Melissa Ablett is the General Manager of BostInno, an online local news and community publishing platform operated by Streetwise Media, where she coordinates day-to-day work and strategy, oversees sales and marketing, and works with the editorial and product teams. Prior to BostInno, Melissa worked for the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative's John Adams Innovation Institute. In her role as a Project Lead, she worked on state initiatives to increase the growth of the tech sector in Massachusetts through legislative and entrepreneurship initiatives.

Raj Aggarwal is CEO of Localytics. Localytics offers a powerful, real-time analytics platform that helps over 10,000 leading iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows and HTML5 app publishers make more successful and more profitable apps. Raj previously spent 5 years in management consulting, most recently with Bain & Company, where his primary focus was the mobile sector. Prior to consulting, Raj completed his MBA. Before this he managed Pre-Sales Engineering for Requisite Technology, an enterprise software provider in Colorado. Raj's career began in robotics, where he eventually led the sales and marketing department for a Toronto-based manufacturer.

Lars is a proven entrepreneur with extensive experience in the mobile and digital media industries. Prior to Co-Founding SessionM, Lars was at Apple, Inc., where he was a member of the executive team of iAd, Apple's mobile advertising business unit. Before Apple, Lars was Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Business Development at Quattro Wireless, a leading mobile advertising platform that was acquired by Apple in 2009. Prior to Quattro, Lars was Vice President of Business Development at m-Qube, North America's dominant mobile aggregator that was acquired by VeriSign in 2006.

Ed Alexander has been distilling Big Data's hidden meaning for over 20 years. Along the way he has helped numerous banking, technology, consumer, medical and nonprofit organizations embrace their communities, dominate niche markets and create raving fans. As Managing Consultant at Fan Foundry he continues the journey, modernizing sales and marketing organizations on their critical path to success. A cum Laude Education degree from Berklee College and a diploma in Financial Studies from Babson College add color and practicality to his dynamic speaking and teaching engagements. He blogs atwww.fanfoundry.com .

Dan Allred is a Senior Relationship Manager with Silicon Valley Bank. Dan moved to Boston to start SVB's Accelerator group, which grew into a team of bankers who are advising, banking and lending to over 500 local start-ups. Prior to moving to Boston in 2007, Dan led SVB's business development efforts in Research Triangle, NC, where his team tripled that office's earning assets between mid-2003 and mid-2007. Dan joined SVB as an associate in the Research Triangle office in 2002 and prior to that was Vice President of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Patrick Ambron is the CEO and co-founder of BrandYourself.com. Patrick is recognized as a leading expert in online reputation management and Search Engine Optimization. Most recently, he was recognized by the White House as one of theEmpact 100 Top CEO's under 30 and named Young Entrepreneur of the year by the SBA. His ideas on Online Reputation and business have been quoted in Fox News, the Huffington Post, FastCompany, Mashable, TechCrunch, the New York Post, the WSJ, the NYTimes, PandoDaily, US News & World, ABC, NPR and more.

Errol leads product management and strategy for Moontoast's pioneering SaaS-based social marketing platform, including the Social Activation Engine and Social Analytics product suite.

Prior to Moontoast, Errol was the Head of Innovation at Optaros Inc., a full-service provider of eCommerce solutions, where he provided Mobile and Social Commerce product innovation, thought leadership and strategy for IR100 clients.

Previously, Errol founded and led an angel-backed media/entertainment venture, which he successfully sold to private investors. Previously, Errol was GM of Razorfish Boston. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Northeastern University and attended an executive leadership program at Harvard Business School.

Sinan Aral is one of the world's leading experts on Social Networks, Social Media and Digital Strategy. He has worked closely with Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Intel, Oracle, SAP and many other leading Fortune 500 firms on realizing business value from social media and information technology investments. He is an Assistant Professor and Microsoft Faculty Fellow at the NYU Stern School of Business and Affiliated Faculty at MIT. His award-winning research focuses on social contagion, product virality and measuring and managing how information diffusion in massive social networks such as Twitter and Facebook affects information worker productivity, consumer demand and viral marketing. Sinan has been a Fulbright Scholar, served as Chief Scientist and on the board of directors of SocialAmp, a social commerce company that enables targeting and peer referral in social media networks (which was sold to Merkle in January, 2012), and is currently an organizer of the Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN). He is a frequent speaker at such thought leading events as TEDxSiliconValley, TEDxColumbia Engineering, TEDxNYU, Wired's "Nextwork" and PopTech and has been the keynote speaker at executive gatherings such as Omnicom's Global "Emerge" Summit. His work is often featured in popular press outlets such as the Economist, the New York Times, Businessweek, Wired, Fast Company and CIO Magazine.Sinan is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Northwestern University, holds masters degrees from the London School of Economics and Harvard University, and received his PhD from MIT.

Rich is an executive with a track record of success, holding a variety of roles with experience in Marketing, Product Management, Sales and Business Development. Rich has built teams and managed advertising, research, promotions, and product development efforts for industry leading companies, including Black & Decker, Sony, Polaroid, Raymarine and Pure Fishing. Rich has experience managing a business through bankruptcy (Polaroid) and also taking a business through an IPO (Raymarine). Rich has partnered with Todd Hoskins to form my-take, LLC to focus on creating value for consumer facing companies by leveraging the ever increasing use of the web by end users. Rich holds a B.S.E.E. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a M.B.A. from University of Texas (Austin).

A long-time Wall Street analyst turned SaaS entrepreneur, Doug founded OpenExchange in 2009 when he saw the need to bring a community-based approach to financial services and C-suite collaboration. He is the company's VP, Product Development, putting his new-found passion for product design into action. Doug has over fifteen years of senior level buy- and sell-side technology, media and telecommunications equity research experience at firms such as Bear Stearns and Jefferies.

For 12 years, Jon backed teams in almost every aspect of mobile, from advertising to infrastructure, service providers, spectrum and applications. Before CRV, he was general partner at Highland Capital Partners, leading mobile where he led or co-led investments in Quattro Wireless (sold to Apple), Starent Networks, (IPO, sold to Cisco), Optasite (sold to SBA Communications), and CCTV (sold to TerreStar). Prior to investments, Jon spent a decade in media at the Dow Jones Co. and the New York Times. He holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Manila launched Communispace's research department in 2005, bringing with her over fifteen years of experience in management consulting and organizational development and ten years of experience in developing and conducting independent research. Manila has worked (as a consultant and as a researcher) with client organizations in various industries, including financial services, telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, healthcare, social services, and educational institutions. Her doctoral work explored organizational and post-industrial applications of psychology, including career development, leadership, team and group process, organizational learning and community.

Mark has spent over 15 years honing his skills in conceptual design, digital strategy, and experience design. From his first website in 1996 to work with global corporations, Mark has delivered elegant and intuitive digital experiences for clients in retail, financial service, technology, and government. Studying traditional architecture as an undergrad has led him to design structures and environments built with code rather than concrete for brands such as Fidelity, The Hartford, Hilton Worldwide, and Motorola Mobility.

Dave Balter is the founder and CEO of BzzAgent, Inc., which he founded in 2001 and was sold in 2011 to dunnhumby, a division of Tesco PLC (LSE: TSCO). In addition to BzzAgent CEO duties, Dave now serves on the Global Executive Team for dunnhumby.

Ken Barbieri is responsible for leading TARGUSinfo's efforts in establishing key strategic partnerships for the AdAdvisor business across online and mobile display advertising.   Prior to TARGUSinfo, Ken worked as VP of Business Development for Lucidmedia, a leading advertising targeting and buying platform, where he was responsible for strategic partnerships and overall company strategy.  Ken has spent over a decade working in the online media space in various roles at Washington Post Interactive, TV Guide and eTeamz.  Ken holds an M.B.A. from the Eller School at the University of Arizona, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia. 

Erica Barth is Vice President of Products and Partnerships for Resolution Media, Omnicom's (NYSE:OMC) search agency.  She is responsible for driving the strategic direction of the firm's existing service offering and partnerships. In this role, Barth focuses on practice development across both the Advertising and Content Solutions teams to strengthen service delivery, as well as evaluating technology and digital media partners to drive future product development.  Before joining Resolution Media, Barth served as Marketing Manager for SIRVA, Inc., a relocation services company. Barth holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing and International Business from Penn State University.

Adam Benjamin is a Global Marketer for Facebook, where he has worked since 2010. At Facebook, Adam currently leads a sales team focused on the CPG/Beverage vertical, which is focused on educating clients and agencies on marketing opportunities across the Facebook platform and developing strategic solutions to meet client goals and objectives. Platform solutions consist of Ads, Pages, Applications, Gaming, Ecommerce, Insights and Mobile. Marketers included P&G, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Diageo, Bacardi, Brown Forman, Dr Petter, Snapple Group and more. Prior to his work at Facebook, Benjamin was the Chief Strategy Office at Virtue where he helped global brands engage with customers through the power of social media by delivering compelling marketing solutions that maintain brand integrity and deliver measurable results to agencies and the Fortune 500 companies they serve.

Steve is a platform-independent interactive CD/AD/UX/UI professional who prides himself on being able to come up with "the big idea" as well as make those ideas a reality. He has spent over a decade working at established interactive and advertising agencies, conceptualizing and executing interactive and marketing initiatives of all sizes and scopes. His business cards have held the titles of interactive designer, art director, information architect, developer, engineer, copywriter, and many more. The only two things Steve admits to not being able to do are sit still and understand the appeal of dubstep.

Steffan Berelowitz is a serial entrepreneur, web consultant, and now train conductor. In the past 19 years, Steffan founded 3 companies in online technology, all are in business today. In '93, he co-founded ArtNet, now artnet.com. In '95, Steffan founded Bit Group, an award-winning New England web agency. In 2010, he co-founded Bluetrain Mobile. Personally, Steffan served as an Internet consultant to presidential candidate Sen. Bill Bradley and as a trustee of the Massachusetts Software Council.

Roshan Bhula is CMO at Napkin Labs. At work, Roshan constantly obsesses over simplifying Napkin Labs' message, design and strategy. Outside of work, Roshan has an unhealthy obsession with the NFL, delicious vegetarian food, and 80s power ballads.

Edward splits his time between Mullen, an Ad-Age A-list agency, and Boston University's College of Communications. One of Mullen's four original partners, he currently serves as the agency's chief innovation officer. During his 29 years with the agency, most of them spent as chief creative officer, Edward helped define the agency's creative standards, established its public relations group, integrated digital design and production into all of the agency's operations, and launched its growing social influence practice. In September 2012, Edward joined the faculty at Boston University as a , where he teaches advertising creativity and digital strategy in the College of Communications.

Author of the forthcoming book, "I Killed a Rabid Fox with a Croquet Mallet and Other Stories to Make Your Business Memorable," Boillot regularly speaks on branding, marketing and PR topics.

As Wilde Agency's President, Neal draws upon more than 25 years of experience in successfully leading and growing teams, brands and businesses. Responsible for the agency's strategic vision and continued growth (100%+ in the last 36 months), he works with clients to deliver business solutions and results. A classically trained marketer, Neal has held executive sales and marketing positions at leading consumer packaged goods companies (including Revlon and L'Oreal, where he was the youngest marketing director in division history at the time), been a successful entrepreneur and business consultant and, most recently, led Wilde Interactive (now part of Wilde Agency).

Michael has been bringing innovative and complex technologies down to the human level since embarking on a career in PR. A diverse collection of acronyms, the tech he has promoted ranges widely - from the world's first quantum cryptography network, 8-megapixel sub-$1000 digital SLR camera, PEN compact camera, hydrogen-powered Hummer and Chevy Volt EV, to anti-sniper sensors, podcast transcribers, and digital music players.

While promoting all of these innovations and more, Michael's approach has been to make all of the benefits easily understandable to garner maximum exposure for clients that have included Olympus, General Motors, BBN Technologies, Stanley Tools, and The Monitor Group among others. Prior to agency life, he worked at Tokyo Journal magazine in Japan reporting on technology and serving as managing editor, and he has authored articles for The Boston Globe and other area publications.

Ashley Boyd is a marketing innovator with a strong combination of editorial, design, sales and business development experience. A former NYTimes reporter, Ashley covered breaking news and features and still writes regularly for newsletters, magazines and blogs. Her marketing experience covers inbound and outbound activities including lead generation and account management, content development, public relations and event planning. She is also a founding member of the new Health 2.0 Boston healthcare community organization.

Spencer is a charismatic and young influence marketing leader who is passionate about connecting brands with college students. Bramson left school after sophomore year to co-found marketing agency Buzz University. He has managed hundreds of university ambassadors while personally engaged with hundreds of thousands of students where he generated leads, distributed swag and steered the campaign's strategy for ROCKSTAR Energy Drink, Milkyway and Zumba among other well-known brands. Spencer has presented at the 2012 Social Media Week, the Word of Mouth Marketing Association and has been awarded the 2011 Future Forward Game Changer and the 2012 Most Likable Entrepreneur.

Chris Brogan is president of Human Business Works, a media and education company. He consults and speaks professionally with Fortune 100 and 500 companies like PepsiCo, General Motors, Microsoft, and more, about the intersection of business, technology and media. He is a New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents, and a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine. Chris's blog, [chrisbrogan.com], is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150. He has over 12 years experience in online community, social media, and related technologies.

Brendon Buckley acts as Director of Information Architecture and oversees IA for clients such as Standard & Poor's, Fidelity, Navistar, Spotfire and Sanford Health Network.  Brendon leads a team which identifies and defines project requirements, information hierarchy and site structure for a myriad of project ranging from web to mobile to extranets.  Through a unique set of deliverables that include an interactive sitemap, clickable prototypes and interaction documents, the IA Department aims to fully define, visualize and document a website vision through a comprehensive discovery process that paves the way for a clear and expedient development process.

Tom Burgess is a seasoned media and marketing executive with deep interactive advertising and digital media technology experience. His ability to identify the "next big thing" has lead him to launch several successful companies including Third Screen Media, acquired by AOL in 2007 and serve as President of CollegeLink.com which was sold to Monster.com. Burgess consistently provides excellent returns for investors and holds numerous direct response and offer delivery technology patents. Currently, Burgess is the CEO of Linkable Networks, a leader in card-linked technology and the only company capable of delivering offers at a SKU-level.

Jeff is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. He represents the firm on the boards of Cartera Commerce, ClickSquared, DataXu, i4cp, Plastiq, SavingStar, SimpleTuition, and tracx. Prior to joining the firm in January 2003, Jeff co-founded Upromise (acquired by Sallie Mae), was an executive at Open Market, and was with the The Boston Consulting Group. Jeff currently serves as a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School and teaches a class on entrepreneurship and lean start-ups called Launching Technology Ventures. His blog on helping demystify the venture business for entrepreneurs, "Seeing Both Sides", can be found at www.SeeingBothSides.com.

With over 20 years of both bootstrapping and VC-backed company experience, Karl is passionate about supporting entrepreneurs. Karl co-founded 170 Systems, an enterprise software company in 1990, and saw it through two decades of growth and profitability, culminating in a successful acquisition. Karl led the company as CEO as it bootstrapped to become a profitable, worldwide market leader with a Fortune 1000 customer base using the company's software products and services in over 90 countries - all before taking VC funding which fueled further growth. After joining MassChallenge in its inaugural year as a judge and mentor to many teams, Karl is now focused full-time on making the mentorship experience the best it can be for both the emerging companies and the participating community. Karl is also an active supporter of the entrepreneurial ecosystem through other involvements, including as a mentor with programs such as TechStars and the MIT Venture Mentoring Service. Karl received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and lives with his wife and two sons in the Boston area.

Adam leads the Experience Strategy Department, at Hill Holliday. In his leadership, Hill Holliday was named Media Agency of the Year by MEDIA Magazine, and became the only agency to win Adweek's Media Plan of the Year four years in a row. Adam is involved in the adtech start-up community, serving as an advisor to Angel Street Capital, Bridge Two Worlds, and Azigo, and launched Project Beacon. Adam was named a Media All-Star by Adweek and a Media Maven by The Ad Club. He is also a contributor to Advertising Age, AdExchanger, iMediaConnection, MediaPost, and ClickZ. Learn more at adamcahill.com.

As Senior Vice President of Marketing and Products, Marc Caltabiano is responsible for product strategy, product management, marketing and PR at Cartera. Marc brings 20 years of product and marketing experience in CRM, self-service, e-commerce, and enterprise search. Prior to Cartera, Marc was senior director of product management at KNOVA Software. Marc also held product and marketing management positions at Siebel Systems and Sun Microsystems. He holds sixteen patents in search and knowledge management. Marc has a B.A. from Williams College and an MBA from the Haas School at the University of California at Berkeley.

Amy holds the world's first Ph.D. in Green Chemistry from UMass, an M.S. from UMass and a B.S. from Saint Anselm. Amy was Assistant Professor Green Chemistry and Director Outreach and Community Education, Center for Green Chemistry, UMass Lowell. In 2007 she co-founded Beyond Benign, a non-profit promoting green chemistry education. Awards include 2012 EPA New England Environmental Merit award for leadership and green chemistry education. Amy co-chairs New England Green Chemistry Education group and is committee member of American Chemical Society Chemical Education program. Amy focuses on chemistry education to prepare students to create sustainable materials and products.

Ben is the co-founder and CEO of Promoboxx, the leading brand-to-retailer online marketing platform. As CEO, he's lead Promoboxx from a bootstrapped TechStars company to the industry leader with customers that include Chevrolet, Reebok, and Trek Bicycles. In between a few ski vacations and backpacking trips, Ben also co-founded web marketing companies Acadient and BizUnite.

John Carione is the Senior Director for Solutions Marketing at Acquia focused on helping customers create amazing digital experiences delivered on the Drupal Open Source platform. John is responsible for understanding and crafting customer requirements for delivering unified web experiences that span content, community, and commerce along the customer journey. Prior to Acquia, John held variety of Marketing and Corporate Development positions at both Adobe, in their Digital Enterprise Business, and at EMC. John has a Engineering degree from the Univerisity of Notre Dame and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the Univeristy of Michigan.

John Carione is the Senior Director for Solutions Marketing at Acquia focused on helping customers create amazing digital experiences delivered on the Drupal Open Source platform. John is responsible for understanding and crafting customer requirements for delivering unified web experiences that span content, community, and commerce along the customer journey. Prior to Acquia, John held variety of Marketing and Corporate Development positions at both Adobe, in their Digital Enterprise Business, and at EMC. John has a Engineering degree from the Univerisity of Notre Dame and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the Univeristy of Michigan.

Bringing over 20 years of management and entrepreneurial experience in media, commerce technology, and services, John manages Catalina's overall marketing initiatives. John joined Catalina through their acquisition of Modiv Media, the in-store mobile commerce pioneer, where he was SVP of Marketing. John has been a driving force behind the growth, IPO, and sale of a half-dozen early-stage and high-growth companies including ATG (now Oracle), Gartner, NuMega (now Compuware), Factpoint (now GeoTrust), and Open Environment (now Borland). John has spoken at SXSW, CTIA, MMA, PMA, Harvard, Babson, and Boston College. John holds Bachelor Degrees in Marketing and Finance from Syracuse University.

Gabriel Cheng is the Media Director at M&C Saatchi Mobile. He leads the global media team based out of New York City with the reputation as the market leader in performance mobile advertising and experience at advising many of the world¹s most recognizable brands. M&C Saatchi Mobile¹s global planning and buying experience is unrivaled as confirmed by its client presence in more than 40 countries. With ad tech and digital media experience at his core, he has helped win multiple accounts throughout his career, evangelizes the confluence of social, local and mobile and advises companies on mobile product development needs.

Joe Chernov is the VP of Marketing for Kinvey, a mobile backend as a service start-up in Cambridge, MA. Joe joined Kinvey from Eloqua, where, as VP of Content Marketing, he helped take the company public and was named "Content Marketer of the Year." He speaks at universities and conferences around the world on content marketing and social media.

Rob Ciampa is Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Pixability, a video marketing company based at the Cambridge Innovation Center. He is also an award-winning marketer who's used video to help bring 75 innovative products and services to global markets, generating over $1 billion in sales. Rob co-founded NetEffect and grew it into one of the world's largest specialized systems integration firms. While there, he built the industry's first in-house video production studio. A 9-time startup veteran, Rob has been acquired into and worked for IBM, HP, and 3Com. Rob has a BS in Computer Science and an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, and an MBA from Boston University, all with honors. He holds two patents in technology management. On a personal note, Rob is the father of two teenage boys who transformed their attic into a video production studio and subsequently built multiple, successful YouTube channels with over 8 million views.

Kyle Clark, a recognized expert in consumer loyalty technology, has spent over 6 years designing and implementing consumer loyalty platforms for Fortune 100 companies. Kyle is currently a Sales Engineer at Bunchball, which was just recognized as one of the Top 10 Most Innovative gaming companies for 2012 by Fast Company magazine. Prior to joining Bunchball, Kyle was Director of Client Technology Solutions at Maritz Loyalty and Motivation. You can follow Kyle's thoughts on consumer loyalty and gamification at www.gamification.com

Tyler Conklin is the co-founder of Facelift Media Group, a marketing company based in Binghamton, NY and Nesconset Long Island. In its most recent campaign, Facelift focused on check-ins and gamification to generate a buzz for its client's newly opened frozen yogurt company. Tyler has spent many years working for small locally owned businesses in many different roles and focuses much of his free time on traveling extensively. He draws from these interests to develop social media campaigns for small local businesses. Tyler is a 2011 graduate of SUNY Oswego with a bachelors in Business Administration.

Sean Corcoran drives the digital vision for Mullen mediahub using his expertise in online advertising, social marketing, emerging media and agency relationships and structure. He has 13+ years of industry experience working on a diverse set of brands including JetBlue, Phillips, AOL, RadioShack, Motorola, Hyatt, Vonage, MTV Networks, Nickelodeon, Hearst, MasterCard, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oreal and Mars. Prior to joining Mullen mediahub, Sean spearheaded social media and digital research at Forrester. When he's not creating innovative digital strategies for numerous Fortune 500 brands, Sean is a leading keynote speaker and author of numerous groundbreaking research reports.

Joe Corr is a Creative Director with Crispin Porter + Bogusky, and a Lecturer at Boulder Digital Works at the University of Colorado. With over 15 years of professional experience designing and developing for the screen and beyond, Joe has a background in a wide variety of interactive tools. His specialties include 15 years of development experience from Mosaic 1.0 and Lynx through today. His interests include 3D, Augmented Reality, Physical Computing, Art Installations, Information Visualizations and the Internet of Things. Joe's client credits include work for Domino's, Kraft and Old Navy.

Geoff Cottrill joined Converse, Inc. in November 2007 as CMO. He leads global brand development as well as marketing strategy and brand management functions including advertising, sports marketing, brand design, digital, communications, and retail marketing. He previously served as Vice President, Global Entertainment for Starbucks, and also worked for The Coca Cola Company and Procter & Gamble. Cottrill has also served on the board of the Grammy Foundation for the past three years.

Dan is the founder & president of 4ORCE Digital. Having created and introduced the philosophy of Empirical Marketing, 4ORCE looks to migrate brands away from a pure creative intuition model towards a measurable User Experience model. The team at 4ORCE is hyper vigilant to remain 'the authority' on user-centered digital engagement. 4ORCE provides digital solutions for a variety of clients, including Post Foods, Nestle Purina, Scottrade, Save-A-Lot and Sigma-Aldrich. Dan currently is President-Elect of the St. Louis Ad Club, Board Member of The Children's Home Society of Missouri and is Past-President of the St. Louis Young Entrepreneurs Organization (EO).

Frank Cutitta is recognized by Folio Magazine as one of the media business' Top 40 Innovators and Influencers. He consults around the world on transformational issues related to: global branding, performance based advertising, international content asset optimization, social media architecture, and building the "Big Data Media Company of the Future". He also lectures and writes on "The Geography of Narcissism: The Cross Cultural Aspects Social Media Deployment". Prior to founding The Center for Global Branding, Cutitta served for over 20 years as a senior international executive at International Data Group, as Chief Executive Officer of the International Advertising Association (IAA), and as an early pioneer in launching businesses in the former Soviet Union. In addition to consulting in the media and advertising sectors, Cutitta is a research fellow for Computer Sciences Corporation's Leading Edge Forum think tank where his latest research practice focuses on "Weapons of Mass Discussion™" and "Socially Awkward": The Co-Evolution of Marketing and Information Technology Strategy". He is a doctoral candidate and graduate professor at Northeastern University and a research fellow at their Center for Sport and Society where he studies sports media and the generational aspects of sport. During his free time Frank runs Grays on Trays® a snowboarding school for "mature beginners".

Chris D'Amico is currently SVP, Group Creative Director at Hill Holliday, where he shares creative leadership duties on the Dunkin' Donuts account. A native Southern Californian, Chris spent most of his career between Deutsch and DraftFCB where he was responsible for brands like Taco Bell, Mitsubishi Cars, Coors Light, Expedia.com, the X-Games, and the U.S. Forest Service. His work has garnered Beldings and Effies, and has been featured in multiple Superbowls, Communication Arts, Lurzer's Archive, Print, Graphis, and Adweek's Best spots. When he's not at his desk, Chris can be found down on the beach surfing with his family.

For the past 14 years, Stacy has helped shape IBM's employee engagement and enablement strategy. In her current role as global projects leader for the corporate brand systems, workforce enablement team, Stacy helps design and implement key worldwide projects that shape the employee experience. Prior to joining the corporate team, Stacy spent several years leading the workforce enablement/communications strategy for IBM's Software Division.

Tom Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor in Management and Information Technology at Babson College and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Business School (2012-2013). He is also the research director and co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics. An author or coauthor of 14 books and more than 100 articles, he helps organization to revitilze their management practices in areas such as analytics, information and knowledge management, process management and enterprise systems.

In 1999, Angus co-founded Tellme, which revolutionized speech recognition systems today used by 1 in 3 Americans. Microsoft acquired Tellme in its largest-ever acquisition of a private company in 2007. Prior to Tellme, Angus joined Netscape as their youngest employee where he was product manager for the company's leading Web browser. In 2009, Angus returned to New England to bring home a Silicon Valley spark and founded Swipely to help Main Street merchants grow revenue.

Ken leads MC2's Boston office and develops new business opportunities company-wide that positions MC2 as a strategic partner in the face-to-face arena.

With more than 25 years of industry experience managing the interface of technology and society, and extensive research into the topic, Dr. DesAutels is a rare mix - a technologist who understands how to enable business value and an entrepreneur who understands how to leverage the transformative power of technology.

Pawan Deshpande is the CEO and visionary behind Curata. Curata is a marketing solution for content curation and content marketing. Pawan has spoken at leading events including Content Marketing World, SXSW Interactive, Online Media Summit, Social Media Breakfast and multiple AMA webinars, and was named to Boston Business Journal's 40 Under 40 list of influential business leaders in 2010 due in part to his contributions to the burgeoning online marketing community in greater Boston. Prior to founding Curata, Deshpande held positions at both Microsoft and Google. Pawan attended the MIT for both his graduate and undergraduate degrees in Computer Science.

Fred Destin has been a Partner at Atlas Venture since 2004 where he focuses on technology-enabled services and consumer facing innovation. He helps build companies. For Atlas, he has led a number of investments including DailyMotion (the European leader in video sharing), Seatwave (a large live events ticket marketplace), Zoopla (a disruptive online real estate play) and KDS (a SaaS travel company). Fred recently moved to the US and led his first US investment in New York adtech company AdSafe Media. In his ten years in venture, he also invested or served on the board of PriceMinister (acquired by Rakuten), Rainfinity (acquired by EMC), CapitalIQ (acquired by S&P) and Xerox-PARC spinoff Inxight Software (acquired by BOBJ). He was previously an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs and also worked at JP Morgan in hybrid derivatives, but has never looked back since deciding to jump into innovation and entrepreneurship. He holds a Master of Finance (Magna Cum Laude) from Solvay Business School (University of Brussels) and has lived, studied and worked in London, Hong Kong, New York, Geneva, Belgium and now Boston. Fred currently serves on the Boards of Atlas portfolio companies AdSafe Media, Dailymotion, EnglishCentral, Inspirational Stores, Kinvey, Plizy, Recorded Future, Seatwave, The Currency Cloud and Zoopla.

Stephen has more than 15 years of marketing and client management experience. With Compete, he has management oversight of Compete's award-winning consumer services and emerging vertical markets. Stephen also oversees marketing of Compete's intelligence and targeting services to fortune 500 companies. Previously, he was a co-founder of the Internet strategy consulting firm ZEFER and directed business development and marketing initiatives for News Corporation, where he negotiated multi-million dollar distribution agreements for the company's cable programming subsidiaries. Prior to News Corporation, Mr. DiMarco managed the creation of consumer campaigns for Comedy Central, a joint venture between Time Warner and Viacom.

Matthew Doyle, recent graduate of the State University of New York at Oswego and co-founder of FaceLift Media Group. Designs social media marketing campaigns driven by research and executed through interaction. Presenting at FutureM about the possible impact Google Glass can have on our current marketing techniques.

Walt sets the vision and strategy for the PayPal Media Network. An outwardly facing CEO and strategist, Walt led the WHERE business for five years, which resulted in the April 2011 acquisition by PayPal. Walt's passion for emerging technology has kept him on the leading edge of consumer media and technology for over 15 years. Prior to joining WHERE in 2005, Walt was a GM of MapQuest (AOL). His career began in Hong Kong with Dow Jones (DJ), then spanned executive level appointments with GameSpot (CNET), Net2Phone (IDT), and DialPad (YHOO). Walt is a graduate of Emory University

Amanda Duckworth is a Partner in the San Francisco office of the Brunswick Group. Amanda was previously Chief Marketing Officer at Morrison & Foerster, a Top 25 global law firm, and investment banks, Thomas Weisel Partners and Montgomery Securities. Amanda's core competency is corporate reputation management. She has repositioned and reinvigorated established corporate brands, launched thought leadership campaigns; and, managed reputations through transitions, market challenges to business strategy and full-fledged crises. Amanda has a LL.B. from the University of Wales, U.K., a Postgraduate Diploma in legal practice and FINRA Licenses 7, 24 and 63. She sits on the board of The Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco.

Matt Duffy is responsible for crafting and executing on Jumptap's marketing and brand strategy. He has more than ten years of marketing and sales experience in the advertising and communications industries. Prior to Jumptap, Mr. Duffy served as VP of Marketing at Schwartz Communications, the largest PR agency in New England. He has also previously worked at media and research company IDG, where he was Group VP of Marketing and oversaw marketing strategy for all of the major IDG ad properties. Mr. Duffy received his bachelor's degree from Trinity College and MBA with a focus in marketing from Babson College.

Pete Eggleston brings a strong combination of sales, marketing and product management skills to the company's core management team. Over the last 20 years, he has served in various sales and marketing leadership positions throughout the high-tech industry, including Founder and CEO of AdME, Inc., VP of Sales & Marketing for Sonic Network, Inc., and Senior Director of Business Development at Millivision, LLC. Pete has worked at Northeastern University and the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has authored over 40 papers and articles, anchored two columns in industry magazines and blogged on pragmatic marketing and business development principles.

Dean of Students at Boston University since 2003 Coordinates university efforts to provide a safe environment, where students can find their way within a vibrant community. Responds to student concerns; helps students solve their problems; and, helps students build communities. Believer of the new, innovative and youthful.

Mike Enberg is the corporate sustainability evangelist at the non-profit Basel Action Network, the world's leading resource for electronic waste recycling support. Mike helps companies, governments and institutions manage their "e-waste" (the most toxic thing a company produces) in a globally responsible way -- and then get credit where due. Mike comes from the for-profit world where he developed marketing and sales programs for Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, Ritz-Carlton, Abercrombie & Kent, Virtuoso, World Elite MasterCard, and ecotourism companies worldwide. He holds a BA in marketing and political science from the University of Washington.

Before Malia Estes, a Boston University graduate, became a digital media planner at Mullen's Mediahub she worked with names like Florence + the Machine and TOMS Shoes as a digital producer and talent scout at an LA entertainment startup - having to know what would sell before it sold helped her land her next gig planning media and aiding in user experience for an augmented-reality sports game. At Mullen, Malia has had the chance to work on her favorite brands including jetBlue, Google and Timberland doing what she loves: scouting for emerging trends, emerging devices and emerging culture.

Sarah Fay is a veteran of the media services industry: in her two decades of experience, she has developed and implemented groundbreaking new models for advertising and media. Over the course of her career, Sarah has become a well-known voice in the advertising industry on the topics of digital marketing and media integration. She has helped to build one of the most recognized digital companies in the world through a combination of acquisitions, new business wins, and organic growth. Sarah's previous positions include President of Carat Interactive, CEO of Isobar, and CEO of Aegis Media North America.

John Federman is an online media and eCommerce executive with over 25 years of experience driving revenue and profit through innovative mediate platforms designed to connect buyers and sellers. He is currently on his 6th CEO position at Dailybreak, holding an incredible track record for turning start-ups and re-starts into multimillion dollar companies. John also has 12 years of traditional publishing background as the Publisher of PC Week, which was the largest trade publication in the world as measured by annual revenue. CEO experience includes: AdSmart, Newmediary, Dotomi, eStara, and Searchandise Commerce.

Brent Feldman lives to help his clients grow their business and their brands. As EVP, Group Account Director at Hill Holliday, Brent leads an integrated group of marketers in developing award-winning communications for Dunkin' Donuts, one of the most beloved brands on the planet. Prior to joining Hill Holliday, Brent was Director of Account Management at Publicis, where he led efforts on big brands like Nestle, Jim Beam, and Powerbar. He has also worked on agency teams for Apple, Taco Bell, Wendy's and Verizon Wireless in Los Angeles and New York.

Jason has been with Oasis since 2009 and with nearly fifteen years of interactive service Jason offers an analytic and personalized vision of the industry to Agency Oasis. With components of design, development and experience architecture in his past he offers an expansive range of to all of Agency Oasis's clients by leveraging best practices from many verticals against business needs.  In support of his industry work Jason holds a Faculty position with Emerson College instructing Masters Candidates on web design, development and maintenance prior to their matriculation.

Ian is a founding partner at Almighty, where he leads a research and strategy practice charged with developing insights into the behaviors and needs of the people who use the products and services we build, and outlining strategies for creating more-relevant content. Ian works across the full range of Almighty's client roster, most-recently focusing his energy on the launch of New Balance's Minimus footwear line, the rollout of a new social strategy for BJ's Wholesale Club and the insights that informed the design of physical installations at the New Balance Boston Experience Store.

Fleck is a creative director with more than ten years of industry experiences strategizing, designing and delivering digital experiences for several well-known brands.

Meredith is a broadband and mobile entrepreneur focused on the convergence of consumer, media, and cross-platform technology. She has introduced transformative consumer media technology to consumers and businesses across multiple platforms. Meredith began her career as VP of Digital Technologies with Ogilvy and Mather Interactive. Following stints at MediaOne and RoadRunner, Meredith became the CEO of Into Networks, Stargus, Integra5 and now MediaFriends, Inc. She led her team in the development of the successful free texting app, HeyWire, and has recently released their latest app, Bandwagon, the digital water-cooler, where you can experience your favorite social content with friends.

John has served as President at several award winning interactive services, strategy and application development firms. He served three terms (9 years) on the MITX board, acting as co-chair of the MITX Innovation Awards from its' inception through 2011. He is a frequent guest lecturer at the graduate schools of business at both Babson and Boston College, has served as an advisor to several early stage technology companies and currently consults with several leading technology companies. John is interested in the "Rise of the Ecosystem" and its' transformational impact on the software industry. He blogs at both www.ontios.com and www.platformsconsulting.com

As a 20+ year marketing veteran with regional and national brands, Jeff has witnessed first-hand the changing role of marketing and the way in which consumers interact with brands.

Today, Jeff leads the ongoing evolution of Small Army to adapt to this changing dynamic, and help brands build consumer relationships by creating stories that cause them to engage, share and act.

Jeff is also the founder and CEO of Small Army for a Cause, the non-profit behind the Be Bold, Be Bald! national cancer fundraiser founded in honor of Small Army co-founder (and Boston creative legend), Mike Connell.

Walter Frick is the Business Editor at BostInno, covering technology and venture capital. He is a contributor to Technology Review and has previously written for The Atlantic, The Atlantic Cities and Nieman Journalism Lab, among other publications.

Before High Start Group, Greg was with MasterCard Advisors, where he managed a team focused on delivering strategy development and implementation consulting engagements across all areas of marketing, cards/payments and business change. Greg's expertise is in new value proposition development, innovation (including mobile payments, digital marketing, technology advancements in commerce and payments), customer insight, user experience, and engagement management. Greg's experiences include new product strategy/development across a wide range of industries: retail technology, mobile, consumer good, financial services, consumer entertainment technology and telecommunications. Greg has also been a founder in several technology lead businesses, including Shazam Entertainment (mobile music application).

Tom Gerace is the CEO and Founder of Skyword Inc., the leading content production platform. Tom is a serial entrepreneur, marketer and innovator. Tom is also founder of innovative companies such as Be Free, the first affiliate marketing company acquired by ValueClick in 2002, and Gather.com, a social networking site where members share user-generated content online and earn a portion of the company's advertising revenue. At Skyword, Tom works with brands such as IBM, Everyday Health and Lowe's to create content at scale that forms lasting connections with its consumers.

Riley Gibson is the co-founder and CEO of Napkin Labs, a tech company based in Boulder, CO that helps brands uncover the passion and creativity of their online communities. Early in his career as a brand strategist, Riley saw an overwhelming need for brands to leverage social media as a way to develop closer relationships with their customers. He used his startup experience from Nau, Inc. and the Intel New Business Initiatives Group to start Napkin Labs, where he focuses on helping brands crowdsource great content, discover new insights and engage with their real fans.

Dave Gilbertson joined Constant Contact in 2009. He is the founding general manager of the SaveLocal business unit at Constant Contact, which is dedicated to putting control of local deals back in the hands of small merchants. Previously, Dave served as vice president of strategy and corporate development, where he guided a number of key strategic decisions and led the acquisitions of NutshellMail, BantamLive, MobManager, and CardStar. Prior to joining Constant Contact, he was a strategy consultant focused on private equity clients with The Parthenon Group in Boston and a professional with Fenway Partners, a leading middle-market private equity firm.

Joshua Glenn is a Boston-based editor, publisher, and a freelance writer and semiologist. He's cofounder of the websites HiLobrow, Significant Objects, and Semionaut; and cofounder of HiLoBooks. In 2011, he produced and co-designed the iPhone app KER-PUNCH. He's written and edited several books, and is a former newspaper columnist and magazine editor. In the '90s he was co-producer of the DIY and online social networking website Tripod.com, and he published the zine Hermenaut. He's worked in commercial semiotics, as a US cultural coding expert, since 1999.

Harry is the Founder and CEO of Overdrive Interactive, an award winning digital marketing firm in Boston, Massachusetts that has served clients such as Harley-Davidson, Samsonite, GE, Topps, Bazooka Joe, Dow Jones, John Hancock, AXA, AAA, Vistaprint, EMC and IBM. Harry is a frequent lecturer on digital marketing for The American Marketing Association, Search Engine Strategies, Media Bistro and Harvard University. He is also a digital marketing instructor for the Association of National Advertisers, an expert columnist for ClickZ and a board member of the New England Direct Marketing Association.

A small business expert and visionary, Gail has revolutionized the way that small businesses and organizations can effectively and affordably build relationships with their customers, clients, and members. Since taking leadership of Constant Contact in April 1999, she has led the company to more than 500,000 customers worldwide and its initial public offering on NASDAQ in October 2007. Gail was named "Executive of the Year" at the 2009 American Business Awards, and was the 2008 New England Regional winner of Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2011, she was inducted into the MITX Innovation Hall of Fame.

Stephen likes to build innovative and revenue-centric ways to grow customers, markets and influence. He has long experience in marketing, business development and strategy including with Cisco, Orange, Hitachi, ETS, and a UAE investment authority. He pioneered an innovative group at Sun Microsystems to increase brand and demand generation through partnerships, thought leadership marketing and market analytics for the executive team. He has led a market growth firm that originated from M.I.T.-based research, held positions with CFAR (affiliated with Wharton) and Mainspring/IBM Global Services. Stephen has been a speaker at the Aspen Institute, Monterey Int'l Investment Conference, Harvard, Utrecht University. 

As VP of Strategy for Digital Influence Group, Kevin is responsible for developing agency brand strategy and partnering with clients to develop breakthrough marketing and integrated digital campaigns that center on social experiences and engagements.  With deep experience driving interactive advertising, marketing and PR efforts, Kevin develops sound strategies that drive social marketing ROI and engaging experiences for consumer and B2B audiences. In his six years with Digital Influence Group, Kevin has led successful social marketing initiatives for a wide variety of clients from start ups to Fortune 500, including IBM, T-Mobile, SAP, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, GE and HBO.

Mike is responsible for driving expansion of Catalina's mobile shopper marketing solution that combines fully integrated self-checkout with real-time delivery of relevant content via shoppers' smartphones. Mike was formerly the CEO of Modiv Media which pioneered in-store mobile commerce for supermarket and was acquired by Catalina in April 2012. Prior to Modiv, Mike was active in real-time proximity and wireless mobility solutions for the retail supply chain and healthcare industry.

Ben Grossman is a marketing and advertising strategist with a specialty in digital, social and emerging media. His unique background as a client consultant and agency strategist blends a passion for business and marketing with his personal zest for technology, consumer behavior and design. Ben's ability to formulate insight-driven, distinctive points of view has been recognized globally and featured in leading business publications, presentations to Fortune 100 audiences and widely distributed thought leadership pieces. He has also worked to set strategy and develop initiatives for global brands including Subway, Intel, Keurig, Oracle and Bombardier.

Josh Grossman leads marketing for SavingStar, the only national 100% digital grocery savings service. Launched in April 2011, SavingStar has grown to over 2 million users by providing an easy way for consumers to save on groceries without the hassle of clipping or printing paper coupons. Josh has 10 years experience in online consumer marketing ranging from e-commerce to games, tech, and social networks. Josh attended Cornell University, and received an MBA from Babson College.

Liz Gumbinner is an EVP Group Creative Director at Deutsch NY, but online, she's best known as the co-publisher and editor-in-chief of Cool Mom Picks and Cool Mom Tech, called "the online arbiter of cool for the swingset crowd" by Parents Magazine. Liz is also the author of Mom-101 which has been featured in the New York Times, CNN and NPR. Liz is frequently seen discussing parenting trends, media and culture in national forums including NBC's TODAY Show. Liz has also been named a top digital influencer by Forbes, Nielsen, and the NY Post.

Michael is a Boston entrepreneur and an expert in the mobile payments space. As the Chief Rockstar and COO at LevelUp, Michael is responsible for using LevelUp's mobile payment network to help restaurants and retailers increase revenue and loyalty. Before LevelUp, Michael built two companies, the first of which he started while a student at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Author and product launch expert Julie Hall has two decades of expertise in integrated marketing in consumer products and packaged goods, specializing in revitalizing icon products by motivating consumers to try re-branded or reformulated products. Julie's expertise spans public and media relations, social media, promotional program development, and cause marketing, plus new product launch for global brands. Julie Hall is the Executive Vice President of Schneider Associates, a full-service marketing communications agency founded in 1980. The firm specializes in Launch Public Relations®, a proprietary method of launching and sustaining products, services, companies and communities.

Brian Patrick Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot, a marketing software company he co-founded six years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products.  Since its founding, HubSpot has accumulated over 7,500 customers. He is a Senior Lecturer at MIT where he teaches 15.S16 Entrepreneurial Product Development and Marketing.  He is author of two books: Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead and Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs, which is in its seventh printing, has sold more than 50,000 copies, has been translated into nine languages, and peaked at #17 overall on the Amazon bestseller list. Brian was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011 New England award recipient. In his spare time, he sits on a few boards of directors, follows his beloved Red Sox, goes to the gym, and is learning to play guitar.

Nancy Harhut is Chief Creative Officer of Wilde Agency, where she combines social scientists' insights about human behavior with direct marketing best practices in order to get people to act. Previously, Harhut held senior creative management positions with Hill Holliday, Mullen and Bronner (now Digitas). She and her teams have won 150+ awards for direct marketing effectiveness, for clients such as AT&T, GM, IBM, TripAdvisor, Dell, Bank of America, Liberty Mutual Insurance and Reebok. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Harhut was named Direct Marketer of the Year by NEDMA and an Andi Emerson Award recipient by the Caples Board.

Daniel works closely with brands like LendingTree, Dell, Audible, Air Canada, and many top agencies to develop innovative data-driven marketing strategies. He's guided his clients towards campaigns that deploy the magical mix of great creative, data-driven messaging, and real-time optimization to elevate their brands and drive revenue. He advises on go-to-market strategy and product development. Daniel led BizDev efforts for the digital video production house Reel Biography. He founded a marketing company that produced over 100 large scale creative arts & entertainment events, and consulted for Accenture. Daniel has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Jeffrey Henning evangelizes new innovation approaches and research techniques. Jeffrey believes nothing is harder, or more rewarding, than growing organizations through innovation.  Jeffrey founded Perseus Development in 1993, pioneering the survey software and enterprise feedback management markets. He was also a market researcher and industry analyst with BIS Strategic Decisions. Jeffrey is an alumnus of Arizona State University and has Professional Researcher Certification through the MRA.

Stefanie Henning serves as the General Manager for The Berklee Music Network, Berklee's exclusive social network and career development platform for Berklee-trained and affiliated musicians and music industry professionals. Prior to her role at the Network, Stefanie was Chief Marketing Officer for Berkleemusic.com, leading marketing, business development and product development for Berklee's award-winning continuing education division.
 
Before joining Berkleemusic, Stefanie lived in Los Angeles and was senior vice president, global marketing and new media for Fox Television Studios, a division of News Corporation, spearheading the development of web and mobile series, sponsorship deals, and marketing strategies to build audiences for original brands, as well as shows that include Burn Notice (USA), Saving Grace (TNT), The Shield (FX), Girls Next Door (E!) and The Riches (FX).

Stefanie has consulted to various mobile companies, including Atlas Mobile and Amp'd Mobile, and was vice president of business development for Universal Music Group (UMG), spearheading the launch of the label's digital music business. Before joining UMG, she was recruited by Macromedia (now Adobe) to launch Shockwave.com. As vice president of acquisitions, Stefanie oversaw the acquisition and development of games, music, and story-based content, introducing the breakthrough technology to the entertainment community, including creative pioneers such as Madonna, David Lynch and Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

Stefanie forged new ground in 1994, when she co-founded the New Media Division of International Creative Management (ICM), integrating for the first time innovative new media strategies with the agency's corporate and entertainment clients.

Stefanie has been featured in many articles relating to the merging of technology and entertainment for publications that include The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Fast Company.  Originally from New York, Stefanie received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. 

Kimberly B. Herman is the leader of the firm's Intellectual Property Group. Her practice spans the United States, Europe and the Middle East and emphasizes the law and business of intellectual property with a particular focus on structuring and negotiating complex commercial transactions dealing with software, gaming, music and entertainment-based products; new media, the Internet and publishing; and life sciences, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and health care on behalf of leading high-technology and consumer-products companies. Ms. Herman received a J.D. from Western New England College School of Law and a B.A. from Northeastern University.

Todd Herrold is Senior Director, Product Marketing. He leads the product marketing team for Kenshoo Social, a global technology platform that activates and illuminates the value of social media with breakthrough technology that drives results. Previously, Herrold served as Kenshoo Local's Director, Product Strategy & Management. Before joining Kenshoo, Herrold was General Manager of Yodle Local Search, handling all aspects of the local search website's business unit, including strategy and planning, operations, and development. Prior to that, he directed product strategy and development for Register.com, AT&T and Timer Warner Cable - Road Runner.

Dion Hinchcliffe is a well-known business thinker who works with the leadership teams of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 firms to devise strategies to help them adapt their organizations to the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Currently Chief Strategy Officer for SaaS services firm Dachis Group, Dion is also a widely followed columnist for ZDNet and InformationWeek. A practicing technologist and strategist, Dion still works in the trenches with clients in the Fortune 1000 and Internet startup community. He is a frequent keynote speaker at events around the world and is co-author of the best-selling book on the subject, Social Business By Design (John Wiley & Sons, May, 2012.)

Rob Holland is General Manager of the DLX Consumer Products vertical responsible for managing sales, product development and operations for CPG and Retailer Advertiser media and measurement solutions. Rob joined Datalogix after successful roles at Nielsen, Safeway and Clorox where he engaged retailers and CPG marketers enabling sales and profit growth by developing innovative technology-based analytic solutions. At Nielsen, Rob was the global leader for the Retail and Shopper practice where he led the creation of next generation Loyalty analytics solutions. Rob led the corporate marketing analytics function at Safeway and held various financial and business analytics roles at Clorox.

A 17-year EMC veteran, Chuck is a long-time member of EMC's management team, working on strategic aspects of marketing, business development and technology. He is a popular industry blogger (http://chucksblog.emc.com) and writes frequently about advanced IT leadership topics. Chuck is particularly interested in how IT groups are re-organizing and re-structuring to meet new expectations and new missions. Today, he is very focused on IT transformation, enabling big data analytics, the challenge of mobilizing larger enterprises as well as next-gen security thinking.

Sonciary Honnoll is Co-Founder and VP of Client Marketing at Promoboxx, a Brand-To-Retailer marketing platform helping brands connect with their local retailers. At Promoboxx, she provides strategic direction and execution for the co-marketing efforts of clients like Chevrolet, Reebok, and Trek. She lead the Promoboxx launch of General Motors' most successful dealer marketing initiative to date, and generated over 390,000 leads for an outdoor sporting goods client. Sonciary has much love for tea, traveling, and technology.

A seasoned marketing executive, Todd Hoskins has twenty years of brand, product and sales management experience. Todd has directed the marketing efforts of industry leading companies such as Pure Fishing (Jarden) , Raymarine, Polaroid, Danaher and Vermont American (division of Emerson Electric and Bosch). He has led brand revitalization efforts, developed and launched successful new products, launched an Effie award winning advertising campaign and introduced grass roots mobile marketing programs. Additionally Todd has been quoted in the New York Times and Brand Week. Prior to partnering to create my-take, LLC he served as the Chief Marketing Officer for Pure Fishing a subsidiary of the Jarden Corporation. Todd holds a BA in Business Administration from Lincoln Memorial University and an MBA from the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss).

Bryan House is the vice president of product marketing at Acquia, where he was employee #6 when he joined five years ago. In his role, Bryan is responsible for evangelizing open source, Drupal and Acquia to analysts, media, and customers around the globe. Prior to Acquia, Bryan ran product marketing at EMC for Documentum's collaboration, document management and search technologies. Prior to EMC, Bryan worked in product marketing and product management, after brewing beer professionally for sever years. Bryan lives in the Boston area and earned his MBA at Harvard.

Stacey Howe currently leads Global Digital Marketing and Brand Management for New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc., based in Boston, MA. In this capacity, she directs the company's digital brand strategy for the company's website, online advertising, social media, mobile, event and in-store consumer engagement initiatives. She earned her MBA in Marketing at the Warsaw Center for Sports Marketing at the University of Oregon while doing contract work for Nike. Stacey is also a graduate of Syracuse University. Outside of the office, Stacey is an avid distance runner, having completed five marathons (including the Boston Marathon, her favorite course, twice).

Teicko Huber is the founder of Focus2Grow, a business-to-business management consulting firm that lives at the intersection of Sales and Marketing; SMarketing. With the development of the Periodic Table of Topline Growth - empowering salespeople and marketing teams with technology, strategy and training - Teicko has enabled companies to successfully interpret the client decision making journey, while facilitating the necessary course to ensure each respective company is at their ultimate competitive advantage. During his time as a consultant, Teicko has had the privilege of putting more than 100 companies in control of their sales and marketing initiatives in more than 15 industries. In addition, due to salespeople and marketing initiatives that are out of alignment with modern buyers, he has developed relationships and advised industry leading companies and organizations; such as - Lexis Nexis, CIPO, Donaldson Filtration, TTI Vanguard, Bremer Bank, The Innovation Games Company, Hubspot and NetApp. Teicko's passion, drive and proficiency have enabled him to become a leading innovator in the field of SMarketing and continues to prove successful for the diverse companies he assists.

Scott Hudler is the Vice President-Global Consumer Engagement for Dunkin' Donuts. He is responsible for all advertising, in-store merchandising, media, and interactive marketing activity for the brand in more than 9,700 Dunkin' locations in the United States and 31 countries.

Previously Scott was the Vice President-Brand Marketing where he was responsible for brand marketing activities such as category management, partnership marketing, and menu innovation.

Scott joined Dunkin' Donuts from Mars, Incorporated where he served as Brand Manager for the SNICKERS Brand. In a previous role with Mars, he also led the company's sponsorship portfolio including relationships with NFL and NASCAR.

Paul Hunter has a passion for turning data into actionable insight - solving problems with mathematics, algorithms and arraying data visually. As COO of BzzAgent, the social marketing arm of dunnhumby, Paul leads the charge to fully incorporate dunnhumby customer insight into the BzzAgent team. Prior to joining BzzAgent, Paul served as CIO of dunnhumby and helped establish its US operations. He worked at LexisNexis as a Senior Director in their marketing organization, managing their customer insight and direct marketing unit. He was also head of Analytics for Information Resources (IRI) in their Chicago, London and Cincinnati offices.

Nan Ives is an established brand and communications professional who has been employed at Fidelity Investments for the past 22 years. Her experience spans a multitude of marketing and communications disciplines including brand development, experiential marketing and sponsorships. In her current role as VP of Employment Branding, Nan is responsible for building, implementing and advancing the human capital brand strategy for the Asset Management division at Fidelity Investments.

As a Director of Channel Planning at AMP Agency, Matt spearheads cross-channel strategy development and ideation to create integrated marketing solutions for a range of Fortune 500 brands. Matt has broad marketing experience spanning roles in business development, planning and program execution for clients such as John Hancock, Staples, TJX, Hasbro and the Food Bank For New York City.

Matt began his marketing career with an internship at AMP Agency while a student at Boston University, and remains connected with his alma mater as a guest lecturer at Boston University's School of Management and College of Communication.

With more than a decade of experience at companies ranging from early-stage startups to publicly traded enterprises, Matt Johnston leads uTest's marketing efforts. As CMO, Matt leads uTest's efforts in shaping its brand, building awareness, generating leads, forming partnerships and helping define uTest's expansion strategy. Prior to joining uTest, Matt served as VP of Marketing at OnForce. He has also served as Director of Marketing for Mimeo.com and as a commercialization strategist for Herman Miller. Matt earned a B.A. in Marketing from Calvin College and an MBA in Marketing & Technology from New York University's Stern School of Business.

Jonathan is and has been the top billing AE at Undertone dating back to early 2008, and was promoted to Sales Manager Northeast in January. While still in a sales role, he is also responsible for managing others on his team. Year over year, Jonathan has continued to produce record numbers for Undertone and is still the top revenue producer. He has also been a member of the president's club each of the last 3 years. By asking the right questions and providing smart, innovative solutions, Jonathan helps his clients meet and exceed their online marketing objectives.

Gopi Kallayil works at Google as the Chief Evangelist for Google Social for brands. Earlier he worked on marketing the company's flagship advertising product, AdWords, in the Americas and Asia Pacific. Gopi also led the marketing team for AdSense, Google's publisher-facing product. Before joining Google, Gopi was on the management team of two Silicon Valley venture funded startups and a consultant with McKinsey & Co. He has also led large information Technology projects for global corporations in India, China, and the US. Gopi earned his Bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from the National Institute of Technology in India. He received his Masters in Business Administration degrees from the Indian Institute of Management and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an avid yoga practitioner, triathlete, public speaker, global traveler and a Burning Man devotee. He has spoken at TEDx events and hosts a TV channel on cable and YouTube called Change Makers.

Brian Kalma is an entrepreneur with a long history in e-commerce. Brian was part of Zappos.com, serving several roles over 7 years. After incubating several departments within the marketing department Brian ultimately became Director of User Experience. As head of UX Brian built the team and led the Zappos site evolution efforts. He then landed at Gilt Groupe where Brian built and scaled their UX team and practices. Brian has since left Gilt, launched and sold his own startup (Snipwits) and is now Chief Experience Officer at Gemvara where he is focused on creating a world-class personalized jewelry shopping experience.

Matt Kammerait is taking on the mobile and interactive world from an unlikely home - within one of the great American printing companies: Quad/Graphics. As product manager for interactive print solutions, he's engaged in the process of integrating the immediacy and connectivity of mobile with the power of the printed page. He helps combine print and mobile using QR codes, image recognition, augmented reality, NFC and more. He's active in Quad/Graphics Innovation Council and Idea Catapult programs, helping to maintain its commitment to innovation and technology, and spearheaded Social Media development and integration across the $4.7B, 24,000 employee company.

Harry Kargman is the founder and CEO of Kargo, the leading mobile publisher platform. Kargo delivers advertising and integrated marketing opportunities across its proprietary network of major media mobile websites and apps. Kargo has won numerous awards including a Mobi and an OMMA for its advertising campaigns and was an OnMobile Top 100 winner in 2011 and 2012. Harry has been featured on 20/20, The Today Show, the New York Times, NPR and in business publications around the world. Harry lives in New York City and holds seven patents on wireless technology. He graduated with honors from Harvard College.

Anish Kattukaran is the Director of Product Marketing at TrueLens, helping lead the development of the first living, breathing customer record that makes 1:1 marketing at scale a reality for national brands. At age 16, Anish founded MakePovertyHistoryEmirates, a Dubai based non-profit dedicated to creating solutions for poverty, hunger & disease. He went on to become a senior member of the SCVNGR/LevelUp Enterprise team where he managed top clients like Coca-Cola & GameStop.
His focus on using technology to solve really big problems evolved through his time in the development sector at the United Nations, while creating global consumer engagement strategies that leveraged technology.

Ben is CTO at Gazelle, the nation's leading high-end consumer electronics trade-in site. Prior to joining Gazelle Ben held various roles in companies including: CIO of Rue La La; Vice President of Innovation at Allurent; and Director of Technology at ATG. His technical interest lies in practical techniques for developing large-scale websites and he has consulted on architecture of various websites including jcrew.com, anthropologie.com, and williams-sonoma.com. Prior to his work in e-commerce, Ben held engineering positions in various printing and aerospace companies. Ben holds a First Class Honors Degree in Computer Science from The Polytechnic Wolverhampton (UK).

Michael oversees Havas Digital's insights and analytics group, including further developing its digital product and driving value for clients across agency groups, working closely with Havas Media's research team to ensure seamless, integrated processes and insights across business units. Michael has been in analytics for over 15 years, with a focus on consumer insights, statistical modeling, and online marketing analysis.  He possesses a Masters of Science degree in applied mathematics and operations research.   His insights experience spans advertising agencies and Fortune 500 brands, including OgilvyOne, Publicis Modem, GE Money, Target, Consesco, Glaxo-Smith Kline, Fingerhut, and Union Pacific Railroad.

Moira Kelly is the president and executive director of Explo, an international leader is summer enrichment. More than 55,000 students from 60 countries and across the US have attended Explo's programs on the campuses of Yale University, Wellesley College, and St. Mark's School. In addition to leading Explo, Moira works with the Commission on Presidential Debates as an associate producer. This campaign season she spearheaded Join the Debates, an online project bringing together high school students from across the world to discuss the debates in small groups with trained facilitators.

As the first CMCO for Harvard Business School, Brian develops the strategy for positioning HBS as the global leader in management education. He is responsible for aligning all branding, marketing, and PR efforts across the publishing and teaching enterprise. Over 20 years he has held senior marketing and communications positions in several global institutions in higher education, technology and professional services.

Matthew Keylock is recognized as an industry leader in building winning customer strategies, helping to transform some of the world's largest and most sophisticated enterprises throughout his career, including major retailers and brands in North America, Europe and Asia. Keylock is responsible for expanding dunnhumby's media capabilities through strategic partnerships that enhance their ability to personalize the customer's experience by delivering highly relevant, innovative solutions for targeting, measurement and customer insights. Immersed in the business for over 15 years, he played a significant role in Tesco's development of the Clubcard program, its immensely successful loyalty program and shopper communications strategy.

Veronica Kido is an award-winning marketing communications specialist. With 20 years of corporate and PR agency experience, she has worked with both startups and multibillion dollar technology services firms.

Veronica successfully builds brand identities, creates compelling positioning and messaging, and develops global marketing communications strategies. She applies her results-oriented, no-nonsense, and hands-on approach to help businesses increase market visibility, achieve prestigious thought leadership status, and generate business leads and revenues.

Veronica has been named to Boston Business Journal's "40 Under 40" and received the "Crisis Communicator of the Year" PR News PR People Award. She also writes for PR News.

Peter is a leading adviser on digital and social business strategy. He co-authored the book Social Business By Design and drives global industry discourse at beingpeterkim.com and as @peterkim on Twitter.   Peter has been quoted by media outlets including CNN, CNBC, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal and featured as a speaker at events including SXSW, Web 2.0 Expo, and Dachis Group Social Business Summits.  
Peter was previously chief strategy officer at Dachis Group, an analyst at Forrester Research and head of global digital marketing at PUMA AG. He holds degrees from the Darden School at the University of Virginia and the University of Pennsylvania.

Sonny joins from AMP agency where she was SVP of Digital and responsible for digital strategy and planning for AMP's clients. Prior to its acquisition by AMP in 2008, she served as Partner of Fulgent Media playing a vital role in the growth of the agency. Through 16 years of experience on publisher and agency sides of the business, Sonny is an accomplished and award‐winning marketer who champions the art and science of digital strategy. She provides a holistic view of the digital ecosystem to create a framework to guide effective marketing initiatives.

AJ joined the Adaptly family from Google in July 2011 as the VP of Sales. Prior to Adaptly, AJ was a vital part in the acquisition of five other notable companies including Avenue A/Razorfish, Atlas DMT (Microsoft), Right Media (Yahoo), Tumri, and Invite Media (Google). He is well versed in technical aspects and has over a decade of online experience. AJ graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Industrial Engineering. He enjoys spending his free time with his wife, Lindsey, and their newborn daughter Grace. AJ also has a passion for golf and currently resides in Manhattan,NY.

Jeff Kirchick is Director of University Outreach at SCVNGR, a Google-funded geo-social networking and gaming platform in Cambridge, Mass. In his role at SCVNGR, Kirchick works with the company's 350+ university clients to develop location-based games and mobile strategies with SCVNGR's platform. Kirchick also oversees SCVNGR's overall sales strategy, and contributes frequently through blogs and presentations his insights about geo-location. Last year, Kirchick penned an article for Mashable about mobile in higher education.

He graduated from Princeton University in June 2010 with a bachelor's degree in English and certificates in Creative Writing and French.

Kirsner, Innovation Economy blogger, writes the weekly "Innovation Economy" column and blog for the Boston Globe and Boston.com. He served as a contributing writer for Fast Company and Wired, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, Salon, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, the San Jose Mercury News, CIO Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Kirsner's Entrepreneur's Grill is live-streamed from Boston.com/TheHive

Sam Klaidman is the Principal Adviser at the Middlesex Consulting Group. He applies his nearly 45 years of hands-on experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, Customer Service, Consulting and General Management to help small and medium size Clients grow their business and win Customer Loyalty. Sam works with clients to help them set-up and profitably manage their Customer Service organization, including developing a structure, selecting and training personnel, defining and pricing contracts and other services products, and recommending performance metrics.

Andy partners with clients to form a deep understanding of their business and to provide strategic counsel to them in rapidly evolving marketplaces. With 15 years of experience developing successful B2B and consumer multi-channel marketing plans and web sites, he has focused on both brand and business growth. Andy led engagements for clients in complex legal regulatory environments like First Marblehead, GlaxoSmithKline, and GE Healthcare. Additionally, he has led application development experimenting with innovative concepts and technologies at companies such as Fidelity Investments and First Marblehead.

Chris is a 15+ year ad industry veteran with a diverse background in digital / traditional media sales and sponsorship management. He has a proven track record in building teams and selling non-traditional ad products to fortune 500 companies. Prior to Joining Kiip as VP of Sales, he held director level positions at Digg, Clearspring Technologies and CNET Networks. Chris has also held Sr. Management positions at Primedia, GamePro - IDG and Sony Online Entertainment. He holds a BA degree in Media Studies from DePaul University and an MBA in International Management from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Jason Kodish is a digital and social analytics expert leading Digitas' North American Analytics team. An OMMA and Echo award winner, one of Jason's claims to fame is that he was the first Marketing Manager in Starbucks' history. He has worked with clients such as Amazon, Comcast, Delta, The Home Depot, and Sirius/XM.

Clark Kokich has been deeply involved in the digital marketing space since joining Avenue A in the summer of 1999.  Under his leadership, the company grew to become one of the largest and most influential interactive agencies in the world.  In 2004 Avenue A acquired Razorfish, which now employs over 2,300 professionals in fourteen  offices in eight countries, focusing exclusively on digital marketing and technology, serving world-class brands such as Mercedes, Nike, Microsoft, Best Buy, O2, Disney, Ford, AT&T,  State Farm, Delta Airlines, and Intel.

In 2009 Clarkrelinquished the Razorfish CEO role to Bob Lord, and is now chairman of the company.  He is currently focused on working with a number of key clients, as well as leading strategic initiatives across a range of issues.  Razorfish was a division of aQuantive, which was sold to Microsoft in 2007 for $6-billion.  The company was subsequently sold to Publicis in the fall of 2009.

Over the last decade,Clarkhas been recognized as one of the premiere thought-leaders in the world of digital marketing, having been quoted frequently in theWall Street Journal, Ad Age,theNew York Times,and other national publications.  He is a popular speaker, bringing his unique perspective on the future of marketing to business audiences inNorth America,Europe, andAsia.

 In the fall of this year,Clarkwrote and releasedDo or Die, the world's first business book published exclusively as a fully-interactive app.  Do or Die outlines a clear strategy for businesses to survive and thrive in a world of never-ending technological change.  It is currently available exclusively as an iPad app.  Kindle, Nook, and  Kindle Fire versions are planned for release  in the spring.Clarkremains active in the world of digital marketing and technology, serving on the boards of Acxiom, RocketFuel, and Marketfish.  He is on the board of governors of DMG/World Media, and is a board advisor to Marchex, Zumobi, Celtra, and Mobile Intelligence Solutions. He is active in theSeattlecommunity, serving on the boards of Childhaven and theEMPMuseum. 

Before he joined Razorfish,Clarkwas president and CEO of Calla Bay, a manufacturer and retailer of women's swimwear.  Prior to that, he served as head of sales and marketing for a division of McCaw Cellular Communications (CellularOne). Clarkbegan his career in the agency business, where he was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Cole & Weber in Seattle, a division of Ogilvy & Mather. He was graduated from theUniversityofOregon.

Steve Kolander learned the importance of storytelling by writing professionally as both an ad writer and a recording artist. He learned that a story must motivate someone and inspire him/her to think or act. Upon mastering this skill, he wrote and performed songs that hit the Billboard charts. He also wrote songs for other artists like the Dixie Chicks and others. When returning to advertising, he brought his storytelling sensibilities with him, realizing companies have great stories. If they can find the moral that guides that story, consumers will be moved to think about them more as friends than companies.

Brian Koma is an accomplished research professional with deep domain knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research and technologies. He has pioneered new approaches that have enabled some of the world's largest companies to improve customer loyalty and responsiveness through the innovative use of online feedback and social media.   An entrepreneur by background, Brian joined Vovici when the company acquired Stratagem Marketing, the market research firm he founded and operated for 10 years. Before Stratagem, Brian led the global marketing activities for Legent Corporation's Enterprise Systems Management division, where he used innovative market research techniques to reposition 80 software products.

Since 2008 Leora Kornfeld has been a researcher at Harvard, where her work looks at the implications of digital, networked media for communications, marketing, and business models.    She spent 12 years working for Canada's national broadcaster, CBC, most notably as the host of 'Realtime', one of the world's first live radio shows (1994-1997) to incorporate Internet technologies into the program.  Post CBC she moved to England and completed graduate work in Media & Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London.   Career highlights are various but few rival being a crossword puzzle clue in Canada in 2009.   

Kathryn Korostoff has a special interest in how organizations acquire, manage, and apply market research. Over the past 20 years, she has personally directed more than 600 primary market research projects and published over 100 bylined articles in various magazines, including Quirk's and the MRA's Alert! magazine. Kathryn is also the author of the book, "How to Hire & Manage Market Research Agencies," available on Amazon. Kathryn is currently the founder and president of Research Rockstar, the only independent company dedicated to market research training (online and in-person).  Prior to Research Rockstar, Kathryn founded and led Sage Research. 

Eric leads the brand content practice across Digitas clients serviced out of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Detroit. He leads content strategy development and execution - borne out of insights, driving brand goals and business results. Clients include Tide, Sprint and eBay. Eric is an Emmy winning media veteran. He was COO of Scout Productions, creators of Queer Eye and other series for MTV, CBS, ABC Family, etc. He oversaw network relationships, international sales and licensing, and branded entertainment. He spent many years as commercial and film producer. Eric has an MPA from Harvard, MBA and BS from BU.

Laura Koss is a Senior Attorney in the FTC's Division of Enforcement. In addition to her extensive work on the Green Guides, Ms. Koss has worked on a variety of matters, including investigations involving the advertising and promotion of dietary supplement products and country-of-origin claims. She also served as the Coordinator of the Commission's Hispanic Law Enforcement Initiative. Prior to working at the FTC, Ms. Koss was an Associate at Crowell & Moring in Washington, D.C. Ms. Koss holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a JD from Harvard Law School.

As a co-founder and principal of Oasis, Nick provides extensive technology management and over 12 years of development experience. Nick has first hand experience architecting and developing world-class web applications using a variety of technologies. Nick's roots are in web development with particular expertise with .Net, Cold Fusion, ASP, JSP, MS SQL and Oracle. Nick believes in a strong bond between creative and technology and holds it as a prime directive for his team.  Nick is an award winning developer and contributing author within the interactive digital space.

Dave McLaughlin is CEO & Co-Founder of Vsnap, a simple video messaging system for businesses that want an easy tool to make their customers feel special. Previously, Dave was Co-Founder of Fig Card, a mobile payments startup acquired by PayPal. Prior to that, Dave Co-Founded and ran Boston World Partnerships, a non-profit that pioneered the application of web 2.0 tools and tactics to place marketing and economic development. Dave is an award-winning filmmaker and playwright and sits on the Advisory Board of The Irish Film Festival. He is a Boston College alum and lives in the Boston area with his wife and their two sons.

Joran Lawrence is the Senior Product Manager at Jumptap in charge of the mobile ad network's audience targeting product suite. Joran's data driven approach to product development has been the key to his success and he has applied it to a diverse array of products from behavioral targeting to dynamic creative, SEO, and ad performance optimization. Recently, at Jumptap, Joran has established a number of firsts in the mobile space by bringing 3rd party data targeting to mobile advertising and bridging audience targeting across device screens to make unique targeted campaign strategies possible.

Shira Lazar is the Host and Executive Producer of the Emmy-nominated, live interactive show and 24/7 news hub, "What's Trending with Shira Lazar," which launched in May 2011 as a weekly but recently rebooted as a daily show on YouTube. She is also the Host and Creator of YouTube's, Partners Project, interviewing the biggest YouTube stars. Named one of Fast Company's 2011 Most Influential Women in Technology and Huffington Post's "Women in Tech to Follow on Twitter," Lazar has been the face of the biggest live-streams on the web including, The Oscars, The Grammys, and Macy's Fashion's Night Out, among many others. Lazar is a Webby Awards Honoree and IAWTV Winner for Best Web Series Live Host. A digital trailblazer, Shira has been called the "Katie Couric of the Web" and speaks at conferences around the world and appears frequently on networks like Bloomberg TV, CNN and Fox News Channel discussing Internet culture and digital trends. You can read Lazar's weekly posts covering the intersection of business and social media on Entrepreneur.com.

As VP of Mobile Strategy within Digitas' Mobile Practice, Brett provides guidance on how best to navigate and act upon mobile technologies, tactics and trends across the agency's network of clients which include; P&G, Bank of America, AholdUSA and Dunkin Donuts. Brett also oversees the agency's Mobile Shopping Showcase - an experiential marketing lab featuring the leading technologies and solutions powering today's mobile shopping ecosystem. Prior to Digitas, Brett served as the mobile strategy liaison between the Publicis Groupe's global mobile agency, Phonevalley and Digitas. He started his mobile marketing career 7 years ago at m-Qube Inc.

Jenna Lebel is Vice President of Global Marketing at Likeable Media. Joining Likeable in 2009 as Account Director, Jenna quickly moved up to Managing Director where she managed the entire account strategy team. She also developed Likeable's suite of human-powered products designed to make organizations more likeable online and off. Jenna currently leads all global marketing efforts for Likeable. Previously, Jenna worked in marketing at Experience.com and in media operations for the International Olympic Committee at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She has a BA in Communication from Stonehill College and an MA in Integrated Marketing Communication from Emerson College.

Rebecca Lieb is an analyst at Altimeter Group where she covers digital advertising and media, an area that encompasses brands, publishers, agencies, and technology vendors.

Rebecca previously launched and oversaw Econsultancy's US operations. She was VP and editor-in-chief of The ClickZ Network for over seven years. For a portion of that time, she also ran Search Engine Watch.

Earlier, Rebecca held executive marketing and communications positions at strategic consultancies, including Siegel+Gale, and has worked in the same capacity for global entertainment and media companies, including Universal Television & Networks Group (formerly USA Networks International) and Bertelsmann's RTL Television. As a journalist, she's written on media for numerous publications, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. She spent five years as Variety's Berlin-based German/Eastern European bureau chief. Until recently, Rebecca taught at New York University's Center for Publishing, where she served on the Electronic Publishing Advisory Group.

Her book, The Truth About Search Engine Optimization, published by FT Press, instantly became a best-seller on Amazon.com. It remains a top-10 title in several Internet marketing categories. Her most recent book, Content Marketing, published in October 2011.

Based in New York City, Rebecca is a former film critic who still spends way too much time watching hyper-obscure movies - when she's not scouring the outer boroughs for southeast Asian cuisine.

Lisa Lillelund is an international businesswoman, entrepreneur, and storyteller with over 20 years experience. She has led teams and built strategic partnerships in over 15 countries. In 2006 as Founder of Mango Networks, Lisa focused her mission on consulting in Corporate Citizenship, Sustainability and Clean Technology. Lisa helps businesses and educational institutions reduce their impact on the environment and tell their story. Lisa has published over 60 articles. Lisa has an Executive Certification in Sustainable Management from the Presidio Graduate School, an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a BA from the University of Michigan.

Jean started her advertising career with Ogilvy Advertising in Taiwan, before going to the US to attain her Masters of Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University. In 1999, she founded wwwins Consulting in Taipei, expanding to Shanghai in 2002, Beijing in 2005, Hong Kong in 2007 and Guangzhou in 2008. wwwins became part of Isobar in July 2004 and now has over 280+ staff in the Greater China region. wwwins Isobar today is winning the honours and recognitions of numerous industry awards frequently all across Asia and the world. The team honoured the Creative Agency of the Year in 2009 China Interactive Awards, as well as named Digital Agency of the Year in ROI Festival since 2010. Jean is now Isobar's Asia Pacific CEO, driving innovation to accelerate Isobar's Asia Pacific business growth and product excellence. Under her leadership, Isobar Asia-Pacific has won more than 70 new accounts and has also named Campaign Asia Pacific Digital Agency of the Year in 2011. She is also Isobar's Global Chief Strategy Officer, driving Isobar's strategic coherency around the world. Through its network in 34 markets, Isobar is a new breed of global agency with digital at its heart, creating solutions for brands that are idea-led, technologically-advanced, and media enabled. Isobar to-date has created successful brand stories for a number of blue chip clients including Nokia, Coca-Cola, Reebok, Bacardi and P&G. Jean has been honoured for "Top 100 - the most influential of China Online Advertising" since 2007; in 2009, recognised by Advertising Age as 1 of 30 "Women to Watch-2009"; in 2010, recognised by Media Magazine as Asia's top female talent. She is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and often an award jury member for Greater China Click!Awards, China Interactive Awards, Effie Awards, Clio awards, Asian Marketing Effectiveness Awards and Spikes Asia.

Gary is an accomplished marketing professional with over 20 years experience leading differentiated product and go-to-market strategies designed to drive revenue growth. His experience spans working with large Fortune 500 companies to entrepreneurial start-ups. Gary's diverse industry knowledge includes social media marketing, enterprise collaboration, ecommerce and retail strategy. In his current role at Demandware, he leads Solutions marketing, where he's focused on driving innovative global, multichannel, mobile, in-store, and social commerce experiences for brands and retailers. Gary provides industry insights with organizations such as Internet Retailer, Multichannel Merchant, and Mobile Marketer as well as through his podcast, Digital Commerce Next.

Trisha is the Senior Manager of Social Media at Wayfair.com, the largest on-line retailer of home furnishings. A Boston College alum, Trisha moved to Philadelphia after graduation to pursue a love of all things preppy at Lilly Pulitzer. While there she developed and launched a social media strategy that laid the framework for an extremely engaged consumer base. Upon returning to Boston, Trisha joined the team at TJX, contributing to the interactive web team for domestic brands; Marshalls, TJMaxx and HomeGoods. Drawn by her interest for interior design (read: continued love for shopping) and her drive to build brands she joined the team at Wayfair a month after the new brand launch in September 2012. Since then Trisha has developed and ledinteractive customer campaigns, on-site social integration, community management, blogger outreach and charitable brand partnerships. Trisha's innovative work with Pinterest and Olioboard has been featured in Mashable,Internet Retailer and e-Marketer.

Christian has 10 plus years of experience in the digital space, spending the dot-com years working for pure-play interactive shops before switching to integrated advertising when the bubble burst. Prior to joining Mullen, Christian developed Web applications and e-commerce platforms for clients like Goldman Sachs, Creative Labs, Harvard Business School and IKEA. In his current role as Director of Creative Technology, Christian puts his technical background to good use managing a team of Web developers, Flash developers, information architects and outside production partners.

Daniel Mandell is the Vice President of Business Development at Thomson Reuters where he is responsible for helping the world's largest international news agency evolve in the digital era. A seasoned digital executive with over 10 years of experience across both web and mobile, Daniel leads global business development for Thomson Reuters Media group including strategic/commercial partnerships, acquisitions and new product initiatives. He began his digital career by conceiving and building robust e-commerce platforms for major international insurance companies and the National Hockey League.

Joselin Mane, a first generation Dominican American, is a passionate Internet Marketing Consultant with 20 years of computer technology experience, eight years of online marketing experience, and 10 years experience in business development. Joselin is co-founder BostonTweetUp.com, an event planning & promotional service that provides people with a central resource to learn about networking events and Tweetups (gatherings of people who meet in person from Twitter and other forms of social media) in the Boston area, one of the top 100 Most Influential Latinos in Mass as well as a Boston World Partnership Connector.

Dr. Carl Marci is co-founder, CEO and Chief Science Officer of Innerscope Research. He is the former Director of Social Neuroscience at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his B.A. at Columbia University, his M.A. in psychology and philosophy at Oxford University and then completed his M.D. at Harvard Medical School. He is on faculty at Harvard Medical School and has extensive training in psychophysiology and neuroscience through two NIH research fellowships. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed science journals, gives lectures nationally and internationally, and is a leader in the fields of social neuroscience and neuromarketing.

Katie Martell is a millennial marketer who has followed the career of Lady Gaga through a marketing lens, and believes the success of this pop performance artist reminds us of the importance of authenticity and risk-taking in our work. As the Director of Buzz for fast-growing B2B firm NetProspex, Katie is responsible for creating awareness and demand through strategic PR & events, social media, content marketing, partnership marketing, and caffeine. She is proud to be part of a nationally recognized marketing team, and alumni of Emerson College in Boston.

Roger Matus is a marketing-oriented entrepreneur who lives, eats and breathes mobile. He proudly claims "early adopter" stripes when he says that he owned an early bag cell phone, a Palm Pilot and the Palm IV interconnected device. Now, as EVP of Nellymoser, he is regularly quoted in national publications as an expert in mobile activated print. He is lead author of the quarterly Mobile Action Code study, which covers QR codes, augmented reality, image recognition and NFC.

Brenna McCormick is the Director of Operations and Client Strategy for the US division of the digital marketing agency, mediaman LLC.  She is also an Adjunct Professor at Emerson College teaching Creative Thinking and Problem Solving in the Integrated Marketing Communication graduate program.  Formerly a Consultant, Brenna specialized in visual merchandising technology.  She completed her Masters in Integrated Marketing Communication from Emerson College in 2006.  After graduating from Boston University in 2000, her career path lead her to eight years in the stationery industry, establishing her love of all things tactile and tangible when weaving together ideas, strategy and storytelling. 

Katie manages UX and client strategy at 25K DIGITAL, a company specializing in advanced user experience and interaction design. With a background in brand planning, cognitive linguistics, and qualitative research, her approach always focuses first on everyday human behavior. In her current role, she combines technology with this understanding to craft more natural, intuitive digital experiences. She has worked with clients ranging from start-ups to organizations such as General Motors, the Department of Defense, and Microsoft. Katie holds a B.A. from Wake Forest University and an M.A. in Sociolinguistics from Georgetown University.

As a senior consultant at Chadwick Martin Bailey, Jeff provides thought leadership and strategic direction on methodological, reporting and client solutions.   Additionally, Jeff is lead product manager for CMB's Pinpoint Suite, a software solution built on experience from delivering highly valued Voice of the Customer solutions to Fortune 500 companies in travel, retail, and homebuilding.  Jeff's diverse industry knowledge includes travel and hospitality, technology, and healthcare. He has spoken at the Internet Retailer and Institute for International Research conferences, and regularly provides industry insights for media outlets such as NPR, Crain's Business Journal, and Consumer Electronics Vision Magazine.

Michael's work has garnered numerous national and international design awards including Communication Arts, AIGA, Print Magazine, How Magazine, ID Magazine, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the University and College Designers Association. Michael serves on the counsel of advisors for the Design Management Institute and on the board of advisors for AIGA Boston. He is the recipient of the AIGA Boston 2001 Fellow Award, awarded biannually in recognition of significant personal and professional contributions to raising the standards of excellence within the design community.

Karen combines more than 15 years of marketing leadership with a laser focus on prospects, customers and the market to drive business results. In her Vice President, Marketing leadership role with PlumChoice®, Inc., she is accountable for the company's market presence, reputation, market analysis, new channel and customer acquisition, industry analyst relations, content and assets, plus marketing operations. Prior to joining PlumChoice, Karen served in marketing leadership roles with a variety of organizations from private to public, in the software, SaaS, services and consulting industries, in addition to having nearly a decade of experience in advertising and market research.

Greg is a senior-level integrated marketing professional with 17+ years of experience. He has a proven track record for driving sales growth and consumer engagement via fully integrated programs. He values the ever-evolving digital landscape but will not sacrifice the foundation of branding, insight and differentiation. He loves to bring ideas into market to observe and learn how real consumers respond and has done so for a broad range of brands like Panera Bread, General Motors, Nokia, Timberland, Dunkin Donuts, Orbitz.com, XM Satellite Radio, Saab Cars, Unilever, Liberty Mutual Insurance and others.

Andy Miller is Director of Mobile Products at Constant Contact. Prior to joining the company, he was CEO of CardStar where he was responsible for overall business development and strategic direction for the company. Prior to CardStar, Andy founded Lumifi LLC, Quece LLC, RetirementSuite.com, and StockCar Stocks Mutual Fund where he served on the Board of Directors. In addition, Andy has held various positions at PFPC, T. Rowe Price, Putnam Investments and Bank of America. Andy holds a BA in Economics from SUNY Oswego, a MS in Entrepreneurial Studies from Suffolk University.

Jacquelyn Miller, a proud Williams College graduate, is self-proclaimed scientist turned public relations professional turned marketing nerd. She is a senior marketing associate at Foundation Medicine and is finishing up an MBA at Boston University where she constantly explores how social networks, technology and design can influence health and well-being. Jacquelyn has a background in molecular biology, public and investor relations and strategic communications. While working in biotech communications a few years ago she realized that the confluence of behavioral health and genomic data with social networks was going to rock our collective worlds.

Seth Miller founded Miller Systems in 1995. The firm focuses on human beings first and technology second, helping organizations to improve and manage web sites, intranets, portals, and day to day IT operations. Seth has assembled a team of some of the industry's best and brightest consultants, providing a wide range of clients both in and outside of New England with valuable counsel and measurable results. A few clients Miller Systems has helped over the years include: WGBH, Southern New Hampshire University, Iron Mountain, Genzyme, Biogen Idec, Express Scripts, Unica, Eastern Bank, Ciena, State Street Bank, and the TJX Companies.

Victor joined Nexage from Martin Dawes Analytics (MDA) where he served as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Marketing Officer and led strategy, marketing, partner development, product management, and business development. Victor successfully repositioned MDA into the high-growth analytic market, driving growth in the communications and media markets, leading entry in the Utility/Smart Grid market, and winning the first global OEM agreement. Prior to MDA, Victor was a Senior Managing Partner at Gartner Consulting, leading their global industries practice.

Winston Mok is the co-founder and CEO of Simply Good Technologies, a digital marketing company. After an 8 year career at Research In Motion, Winston left to become a tech entrepreneur in 2008 and co-founded Simply Good. Simply Good has since then developed mobile technologies that have powered major events such as ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche and the acclaimed Canadian Tire mobile app. Most recently, Simply Good released an innovative Offer Management System (OMS) that aims to enable retailers and brands to fully maximize their opportunities with online promotions leading to brick-and-mortar sales.

Heather Molina is the Managing Director of Content Marketing Solutions at Resolution, and manages Resolution Canada. She is responsible for the strategic direction of data-driven content creation opportunities, as well as overseeing the expansion of the Resolution's search offering in Canada. Before taking on these roles, Heather was the Managing Director of Resolution's PHD business in New York City. Her responsibilities included managing the development, implementation and efficiency of client strategies. Before the search world, Heather worked as a Project Manager at Martha Stewart Omnimedia's ecommerce division and in public relations at Middleburg Euro. She lives between Boston and Toronto.

As EVP, Managing Director of Jack Morton's Boston office, Steve oversees the development of multi-year agency relationships dedicated to building and activating brands for clients. He has succeeded with a strong focus on the agency's digital and strategic planning offerings. Since he joined Jack Morton in 1992, Steve has played various roles from creative and production to management; as well as helped form Jack Morton's Experiential Planning Group and worked on integrated campaigns for Harvard Business School and Fidelity Investments. Steve is a strong advocate of using technology to make new connections and is a frequent contributor to Jack Morton's twitter feed and blog. Out of the office, Steve's all about connecting with people aerodynamically: he's a world-renowned ultimate Frisbee player who has won world championships from the World Flying Disc Federation.

Lesley and her team are the behind-the-scenes masterminds who improve, design and innovate the Zipcar member experience across all channels-from mobile to web to the Zipcar itself. Among many other cool features, Lesley led the charge in creating Zipcar's smart phone applications, making it possible for the rest of us to reserve a Zipcar and honk its horn from across the parking lot. Prior to Zipcar, Lesley was part of the Microsoft Office Product Group and held key product management and marketing roles at Groove Networks, where she helped take the startup to acquisition, and HP Indigo.

Dan Mouradian is a Creative and Technical Sales Director at PointRoll with over a decade of technical and creative experience in the digital space. Dan specializes in helping his hundreds of clients develop sound dynamic strategies and impactful creative solutions. After joining PointRoll in 2007 as an Art Director, Dan was instrumental in developing and expanding the creative flexibility of the dynamic ad platform PointRoll released that same year. Over the last five years, he has assisted on dozens of dynamic ad programs for PointRoll's clients, many of which he has personally built or directly managed. Prior to joining PointRoll, Dan was a Senior Interactive Art Director at Ogilvy and Mather, and Arc WW. While on the agency side, Dan led the experience and collateral design for numerous marketing objectives across multiple digital and traditional mediums. He has had the opportunity to work with a diverse set of top-tier clients, including Ford, Marlboro, Kraft, Paramount Pictures, Volkswagen, and Chrysler. Dan graduated from Parson's School of Design with a bachelor's degree in fine arts.

John is co-founder and General Manager of Joss & Main. John spearheads the overall business strategy, as well as the execution of marketing, operations, creative, merchandising, and technology. John also is VP of Strategic Initiatives for Joss & Main's parent, Wayfair - the No. 1 online-only retailer of home goods. John worked for a decade in strategic management consulting, most recently at The Boston Consulting Group, where he was a leader in the Multi-Channel Retail practice and the Global Center for Consumer Insight. He earned his M.B.A. from London Business School and holds a B.A. from Reed College.

Corinne is an Analyst serving CMOs and Marketing Leadership professionals at Forrester Research. She researches and consults on shopper and path-to-purchase marketing, emerging media and technology, digital strategy, and new approaches to brand building. She also manages an executive panel of senior marketers and surveys them regularly about marketing priorities, budgets, and organizational trends. Before becoming an analyst, Corinne spent more than two years supporting the CMO and Marketing Leadership analyst team and managing an executive panel of senior marketers.She has a B.A. in political science and Hispanic studies from Boston College.

Before High Start Group, Janet served as the VP of Marketing and CMO for Constant Contact, where she grew the SaaS business to 25,000 SMB customers. She was VP of Worldwide Marketing for MicroTouch Systems, where she led the MicroTouch-Enabled branding program and developed strategic partner programs with companies including Dell, ViewSonic, and IBM. At Hewlett-Packard, she served as Worldwide Marketing Group Manager for the Unix workstations and supercomputers group. She also held management positions with Apollo Computer and Prime Computer. Janet holds a BA from Trinity College and an MBA from Babson College-Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business.

Kioko Mwosa is the Lead Evangelist for the Web Experience segment which represents one of the fastest growing and most profitable segments of IBM's software business. He helps to communicate the value of exceptional web experiences and social business for customers worldwide through executive briefings, CIO sponsored workshops, industry conferences and customized demos. He has 14 years with IBM and has a strong technical background working with customers to architect and grow their web presence. He has a B.Sc in MIS from Syracuse University and a High Tech MBA from Northeastern University.

Joshua Nafman is a digital brand manager at PepsiCo, where he drives the digital marketing agency for Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Max and Pepsi Next. Joshua lives in Queens, NY with a girlfriend and dog he adores and a cat that despises him.

Warren Ng is the co-founder and COO of Napkin Labs. He keeps the team running smoothly, leads our partnership efforts with other companies and agencies, and can't walk down the street without meeting someone he knows - we consider him the unofficial mayor of Boulder.

Chase Norlin is the CEO of AlphaBird, Prior to AlphaBird, he was the founder and CEO of Pixsy, a pioneer in video search. He served as a senior executive at ValueClick where he managed publisher distribution for the display advertising network, paid search, and comparison shopping divisions. Norlin developed Sony's first online photo sharing venture and founded the web's first online video sharing company, ShareYourWorld.He serves on the advisory boards of EgoTVOnline, AdBidCentral, Kerosene and a Match, VideoThang, PickupPal and Adgregate Markets. Additionally, he serves as Chair of the Video Committee at the Internet Content Syndication Council.

Kara Nortman is the Senior Vice President, Consumer Businesses for CityGrid Media, an IAC owned online media company that connects web and mobile publishers with local advertising organizations by linking them through CityGrid®, its local content and advertising network. In this role, Ms. Nortman is responsible for overseeing all CityGrid Media's consumer businesses, which include Citysearch, Insider Pages and Urbanspoon. In addition, Ms. Nortman is responsible for charting the growth of new content for the CityGrid® network, which includes partner sites such as Bing, YP.com and more. Previously, Ms. Nortman served as Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions for IAC where she oversaw a number of IAC's recent moves in the local space including the acquisitions of Insider Pages and Urbanspoon. Prior to IAC, Ms. Nortman worked for Battery Ventures were she focused on investments in the Internet, communications and new media sectors. At Battery Ventures, Ms. Nortman was involved in the development of The NewsMarket, Spot Runner, The Loan Page (acquired by HouseValues), EnvoyWorldWide (acquired by PAR3 Communications), Kashya (acquired by EMC), and Cbeyond Communications (Nasdaq: CBEY). Ms. Nortman has also held positions at Microsoft and Morgan Stanley. Ms. Nortman holds a BA in political science from Princeton University and an MBA from Stanford University.

David Oksman currently serves as Head of Marketing at The Life is good Company, a lifestyle apparel brand whose mission is to spread the power of optimism and help kids in need through its nonprofit, the Life is good Playmakers. In this role, David leads the Marketing and E-commerce functions with a creative and optimistic vision for the brand. While under his leadership, Life is good has accomplished milestones including raising over $1 million for kids in need at the 2011 Life is good Festival, reaching 1 million Facebook fans, and being honored for their social media and philanthropic efforts.

Jonathan Opdyke serves as Chief Executive Officer of HookLogic and is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the company. Prior to leading HookLogic, Jonathan led world-wide e-Business and web marketing strategy for Xerox Corporation. Working with stakeholders throughout Xerox, he planned and championed programs to grow online revenue and derive cost savings using the internet. As a "Lean Six Sigma" black belt, he led cross-functional efforts to maximize online lead generation and optimize telesales and field sales success rates. In earlier roles, he worked on assignment in London to establish a pan-European e-Business team and also served as a program manager delivering and managing new websites and applications. Earlier in his career, Jonathan managed international operations for Beyond Interactive (a global online advertising agency now part of WPP Group). He spearheaded a team that established new offices for the agency in several countries and managed the infrastructure to support them including business planning, financial reporting, and human resources. Jonathan holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan Tauber Institute for Global Operations.

Alan Osetek is the President of Resolution Media and oversees the growth and expansion of the brand in the U.S. A digital industry veteran, prior to joining Resolution Media, Osetek was the Managing Director for iProspect's Boston office, responsible for overseeing all activities for iProspects east coast operations. Prior to joining iProspect in 2008, Osetek served as Chief Revenue Officer for Visual IQ. While there, he was responsible for the firm's sales, marketing, and revenue generating activities working with clients such as Sirius/XM Radio, Liberty Mutual, Microsoft, and CVS Pharmacy. 

An early adopter and advocate of social networking services, Kevin has been recognized as a social media thought leader since 2004. After leveraging social media to build a large audience of his own, Kevin was quickly sought by companies to help them cultivate and utilize social media as an integral part of their digital marketing efforts. Understanding the power and potential of this new medium, Kevin attended the University of Buffalo to study Digital Media while simultaneously developing internet marketing strategies for several businesses - including the social marketing software company Awareness. In 2008, Kevin launched the consulting firm Social Media Answers (SMA), which later merged with Convertiv in 2010. Kevin has continued on as a co-founder and Vice President of Emerging Media and Innovation for Convertiv where he has developed and delivered successful social media strategies for brands including Caesars Entertainment Corporation, USA Networks, Kaspersky Labs, Not Your Average Joe's, Boston Scientific, Cheapflights.com and the Clymb.

Julia Pandolfo, a graduate of Providence College, learned from a young age that the most impressive answer is not always the traditional one. Throughout her academic career she consistently used inventive thinking to solve nearly any problem. Julia is now an Associate Community Manager at Communispace Corporation where she is still developing creative methods, but this time to reach consumers. Julia maintains overall community functionality and vibrancy, building upon the social glue that brings members together while exploring a multitude of topics, including social media trends. Julia began her market research career at Nielsen Television and Media Research.

Erik is the executive lead for the client services team at Almighty, focused on aligning Almighty's capabilities with the business objectives of our clients, and providing both strategic and tactical leadership to help both bring work to market and identify opportunities for learning and innovation. An accomplished technologist, Erik brings a unique perspective to this role. He has led initiatives at the intersection of marketing, design and data for clients like New Balance, MINI, Verizon, Comcast and John Hancock.

John Pepper is the founder and CEO of Boloco (www.boloco.com). Since 1997, the Boston-based family of 19 restaurants & 300 team members serves globally inspired burritos, bowls, smoothies & shakes. With locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maryland, Boloco expects to have 22 company-owned restaurants operating by year end 2012, including one in Washington, DC. Boloco's mission (and John's) is to positively impact the lives and futures of its people through bold and inspired food and practices.

Matt Peters is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Pandemic Labs, the nation's leading social media marketing and analytics agency. Since the agency's inception, Matt has been one of the primary creative and strategic forces behind campaigns with clients like Puma, Canon, DirecTV, Au Bon Pain, and The Ritz-Carlton. Over the past five years, Matt has ensured that Pandemic Labs continues to deliver innovative, best-in-class social media marketing solutions that drive success. Matt speaks frequently at marketing conferences, and is often brought in by companies, think tanks, and traditional ad agencies to provide education and consulting on social media marketing.

As Senior Manager of Product Management for Digimarc, Mark is responsible for driving product strategy centered on the company's digital watermarking technology. Mark has over 20 years of experience leading product and technology teams for industry leaders such as Tripwire, IKON Office Solutions, Epicor, Planar and Corillian. He also has extensive direct response and interactive agency experience. Prior to joining Digimarc, he launched and managed R2Ci, the interactive agency of R2C Group. Here he drove new business and crafted multi-channel advertising campaigns for major brands including Microsoft, Guthy-Renker, Gamefly, Electronic Arts, Logitech, Tivo, Euro-Pro, Humana and eDiets.

Misiek is an expert on why and how people use various on-line social platforms, both in the US and abroad. He also stuides how firms can leverage these platforms to build social strategies. He has also applied many of these insights to large organizations as they seek to become more agile and use social networks to execute their strategies. He is documenting this research in a book called Social Platforms and Social Strategy, forthcoming in 2013.

Molly is responsible for global loyalty product innovation and business development at First Data. She has 22 years of experience in card and payment processing with fifteen years of focus in cardholder marketing products, including pricing, rewards, cobranding and communications. Molly has spent the last five years focused on new loyalty opportunities, including Merchant Funded Programs, Relationship Loyalty and Retail Loyalty Offers. Throughout her tenure, Molly has managed project and product teams and has brought many new products to market. She currently holds several patents for innovation in cardholder pricing and business rules management.

As Vice-President of Flashtalking US Andy works across sales, marketing, business development and operations. Andy has over 13 years digital advertising & technology business experience in the UK, Europe, Asia and the US. Beginning his career at ad technology start-up, Tangozebra in 2000, Andy was responsible for sales, client services and Business Development. Following Doubleclick's (Google) acquisition of Tangozebra in 2007, Andy ran Doubleclick's Rich Media business across Europe/EMEA. After a year at Google, Andy was appointed International Managing Director for Pointroll - responsible for International sales and business development across the UK, Europe and Asia.

Kate works as a communications consultant to several technology companies through her firm. Throughout her career both at large, global agencies and small boutique firms, she has worked with companies including Indaba Media, FanBridge, Zong, NetSuite, Avid, Symphony Teleca, Pret a Manger, Progress Software, Wayfair and more.

Separate from her professional pursuits, Kate is also an active leader in Boston organizations including The Esplanade Association and the Friends of the Public Garden. She acts as a Connector for Boston World Partnerships where she also writes for their Global Business Hub blog on Boston.com.

Eric Porres is the CMO for Rocket Fuel, the leading provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions for digital marketers. Prior to Rocket Fuel, he was the CMO for Lotame Solutions, a marketing technology company. Eric previously was a founding partner of Underscore Marketing, and built the organization into a recognized Inc 5000 company. He was also a founder of Pericles Consulting, an online political marketing firm that executed programs for Presidential and Senatorial campaigns. Earlier in his career, Eric held management positions at AOL Time Warner and Agency.com. He is an active investor and adviser to several start-up companies.

Jason Potteiger, an honors graduate of Suffolk University holding degrees in Advertising and Government, co-founded an online magazine called the NextGreatGeneration.com, spent the last several months working at Communispace digging into brands and consumer behavior, and recently started his own polling company, Mercury Point Research. Jason has been independently studying and developing new ideas on how Millenials view and engage with brands and is exploring opportunities in account planning. His background in political science and advertising gives him a diverse skill set for approaching high quality consumer research and strategic planning. He is a sandwich enthusiast, Redditor, and likes to keep his camera in hand on long trips.

Gina officially started her career in digital media the year that Google launched which was 1998. Her first job was at the Harvard of digital media, Strategic Interactive Group, now known as Digitas. She has had stints at small direct shops and Arnold prior to joining Mullen in 2003. She was the only full-time digital media employee in the agency back then; the team is now 30+. She has trail blazed digital media growth and education both internally and with clients and has a deep enthusiasm and passion for all things digital in this new multi-screen world.

Seth Priebatsch was born in Boston at age 7. At age 12, he founded his first start-up. It failed gloriously, achieving profits several times those of Twitter. After his freshman year at Princeton (the requirement to achieve the term dropout), Seth took a "leave-of-absence" to found SCVNGR, now parent company of payments network LevelUp. Seth is a big-thinking entrepreneur; delivering the opening keynote at SXSW Interactive and addressing a packed TED audience about the game layer on top of the world. He's written for Fast Company, Inc. and Huffington Post on everything from building great start-up teams to innovation-based disruption.

Scott Purvis is Managing Director of Gallup & Robinson, a brand communications research and consulting firm. With twenty-five years of experience in research and communications, Scott has been the principal researcher on hundreds of published and proprietary studies about advertising effectiveness and works with leading companies to help them develop, assess and improve the effectiveness of their messaging.. He is also is the author of Which Ad Pulled Best? now in its tenth edition, and a co-developer of CERA, a physiological technique for measuring emotions-based response to advertising.

John Puterbaugh founded Nellymoser Inc., a mobile marketing and technology services provider to publishers, advertisers, retailers and brands, and is the company's chief strategist and evangelist. Before Nellymoser he was CTO of Reelworks and part of the early team at Voxware, Inc., one of the first companies to provide Internet voice chat and real-time streaming solutions for companies such as Disney, Microsoft, Nokia and Netscape. Educated at Oberlin, Dartmouth and Princeton, he is an entrepreneur, educator and inventor, and holds patents in wireless voice platforms, voice analysis and synthesis, user-generated ringtones, and in sound transformation.

Katie Rae is the Managing Director of TechStars in Boston, and is also a founder of Project 11, a firm that invests in and assists early-stage startups. Katie specializes in rapid product development and customer growth strategies for Internet businesses that scale. She has spent her career building significant Internet businesses in the community, self-publishing and search spaces. Most recently she was the Head of Product for Microsoft Startup Labs, an early stage product development lab focused on collaboration, location-based services and social applications, where concepts were tested for consumer enthusiasm. Before that she was SVP of Product at Eons, a business focused on new products for 50+ community. Katie pioneered early freemium business models at Lycos for the Tripod and Angelfire communities. She learned the ropes of product and business development at AltaVista, RagingBull, Zip2 and Mirror Worlds. She holds an MBA from Yale University and a BA in Biology from Oberlin College.

Mathew is a Technologist and Interactive Architect with a background in both Computer Science and Fine Arts. He is equally at home with developers and designers and interested in pushing the limits of what can be done both within the confines of the screen and beyond in the physical world. At Mullen he leads creative technology for numerous progressive brands, including Google, iRobot and Zappos. His earlier creative tech credits include work for Microsoft, VW and Domino's.

A psychologist by training, and a businessman by trade, Aaron Reid founded Sentient Decision Science to bridge the gap between behavioral science and business. With a Ph.D. in experimental psychology and a published research record in consumer decision-making, Aaron has developed advanced methods of assessing the subconscious drivers of consumer behavior at industry and academic conferences. He is an adjunct Professor of Psychology at Middlebury College where he has taught his course on Emotion and Rationality and coursework on the Ethics of Subconscious Marketing.

Leslie is a nationally recognized social media marketing expert. During her tenure with IBM, Leslie has managed complex global initiatives, developed and deployed effective web strategies, portal sites, e-marketing programs, and online social marketing communities targeted to the needs of small and medium business professionals. A highly effective executive, she directs a globally dispersed team of digital marketing professionals, developers, and agency partners. She serves on the board of directors for the Social Media Advertising Consortium (SMAC).

Boris started Dailybreak (then called CampusLIVE) in the dorm rooms of UMass Amherst in 2008. He has quickly become an expert in the Boston advertising world on social action, the Millennial demographic, and innovative ad units. He has spoken at Future M, SXSW, Hill Holliday's "The Pitch", and always draws a crowd with his youthful expertise on the future of digital advertising. Boris has been awarded BusinessWest "Top 40 Under 40", Business Week "Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25", and was a finalist in Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Program.

Joshua Robin is the Director of Innovation at the MBTA in Boston. He has led the T's award-winning open data initiative and the authority's efforts to work with independent developers to provide riders with real-time information. As a result of these efforts, more than 50 apps have been developed with MBTA data. In addition to open data, Josh has also led numerous real-time signage and customer information projects including the implementation of Subway Countdown signs. Currently, Josh is leading the MBTA's mobile ticketing efforts including a system-wide pilot set to launch in fall 2012.