Supernova 2007 - Speakers

Challenge Day Speakers

		Lee Berke LHB Sports, Entertainment & Media Lee H. Berke founded LHB in 2001, which specializes in developing direct relationships between sports teams, properties and new media platforms. LHB's client roster includes over 15 teams throughout the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and NASCAR including the Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans, Seattle Seahawks, Los Angeles Angels, Cleveland Cavaliers, Memphis Grizzlies and New Jersey Devils, along with developing regional sports programming for the Verizon FiOS video service. He co-authored the original business plan for the New York Yankees' YES Network and headed up marketing for Madison Square Garden and MSG Network.
		Chris Brogan Network2.tv Chris Brogan is community developer for Network2.tv, a guide to the best in long tail Internet TV shows. He also works as community developer for Video on the Net, a professional conference exploring the disruptive impact of the broadband Internet on the future of TV, Film, and Entertainment. He co-founder of PodCamp, a free unconference that explores the benefits and uses of new media community tools.
		Cathy Brooks GuideWire Group Cathy Brooks has spent more than two decades working in and around media and communications. Working with Guidewire Group – a global analyst firm focused wholly on emerging markets and technologies – Cathy is producing and hosting "I of Innovation" a weekly talk show that provides a unique perspective an insight to the processes and people behind the latest technology trends. Interspersed with her media roles, Cathy held several agency and corporate PR positions developing and leading public relations campaigns. Some of this experience includes several years at Blanc & Otus, and a three-year stint with Remedy Corporation.
		Elizabeth Charnock Cataphora Elizabeth Charnock is CEO and founder of Cataphora. She has led Cataphora from concept to profitability funded entirely by revenues from clients, without any outside investment. Elizabeth has significant experience in engineering management, management consulting, and restart management at such companies as Troba, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.
		Jeff Clavier SofTech VC Based in Palo Alto (CA), Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, a firm doing angel investments and providing consulting services to early stage consumer Internet startups. Jeff will typically get involved as an advisor, board member or part-time executive, focusing on business development, fund raising, and strategy matters. His current areas of interests include next generation search and discovery, social media and communities, and consumer infrastructure. These are also the primary topics covered in his blogs, Software Only (blog.softtechvc.com in English) and Sans Accent (sansaccent.softtechvc.com in French).
		Ron Conway Angel Investors Ronald Conway was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Red Envelope, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail. Ron now invests independently as an angel investor and was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top “dealmakers” in 2006. Ron worked with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions (1973-1979), Altos Computer Systems, as a co-founder, President and CEO, (1979-1990) and Personal Training Systems (PTS) as CEO (1991-1995).
		Dick Costolo Feedburner Dick is the cofounder/CEO of FeedBurner, Inc. Previously, he cofounded and was CEO of Spyonit.com, which was sold to 724 Solutions in September 2000. Dick also cofounded Burning Door Networked Media, which was acquired by Digital Knowledge Assets in October 1996. Prior work experience includes 8 years in senior strategy roles at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Google searches may also reveal Dick's theater experience including performances with Chicago's Annoyance Theater, television appearances in the UK, and improv shows at comedy festivals in Edinburgh, Montreal and Australia.
		Ron Dreben Morgan Lewis Ron Dreben is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice at Morgan Lewis. Mr. Dreben focuses on integrated brand advertising, sponsored entertainment, and technology, as well as all areas of trademark, copyright, trade secret, licensing, and related intellectual property law. He has handled technology and software agreement matters for Moody's, Nikon, Unilever, and Liberty Travel, among many others. He is experienced in negotiating with virtually all industry leading technology product and service vendors. He frequently advises technology developers and providers as well.
		Flip Gianos InterWest Partners Philip "Flip" Gianos has invested in multiple areas of information technology. Gianos serves on the Board of Directors at Xilinx, Bivio Networks, Convey Computer Company and Mobio Networks. He is on the advisory boards of Storm Ventures and the Fabless Semiconductor Association, and is a past president of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists.
		Julius Genachowski Rock Creek Ventures Julius Genachowski is cofounder and managing director of Rock Creek Ventures, an investment and advisory services firm focusing on digital media and commerce. He is also Special Advisor to General Atlantic, a leading global private-equity firm focusing on technology companies. Previously, Mr. Genachowski served in senior executive positions at IAC/InterActiveCorp for eight years, including Chief of Business Operations, General Counsel, and member of the Office of the Chairman. Before joining IAC, Mr. Genachowski was Chief Counsel to Chairman Reed Hundt of the Federal Communications Commission. He has served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter and, before that, to retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. Mr. Genachowski worked in Congress on the staff of the Select Committee investigating the Iran-Contra Affair and also for then-U.S. Representative, now Senator, Charles E. Schumer.
		Alex Gove Walden Venture Capital Alex Gove represents Walden Venture Capital on the Board of Directors of Market Insight, Ignite Technologies, and Palamida. He joined Walden in August, 1999. Prior to Walden, Alex served as a Senior Columnist and Senior Editor at Red Herring, a monthly magazine about the business of technology. From April, 1995, until his departure, he was responsible for the magazine's venture capital and digital media coverage. Prior to Red Herring, Alex worked in entertainment production and investment banking.
		Howard Greenstein The Harbrooke Group Howard Greenstein is the co-founder of Social Media Club, which brings together media and communications professionals with technologists and entrepreneurs. Formerly, Greenstein was the Senior Director of the Non-Degree Management Programs at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at NYU, and the Director of Operations for the Twin Towers Fund. He has been involved in cutting edge technology applications including online communities and streaming media for over fifteen years, and has worked at Microsoft as well as startups including Sorceron and Netcast.
		Mary Hodder Dabble Mary Hodder is CEO of Dabble, a video remix community. As an information architect and interaction designer specializing in social media sites, she has worked with companies in open source, photo sharing and "live web" search. She has also been a blogger at Napsterization (napsterization.org/stories/) and an original author at bIPlog (the first UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism blog, on the topic of intellectual property, security and privacy). She completed her Masters at the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley in May, 2004.
		Joanne Hovis Columbia Telecommunications Joanne Hovis is a recognized authority on municipal and community broadband topics--and on the evolving role of government in the provision of communications services to the public. At CTC, she leads the company's work for non-profit agencies and the Federal Government. She also oversees CTC's educational offerings and public interest training programs. She leads the CTC team that advises the City and County of San Francisco regarding fiber-to-the-premise networking and served as lead author of CTC's path breaking fiber report for San Francisco. She has advised numerous local governments and non-profits regarding community networking, including Tucson, AZ; Carroll County, MD; and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.
		Denise Howell Bag and Baggage Denise Howell is a lawyer, blogger, and podcaster, who enjoys broad industry recognition for her expertise on the intersection of emerging technologies and law. Denise's writings on online communication and syndication techniques are widely referenced as pioneering texts that examine the legal and cultural ramifications of these media. Denise writes one of the first law-related weblogs, Bag and Baggage, in addition to authoring ZDNet's Lawgarithms and contributing to Corante's Between Lawyers. She also hosts two audio series, Sound Policy and this WEEK in LAW, probing the areas where technology and society intersect in ways that present new, unique, or difficult issues under existing and developing law.
		Leszek Izdebski Cisco Leszek Izdebski is director of the New Media and Web Service Providers team in the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). He is responsible for driving Cisco’s thought leadership around future media and Web services, identifying evolving industry trends, and assisting Cisco’s clients in improving their business performance. He has more than 20 years of consulting experience with Accenture, Coopers & Lybrand, and Green Fields Media, involving development of product portfolio strategies, go-to-market and product strategies, and business strategies in media and entertainment, Internet, cable, satellite, and telecom services.
		Max Kalehoff Nielsen Buzzmetrics Max Kalehoff is vice president of marketing for Nielsen BuzzMetrics, the global measurement standard for consumer-generated media (CGM). He leads marketing communications, and supports strategic partner and product development. An evangelist for word-of-mouth and interactive marketing, Max helps companies understand and leverage the intersection of these important and evolving strategies. He also is a monthly columnist for MediaPost's SearchInsider, focusing largely on the intersection of Internet search and social media. He blogs at attentionmax. Before his current role, Max ran his own marketing and strategy consultancy, and led marketing, communications and industry ratings analysis for comScore.
		Sandra Kearney IBM Sandra Kearney is IBM’s Global Director for 3D Internet (3Di) and Virtual Business. She is a qualified Business Analyst with over 25 years experience in complex organizations and operations, including military and civilian strategy, aviation, futures planning, and logistics. Sandy has in depth knowledge of Virtual Worlds and Emotive Network building and is currently leading a large IBM community in the 3Di space. She has published studies for IBM Research, IBM’s Institute of Business Value and guides and articles for the US Government in the area of alternative futures and strategic alternative planning.
		Raph Koster Areae Raph Koster is the President of Areae, Inc. A professional game designer and frequent writer on issues of virtual world design, Raph was the lead designer on the seminal online world ULTIMA ONLINE, which first brought online worlds to the mass market. Until March 2006 he was Chief Creative Officer for Sony Online Entertainment, makers of EVERQUEST, where he previously led the design of STAR WARS GALAXIES. His essays and writings on online world design include widely reprinted and influential pieces, and he is the maintainer of the canonical history of virtual worlds at his popular website and blog.
		J.D. Lasica Remix Politics J.D. Lasica is a social media pioneer, entrepreneur and author. He is co-founder and chairman of Ourmedia, a community and platform for digital media producers. His book "Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation" explores the personal media revolution and the emerging media landscape. He is now directing the Remix Politics project with leading political bloggers. He writes about citizen media and social networks at Socialmedia.biz, and CNET named him one of the 100 top media bloggers in the world.
		Zahavah Levine YouTube Zahavah Levine is Vice President of Business Affairs & General Counsel of YouTube. She oversees the development of partnership and promotional deals with networks, record labels, movie studios, and other organizations interested in forging content relationships with the largest video entertainment service on the Internet. She also directs policies focused on protecting the rights of copyright holders and content owners. Prior to YouTube, she was Associate General Counsel & Director of Music Licensing for RealNetworks. Zahavah joined Real as part of Real’s acquisition of Listen.com; before joining Listen, Zahavah was a Senior Associate at the law firm of Bingham McCutchen.
		John Markoff New York Times John Markoff joined The New York Times in March of 1988 as a reporter for the paper's business section. He now writes for the Times from San Francisco where he covers Silicon Valley, computers and technology issues. He has written about the field of technology since 1977, including stints at the San Francisco Examiner, Byte Magazine, the San Jose Mercury, and Infoworld.
		Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger Kennedy School of Government Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His research focuses on the intersection of information and communication technology and governance, covering structural and institutional challenges, like electronic and information government, as well as specific issues, like intellectual property policy and Internet governance. He has authored/edited eight books and authored over a hundred articles in North American, European, and Asian publications. In 1986, he founded Ikarus Software, a company focusing on data security, and developed "Virus Utilities" which became the best-selling Austrian software product. He was voted Top-5 Software Entrepreneur in Austria in 1991 and Person-of-the-Year for the State of Salzburg in 2000.
		Peter Merholz Adaptive Path Peter Merholz is President of Adaptive Path, an experience strategy and design firm. He is perhaps best known for his blog, peterme.com, published since 1998, where he writes about design, business, and technology. He is director-at-large for the IA Institute, the leading professional organization for information architects.
		Mark Morril Viacom Mark Morril is Senior Vice-President and Deputy General Counsel of Viacom. He is in charge of the day-to-day management and supervision of the Viacom Corporate Law Department with responsibility in diverse areas including corporate transactions and finance, litigation, intellectual property, real estate, benefits and international legal matters. Mark also has significant involvement in the legal affairs of Viacom’s divisions, which include BET, Famous Music, MTV Networks and Paramount Pictures. He joined the company in 1989 as General Counsel of Simon & Schuster.
		John Muleta M2Z John Muleta is Founder, CEO and Board Member of M2Z Networks. Together with his partner Milo Medin, Mr. Muleta founded M2Z Networks in 2005. Immediately prior to founding M2Z Networks, Mr. Muleta was most recently partner and co-Chair of the Communications Practice at Venable LLP. Between 2003 and 2005, Mr. Muleta was the head of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and responsible for implementing the Commission's policies regarding consumer wireless services and public safety radio networks. He has also been a senior officer of PSINet, Inc., a leading commercial Internet Services Provider, and he serves on the Board of the Directors of Fiber Tower and HRSmart.
		Barney Pell PowerSet For over fifteen years, Dr. Barney Pell, (Ph.D. Computer science, Cambridge University F1993) has pursued ground breaking technical and commercial innovation in A.I. as a researcher, research manager, business strategist and entrepreneur. He spent 2005 as Entrepreneur in Residence at Mayfield evaluating early to mid-stage IT and knowledge based companies. Before joining Mayfield, Dr. Pell worked for NASA Ames Research Center on two occasions, and worked in technical start-ups serving as Chief Strategist and Vice-President of Business Development at StockMaster.com, a provider of internet-based stock-market analysis tools and later Vice President of Strategy for Whizbang! Labs, a provider of advanced text processing and search engine software.
		JP Rangaswami BT JP Rangaswami is Chief Information Officer for BT Global Services. In a software and services career spanning a quarter century, JP Rangaswami is a highly recognized leader in implementing business transformation through innovative technology practices. He has championed community-based open source development methods and practices along with innovative tools and techniques for enterprise collaboration. Innovate magazine awarded Rangaswami the title of European Innovator of the Year in 2005. The European Technology Forum named him CIO Innovator of the Year in 2004. In 2003, Waters Magazine voted Rangaswami CIO of the Year. The work Mr Rangaswami led on collaborative technologies at the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein is now the subject of several Harvard Business School case studies.
		Andrew Rasiej Personal Democracy Forum Andrew Rasiej is the Founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, and has served as an advisor to Senators and Congressman and political candidates on the use of Information Technology for campaign and policy purposes since 1999. He recently ran a highly visible campaign for Public Advocate of New York City, running in the Democratic primary on a platform to bring low cost wireless access to all New Yorkers. Mr. Rasiej is the founder and Chairman of MOUSE (Making Opportunities for Upgrading Schools and Education), an educational non-profit organization started in 1997 focused on providing technology support to public schools. He is the former chairman and co-founder of the Digital Club Network (DCN) now called eMusic Live, the Internet's largest live music channel which broadcasts concerts of established and emerging artists from premier music venues around the world. In 1990, Mr. Rasiej founded Irving Plaza, an internationally known concert venue located in New York City and produced concerts by well-known artists such as Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and Dave Matthews Band.
		Scott Rosner The Wharton School Scott Rosner is a Lecturer in the Legal Studies Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches courses in The Sports Industry – Business and Legal Aspects to undergraduate and MBA students and business law to undergraduates. Rosner is the lead author of “The Business of Sports,” a textbook synthesizing a collection of the leading scholarly sports business articles, the first such volume in the field. He is also the Principal of Hudson Sports Consulting, a sports advisory firm that provides a wide range of services in the business and legal aspects of the sports industry.
		Jeremy Ruston BT Jeremy is the founder of Osmosoft and creator of TiddlyWiki, a hugely popular open source wiki. He has recently joined BT to lead its open source innovation activities. He has been a CTO for two dotcoms -- Interactive1 and on board info -- and was joint Global Head of E-Commerce at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, where he was responsible for e-commerce systems and development across all business areas of the bank.
		Deborah Schultz MMI, Inc. Deborah is an evangelist and rabble rouser in the new Relationship Economy. An Internet-industry veteran and innovator, she is a passionate customer advocate who believes strongly in the power of technology to connect people, communities and businesses. Deborah currently advises companies ranging in size from start-ups to the Fortune 50 on the new role of marketing and the impact of technology on customer relationships.
		Robert Scoble PodTech Robert Scoble is a technical evangelist, writer, and the author of the popular blog Scobleizer (scobleizer.com ). He is currently Vice President of Media Development at the Palo Alto-base video-podcast startup company PodTech.net. He worked for Fawcette Technical Publications, UserLand Software, NEC and TabletPC before landing a job in 2003 with the Channel 9 MSDN Video team, producing stories about Microsoft employees and products. He is a popular speaker and co-author of "Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers."
		Doc Searls Linux Journal Doc Searls is a writer, speaker and consultant on topics that arise where technology and business meet. He is the Senior Editor of Linux Journal, the premier Linux monthly and one of the world's leading technology magazines. He also runs the new Doc Searls' IT Garage, an online journal published by Linux Journal's parent company, SSC. He is co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual, and also writes Doc Searls Weblog.
		Ted Shelton Technorati Prior to joining Technorati through the acquisition of his startup, The Personal Bee, Ted spent time as COO of Orb Networks, Inc; as CEO and co-founder of The Dr. Spock Company; CEO of Israeli-based Neta4 Technologies; and was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for WhoWhere? Inc. From 2000 through 2003 Ted served as the chief strategy officer for Borland Software Corporation. In prior lives, Ted also led a development team for CMP Media, a high-tech media company, Swiss Bank Corporation (now part of UBS), and was a founder of IT Solutions, Inc., a software development company focused on the NeXT computer.
		Nova Spivack Radar Networks Nova Spivack is one of the leading voices of the emerging Semantic Web, often referred to as Web 3.0. Nova founded Radar Networks to develop semantic social software. In 1994, Nova co-founded EarthWeb (IPO 1998). Nova has worked at Individual, Xerox/Kurzweil, Thinking Machines, and also with SRI International on the DARPA CALO program and nVention. Nova founded Lucid Ventures, and co-founded the San Francisco Web Innovators Network As a grandson of management guru Peter F. Drucker, Nova shares his grandfather’s interests in the evolution of knowledge work. He has a BA in Philosophy from Oberlin College and did graduate study at the International Space University. In 1999 Nova flew to the edge of space in Russia with Space Adventures.
		Reuben Steiger AOL Steiger’s career has been focused on using interactive technologies to build communities that reflect and enhance the physical world. Prior to founding Millions of Us, Steiger was the Evangelist for Linden Lab, creators of the 3-D virtual world Second Life. In that role he was responsible for business development efforts and bringing the first wave of corporations and commercial developers into Second Life. Prior to Linden Lab, he worked for Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn as VP of Interactive Services and was Chief Development Officer at OVEN Digital, where he helped build that company into the world's largest privately-owned Internet consultancy.
		Susan Tenby TechSoup Susan Tenby, TechSoup’s Senior Community Manger, is a frequent speaker and writer on online communities, and is responsible for the management of its community forums which draw 100,000 unique monthly visitors. She launched a community of 400+ nonprofit workers in Second Life, with a shared community blog and wiki and weekly in-world meetings to teach best-practices of SL to nonprofits. Her "Nonprofit Commons" sim in Second Life, houses 40 nonprofits free of charge, lowering the barrier of access to the virtual world.
		Tim Tuttle AOL Tim Tuttle is responsible for AOL's video search technology initiatives. He joined AOL through its December 2005 acquisition of Truveo, Inc., a company he founded and where he served as chief executive officer. Prior to Truveo, Tim was a founder and chief technology officer of Bang Networks, a company that pioneered streaming technology for real-time web applications. He served as a research staff member at Lucent Bell Laboratories, as research director at Kenan Systems Corp., and a member of the research staff at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, Lab for Computer Science and MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
		Fred von Lohmann Electronic Frontier Foundation Fred von Lohmann is a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property issues. He has been involved in a number of well-known cases involving copyright on the Internet, including before the U.S. Supreme Court in MGM v. Grokster. He has been named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in California for three years running by the Daily Journal, a leading legal newspaper, and received a 2003 CLAY (California Lawyer of the Year) award from California Lawyer magazine.
		Esme Vos Muniwireless.com Esme Vos is the founder of Muniwireless.com, the portal for news and information about municipal and regional Wi-Fi networks around the world. Esme started the website in June 2003 and in late 2005, partnered with Microcast Communications to produce conferences, seminars, webinars and a quarterly magazine, turning Muniwireless into a small publishing company. Esme is an intellectual property lawyer and runs her own company, Lemon Cloud BV, in Amsterdam. Esme has served as Chief Legal Officer of Spray Network, a pan-European Internet portal, and as Director of Legal Affairs for Baan Business Systems worldwide.
		Evan Williams Obvious Corp. Evan Williams is the founder of Obvious Corp, a San Francisco-based web product development company and co-founder of Twitter. He was previously the co-founder and CEO of Pyra Labs, makers of Blogger, which is now part of Google.

Supernova 2006: because technology is everyone's business

Supernova 2008

June 16-18, 2008

San Francisco, CA

Challenge Day Speakers

Lee Berke

LHB Sports, Entertainment & Media

Chris Brogan

Network2.tv

Cathy Brooks

GuideWire Group

Elizabeth Charnock

Cataphora

Jeff Clavier

SofTech VC

Ron Conway

Angel Investors

Dick Costolo

Feedburner

Ron Dreben

Morgan Lewis

Flip Gianos

InterWest Partners

Julius Genachowski

Rock Creek Ventures

Alex Gove

Walden Venture Capital

Howard Greenstein

The Harbrooke Group

Mary Hodder

Dabble

Joanne Hovis

Columbia Telecommunications

Denise Howell

Bag and Baggage

Leszek Izdebski

Cisco

Max Kalehoff

Nielsen Buzzmetrics

Sandra Kearney

IBM

Raph Koster

Areae

J.D. Lasica

Remix Politics

Zahavah Levine

YouTube

John Markoff

New York Times

Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger

Kennedy School of Government

Peter Merholz

Adaptive Path

Mark Morril

Viacom

John Muleta

M2Z

Barney Pell

PowerSet

JP Rangaswami

BT

Andrew Rasiej

Personal Democracy Forum

Scott Rosner

The Wharton School

Jeremy Ruston

BT

Deborah Schultz

MMI, Inc.

Robert Scoble

PodTech

Doc Searls

Linux Journal

Ted Shelton

Technorati

Nova Spivack

Radar Networks

Reuben Steiger

AOL

Susan Tenby