Conference Overview

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.