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Social Apps and Platforms, and Architecture Track Chair
 Tony Byrne, President, The Real Story Group
Tony Byrne is the President of the Real Story Group and oversees all of the technology streams and properties, which include CMS Watch, Enterprise Information Watch, and SharePoint Watch.
In 2001, Tony founded CMS Watch as a vendor-independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies and publishes research comparing different solutions head-to-head. Over time, CMS Watch evolved into a multi-channel research and advisory organization, spinning off similar product evaluation research in various areas of Enterprise Content Management. As a result of this natural evolution, in 2010, The Real Story Group became the parent company of CMS Watch and its sister entities, EI Watch and SharePoint Watch.
Tony is the original author of The Real Story Group's Web Content Management research, a former journalist, and a 20-year technology industry veteran. Prior to 2001, he managed an engineering team at a systems integration firm. He now focuses his own research on Enterprise Community and Collaboration software, SharePoint, and Web Content Management.
During the last decade, Tony has advised clients such as the US Dept. of the Treasury, the American Association of Retired Persons, MBC Television of Dubai, The Canadian Cancer Society, and The Seattle Children's Hospital.
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Technology Leadership Track Chair
David Carr, Editor, The BrainYard (InformationWeek.com enterprise social media)
David Carr currently works as a freelance writer for information technology publications and as a web developer. He was the Technology Editor of Ziff Davis's Baseline Magazine from 2001-2007 and before that held a similar role at Internet World magazine. His recent articles have been published in CIO Magazine, CIOZone.com, CIO Insight, Information Week, and Defense Systems. David also does a monthly e-newsletter on the TV news business for Broadcasting & Cable.
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Governance, Risk and Compliance, and Analytics and Metrics Track Chair
Manuela Farrell, Conference Manager: Interop, Cloud Connect & Enterprise 2.0, UBM TechWeb
Manuela Farrell is the Conference Manager, for UBM TechWeb’s Interop, Enterprise 2.0 and Cloud Connect conferences. She is responsible for content development, research and promotion, and speaker recruitment. She also manages Call for Papers processes, nonprofit/charity partnerships, and social media campaigns for all three brands. Manuela graduate from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in History and has over 7 years experience in the technology conference and tradeshow industry.
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Community Management: Engaging External Audiences Track Chair
Rachel Happe, Principal & Co-Founder, The Community Roundtable
Rachel is the Principal & Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable, a peer network for community managers and social media practitioners. You can contact her at
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Until recently, Rachel was Mzinga's Sr. Director of Social Media Products and is responsible for the product management, marketing, design, and documentation of Mzinga's Social Media Application Suite and Mzinga's Social Enterprise solutions.
While an analyst at IDC, Rachel published groundbreaking research; The Social Enterprise (Dec '07), Modeling the Digital Marketplace (Sept '07), The Landscape of the Digital Marketplace (May '07 ), and the first enterprise social networking market forecast (Aug '07).
Rachel has over fifteen years of experience working with emerging technologies including eCommerce and enterprise software applications. She has been both a product manager and a management analyst, and brings multiple perspectives on technology development and use to her research. Rachel covered the enterprise social media market for IDC prior to joining Mzinga. Prior to IDC, Rachel was the Director of Product Management at Bitpass where she worked with media and publishing companies such as Disney, MSN, United Media, CanWest, and Ziff Davis to monetize their digital assets. While at Bitpass, Rachel was instrumental in developing Mperia, an internet music site. Her experience is chronicled in the book, The Future of the Music Business, in an interview that discusses changes in the music business brought about by internet technologies. Prior to Bitpass, Rachel was the Product Marketing Manager for IDe, an enterprise software company that developed applications to manage the new product development process. Rachel started her business career at PRTM as a Business Analyst focused on helping technology companies understand and improve their product development operations. She has presented and written about trends in product development management, both at industry conferences and as a visiting speaker at the Wharton and Kellogg schools of business.
You can follow her on Twitter @rhappe
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Community Management: Inside the Enterprise Track Chair
Ted Hopton, Wiki Community Manager, UBM
Ted Hopton is UBM's (UBM) Wiki Community Manager, responsible for developing UBM's online community of 5000+ employees across more than a dozen divisions on six continents on a single enterprise-wide social business software platform (Jive SBS). In this role he is accountable to senior management for employees' adoption of the tool and engagement in the community, as well as developing a transparent and open collaborative online culture. UBM's internal online community received the 2009 JiveWorld Business Impact Award and has been cited in Forrester Research case studies, as well as Charlene Li's book, Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead.
Ted writes a blog, Adventures in Social Media (www.adventuresinsocialmedia.org/), is a charter member of the Social Business Council, and has also been a speaker at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. Follow him on Twitter @Ted_Hopton.
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Video and Unified Communications Track Chair
Irwin Lazar, Vice President, Communications Research, Nemertes Research
Irwin Lazar is the Vice President and Service Director at Nemertes Research, where he manages overall research operations, develops and manages research projects, develops cost models, conducts strategic seminars, and advises clients. Irwin 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, Irwin is a blogger for No Jitter, The Enterprise2Blog, and Network World's "Masters of Converged Solutions." He is a frequent resource for the business and trade press and is regular speaker at events such as Enterprise Connect (Formerly VoiceCon), and Enterprise 2.0. Irwin serves on the advisory board for the Enterprise 2.0 conference.
Prior to joining Nemertes, Irwin spent eight years with Burton Group, where he led the networking strategies consulting process before heading up VOIP/UC research. His earlier background was in IP network architecture, design, and engineering.
After completing ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) and receiving his commission, Irwin served 8 years in the U.S. Army Reserve, Ordnance Corps.
Irwin holds a Masters degree in business administration from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Management Information Systems from Radford University. He is active in Scouting and is an avid baseball fan.
Blog: http://www.irwinlazar.com/
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/irwin-lazar/0/1a7/6ab
Twitter: imlazar
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Mobile Enterprise Track Chair
Maribel Lopez, Principal Analyst and VP, Constellation Research, Founder, Lopez Research LLC
Maribel Lopez offers deep industry knowledge and expertise to provide research, analysis and strategic insight to the communications industry. Over the past two decades, she has observed, commented on and engaged in the massive shifts in communications technologies. She has worked directly with the service provider community as well as equipment, device and software vendors. Her perceptions are gained through direct industry involvement and interaction where she has an opportunity to listen and speak to the customers that are the ultimate beneficiaries of her clients' technologies. Often-quoted for her industry insight, Maribel is a sought-after conference speaker and facilitator. Since founding the company, Maribel has been called-upon to provide strategic analysis of global markets, undertaken message testing, analyzed product positioning, and helped companies to understand where they play in new markets … all for a marquis list of clients. Prior to founding Lopez Research, Maribel was a respected analyst for more than 10 years at Forrester Research, most recently as Vice President of the tech industry strategies group, providing analysis on multiple topics including network and service strategies, enterprise communications and consumer markets for voice, video and data. She also worked as an analyst for International Data Corporation, and gained practical marketing and operations experience while at Motorola and Shiva Corp.
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People, Culture and Internal Communications Track Chair
Oliver Marks, Partner, Sovos Group and blogger, ZDNet Collaboration 2.0
Oliver Marks brings seasoned consulting guidance to companies on the effective planning of collaboration strategy, tactics, technology decisions, change management and roll out.
With extensive senior management practical experience in international enterprise collaboration, Oliver previously managed the Sony WorldWide collaboration extranet, and has worked with the American Management Association, Sun, Docent/SumTotal Systems, Harvard Business School and McKinsey & Company on major initiatives around knowledge transfer and change management.
Oliver has worked on Asian, European and American global enterprise collaboration initiatives and writes the ZDNet 'Collaboration 2.0' blog.
Contact Oliver on Twitter @olivermarks or by email
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Business Leadership Track Chair
Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management
Andrew McAfee, author of "Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges," 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). His Twitter identity is @amcafee.
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Sales and Marketing Track Chair
Sameer Patel, Partner, Sovos Group and blogger, PretzelLogic.org
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
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Enterprise Customer Chair
Susan Scrupski, Executive Director at The Social Business Council, Dachis Group
Susan Scrupski is Founder and Executive Director of The Social Business Council, a Dachis Group company. The Social Business Council is a peer-based, information-sharing private community interested in the latest concepts, best practices, case studies, and helpful tips associated with executing socio-collaborative strategies and projects in the large enterprise. Ms. Scrupski has been conducting research and chronicling trends on Enterprise 2.0 since 2006 on her ITSinsider blog. Prior to discovering web 2.0, Susan was a leading industry observer, researcher, consultant, and writer on the IT Services and Outsourcing market. You can find Susan on LinkedIn, Facebook or follow her on Twitter @ ITSinsider
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