Keynotes & Speakers

Cheemin Bo-Linn, EdD.
Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Revenue Officer, NetLine Corporation
Bringing Innovation to Market

Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn is the Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Revenue Officer at NetLine Corporation, responsible for corporate and product marketing, strategic sales, and revenue. NetLine, the premier B2B online demand generation leader serves over 88% of the Top Fortune B2B Tech companies and BtoB Top Advertisers and 7 of the top 10 US Media Agencies.

Prior to joining NetLine, Cheemin held senior level executive positions at mid-size and Top Fortune companies including Vice President of IBM. Previously, she was venture advisor and President of Peritus Partners Inc., a global business and marketing group recognized for delivering sustainable profit growth and achieving the highest market valuations.

Her leadership in delivering robust, accelerated growth has earned her industry recognition. She was recently invited to speak at the United Nations. Cheemin received the AACI Award for her contribution to Technology, the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal "Women of Influence" award, and the YWCA "Tribute to Women in Industry" award. She also serves on the American Marketing Association (AMA) Leaders Council.

Cheemin holds a Doctorate Degree (Ed.D) specializing in "Implementation of Computer-Based Management Information Systems and Organizational Change" from the University of Houston. She completed Stanford University's Graduate School of Business Executive Certificate Program in Strategy.

She is a Board of Director at NetLine Corporation and prior, Board of Director for the Association of Corporate Growth (ACG) and the American Electronics Association (AeA). Also, she currently serves on the Advisory Board of WITI, CTSI (Clean Tech Sustainable Industries), and the Technology Commercialization Advisory Board of NIREC (Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization).

Sandra E. Burke, Ph.D., FAHA
Director, Cardiovascular Biology Research (Retired), Abbott Vascular
Mentoring

With over thirty years of cardiovascular research experience, Sandra has contributed to the advancement of science and technology as a prolific author of more than 80 abstracts, book chapters and publications in scientific journals. Sandra is also a highly sought-after lecturer for the scientific community.

Sandra encourages women to follow their dreams and passions through mentoring and coaching. She has facilitated and created programs that motivate young women to choose careers in science and technology.

At Abbott, she was a founding member of the Black Business Network and served on its Executive Council. She also served as a member of Abbott Women Leaders in Action. In both roles, she served as a mentor to a number of Abbott employees who were interested in fostering their scientific careers. Named a champion for Abbott's diversity, Sandra regularly serves as a role model to students in the community by speaking at area high schools and student forums on career opportunities.

Sandy Carter
Vice President Social Business Evangelism and Sales, IBM

Sandy Carter is a recognized leader in social business, a best selling author, and one of the most influential women in Web 2.0 technology. As IBM Vice President, Social Business Evangelism and Sales, she is responsible for setting the direction for IBM's Social Business initiative, a $200B market opportunity. Her numerous industry awards include: "Brand Leader of the Year" from the World Brand Congress, "Top 10 in Social Media" from Altimeter Group and Fast Company's "Most Influential Women in Technology." She was also named one of "The Top 25 Social Business Leaders..." . She is an avid social business evangelist, blogger, and twitterer. She holds an MBA from Harvard and a Bachelor of Science degree in math and computer science from Duke University. Visit Sandy at: socialmediasandy.wordpress.com/ and Twitter - twitter.com/sandy_carter

Christine Comaford-Lynch
CEO/Founder, Mighty Ventures
Keynote Breakfast; Secrets of a Renegade Innovator

Christine is CEO of Mighty Ventures (www.MightyVentures.com), a business accelerator which helps startups and established businesses to gain traction at an accelerated speed. She has built and sold 5 of her own businesses with an average 700% return on investment, served as a board director or in-the-trenches advisor to 36 startups, and has invested in over 200 startups as a venture capitalist or angel investor. Christine has consulted to the White House (Clinton and Bush), 700 of the Fortune 1000, and hundreds of small businesses. She has repeatedly identified and championed key trends and technologies years before market acceptance. Christine's popular column on www.BusinessWeek.com/SmallBiz launched in January 2007. Her highly anticipated book, Rules for Renegades, is available for pre-order now on www.RulesForRenegades.com.

Christine has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, CNET and is frequently quoted in the business, technology and general press at large. Stanford Graduate School of Business has done two case studies on her, and CNET has broadcast two specials covering her unconventional rise to success as a woman with neither a high school diploma nor college degree. She believes we can do well and do good, using business as a path for personal development, wealth creation, and philanthropy.

Paul Constantino
Partner, Peritus Partners
Bringing Innovation to Market

Paul Constantino is a founding partner of Peritus Partners, a Silicon Valley firm focused on helping companies develop and implement market strategies leading to exceptional revenue and share growth. He is a seasoned executive with proven strengths in strategic marketing, leadership and channel management. He has held leadership positions in startups and international Fortune 100 companies. With extensive experience in all aspects of marketing and international business development, Paul specializes in marketing complex products and services to businesses around the globe.

Prior to founding Peritus Partners, he served as corporate officer and Vice President, Marketing at FedEx, the express pioneer known for its marketing innovation, operational excellence and customer intimacy. Paul's role and scope as an officer at FedEx included responsibility for over $700M in sales, customer value management for 100,000+ B to B customers, pricing, product development and strategic direction. Paul's passion for delivering the ultimate customer experience saw him direct the development of an industry first problem notification system that advised customers of order problems as they occurred and the implementation of an intelligent help system.

His entrepreneurial experience includes Florida based start-ups, where he was President of Edvantage, LLC, a firm providing services to government agencies.

Prior to co-founding Edvantage, he served as VP, Marketing & Sales at CSX, an $8.8B services firm where he managed a $750M business unit. After twelve months under his leadership, the division overcame five years of flat sales and declining revenues, achieving market leading revenue growth and profitability.

Mr. Constantino received an MBA in International Marketing, from New York University, Stern School.

Marsh Engle
Founder, Marsh Engle Show
The Six Essentials: Jump Start Your Creative Flow Now!

Marsh Engle is a empowering voice among women. First recognized as a advocate for women through the national Amazing Woman's Day movement - an initiative for which she was awarded a U.S. Congressional Proclamation - she's spend over a decade investigating and celebrating the creative expression of women in all aspects of life. As author of the acclaimed Amazing Woman Amazing World book series, she honors the immense value and creative power of women everywhere. Her organization Women in Broadcast Media is dedicated to expanding the voice of women by enhancing creativity and advancing opportunities through ongoing training, community collaboration and multi-media productions. The Marsh Engle Show broadcasts each Monday on Voice America Women. www.marshengle.com www.marshengleshow.com www.wibmnews.com

Helen Greiner
Co-founder and Chairman, iRobot Corp.
Keynote Lunch; Innovators – Panel Discussion

Under Helen Greiner's leadership, iRobot Corp. (Nasdaq: IRBT) is delivering robots into the industrial, consumer and military markets. Helen is highly decorated for her visionary contributions in technology innovation and business leadership. She was named by the Kennedy School at Harvard in conjunction with the U.S. News and World Report as one of American’s Best Leaders, and was recently honored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) with the prestigious Pioneer Award. She has also been honored as a Technology Review Magazine "Innovator for the Next Century," invited to the World Economic Forum as a Global Leader of Tomorrow, and has been awarded the DEMO God Award at the DEMO Conference. In 2003, she was named one of the Ernst and Young New England Entrepreneurs of the Year (with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle). Her 16+ years of experience in robotic technology includes work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Helen is a Trustee of the Museum Science, on the Computer Science Advisory Board of Worcester Polytechnic Institute; and is a Director of National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA). She holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in computer science, both from MIT.

Angelina Howard
Vice President, Office of the President and Execut, Nuclear Energy Institute
Women's Critical Role in the Evolution of Conscious Business

Angie Howard is vice president, Office of the President and Executive Advisor to the President for the Nuclear Energy Institute. Ms. Howard, who joined NEI in 1996, has had previous responsibilities for the organization’s communications, external affairs and member relations activities.

Before joining NEI, Ms. Howard was vice president and director of industry relations and information services for the Atlanta-based Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. She also was involved in the formation of the World Association of Nuclear Operators and the development of communications activities for the WANO-Atlanta Center, which is co-located with INPO. Before joining INPO in 1980, Ms. Howard was employed by Duke Power Company from 1969 to 1980.

Ms. Howard received a bachelor’s degree from Clemson University, and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business. She has completed the Reactor Technology Program for Utility Executives sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Academy for Nuclear Training. Ms. Howard is an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America and is a member of the American Nuclear Society. She also is a member of the Clemson University Research Foundation Board.

Michelle Mancino Marsh
Partner, Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
Accelerate Career Development with Intellectual Property

Michelle Mancino Marsh, a partner in the New York office, practices in the areas of trademark and copyright law, unfair competition, trade secrets, internet law, business method and design patents. Ms. Marsh represents clients in a variety of industries, including consumer goods and services, fashion and retail, computer software and hardware, pharmaceutical and bio-medical products, agricultural products, media and entertainment, including, interactive entertainment, and financial services. She represents clients in state and federal court and in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Her practice also includes counseling and negotiating licenses, IP acquisitions and co-branding agreements on behalf of clients. Prior to joining Kenyon & Kenyon, Ms. Marsh was a commercial litigator at a Manhattan general practice firm.

Ms. Marsh is a member of the International Trademark Association, and an editor and contributing author to one of the association's publications, the INTA Bulletin. She is a frequent contributing author to the World Copyright Law Report. Additionally, she serves on the board of the New York chapter of Women in Technology International. As a student at Fordham University School of Law, Ms. Marsh was Editor-in-Chief of the school’s nationally recognized moot court program. Ms. Marsh currently acts as an advisor to the school’s teams as well as a judge for numerous moot court competitions.

Nilofer Merchant
Entrepreneur, CEO & Chief Strategist, Rubicon Consulting
Keynote Lunch; Innovators – Panel Discussion
Gaining a Seat at the Table

CEO, Author and Strategist, Nilofer is a leading authority on creating business strategy to win markets. Having worked inside and outside major corporate brands like Adobe, Apple, Nokia, SAP and others, Nilofer has honed her collaborative approach to solving tough problems.

As Rubicon’s founder and CEO, she leads a distinguished team of operational veterans. Her firm is hired by global brands such as Hewlett-Packard, Pinnacle, Logitech, Openwave, Symantec and others to create the solutions to win markets.

Her keynotes attract SRO crowds at business leadership events, technology expos, women’s conferences and universities – ranging from AjaxWorld to CTIA and PBWC to Stanford. Having won multiple awards for her insights on applying strategic thinking and innovation, she’s been quoted or published in major business publications such as BusinessWeek, Entrepreneur, Fortune and The Wall Street Journal.

Nilofer earned her MBA from Santa Clara University, a BS in Economics from University of San Francisco and is a certified Instructor of Facilitative Leadership from Interaction Associates. O’Reilly Media is publishing Nilofer’s book on the art of collaborative strategy creation, in Fall ’09.

Pam Nesbitt
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Accelerate Career Development with Intellectual Property

Pam Nesbitt, a Technical Resource at IBM, develops Learning Technologies for IBM Tivoli Education. Ms. Nesbitt led a team in the creation of a game-based virtual reality education offering for SW product training which won the 2001 Texas Interactive Media Achievement Award.

Ms. Nesbitt designed and developed a SCORM-compliant visual modular development environment and LCMS for course developers which won a 2005 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Award. She recently won a second Brandon Hall award for another Learning Technology innovation. Ms. Nesbitt is an avid patenter with a commitment to mentoring women in this endeavor. She formed the Women Inventors Community last year which now boasts over 400 members distributed worldwide. She holds a B.S. in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University and a M.S. in Computer and Information Science from Cleveland State University.

Rayona Sharpnack
Founder, Institute for Women's Leadership
Keynote Lunch; Trade Up

Rayona founded the Institute for Women's Leadership in 1991 - an organization renown for its' groundbreaking work throughout the United States, Australia, and Canada. Drawing from her successful careers in education, professional sports and business, Rayona has become an inspirational teacher, coach and mentor for executives in Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, emerging businesses and non-profit organizations.

Rayona has presented her outstanding achievements in advancing women leaders and building high performance organizations to prestigious institutions and associations such as Harvard University, Stanford Business School, UC Berkeley Business School, Mills College, State of the World Forum, the Canadian Federal Government, the Australian Federal Government, Leadership America, and the Professional and Business Women of California. National publications such as Fast Company , Working Mother and the New York Times have showcased Rayona's leadership model and she has delivered hundreds of keynote speeches, and designed large conferences focused on the topic of developing extraordinary women leaders. Rayona's new book "Trade Up: 5 Skills for Redesigning Your Leadership & Life from the Inside Out" is due for release in October, 2007. She is also one of several featured authors of the ground-breaking book, "Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership."

Rayona's masterful approach as a coach and educator helps her take very complex theoretical concepts and distill them down to poignant, relevant and easily accessible learning distinctions -- resulting in dramatically more effective leadership skills for her clients. More than 20,000 professionals from Fortune 500 companies have relied on Rayona and the Institute for Women's Leadership to produce breakthrough results both at work and in their personal lives.

In addition to numerous awards, Rayona was inducted into her high school Alumni Hall of Fame and a finalist in the 2006 Silicon Valley Woman of Distinctions Awards. Her groundbreaking work has earned her an appointment as Chairwoman of the Mentoring and Leadership Development committee on the Kennedy School, Women's Leadership Board at Harvard University.

Susanne Sonderhoff
Marketing Manager, Hewlett Packard
Women's Critical Role in the Evolution of Conscious Business

Susanne Sonderhoff is Marketing Manager for Corporate, Social and Environmental Responsibility (CSER) at HP. In this role, Susanne is responsible for driving HP's global environmental marketing direction and programs, working with each of HP's various business units and functions to tell the story of HP's leadership in environmental responsibility. Susanne also leads the company-wide marketing communication efforts, working across press and analyst relations, advertising, executive and online communications as they relate to corporate, social and environmental responsibility.

For several years, Susanne published HP's award-winning Global Citizenship Report about the company's global social and environmental impact and progress. This has given Susanne extensive insight into all aspects of corporate responsibility in one of the world's largest companies, subsequently enabling her to drive the company's first cross functional sustainability strategy session.

Previous to her role in Corporate Responsibility and the Environment, Susanne held various marketing communication positions in two of HP's three business units. She also worked as an Account Executive for Japanese consumer brands in a German boutique advertising agency

Susanne holds a masters degree in Communications from Stanford University, and a bachelor's degree in Asian History and German Literature from Tufts University.

Wendy Wallbridge
President / Executive Coach, On Your Mark
Eliciting the Creativity in Everyone- A World Café

Wendy Wallbridge, a pioneer in the coaching field, has worked with individuals for over two decades to help them gain clarity of purpose, unlock their power and creativity, and make their mark in the world. In her early twenties, Wendy was diagnosed with lupus, a life-threatening blood disease. Her talent in guiding others to reinvent themselves was sparked by her fourteen-year struggle with lupus and subsequent kidney transplant. Today, Wendy coaches leaders to become their own best advocates, and to champion the expression of their values, passions and talents to make a difference wherever they work.

Wendy founded On Your Mark Corporate Coaching & Consulting in 1993. Wendy and her partner, Randy Methven provide leadership and team development to Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies such as Disney, Wells Fargo, HP, SBC, Intel, Vodafone and Providian Financial as well as technology, financial and educational institutions including Ameritrade, Network Appliance, Nvidia, Alcatel, Silicon Valley Bank and University of California, Office of the President. Wendy has been featured as the change management expert on the Intel-sponsored TV show "Home Sweet Office" and has lectured at the Haas School of Business, The Commonwealth Club and Hewlett Packard. She has been interviewed by: Fortune Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times.

www.onyourmarkcoach.com

Padmasree Warrior
Executive Vice President and CTO, Motorola, Inc.
Keynote Lunch; Innovators – Panel Discussion

Padmasree Warrior, Motorola’s executive vice president and chief technology officer, leads $4 billion in R&D and a global team of 26,000 engineers. She directs Motorola Labs, software, emerging early-stage businesses, and intellectual property portfolio where she has accelerated innovation by reducing time from labs to market by half, realizing a ten-fold increase in the flow of ideas from research into products.

Padmasree holds an MS from Cornell University and BS from the Indian Institute of Technology. In 2001 she was received the "Women Elevating Science and Technology" award from Working Woman magazine. Under her leadership, Motorola was awarded the 2004 National Medal of Technology.

Natalie Zeituny
Founder & Principal, NZ CONSULTING
Women's Critical Role in the Evolution of Conscious Business

Natalie Zeituny, co-author of Climbing the Ladder of Business Intelligence (Happy About, 2007), founder and principal of NZconsulting, and Conscious Business Center Founder and CEO has over seventeen years of experience working with international, world-class corporations, specializing in business strategy, process management and systems technology design and implementation. Ms. Zeituny has held highly visible leadership positions with companies such as 3com, Palm, Brocade, and Comverse. She has designed & implemented corporate and IT process architecture, business effectiveness and efficiency models and aligned cross functional business operations.

In 2002 Ms. Zeituny founded and became the principal of NZconsulting, a Management Consulting firm which has served clients such as Palm, Seagate, Brocade, Network Appliance, Altera Yahoo, Safeway, and others. She is currently launching a new business using her past experience; she has architected a new integral system that enables a new business paradigm, language and practices to emerge.

The Conscious Business Center provides a framework for financial success through planned application of social consciousness, environmental sustainability, personal/technological creativity and spiritual/human self-realization.

Yael Zheng
Vice President of Corporate and Field Marketing, VMware, Inc.
Bringing Innovation to Market

Yael Zheng leads VMware's corporate marketing and worldwide field marketing efforts. Prior to VMware, she worked and held senior management positions in a variety of business and marketing roles at Sun Microsystems, Nortel Networks, and C-Cube Microsystems (acquired by LSI Logic). Over the years, Yael has spent a great deal of time working on projects that involved incubating emerging technology from inception and launch and grow them to achieve wide market adoption. Yael has a bachelor's degree in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master's degree in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

Beth Zimmerman
Principal, Cerebellas LLC
Making Innovation Work
Time to Market

Beth Zimmerman is founder and principal of Cerebellas® LLC, a strategic business consultancy focusing on helping B2B's deliver maximum, long-term value to their markets. She has worked with companies ranging from startups to Fortune 300s, with particular focus on organizations in technology, manufacturing, infrastructure services and distribution. Beth is recognized as a provocative strategist and speaker on issues ranging from innovation, strategy, organizational alignment and customer intimacy.

Beth is pleased to have served many notable companies such as Caterpillar, First Data Corporation, Intelsat and Motorola, fine mid-market organizations including Harry Krantz Company, Internap Network Services Corporation and Recall Corporation, and startups in technology and luxury markets. She is active in a range of business and not-for-profit organizations in her native New York and a member of the World Future Society, a consortium of individuals, governments and organizations dedicated to understanding the impacts of technology on social, political and economic structures. Beth holds a Bachelor of Arts from SUNY Stony Brook and a Master of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University and is an avid Yankees fan.

Anne Adams, Ph.D.
President, ACS
Eliciting the Creativity in Everyone- A World Café

Anne has worked with many Fortune 50 companies and educational institutions both nationally and internationally. She has designed and led organizational transformation programs through seminars, workshops and educational programs for individuals, corporations, professional groups and educational institutions for more than 30 years.

She has been a teacher, school director, university instructor, a manager in an international educational corporation, and a business consultant to both large and small corporations.

Anne has worked with senior leaders and their teams from companies as varied as IBM, Mars, Heinz, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Procter & Gamble, The Rouse Company, EZ Communications, to government entities like the Pentagon and non profits, e.g. IONS, and many schools throughout the United States and India.

Dr Adams contributes her expertise in Organization Transformation by integrating transformative practices, e.g. The World Cafe, a process in collaborative dialogue, Appreciative Inquiry, a framework for creating a learning organization, The Collaborative Way, a company's values and culture brought to the forefront, with Navigating From the Future, an approach FOR sustaining transformation.

Currently her work is focused on integral education practices both within educational institutions and businesses - accentuating the need to honor the integral nature of the human being, e.g., developing and integrating all of our intelligences - mental, the emotional, physical, social and spiritual. The impact this has on our relationships, the quality of results produced, and a worldview literary that is truly integral is of great interest.

Niti Agrawal
Principal & Founder, Stage 4 Solutions, Inc.
Optimize Your Marketing Investment: How Smart Innovation and Strategic Integration Power Sales

Stage 4 Solutions is a product marketing firm with four consecutive years of double-digit growth. The firm specializes in maximizing marketing investments for Fortune 500 high-techs and emerging high-tech leaders by providing strategic business and product plans, focused sales tools, competitive analyses, new product launches, and interim marketing staffing solutions. Stage 4 Solutions is staffed by senior-level consultants in the Silicon Valley and India.

Since founding the company in 2001, Niti and the team of senior marketing professionals have achieved 100% referenceability with market leading clients such as HP, Symantec, SAP, HP, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo!, Symantec, Nokia, Wind River, and a host of start up companies.

Prior to founding Stage 4 Solutions, Niti was the Director of Product Marketing for Agile Software, a leading provider of Product Lifecycle Management solutions. Previously Niti led the team at HP responsible for a $400M PC server product line. In this role she was responsible for managing channel inventory, forecasting, pricing, service and support operations, end of life transitions and new product introductions.

Niti holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Accounting and Finance with highest honors from The Wharton School of Business.

Robbie Baxter
Technology Consultant, Peninsula Strategies
Optimize Your Marketing Investment: How Smart Innovation and Strategic Integration Power Sales

Robbie brings over 15 years of strategic planning and marketing expertise to Peninsula Strategies. She has advised technology companies ranging from market leaders like Yahoo!, Netflix, and SunMicrosystems to fast growing start-ups on market opportunities, business partnerships and product strategy. While honing her analytical skills as a consultant in Booz-Allen & Hamilton's Marketing Intensive Practice, she helped Global 2000 companies respond to competitive threats, market dips and new opportunities. She has had key roles at a number of Silicon Valley start-ups, taking leadership roles in brand development, product strategy and customer acquisiton. Robbie is a popular business speaker and moderator and recently has spoken at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and the Product Development and Management Association. Robbie received her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and graduated with honors from Harvard College.

Colleen Berube
Sr. Director, IT Strategy & Programs, Cisco Systems
Effective IT Governance and Building Business Cases that Pass the Big Gate

Colleen Berube is the Sr. Director, IT Strategy & Programs at Cisco Systems, Inc. where she is responsible for providing leadership in the evoluiton of IT capabilities and organization transformation to support the IT vision. In her nearly 3 years with Cisco, Colleen has also held IT applications delivery and senior program leadership roles.

Prior to joining Cisco, Colleen served as Vice President of Information Technology for Intermec Technologies, a leading provider in Bar-code and RFID technology. Colleen was responsible for worldwide IT and during her tenure launched a comprehensive transformation of the function with a primary focus on IT Strategy & Governance, processes and organizational competency.

Prior to Intermec, Colleen was Senior Director of Information Technology at Palm, Inc. and was responsible for all major business applications including ERP, CRM and Data Warehouse. Reporting to the CIO, she managed worldwide systems supporting back and front office operations including Global Operations & Supply Chain Management, Finance and Human Resources, Sales and Marketing. In her first year she built the Enterprise Applications team from the ground up and delivered a full-suite enterprise system. Colleen was responsible for the implementation of systems to support an encompassing reengineering of all aspects of Palm's Supply Chain processes and systems which contributed to significant improvements in the company's operational and financial performance.

Prior to joining Palm, Colleen served as Director of Professional Services for the SAP Supply Chain Management Center where she let a team responsible for consulting and education.

Colleen holds a Bachelors of Liberal Arts from State University of Arts and Sciences at Potsdam, NY and an MBA from University of North Florida.

Michael Bonfils
President, International Media Management Corp
Innovation in Accountable Advertising: Making Your Advertising Dollars Count

Michael Bonfils is the President of SEM International, a Division of Hyper Interactive Corp. SEM International is a company specializing in providing International search engine marketing management services for global advertising agencies and Fortune 500 firms. Headquartered in the United States, SEM International currently operates in the Asia Pacific Region, Europe and the Latin American regions. Furthermore, Mr. Bonfils is a speaker and writer on internet marketing technology and trends, having contributed his time to many major national publications and events. In addition to being the founder of a successful internet contextual advertising agencies which he sold in 2004, he has spent the last 11 years at the forefront of helping pioneer the global search engine marketing industry. He sits on the board of directors for many organizations including the TechBiz Connection and is the former VP Communications for the American Marketing Association (SOCAL).

Nina Burokas
President, Digerati Branding
Innovative Branding: Thriving on the Edge

Nina Burokas is a brand catalyst committed to individual and organizational remarkability. She is a personal brand coach for women and consults with organizations on brand engagement, women’s leadership and innovation initiatives. Nina honed her strategy and communications skills in senior level roles ranging from sales and marketing to operations on a scale from Inc. 500 to Fortune 50. Successes include Editor's Choice, Inc. 500 and Fast 50 wins and sales and operational transformations.

A Kellogg Marketing MBA and Reach Certified Personal Brand Strategist, Nina has a passion for people, life and "keeping it hot." She is the co-producer of the quarterly Innovation Conversations series, Brand Champion for the International Association of Business Communicators’ (IABC) Orange County Chapter and serves on the Orange County Innovation Planning Committee. Nina writes at Better Living through Brand (blog.ninaburokas.com) and is the book editor, Technically Speaking columnist and a contributing writer for Savvy magazine.

Elisa Camahort
President Events & Marketing, BlogHer
BlogHer presents: Non-Developers to Open Source Acolytes: Tell Me Why I Care

Elisa Camahort is a co-founder of BlogHer and manages its events, marketing and corporate operations. A marketing executive with 17 years of experience in Silicon Valley, Elisa left her life in high tech product management to go online and get join the social media world, and to help companies go there too.

Elisa Camahort was at the vanguard of professional and business blogging and currently writes nine blogs. She blogs at various times about marketing, health issues, green and eco-conscious living, being a vegan, and reality TV talent shows like American Idol and Project Runway!

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.

Rosa Caputo
Founder, KeyData Associates Inc.
Effective IT Governance and Building Business Cases that Pass the Big Gate

Rosa Caputo is Founder of KeyData Associates Inc.. a management consulting firm specializing in IT Governance, operational risk management, regulatory compliance and IT security.

Prior to launching KeyData Associates, Rosa held various executive leadership roles including Chief Information Security Officer, Head of Operations Risk Management and Business Continuity at Bank of Montreal, CISO and CSO at Ontario Hydro (one of the world’s largest electric utility) and Vice-President of Product Management for security and payment products at BCE Emergis. Rosa has received recognition for developing and implementing the Canadian financial industry’s first Operational Risk Control Management Framework.

She has actively participated in many industry associations such as the CBA, ABA - BITS, CPA, FSTC and CIPS. Rosa is a frequent speaker, has authored various papers carried nationally and has also been on the advisory board of several security and payment companies.

Heidi Cohen
Principal, Riverside Marketing Strategies
Search Engine Marketing for Innovators

Heidi Cohen is the principal of Riverside Marketing Strategies (www.RiversideMarketingStrategies.com), an interactive marketing consultancy. She has over 20 years experience helping clients increase profitability by developing innovative marketing programs to acquire and retain customers based on solid analytics. Riverside Marketing Strategies clients include the New York Times Digital, AccuWeather.com, Cheap Tickets and the UJA. Additionally, Riverside Marketing Strategies has worked with numerous online content/media companies and e-tailers.

Prior to starting Riverside Marketing Strategies, Heidi Cohen held a number of senior level marketing positions at The Economist, the Bookspan/ Doubleday Direct division of Bertelsmann and Citibank.

Since 2002, Heidi has been a member of the faculty of NYU’s Master’s in Direct and Interactive Marketing program. She teaches graduate courses including Introduction to Direct and Interactive Marketing, Advanced Online Marketing, and Financial Planning and Analysis. In 2006, she received NYU’s Outstanding Service award.

Heidi has written ClickZ’s Actionable Analysis column (http://www.clickz.com/3622861) covering online marketing since 2004. Heidi is also a popular speaker on current industry topics. Among the organizations to whom she has presented are ClickZ, the Conference Board, the DMA, DM Days, Interactive Week, and the SIIA.

Suchita Dadhich
Strategic Innovation & Organizational Capability, IBM Rational
Building an Innovative Culture - I Wish I Had a Blueprint!

Suchita Dadhich is known for her expertise in organizational design and development, strategic planning and breakthrough thinking. Her leadership focus is to drive greater efficiency and agility for clients. She has worked at the IBM Corporation as an innovation leader, and has a decade of experience in building high-performance teams, leadership and cross-organizational management, developing channels for growth.

Outside of work, Suchita volunteers at local universities, colleges and the Girl Scouts of America to create a support network for young females exploring careers in science, math and technology. Her passion for promoting females in the IT field has been recognized by the Philadelphia community. She has been featured in the Philadelphia Business Journal as well as other local community newspapers for her breakthrough ideas and continued inspiration in the community and at work.

Debra Deganhart
IT Management Consultant - GTS IT Strategy and Arc, IBM
Effective IT Governance and Building Business Cases that Pass the Big Gate

Debra has been with IBM Global Services for over 15 years. She is an IT service management professional with 20 years of cross-industry experience in consulting, management, alliance development, and sales. Her expertise is in creating and delivering solutions for external clients. Specialties include service strategy, design, implementation, and delivery for IT service management programs. She is also an instructor for IBM global methods and service disciplines. As a national delivery manager, she's been recognized for her leadership, delivery excellence, and ability to establish mutually beneficial client relationships.

Prior to her IBM career, Debra was a county manager where she managed the transition from manual to automated records across all county functions. She started her professional career as a mathematics and computer science instructor for junior-high, high-school, and junior college systems.

Debra holds a Master's Degree in Management Information Systems. She is a certified consultant and project manager (PMI) and is an ITIL v2.0 Service Manager.

Anna Dreyzin
Education Program Manager, IBM SWG Digital Thought Leadership Program, IBM
Web 2.0 and Social Computing: Click. Connect. Collaborate

Anna Dreyzin is a technical and learning specialist in Global Technology Services at IBM Canada. Anna graduated from the University of Toronto with an honours degree in computer science. With over a decade of business experience in the banking and financial industry, Anna's current role at Securities Industry Services (IBM) is the creation and production of employee and customer educational programs, focusing on e-learning solutions and enhancing collaboration using Web 2.0 tools.

Anna is also the team lead for the Women in Technology (WIT) Toronto subnet mentoring group. The goal of the IBM WIT group is personal development, peer support as well as to establish networks and to foster the growth of women on technical career paths.

In addition to being a busy mom with two kids, Anna is a trained Latin ballroom dancer and winner of several competitions. She has volunteered her dancing skills through organizing dancing classes for IBM employees, with all the money raised donated to employee charitable funds.

Barb Dybwad
Producer, Weblogs, Inc.
BlogHer presents: Blogging Workflow Tools and Tricks

Barb Dybwad is a Producer at Weblogs, Inc., an AOL company. She oversees the Technorati #1 blog Engadget, popular gaming blog Joystiq, and their niche spinoffs. Previously she was senior editor at Engadget and editor-in-chief of the Social Software Weblog. Before becoming a professional blogger, Barb owned and operated her own web development business, Live Mind Design. LMD designed and developed sites for academia and small businesses in PHP/MySQL and ColdFusion, from back end to front. Current interests include participatory culture, gaming, social computing, web 2.0, MMORPGs, knowledge management, social media, remix technologies, mobile technologies, and the placeless office.

Ardice Farrow
Founder, Co-Creator, Wake Up Women
Smart Thinking Smart Talking Women
Smart Thinking Smart Talking Women

Ardice is a seminar leader, speaker and success coach committed to generating greater enthusiasm, innovation and productivity in the work place.

No stranger to the technology world, Ardice is a former media designer and Executive Producer responsible for many ground breaking products for companies like The Walt Disney Company, Apple Computer, LucasArts Entertainment and the Smithsonian Institute. In addition, Ardice served as a Director of Technology for the development of major internet and software initiatives for publishers such as McGraw-Hill and Thomson Higher Education.

Today she impacts women across the globe as she brings together the creative processes used by entertainment studios and cutting edge technology companies with her insightful, unique approach to producing outstanding business results.

In addition, Ardice hosts the internet radio show “Smart Thinking Smart Talking Women”. She is the creator and co-publisher of the up-coming “Wake Up Women”, a co-authored book series for women by women published by Wake Up Live the Life You Love Publishing Group.

Dawn Foster
Director of Developer Relations, Jive Software
BlogHer presents: Non-Developers to Open Source Acolytes: Tell Me Why I Care

Dawn M. Foster is currently the Director of Developer Relations at Jive Software, a collaboration software company in Portland, OR. She has more than 12 years of experience in technology and software with expertise in open source software, web 2.0, blogging, and community building.

Dawn is the author of Fast Wonder: An Open Culture Blog (fastwonderblog.com) and is currently working on a book for O'Reilly Media about the art of community. She organizes a monthly Portland BarCamp Meetup event for local technology employees, is an organizer for the Portland BarCamp event, and is a member of the Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs (POSSE).

Previously, Dawn worked at Compiere, Intel, and a Midwestern manufacturing company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to open source strategist. She holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Kent State University and a master's degree in business administration from Ashland University.

Joe Hertzbach
Principal, A Virtual Match
Web 2.0 and Social Computing: Click. Connect. Collaborate

Joe Hertzbach is a 15-year web strategic development consultant and serial entrepreneur with a focus on the convergence of social, psychological, and technical issues of community-oriented websites. As a recognized expert at identifying artifacts of community and harvesting collective intelligence to bring communities together online, Joe is an invited panel speaker and ghost writer for articles and white papers.

A veteran of both technology and internet-based companies, he has worked with such companies as Cisco, Sun, Adobe, Intel's WebOutfitter, gap.com, healtheon.com, friendfinder.com, diet.com, mary.com, and hobbymatch.com. His company, a AVirtualMatch (http://www.avirtualmatch.com), provides program management, strategic planning & process improvement, feature development and usability design, competitive & market analysis, search engine optimization, and branding for social software-based websites.

Joe received his Bachelor's in Anthropology and his Master's of Science in Systems Theory, Leadership, and Change from San Jose State University. Outside of work, Joe is a fine art photographer with images that have graced magazine covers and articles and images in private collections around the world.

Jensine Larsen
Founder, World Pulse Magazine
A River Runs Through the Digital Divide

International journalist and social entrepreneur, Jensine (Yen-See Nah) Larsen, founded World Pulse, a global media source which covers world issues through women's eyes, at age 28 in 2003. She dreamed of harnessing the power of media to unleash the voices and solutions of women across the globe after covering indigenous movements and ethnic cleansing in South America and Southeast Asia.

Larsen began publishing her flagship project, World Pulse magazine in 2004. Nominated for "Best International Coverage" of 2004 and 2005 by the Independent Press Awards, World Pulse magazine performed 2-3 times higher than most new magazines on the newsstand.

After becoming inundated with responses from women around the world who wanted to connect, Larsen turned her focus to interactive communications technology and is now pioneering the development of PulseWire. PulseWire is an interactive website that enables women worldwide - even those in remote and impoverished regions - to speak for themselves to the world and solve global problems. www.pulsewire.net

With her finger on the pulse of women's and youth voices globally, Jensine is increasingly sought after for inspirational keynotes, current affairs lectures and radio programs. Larsen is featured on GreatWomenSpeakers.com and has appeared on NPR and Air America and presented keynotes at Hewlett Packard, Bioneers, Bennett College and the Boulder Conference on World Affairs. She is considered one of Portland, Oregon's up and coming "Young Creatives" according to the Oregonian (2/2/06). www.worldpulse.com

Nancy Margulies
Co-Developer, The World Café
Eliciting the Creativity in Everyone- A World Café

NANCY MARGULIES facilitates visioning session, strategic planning and others multiple stakeholder events using processes such as The World Café and Open Space to enable participants to learn from one another and think together. Nancy’s ability to capture conversations and complex ideas using the latest technology enables her to facilitate virtual meetings, webinars and large conferences. The Centiq system she uses projects her in-the-moment graphic recording onto large screens and computers at remote locations.

Nancy worked with President Clinton and his Cabinet and has led strategic thinking sessions with leaders in the U.S. and abroad, including Kodak, Xerox Business Systems, Weyerhaeuser Paper Company, Hewlett-Packard, and Boeing. She recently designed and co-hosted a conference on technology and collective intelligence called CoLABboration for the Tech Museum in San Jose, CA.

Nancy also regularly collaborates with Meg Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science. Other activities include working with various national healthcare organizations, including CHA, universities and corporate executive development programs. She has also worked people as diverse as Fritjof Capra, Don Campbell and the Dalai Lama and facilitated workshops in Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Switzerland, Turkey, South Africa and India.

She co-developed The World Café process with Juanita Brown and David Isaacs. Nancy hosts Cafés throughout the world for corporations and community groups.

John McDonald
Technical Executive, IBM
Building an Innovative Culture - I Wish I Had a Blueprint!

John McDonald, Technical Sales Executive,for IBM's Rational software brand in the Americas, is in charge of revolutionizing key brand concepts such as enterprise architecture and software lifecycle management; He leverages R&D technology breakthroughs and acquisitions to define value for each product within the entire portfolio. This rapid change calls upon John's skills in innovation and growth management to lead the team to the next level.

Outside of work, John also enjoys a wide variety of interests, headlined by his wife and three children. He maintains a website of urban ruins photography at http://www.lostindiana.net, and has authored the book Lost Indianapolis for Arcadia Publishing, and he recently completed his second book project. He volunteers for the Boy Scouts of America, works as chairman of a committee for Purdue's Industrial Advisory Board, and serves as a lay minister at his Lutheran church.

Annalee Newitz
Writer, Techsploitation
BlogHer presents: Non-Developers to Open Source Acolytes: Tell Me Why I Care

Annalee Newitz is a writer who covers the collisions between technology and media, culture and science. She is a contributing writer at Wired magazine, editor of indie magazine other, and writes the nationally syndicated column Techsploitation. She is the co- editor of She's Such a Geek, a collection of essays about female nerds. She's also President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

Mary Reilly
Applications on Demand, Global Enablement Executiv, IBM
Taking Innovation to a Global Marketplace

Mary Reilly has been a member of IBM for 10 years and currently holds the position of Global Enablement Executive for its Applications on Demand portfolio. In 2005 she was a winner of IBM’s Leadership Award for her work in this area. Mary began her international career focus while with Ernst & Young, followed by her role as Senior Director of Information Technology with Chiquita Brands International. Throughout her career, Mary’s global experience encompasses directing projects in over 20 countries. Mary holds a Bachelor of Science and MBA degrees from the University of Illinois and currently resides in Colorado.

Michael Rowehl
Director of Technology, AdMob
Innovation in Accountable Advertising: Making Your Advertising Dollars Count

Mike Rowehl is the Lead Architect at AdMob, the world's largest mobile advertising marketplace. He's also the organizer and co-founder of the Silicon Valley chapter of Mobile Monday. Mike has a particular concentration on open source in mobile solutions, both on the server and device sides, with 12 years of experience designing and implementing for the web.

Tenni Theurer
Product Optimization Manager, Yahoo Inc.
BlogHer presents: Getting Custom: What Web Designers Know

Tenni Theurer manages the Exceptional Performance team at Yahoo! to align business and engineering teams to build products better, faster, and more efficient. She has recently published a series of performance blogs on Yahoo's User Interface Blog. Prior to Yahoo!, Tenni worked in IBM’s Pervasive Computing group involved in developing high performance enterprise mobile solutions. She worked directly with customers on large-scale deployments and was involved in marketing and competitive research, as well as performance and development. Tenni holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego.

Jennifer Vessels
CEO, Next Step
Optimize Your Marketing Investment: How Smart Innovation and Strategic Integration Power Sales

Jennifer Vessels, CEO of Next Step and a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), brings over 25 years successful experience in global sales, marketing and management experience to her organization and clients.. After building and managing sales, marketing and channel operations teams for numerous software companies, Jennifer spent 8 years in the late 80s’ to mid 90’s with Tandem subsidiary, Ungermann-Bass – leading Product Marketing, Corporate Education and Sales Operations.

From 1992 to 1997, Jennifer lived and worked in Europe, initially as European Markets Director for Ungermann-Bass then European General Manager for Promptus Communications and International Sales Director for Tandberg Telecom, in Oslo Norway. In 1997, Jennifer and her team were instrumental in the establishment of Tandberg USA. At that time she returned to the US and founded Next Step.

As Next Step’s CEO, Jennifer ensures her organization provides the resources and skills to be the go-to consulting partner for high and low tech companies in all stages of growth. Working closely with her clients, she assigns the right ‘Engagement Team’ for each project and ensures the team is accountable for real bottom line results.

Jennifer has an MBA from San Jose State University and a Masters in Occupational Psychology from the University of London.

Karen Walker
Vice President of Marketing, Technology Solutions, Hewlett Packard
Optimize Your Marketing Investment: How Smart Innovation and Strategic Integration Power Sales

Karen Walker is Vice President of Marketing for HP's Technology Solutions Group (TSG) in the Americas region. Karen leads the region marketing team, building awareness and preference, executing demand generation activities, implementing TSG business strategy, and improving overall marketing effectiveness.

Prior to this position, Karen was Vice President of Strategy, Marketing and Alliances for HP's worldwide Services organization. In this position, Walker led the definition and execution of HPS' business, marketing, and alliances strategies including the optimization and marketing of HP's services and solutions portfolios.

Walker brings over 22 years of IT services business and marketing experience to her role including 10 years of P&L accountability for several regional and global practices in HP's Consulting and Integration business, and 12 years of worldwide HPS leadership responsibility for functions including business strategy and planning, services creation, portfolio management, marketing strategy, channels/partners marketing and marketing communications.

Walker previously held executive positions leading the business strategy and marketing for HP's Consumer Digital Entertainment business and other emerging growth opportunities in HP's Personal Systems Group.

In her 22-year tenure at HP, she has held a wide range of both domestic and international positions in areas such as sales, operations, marketing and business strategy. Walker joined HP in 1984 as a systems engineer in the U.K.

Walker holds a B.Sc Joint Honors in Chemistry and Business Studies from Loughborough University in Loughborough, England.

Amanda Watlington
Owner, Searching for Profit
Search Engine Marketing for Innovators

Amanda G. Watlington is Owner of Searching for Profit (http:www.searchingforprofit.com) a marketing consultancy focusing on the interaction of the consumer with businesses using search engines, RSS, blogs, podcasting or other new media to deliver their message. An industry thought leader and an internationally recognized speaker, Amanda has led sessions on search marketing, web strategy and social media at Search Engine Strategies, Webmaster World, AdTech, and DMA. She shares her views of where marketing is headed as blogs and RSS/XML feeds continue to evolve at Blogs and Feeds (http://amandawatlington.typepad.com).

Nelly Yusupova
CTO, Webgrrls International
BlogHer presents: Getting Custom: What Web Designers Know

Nelly Yusupova is the CTO of Webgrrls International, the Founder of DigitalWoman.com and the Chapter Leader of New York City Webgrrls. She is an Internet expert and strategist and is a Wall Street Journal "Woman on the IT fast track". She has been featured as a tech expert on NBC's Today Show, in INC Magazine, in Newsday and is an Industry speaker about careers in technology, building community and the power of networking. She earned her BS in computer science and is fluent in PHP, MySQL, Java, ASP, JSP, Oracle, Perl/CGI, HTML, JavaScript, Unix scripting, Telnet, FTP, UNIX.

Linda Zimmer
CEO, MarCom:Interactive
Innovative Branding: Thriving on the Edge

Linda Zimmer is CEO of MarCom:Interactive, a social and emerging media consultancy, serving an international clientele of corporate, non-profit and public brands. She is a recognized expert at innovating marketing, communications and branding for contemporary audiences and social trends. She is spearheading the formation of the Modern Media Institute, a professional development institute focused on uses of new media in branding practices. Linda is among a cadre of innovators employing virtual worlds for branding, training, and marketing communications and writes a popular blog on the topic, Business Communicators of Second Life.

Ms. Zimmer presents frequently at technology and marketing conferences, and is a guest lecturer at colleges and universities. She is quoted in business publications such as Business Week, U.S. News and Computer Weekly, she publishes extensively on the Web and writes for business, technology and marketing trade publications.

Patricia Shafer
President, Compel Ltd.
Powerful and Connected: Women Transforming Technology Environments

Patricia Shafer is President of Compel Ltd., an international consulting and research firm dedicated to Evoking.Courageous.LeadershipSM and co-founder of The Change Leaders, a global network of consultants and coaches based in the UK. Shafer and a team of leadership development associates specialize in four Practice Areas: Inspiring Leaders, Mentoring Multinationals, Empowering Women and Transforming Technology.

Patricia has provided consulting and coaching services to executives and managers in 15 countries; held leadership positions in change and communications at two global Fortune 100 companies; and led strategic change initiatives touching headquarters, manufacturing and retail sites. One of these initiatives was cited by TIME Magazine for successfully changing the dynamics and image of an industry.

Patricia is a contributing author to the books Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership (Wiley/Jossey-Bass, 2005) and Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology (IGI-Global, 2007). In late 2007, she will begin leading a project to produce a book series on “Transformative Technologies” – focusing on people-centered IT approaches to transform the workplace and improve results. She is a columnist on workplace issues for the magazines “Global HR News” and “SAVVY”; and a sought-after speaker in North America, Europe, Africa and India.

Joey Tamer
Consultant, Expert, JoeyTamer.com
Capital Strategies for Entrepreneurs

Joey Tamer (www.joeytamer.com) is a "shadow CEO," extending her entrepreneur-clients' bandwidth. She consults to product and service companies, and to consultancies. She has worked in the U.S., Europe, China and Qatar.

Successes include the 1st Internet B2B IPO with $30M to each of the founders in year 5; the sale of a husband/wife software company for $50M in year 4; the raising of $2.2M in seed capital with no equity out, for a software venture she built in China; and the sale of a start-up Internet company within 8 months of writing their first investment pitch piece.

Her Fortune 500 clients retain her to start in-house new business unit initiatives; these have included J.P. Morgan Capital, Sony, IBM, Apple, Hearst, Blockbuster, Technicolor, Harper Collins, Discovery Channel, Time-Warner, Agfa and Scitex. Among her many early stage ventures, she includes Earthweb (IPO 1998) and iSuppli.

She speaks and publishes widely on entrepreneurship. Her published credits include 5 books, 60 published articles, and a weblog with hundreds of blogposts of advice to entrepreneurs. Her website is www.joeytamer.com and she can be reached at joey @ joeytamer.com, or 1+310 245 5310.

And more to be announced soon!