Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Joe Lonsdale
Co-Founder, Palantir
In 2004, Joe co-founded Palantir Technologies, a software company in Palo Alto, California which develops mission-critical analysis systems used by government and financial organizations around the world. Palantir is a market leader in several government segments and is one of the fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley.

Joe Lonsdale now serves as CEO of Addepar, a private wealth management technology company, and manages his family office. Joe worked with the financial arm of PayPal while at university and then joined as an early executive at Clarium Capital. He was a key player in growing Clarium into a $5-billion AUM world-class global macro hedge fund during his tenure. Joe is also the Chairman of the Board for ONEHope Wine, a national wine brand partnered with the Mondavi family and a leader in cause marketing technology. He has a variety of philanthropic pursuits including sitting on the Board of Strive for College and The Seasteading Institute.

Vivek Wadhwa
Contributor, TechCrunch
Vivek Wadhwa is a Visiting Scholar at the School of Information at UC-Berkeley, Director of Research for the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, and Senior Research Associate for the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. Prior to joining academia, he was an entrepreneur who founded two software companies.
Andreas Weigend
Fmr. Chief Scientist, Amazon.com
Dr. Andreas Weigend studies people and the data they create. He teaches at Stanford and directs the Social Data Lab, helping companies understand the Social Data Revolution and its irreversible impact on how we express our identity, relate to each other, make purchasing and lifestyle decisions, and create knowledge as a community. Previously, as the Chief Scientist of Amazon.com, he focused on building the true customer-centric, measurement-focused culture, key to Amazon’s success.

Andreas is currently an advisor or board member of RocketFuel, Skout, VillageVines, Solvate, eCommera, Peerius, ApeSnap, Uniqlick, and Mu-Sigma, as well as a limited partner at Founders Fund. Startups he co-founded or advised include Moodlogic (music crowdsouring, sold to All Media Guide / Macrovision), Cleverset (recommendation technology, sold to ATG/IBM), Agoda.com (travel and hotel reservations, sold to Priceline), Xiaonei (now RenRen, China’s largest Facebook clone), and Nugg.ad (behavioral targeting, sold to Deutsche Post).

Panel & Workshop Speakers

Jay Adelson
CEO, SimpleGeo
Jay Adelson is CEO of SimpleGeo, which provides products and tools that make it easy for developers to create location-aware applications. He is also chairman of the board of the Internet television network Revision3. Prior to SimpleGeo, Adelson served as the CEO of the social news website Digg, where he took the company from an unknown startup to a global brand. Under his leadership, Digg grew from less than 20,000 to more than 30 million monthly visitors.
Luc Barthelet
Executive Director, Wolfram|Alpha
Executive Director Luc Barthelet joined Wolfram|Alpha in 2011 to lead the company’s strategic business development. In 1988, his first software startup was acquired by Electronic Arts (EA). He went on to work at EA for 20 years, first leading the development of Paint products, and was responsible for leading product development for titles such as The Sims, SimCity 3000, and The Sims Online. In late 2010, Barthelet’s online virtual gaming community TirNua was acquired by RockYou. Barthelet is a long-time expert user of Wolfram Mathematica, the core technology that powers Wolfram|Alpha, and is the creator and administrator of Mathematica-users.org. He has been collaborating closely with Wolfram Research for nearly 20 years.
Roger Bodamer
SVP of Products and Engineering, 10gen
Roger heads the West Coast Operations for 10gen. He has over 20 years of experience of building and delivering great and innovative products to market and has deep expertise and knowledge of database architectures and internals. Roger holds several patents for database and middleware technology. His experience leading product development and engineering teams includes 12 years with Oracle’s Database and Application Server development organization where he pioneered products that delivered heterogeneous interoperability, as well as several years as SVP of product operations and engineering at Apple’s PowerSchool division. Roger also held leadership positions at OuterBay and Efficient Frontier. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in computer science from the HogeSchool Enschede.
Catherine Casserly
CEO, Creative Commons
Catherine M. Casserly is CEO of Creative Commons. Cathy’s career is dedicated to openness, and particularly to leveraging possibilities at the boundaries of formal and informal learning to equalize educational opportunity. She has been a long-time advocate of open educational resources (OER). As the Director of the OER Initiative at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation she managed investments totaling more than $100 million to harness the efficiently and effectiveness of knowledge sharing worldwide.

At the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Cathy spearheaded work in the areas of transparency and technology as a Senior Partner and the Vice President of Innovation and Open Networks. With the extended Carnegie team she launched a continuous performance improvement system to create alternative mathematics pathways for community college students.

Ryan Calo
Director, Consumer Privacy Project
M. Ryan Calo runs the Consumer Privacy Project at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Law School in 2008, Calo worked in the D.C. office of Covington & Burling LLP where he advised clients on privacy, data security, and telecommunications. Calo’s work on privacy has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other major news outlets.
Zach Coelius
Co-Founder & CEO, Triggit
Zachery Coelius is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Triggit, the leading real-time bidding platform for innovative marketers and their agencies. Triggit uses sophisticated technology to bring efficiency, scale, transparency and control to digital marketing campaigns across more than four million websites and billions of impressions a day. Zach is a frequent columnist and speaker on the topics of advertising exchanges, media buying and real time bidding and his writings can be found at adexchanger.com.
Nick Ducoff
Co-Founder & CEO, InfoChimps
Nick is CEO and a co-founder of Infochimps. Previously, Nick was a lawyer in the Technology and Emerging Companies (TEC) practice group at Andrews Kurth and co-founded various startups, including JDspace.com. Nick blogs at http://nick.vc and has provided consulting services as a “GLG Educator” with Gerson Lehrman Group and as a “tech startup guru” on GuruStorms.com.
Michael Driscoll
CTO & Co-Founder, Metamarkets
Michael has spent the last decade building data platforms across life sciences, retail, and media firms. He worked as a software engineer for the Human Genome Project, later founded the online retailer CustomInk.com, and most recently led the analytics firm Dataspora, where he remains Chairman. Michael holds an A.B. from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Boston University.
Gil Elbaz
Founder & CEO, Factual
Gil Elbaz is the founder of Factual, a new information-sharing startup. He is also the co-founder of Applied Semantics (ASI), a new language that helped create Google’s Adsense.
Ellie Fields
Director of Product Marketing, Tableau Software
Ellie Fields is the Director of Product Marketing at Tableau Software, which provides data visualization that anyone, including non-programmers, can use. Prior to Tableau, Ellie worked as a senior product manager at Microsoft and as an associate in late-stage venture capital. Ellie hold B.S. and B.A. degrees from Rice University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Christina M. Gagnier
Partner, Gagnier Margossian LLP
Christina leads the Intellectual Property, Internet & Technology practice at Gagnier Margossian LLP. Gagnier serves as the Chief Executive Officer of REALPOLITECH, a digital public relations and web strategy consultancy. Gagnier consults technology firms on policy issues ranging from patent law reform to communications issues, such as Network Neutrality. Gagnier’s primary research concerns issues of cyber rights and the intersection of on and offline action. Previously, she served as the Chief Information Officer of Mobilize.org, directing the organization’s strategic communications, online interface and research programs.

Gagnier has customized Gagnier Margossian LLP’s technology practice to broadly serve the needs of “startups.” Working with artists, Web TV writers and producers, Internet companies and mobile application developers, Gagnier provides digital strategy advising to clients who are often times navigating uncharted legal territory. Christina holds a B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from the University of California, Irvine, a Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a J.D. from the University of San Francisco.

Christina blogs in the Technology section of The Huffington Post. She is frequently invited to sit on panels discussing issues like Information Privacy, law in the digital age, Government 2.0 and citizen engagement. She has also been a guest commentator on TV shows like Russia Today’s CrossTalk, NBC’s Press:Here and KCBS San Francisco.

Hjalmar Gislason
Founder of DataMarket
Hjalmar is a successful entrepreneur, founder of three startups in the gaming, mobile and web sectors since 1996. Prior to launching DataMarket, Hjalmar worked on new media and business development for companies in the Skipti Group (owners of Iceland Telecom) after their acquisition of his search startup – Spurl. Hjalmar offers a mix of business, strategy and technical expertise. DataMarket is based largely on his vision of the need for a global exchange for structured data.
Russel Glass
CEO, Bizo
Russell Glass, CEO, Bizo: Russ is a serial technology entrepreneur, having founded or held senior positions at four venture-backed technology companies. Most recently Russ led the marketing and product management teams at ZoomInfo, a business information search engine, where he sharpened his B2B marketing skill-set and developed his love for business data. Other than business data, Russ’s passions include golf, anything in high def, and Duke basketball.
Sean Gourley
CTO, Quid
Sean Gourley did research into the mathematics of war for his PhD thesis at Balliol College, Oxford. His findings appeared as the featured article in “Nature” (December 2009) and were the subject of a popular TED talk he presented in May, 2009. These findings as related to statistical analysis, probability, and algorithm development applied to complex systems and large datasets provided the impetus for important Quid core technology. Sean is a Rhodes Scholar with a PhD in Physics (Complexity) from the University of Oxford.

Andy Gross
Principal Architect, Basho
Andy is Basho’s Principal Architect and one of the original authors of Riak, Basho’s flagship distributed database. Prior to Basho, Andy held senior engineering positions at Mochi Media, Apple, and Akamai Technologies
Nick Halstead
Founder & CEO, Mediasift Ltd
Nick is CEO and Founder of Mediasift Ltd – which created TweetMeme.com – one of hottest realtime news aggregators based upon data from Twitter. TweetMeme has stored over 4 billion unique links that have ever been shared on Twitter (used for the famous Retweet Button of which 500 million widgets are served every day.)

His latest product DataSift is a real-time data mining platform processing 100′s of millions of pieces of social media data each day. DataSift also supports storage of the real-time streams – based upon HBase + MapReduce bringing the next generation in social media data analysis.

Nick has been in development for over 20 years and continues to push the boundaries of technology within the web space. He is passionate about the future of news and ‘Big Data’.

Terry Jones
Founder & CEO, Fluidinfo
Terry Jones is CEO/Founder of Fluidinfo. Based in New York, Fluidinfo are building a shared openly-writable cloud storage platform. Terry was previously a postdoc in Zoology at the University of Cambridge where he spent time helping the WHO design part of the human influenza vaccine. He was also a part-time professor in CS at the Universitat de Pompeu Fabra, CTO of Eatoni Ergonomics in New York, a postdoc in Cognitive Science at UCSD, CEO of Teclata in Barcelona, and a postdoc and graduate fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He has a Ph.D. in CS from the University of New Mexico, an M.Math from the University of Waterloo, and a B.Sc. in CS from Sydney University.
Damien Katz
CTO, Couchbase
Damien Katz is the creator of CouchDB. He co-founded CouchOne, which merged with Membase in February 2011 to form Couchbase, where he now serves as CTO. Damien began his engineering career working on Lotus Notes for Iris Associates (later acquired by IBM) and was most recently at MySQL. With this strong database background and a number of patents under his belt, Damien created a new database engine in 2005 called CouchDB (Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware).
Greg Kidd
Founder & CEO, 3taps
Greg is 3taps’ founding CEO and product manager. His previous entrepreneurial ventures included founding Dispatch Management Services Corp. and dNet. Prior to 3taps, Greg worked as a management consultant at Promontory Financial Group, Booz Allen and USWeb. He also served as a senior analyst in the payments group at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Greg holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management, a master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree in History from Brown University.

Greg is active in mountain bike stage racing and has served as an instructor for Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). He was a first round investor in Twitter and currently serves as an adviser to Square.

Marshall Kirkpatrick
Co-Editor and Vice President of Content Development, ReadWriteWeb
Marshall Kirkpatrick is Co-Editor and Vice President of Content Development at ReadWriteWeb. He lives in Portland, Oregon, along with many other members of the RWW team. He joined RWW in 2007 and was previously Lead Blogger at TechCrunch. Marshall says he loves to write on ReadWriteWeb because it’s a chance to tell the stories of a disruptive time in history and he hopes that disruption will lead to a better world. He specializes in creating new ways to use feeds and social graph analysis to support the writing of the whole team.
Jeff Lawson
Co-Founder & CEO, Twilio
Jeff is co-founder and CEO of Twilio, where he brings over 10 years of entrepreneurial product leadership experience. Before Twilio, Jeff served as Product Manager for Amazon Web Services, and has held founding executive roles for NineStar, Stubhub.com, and Versity.com.
Josh McFarland
Founder & CEO, TellApart
Josh is founder & CEO of TellApart, a technology company which helps e-commerce firms drive incremental revenue through the use of their own data. TellApart unifies online retailers’ customer data in the cloud and leverages machine learning-backed predictive analytics to quickly “tell apart” the best customers & prospects from the rest. This refined data, called Customer Quality Scores, is used to power new marketing applications like Transactional Retargeting: highly personalized, perfectly targeted display advertising.

Immediately prior, Josh served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Greylock Partners, where he incubated TellApart and also advised the firm in the areas of consumer Internet products and their monetization. Previously in his career, he spent over five years at Google as a lead Product Manager on many of its advertising platforms.
While at Google, he and TellApart’s co-founder and CTO, Mark Ayzenshtat, also founded the Adwords API team. This platform today interacts with over half of the company’s total revenue and in 2008, won Google’s prestigious all-company EMG award. Josh earned his Bachelor’s degree with distinction in Economics at Stanford, where he was a Mayfield Fellow.

Kevin Merritt
President & CEO, Socrata
Kevin is the founder and CEO of Socrata. In 2002 Kevin founded MessageRite, a web-based email archiving software developer and service provider. In 2004 FrontBridge Technologies acquired MessageRite where Kevin functioned as CTO. In 2005 Microsoft acquired FrontBridge. At Microsoft Kevin served as Software Architect and Director of Operations before leaving to found Socrata in 2007. At heart, Kevin is a software entrepreneur with a passion for and focus on making customers elated by delivering great software as a service. You can read and subscribe to No Wiggle Room, Kevin’s personal blog on entrepreneurship, technology and startups.
Oren Michels
CEO, Mashery
Mashery’s co-founder and CEO has a record of success in a variety of executive positions spanning multiple industries. Oren co-founded and managed WiFinder, an international provider of directory services for public access wi-fi hotspots. He has served as president for two companies: Colt HR, a leading provider of mid-market benefits administration software and services; and Winebid.com, a leading online wine auction service. He also served as president and CEO of The Groundlings, a Hollywood-based entertainment production company, and has held COO positions at manufacturing companies. Prior to joining Mashery, Oren worked as vice president of business development at Feedster, where he managed the company’s activities in China and negotiated partnerships with AOL, Real Networks, and Mitsui.
Paul Mikesell
Co-Founder, CEO and VP of Engineering, Clustrix, Inc.
Paul Mikesell is the Co-Founder, CEO and VP of Engineering of Clustrix, Inc. Prior to starting Clustrix, Paul was the founder and director of engineering at Isilon Systems, the proven leader in scale-out NAS storage solutions. After five years, Isilon achieved the best opening performance for a technology IPO in the previous six years. Paul designed, architected, and developed all of Isilon’s products while building the engineering team to 50 people, the company to 200 people, and revenue to $100M. He was responsible for many of Isilon’s key patents. As director of engineering, he established and executed long-term architectural goals, and maintained a close relationship with marketing, sales, and customers to produce Isilon’s highly successful product roadmaps.

Before Isilon, Paul was the development manager for all of RealNetworks infrastructure products, including RealServer, RealProxy/Cache, and the distributed Live Real Streaming system.

Paul earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Jason Monberg
Vice President, MarkLogic
Jason Monberg is vice president of product management for MarkLogic and is responsible for product strategy and vision. Jason has 18 years of experience leading product strategy, development, and consulting for web and enterprise software products. Prior to MarkLogic, Jason was vice president of application products at Composite Software, a leading provider of data virtualization software, where he was part of the founding team that grew annual revenue from zero to over $20 million in 4 years. Prior to Composite Software, Jason was president and founder of Carbon Five, a consulting firm specializing in advanced content management solutions for fortune 500 clients and custom product development for start-ups. Jason has also held a number of technical roles and has founded three other start-ups including Sparks.com, a consumer gift and personalization company, where he served as the CTO and raised over $20 million in funding. Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Wesleyan University.
Graham Mudd
Vice President, comScore
Graham is Vice President, Search & Media at comScore, a technology market research firm. Prior to joining comScore, he led product marketing for Yahoo! Search’s open initiatives, including BOSS and SearchMonkey. He has a B.S. from Santa Clara University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Jay Nath
Director of CRM, City of San Francisco
Jay Nath joined the City & County of San Francisco in September 2006 as Director of CRM where he successfully deployed Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software enterprise-wide. The technology has played a critical role in managing over 8 million calls and nearly a 1 million requests for service through the SF 311 service. In 2007 he established the City’s first Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment which serves as a real-time bi-directional communication hub managing millions of messages. In his more recent role as Director of Innovation he led an effort to make San Francisco the first large city in the nation to use Twitter as a new channel for taking public requests.
Daniel X. O’Neil
Co-Founder, Everyblock
Daniel X. O’Neil is a co-founder of and People Person for EveryBlock, a neighborhood news site serving 15 cities. He is responsible for uncovering new data sets through online research and working with local governments. He also works on content partnerships at EveryBlock. In August 2009 EveryBlock was purchased by msnbc.com.
Todd Parsons
Founder & CEO, Shop Social
Todd Parsons is the founder and CEO of ShopSocial. Previously a co-founder of BuzzLogic, Todd began to develop algorithms for influencer identification on the web in 2004. A passionate tech entrepreneur, Todd has served in the leadership of Silicon Valley Bank, and taught in San Jose State University’s eCommerce Management program.
Sam Ramji
Vice President of Strategy, Apigee
Sam Ramji is Vice President of Strategy at Apigee, a leading provider of enterprise API technology and free developer tools. Sam brings over 15 years of industry experience in enterprise software, product development, and open source strategy. Prior to Apigee, Ramji led open source strategy across Microsoft. He is also on the Board of Directors for the Outercurve Foundation and leads several Bay-area cloud and API meetup groups.
Matthew Russell
Vice President of Engineering, Digital Reasoning Systems
Principal, Zaffra
Matthew Russell, Vice President of Engineering at Digital Reasoning Systems and Principal at Zaffra, is a computer scientist who is passionate about open source, data mining, and web application technologies. Matthew has worked extensively with the government as well as the private sector in and out of uniform to ensure that complex software is delivered on time and under budget in the midst of even the most difficult of circumstances. Matthew can help you implement elegant end-to-end solutions to difficult problems involving spartan resources, nebulous requirements, high pressure, and messy data. Matthew has also authored two popular O’Reilly titles: Mining the Social Web and Dojo: The Definitive Guide.
Miten Sampat
VP of Product Strategy, Quova
Miten is currently VP of Product Strategy at Quova, enabling some of the largest web companies understand “where” their users come from. Before Quova, Miten was Chief Architect & CTO at Feeva where he developed technology to enable ISP’s to provide metadata for targeted online advertising in a privacy friendly manner. Prior to Feeva, Miten co-founded & led the SeeVT project at the Center for HCI at Virginia Tech that conducted R&D on handheld location based systems, and developed one of the early implementations of Wifi(R) location sensing. Miten also worked at Reliance Communications in India to design, develop, and introduce value-added local services to mobile consumers in India.

He has a BS & MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, where he was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year.

Ryan Sarver
Product Manager, Platform/API team, Twitter
Ryan Sarver is the Director of Platform at Twitter. Prior to joining Twitter he was the Director of Consumer Products at Skyhook Wireless.
Tim Schigel
Founder & CEO, ShareThis
Tim Schigel is the CEO of ShareThis, the world’s largest sharing network and a market for influence across the web. Prior to founding ShareThis, Tim was Director with Blue Chip Venture Company, where he led the firm’s investment in marketing and technology leaders such as Advertising.com (AOL/TW), Nielsen Buzzmetrics (Nielsen) and Third Screen Media (AOL/TW). Prior to Blue Chip, he was an entrepreneur and international consultant leading innovative projects for Apple Computer, Hitachi, Hallmark Cards, Motorola and Procter & Gamble. Tim received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Case Western Reserve University.
Rebecca Shapley
User Experience Researcher, Google
Rebecca is a User Experience Researcher at Google in Mountain View, CA. She has worked with the Google Checkout team and with Google Maps, Earh, Books, Picasa, and others.
Brett Sheppard
Executive Director, Zettaforce
Brett Sheppard is executive director at Zettaforce and previously served as senior analyst at Gartner. His work focuses on analytics and collaboration.
Vivek Sodera
Co-Founder, Rapleaf
Vivek is the Co-Founder of Rapleaf, a technology based consumer data company. Rapleaf supports the business-to-consumer ecosystem by empowering businesses with data on their existing consumers, enabling for more personalization in every interaction with the consumer. Rapleaf currently has demographic, lifestyle, behavioral, intent, purchase, influencer, and other data on over 500 million individuals.
David Soloff
Founder & CEO, Metamarkets
David has 15 years’ experience working on and in information markets, first at UC Berkeley, then on Wall Street as a quant, then with data-heavy startups. David focuses on conceptual and practical models of how liquidity and velocity can be introduced to opaque markets. Most recently, David was Director of Information Products at Rapt where he led development of media price data products until the company’s acquisition by Microsoft. David has a BA in Near Eastern Linguistics from Columbia and a graduate degree from Berkeley in Economic and Social History.
Dimitri Vaynblat
Vice President of Data, Optimization & Product Strategy, RadiumOne Inc
Dimitri is currently the Vice President of Data, Optimization & Product Strategy at RadiumOne Inc. He was previously the CTO and Vice President of Product & Operations, as well as the Co-Founder at Red Aril. Prior to that, Dimitri was Vice President of Product Strategy and Behavioral Targeting at NebuAd.
Ben Werther
VP of Products, Datastax
Ben is VP of Products at DataStax (formerly Riptano). Prior to DataStax, Ben was Director of Product Management at EMC’s Data Computing Products Division (formerly Greenplum Software). At Greenplum, Ben led product management for the company, and drove product strategy, prioritization and product definition. Prior to Greenplum, Ben was at Microsoft where he was responsible for planning of the ‘post-Longhorn’ Windows Server platform and strategic planning for Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform. Ben was a CS PhD candidate at Stanford University, and holds an MS from Stanford University and a B.Comp(Hons) from Monash University (Australia).
Matt Westover
Senior Director, Product Management, Turn
Matthew is the Senior Director of Product Management at Turn, a leading software platform in the digital media space. At Turn, Matthew heads up products that enable the ingestion of first and third party data on behalf of Fortune 500 companies and agency holding companies to create audiences which can be leveraged across multi-channel consumer touchpoints.

Prior to Turn, Matthew ran Analytics and Business Intelligence at Claria where he designed and oversaw the development of applications in the areas of ad optimization, behavioral search, and click-stream analysis. He is the inventor of three patents in these areas. Prior to Claria,
Matthew was a Senior Analyst at Williams-Sonoma. At Williams-Sonoma, he helped establish Williams-Sonoma’s brands as leaders in both the retail, catalog, and internet channels by developing multi-channel marketing programs aimed at maximizing customer value.

Ian White
CEO, Urban Mapping
Since founding Urban Mapping in 2006, Ian has led the company to profitability and into new markets. Beginning with the explosion of local search and local advertising, Urban Mapping introduced the industry’s first database of neighborhood boundaries, critical to powering the needs of local interactive publishers. Early customers included Google, Bing Maps, MapQuest and Yahoo! Under Ian’s guidance, Urban Mapping has developed other data services that follow the “hard to collect, difficult to maintain” model, including public transportation, off street parking and enriched content for shopping malls.
Monica Wilkinson
Activity Stream Platform Lead, Socialcast
Monica leads the Activity Stream Platform at Socialcast and has been crucial in the development of many of Socialcast’s stream and sharing technologies that of our customers enjoy today. Passionate about making web communication more meaningful and efficient, Monica enjoys working with the external community on the development of activity stream and emerging standards around real-time technologies. Monica graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering. Her most recent roles include Open Standards Program Manager at Facebook, Activity Streams Group Architect at MySpace and Tech Lead at SumTotal Systems for the ResultsOnDemand SaaS offering.
Dennis Yang
Director of Product & Marketing, Infochimps
Dennis is the Director of Product & Marketing for Infochimps. He joined after five years as a co-founder of Floor64 where he produced the well-known business & technology blog, Techdirt, and created the crowdsourced thinktank, Insight Community. Prior to that, he spent seven years at mySimon, a division of CNET Networks. As Associate Vice President, Dennis was responsible for the overall management, operations, and development of the mySimon comparison shopping site. Dennis first cut his teeth at Andersen Consulting, and holds a B.S. from Cornell University. Dennis authors his own personal blog, eponymously at dennisyang.com, and you can follow him on Twitter at @sinned.