Prior to founding Brightcove, Jeremy worked as a technologist and entrepreneur-in-residence for Cambridge, MA-based venture capital firm General Catalyst, where he worked on companies and investments in broadband media, mobile content, e-commerce software and digital identity.

Before General Catalyst, Jeremy was Chief Technology Officer 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. Jeremy joined Macromedia through its merger with Allaire Corporation, where Jeremy was a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer.

Bill has spent the past ten years working and consulting with leading high-tech start-ups in Silicon Valley including, KnowNow, Netscape, WebSentric, Plaxo and Navio, leaders in rights based relationship marketing services, where Bill was instrumental in defining corporate strategy around mobile entertainment. Earlier in his career Bill spent several years bringing next generation computer graphics and visualization techniques into use at NASA and the CIA.

Bill is an advisor to a number of start up ventures including Navio, VivoTech, Loudhead, Rock 'n' Write and Billboard Live.

Marc Benioff
Salesforce.com

Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM). He founded the company in March 1999 with a vision to create a Web-based software utility that would replace traditional enterprise software technology. A 25-year software industry veteran, Benioff is recognized as one of the preeminent thinkers in information technology and is currently co-chairman of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) and an active member of the World Economic Forum (WEF). In 2004, Benioff co-authored Compassionate Capitalism, the first-ever best practices guide for corporate philanthropy that illustrates the success of the integrated model.

Prior to creating salesforce.com, Benioff spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation, holding a number of leadership positions in sales, marketing, and product development.

Blackshaw came to Intelliseek as the result of its 2001 merger with PlanetFeedback, a company he founded in 1999 after a career with Procter & Gamble. At P&G, he led initiatives dealing with online advertising development, online issues/rumor management, and consumer word-of-mouth behavior.

Susan is currently the Chair of the AD:TECH series of conferences and personally programs five global events in conjunction with dmg World Media USA, IMP Events UK and Infoex World Services Hong Kong. She selects over 500 speakers a year to present at the conferences in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Shanghai and London. In her “spare” time, she is a digital marketing consultant helping companies with go-to-market strategy and business development relationship-building.

Jonathan Carson co-founded BuzzMetrics in 1999, and serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer. Previously, Jonathan founded and served as President of Intercities, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based interactive development and consulting firm. Intercities produced Internet solutions for clients including Intel, Disney, National Institutes of Health, Century 21, and the state of Arizona. Jonathan also co-founded Outer Sound in 1995, an award-winning music Web site that he successfully sold to Sharpflat, Inc., a music industry application service provider, in 2000.

Jonathan is a founding director of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, a 600 member industry trade association; he is also on the Board of Directors of Sharpflat and AdamSmith.net, an Internet company being spun off from Adam Smith Global Television.

Tantek is in charge of investigating and defining new standards and new technologies for Technorati. He serves as a founder at the Global Multimedia Protocols Group and has Bachelor's and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University. He regularly leads panels on a variety of web technologies, and he holds six patents in the field of software and user interface with many more pending.

While working at netdecisions, Suranga joined a small Cambridge-based technology start-up called anondesign, working in the area of commerce-focused content management and delivery. In true start-up fashion, he held numerous roles including presales, product development and software development. Another Cambridge-based technology firm - Autonomy Corporation - caught Suranga's attention and he joined the company where he became the operational CTO. After three successful years at Autonomy, Suranga went on to found blinkx.

As GNTS president, Hossein leads all network development, engineering and operations, as well as the CIO and CTO organizations including AT&T Labs. The GNTS team provides the innovation, networking and technology expertise driving AT&T's business transformation to improve Customer Care, Sales and Network Operations. He is responsible for the design, development, engineering, operations and reliability of AT&T's global network, as well as its Global Network Operations Center -- AT&T's networking nerve center. As CTO, Hossein oversees the formulation and implementation of a strategic vision to advance technology in conjunction with AT&T's business objectives. He is the President of AT&T Labs and leads some of the world's best scientists and engineers in the development and creation of new services, tools and capabilities for next-generation Internet Protocol (IP) networks to give AT&T and its customers a competitive edge.

As CIO he provides the leadership to reengineer AT&T's business processes and the underlying information technology (IT) infrastructures -- improving productivity and the value of information within the organization. . Hossein holds over 600 worldwide patents; issued, pending, and in preparation, and was named "Inventor of the Year" by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame, in 2001.

Caterina's deep understanding of online community, blogs and the collaborative web has helped launch Flickr into a photo-sharing juggernaut, recently acquired by Yahoo!

Before joining Ludicorp, the developer of Flickr, Caterina worked as Creative Director of Yellowball, an online space which enabled people to create stories and animations collboratively. Yellowball was originally developed at Interval Research, where Caterina was employed as a Member of the Research Staff. Prior to Interval, she was an Art Director at Salon.com, winner of numerous design and content awards. She started her career as a Lead Designer at Organic Online, a top web development agency.

Dennis "Thresh" Fong
Xfire

Dennis is co-founder and Chief Gaming Officer of Xfire, the fastest growing online gaming platform and community in the world. Regarded as the "Michael Jordan of Videogames" by the Wall Street Journal and a serial entrepreneur, he is passionate about creating products that improve the gaming experience. At Xfire, Dennis is involved in business development, marketing, and product development, lending his unique experience in the gaming industry to build partnerships and help shape the direction of the product.

Prior to Xfire, Dennis co-founded Gamers.com and Firingsquad, two popular gaming websites that garner millions of visitors a month, and Lithium Technologies, a Customer Relationship Management company with customers such as Dell and Sony. Dennis is also the World Champion of Doom, Quake, and Quake 2.

The company was sold in 1989, and since then Lawrence has worked as an independent high-tech business consultant, and has been Entrepreneur in Residence for PenNetworks and an independent consultant for P2B (Penn to Business). At Wharton, he teaches Management 230 – Entrepreneurship, Business Plan Development for the Small Business Development Center, Leadership in the Business World program, and is an Entrepreneurial Fellow at Penn’s Weiss Technology House.

Julius Genachowski is Chief of Business Operations of IAC/InterActiveCorp, and a member of the Office of Chairman. IAC is one of the world's largest multi-brand interactive commerce companies, operating businesses including Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, TripAdvisor, Ticketmaster, HSN, LendingTree, RealEstate.com, Match.com, Citysearch, and Evite; the company is acquiring Ask Jeeves and spinning off its travel businesses.

Previously, Julius was General Counsel of IAC. He joined the company in 1997, shortly after it was founded by Barry Diller. Julius served as a member of the boards of directors of Expedia, Inc., Hotels.com, and Ticketmaster.

Before joining IAC, Julius was Chief Counsel to Chairman Reed Hundt of the Federal Communications Commission. He served as a Supreme Court law clerk; worked in Congress on staff of the Select Committee investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, and for then-U.S. Representative Charles E. Schumer. Julius has degrees from Harvard Law School and Columbia College, where he re-established Columbia's oldest newspaper, and was Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Columbia Guide to New York.

From 1994-2004, Gillmor was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper, and wrote a weblog for SiliconValley.com. He joined the Mercury News after six years with the Detroit Free Press. Before that, he was with the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont.

Today, Gillmor is a ZDNet contributing editor and host and producer of Podshow.com's Gillmor Gang and Gillmor Daily Web radio podcasts.

Commander Glaros' awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, Individual Air Medal, Strike/Flight Air Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, and various campaign, unit and sea service awards.

Prior to founding LAUNCH, Goldberg was director of marketing strategy and new business development at Capitol Records, where he oversaw the development of new multimedia distribution methods and the development of alternative channels through which music and new artists could be effectively marketed to consumers. He currently serves on the board of directors for LivePlanet, producers of the HBO series Project Greenlight.

Prior to founding Rearden Commerce, he spent 10 years in various venture capital, private equity, and operational roles in the technology sector. Grady led investments in successful start-ups within the software, wireless, high-performance computing, and networking sectors.

His new book, The Only Sustainable Edge, is soon to be published and is co-authored with John Seely Brown. He is also the author of the best-selling business books, Net Gain and Net Worth, and Out of the Box. Two of the articles have received the McKinsey Awards for best articles published in Harvard Business Review.

In 2003, Accenture identified John as one of the top 100 business “gurus” in the world. In 1999, Business Week named John one of the e.biz 25 most influential people in electronic business. He has been designated as a Forum Fellow by the World Economic Forum.

Visit John’s web site, www.johnhagel.com, and his blog at www.edgeperspectives.typepad.com.

Robin Hanson is an assistant professor of economics at George Mason University. He received a Ph.D. in social science from the California Institute of Technology, and later served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1984, Robin received masters in physics and the philosophy of science from the University of Chicago.

Before his work in the fields of economics and social science, Robin did research in machine learning at the Lockheed Artificial Intelligence Center, worked as a consultant on hypertext publishing design at Xanadu Inc., and did research in Bayesian statistics at the NASA Ames Research Center.

Stuart Henshall publishes the Skype Journal, and began evangelizing Skype's impact just days after they launched. As CEO at Mosoci LLC, his team is assisting business with Skype-enabled solutions and strategic research. He's been an active analyst in the VoIP, social networking, blogs and wiki space.

At GBN Global Business Network, he led scenario and futures projects in telecommunications, biotechnology and consumer products. As VP and General Manager he spent 20 years around the world leading sales and marketing teams to "world-first" products. Stuart excels at facilitating conversations about change.

Raph Koster has been working professionally and as a hobbyist in the field of online worlds for over a decade. As SOE’s Chief Creative Officer, 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.

Mr. Koster is a member of the International Game Developers Association, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, and ASCAP. He is the author of A Theory of Fun for Game Design as well as numerous articles and essays.

Tara is also an advisor to Dr Andrew Weil's Program for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, and is on the board of the AIGA Center for Brand Experience - a leading design and brand organization worldwide; and, she serves on the Department of Homeland Security’s Privacy Advisory Committee, which is tasked with providing insights on how to best preserve privacy and civil liberties while enabling better national security.

As a principal analyst on the Devices, Media, & Marketing team at Forrester Research, Charlene examines the ways new technology will affect how companies deliver information, content, and dvertising, as well as how these changes will affect the businesses that provide these services.

Charlene's current research agenda focuses on marketing trends, search engine marketing, media site design, local media, social networking, blogs, RSS, politics, online recruitment, and consumer portals. Charlene also oversees the operation of Forrester's San Francisco office.

Prior to joining Forrester, Charlene was publisher of interactive media for Community Newspaper Company, a group of newspapers in Massachusetts, where she started its award-winning Town Online Web site. In addition, Charlene served on the board of directors for the Newspaper Association of America's New Media Federation.

Manber joined Amazon.com in November 2002 as Vice President and Chief Algorithms Officer. Manber and his team worked on algorithms to improve internal operations such as inventory and pricing, and to enhance the customer experience through features such as Search InsideThe Book.

Formerly the chief scientist at Yahoo!, Udi taught computer science at both the University of Wisconsin and the University of Arizona. He is the author of Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach, as well as more than 50 technical articles. He also developed several popular software packages and won numerous research and teaching awards, including the 1999 USENIX Software Tools User Group Award.

Jane has published numerous academic and feature articles on immersive gaming, pervasive play, conspiracy theories, modern drama, narrative cognition, four-dimensional art, and horror films. She is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

John’s book, Net Attitude, paints a vivid picture of the future of the Internet and the attitudes needed to capitalize on it.

Dr. Pennock joined Yahoo! Research Labs with the acquisition of Overture in 2003. His goal is to develop creative technologies that help position Yahoo! at the forefront of innovations in Internet e-commerce and related scientific endeavors. Prior to joining Overture, Dr. Pennock worked at NEC Research and Microsoft Research, and served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University. He has over thirty-five publications, over twenty talks, and three patents relating to computational issues in electronic commerce and the World Wide Web. His research interests include information markets, ecommerce, Web analysis and modeling, auctions, recommender systems, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Peter Quintas serves as Chief Technology Officer of SolidSpace. In this role, Peter is responsible for driving the technology and product direction for SolidSpace's SilkWare and other offerings, based on his vision of the real-time enterprise and how it will redefine the way people communicate in real-time and collaborative environments. His experience and expertise has been focused on building high-growth businesses in enterprise software and launching innovative technology solutions.

Byron Reeves teaches courses in mass communication theory and research. His research includes message processing, new media, social cognition, and children and television. His research has been published in books of collected studies as well as such journals as Human Communication Research, Journal of Social Issues, Journal of Broadcasting, and Journalism Quarterly.

He received a B.F.A. in graphic design from Southern Methodist University and his M.A. and a Ph.D. in communication from Michigan State University. Prior to joining Stanford in 1985, he taught at the University of Wisconsin where he was director of graduate studies and associate chair of the Mass Communication Research Center.

Greg Rogers is responsible for managing Level 3's regulatory compliance and public policy advocacy in all 50 states, in addition to providing day-to-day regulatory counsel to internal client groups. During his tenure at Level 3 he has handled a wide variety of local, state and federal regulatory matters that include negotiating and arbitrating interconnection agreements, intercarrier compensation, ROW access, number administration issues, CALEA compliance, Internet services, 911 and VoIP.

Prior to this position, Mr. Schwartz served as executive vice president of Sun's software group where he was responsible for the company's software technologies and business. While in this position, he revolutionized Sun's software strategy with the introduction of the Java System, an innovative collection of highly integrated software for the development, deployment and operation of Java technologies.

In his previous role as chief strategy Officer for Sun, Mr. Schwartz directed the company's long-range planning and corporate development activities. He has also headed Sun's investment group as well as Sun's development tools and Java product marketing organizations.

At Bell Labs, she helped build Rapport, an early multimedia conferencing system and application sharing system. She then developed Archways, an automatically generated virtual environment with 3D graphics and 3D sound. Her interest is in developing new systems that enable people to communicate more effectively and efficiently. Under the broad rubric of providing a rich user experience, this work involves issues ranging from aesthetic considerations to mechanisms to increase ease-of-use and a user's control over devices and systems to ways of humanizing network management systems.

Michael Sippey has been publishing online since 1995, when he launched "Stating the Obvious," a then-weekly site of essays on Internet technology, business, and culture. During its heyday, it was home to writing from some of the web's most well known pioneers. Michael's career has been a mixture of product development, marketing, and professional
services.

Before joining Six Apart, Michael worked at Advent Software, where he managed market data and transaction download systems. He was part of the startup team at GlobalEnglish.com, led engagements at the Internet consulting firm Viant, and was part of the management team at email services agency Quris. Michael received his MBA from the Haas School of Business.

Peter holds an MBA from Dartmouth, an MS from Stanford, and a BA from Cornell.

In 1986, Linda Stone, was persuaded to join Apple Computer to help "change the world." She is passionate about the role technology can play in enhancing our lives. In her 7 years at Apple, she had the opportunity to do pioneering work in multimedia hardware, software and publishing.

In 1993, Stone joined Microsoft Research under Nathan Myhrvold. She co-founded and directed the Virtual Worlds Group/Social Computing Group, and with her team, researched online social life and virtual communities. In 2000, CEO, Steve Ballmer, tapped Stone to take on a VP role, reporting to him, to help improve industry relationships and contribute to a constructive evolution of the corporate culture. Stone retired from Microsoft in 2002, to work on a variety of writing and creative projects. She began her career as an educator and children's librarian.

Kevin Werbach
Conference Organizer

Kevin Werbach is a leading expert on the business, policy, and social implications of emerging Internet and communications technologies. He is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where his research focuses on the intersection of law, business, and technology. He is also the founder of the Supernova Group, a technology analysis and consulting firm. Werbach was formerly the editor of Release 1.0, a renowned monthly report published by Esther Dyson. He has served as Counsel for New Technology Policy at the Federal Communications Commission, where he helped develop the US Government’s Internet and e-commerce policies.

Evan Williams is currently co-founder and CEO of Odeo, Inc.,
a new startup aimed at bringing podcasting to the masses. In 1999, Evan co-founded Pyra Labs and helped create Blogger, the web application that pioneered and helped define the blogging phenomenon. In early 2003, Williams sold Pyra Labs to Google, where he served as a product and engineering manager 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 & Associates, Intel, and HP as a web application developer.