Chris Brogan

Vice President of Strategy and Technology

CrossTech Media

Chris Brogan has over 16 years of telecommunications and enterprise technology experience, including software release engineering, project management, data center planning, and solutions architecture. He left the enterprise behind in 2006 to work on events in the burgeoning field of Internet video, social media, and social computing technologies. Chris is co-founder of the PodCamp unconference series, which launched over 30 events all over the world to promote the understanding and use of podcasting, videoblogging, and other social media technologies to build relationships and extend communities. He has blogged since 1998 (when it was called "journaling"), and keeps a blog at http://chrisbrogan.com/

William Cava

Chief Technology Officer

Ektron

William Cava is CTO of Ektron. He is responsible for guiding the company's technology direction, including product strategy, new product development and engineering practices. With over a decade of experience, he brings his passion for Internet technology, software architecture, and user-centric interface design to Ektron. Prior to joining Ektron, William served as a team leader and software architect at Lycos, one of the Internet's first search engines. There he led numerous high profile projects, including a large-scale distributed advertising content management system still used across well known sites such as Wired, Lycos, and Tripod.

James Gaskin

Author and Columist

James Gaskin has been solving computer and network problems for businesses small and large since 1984. He also writes books, articles, and jokes about technology AND real life. In 16 books and hundreds of articles, network consultant Gaskin tells people faster, cheaper, newer, and smarter ways to connect to each other and the world. A founding member of the Network World Lab Alliance, Gaskin focuses on small office issues and product testing. He is the leading voice for the small business market through his long-running Small Business Technology newsletter distributed by Network World. As a speaker, Gaskin travels the country in Hawaiian shirts helping people laugh at their IT pain while teaching them new ways to put technology to work. In venues such as Network World Technology Tours and seminars at leading industry conventions such as Networld + InterOp, Gaskin delivers objective information stripped of marketing hype in his trademark "unbiased and unboring" style. When avoiding computers, Gaskin plays classical chamber music on the violin and tennis (but not at the same time) in the Dallas area.

Bryan Nairn

Senior Product Manager

WatchGuard Technologies

Bryan currently oversee the SSL VPN product line at WatchGuard Technologies and is responsible for guiding the line from market introduction through end-of-life. Nairn is an information security expert with more than twelve years of experience in engineering, consulting and product management. He has helped Fortune 500 companies design, implement and manage secure infrastructures containing authentication, authorization and encryption technologies. Nairn is a CISSP, as well as a contributing author for the book "The Secured Enterprise, Protecting Your Information Assets." Bryan is a featured speaker at information security events internationally.

Alex Quinonez

Vice President Americas Sales & Support

Astaro

Alex Quinonez, Vice President Americas Sales & Support, has over eighteen years of experience in building world wide sales organizations. Alex is a frequent featured speaker at trade events and has been published on various security issues. Prior to joining Astaro, Alex has held sales and management positions with Vernier Networks, Enterasys Networks, 3COM, and Computer Associates. At Astaro, Alex is responsible for all aspects of Astaro's operations in the Americas region. Alex holds a Bachelor's Degree of Science in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. He resides with his family in the Boston area.

Judy Ravin

President

Accent Reduction Institute (ARI)

Judy Ravin is the President of the Accent Reduction Institute (ARI) and author of nationally best selling computer-based learning systems for rapid American accent training. Ravin has acquired international acclaim for her system that enables people to quickly master techniques for American pronunciation and effective communication. Judy and her faculty also provide the program,'Building Bridges: Eliminating Language Barriers'? which teaches English speakers how to 'tune their ear' to different accents.

Clients include: General Motors, Cisco, Pfizer, Compuware, the National Education Association, Cornell University, as well as Fortune 100 companies, universities and US Federal agencies. Ravin and her methods have been featured in the New York Times and Computerworld Magazine as well as on CNN.com, Yahoo!Finance, NPR, and NBC National Nightly News with Brian Williams.

Dean Richardson

Vice President of Sales

Arcmail

Brian Tam

Systems Engineer

Hummingbird

System Engineer for Hummingbird, the Open Text Connectivity Solutions Group. Brian is responsible for providing technical assistance to new and existing Hummingbird customers. He has extensive knowledge in X Window technology, Terminal Emulation as well as NFS protocol.

Jim Torres

Sr. Systems Engineer

Fluke Networks

Jim Torres, Sr. Systems Engineer at Fluke Networks, helps customers analyze and diagnose their data networks. At Fluke Networks Torres is responsible for helping customers understand the strategic importance of network monitoring and analysis, using Fluke Networks solutions to increase the value of IT departments and improving the companies' business. Torres has more than 15 years experience working with IT departments both internationally and domestically in the computer, oil and manufacturing industries as well as the IT departments of the federal, state, county and city levels.

David Troup

CEO & Founder

MailFoundry

Labeled a "serial entrepreneur" by colleagues, David has been starting successful companies since he was in high school during the first PC revolution. David founded MailFoundry to bring continuity back to email in a world where, as he puts it, "anti-spam has ruined email." David operates as a hands-on CEO, overseeing new product development and engineering as well as field marketing and business development. With a BS degree in Artificial Intelligence and a lifetime of applications "visioneering", David not only knows the ins and outs of the architecture and coding behind his products, he has the understanding and vision of where communications and technology are headed and how they are changing the way we work and live.