Colin Maclay

Berkman Center, Harvard Law School

Hugh MacLeod

GapingVoid

Doug Mack

Adobe

Fran Maier

TrustE

Fran Maier is the Executive Director and President of TRUSTe, the leading brand in online privacy. She is known for her expertise in online privacy, online marketing best practices, and marketing to women. As a co-founder of Match.com she established credibility, safety and trust in online dating, making Match.com the favorite dating site for single women. In executive marketing roles at Women.com and Kmart’s BlueLight.com subsidiary Ms. Maier has both established new start-up online brands and brought blue-chip offline brands onto the Internet.

Kevin Marks

Google

Kevin Marks is author of the weblog Epeus Epigone and a software engineer at Google. He became principal engineer for Technorati after doing work for both Apple and the BBC. He is one of the founders of Microformats. In 2003, Marks was an early experimenter with and contributor to the technologies that became popular under the names podcasting and iPodder in 2004. He is also on the Advisory Council of the Open Rights Group, a UK-based Digital Rights campaigning organisation.

Andrea Matwyshyn

The Wharton School

Andrea M. Matwyshyn is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on innovation policy, specifically the legal, social, and business implications of information technology and data security. In addition to her appointment at Wharton, she is an Affiliate of the Centre for Economics & Policy in the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge.

Elliot Maxwell

Author and Consultant

Elliot E. Maxwell advises public and private sector clients on strategic issues involving the intersection of business, technology, and public policy in the Internet and E-commerce domains. He is a Fellow of the Communications Program at Johns Hopkins University, and Distinguished Research Fellow at the eBusiness Research Center of the Pennsylvania State University. He also advises EPCglobal. From 1998 until 2001, Maxwell served as Special Advisor for the Digital Economy to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Previously, Maxwell worked for a number of years as a consultant and as Assistant Vice President for Corporate Strategy of Pacific Telesis Group, and served in several high-level positions at the Federal Communications Commission.

Dave McClure

Master of 500 Hats

Dave McClure has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for almost twenty years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, blogger, & internet marketing nerd. He is an advisor or investor for Mint, SlideShare, TradeVibes, TipMobile, Oortle/PhotoPhlow, CrazyEgg/KissMetrics, Spock, TeachStreet, Eventvue, RichRelevance, Mashery, Simply Hired, HealthUnity, & Canopy Financial. Dave is the conference chair for Graphing Social Patterns, and a co-chair for Web 2.0 Expo. He has been a guest lecturer on social networks, application platforms, & viral metrics at Stanford University. Dave is a board member for microfinance accelerator Unitus, advisor to microfinance lender Kiva.org, and a co-founder of the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network.

Satish Menon

Yahoo!

Chris Messina

Vidoop

Chris Messina (aka Factory Joe) has spent many years as an Open Source Ambassador. From his work on the Spread Firefox campaign (he was the dude who designed the two page ad spread in the New York Times), to his work on Civic Space to holding the title of Open Source Ambassador at open source browser startup Flock, Citizen Joe dedicates his time and energy to making the world a better place through spreading open source and open source principles.

David Morin

Facebook

Dave is a visionary entrepreneur, technologist, and businessman. Currently, he is the Senior Platform Manager at the internet’s leading social utility, Facebook. Previously, Dave held positions at Apple, including Manager, Creation & Collaboration and Worldwide Manager of Student Marketing. He also founded a design focused technology and internet software company called DM Design Studios. Dave has appeared in publications such as CNN, BusinessWeek, Money, Business 2.0, TechCrunch, CNET, Chicago Tribune, and VentureBeat. A passionate and well received speaker, Dave has delivered keynotes and participated in events worldwide.

Paul Nagel

Control4

Ivan O'Neill

Southern California Edison

Christina Page

Yahoo!

JP Rangaswami

BT

JP Rangaswami is the Managing Director, Service Design for BT Design -- BT Group’s IT design and delivery business. JP is responsible for group operations as well as enterprise management platforms and web technologies. JP joined BT from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein where he served as Global CIO demonstrating recognised market leadership in the use of innovative tools and techniques. He is a highly recognized leader in implementing business transformation through innovative technology practices. 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.

David Recordon

Six Apart

David Recordon is Open Platforms Tech Lead for Six Apart. In 2005, Recordon collaborated with Brad Fitzpatrick in the original development of OpenID, which has since become the most popular decentralized single-sign-on protocol in the history of the web. During a year and a half at VeriSign, Recordon played an active role in refining and evangelizing OpenID. Recordon was recently recognized by Google and O'Reilly as the recipient of a 2007 Open Source Award for his efforts with OpenID and is the youngest recipient in the history

Jeremy Ruston

BT

Jeremy founded Osmosoft, the creator of TiddlyWiki, in 2005. BT acquired Osmosoft in May 2007, and Jeremy is now BT's Head of Open Source Innovation. This roughly means that he is responsible for the development of BT's participation in the open source industry. He also looks pretty funky in aviators, and can fit inside a small cupboard.

Chris Sacca

Investor

Christopher Sacca is a venture investor and company advisor focusing on consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology start-ups. Most recently, Chris was Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc. In that role, he headed up alternative access and related product development. Currently, Chris is an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School at Oxford University, and serves on the board of the Churchill Club. Chris was also recently recognized as a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Before joining Google, Chris held a number of executive roles Speedera Networks, and was an attorney with the Silicon Valley law firm of Fenwick & West.

Axel Schmiegelow

Sevenload

Axel Schmiegelow is serial entrepreneur and CEO of Sevenload. He has been involved in marketing, media, the internet, and start-ups for the past 15 years. As CEO of denkwerk Group, hefounded the world’s first bookmarking and tagging startup, oneview, in 1999, in 16 countries and 10 languages. He is an active Board Member of the company shaping the future of travel commerce, itravel, and a Board member of the exciting local search and rating company, Qype.

Garrick Schmitt

Avenue A | Razorfish

Garrick Schmitt is Vice President of User Experience at Avenue A | Razorfish. Over the past eight years, he has helped a range of Fortune 500 clients and industry leaders envision and deliver breakthrough customer experiences across multiple platforms. Prior to joining Avenue A | Razorfish, Garrick developed localized broadband content at Cox Interactive Media for Excite @Home and Looksmart and worked on early search and directory services for CNET’s Search.com and Snap.com, a media portal that later became NBCi.

Bruce Schneier

BT Counterpane

Bruce Schneier the Chief Technical Security Officer of BT Counterpane. An internationally renowned security technologist, he is referred to by "The Economist" as a "security guru." He is the author of eight books -- including the best sellers "Beyond Fear," "Secrets and Lies," and "Applied Cryptography" -- and hundreds of articles and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram, and blog "Schneier on Security," are read by over 250,000 people. He is a prolific writer and lecturer, a frequent guest on television and radio, has testified before Congress, and is regularly quoted in the press on issues surrounding security and privacy.

Deborah Schultz

Social Web Strategist

Deborah is an Internet strategist, blogger and Social Web rabble rouser. She lives passionately at the intersection of technology, society and innovation. She currently serves as P&G's strategic advisor on social media and advises both start-ups and the Fortune 50 on the impact of social software on business strategy & customer relationships.

Jonathan Schwartz

Sun Microsystems

Jonathan Schwartz is chief executive officer and president of Sun Microsystems. An inveterate communicator, Schwartz has led Sun's drive to engage the marketplace, and redefine corporate transparency. Jonathan has been an outspoken advocate for the network as a utility with more than just value for the computing industry-- but as a tool for driving economic, social and political progress. He previously served as Sun's COO, executive vice president for software, Chief Strategy Officer, and held a variety of leadership positions across product and corporate development. He joined Sun in 1996 after the Company acquired Lighthouse Design, where he was CEO and co-founder. Prior to that, Schwartz was with McKinsey & Co. He blogs at blogs.sun.com/jonathan.

Doc Searls

Linux Journal

James Seng

Thymos Capital and PPLive

Gary Shainberg

BT

Craig Sherman

Gaia Online

Clay Shirky

NYU

Clay Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web. He is an adjunct professor in NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he teaches courses on the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology -- how our networks shape culture and vice-versa.

David Sifry

Technorati

Joseph Smarr

Plaxo

Joseph Smarr is Chief Platform Architect, and was Plaxo's first employee. Joseph is the technical lead for Plaxo's developer platform, focusing on APIs, widgets and partnerships to Plaxo-enable external applications, services, and the social web. Previously, he was Plaxo's web architect and led the development of Plaxo Online. Joseph holds a Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Science from Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence.

Bill St. Arnaud

CANARIE

Bill St. Arnaud is Director of Network Projects for CANARIE Inc., an industry government consortium to promote and develop information highway technologies in Canada. At CANARIE Bill St. Arnaud has been responsible for the coordination and implementation of Canada's next generation Internet initiative called CA*net II. Previously, he was the President and founder of TSA ProForma Inc. He is a frequent guest speaker at numerous conferences on the Internet and ATM networking and is a regular contributor to several networking magazines.

Bret Taylor

FriendFeed

Bret Taylor is the co-founder of FriendFeed. Previously, he was Group Product Manager responsible for Google’s developer products. Before working on Google’s developer efforts full time, Bret launched Google Maps, Google Local, and the Google Maps API. He joined Google in early 2003, initially working on Google’s web search infrastructure and ranking. Prior to Google, Bret worked as a software engineer at Reactivity, a startup incubator in Silicon Valley. Bret holds an MS and BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Douglas Thomas

USC

Douglas Thomas is Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Communication in 1992 and specializes in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies of Technology. He is author of Reading Nietzsche Rhetorically (Guilford Press, 1998), and Hacker Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). An expert on cyberculture, his commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, New Scientist, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as on local and national radio programs, Los Angeles news programs, and CNN.

Joel Waldfogel

Wharton

Joel Waldfogel is Professor of Business and Public Policy at The Wharton School. Most of his recent work falls into two broad areas, intellectual property piracy and the effects of agglomeration on product availability. He recently published a book, The Tyranny of the Market: Why You Can’t Always Get What You Want.

Kevin Werbach

Wharton and Supernova Group

Supernova conference organizer Kevin Werbach is a leading expert on the business, policy, and social implications of emerging information and communications technologies. Werbach is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research explores the legal and business issues generated by the Internet and other technological phenomena. Werbach is also the founder of the Supernova Group, a technology analysis and consulting firm. He was formerly the Editor of Release 1.0, a renowned monthly technology report published by Esther Dyson. He served as Counsel for New Technology Policy at the Federal Communications Commission, where he helped develop the US Government’s Internet and e-commerce policies. He is frequently quoted by leading media outlets, has testified before the US Senate and Federal Communications Commission, and is the author of numerous academic and popular publications.

Evan Williams

Twitter

Susan Wu

Charles River Ventures

Kiumarse Zamanian

Glam Media

Stephan Zimmermann

McKinsey & Co.