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Travis Hartman

Photo Editor Photographer Entrepreneur
Please Shoot Yourself

The Present of Print: Paper's Persistence

ETIX
Travis Janovich is Founder and CEO of eTix, an international web-based ticketing service provider for over 7,300 clients in the entertainment, travel and sport industries in over 40 countries. Founded in 2000, Etix is the largest independent ticketing company in North America and provides secure access control ticketing infrastructure solutions, tvenue marketing services, and robust ecommerce fulfillment capabilities to numerous theaters, arenas, festivals, fairs, museums and performing arts centers as well as numerous multi-use facilities. Headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Etix has offic... Read more

Animal Farm and Ticketing

Travis McFetridge

Pres
Great South Bay Music Group Inc
Great South Bay Music Group Inc. is a New York based corporation specializing in A&R, music production, worldwide music publishing, master royalty collection, sound recording royalty collection, home taping and rental royalty collection, song pitching, and music industry consultation. Great South Bay Music Group Inc.'s founder Travis McFetridge is an executive with over a decade of professional music industry experience.

The Basics of Music Publishing Income Streams

Travis Rich

Researcher
MIT Media Lab
Travis is currently a student at the MIT Media Lab. He work explores how to use wireless optical networks to create natural, intuitive interactions between people, the physical world, and the digital ecosystem. He advocates a shift from centralized information networks to scalable, user-dictated networks that mimic how humans naturally exchange information (peer-to-peer, vision based, and local). Prior to joining the Media Lab, Travis spent his time as an entrepreneur, co-founding ByteLight Inc, a company creating LED lightbulbs capable of streaming data through general-purpose white light. Travi... Read more

Light and the Unexplored Communications Frontier

Treva Wurmfeld

Dir/Producer
Vile Bohea Productions Inc
TREVA WURMFELD has been working in documentary films and non-fiction television programming since 2005. Treva is currently directing a documentary about playwright SAM SHEPARD, produced by Amy Hobby and edited by Sandra Adair at Detour Film Production. Prior to the Shepard doc, Treva produced for the Emmy Award winning A&E series INTERVENTION - she produced the premiere for Season 12 as well as other episodes in Season 11. Other credits include, TEXAS HEART - a feature doc following two heart surgeons inventing a new pulse-less artificial heart (selected for the IFP doc lab in 2009), and OYSTE... Read more

Mentors - Production 2

Trevite Willis

Producer
Big Shade Tree
Trevite A. Willis is the founder/producer of Southern Fried Filmworks and BIG. SHADE. TREE., an on-demand video streaming website.

Mining Diversity: Developing a Community of Color

Trevor Eld

R/GA

Sneakers & Technology: A True Love Story

Trevor Gale

Sr VP, Writer & Publisher Rel
SESAC

Shorties Session: Band Member Basics

Trevor Neilson

Partner
Global Philanthropy Group
Trevor is a co-founder and partner at Global Philanthropy Group. He has worked at the highest levels of business, government and philanthropy.

Celebs & Causes: A Thin Line btwn #winning & #fail

Trey Kerby

Editor, The Basketball Jones
Score Media
The Will Smith of the Internet.

The Basketball Jones Live Podcast

Trey Many

Agent
The Billions Corporation
TREY MANY is an agent at The Billions Corporation. He started his career as a touring musician, forming an agency in 1998 called Aero Booking which then merged with Billions in 2008. Trey represents Death Cab for Cutie, Fleet Foxes, David Bazan, Beach House and many others.

Mentor Session 2 Mentor Session 7

Tricia Duryee

Sr Editor, eMoney
Wall Street Journal All ThingsD

From Leather to Smartphone: The Wallet Evolves

Tricia Rice

Dir Digital Media
Vanguard Records/Sugar Hill Records
Tricia Rice oversees the digital sales and online marketing department for both Vanguard Records and Sugar Hill Records as the Director of Digital Media for the Welk Music Group. She began her career in 1995 at ASCAP in the Los Angeles Membership Department and made the jump into the digital space in 1999 where she worked as a Content Producer for the House of Blues Digital Department and then went onto joining the AEG-TV team to produce live concert events via satellite to theatres.

Indies Going Mobile

Trish Bendix

trishbendix.com

Subtext and Shipping: The Lesbian Community Online

Trish Bendix

Managing Editor
MTV/AfterEllen.com
Trish Bendix a writer, living in Portland with her wife, pug and two cats. She writes about the intersection of queer women and pop culture/media as managing editor of AfterEllen.com and is the Girl on Girl columnist for The Frisky.

Subtext and Shipping: The Lesbian Community Online

Trisha Creekmore

Writer/Interactive Producer
Tink[erhell] Media
Trisha Creekmore has been an interactive producer since the stone age. She graduated from Columbia Journalism's first-ever new media class in 1995. Since then she's made websites for media companies such as Discovery Channel, PBS.org, TIME, Travel Channel, VOAnews.com, Science Channel and a bunch of sites that don't exist anymore. She currently writes and consults for interactive media, although she often sneaks off to play mmo games like Warhammer, Rift and Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Crowdsourcing Cancer Support: A Love Story

Tristan Harris

CEO
Apture
Until just recently, Tristan was CEO and Co-Founder of Apture, a curiosity amplifier for the web that was acquired by Google in November 2011.

The Attention Drug Wars of 2012

Turner Ross

Tchoupitoulas

Brothers Gonna Talk it Out

Twanna Hines

Owner/Founder
Funky Brown Chick
TWANNA A. HINES, M.A., is a New York-based writer, experienced sex educator and reproductive rights advocate. With student loan debt from New York University, her degrees are in sociology. Called one of “the internet’s sultriest sharers” by the Village Voice, details about her rendezvous have been printed in Glamour magazine. AfterEllen.com calls her the “straight-but-not-narrow” sex columnist. A media maker, marketing communications firm Ogilvy named her one of Social Media Week’s “Movers & Shakers” / “Top Influencers.” She has appeared on CNN, NPR, Sirius Satellite Radio as we... Read more

Sex, Dating and Privacy Online Post-Weinergate

Ty Hildenbrandt

Founder
The Solid Verbal
Ty Hildenbrandt is the founder and co-host of The Solid Verbal, the web's most popular college football podcast. His work has been featured by FoxSports.com, SI.com, SBNation.com and ESPN's Grantland Network Podcast.

The Solid Verbal Live Podcast

Ty Montague

CEO, Co-Founder
co:collective
After 20+ years in traditional advertising, Ty and his partners Rosemarie Ryan, Neil Parker and Richard Schatzberger launched Co in September of 2010. Co is a story-led innovation collective -- a collaborative platform designed to help large marketers navigate the complexities of creating meaningful connections with customers in the networked age. Co is working with Mtv networks and MSG among several founding clients.

The Future of Work and the Free Radical

Ty Roberts

Co-Founder/CTO
Gracenote/Sony
Music Technology entrepenurs and evangelist. Gracenote is a SONY company but we work with everyone in music business.

The Evolution Of Music Discovery In The Cloud

Tyler Bell

Dir of Prod
Factual Inc
Tyler Bell (@twbell) leads Factual's product initiatives in global place data and contextual audience platforms. He is a former archaeologist of late Roman and early medieval Europe, with a research focus on GIS and anisotropic cost surfaces. Tyler led Product for Yahoo's Geo Technologies Group and received his PhD from the University of Oxford. He has broad interests in open source and place-based information systems. Tyler opines occassionaly on data- and geo-technologies for O'Reilly at http://strata.oreilly.com/tylerb

Creating an Internet of Entities

Tyler Willis

VP Business Dev
Unified
Tyler Willis is the Vice President of Business Development at Unified. An experienced social enterprise executive, Willis leads all efforts related to partnerships and product integration for the enterprise marketing technology company.

The State of Social Marketing

Uday Gajendar

Principal Prod Designer
Citrix Systems Inc
Uday Gajendar is a principal designer at Citrix Systems in Silicon Valley. He creates attractive, useful products that enable “work and play from anywhere”.

Please Touch Me! Enterprise Delight via Multitouch

Unity Stoakes

Pres
StartUp Health

Show Me the Money: Where to Get Funding and What Are They Interested In?

Valdir Ugalde

Exec Editor
Mundo Contact
Valdir Ugalde is currently part of the Directive Board at Mundo Contact, a communication channel between companies and professionals from the ITC, Contact Center, CRM and Internet/Social Media industries in Latin America.

Have Latin American Media Become Social?

Valerie Denn

Owner/Pres
Val Denn Agency

Mentor Session 1

Valerie Gurka

Mktg Dir
Knitting Factory Entertainment
VALERIE GURKA is a business strategist, marketing director, event planner, music/TV producer, songwriter, performer and digital media specialist. She has produced industry showcases, worked with a variety of different bands, and hosted her own business talk show. As the Marketing Director at The Knitting Factory, she merges music and media with marketing and business strategies.

How to Connect with the Right Festivals & Venues Secrets to Fan Engagement: Innovative Strategies

Valerie Petrusson

COO
Beast

Branding Without Bullshit: Building Social Media-Proof Brands

Van Toffler

Pres, MTV Music/Logo/Films Group
MTV Networks

SXSW Featured Speaker: Van Toffler

Vanesa Kolodziej

CEO & Founder
BA Accelerator
Vanesa Kolodziej has a broad experience in the entrepreneurial, technology and investment arena in LATAM. She is Founder and CEO of BA Accelerator, a Buenos Aires-based boutique accelerator program focused on tech companies. She is co-founder of Palermo Valley (the main LATAM tech community) and curator of Startup Digest Buenos Aires. She is co-organizer of Startup Week Buenos Aires and Geeks on a Plane Lat Am. She is also founder of Fundadoras.com, a nonprofit that helps female founders in Lat Am access Venture Capital. She was honored with a UWC scholarship to study at Pearson College in Canada... Read more

Accelerating Killer LatAm Startups

Vanessa Keitges

President & CEO
Columbia Green
Vanessa has a dynamic 9-year global career reflecting optimal performance in the public and private sector in the area of business development, marketing and sales. Vanessa has served in numerous executive positions in business development roles, where she has managed rapid growth; both domestically and internationally. She has been responsible for triple digit increase within the companies she has worked for where she has played a leading role in the sales groups.

Everybody's a Bloody Entrepreneur! Or Are They?

Vanessa Rhinesmith

Social Curator
I am a social strategist focused on enabling the success of others. I bring a diverse set of business, communications, and project management acumen that comes from ten years of work within the digital communications and technology space. I have developed, and executed, online community outreach strategies, connected business needs with engagement objectives, and leveraged project management tools to enhance strategic goals and catalyze new brand consumer relationships.

Social Media Boundaries: Personal/Personnel Policy

Verdine White

Earth, Wind And Fire

Verna Curtis

Curator of Photography in the Prints & Photographs Division at the Library of Congress
Library of Congress
Verna Curtis is a Curator of Photography in the Prints & Photographs Division at the Library of Congress.

Is Our Photo-Madness Creating Mediocrity or Magic?

Veronica Gabriel

Motion Picture Talent Agent
United Talent Agency

Casting on a Budget: Get the Best & the Rightest

Veronica McGregor

News & Social Media Mgr
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Veronica McGregor tweets to millions of people each day while channeling her inner robot. She manages the award-winning news and social media operations at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, overseeing accounts and campaigns across YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Ustream, Google+ and more. She currently tweets as @NASAJPL and @AsteroidWatch, and is part of the "hive mind" operating @MarsCuriosity.

2012: You Bet Your Asteroid the World Won't End

Vic Gundotra

Sr VP Engineering for Google+
Google Inc
Vic Gundotra is currently a Senior Vice President at Google, heading up the company's social initiatives, including Google+. He joined Google in 2007 as Vice President of Engineering, where he was responsible for mobile application development, including product management and marketing. He also led the company's developer evangelism and application development efforts.

Fireside Chat with Vic Gundotra on Google+

Vicente Williams

Producer
Producers Guild of America Diversity Committee
Vicente Williams is a Los Angeles based new media geek with a love of storytelling. His accomplishments include work on DVD titles from Universal, MGM, Warner Bros. and four years producing digital content at MTV. He has worked on projects for FOX, The RAND Corporation, The Learning Company and many more. Vicente is a proud member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Interactive Media Peer Group and the Producers Guild of America New Media Council. He currently serves on the steering committee for the PGA's Diversity Committee and created PGAdiversity.org, a site dedicated to promoting diver... Read more

Diversity Counts: Auteurs, Actors and Audiences

Vickie Nauman

Pres 7digital US
7digital
Vickie Nauman specializes in music, technology and international business development. Nauman is President-North America for 7digital, the innovative London-based music platform. Through its API, 7digital delivers millions of licensed tracks from all major/indie labels for streaming and download models for global partners including T-Mobile USA, BlackBerry, HP, Samsung, Shazam and many innovative start-ups.

Music in Devices - What is Working?

Vickie Ricks

Owner
The Liberty

A Game of Thrones Meet Up

Victor Echevarria

Head of Business Dev
TaskRabbit

LEAN STARTUP: Baby Got (Feed)Back - Putting the Lean in Learn

Victor Van Vugt

Producer
Victor Van Vugt
Victor Van Vugt is an award winning music producer, mixer and engineer. A native Australian who is now based in New York, Victor has had a long association with the careers of both Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Beth Orton. Victor has made his reputation by working with artists that don’t necessarily tread the straight and narrow. Rather he gravitates towards interesting, even eclectic, rock artists who move to push the boundaries of what is considered mainstream music. That is clearly evident in his work with the aforementioned Nick Cave and Beth Orton, as well as artists like Chrissie Hynd... Read more

How To Make A Great Record

Victoria Ekstrand

Assoc Professor
Bowling Green State University
Victoria (Tori) Smith Ekstrand is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations at Bowling Green State University. She is an affiliate faculty member of BGSU’s American Cultural Studies department. A former senior executive for The Associated Press, Ekstrand’s research began as an investigation into the hot news doctrine, a part of unfair competition law that protects the facts of news for a limited period. That research resulted in the publication of her book, News Piracy and the Hot News Doctrine: Origins in Law and Implications for the Digital Age (LFB Scholar... Read more

Intellectual Property Issues in Social Media

Victoria Ransom

CEO
Wildfire Interactive Inc

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Backwards in Heels

Victoria Taylor

Dir of Communications
reddit
Victoria came to reddit from working in the digital department for several years of ID PR (www.id-pr.com) where she was involved with the strategic social media marketing and overall digital public relations campaigns of ID’s talent, brands, and corporate clients. At reddit she works hand-in-hand with community managers and the site's general manager to help optimize communications with a wide variety of audiences that use the site - from content creators and publishers to end users and moderators who work on the site as well as assisting with AMAs and interfacing with the media... Read more

SU2C: Reinventing the PSA

Victoria Tillotson

Producer
iShed
Victoria Tillotson is a Producer at iShed, a part of Watershed in Bristol (UK), where she delivers programmes such as Media Sandbox and artist residency opportunities. She has a background in visual art and a passion for games, technology and culture. Victoria is based at Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed’s city-centre research space that brings together artists, technologists and academics to explore the future of mobile and wireless media.

Beyond Dance Dance Revolution

Vijay Renganathan

Sr Program Officer, Social Media & Digital Strategy
Institute of International Education
Vijay Renganathan is the Senior Program Officer for Social Media and Digital Strategy in the Fulbright Student Program, working at the Institute of International Education (IIE). He is responsible for social media feeds, brand integration, marketing campaign strategies, digital engagement projects, and campus and conference outreach.

Fulbright: How the 1st Social Network Adapts to SM

Vikram Gandhi

Director, "Kumaré"
DISPOSABLE
Vikram Gandhi is a New York-based filmmaker. He works as a director and producer of narrative films, documentaries, commercials, and music videos with his boutique production company Disposable. In 2010, Vikram merged his background in video-journalism and his passion for religious studies and mythology, in order to direct and star in "Kumaré". In the genre-bending film, he impersonates a wise Guru from the East, invents a ‘fake’ spiritual practice called The Mirror, indoctrinates real disciples in Arizona, and ultimately, unveils his true identity. Kumaré won the Audience Award for Best... Read more

Radio-Free Yoga: Self-Realize x Social Enterprise

Vince Jolivette

Rabbit Bandini Productions
Vince teamed with actor James Franco and manager Miles Levy to form Rabbit Bandini Productions in 2003. As partner and executive in charge of production, he was an integral part of such films as HOWL, THE BROKEN TOWER and SAL playing an invaluable role in bringing the creative vision to the screen while supervising physical production. Vince currently has 4 films in production, a biopic on Linda Lovelace starring Amanda Seyfried, Sarah Jessica Parker and Peter Sarsgaard; THE ICEMAN about notorious hit man Richard Kuklinski, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s acclaimed book CHILD OF GOD (directed by... Read more

Making of "Undergrads" Web Series w/ James Franco

Vince Sollitto

VP, Corp Comm & Gov Affairs
Yelp!
Vince joined Yelp in April 2009. He has nearly 20 years of experience in communications in the private and public sectors. Vince was vice president of communications at PayPal, from the launch of the service until its sale to eBay three years later. Most recently, he led communications efforts at search start-up Cuil. Vince has also served as a spokesman for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a U.S. Senator, a Congressman and the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee. He has a B.A. in public policy studies and political science from Duke University... Read more

WARNING: Are Online Reviews Bad for Your Health?

Vincent Higgins

Exec Dir, UX
DDB California
Over the past 15+ years Vincent has been involved in every aspect of digital design as it relates to product development, communication design and marketing. Starting his career on Madison Avenue with Y&R as an Art Director, his early knowledge of web technologies and development quickly lured him into the start up world. As the dotcom bubble burst, and agencies digitally matured, Vincent returned to help drive strategic platform development and marketing as it relates to customer experience and acquisition.

Credits Coins Cash: Social Currency & Finance 2.0

Vincent Horn

Chief Buddhist Geek
Buddhist Geeks
Vincent Horn is a Buddhist Geek, teacher, and explorer. In 2006 Vincent helped start, and now runs, a popular media project called Buddhist Geeks. Buddhist Geeks includes a popular podcast program and an annual conference, which has been featured on the pages of Fast Company, the LA Weekly, and the Los Angeles Times. In addition to running Buddhist Geeks Vincent also teaches meditation online and at the InsightLA meditation center in Santa Monica, CA.

Closer to One: Buddhism and the Internet of Things

Vinicius Vacanti

CEO
Yipit
Co-Founder and CEO of Yipit, a service that aggregates and recommends local deals by learning your tastes.

Learn to Code and Make the Software You Want

Violent J

Insane Clown Posse

Violet Blue

Blogger/Author/Journalist
Violet Blue
The London Times named Violet Blue "One of the 40 bloggers who really count" and TinyNibbles is named one of Self Magazine’s “Best Sex Resources for Women.”

Sex, Dating and Privacy Online Post-Weinergate

Virginia Alber-Glanstaetten

718 880 3730
Huge Inc
Virginia M. Alber-Glanstetten (Planning Director) drives planning and strategy for brand engagement at HUGE, steering clients toward a digital experience that goes beyond brand awareness. Virginia has spent over a decade in the digital world, and specializes in digital marketing strategies, emerging media, and target audience development. Prior to joining HUGE, she was VP/AD of Digital Strategy at Publicis Modem in San Francisco, working with clients such as LG and PayPal. Previously she has worked at Razorfish, Organic and Gartner, where she worked with clients including Unilever, Lipton, AIG... Read more

Taking Your Brand Back from Your Customers

Virginia Mcarthur

Executive Producer
Zynga Inc
Virginia McArthur is an Executive Producer with Zynga Inc. based in Austin and San Francisco. After being at EA/Maxis for 9 years, working on the Sims and Spore, she joined the Zynga game teams to help define new ways to create and play games, socially connecting people from around the world. Virginia also helped to define Zynga's Social Change mission by partnering with Laura Hartman to build Zynga.org, raising millions of dollars for different partners across the globe: The World Food Program, Fatem, and Water.org, along with many others, and opened a school in Haiti that created a learning envir... Read more

Gaming Tools Kids Want to Use

Vishal Sankhla

CTO & Co-Founder
Viralheat Inc
Vishal Sankhla is the CTO and Co-founder of Viralheat. Viralheat makes social media actionable by providing vital customer insights to brands, agencies and marketers. Vishal holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California.

2012: Social Media’s New Role in Politics

Vivek Kundra

Fellow
Harvard University
Vivek Kundra is executive vice president, emerging markets of salesforce.com. Previously, Kundra was appointed as the first United States Chief Information Officer by President Obama and is credited with saving billions in taxpayer dollars, adopting game-changing technologies, strengthening the cybersecurity posture of the nation and launching an open government movement which has been replicated around the world. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Kundra served as the Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia and as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Technology for the... Read more

Sunspots: The Promise and Pitfalls of Gov 2.0

Vivek Sharma

Co-Founder & CEO
Movable Ink
Billy Zane thinks Vivek is one cool dude. Vivek has spent far too many years building startups after his first big company job out of school didn't take. He has a background in sales and product development at companies such as Engine Yard, Blue Martini, and Cisco Systems. He holds a degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, but sadly no longer checks in code.

How to Lose Co-Founders and Alienate Startups

Vivian Schiller

Chief Digital Officer
NBC News
SVP & Chief Digital Officer, NBC News

Big Ol' Babies: Why Baby Boomers=Public Media FAIL

Vu Bui

Brother
The Bui Brothers
photographer | filmmaker | geek

DSLR Gear: Film Production in a Carry-On (Or Two)

Wade Holmes

Technical Solutions Architect
VMware
Wade Holmes is a Technical Solutions Architect for VMware. Wade has over 14 years of experience planning, designing, engineering, architecting and supporting complex computing environments of all scopes and sizes, and has been working with virtualization technology since 2005. Wade spent 9 yeas as a member of IBM Global Services, and in 2005 spearheaded IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency Services first VMware based recovery offering.

Securing the Cloud: What's Your Cloud Entry Point?

Walter Werzowa

Composer
Musikvergneugen
Owner / Composer – Musikvergnuegen For nearly 15 years, Austrian born Walter Werzowa has been expanding upon a vision of creating music that is all at once unique, dynamic and memorable. Drawing upon a liberal arts education that includes architecture and music, he has built a vast array of compositions for film and television, as well as becoming a maverick in the new frontier of Audio Branding. Since beginning his career, Werzowa has worked with Fortune 500 Companies, Top Hollywood Film Studios & Producers and International Conglomerates. After completing USC’s post-graduate program for... Read more

Brands As Patterns Brands As Patterns

Ward Tisdale

Dir, Global Community Affairs
Advanced Micro Devices
Ward Tisdale is director of Global Community Affairs at Advanced Micro Devicies (AMD). His team is responsible for ensuring active company involvement in the communities where AMD operates around the world through corporate charitable contributions, employee volunteerism, issues management, stakeholder communications and AMD Changing the Game, the company's signature education program on youth game development. Since its launch in June 2008, AMD Changing the Game has funded more than 25 programs by 19 organizations in the United States, China and Malaysia that enable youth game development in areas... Read more

Gaming Tools Kids Want to Use

Warren Cohen

Executive Producer
Vh1 News
Warren Cohen is a two-time Emmy Award-winning Executive Producer at VH1 in the News & Documentary division. He is responsible for developing series, specials, reality programs and documentaries for the network’s VH1 Rock Docs franchise. VH1 Rock Docs are feature-length films that tell unique stories of artists and music from a wide range of genres, styles and musical perspectives. He is also responsible for managing the network’s daily video news coverage as well as working on next-generation multiplatform TV initiatives.

The Great White Whales of Music Docs

Warren Kronberger

Dir of Research & Dev
The Marketing Store Worldwide

Show & Smell: Marketing Experiences Beyond Visual

Waylon Lewis

Founder
elephantjournal.com
Waylon Lewis is a “Dharma Brat,” or second generation Buddhist. Founder of elephantjournal.com and host of the Top 10 US Green Video Series “Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis,” he’s interviewed Seane Corn, Bill McKibben, Alice Walker, Michael Franti, Deepak Chopra, Michael Pollan, Amy Goodman, Chris Sharma, Terry Tempest Williams, Dr. Andrew Weil and hundreds of others. Named Treehugger’s Eco Ambassador & Changemaker, Discovery Network’s “Green Hero,” “Prominent Buddhist” by Shambhala Sun, Greatist’s 100 Influential People in Health & Fitness, & 5280′s Top Denver Sing... Read more

Radio-Free Yoga: Self-Realize x Social Enterprise

Wayne Pick

Executive Creative Director
RAPP
Executive Creative Director of RAPP New York (in collaboration with my wife, and Co-Exec CD).

The Creative Collaboration Conundrum

Wayne Sutton

Partner, Entrepreneur
New Me Accelerator
Wayne Sutton is an entrepreneur, advisor and technology journalist.

CNN's Black in America / Silicon Valley: Aftermath

Weiman Seid

Fat Dot
Weiman Seid is the founder and Principal of FAT DOT, the New York-based consultancy firm founded in 2004. FAT DOT offers marketing and publicity strategy consultation for clients that include corporations, films, festivals and individuals. His clients include actor Sissy Spacek, writer/director Todd Field and a number of films, documentaries and entertainment related organizations, including "The Squid and The Whale", "Little Children", "Proof", and the Academy Award-winning "An Inconvenient Truth".

Mentors - Publicity

Wendy Cohen

Dir, Digital Campaign
Last Call at the Oasis
Wendy Cohen joined Participant in November of 2007 and has developed innovative online and mobile initiatives for Charlie Wilson’s War, The Visitor, Food, Inc. and The Cove. She lead the digital component of social action campaign for Waiting for “Superman”

Lights, Camera, Social Action!

Wendy Sue Swanson

Physician
Seattle Children's Hospital
Using my voice to improve health for children.

A Dr, Patient & Insurer Walk into a Social Network

Whitney Hess

User Experience Strategist
WhitneyHess.com

Hunt or Be Hunted: Get the Design Job You Want

Wicks Walker

Founder
W4.Com
www.wickswalker.com

Coolhunting and Coolfarming with Social Media

Wiley Wiggins

Creative Dir
Karakasa Games

Indie Games, Indie Film - DejaVu

Will Bortz

Taco Bell
Will Bortz manages Taco Bell’s brand partnerships, sponsorships and music initiatives as the key architect of Taco Bell’s music program Feed the Beat.

Fox Digital Presents New Series

Will DeVries

Privacy Counsel
Google Inc
Will DeVries is Privacy Counsel for Google, advising Google’s product teams on privacy and security issues worldwide. He previously worked for Google in Washington, DC as Policy Counsel on regulatory and legislative issues ranging from social networking to online advertising to government access to user data. Will also taught privacy and e-commerce law at the George Washington University Law School, and speaks regularly on privacy issues. Prior to Google, Will worked in the Communications, Privacy and Information Law group at WilmerHale LLP. Will is a graduate of Princeton University and the Univ... Read more

Big Data: Privacy Threat or Business Model?

Will Hermes

Contributing Editor
Rolling Stone

Boys and Girls 'N the Hood: Regional Music Scenes, Then and Now

Will Hodgkinson

Chief Rock & Pop Critic, The Times
The Times Of London
Will Hodgkinson is the chief rock and pop critic of The Times and the author of the non-fiction music books Guitar Man, Song Man and The Ballad Of Britain. He lives in London.

Song of The Wicker Man

Will Jenkins

Dir of Comm
US Congress
Will Jenkins has directed communications strategy and policy initiatives on political campaigns and in the U.S. House and Senate. He earlier managed communications and program portfolios for international nonprofit organizations engaged in conflict resolution and leadership development in the U.S., Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. With a background in TV production, he is interested in bringing together media and political innovators to inspire social change.

Filmmaker's Guide to Capitol Hill Politics

Will Pearson

Pres
Mental Floss LLC
Will Pearson, the “Titan of Trivia,” as he’s been called by Newsweek, launched mental_floss magazine in 2001. It has received rave reviews from national media (Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Washington Post) and Will is well on his way to building a major media company. Among other honors, the company has been selected as one of America’s fastest-growing businesses by Inc magazine four years in a row. In April 2011, mental_floss was purchased by Felix Dennis and is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Week. Will has been a guest on CNN Headline News more than... Read more

From Dorm Room to Board Room

Will Saunders

Exec Producer
BBC
Will is an Exec Producer in the BBC Comedy Department in London. As a programme maker he has produced or written on award winning TV and Radio shows with, Flight of The Conchords, Tim Minchin, Graham Norton and Craig Ferguson. The last three years have been spent online, devising and implementing a digital strategy for BBC Comedy. This has involved recruiting and managing a multi-platform comedy team, working with TV series and creating immersive experiences around shows like Psychoville, Come Fly With Me, and The Thick Of It. As well as relaunching the BBC Comedy Website in 2010 as a low risk playg... Read more

The Not So Allied Forces of Social TV Comedy

Will Turnage

VP, Technology & Invention
R/GA
As VP of Technology & Invention, Will is accountable for global technical product innovation and digital experimentation at R/GA. With an emphasis on making and building, he works with global clients and R/GA's deep roster of in-house technology talent to build great products and help bring together the often disparate groups of marketing, brand, IT and product development.

My Robotic Kitchen Planned This Dinner Party

Willem Dafoe

Actor
The Hunter

A Conversation with Willem Dafoe

William Barko

Dir, Medical Programs
Olive Branch International
Retired senior military officer. Extensive experience in large healthcare and educational systems. Author and researcher with over 25 years of experience as an editor of a major international journal. For the last ten years has served in executive positions with non-profit organizations. Present focus is program development related to healthcare support for underdeveloped countries. Uses all major forms of social media as means of support for international outreach. Also co-author of blog - two4priceof1.com. This blog addresses a variety of social-political issues on from a national and internat... Read more

Mentor Session: William Barko

William Breathes

Medical Marijauan Critic
Village Voice Media/Denver Westword
William Breathes is the pot pen name for Denver Westword's medical marijuana dispensary critic.

Big Business: The Future of Marijuana Journalism

William Burdette

Asst Dir/Digital Writing/Research Lab
The University of Texas
Will Burdette is a bit of a digital dilettante., but his scholarship focuses on the intersections of audio recording technologies and writing practices.

The Present of Print: Paper's Persistence

William Couch

Software Engineer
Twitter
William Couch is a front-end engineer at Twitter, where he builds web apps and data visualizations. Prior to Twitter, William worked at USA TODAY as an editorial web designer, with a focus on the design and UI of their iPhone and iPad apps. William graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications Studies and Screen Arts and Cultures. Beyond work, William enjoys photography, bicycling, and craft beer.

Design from the Gut: Dangerous or Differentiator?

William Daroff

VP for Public Policy & Dir of the Washington Office
The Jewish Federations Of North America
William Daroff was named by the Forward Newspaper as being among the fifty most influential Jews in America. As the Vice President for Public Policy and Director of the Washington Office of The Jewish Federations of North America, he is a leading advocate for the American Jewish community’s agenda in the nation’s capitol.

Building a Jewish Presence Through Social Media

William Eggers

Global Dir, Public Sector Research
William Eggers is responsible for research and thought leadership for Deloitte’s Public Sector industry practice.

The Next Frontier of Public Services

William Goss

Film Critic
The Playlist/Film.com
A film critic since 2005, William Goss writes for Film.com, The Playlist and MSN Movies among other outlets.

Mentors - Press & Bloggers

William Hertling

Writer
WilliamHertling.com
William Hertling is the author of the award-winning Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears and A.I. Apocalypse, near-term science-fiction novels about realistic ways strong AI might emerge. His books have been called "frighteningly plausible," "tremendous," "must read," and have been Amazon top five bestselling technothrillers.

Wall-E or Terminator: Predicting the Rise of AI

William Leake

CEO
Apogee Results
speaks about 20 times a year on the stuff. just facilitating here

SEO Meet Up Everything You Need to Know About B2B Marketing

William M. Gribbons

Dir, Master of Science in Human Factors in Information Design Founder & Sr Consultant, Design & Usability Center
Bently University

Rev Up Your Product Design, the “Concept Car” Way

William Mills

Dir Music
Shazam Entertainment
WILL MILLS was appointed Head of Music at Shazam in 2003 and promoted to Music & Content Director in 2009. Under his leadership Shazam’s music database has expanded to over ten million tracks enabling expansion into over two hundred countries and growth to one hundred million users to the service. Will has co-invented patented technologies at Shazam and also conceived and developed Shazam’s ticketing strategy. Most recently Will has developed innovative partnerships with artists such as Faithless and Take That. Prior to joining Shazam, Will worked across the music industry for several record la... Read more

Bringing the Arena to Your Phone

Willie Taminato

Dir of New Projects
Agência CASA

How We Do It in Brazil

Willo O'Brien

Creative Catalyst/Entrepreneur
WilloToons
Willo O’Brien has made a career out of creativity. As an artist, social supercollider, and self-described geek for over a decade, Willo has a passion for empowering fellow creative entrepreneurs.

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