One of the best reasons to attend the Web 2.0 Conference is the
unprecedented gathering of top-notch presenters, leaders, and experts. Our
initial lineup of confirmed speakers include:
Tantek Çelik
Tantek Çelik is Chief Technologist at Technorati where he leads the
design and development of new standards and technologies. Prior to
Technorati, he was a veteran representative to the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) for Microsoft, where he also helped lead the development of the
award-winning Internet Explorer for Macintosh.
As co-founder of the
microformats.org
community and the
Global Multimedia Protocols Group, as well as
Steering Committee member of the
Web Standards Project and
invited expert to the W3C Cascading Style Sheets working group, Tantek is
dedicated to advancing open standards and simpler data formats for the Web.
He shares his thoughts on his
personal weblog.
Click here for more info.
Jeremy Allaire

Jeremy Allaire founded Brightcove in early 2004 with a vision for the transformation of television with the Internet. As president of Brightcove, Allaire leads the company's technology, marketing, and business strategy. Prior to founding Brightcove, Allaire worked as a technologist and entrepreneur in residence for Cambridge based General Catalyst. Allaire was CTO of Macromedia where he helped define and launch the Macromedia MX platform for rich internet applications helping to evolve Macromedia Flash into a dominant platform for rich media applications on the Internet. Allaire joined Macromedia with its merger with Allaire Corporation, where Allaire was co-founder and CTO. Founded in 1995, Allaire Corporation was a pioneer in using the Web as an application platform and its industry leading and award winning products power millions of web sites and online services and business applications on the Internet.
Click here for more info.
Lisa Arthur

As Akamai's Chief Marketing Officer, Lisa Arthur is responsible for Akamai's marketing strategy and operations, including product management, partner marketing, corporate and marketing communications, programs and sales training. Ms. Arthur brings more than twenty years of marketing experience to Akamai.
Before joining Akamai, Ms. Arthur served as Vice President, On Demand & Services Marketing at Oracle Corporation. Ms. Arthur was responsible for global marketing of Oracle's fastest growing business, Oracle On Demand, as well as Support, Consulting, and Education Services, representing more than $6 billion in revenue. Her responsibilities included developing global marketing strategies, positioning, awareness, and demand creation.
Click here for more info.
Sébastien Bahloul

Sébastien Bahloul acts as an expert in the fields of LDAP directories,
identity management, Java and J2E development, and high avalability
clusters. He is in charge of the Open Source Software Assurance (OSSA)
technical team and is the maintainer of
InterLDAP and of
AACLS on OpenLDAP.
Click here for more info.
Mitchell Baker

Mitchell Baker is CEO of Mozilla Corporation, and Chief Lizard Wrangler for the Mozilla project as a whole. The Mozilla project strives to maintain choice and innovation in key Internet applications by delivering great, user-friendly software, such as the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client.
As one of the world's largest open source software development projects, the Mozilla project includes paid and volunteer staff members, engineers at numerous companies who are paid to work on Mozilla, a volunteer population numbering in the thousands, a range of spin-off projects, and a set of companies using Mozilla technology to build products.
Click here for more info.
Greg Ballard

Over his distinguished career in the gaming, entertainment and multimedia industries, Greg Ballard has served as CEO at SONICblue, makers of ReplayTV and Rio digital music players; MyFamily.com, a successful subscription-based Internet service; and 3Dfx where, over a three-year period, he grew the company from $4 million to an annualized rate of more than $400 million. He previously served as CEO and COO for Warner Custom Music, a division of Time Warner, Inc. Ballard was also president of Capcom Software, the U.S. subsidiary known for hits such as Street Fighter, Mega-Man and Resident Evil, as well as COO and CFO of Digital Pictures, a leading video game developer for Sega CD. Ballard currently sits on the board of directors for Pinnacle Systems (NASDAQ: PCLE). He holds a B.A. from the University of Redlands and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Click here for more info.
Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr is senior evangelist for Amazon Web Services. In this role, focuses on helping the Amazon Web Services developer community achieve success in building innovative and successful businesses using Amazon.com data and technology. He served as a liaison for OReilly & Associates technical guidebook, "Amazon Hacks." Jeff has held development and management positions at KnowNow, eByz, Akopia, and Microsoft, and was a co-founder of Visix Software. He earned his bachelor degree in Computer Science from the American University.
Click here for more info.
Hank Barry

Hank Barry is a partner at Hummer Winblad. He joined the firm in July 1999. Prior to joining Hummer Winblad, he was a partner with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a leading Silicon Valley technology law firm, where he led the firm's interactive new media practice. At WSGR, Barry was principal outside counsel to several pioneering Internet companies, including Global Village Communications, Looksmart, Liquid Audio and NetDynamics. From May 2000 through July 2001 he served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Napster, Inc.
Click here for more info.
Tom Barton

Tom Barton brings extensive operational, leadership, and technical expertise to Rackable Systems. He previously served as SVP of Client Services at Red Hat, where he held P&L responsibility for two-thirds of the company's revenue streams. Barton joined Red Hat via its acquisition of Cygnus Solutions, the leader in open source development tools. Barton held many roles at Cygnus including Interim CEO. He holds an M.B.A., B.S., and B.A. from Stanford University.
Click here for more info.
John Battelle

John Battelle is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor, and author. Currently founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing, he is also a founder and executive producer of conferences in the media, technology, communications, and entertainment industries and "band manager" with BoingBoing.net. Previously, Battelle was founder, chairman, and CEO of Standard Media International (SMI), publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. Prior to founding The Standard, Battelle was a co-founding editor of
Wired magazine and Wired Ventures. He is the author of
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture" (Portfolio, 2005).
Click here for more info.
Gene Becker

Gene Becker is director of the Utility Services Initiative at HP Laboratories, and is responsible for the development and commercialization of scalable computing services for digital media production and other large crunchy applications.
Click here for more info.
Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield is a director of product management at Yahoo! where he oversees the development of
Flickr.com. He also co-founded and acted as CEO of Flickr's parent company, Ludicorp, before its acquisition by Yahoo! in the
spring of 2005.
Click here for more info.
Marc Canter

Marc Canter is CEO of Broadband Mechanics. Their product - PeopleAggregator is a white label solution for social networking and blogging. Marc provides high level consulting to clients like AOL, Cyworld, Wee World and EMI. Marc was part of creating Tribe.net, aSmallWorld, 1UP and the GoingOn Network as well as helping out a myriad of startups. Broadband Mechanics supports and helps create open standards like FOAF, XFN, OpenID and mRSS, and is constantly working towards establishing open source infrastructure for the Live Web. Marcs notion of digital lifestyle aggregators (DLA) as the new portal is starting to catch on and can be seen as a way for the distributed decentralized web to grow and prosper.
Click here for more info.
Mike Cassidy

Mike Cassidy has been the co-founder and CEO of three start-ups: Xfire, Direct Hit, and Stylus Innovation.
Xfire helps gamers play with their friends much more easily. Xfire is also an IM designed just for gamers and has reached over 1.5 million gamers in over 100 countries. Direct Hit was a revolutionary internet search engine whose customers included MSN, Lycos, AOL, and dozens of others. Ask Jeeves acquired Direct Hit for $500 million. Stylus Innovation's flagship product was the award winning computer telephony software Visual Voice. Cassidy studied jazz piano at the Berklee College of Music. He has a B.S. (1985) and M.S. (1986) in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and graduated from Harvard Business School in 1991.
Click here for more info.
Joe Chung

Joe Chung co-founded Art Technology Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARTG) and was Chairman and Chief Technology Officer from 1991 to 2001. Along with co-founder Jeet Singh, he led the growth of ATG from a two-person consultancy to a publicly traded enterprise software company with over 1,200 employees and annual revenues exceeding $160 million. Chung personally directed technology strategy, product development, software engineering, and mergers and acquisitions. He co-directed the companys public stock offerings and engaged extensively with key customers and partners worldwide. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from the MIT and is a trustee of the Massachusetts Software and Internet Council.
Click here for more info.
Bram Cohen

Bram Cohen has a long history of working at failed startups you've never
heard of. He's also a college dropout. In case you're wondering why anyone
cares to hear him speak, it's because Cohen is also the author of
BitTorrent, a project he started working on in 2001 after the last startup
he worked at stopped paying. BitTorrent has become successful enough that
Cohen now does it full time.
Click here for more info.
Scott Cook

Scott Cook co-founded Intuit Inc. in 1983 and now serves as the chairman of the Executive Committee.
Before founding Intuit, Cook managed consulting assignments in banking and technology for Bain & Company, a corporate strategy consulting firm. He previously worked for Procter & Gamble, the household products giant, in various marketing positions, including brand manager, for four years.
Click here for more info.
Dick Costolo

Costolo is cofounder/CEO of FeedBurner and has over 20 years experience managing and developing software for the enterprise and consumer markets. Previously, he cofounded and was CEO of Spyonit.com, which was acquired by 724 Solutions in September 2000. Dick spent a number of years performing with Chicago's Annoyance Theater and has performed at the celebrated Edinburgh Fringe and Montreal Comedy Festivals.
Click here for more info.
Rich Cox

Rich Cox leads the Voice Enabled Services Research Lab, which is responsible for research in the areas of speech processing technologies such as automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, visual text-to-speech synthesis, natural language understanding, and more. Cox is chair of the Technology Advisory Committee for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, an organization that provides alternative access to textbooks and reference documents for the blind and visually impaired. He is also president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Click here for more info.
Mark Cuban

In September 2001, Mark Cuban and co-founder Philip Garvin launched HDNet, the world's first national television network broadcasting all of its programming in spectacular 1080i high-definition television (HDTV). Fueled by Cuban's business leadership and enthusiasm, HDNet has quickly emerged as the leading provider of quality HDTV news, entertainment and sports programming.
Click here for more info.
Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts joined Google as a Software Engineer in January 2000. Before
Google, he was working on his Ph.D. in computer graphics at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Matt wrote SafeSearch,
which is Google's family filter. Currently, Matt heads the Webspam group
that works on search quality at Google.
Click here for more info.
Sky Dayton

Dayton is the chief executive officer and a director of SK-EarthLink, a joint venture of EarthLink and SK Telecom and the founder and a director of EarthLink. Dayton was introduced to technology in 1980 when he was nine years old, by his grandfather, an IBM Fellow. He graduated from the Delphian School, a private boarding high school, in 1988 and decided to forgo college to pursue his interests in technology.
Click here for more info.
Brian Dear

Brian Dear is founder and CEO of EVDB, Inc. in San Diego, CA. Prior to EVDB, he was founding director of eBay Design Labs at eBay, Inc. Other engagements include work at Eazel, MP3.com, FlatWorks, RealNetworks, and Coconut Computing. He also runs a personal blog at
brianstorms.com.
Click here for more info.
Bart Decrem

Bart Decrem is founder and CEO of Flock, the social web browsing company. He headed marketing and business affairs for Mozilla through the Firefox 1.0 launch. An open source leader, Decrem coordinated the creation of the GNOME Foundation and has worked at several Linux companies in the U.S. and abroad.
Click here for more info.
Satish Dharmaraj

Satish Dharmaraj is founder and CEO of Zimbra and brings more than 20 years of leadership, knowledge, and management experience. Formerly, he was the vice president of the messaging products division at Openwave Systems, responsible for the email, unified messaging, voicemail, and instant messaging product
lines. Dharmaraj was also part of the founding team at the unified messaging company Onebox that was sold to phone.com for $850M.
Before Onebox, Dharmaraj was at Sun Microsystems' JavaSoft Division where he lead the team that was responsible for the Java Servlets and was the original author of Java Server Pages (JSPs).
Dharmaraj has both a bachelor of science and a master's degree in computer
sciences and an executive management degree from Harvard Business School.
Click here for more info.
Barry Diller

Barry Diller is the chairman and chief executive officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp, and chairman of Expedia, Inc.
IAC operates leading and diversified businesses in sectors being transformed by the internet, online and offline
its mission is to harness the power of interactivity to make daily life easier and more productive for people all over the world. IAC consists of HSN; Cornerstone Brands, Inc.; Ticketmaster, which oversees ReserveAmerica; LendingTree, LLC; LendingTree Loans; RealEstate.com; PRC; ServiceMagic; Match.com; Entertainment Publications; Interval International; Ask.com; Citysearch; and Evite.
Click here for more info.
Chas Edwards
Chas Edwards -- who blogs at http://chasnote.com -- is VP for sales and market development for Federated Media Publishing (FM Publishing), a network of leading independent bloggers.
Previously, Chas was vice president of sales and marketing for CNET Networks's B2B Portfolio, managing the team representing News.com, ZDNet and TechRepublic to business-to-business marketers. Chas also served posts as VP for CNET's broadband & webcasting unit and as VP of business development for mySimon, CNET Networks's comparison-shopping portal. Prior to joining CNET Networks, Chas was the National Sales Manager for TechTV, a 24-hour cable TV channel and Web site dedicated to computing and the Internet.
Click here for more info.
Hossein Eslambolchi
Hossein Eslambolchi is president of AT&T's Global Networking Technology Services (GNTS), AT&T's CTO, and CIO. He is responsible for the corporation's strategic technology direction, network operations, research and development, information technology systems and processes, and advises the chairman and senior leaders on technology issues. Eslambolchi is a member of AT&T's Executive Committee, the company's governing executive panel led by AT&T Chairman and CEO David W. Dorman.
Click here for more info.
Alan Eustace

Alan Eustace is Google's VP of Engineering where he is responsible for all aspects of the company's product research and development activities. He joined Google in the summer of 2002. Prior to Google, Eustace spent fifteen years at Digital/Compaq/HP's Western Research Laboratory where he worked on a variety of chip design and architecture projects, including the MicroTitan Floating Point unit, BIPS--the fastest microprocessor of its era.
Click here for more info.
Shawn Fanning

Shawn Fanning is the founder and chief strategy officer of SNOCAP. Since the company's inception in 2002, Fanning has driven SNOCAP's mission to dramatically improve the consumer digital music experience and help grow the overall digital music market.
Click here for more info.
Usama Fayyad

Usama Fayyad is Yahoo!'s chief data officer and senior vice president of the Strategic Data Solutions group. Fayyad is responsible for Yahoo!'s overall data strategy, architecting Yahoo!'s data policies and systems, prioritizing data investments, and managing the company's data processing infrastructure and analysis. The analysis and management of data within Fayyad's group enables Yahoo! to ensure customer satisfaction and develop innovative products and services that are essential to consumers' lives.
Click here for more info.
Josh Felser

Mr. Felser is a seasoned media and communications executive who has built and managed online and traditional consumer businesses. Currently he is co-founder and President of Grouper, a startup that enables online group collaboration and personal media exchange, recently acquired by Sony Pictures Entertainment. Until February of 2001 he was Vice President of America Online and General Manager of AOL's music brands' Spinner, Winamp and Shoutcast. In October 1997 he became a co-founder of Spinner.com, a leading Internet music destination. He served as President until its May 1999 purchase by America Online. In July 1996 he founded Internet music startup RadioCo (a division of Organic Online), which ultimately merged with theDJ.com (renamed Spinner.com) .
Click here for more info.
Bran Ferren

Bran Ferren is a designer and technologist working in entertainment, product development, engineering, architecture, and the sciences. He is the former president of Research & Development and Creative Technology for Walt Disney Imagineering. Prior to that, he was the president of and senior designer for Associates & Ferren, which Disney acquired in 1993. He left Disney in 2000 to start Applied Minds Inc., with partner Danny Hillis.
Click here for more info.
Gary Flake

Gary Flake is a technical fellow at Microsoft, where he is responsible for bridging Microsoft Research and MSN / Windows Live, and for setting the technology vision and future direction for many of Microsoft's online services. He is also the founder and director of Live Labs, which represents Microsoft's greatest investment in applied research focused on Internet technologies, reporting directly to Ray Ozzie.
Click here for more info.
Mark Fletcher

Mark Fletcher is founder and CEO of Bloglines, the world's most popular free internet service for searching, subscribing, publishing, and sharing news feeds and blogs. Fletcher is a serial entrepreneur who began his start-up career as a senior engineer at Diba, an information appliance technology company acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1997. Following Diba, Fletcher founded and was CEO of ONElist/eGroups, an email community service which grew, over 24 months, to 17 million members and 800,000 unique email groups before it was acquired by Yahoo! in 2000. The ONElist/eGroups service continues to successfully operate today as Yahoo! Groups. Fletcher holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego.
Click here for more info.
Paul Forster

Paul Forster is CEO and co-founder of Indeed, the most comprehensive search engine for jobs - giving job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities from company websites, job boards, newspapers and associations. Indeed.com was selected by Time magazine as one of the 50 Coolest Web sites for 2005. Paul previously co-founded Jobsinthemoney, the leading jobsite dedicated to finance professionals, which won Forbes Best Finance jobsite before being acquired in late 2003. Paul holds an MBA from INSEAD business school as well as Masters degrees from Cambridge and Oxford Universities.
Click here for more info.
Jason Fried
Jason Fried is the founder of 37signals, an influential Chicago-based web application design firm. 37signals' BASECAMP (web-based project management), BACKPACK (web-based personal information management), and TA-DA LIST (web-based to-do lists) products are used on a daily basis by tens of thousands of people and small businesses in over 50 countries.
Click here for more info.
Jesse James Garrett

Jesse James Garrett is the Director of User Experience Strategy and a founding partner of Adaptive Path, the world's premier user experience consulting company. He is author of The Elements of User Experience (New Riders), and is recognized as a pioneer in the field of information architecture. Jesse's clients include AT&T, Intel, Crayola, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, and National Public Radio.
Click here for more info.
Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor is a ZDNet contributing editor, a Release 1.0 contributing writer, and host of the weekly web radio program
The Gillmor Gang. He is also the president of the non-profit Attention Trust.
Click here for more info.
Evan Goldberg
Mr. Goldberg spent eight years at Oracle Corporation, where he served as a vice president. He was involved in a variety of projects, all focused on making powerful database technology more accessible to users. When he left Oracle, he started mBED Software and built groundbreaking Web site technology. He founded NetSuite in 1998. Mr. Goldberg holds a B.A. Summa Cum Laude in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University.
Click here for more info.
Seth Goldstein

Seth invents visionary businesses. In 1995, Seth founded SiteSpecific, one of the first Internet advertising agencies; in 2002, Seth founded Majestic Research, the leading independent research firm on Wall Street. Seth was also the first Entrepreneur in Residence at Flatiron Partners, a New York-based technology venture capital firm. Since 1999, Seth has been a Director and member of the Audit Committee for Valassis (NYSE:VCI), a $2 billion marketing services firm. Seth is an active investor and advisor to early-stage companies, including social bookmarking site del.icio.us, and recently completed a blog series on Media Futures at
majestic.typepad.com.
Click here for more info.
Paul Graham

Paul Graham is the author of
On Lisp,
Ansi Common Lisp,
and
Hackers & Painters; was co-founder of Viaweb (now Yahoo
Store); discovered a simple Bayesian spam filter that inspired many
present filters; and is one of the partners in Y Combinator. He
has a PhD in computer science from Harvard and studied painting
at RISD and the Accademia in Florence.
Click here for more info.
Konstantin Guericke

As a co-founder of
LinkedIn, Konstantin is leading the efforts to spread the word about LinkedIn and to educate users about how to advance their career and business through their trusted contacts on LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, Konstantin served as VP of Marketing at Presenter, where he led product marketing, public relations and corporate marketing. Before Presenter, Konstantin was as VP Sales & Marketing responsible for the initial public launch of social software pioneer Blaxxun. Other executive roles included EVP at Caligari and Project Director of publicly-traded Micrografx. At Beresford Partners, Konstantin helped the CEOs of over two dozen high-tech startups develop their positioning and marketing strategy. He graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering.
Click here for more info.
Dick Hardt

A pioneer in the internet sector and open source software community, Dick Hardt has been active in software development for nearly two decades. His most recent venture, Sxip Identity, provides enterprise identity management solutions for on-demand applications that leverage the power of Identity 2.0.
Click here for more info.
Mickey Hart

Mickey Hart is best known for his nearly three decades as an integral part of an extraordinary expedition into the soul and spirit of music, disguised as the rock and roll band the Grateful Dead. As half of the percussion tandem known as the Rhythm Devils, Mickey and Bill Kreutzmann transcended the conventions of rock drumming. Their extended polyrhythmic excursions were highlights of Grateful Dead shows, introducing the band's audience to an ever-growing arsenal of percussion instruments from around the world. Exposure to these exotic sounds fueled Mickey's desire to learn about the various cultures that produced them.
Click here for more info.
Reed Hastings

Reed Hastings founded Netflix in 1997 with one goal in mindto put the joy back in movie-watching. Recognizing that due dates and late fees had tarnished the movie rental experience, Reed set out to turn the existing rental model upside down. He built what is now the worlds largest online DVD rental service and one of the most successful and influential Internet companies in the entertainment industry.
Under Reeds leadership, Netflix grew to one million subscribers in less than four years, more than 4.0 million by the end of 2005, and has its sights on 20 million subscribers by 2010.
Click here for more info.
Rolf Herken

Rolf Herken is the founder of mental images and the driving force behind its innovative technologies and products as well as its successful establishment as the global leader in core component technology for 3D modeling, collaboration, and visualization.
Click here for more info.
Mary Hodder

Hodder founded Dabble, a recently launched company aiming to be 'the most comprehensive search and social search site on the planet', by
helping users organize, search, tag, describe and promote video.
An information architect and 'live web' search expert, she has worked with companies in open source, photo sharing and search services. She
blogs at Napsterization (napsterization.org/stories/) and was an original author at bIPlog (the first UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism blog, on the topic of intellectual property, security and privacy). She has a Masters from UC Berkeley's School of Information.
Click here for more info.
Bradley Horowitz

Bradley Horowitz, head of technology development, is responsible for leading Yahoo!s efforts in building innovative search technologies. Bradleys expertise helps drive initiatives that enable the company to provide comprehensive and compelling offerings to customers. Previously he managed a portfolio of products for Yahoo!, including media search, desktop search and the Yahoo! Toolbar.
Click here for more info.
Steve Jurvetson

VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), and Kana (KANA). He also led the firm's investments in Tradex (acquired by Ariba for $6B) and Cyras (acquired by Ciena for $2B), and most recently, in pioneering companies in nanotechnology and molecular electronics. Previously, Jurvetson was an R&D engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated. His prior technical experience also includes programming, materials science research (TEM atomic imaging of GaAs), and computer design at HP's PC Division, the Center for Materials Research, and Mostek.
Click here for more info.
Peter Kaminski
Peter Kaminski has more than 20 years of executive management and technology development experience, specializing in leading-edge applications of network and information technologies, especially those that help interconnect people. Kaminski is also a General Partner of OakStone Ventures, Investigatorius of the Minciu Sodas Laboratories in Lithuania, Software Development Director of the Software Product Marketing eGroup, and a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.
Click here for more info.
Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. Vinod serves on the boards of Agami, Centrata, eASIC, Indian School of Business, Infinera, Kovio, Metricstream, QWEST Communications, Spatial Photonics, Xsigo and Zettacore.
Vinod holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Click here for more info.
John Kish

John Kish, President and CEO, Wyse Technology, has spent the past two decades inventing technologies to solve some of the most complex big data problems faced by major software developers, carriers and corporations. While at Oracle, John is widely credited with establishing Oracle on the desktop and led Oracles efforts to establish network computing. John has successfully led four software companies, applying his
expertise in algorithm design to innovate large scale, transactional computing processes. Most recently, he developed the industrys first non-persistent applications, and is now creating network management systems for the coming generation of stateless/flashless communications and computing devices. He holds a Ph.D in Mathematical Logics from The John Hopkins University.
Click here for more info.
Omid Kordestani

As the individual responsible for Google's revenue generation efforts, Omid Kordestani is the tireless leader of an international sales effort that has brought Google to profitability in record time. Kordestani has more than a dozen years of high-technology consumer and enterprise experience, including key positions at Internet pioneer Netscape Communications. As vice president of Business Development and Sales, he grew Netscape's website revenue from an annual run-rate of $88 million to more than $200 million in 18 months.
Click here for more info.
Raph Koster

Raph Koster has been working professionally and as a hobbyist in the field of online worlds for over a decade. At SOE, he consults on all of SOE's titles, and is responsible for setting community relations policies and ongoing research into future technologies for games. He entered the industry professionally working as the creative lead and lead designer for Ultima Online, for Electronic Arts. He joined Sony in 2000. At SOE, he was the creative director for Star Wars Galaxies.
Click here for more info.
Joe Kraus

Joe Kraus is co-founder and CEO of JotSpot, the first application-wiki company. A long time entrepreneur, Kraus has been involved with early-stage technology development and starting companies for more than twelve years. Upon graduation from Stanford University in 1993, he joined with five engineering friends to found the highly successful internet company, Excite, Inc. The original president of Excite, Kraus was deeply involved in product strategy, direction, and vision as the company grew. He also held senior operational roles in business development, international development, and content.
Click here for more info.
Jim Lanzone

As CEO of Ask.com, Jim Lanzone is responsible for overseeing world-wide business operations. Ask.com is one of the world's leading search engines, with more than 20 million users per month, offering unique tools and technologies that make search better. Previous to his role as CEO, Lanzone served as senior vice president and general manager of Ask.com US, leading product management, marketing and engineering for the Company. Lanzone joined Ask.com as vice president of product management in 2001.
Click here for more info.
Steve Lavine

Steve is the founder and CEO of Transparensee Systems, a startup pioneering
new methods in the fields of structured and local search. Before founding
Transparensee, Steve represented high-tech startups at Debevoise & Plimpton.
Steve has written on technology for The New York Times and Linux Magazine.
He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School.
Click here for more info.
Ken Leeder

Ken is founder and CEO of RealTravel, a new travel information site that leverages blogging and social networking to provide a more personalized and informative experience to travel shoppers and a more effective venue for travel industry marketers than currently exists online. A seasoned entrepreneur, Ken brings two decades of experience to RealTravel. Prior to RealTravel, Ken founded Full Degree, a successful Product Information Management company that was acquired in 2004. Previous to Full Degree, Ken was head of business development at AdForce, a leading Internet ad serving company. Ken earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from York University.
Click here for more info.
Kevin Lynch

As senior vice president and chief software architect, Kevin Lynch leads Adobe's Platform Business Unit, which is focused on advancing the company's software platform for the creation and delivery of engaging applications and content to any desktop or device. Lynch is responsible for the company's ubiquitous Portable Document Format (PDF), Adobe Reader, and Macromedia Flash Player, as well as alignment of Adobe's servers and tools with the company's technology platform.
Click here for more info.
Jeffrey Mallett

Jeffrey Mallett joins SNOCAP with a rich history and proven experience in growing technology companies. As president and chief operating officer for Yahoo! Inc. from 1995-2002, Mallett helped drive extraordinary growth and success for the company while simultaneously serving as an elected member of the Board of Directors.
Mallett joined Yahoo in 1995, when the private company consisted of 12 employees and had no revenue. He helped the company go public in 1996, and during his seven year tenure, Mallett helped build Yahoo! into one of the most recognizable entertainment and media brands in the world. By 2002, Mallett managed a global workforce of 4,000 employees in 27 countries, with $1 billion in revenue, and had overseen more than 20 acquisitions for the company.
Click here for more info.
Ross Mayfield

Ross Mayfield is CEO & Co-founder of Socialtext, the first wiki
company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. Mayfield
has grown the company to over 2,000 customers with
Software-as-a-Service, Appliance and Open Source solutions. Mayfield
partnered with Dan Bricklin, the creator of the first spreadsheet
visiCalc, to co-develop and distribute SocialCalc. Socialtext is
backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, SAP Ventures and Omidyar Network.
Click here for more info.
Brian McAndrews

Brian McAndrews has served as the president and CEO of aQuantive, a
digital marketing services and technology company, and parent to Avenue
A | Razorfish, Atlas and DRIVEpm, since 1999. He brings more than 20
years of strategic management and marketing experience to aQuantive,
including nine years with ABC, Inc. holding executive positions at ABC
Sports, ABC Entertainment and the ABC Television Network. Brian has been
named by Advertising Age as one of the top 20 players in the interactive
advertising space.
Click here for more info.
Ian McCarthy
McCarthy has pioneered products in the online media space for early-stage startups and for public companies like AOL and Sony Pictures Digital. At Sony, he ran Product Development for a business unit focused on providing media-editing software, online services, and Hollywood content to a wide range of Sony devices. Prior to joining Orb, he was CEO of GoPix, Inc., which provides integrated client/server solutions for mobile imaging.
Click here for more info.
Dave McClure

Dave McClure has been geeking out in Silicon Valley as a technology entrepreneur for over fifteen years. In the early 90's McClure worked as a database consultant and developer for a variety of evil empires, including Microsoft and Intel. In 1995 he founded Aslan Computing, an internet 1.0 startup that failed to IPO for a bazillion dollars; however was still modestly acquired by Servinet/Panurgy in 1998. From 1999 to 2001 McClure helped other Silicon Valley startups as an advisor, and also led hi-tech / entrepreneur user groups on E-Commerce and Venture Finance for SDForum and SVASE.
For more on Dave's philosophy & eccentricity, check out Dave's personal blog,
Master of 500 Hats, and his
website
Click here for more info.
Jeffrey McManus
Jeffrey McManus leads the Yahoo! Developer Network, which helps third-party developers integrate their Web sites and software applications with Yahoo!. Before that he managed developer community and Web services evangelism at a number of companies, including eBay. He spent more than 15 years as a software developer and mentor to software development teams around the world, and is the author or co-author of six books on software development. He resides in San Francisco.
Click here for more info.
Mary Meeker

Mary Meeker is a managing director and serves as leader of Morgan Stanley's global technology research team. Meeker co-covers U.S.-based internet and consumer software companies including Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, eBay, and Amazon.com.
Click here for more info.
Yusuf Mehdi

As senior vice president of the MSN Information Services & Merchant Platform division at Microsoft, Yusuf Mehdi leads the effort to empower people globally by helping them find, discover, and experience whatever they want online. In this role, Mehdi oversees the global strategy, design, development, programming, and marketing of Microsoft's information services such as MSN Search, MSN.com, My MSN, MSN Music, MSN Video, MSNBC, MSN Money, MSN Autos, MSN Shopping, and the rest of the MSN.com information channels. In addition, Mehdi is also responsible for leading Microsoft's platform efforts for online advertising and digital marketing with responsibility for brand, direct marketing, pay for performance, and business intelligence systems.
Click here for more info.
Peter Merholz

Peter Merholz is the Director of Practice Development and a founding partner of Adaptive Path, the world's premier user experience consulting company. He is an experienced information architect, writer, speaker, and leader in the field of user-experience design. Clients include Cathay Pacific, Yamaha, and the California Health Care Foundation.
Click here for more info.
Jonathan F. Miller

Jonathan F. Miller is responsible for setting the strategy and overseeing the businesses and operations of the world's leading interactive services company. Miller came to AOL in 2002 with extensive management experience in interactive services, media, entertainment, and associated enabling technologies. Before joining AOL, Miller was president and CEO of USA Information and Services (USAIS). The 15,000-employee unit he led earned $3 billion in revenue and included businesses such as Ticketmaster and Ticketmaster.com, Citysearch and Match.com teleservices, USA Electronic Commerce Solutions, and the USA Travel Group comprising HRN, USA Travel Channel, and Expedia.com.
Click here for more info.
Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg is best known as the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software he guided from a handful of users to the most widely used open source blogging package in less than a year. Matt blogs at PhotoMatt.net and has been implicated in founding the ping distribution service Ping-O-Matic and nascent standards organization the Global Media Protocols Group (GMPG). He recently moved to San Francisco where he works at CNET Networks. In his spare time he enjoys taking photographs and playing jazz.
Click here for more info.
Bubba Murarka
Speaker biography coming soon.
Click here for more info.
Dianah Neff

Dianah L. Neff has 18 years experience in providing leadership and implementation of organization-wide strategic information technology planning, assuring reliability of information technology infrastructure, and directing information technology departments in their delivery of technology support services in both city and county organizations. Prior to working in government, she had 14 years experience in the private sector working for high-tech software and hardware firms in Silicon Valley.
Click here for more info.
Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly is founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. In addition to publishing pioneering books like Ed Krol's
The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog (selected by the New York Public Library as one of the most significant books of the twentieth century), O'Reilly has also been a pioneer in the popularization of the Internet. O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator site (GNN, which was sold to America Online in September 1995) was the first Web portal and the first true commercial site on the World Wide Web.
Click here for more info.
Pierre Omidyar

Pierre Omidyar has been a technologist most of his life. He taught himself BASIC on a TRS-80 in middle school--and now is trying to figure out what his role can be in making the world a better place. He's probably best known for creating eBay.
Omidyar is CEO of Omidyar Network, chairman of eBay Inc., and a director of Meetup Inc. He also serves as a trustee of the Santa Fe Institute and Tufts University.
Click here for more info.
Ray Ozzie

Ray Ozzie, the creator of IBM's Lotus Notes, is an industry visionary and pioneer in computer-supported cooperative work. As a chief technical officer of Microsoft Corp., Ozzie reports to Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates. In this role, Ozzie has responsibility for influencing corporate communications and collaboration strategy, applications, and platform infrastructure.
Click here for more info.
Rajat Paharia

Rajat Paharia is a co-founder of Bunchball, where you can play with your friends. Prior to Bunchball, he spent four years at IDEO where he was co-director of the Software Experiences practice, working with clients ranging from small startups to companies like AT&T Wireless, HP, Philips, and Avaya. He has also worked for IBM Research, Philips Consumer Electronics, and ViewStar Corporation.
Click here for more info.
Mark A. Phillips

After 20 years in the Australian Army in a variety of technical roles including systems analyst, chief engineer (Army Battle Simulation), and staff officer Technology Development (Training), Mark Phillips was recruited to the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC) at Old Dominion University in Virginia in October 2000 to work on an Office of Naval Research Virtual Environments for Training project. Phillips co-founded the world's first public University Battle Laboratory at Old Dominion University and was appointed as the first battle laboratory director in January 2002 whilst conducting research for The United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) into Modeling and Simulation.
Click here for more info.
Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus is a new media entrepreneur who has founded tribe.net, supportsoft (NASD: SPRT)
and freeloader. His prior life: TCI, Columbia Capital and Lazard Freres. He graduated from Harvard Business School and University of Pennsylvania.
Click here for more info.
Kim Polese

Kim Polese is CEO of SpikeSource, a Kleiner-Perkins-backed startup. Polese served as president and chief executive officer of Marimba until July 2000. Prior to co-founding Marimba, Polese spent more than seven years at Sun Microsystems and was the original product manager for Java. During her tenure at Sun, she played a pivotal role in the strategic definition, direction, and launch of Java. Prior to joining Sun, Polese worked for IntelliCorp Inc., consulting with companies in the development of expert system application frameworks.
She holds a Bachelors degree in Biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley (1984) and studied Computer Science at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Click here for more info.
Michael Powell

Michael K. Powell is the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Powell was nominated by President William J. Clinton to a Republican seat on the Commission, and was sworn in on November 3, 1997. He was designated chairman by President George W. Bush on January 22, 2001.
As chairman, Mr. Powell has set out to bring FCC regulations into the 21st Century and to recognize the move of voice, video, and data technologies away from limited analog platforms to powerful digital applications that bring more value to the public. He has focused on initiatives that encourage market-driven solutions that promote consumer interests. He supports new methods of deploying advanced services through the use of new alternatives such as power lines, unlicensed wireless devices and other technologies that will expand affordable broadband options to all Americans regardless of their geographic location. From campaigning for the right to keep your phone number when switching wireless carriers to fighting to allow the choice of avoiding telemarketing calls with a Do-Not-Call list, Mr. Powell has put consumers on the forefront in this exciting and dynamic marketplace.
Click here for more info.
Paul Rademacher

Paul Rademacher is the creator of HousingMaps.com, a combination of
Craigslist and Google Maps, described by Tim O'Reilly as "the first
true Web 2.0 application." Paul holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science
from UNC-Chapel Hill, and worked as an R&D Software Engineer for
Dreamworks Animation. Since creating HousingMaps, he has recently
joined Google.
Click here for more info.
Prabhakar Raghavan

Prabhakar Raghavan is Head of Yahoo! Research. Prior to joining Yahoo!
he was Senior Vice President and CTO at Verity, before which he worked
at IBM in a variety of technical and managerial positions.
Raghavan is Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford
University, and has also taught at Yale. He has authored over 100
papers in various fields including algorithms, optimization, web search
and databases, an article on Web Search in Scientific American, a
popular textbook on Randomized Algorithms and several patents. He is
the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the ACM, and a Fellow of the ACM
and of the IEEE. Raghavan holds a PhD from the University of California
at Berkeley and an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from
IIT in Madras.
Click here for more info.
Srikanth Raju

Srikanth Raju works at Nokia in the Forum Nokia organization as senior technology manager and head of Technical Services and Consultancy for the Americas region. In this capacity, Raju leads a team of technology experts who helps partners and software developers to develop and deploy solutions on Nokia platforms.
Click here for more info.
Safa Rashtchy

Safa Rashtchy is a managing director of Piper Jaffray and a senior research analyst focused on internet media and marketing. He joined Piper Jaffray as a research analyst in 1997 and has published several technical papers and presented at various industry conferences. In addition, Rashtchy was named to The Wall Street Journal's "2002 Best on the Street" analyst survey and was also a winner in Institutional Investor magazine's "Home Run Hitters of 2001" top stock pickers list. Rashtchy also consistently enjoys the top ranking for his earnings accuracy, as compiled by Starmine. He is quoted regularly in many top publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, BusinessWeek, and Fortune, and he makes regular appearances on CNBC and CNNfn.
Click here for more info.
Ron Rasmussen

Ron serves as Chief Technical Officer and Vice President of Product Development for KnowNow, Inc. He brings over 20 years experience delivering distributed enterprise class infrastructure solutions. He is responsible for driving the company vision and delivering the products that realize the vision. Prior to joining KnowNow, Ron served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Digital Impact Inc., where he was responsible for the development of hosted enterprise applications used for direct marketing by the Fortune 500. He also led the successful development and delivery of the company's first end-user marketing automation application-IMPACT. Before that, Ron served as Vice President of Product Development -Server Products Group at SCO. While there, he led product development for both new and existing server software, driving the development of the company's top revenue-generating OpenServer product line.
Click here for more info.
Danny Rimer

Danny Rimer joined Index Ventures in 2002 as the partner responsible for establishing the firm's London office and expanding the firm's presence in Northern Europe. His investment interests include enterprise infrastructure, applications, and services. He currently serves on the boards of Fon, Last.fm, Lovefilm, MySQL, Sourcelabs, Spotrunner, Stardoll, Viagogo, and Zend, and is an observer on Betfair.
Prior to joining Index, Rimer was a general partner of The Barksdale Group, where he invested in a dozen companies including CrossGain (now BEA), myCFO (now Bank of Montreal), Neoteris (now NetScreen/Juniper), Ofoto (now Kodak), and TellMe. Prior to joining The Barksdale Group, Rimer was managing director in Hambrecht & Quist's (now JP Morgan) Equity Research Group. At H&Q, Rimer was the underwriting analyst for companies including Amazon, CheckPoint, CNET, Netscape, and Verisign. He also sponsored direct investments in over 20 companies. He holds an A.B from Harvard College.
Click here for more info.
Philip Rosedale

Philip Rosedale is the founder and CEO of Linden Lab, producer of the acclaimed 3D digital world Second Life. Rosedale has an extensive background in the development and pioneering of streaming technology, having built his first computer in 4th grade, and started his first computer software company while still in high school. In 1995 he developed FreeVue, a low-bitrate video conferencing system for Internet-connected PCs, resulting in the acquisition of his company in early 1996 by RealNetworks. For three and a half years, Rosedale served as Vice President and CTO at RealNetworks, where he was responsible for the development and launch of RealVideo, RealSystem 5.0, and RealSystem G2. In 1999, Rosedale returned to San Francisco, joined Accel Partners as an entrepreneur-in-residence, and began the basic research that would become the technology behind Linden Lab. Rosedale holds a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of California at San Diego.
Click here for more info.
Joshua Schachter

Joshua Schachter started del.icio.us as a hobby in 2003 and ignited the whole
tagging phenomenon. He began to work on it full-time with the founding of
del.icio.us inc in March, 2005. Before that, Joshua worked in financial services
in NYC for ten years, including most recently with Morgan Stanley. Joshua has a
BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Click here for more info.
Sam Schillace
Sam Schillace spent his first 20 years in the midwest before realizing that being a "serial entrepreneur" didn't involve farming. After college, he headed to the bay area to write video games. Since then, he's been involved in a number of startup ventures because that's his idea of fun, and sold various technologies to Ashton-Tate, Macromedia, Intuit and others as a result. He seems to think his 15 years designing software gives him some kind of vision into the industry -- spend 10 minutes with him and you'll probably agree.
Click here for more info.
Toni Schneider

Toni Schneider is CEO of Automattic, the makers of the WordPress.com blogging service and the Akismet anti comment spam service, and is a venture partner at VC firm True Ventures. Prior to his current roles, Schneider was a VP at Yahoo! where he ran the Yahoo! Developer Network, a new initiative to turn Yahoo! into an open web services platform for third party software developers. He joined Yahoo! through their acquisition of Oddpost where he was CEO. Prior to Oddpost he held technical and marketing roles at several Silicon Valley startups. Schneider studied Computer Science at Stanford. More info can be found on Toni's blog at
Toni's blog.
Click here for more info.
Jonathan Schwartz

On April 2, 2004 Jonathan Schwartz, 38, was named president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems. In this role, he is responsible for operations and execution of Sun's day-to-day business including Systems, Software, Global Sales Operations, worldwide manufacturing and purchasing, customer advocacy, and worldwide marketing.
Prior to this position, Schwartz served as executive vice president of Sun's software group where he was responsible for the company's software technologies and business.
Click here for more info.
Sam Schwartz
Sam has overall responsibility for CIC and identifying, evaluating, structuring and managing Comcast's venture capital investments. He also advises the management of CIC portfolio companies and Comcast on strategic and operational issues and works to foster partnerships between the cable industry and entrepreneurial enterprises. Sam has extensive experience working with high-growth technology companies, having served on the Boards of Directors of numerous companies from seed to post-IPO stage.
Click here for more info.
Terry Semel

Terry Semel joined Yahoo! as chairman and chief executive officer of Yahoo! Inc in May 2001. He has led a successful transition of the company by identifying and pursuing new opportunities within Yahoo!'s two core businesses, marketing services and consumer services. He has also assembled a talented executive team that has overseen the continued growth of Yahoo!'s global user base, a turnaround in Yahoo!'s marketing services offerings, and introduced new revenue opportunities, including sponsored search, listings, and services bundled with high-speed internet access.
Click here for more info.
Dmitry Shapiro

Dmitry Shapiro is a world-recognized thought leader and visionary in electronic communications, peer-to-peer networking, online community, and computer security. He is a frequent speaker at major technology and business events, and is widely quoted in the press, including
InfoWorld, PCWorld, Computer World, eWeek, Internet World, and other publications.
Prior to founding Veoh Networks in 2004, Shapiro founded Akonix Systems, Inc, pioneering the technologies that are now standard corporate requirements for IM and P2P management.
Click here for more info.
David L. Sifry

David is a serial entrepreneur with over 19 years of software development and industry experience. Before founding Technorati, Dave was cofounder and CTO of
Sputnick, a Wi-Fi gateway company, and previously, he was cofounder of Linuxcare, where he served as CTO and VP of Engineering. Dave also served as a founding member of the board of
Linux International and on the technical advisory board of the National Cybercrime Training Partnership for law enforcement
nctp.org . He has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. Dave can often be found speaking on panels and giving lectures on a variety of technology issues, ranging from wireless spectrum policy and Wi-Fi, to Weblogs and Open Source software.
Daves blog is
Sifry's Alerts
Click here for more info.
Rich Skrenta

Rich Skrenta brings to Topix.net a background in both business management and technical expertise. In his last position, Skrenta held a variety of senior roles at Netscape/America Online, including director of Engineering for Netscape Search, AOL Music, and AOL Shopping. Skrenta joined Netscape/AOL upon its purchase of NewHoo/The Open Directory Project, where he was co-founder and CEO. The Open Directory is the largest human-edited directory of the Web, currently used by Google, AOL, and other major web portals. Prior to that, Skrenta led an engineering group at Sun Microsystems implementing network security and encryption products. Skrenta also operated a successful small online gaming company from 1994-2001. Skrenta has a BA degree from Northwestern University. Visit
his web site for more background.
Click here for more info.
Seth J. Sternberg

Seth is responsible for all things business at meebo, which he co-founded
with Elaine & Sandy. Prior to meebo, Seth worked at IBM in Corporate
Development leading M&A transactions and working on strategy and venture
capital initiatives. Seth flies airplanes, rides motorcycles, and
rollerblades. Seth majored in Political Science at Yale, and is in his
second year at Stanford Business School.
Click here for more info.
Mark Stevens

Mark C. Stevens is a partner in the Corporate and Intellectual Property Groups of Fenwick & West LLP, a law firm specializing in high technology matters. Fenwick & West is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an office in San Francisco, California.
Stevens represents companies ranging from newly formed startup teams to mature public companies, venture capitalists and investment banks involved in the information technology industries, with particular focus on complex transactions. As a lawyer and a business principal, Stevens has lead teams handling merger, acquisition and divestiture transactions with total announced value in excess of $20 billion. He has directed over 25 initial public offerings and hundreds of strategic alliance transactions, ranging from technology and distribution partnerships to multinational joint venture transactions.
Click here for more info.
Ethan Stock

Ethan Stock founded Zvents, the search engine for local events, in early 2005 with funding from NetService Ventures Group, where he has served as a partner since 2002. Stock brings an eclectic background in scholarship and technology to the pursuit of entrepreneurial ventures. In 1996, while in graduate school at UC Berkeley, where he was an NSF Fellow, he founded Bamboo Systems, an early entrant in the CRM market. In 2000, he served as COO of eBusinessMedia, the B2B Internet arm of UK publisher United News & Media, where he oversaw the launch of multiple industry-focused properties, including the first deployment of CommerceOne in Europe. A programmer since he was ten years old, the versatile CEO got his start as a systems engineer at EDS and was a principal consultant at strategy firm The McKenna Group during its high-tech heyday. He holds a BA in history from Ohio State and the nagging desire to someday complete his PhD thesis.
Click here for more info.
Tony Stubblebine
Tony is Lead Engineer for O'Reilly Media, author of Regular Expression Pocket Reference, and regular blogger at
www.stubbleblog.com
Click here for more info.
Michael Tanne

Michael is founder and CEO of Wink, a Social Search Engine that uses people's contributions and feedback to make it easier to find and share current, relevant results on the Web. Previously Michael was founder of AdForce, a publicly-traded Internet ad serving company acquired by CMGi in 2000. Michael then founded XDegrees which was acquired by Microsoft in 2002. Previously Michael ran products at Verity, the leader in enterprise search. Michael is also an investor/advisor to start-ups including LinkedIn, SimplyHired, Flock, Dogster, Revision3, RealTravel and Edgeio and serves on the board of Cloudmark, a leading anti-spam provider.
Click here for more info.
Mena Trott

Mena Trott is co-founder and president of Six Apart, the creators of the TypePad service and Movable Type software, two of the leading tools for publishing weblogs. In addition to her role helping lead management and business efforts at Six Apart, Trott enjoys making the products aesthetically pleasing as well as functionally intuitive. Named one of Fast Company's "Fast 50 for 2004," Trott has been involved in the weblogging space since she first began publishing to her own weblog, dollarshort.org in early 2001. She speaks regularly at industry conferences--notably Supernova, South by Southwest, AdTech and DEMO 2004--and writes frequently about weblogging and Six Apart at Mena's Corner. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and co-founder of Six Apart, Ben Trott.
Click here for more info.
Jeffrey Veen

Jeffrey Veen is the Director of Product Design and a founding partner of Adaptive Path, the world's premier user experience consulting company. He launched HotWired.com in 1994, and is author of The Art & Science of Web Design and HotWired Style. Clients include PeopleSoft, PBS, and Macromedia.
Click here for more info.
Evan Williams

Evan Williams co-founded Pyra Labs in 1999 and led the team that created Blogger, a major player in helping pioneer the blogging phenomenon. In early 2003, Williams sold Pyra Labs to Google, where he led the Blogger group until October 2004. Prior to Pyra, in 1994, Williams started an early internet company in Nebraska, his native state, and later worked for O'Reilly Media, Intel, and HP as a web application developer. He now resides in San Francisco and is co-founding a new startup,
Odeo, which is helping democratize media in new ways.
Click here for more info.
Fred Wilson

Fred is a Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures which he co-founded in late 2003. He began his career in venture capital in 1987. He has focused exclusively on information technology investments for the past 16 years. From 1987 to 1996, Fred was first an Associate and then a General Partner at Euclid Partners, an early stage venture capital firm located in New York City. In 1996, Fred co-founded Flatiron Partners. Fred was the Managing Partner of Flatiron Partners. He built the investment team, which grew to 10 investment professionals, and managed the creation of a portfolio of 60 companies. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Click here for more info.
Bob Wyman

Bob Wyman, CTO and co-founder of PubSub has been developing innovative, industry leading products for over 25 years. Prior to PubSub Mr. Wyman was instrumental in the creation of DEC's ALL-IN-1, the first customizable and integrated office automation suite. ALL-IN-1 became the market leading OA product of the 80's, earning as much as $2 billion per year in leveraged revenue. Also while at DEC Mr. Wyman was software licensing architect and was awarded some of the earliest patents in the field of Digital Rights Management. As Senior Product Manager for Applications Programmability at Microsoft, Mr. Wyman was responsible for OLE Automation, the first widely used and practical architecture for implementing reusable code components. Mr. Wyman has held senior engineering positions at Medio Multimedia, HealthGate Data Corporation, Marketwave, Accrue Software and firstRain.
Click here for more info.
David Young

David Young is the founder and CEO of Joyent, Inc. Before Joyent, David worked at Moody's Investors Service in the Structured Finance, International, and Digital Media groups. He helped found and was CTO of manageStar, an enterprise services management software company whose customers included TimeWarner, Sodexho, and Global Signal. David founded Joyent (http://www.joyent.com) in 2004 to provide a comprehensive suite of internet-delivered software for small to medium organizations. David is a trustee of Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, CA, which the "National Review College Guide" called "one of the most rigorous curriculums of any school in the country". David holds a BA in Classics, cum laude, from Indiana University. He lives the joyent lifestyle in Marin County, CA with his wife Maria and two daughters.
Click here for more info.