sales. Rich serves as a Board Member for the Consumer Electronics Association and is an advisor for several early stage start-ups in Silicon Valley. He has given technical and marketing presentations at COMDEX, CES, CeBit, MacWorld, and several international standards committee meetings. Products under his direction have won hundreds of technical and editorial awards as well as multiple marketing awards for creative advertising and web development. He studied Cellular Physiology at the University of Illinois and completed two years of PhD study in Physiology prior to joining Beecham Laboratories where he began his sales and marketing career. He is also director of the Center for Citizen Media, a project to enhance and expand grassroots media and its reach. The center is an affiliate of ASI and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He is author of “We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People,” a book that explains the rise of citizens’ media and why it matters. From 1994 until early 2005, Mr. Gillmor was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, and wrote a weblog for SiliconValley.com. He joined the Mercury News after six years with the Detroit Free Press. Prior to YouSendIt, Kumaran held marketing positions at Verisity Design, a key provider of verification process automation (VPA) solutions, where he managed product marketing for the software tools of Access Systems. Previously, he was the director of sales engineering at Celoxica, a leading provider of C-based design and behavioral synthesis tools, where he built the company's sales applications and established its engineering team. Kumaran also was a software systems engineer at Red Hat, one of the largest and most recognized companies dedicated to open-source software and the largest distributor of the GNU/Linux operating system. Kumaran received a bachelor of engineering degree in computer engineering from McGill University and is an active member of TiE Silicon Valley.
Mike Masnick
President and CEO of Floor 64
Founder of Techdirt
Conference emcee and moderator
Mike is the visionary behind Floor64, building up the core idea into reality and recruiting the management team. In addition to providing the strategic direction for the company, Mike oversees all editorial aspects of the Floor64’s public and customer sites.
Mike’s insight into the realms of business and technology are the basis for his frequent posts to the award winning Techdirt blog. The widely followed, often quoted blog was launched in 1997.
Prior to founding Floor64 Inc., Mike worked in business development and marketing at Release Software, an e-commerce startup, and in marketing at Intel. Mike has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations and an MBA -- both from Cornell University.
Chris Anderson
Author, Free: The Future of a Radical Price
Editor in chief, WIRED magazine
Keynote speaker
Chris Anderson is Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, a position he took in 2001. Since then he has led the magazine to nine National Magazine Award nominations, winning the prestigious top prize for General Excellence in 2007 and in 2005, a year in which he was also named Editor of the Year by Advertising Age magazine. He is the author of New York Times bestselling book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, which was published in 2006, and runs a blog on the subject at longtail.com. In 2007, the book won a prestigious Loeb Award as the best business book of the year and Anderson was named one of the “Time 100,” the newsmagazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. His next book, FREE, will be out on July 7, 2009.
Dave Allen
Director, Insights and Digital Media
Nemo
Dave Allen is the Director, Insights and Digital Media for the Portland-based interactive, brand and design firm, Nemo, where he plans and manages the company’s forward thinking strategies on using the Social Web. Acting as the community director he runs the Nemo blogs and manages the company’s digital footprint. He also advises Nemo’s clients, who include Nike, Hewlett Packard, Skullcandy, Bell Helmets and Smith Optics, on Social Web best practices.
He has been invited to speak and moderate panels at conferences such as SXSW, CMJ, Webvisions, Future of Music Coalition, SanFran MusicTech, Grammy MusicTech, Music Leadership Digital Summit and many more. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Northwest Chapter of the Grammy Organization.
Rich Buchanan
Chief Marketing Officer
Ooma
Rich Buchanan brings over 25 years of consumer and OEM executive level marketing and sales experience to the management team at ooma. Most recently Rich was part of the executive management team at Sling Media. He joined Sling Media in 2005, prior to the introduction of the Slingbox and was responsible for building the Slingbox brand, which included brand advertising, web and viral strategies, public relations, tradeshows and events. He was also responsible for the Slingbox customer experience, packaging, channel marketing, and efforts to build awareness in support of a global retail sales channel.
Arik Flanders
Director of Business Development,
isleptthroughclass.com
Arik Flanders individually manages all direct sale advertisement accounts, in addition to controlling and maintaining advertising and marketing campaigns through online advertising networks, multiple affiliate programs and online bidding exchanges. Arik is responsible for increasing SEO, growing public relation awareness, optimizing social media, developing print, email, Internet and internal targeted marketing campaigns, in addition to overseeing all location based marketing efforts. He also maintains a leading role in the development and deliverance of numerous venture capital presentations.
His involvement also includes database management, overseeing the development of “Slept Points” and designing a new premium membership business model. Arik gained valuable sales and marketing experience through his radio account executive position. While in this role, Arik created tactical marketing strategies for clients and followed through with relationship building and client needs analyses.
Arik graduated from Indiana University with a BS in Management and is a current MBA candidate at Ball State University’s Miller College of Business. Arik continues to work hard to ensure that the company enjoys success. He is active in sports and his community, showing others the importance of teamwork to build success.
Dan Gillmor
Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Dan Gillmor is director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication. The project aims to help students appreciate the startup culture of risk-taking, and to foster new media products and services.
Alex Iskold
Founder and CEO
AdaptiveBlue
Alex Iskold is founder and CEO of AdaptiveBlue (http://getglue.com/),
a New York-based startup focused on semantic browsing technologies.
He is also a featured writer for a popular technology blog, ReadWriteWeb.com. He was named among top 40 technologists under 40 by Computer World in 2007. He frequently speaks at the industry events about semantic web, cloud computing, widgets and social networks.
Justin Kan
Founder and President
Justin.tv
Justin Kan is a founder and president of Justin.tv. After graduating from Yale with dual degrees in physics and philosophy, Mr. Kan founded Kiko Software, the first AJAX-enabled web calendar. Following Kiko's sale to Tucows in 2006, Mr. Kan began lifecasting his every day life 24/7.
Meeting with instant popularity it wasn't long before viewers expressed their own interest in live streaming internet, this was the birth of Justin.tv. Since 2006, Justin.tv has grown at an average rate of 1,800% a year. Justin.tv now features 428,000 channels and 41 million unique viewers a month. In Justin's spare time, he enjoys riding his motorcycle.
Ranjith Kumaran
CTO and Co-founder,
YouSendIt
Ranjith Kumaran is the founder and Chief Technology Officer for YouSendIt, the trusted global leader in digital content delivery. In this role, he manages the Customer Service, IT, and Ops teams to guarantee optimum customer service, and efficiency in the IT and Ops departments.
Marissa Louie
Founder and CEO
AD-Village
Marissa Louie is the founder and CEO of AD-Village, which gives website publishers instant access to ads from top ad networks. AD-Village has helped website publishers of all sizes earn an average of 5-15% more revenue by recommending ads which match their online identities and audience the best. AD-Village's publishers include some of the most highly visited websites in the world.
Marissa is a frequent conference speaker and has also appeared on BusinessWeek.com, Forbes.com, BlogTalkRadio, GQ Korea, and more. She writes the column "Young Female Entrepreneur" for BusinessWeek.com and publishes thought leadership in online advertising at marissalouie.com.
Prior to founding AD-Village, she held leadership positions in Management Consulting, Product Management, Sales, and Viral Marketing for companies including Deloitte Consulting, Number Networks, and SlideShare. She has advised the C-suite of some of the world's largest companies.
She has a Bachelor's Degree in International Corporate Management from the University of California at Berkeley. In Marissa's spare time, she advises the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and enjoys outdoor water sports.
Alan D. Mutter
Adjunct Faculty Member, Graduate School of Journalist, UC Berkeley
Founder, Reflections of a Newsosaur
Alan D. Mutter is a senior media and technology executive who joined the adjunct faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley in 2009. An independent investor and consultant, he specializes in the strategic challenges facing both old and new media in an era of disruptive changes in technology, demographics and consumer behavior.
The former chief executive officer of three Silicon Valley companies involved in broadband delivery and online services for media companies, he previously served as the chief operating officer of a national cable television company. As a journalist earlier in his career, he led the newsrooms of the Chicago Sun-Times and San Francisco Chronicle.
Mr. Mutter publishes “Reflections of a Newsosaur,” an online commentary on the developments challenging the traditional media. “Newsosaur” is a frequently quoted as by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, PBS, Forbes, Business Week and other media outlets.
John Nahm
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Phonevite
John Nahm is responsible for overall business strategy and execution at Ifonoclast. Formerly Senior Product Manager and Business Development Manager at Dialpad (Silicon Valley's leading VoIP company and brand, acquired by Yahoo!), John led the successful launch of the award-winning dialpadworld PC-to-Phone premium international calling service and dialpadprepaid phonecard. John was also a VP of Corporate Banking at US Bancorp. His experience also includes international development work with the United Nations and business consulting/research with Deloitte Consulting. He holds a Master in International Finance and Business, and B.A. in Economics, both from Columbia University.
Dr. Robert Rowley
Chief Medical Officer
Practice Fusion
Dr. Robert Rowley is Chief Medical Officer of Practice Fusion, Inc. He has had an active interest in Healthcare IT for many years, and has been an author and blogger around Electronic Health Records development and implementation.
Prior to joining Practice Fusion, Dr. Rowley was a founder and CEO of Medical ChartWizard Systems, having developed and written that EMR system for use in his own medical practice. He has been a practicing physician in a Family Practice group setting in Hayward, CA, for over 25 years. He has also served as a Primary Care Medical Director for Hill Physicians Medical Group, which has given him a broad perspective on coordinated healthcare delivery. Dr. Rowley is a graduate of the UCSF School of Medicine.
Gigi Sohn
President and Co-Founder,
Public Knowledge
Gigi Sohn is an internationally known communications attorney. As co-founder and president of Public Knowledge, she serves as the organization's chief strategist, fundraiser and public face. She is also a senior adjunct fellow at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado and a senior fellow at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Law, Graduate Studies Program in Australia. She has been a non-resident fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center, and an ajunct professor at Georgetown University and at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. In 1997, President Clinton appointed Ms. Sohn to serve as a member of his Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters. In May 2006, the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave her its Internet "Pioneer" Award. She currently serves on the board of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference and Broadcasters' Child Development Center. She is also a member of the advisory board of the Future of Music Coalition and the Center for Public Integrity's "Well Connected" Telecommunications Project.
She holds a B.S. in Broadcasting and Film, Summa Cum Laude, from the Boston University College of Communication and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Kara Swisher
Co-Executive Editor
AllThingsD.com
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for the The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997. Her column "BoomTown" originally appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and also online at WSJ.com. Previously, Ms. Swisher covered breaking news about the Web's major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper. She has also written a weekly column for the Personal Journal on home gadget issues called Home Economics.
With Walt Mossberg, she currently co-produces and co-hosts D:All Things Digital, a major high-tech conference with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many other leading players in the tech and media industries. The gathering is considered one of the leading conferences focused on the convergence of tech and media industries.
Previously, Ms. Swisher worked as a reporter at The Washington Post. She is also the author of "aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web," published by Times Business Books in July 1998. The sequel, "There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future," was published in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Books. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Marshall Van Alstyne
Associate Professor, Information Systems Department, Boston University
Visiting Professor, MIT
Professor Marshall Van Alstyne received a BA from Yale, and MS & PhD degrees from MIT. He is Associate Professor at Boston University and a Visiting Scholar at MIT. His work concerns information economics. In designing information goods, this research concerns competitive strategy using network effects. In control over information, it concerns who has access to what information, when, and at what price. His work also balances open source principles against those that generate profits and stimulate innovation.
Professor Van Alstyne was among the first to document productivity effects of IT and communications at the individual desktop level. His work has received an NSF Career Award, two best paper awards, and has appeared in Science, Management Science, Harvard Business Review, and the popular press.