Jamie is an Enterprise 2.0 and social media strategist, evangelist, and community manager at EMC Corporation. She has a hand in developing and driving overall Enterprise 2.0 and social media strategy across the entire organization, identifying opportunities to integrate social media and community into the daily lives of employees, both internally as a team collaboration tool, and externally as a way to engage with customers, partners and prospects. In this role, Jamie successfully designed, launched, and managed an enterprise 2.0 employee community from inception to a combined contributor and lurker base of over 25,000 employees. Responsible for actively engaging the community, Jamie developed the tools, tips and best practices available to community members to enrich their community experience. Jamie also enables employees to integrate their marketing plans and objectives with social media tools by offering expert guidance and strategy consultation, best practices, use cases, and rules of engagement for each tool. Jamie is a founding member of The 2.0 Adoption Council and Membership Director for The Social Media Club, Boston Chapter. She is also a proud member of The Community Roundtable, Forte Foundation, American Marketing Association, Boston Chapter,Project Management Institute. You can connect with her online at her blog, Social Media Musings at www.jamiepappas.com, or via Twitter @JamiePappas.

Lee Bryant is an on-line social communication specialist with a focus on knowledge development, and has a strong belief in the empowering potential of the Internet. In 1996, he co-founded one of the first successful online agencies to focus on building online knowledge communities, and In 2002, Lee and his team founded a new company, Headshift, to focus on the emerging area of social software. Since then, he has become a leading writer and practitioner in the field of augmented online social interaction, and Headshift is now at the forefront of the international social software sector, pioneering innovative business uses of social technology in the legal sector, professional services, corporates, government and the public sector.

Dennis Howlett has been providing comment and analysis on enterprise software since 1991 in a variety of European trade and professional journals including CFO Magazine, The Economist and Information Week. Today, apart from being a full time blogger on innovation for professional services organisations, he is a founding member of Enterprise Irregulars and an investor in a European start-up. Prior to, Dennis was technology and tax partner in a British firm of Chartered Accountants for 10 years. Prior to that held various senior finance roles across a broad range of industries.

Mary co-leads an Enterprise 2.0 effort at Medtronic, a large global medical technology company. She helped create an internal social collaboration environment to encourage knowledge flow across the organization and has been instrumental in communicating, training and adoption efforts. Medtronic's E2.0 environment and experience helps to connect employees, make internal expertise more obvious, and integrate conversation with published internal and external literature. With a background in corporate libraries, Mary has a strong history of advocating the integration of information to make good decisions and solve problems. Mary is a member of the 2.0 Adoption Council and the Special Libraries Association.

Mark Dowds was an executive team coach for corporations including NewsCorp, RBC, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and CIBC. He believes in keeping an organization in the hands of the people and is dedicated to uncovering systems and beliefs that get in the way. He launched Brainpark to help employees socialize their work and gather expert opinion to make better decisions.

Mark has played a leading role in several organizations focused on helping entrepreneurs learn from one another to become successful. He is the co-founder of www.creationstep.com , www.bandofcoders.com, and is a limited partner at Bullet Time Ventures. He is an investor in www.CommunityLend.com, www.Virima.com, www.StandOutJobs.com, www.EduFire.com, and www.ServiceCloud.com. He is a director for www.JiffleNow.com , www.WorldBlu.com, and an advisor to www.gamechangeventures.com, www.TravelFli.com, www.HaitiPartners.org and www.Chaordix.com.

Tom is the CTO at Conformity, where he is responsible for overall technology vision and strategy. Tom is a recognized and award-winning CTO, and brings over 30 years of experience in senior technology and strategy roles at a variety of pioneering systems management solution vendors. Prior to Conformity, Tom was VP of Engineering at Storspeed, a leading storage solutions vendor. Before that he was Chief Technology Officer at BMC Software, where he was responsible for product vision and direction. Tom served as Chief Technology Officer at VIEO, Inc, where he was named “Chief Technology Officer of the Year” by InfoWorld magazine in 2004. Before that, he was Chief Technology Officer at Tivoli and later IBM-Tivoli. Tom began his career at Bell Labs. He holds nine patents in fault-tolerant and distributed computing and led the development of such industry standards as the DMTF's CIM, the CMDB federation specification, and POSIX. Tom holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University.

As worldwide head of marketing for OutStart since 2004, Jeff plays a key role in establishing and growing OutStart’s leadership positions in the social business, learning, and mobile content markets. Jeff joined OutStart from Beacon-Worldwide, where he served as a senior partner and chief marketing officer working with high tech product and services companies to increase their revenues through improved sales and marketing processes. Prior to Beacon-Worldwide, Jeff held vice president of marketing positions with a number of successful software companies, including Servicesoft, Bluestone, and Broadbase Software. At Servicesoft, as vice president of marketing and partners, Jeff helped to lead the company to market leadership and an acquisition by Broadbase Software for $651 million.

As Senior Director of Product Management in Enterprise Mobility, Tony Kueh is responsible for the overall product strategy, planning, and execution of the next generation Sybase Mobility Platform. Publicly introduced in May 2010, the Mobility Platform is a harmonization of all Sybase mobility offerings, including servers, applications, and services. Prior to joining Sybase, Mr. Kueh held various management positions at Palm, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and co-founded an Internet startup. Throughout his career, Mr. Kueh has been deeply involved in various aspects mobile computing having productized mobile servers products, mobile OS platforms, mobile hardware devices, and various mobile services. Mr. Kueh received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his Masters in Business Administration from Duke University's Fuqua School

Ken Catucci is 22 year veteran of AT&T, with experience in both wireless and wire line technology. Ken has a proven track record of leading AT&T's entrances into new markets and business ventures such and Local, International and wireless as well as successful product launches of both AT&T wireless and wire-line service. He currently leads the Product Management and delivery of AT&T's Mobile Enterprise Applications. Catucci earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Fordham University and lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife and three children.

Nolan M. Goldberg is an IP & Technology Counsel in Proskauer's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department and a member of the Patent Law Group, resident in the New York office. As an intellectual property litigator, his practice focuses on patent and trade secret litigation and counseling. As a founding member of the Litigation Department's Electronic Discovery Task Force, Mr. Goldberg is often called upon to develop e-discovery strategies to be used in all types of litigations, with a particular focus on managing the overall burden and cost of the electronic discovery process and obtaining often overlooked electronic evidence, including computer forensics. Mr. Goldberg's complete professional bio can be found at http://www.proskauer.com/professionals/nolan-goldberg/

Alistair is the founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).

A technology executive with expertise in software architecture including both transactional and analytical business applications. A passion for solving business problems by the optimal alignment of people, process, and technology. Experience in product management, systems architecture, implementation services, and technical sales. Successful leadership in selling and delivering creative solutions which integrate cloud computing, open source software, customer relationship management (CRM), and an innovative combination of social media with CRM. Equally comfortable working with a 5 person start-up team as a $1B Enterprise. http://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchlieberman http://twitter.com/mjayliebs http://mjayliebs.wordpress.com

Mike Werner is a Platform Strategy Advisor for Microsoft’s developer and cloud-services technologies. Mr. Werner recently rejoined Microsoft in this roll to accelerate Microsoft’s impact with major enterprise customers, industry partners, and the innovation ecosystem to identify and promote opportunities surrounding the Azure Services Platform.

Sean Power is a consultant, analyst, author and speaker. He is the co-founder of Watching Websites, a boutique consulting firm focusing on early stage startups, products and non-profits as they emerge and mature in their niches. He has built professional services organizations and traveled across North America delivering engagements to Fortune 1000 companies. He has done technical edition for Troubleshooting Linux Firewall for Addison-Wesley and co-authored Complete Web Monitoring for O’Reilly media with Alistair Croll. Sean has had first-hand experience creating and implemented social computing strategies with larger companies like MTV and smaller startups like Akoha. He often speaks on the subject of product acceleration, measurement or social computing in clinics, workshops, presentations and one-on-one training.

Alistair is the founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).

Philippe Winthrop is the Founder and Managing Director of The Enterprise Mobility Foundation, the organization behind The Enterprise Mobility Forum, the fastest growing content portal and social network exclusively dedicated to enterprise mobility. Philippe has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless’ adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA as well as the impact of the 1996 Telecom Deregulation Act on Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs). After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC's European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe. After IDC, Philippe created Axle Ventures, a boutique business planning consultancy focused on SMEs. There, Philippe worked with a wide variety of organizations in eCommerce, Healthcare and IT to help them develop winning go to market strategies. Philippe also launched the Wireless and Mobility research practice at market research firm Aberdeen Group. There, he conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe recently ended his analyst career after a successful tenure at Strategy Analytics where he spearheaded thought leadership on enterprise mobility management and the growing issues around individual and corporate liable devices. He is keenly interested in and focused on: • Wireless Procurement & Provisioning • Mobile Device Management • Mobile Application Management • Mobile Service Management • Security Management • Wireless Expense Management • Help Desk/End User Support for Mobility • Mobile Device Retirement/Replacement Philippe is also a frequent speaker and presenter and currently sits on the advisory boards of: • Mobile Enterprise Magazine; • The Mobile Connect Event; • Cemaphore Systems; and • Celio Corporation, the maker of the REDFLY mobile companion. • MobileBits

Ron is a serial technology entrepreneur starting companies in Israel, US, and Canada in the fields of Internet, mobile applications, and security. Previous ventures include co-founding and running Destinator Technologies and VisualGate Systems, as well as SVP at Paradigm Advanced Technologies. Ron is an extremely well-versed and charismatic. His expertise covers a wide range of topics related to online video and the high-tech world in general based on his vast experience. He's especially known for his fast-talking, and his talent for coming up with fast answers to tricky questions that are thrown his way. A former helicopter pilot, Ron loves traveling to authentic locations (Papua New Guinea and the Amazon are his favorites) and being breathless - shark feeding scuba diving, parachuting and bungee jumping to name a few.

Andy Howard has over 15 years of experience in IP Video, Networking, Software, and Internet Security. As Senior Director of Product Management at VBrick Systems, Andy directs VBrick's Business Development, Product Strategy, and Go-To-Market efforts. Andy has been at the forefront of the digital video industry since it began, pioneering the development of the industry's first streaming media caching appliance in the late 1990's, while holding Product Management and Marketing positions at CacheFlow (now Bluecoat) and Novell. Andy received a bachelor's degree cum laude in economics from Harvard University and an MBA with Distinction from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Andy Howard has over 15 years of experience in IP Video, Networking, Software, and Internet Security. As Senior Director of Product Management at VBrick Systems, Andy directs VBrick's Business Development, Product Strategy, and Go-To-Market efforts. Andy has been at the forefront of the digital video industry since it began, pioneering the development of the industry's first streaming media caching appliance in the late 1990's, while holding Product Management and Marketing positions at CacheFlow (now Bluecoat) and Novell. Andy received a bachelor's degree cum laude in economics from and an MBA with Distinction from the Ross School of Business at the .

Sebastian Grady is Chief Operating Officer of Altus where he's responsible for overall business development and customer satisfaction management. Grady brings nearly two decades of management and IT experience to the company, with a successful track record in customer service, enterprise software sales, rapid organizational growth and corporate leadership.

Prior to joining Altus, Grady was President and Chief Operating Officer of Saba Software (NASDAQ: SABA), a leading Human Capital Management software company, where he grew revenue from $18M to $54M during his first year. As Vice President and General Manager of the Customer Sales Division at PeopleSoft, recently acquired by Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL), he grew a $75M business to more than $600M in a four-year period. Grady's leadership, direction and oversight helped produce the company's fastest-growing, largest business unit. As Vice President of Customer Services at PeopleSoft, he achieved the highest customer satisfaction rating in the Enterprise Software Industry.

Grady began his career with Andersen Consulting in 1987, directing large information systems projects for Fortune 500 clients in the fast-paced telecommunications industry. He earned his BS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Jim Lundy is the vice president and general manager of collaboration at Saba. He is responsible for driving the strategy and global execution of Saba’s collaboration offerings. Lundy brings over 27 years of experience in both product vision and delivery execution. Most recently, Lundy was the managing vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. While at Gartner, he formed and led the Social Software and Collaboration team that focused on email, instant messaging, Web conferencing, social software, and team collaboration. Lundy also served as lead analyst on corporate learning and enterprise content management for a number of years. Prior to joining Gartner, Lundy spent 15 years at Xerox in a variety of sales, marketing, and management positions in both hardware and software business units. Lundy has a B.S. in Finance from Penn State University.

Eran Barak is the Global Head of Community Strategy for the Thomson Reuters Sales & Trading Strategic Business Unit, where he leads the social media and community driven initiatives for the financial markets. Previously he led the marketing and strategy for Thomson Reuters Collaboration Services group, focused on providing an inter-company collaboration platform. Before joining Reuters in 2004, Eran was the Director for Corporate Development at CellGlide, a wireless telecommunication solutions provider. Prior to that Eran held VP Product Marketing and VP Marketing Operations positions at VocalTec Communications, the VoIP industry pioneer. Eran holds an Executive MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) and B.Sc. in Computer Science & Operations Research from Tel-Aviv University in Israel.

Abha Kumar is a Principal in Vanguard's IT division, responsible for the leadership, vision and operational support of the global strategic portfolios of corporate systems, global business systems and the Enterprise 2.0 agenda at Vanguard. Prior to joining Vanguard, Ms. Kumar was VP, Divisional Information Office, at Dow Jones where she was responsible for corporate systems, enterprise portals, business intelligence and offshore services. Prior to that, she was a Group Director at The New York Times Company.

I am Chief Compliance Officer at a Beacon Capital Partners, LLC, a real estate private equity firm. The views expressed are mine alone. They may not reflect those of Beacon Capital Partners, LLC. Please read the disclaimers and do not attribute anything said here to my employer. I was previously a senior attorney in the Real Estate Group of Goodwin Procter LLP, helping clients invest in real estate through a variety of investment vehicles. (I blogged at Real Estate Space) In addition to my real estate practice, I was a member of Goodwin’s Knowledge Management Department. In that role, I was responsible for developing and implementing tools and resources to identify, create, represent and distribute knowledge for reuse, awareness and learning across the firm. (I blogged at KM Space.)

Ms. Wang is focused on information technology (IT) strategy, architecture, and optimization, specializing in the areas of identity and access management, security and risk management, governance, and operations and process improvement. She is currently examining the identity, privacy, and security risks associated with social media and social networking (Enterprise 2.0), in collaboration with Gartner analysts, as well as the impact of social tools on innovation as these tools have made the exchanging of information more open and transparent. With over 10 years of experience, Ms. Wang has advised and assisted Fortune 500, higher education, and Federal, state, and local government clients with designing and implementing large scale IT projects. Ms. Wang is a frequent speaker at conferences and professional organization meetings worldwide, has authored numerous whitepapers, and is ITIL Foundation, JAVA Programmer, and Solaris Systems Administrator certified. Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Wang performed duties as a systems engineer, project manager, and industry consultant at Sun Microsystems, Inc., and PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP.

Over 20 years of success with transforming organizations through technology as an IT professional for large Fortune 500 companies in emergent areas such as; Desktop Management, Identity /Access Management, Collaboration and Unified Communications. Currently working at Alcatel-Lucent and recognized as a corporate leader in driving strategy and adoption of many Enterprise 2.0 initiatives including; Micro-blogging, Communities of Interest, Social Networking. Key member of a company-wide, cross organizational team charged with understanding and solving Collaboration & Knowledge Management challenges. Inaugural Member of the 2.0 Adoption Council.

Tony is project manager for eMarketing in Abbott's Global Strategic Marketing and Services division. He has been working in international eMarketing for more than 5 years at Abbott, and in that time he has been the lead behind many of the key initiatives in the enterprise collaborative/social space. Tony has been with Abbott for the last 9 years, and is also responsible for delivering some of Abbott's global web initiatives.

Dusty Fisher is a consultant providing online technology solutions for Healthcare and Education. In 2009 her client, Exempla Healthcare, received an eHealthcare Leadership Award for its online initiatives. Dusty also received an IEEE-USA Professional Leadership award for her preUniversity work in '09. Dusty is founder and research director of the Race Street Group and chairs the IEEE-USA PreCollege Education Committee, a national committee devoted to promoting education and activities in science, technology, engineering and math. She is a frequent lecturer and speaker.

Sameer is a partner at the Sovos Group. Sameer has more than a decade of experience leading initiatives for large organizations helping them define and execute sustainable programs that drive lead generation, business partner network optimization, sales and marketing operational effectiveness, innovation, customer acquisition and employee productivity via communication and collaboration constructs. Previously, Sameer was a Director at SpanStrategies and Liquid Thinking and led the Practice Lead, West Coast Tech Strategy Consulting Group atmarchFIRST/ USweb/ Mitchell Madison Group. Organizations that he has had the privilege to work on strategic global initiatives with include Ingres, Sun Microsystems, KPMG, McKesson HBOC, WR WrigleyCo., The Sabre Group, Grupo Televisa (Mx), and Cardinal Health. Sameer is an advisory Board Member and Co-Chair: E2.0 Strategy and Planning Track at Enterprise 2.0 Conference. He also serves as an advisor to te Open Source Digital Voting Foundation (OSDV). Sameer blogs at Pretzel Logic. Contact Sameer on Twitter @sameerpatel or by email here

Providing the creative vision for Socialcast and its technology, Timothy brings nearly a decade of web development experience and over 8 years of entrepreneurship to the company. His prior venture, Event Robot, developed online communities for consumer-facing brands in the entertainment industry. Timothy's interests include emergent processes and behaviors, flock theory, connectionism, and collective intelligence, all of which are integrated into the Socialcast product. He regularly speaks about social networking and collaboration at industry conferences and guest teaches at the University of California, Irvine.

Leslie is one of the world's preeminent authorities on information aggregation and prediction markets. A sought-after lecturer and speaker, Leslie presented keynotes at DARPA, US Intelligence Community, and INFORMS symposia, among others,was a visiting scholar at the Naval Postgraduate School, and has lectured at Harvard Business School. She has been cited by publications that include the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Scientific American, Financial Times, and US News and World Report. Leslie filed eight patents in her field, two of which are based on work completed at Crowdcast, and authored numerous scientific publications. Prior to Crowdcast, Leslie designed prediction market platforms at HP Labs. She holds a PhD in Economics and an MS in Social Science from the California Institute of Technology and BA in Economics and Comparative Politics from Wesleyan University.

Phil Gross is Senior Business Operations Manager at Intuit QuickBase, the #1 online database that allows business users to customize and collaborate on their unique business processes. At QuickBase, Phil manages the systems that allow Sales, Support, and Marketing to do their jobs, including managing the CRM, analytics, and knowledge-based systems. Recently, Phil and the team launched the QuickBase Innovation Network (QIN), helping customers connect with each other and share knowledge and advice. Phil has more than fifteen years of experience in internet and web-based software, with deep domain expertise in Customer Relationship Management, Sales and Knowledge Management. Prior to his current role at Intuit, Phil held various leadership positions at KANA in product management, engineering, and consulting. Phil has advised many groups on their enterprise knowledge management and implementation strategies, including Intel, GTE, AT&T and Cisco. Phil has a Master's degree in Cognitive Science from the University of New York, and plays the ukulele.... badly.

Jason Corsello is Vice President of KI OnDemand, the revolutionary service model that gives clients subscription-based access to thought leadership, best practices, and advisory and consulting services. As a recognized leader in the technology landscape and emerging technologies marketplace, Jason also plays a lead consulting role with clients needing this type of guidance. Prior to Knowledge Infusion Jason was a research director at Yankee Group, leading the company’s Human Capital Management and talent management advisory and consulting services. Here he gained deep understanding of the vendor landscape and technologies and built credibility as a leading HCM analyst. Jason has also held roles directing marketing, product management, and product strategy at two leading enterprise software firms. In addition he has six years of industry experience at Solectron Corporation, where he worked with Global 2000 clients in developing their outsourced manufacturing and supply chain strategies. Corsello is an active participant in the HCM community, the author of the award-winning Human Capitalist Blog, and is a frequent presenter and panelist at industry events. Corsello is often quoted as an industry expert in human capital management and his research has been featured in leading publications including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and CIO magazine. Corsello holds a BA in business administration management and marketing from the University of San Diego.

Gina Minks is the Senior Program Manager for Social Media at EMC for the Technical Education and Certification division of Education Services. She is responsible for the EMC Proven Professional Community, which is a community for anyone interested in obtaining training and certification on topics related to information storage and management. She has been with EMC for over four years, serving as a technical instructor and a technical training developer for EMC’s SAN and Ionix courses. She holds an MS in Instructional Systems from Florida State University. She has been blogging about the intersection of her job and graduate studies for two years at Adventures in Corporate Education.

As Senior Director / Head of Learning at TELUS (www.telus.com), Dan is responsible for the overarching strategy of Learning 2.0 at the company; the shift to a social, informal and formal learning and collaboration model for all 35,000+ team members. In addition to these actions, Dan is chair of the TELUS 2.0 Adoption Council; a cross-functional group of leaders aimed to help drive a culture of collaboration and engagement across the organization. He is uniquely skilled to ensure an organization can move from traditional based learning to non-traditional based learning inclusive of asynchronous modalities such as social media, video, eLearning, podcasts, virtual classroom and other social learning / social networking opportunities. Dan's career is interwoven with both corporate and academic experience, coupled with an MBA, BA, B.Ed and multiple industry certifications and accreditations. He was recruited into TELUS in Q4 of 2008, previously holding senior positions with SAP, Business Objects, Crystal Decisions and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).

Eugene Lee is the Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors at Socialtext. Lee assumes day-to-day management and operational control over all aspects of Socialtext's business, including driving product direction and development, strategic alliances, and scaling the sales, marketing and support organizations globally. Lee comes to Socialtext from Adobe Systems, where he led Adobe's enterprise marketing and vertical market segments. Previously, he held several executive leadership roles at Cisco Systems, ranging from Vice President (VP) Worldwide Small/Medium Business Marketing to VP Worldwide Enterprise Marketing. Lee also held key management positions at Banyan Systems, including General Manager for the messaging business unit. He was co-founder of Beyond Inc., developers of the award-winning BeyondMail product, and holds four patents in messaging, workflow and privacy technologies. Lee has a B.A. in Physics and B.S. in Engineering and Computer Science from Harvard College and an MBA from M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.

Providing the creative vision for Socialcast and its technology, Timothy brings nearly a decade of web development experience and over 8 years of entrepreneurship to the company. His prior venture, Event Robot, developed online communities for consumer-facing brands in the entertainment industry. Timothy's interests include emergent processes and behaviors, flock theory, connectionism, and collective intelligence, all of which are integrated into the Socialcast product. He regularly speaks about social networking and collaboration at industry conferences and guest teaches at the University of California, Irvine.

JB Holston joined NewsGator as CEO and President in 2004 - and for those of you who might not know JB, he's also the Chief Knowledge Officer. Thanks to incredible leadership and continued innovation, NewsGator is the pre-eminent provider of social business computing software - with a 2.5 million user install base across 350 Global 2000 enterprise customers, civilian agencies and DoD entities. Over the last two decades, JB has led a wide range of technology and media enterprises to success. As President of Ziff Davis International, Holston managed operations across more than 100 countries and launched Yahoo! Europe. He was part of the senior management team that led the successful LBO of ZD by Forstmann, Little, and subsequent sale to Softbank. Holston's career has included senior roles with GE and NBC, including a strategic post on Jack Welch's staff. He holds a BA and MBA from Stanford.

Mike Gotta is a principal analyst for the Collaboration and Content Strategies team at Gartner. He covers real-time collaboration (presence, IM, web conferencing), unified communications, social software and networking, and organizational strategies related to improving collaboration. Prior to joining Burton Group, Mike performed duties as an IT analyst advising Global 2000 companies and held positions as application architect, enterprise technology services, emerging technologies, product management, and developer at Aetna. With 25 years of experience in XML syndication, community building, and social networking, Mike is a frequent speaker at industry events and often quoted by media sources covering collaboration, social computing, and knowledge management. Mike blogs at http://blogs.gartner.com/mike-gotta/

Steve is Yammer’s Vice President of Marketing. He has over 17 years of enterprise software experience. At Yammer, Steve leads a team that is responsible for corporate and product marketing and business development. Prior to Yammer, he served as the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Callidus Software, the leading provider of Sales Performance Management software. Steve played a pivotal role in defining the Sales Performance Management category, establishing Callidus as the market leader, shaping product strategy, and driving strategic partnerships. Previously, he served in leadership positions in product marketing and finance at Siebel, Remedy, and Oracle. Steve has a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University.

Tom Culler is an Architect in the Enterprise Technology department at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. He has been in the IT industry for 20 years, starting as a Programmer/Analyst for UMI/ProQuest in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At Ford he has served in areas of System Administration, Engineering and Architecture. In his current position, he is responsible for IT trend analysis, research and proof of concept of promising technologies in the Collaboration and Search spaces, and working with business partners and management to get those technologies implemented globally for Ford. Tom is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University and resides in Clinton, Michigan.

Bob is responsible for the adoption of portal services and the implementation of an integrated support model, including self-assistance and contact centers, and for establishing new markets for collaboration, social networking and workspace solutions. Bob has developed and led teams and organizations to architect and deliver global solutions in support of research, drug development and regulatory compliance in the pharmaceutical industry for 22 years. He has developed and managed outsourcing engagements on- and off-shore as both a client and a consultant. Bob began his career at Merck in 1989, working in pre-clinical and clinical research. In 1998, he took a position as a senior manager in the pharmaceutical practice at Accenture, where for five years, he worked with various clients to deliver and support IT capabilities in the regulatory and drug development areas. From 2004 - 2005, he was vice president of Project & Program Management at First Genetic Trust (FGT), a provider of tools for genetic sample and data management. Bob managed the development of FGT's products by using a successful outsourcing strategy that included off-shore vendors. Bob rejoined Merck in 2005 as director, Research Information Systems Architecture and Security. Prior to joining SBS in October 2009, he held the position of senior director of Technology and Application Services, a global department that supports Merck Research Laboratories. Bob holds a bachelor's degree in biomedical computing from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Larry Cannell is an analyst in the Collaboration and Content Strategies team at Gartner. He covers enterprise and desktop search in addition to open source collaboration, communication and content solutions. Prior to joining Burton Group, Larry was the workstream lead for collaboration and business intelligence (BI) research for Ford Motor Company’s advanced IT group. At Ford, Larry was developing an Enterprise 2.0 vision for the company and was previously a program manager of collaborative solutions. With 20 years of industry experience, Larry is an active member of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference Advisory Board. Larry blogs at http://blogs.gartner.com/larry-cannell/

Irwin Lazar is the Vice President for Communications and Collaboration Research at Nemertes Research, where he develops and manages research projects, develops cost models, conducts strategic seminars and advises clients. Mr. Lazar is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in the enterprise in areas including VOIP, unified communications, video conferencing, social computing, collaboration and advanced network services. A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and sought-after speaker and author, Mr. Lazar is a columnist for No Jitter and Enterprise2Blog. He is a frequent resource for the business and trade press. and is regular speaker at events such as VoiceCon, and Enterprise 2.0. Mr. Lazar serves as the conference director for FutureNet (formerly MPLScon), and is on the advisory board for the Enterprise 2.0 conference.

Vanessa Alvarez is an Industry Analyst with the Frost & Sullivan North America Information, Communications, and Technology Practice. She focuses on monitoring and analyzing emerging trends, technologies and market dynamics in the area of unified communications market in North America. Since joining Frost & Sullivan in November 2008, Alvarez is specializing in unified communications, and overall enterprise IP communications and applications. Prior to this, Alvarez was an analyst at Yankee Group, where she focused on the impact of IP communications and examined the market drivers, inhibitors and economic justification for the deployment of IP communications and applications in the enterprise. She brings with her an in-depth understanding of enterprise communications deployments in the enterprise, the organizational and behavioral challenges facing enterprises, vendor go-to-market strategies, competitive intelligence, and project management. Alvarez has received acclaim for her research through articles and quotes published in Network World, IT Week, TechTarget, Processor Magazine, and Reuters. She holds a BA in Political Science from Rhode Island College and is fluent in Spanish.

Jitendra Kavathekar, a technology executive with an entrepreneurial spirit, brings over 20 years of leadership and management experience from innovative and execution orientated companies.His background spans early stage startups to large multi-billion dollar businesses and brings domain expertise in the SaaS based enterprise collaboration software, mobile internet, embedded systems, wireless systems, and web based analytics. Jitendra is President and CEO of Twiki, Inc a leading vendor of collaboration software for the enterprise, with and estimated 60.000 open source installations across companies, universities,and government agencies in 130 languages. He is currently executing a transition of the business from a commercial open source vendor to a provider of next generation team portals in the cloud. Under his leadership, Twiki has grown annual revenues by over 50%, forged key strategic partnerships in commercial and government, and raised Twiki’s leadership profile into a thought leader within the emerging Enterprise 2.0 industry.Prior to Twiki, Jitendra served as Vice President with Yahoo!, responsible for the business,technology strategy, and execution for Yahoo! Web Analytics. The Analytics Saas is a key foundational element to monetizing advertiser, publisher, and user revenue streams. He also served as the Managing Director of Yahoo!’s Hungary technical operations. Prior to Yahoo, Jitendra executed a turn-around and led the technology organization for Motorola’s mobile web services platform SCREEN3, resulting in 16 new operators going live with 6M enabled handsets over a span of 6 quarters while driving the adoption of next generation push protocols within the OMA standards body. Jitendra’s start up experiences include leadership roles with Devicescape, Inc. (a leading supplier of WiFi Networking software and services, funded by top tier investors) and Pixo Inc (mobile web services platform provider, acquired by Sun Microsystems). He has formed and led Palm’s software core technologies function for the Zire and Tungsten PDA lines. Finally, his early technical and management roles were with Hewlett Packard spanning printer firmware, embedded Java VM platforms, and implementation of the industry’s first xHTML micro browser.He is an advisor to startups, EIR-Alum at PnP, and frequent guest speaker, lecturer, and panelist. Jitendra holds an MS and BS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he is a distinguished alum (2007). An Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy degree was conferred upon Jitendra for his keynote speech during the 2009 commencement ceremonies at International Technological University. Previous conferees include Nobelaureates Edward Teller,Steven Chu, Yuan T. Lee, fmr Secretary of Defence William Perry, among other distinguished keynote speakers. Jitendra lives with his family in foothills of Silicon Valley. Hobbies include golf, books, and travel.

Carol Rozwell is a vice president and distinguished analyst on Gartner's Social Software and Collaboration team. Ms. Rozwell explores the dynamics of collaboration including social networks, communities and innovation. Prior to her current assignment, Ms. Rozwell focused her research on technology and standards for R&D productivity in the pharmaceutical industry. She joined Gartner during the e-business frenzy and helped clients electrify their business processes. She brings to her role extensive practical experience as an implementer of buy-side and sell-side e-commerce systems that is augmented by positions in marketing, consulting and strategic alliance management.

JB Holston joined NewsGator as CEO and President in 2004 - and for those of you who might not know JB, he's also the Chief Knowledge Officer. Thanks to incredible leadership and continued innovation, NewsGator is the pre-eminent provider of social business computing software - with a 2.5 million user install base across 350 Global 2000 enterprise customers, civilian agencies and DoD entities. Over the last two decades, JB has led a wide range of technology and media enterprises to success. As President of Ziff Davis International, Holston managed operations across more than 100 countries and launched Yahoo! Europe. He was part of the senior management team that led the successful LBO of ZD by Forstmann, Little, and subsequent sale to Softbank. Holston's career has included senior roles with GE and NBC, including a strategic post on Jack Welch's staff. He holds a BA and MBA from Stanford.