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Track Chair: 'Architecture'; 'SharePoint'; 'Social Apps and Platforms'
 Tony Byrne, President, Real Story Group
Tony Byrne is Founder of CMS Watch, a vendor-neutral analyst firm that publishes comparative evaluations of content technologies. At CMS Watch, Tony leads of team of analysts covering various technology marketplaces on behalf of solutions buyers. Prior to founding CMS Watch in 2001, Tony led the developer team a systems integrator, following previous stints as a programmer, journalist, and international educator. He is also the author of the CMS Report and publisher of the Enterprise Portals Report, the Enterprise Search Report and the ECM Suites Report, and an avid Green BayPackers fan.
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Track Chair: 'Technology Leadership'
David Carr, Editor, The BrainYard (InformationWeek.com enterprise social media)
David F. Carr is the Editor of The BrainYard on InformationWeek.com, covering enterprise social media and collaboration technologies. He has written for Forbes.com, CIO Magazine, and Defense Systems, and he is a former Technology Editor of Baseline Magazine and Internet World Magazine. He freelances as a web consultant and is the author of several WordPress plugins, including Facebook Tab Manager and RSVPMaker.
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Track Chair: 'Video and Unified Communications'
Robin Gareiss, Executive Vice President and Senior Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
Robin Gareiss is Executive Vice President and Senior Founding Partner for Nemertes Research, where she oversees research projects and direction, conducts strategic seminars, develops cost models, and advises leading enterprises, vendors, and carriers. Robin is a widely recognized expert in Voice over IP, convergence, collaboration, advanced communications services, mobility, services, and branch-office technologies. She currently serves as chief financial officer, as well.
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Track Chair: 'Community Management: Engaging External Audiences'
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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Track Chair: 'Community Management: Inside the Enterprise'
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 (http://www.adventuresinsocialmedia.org/), is a charter member of the 2.0 Adoption Council, and has also been a speaker at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. Follow him on Twitter @Ted_Hopton.
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Track Chair: 'Mobile Enterprise'
Maribel Lopez, 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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Track Chair: 'People, Culture and Internal Communications (HR)'
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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Track Chair: 'Sales and Marketing'
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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