Steve Wylie is the General Manager and Conference Director for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference and Mobile Business Expo, both of which are produced by CMP Technology. Steve formerly co-chaired CMP's annual Interop conferences in Las Vegas and New York. Prior to running conferences, Steve managed CMP's renowned InteropNet, including a multi-vendor test lab geared to evaluate, improve and showcase early implementations of open-standard IT infrastructure technologies. Steve is based in San Francisco, California.

As Vice President and General Manager for the Cisco Enterprise Collaboration Platform, Murali Sitaram leads the development of an enterprise social software (ESS) solution to address the growing collaboration market. This solution is designed to transform the way employees within large companies interact and collaborate, share knowledge, innovate, and accelerate team performance using an integrated combination of click-to-collaborate social media tools, applications, and network-based context. Sitaram's product development team is delivering an integrated end user experience to the enterprise that is built around social media solutions and based on a suite of Cisco software and networking technologies. Since joining Cisco in 2007, Sitaram has held leadership roles in product development. Most recently he led the Customer Contact Business Unit as Vice President/General Manager; in 24 months his team delivered two major new products to the marketplace. Previously he led the Customer Contact Engineering team and oversaw the redesign of the product portfolio for better supportability and scale. Sitaram's engineering leadership experience spans more than 20 years in software product delivery. He has an established track record in leading large global development teams building enterprise software solutions. Sitaram has held senior management positions in software development at several companies including Narus, Aspect Communications, Avaya, and Quintus. Sitaram serves on the Cisco Collaboration Customer Advisory Board whereby key Cisco customers are regularly engaged to drive Cisco collaboration strategy and solutions forward. Sitaram holds two bachelor's degrees, one in mathematics and physics and the other in computer engineering, from the University of Bombay and a master's degree in computer science from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.

Mr. Lasher is President of Global Business Solutions (GBS) within CSC. He is also President and Chief Innovation Officer with CSC's Office of Innovation, which includes The Leading Edge Forum, The Research Network, Global Solutions Organization, Collective Intelligence, Catalyst, and Knowledge Management & Enablement. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Lasher has held numerous Managing Director positions within CSC's European Group, including: BAE Systems global account, European Consulting, CSC Belgium, and Luxembourg; and Director, Industry Practices for Benelux. Mr. Lasher joined the CSC European Group in 1992, as Director of Network Integration, Europe, where he was responsible for CSC’s network and telecommunications activities in Europe. He joined CSC in 1990 as Director, Commercial Program Development for the Network Integration Division in Herndon, Virginia. From 1984 until joining CSC, Mr. Lasher was Vice President for Integrated Software Resources, Inc., a software consulting and engineering firm in the airline telecommunications industry. Prior to this, he held the following executive positions: president, Deca Group, Inc., Executive Vice President, Aitta, Inc., director, Investment Seminars, Inc., and Director, North American Operations, Elan Vital, Inc. Mr. Lasher attended Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, Ohio and Friedrich Wilhems University, Bonn, Germany, where he studied German literature and Philosophy.

Franz Aman is Chief of New Product Concepts, responsible for envisioning and building “concept cars” of new and next generation products for SAP. SAP has embraced rapid product development methodologies; building concepts and prototypes allows for quick iteration before the actual product development therefore assuring product success or early failure. Mr. Aman's career has spanned over 20 years in the hardware and software technology sector in executive corporate, product marketing and engineering positions working for leading companies such as Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems and Business Objects.

Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects competition itself – the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry. He coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0” in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. He also began blogging at that time, both about Enterprise 2.0 and about his other research. McAfee’s blog is widely read, becoming at times one of the 10,000 most popular in the world (according to Technorati). He also maintains a Facebook profile and Twitter account. McAfee’s book on Enterprise 2.0 was published in 2009 by Harvard Business School Press. In the July / August issue of Harvard Business Review McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson published “Investing in the IT that Makes a Competitive Difference,” a summary of their research investigating IT’s links to changes in competition. This work was the first to reveal that competition began to heat up in the US in the mid 1990s – to become faster paced, more turbulent, and more winner-take-all – and that this acceleration was greater in industries that spent more on IT. This research continues, and continues to highlight that technology appears to be significantly reshaping the landscape of competition. McAfee is the author or co-author of more than fifteen scholarly articles and ninety case studies and other materials for students and teachers of technology. This work has convinced him that modern information technology is the most powerful tool available to business leaders, yet also the most misunderstood and under-appreciated resource at their disposal. In 2008 McAfee was named by the editors of the technical publishing house Ziff-Davis number 38 in their list of the “100 Most Influential People in IT.” He was also named by Baseline magazine to a separate, unranked list of the 50 most influential people in business IT that year. He was invited by Prof. Gary Hamel to join a ‘renegade brigade’ of thinkers in the task of assembling a set of Moon Shots for Management, which was published in the January 2009 Harvard Business Review. He speaks frequently to both academic and industry audiences, and has taught in executive education programs around the world. McAfee is currently a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a fellow at the Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT.

Gentry Underwood heads IDEO's Knowledge Sharing domain, which focuses on facilitating large scale collaboration through the human-centered application of technology. Gentry began his career as a software designer, following a degree from Stanford in Human-Computer Interaction, but left the world of startups and Silicon Valley to study psychology, anthropology, and community development. Today Gentry combines his social science and design backgrounds to focus on building collaborative systems that people actually want to use.

Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects competition itself – the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry. He coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0” in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. He also began blogging at that time, both about Enterprise 2.0 and about his other research. McAfee’s blog is widely read, becoming at times one of the 10,000 most popular in the world (according to Technorati). He also maintains a Facebook profile and Twitter account. McAfee’s book on Enterprise 2.0 was published in 2009 by Harvard Business School Press. In the July / August issue of Harvard Business Review McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson published “Investing in the IT that Makes a Competitive Difference,” a summary of their research investigating IT’s links to changes in competition. This work was the first to reveal that competition began to heat up in the US in the mid 1990s – to become faster paced, more turbulent, and more winner-take-all – and that this acceleration was greater in industries that spent more on IT. This research continues, and continues to highlight that technology appears to be significantly reshaping the landscape of competition. McAfee is the author or co-author of more than fifteen scholarly articles and ninety case studies and other materials for students and teachers of technology. This work has convinced him that modern information technology is the most powerful tool available to business leaders, yet also the most misunderstood and under-appreciated resource at their disposal. In 2008 McAfee was named by the editors of the technical publishing house Ziff-Davis number 38 in their list of the “100 Most Influential People in IT.” He was also named by Baseline magazine to a separate, unranked list of the 50 most influential people in business IT that year. He was invited by Prof. Gary Hamel to join a ‘renegade brigade’ of thinkers in the task of assembling a set of Moon Shots for Management, which was published in the January 2009 Harvard Business Review. He speaks frequently to both academic and industry audiences, and has taught in executive education programs around the world. McAfee is currently a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a fellow at the Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT.