Speakers

Chris Anderson	Anil Dash	Jim Louderback	Kate Thorp
Elisa Camahort Page	Ben Edwards	Steve Rubel	John Wiley
Nicholas Carr	Shawn Gold	Robert Scoble
Paul Cloutier	Steven Johnson	Noah Shachtman
James Daly	Dina Kaplan	Sophia Stuart

	Chris Anderson Chris Anderson is Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, a position he took in 2001. Since then he has led the magazine to five National Magazine Award nominations, winning the prestigious top prize for General Excellence in 2005, a year in which he was also named Editor of the Year by Advertising Age magazine. He is the author of New York Times bestselling book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, which was published in 2006, and runs a blog on the subject at www.thelongtail.com. Previously, he was at The Economist, where he served as U.S. Business Editor, Asia Business Editor (based in Hong Kong); and Technology Editor. He started The Economist’s Internet coverage in 1994 and directed its initial web strategy. Mr. Anderson's media career began at the two premier science journals, Nature and Science, where he served in several editorial capacities. Prior to that he worked as a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s meson physics facility and served as research assistant to the Chief Scientist of the Department of Transportation. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from George Washington University and studied Quantum Mechanics and Science Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. [back to top]
	Elisa Camahort Page Elisa Camahort Page is a co-founder and COO of BlogHer, managing its events, marketing and corporate operations. She was at the vanguard of professional and business blogging and currently writes nine blogs. She’s a frequent public speaker in the areas of business blogging and online community, and has been published frequently, including her monthly column for the Silicon Valley Metro, Silicon Veggie. [back to top]
	Nicholas Carr Nicholas Carr, a former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, writes and speaks on technology, business, and culture. His new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, examines the future of computing and its implications for business and society. His book, Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage (2004) set off a worldwide debate about the role of computers in business. [back to top]
	Paul Cloutier Paul Cloutier is creating a revolutionary new magazine publication model that embraces both print and content generated by online communities. He is the founder and CEO of 8020 Publishing, a new magazine publishing company that produces the gorgeous reader-created magazines JPG and Everywhere. [back to top]
	James Daly James Daly is ideally poised to speak to the transition from print to digital and the future of digital publishing. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Edutopia, a print and digital publication from The George Lucas Educational Foundation that is changing the contours of debates on education. He has been Editor-in-Chief of Red Herring, Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Director at Business 2.0, and features editor at Wired. [back to top]
	Anil Dash Anil Dash knows why blogging makes business sense and what the future holds for the blogging platforms and growth. He is Chief Evangelist at Six Apart, where he's played a formative role in helping create the world's leading blogging company. He is a recognized expert on blogs, web technology, web culture, and the software industry, having founded one of the earliest and most popular blogs on the internet, named one of MSNBC's "Best of Blogs". [back to top]
	Ben Edwards Ben Edwards is the publisher of economist.com. Ben joined The Economist in 1996 as Finance Correspondent in London and then became Tokyo Correspondent in 1998 followed by Tokyo Bureau Chief in September 2000. Since November 2001 he has been the US Business Editor, based in New York. [back to top]
	Shawn Gold Shawn Gold is CEO of newly formed, Social Approach, a social media advisory. Formerly, he was head of marketing and content development for MySpace, the global social networking Web site, which has over 200 million registered profiles and 115 million worldwide visitors. Gold has 15 years of experience in digital marketing and content strategy, including serving as publisher of WeblogsInc, the largest publisher of professional blogs on the Web. He was president and chief strategist of Intermix – bringing the online entertainment network to profitability and making it the most popular on the Web. Additionally, he headed marketing and communications for WHN, an ecommerce company that provided marketing services to the 2002 Olympics, ABC, NBC, Comedy Central, MTV and Fox. [back to top]
	Steven Johnson Steven Johnson is the author of five books, including the national bestsellers The Ghost Map, Everything Bad Is Good For You, and Mind Wide Open. His latest online project, the neighborhood mapping site outside.in, launched in October of 2006. Previously, he was the co-creator of the pioneering online magazine FEED and the Webby-award-winning community site, Plastic.com. He is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at NYU's Department of Journalism, and blogs at stevenberlinjohnson.com. [back to top]
	Dina Kaplan Dina Kaplan is a co-founder of blip.tv and serves as the company's COO. Dina oversees business operations for the company with a particular focus on advertising and sponsorships, PR and marketing. Before blip.tv, Dina was a news reporter with WNBC in New York, Wave3 News (NBC) in Louisville Kentucky and News12 Long Island and New Jersey. [back to top]
	Jim Louderback Jim Louderback is the CEO of Revision 3, an internet television network focused on developing high-quality nonfiction programming for the on-demand generation. He is the former Senior Vice President and Editor-in- Chief of Ziff Davis' Consumer Tech Division, which includes PC Magazine, PCMag.com, Gearlog.com, ExtremeTech, DL.TV, and Cranky Geeks. [back to top]
	Steve Rubel Steve Rubel is a digital marketer with over 15 years experience. He currently serves as senior vice president in Edelman's me2revolution practice. Edelman is the world's largest independent PR firm. Steve is charged with helping Edelman clients identify key insights, trends and emerging digital platforms that can be applied in marketing programs. He also explores these topics on his well-read Micro Persuasion weblog and in a bi-weekly column for AdAge Digital. [back to top]
	Robert Scoble Robert Scoble is a technical evangelist, writer, and the author of one of today's most influential blogs, Scobelizer. He recently joined Fast Company to start up Fast Company TV. He is the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers. [back to top]
	Noah Shachtman Noah Shachtman is a contributing editor at Wired magazine, and the editor of its national security blog, "Danger Room," which won the 2007 Online Journalism Award for best beat reporting. He writes about technology, national security, politics, and geek culture for The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and others. Since 1998, he's been reporting for Wired News and Wired magazine – defusing roadside explosives with a Baghdad bomb squad, sneaking into the Los Alamos nuclear lab, chasing down suspects on Chicago's West Side, investigating a triple-homicide in Tacoma, WA, and undergoing experiments by Pentagon-funded scientists at Stanford. Shachtman has also written articles for The Village Voice, Slate, Salon, Esquire, Popular Science, The New York Post, Popular Mechanics, The American Prospect Online, The Forward, The New York Times Magazine, and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. [back to top]
	Sophia Stuart Sophia Stuart joined Hearst Magazines Digital Media group as Mobile Director in June 2006. She is responsible for building mobile content and services across Hearst Magazines’ brands in the USA and rejoins Hearst after leading digital media ventures for the company’s UK operations (National Magazine Company) from 1999 to 2001. Starting initially as a journalist in the UK, Ms. Stuart wrote about art, fashion, media and technology for The Independent newspaper (UK), The Guardian (UK), Time Out (London), Black + White (Studio Magazines in Australia), Out (NYC), International Broadcast and Screen International. [back to top]
	Kate Thorp Kate Thorp is the founder and CEO of Real Girls Media Network. She launched RGM in 2006 with a successful $6M Series A round from former investors of her prior founding companies including WaldenVC and 3i. In 2007, RGM launched two products: its first of three initial consumer sites for girls and women, called DivineCaroline.com, and the RGM Ad Network. In only 11 months, DivineCaroline.com became the 18th largest women’s community on the web. [back to top]
	John Wiley John Wiley is a user experience designer for Google Apps, where the guiding philosophy is "focus on the user and all else will follow". John has been designing and developing web experiences since 1995. He has been involved in every aspect of web production, from interface design to application development to server management. [back to top]

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