Supernova 2006 - Speakers

Workshop Speakers

		Larry Alder Google Larry Alder has been a Product Manager at Google since Sept 2005 focused on Google's mission of making information "Universally Accessible". In that spirit, Larry works on Google's Municipal Wifi activities including the Free Municipal Wifi network providing coverage to the entire city of Mountain View and Google/Earthlink's proposal for San Francisco. Prior to joining Google, Larry spent 10 years at ArrayComm in roles that include VP of Technology Development and VP of Product Management. Larry spent two years leading the technology development group for the iBurst portable broadband wireless division. Prior to joining ArrayComm, Larry received his PhD from Stanford University in the specialty of Control Theory, and spent three years as a Senior Control Systems Engineer at Adept Technology.
		Matt Augustine Microsoft Matt Augustine is a software design engineer on the Concept Development Team for Microsoft's chief technical officer, Ray Ozzie. His recent work has centered on developing the Live Clipboard and Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) technologies. Prior to joining the Concept Development Team, he worked for three years on the MSN contacts and permissions store, a large-scale web service used by products such as Hotmail, Messenger and MSN Spaces. Matt earned his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
		Andrew Baio Yahoo! Andrew Baio is the creator and co-founder of Upcoming.org, the collaborative events calendar acquired by Yahoo! in October 2005. In 2003, Baio built Upcoming in his spare time while managing the web team at Dimensional Fund Advisors in Santa Monica. As a life-long fan of live music, the idea for Upcoming stemmed from his frustration with losing track of concerts his friends attended. The result was the first events website to leverage a social network, giving unprecedented and uncensored access to its users. Now living in the Bay Area, he leads the development of Yahoo's social events platform full-time
		Robert Barr Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Robert Barr is Executive Director of BCLT and the former Vice President for Intellectual Property and Worldwide Patent Counsel for Cisco Systems in San Jose, California, where he was responsible for all patent prosecution, licensing and litigation. Robert has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Political Science from MIT and a JD from Boston University School of Law. He has taught at University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and at Hastings College of Law, where he was Adjunct Professor of Patent Law from 1994-1999. He is a frequent speaker on patent reform and has testified twice at the Federal Trade Commission hearings on Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy. He was named by the Daily Journal as one of the top 25 Intellectual Property Lawyers in California in 2003, and as one of the top 10 in-house intellectual property lawyers in 2004.
		Pete Blackshaw Nielsen Buzzmetrics Pete Blackshaw is a recognized expert in interactive marketing and word-of-mouth. He serves as CMO of Intelliseek, a company specializing in measuring and analyzing Consumer Generated Media (CGM) - in blogs, online communities, and direct consumer feedback. Intelliseek's blog portal, Blogpulse.com, monitors over 11 million blogs every day. Pete is a co-founder of the Word-of-Mouth Marketing Association, and he authors a bi-weekly column on digital marketing strategy. Blackshaw came to Intelliseek as the result of its 2001 merger with PlanetFeedback, a company he founded in 1999 after a career with Procter & Gamble. At P&G, he led initiatives dealing with online advertising development, online issues/rumor management, and consumer word-of-mouth behavior.
		Paul Bragiel Meetro Paul Bragiel is the co-founder and chief executive of Meetro, the location based instant messenger. In addition to his duties as CEO, he's the owner of Paragon Five, a game development studio specializing in console and mobile content. His interests include projects that involve travel, fashion, entertainment, and technologies that encourage communication and networking. He lectures regularly, has had television exposure in many countries and is one of the authors of Game Programming Gems 4. Outside of work, he has toured Russia by train and the United States by bicycle (riding over 5,000 km). He likes to surround himself with people from various backgrounds, and he aspires to drive a taxi and work at a hot dog stand in New York when retired.
		Corey Bridges Multiverse Corey brings marketing experience from some of the most innovative companies in the high-tech and entertainment industries -- such as Zone Labs, Netflix, Netscape, Borland and The Discovery Channel -- to The Multiverse Network, a company aiming to become the world's leading network of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) and 3D virtual worlds. He specializes in market creation and growth for new categories of products and has also built and launched a number of world-class technology platforms.
		Dalton Caldwell Imeem As a founder, CEO and VP of engineering at imeem, Dalton Caldwell drives the company's technical operations and core engineering. After recognizing the power and pervasiveness of Instant Messaging while writing his thesis at Stanford University, Dalton teamed with Jan Jannink in 2003 to build a social application around IM - the idea that would become imeem. Prior to founding imeem, Dalton worked on the Source Forge project at VA Linux and helped develop open-source IM for Jabber. Dalton holds dual degrees in Psychology and Symbolic Systems at Stanford University.
		Tantek Çelik Technorati Tantek is in charge of investigating and defining new standards and new technologies as Chief Technologist at Technorati. He serves as a founder at the Global Multimedia Protocols Group and has Bachelor's and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University. He regularly leads panels on a variety of web technologies, and he holds six patents in the field of software and user interface with many more pending.
		Helen Cheng Seriosity Helen studied Communication and Economics at Stanford University. While by day she is a Product Designer at startup Seriosity, Inc., by night she is a power gamer with many level-capped characters in World of Warcraft and other massively multiplayer online games. She has been involved in the leadership of multiple guilds, organizing hundreds of people in collaborative online tasks, and speaking and writing about MMOG issues. Past experiences include working at Electronic Arts, MTV Networks, and writing for Wired Magazine.
		Jeff Clavier SoftTech VC Based in Palo Alto (CA), Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, a firm doing angel investments and providing consulting services to early stage consumer Internet startups. Jeff will typically get involved as an advisor, board member or part-time executive, focusing on business development, fund raising, and strategy matters. His current areas of interests include next generation search and discovery, social media and communities, and consumer infrastructure. These are also the primary topics covered in his blogs, Software Only (blog.softtechvc.com in English) and Sans Accent (sansaccent.softtechvc.com in French). He also in involved in venture capital, startup and industry news, and various conferences. Startups in Jeff's portfolio include Edgeio, Loomia, Kaboodle, Dogster, Userplane, Buzznet, and Omnidrive.
		Brian Dear EVDB Brian Dear is Founder and Chairman of EVDB, Inc. in San Diego, CA. EVDB runs Eventful.com, a leading events search engine and event discovery service for helping people everywhere find, share, syndicate, submit, and demand relevant events worldwide. Prior to EVDB, he was founding Director of eBay Design Labs at eBay, Inc. Other engagements include work at Eazel, MP3.com, FlatWorks, Real Networks, and Coconut Computing.
		Nicolas Ducheneaut PARC Nicolas is a research scientist in the Computing Science Laboratory at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He obtained his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include the sociology of online communities, computer-supported cooperative work, and human-computer interaction. He has studied social interactions in a wide variety of environments ranging from real-time, massively multiplayer games to large bureaucracies. These studies led to the design of novel technologies to better support electronic communication in virtual environments. Nicolas's research is based on a combination of qualitative methods (ethnography) with quantitative data collection and analysis (such as data mining and social network analysis).
		Yael Elish eSnips Yael Elish is a 12 year veteran of several Internet start-ups with management positions in marketing, product management and business development positions. Before founding eSnips / Net Snippets in 2001, Yael was the Vice President of Strategic Development for Sunnyvale based Commtouch software, where she was responsible for defining the companies strategic directions for new product and market development. Yael was part of the senior management that took the company to its successful NASDAQ IPO in 2000. Prior to Commtouch, Yael led the sales and marketing efforts for various start-ups in Israel. Ms Elish holds a first degree in Foreign Relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
		Francois Gossieaux Corante Francois is president of Corante, the world's first blog media company. Prior to Corante he was consulting on marketing and new media, involved with BlogBridge, and the founder of Synopia, Inc. Before that he spent 5 years leading marketing, product management and strategy at eRoom Technology. Francois has a long history with online media - having implemented an Intranet for a large multinational in the early 90's; and being the organizer of the first large scale virtual event - InterAct'96 - with Time Magazine and Infoworld. He is currently blogging at emergencemarketing.com.
		Peter Harter Intellectual Ventures Peter is Vice President of Public Affairs for Intellectual Ventures LLC, a venture capital firm investing in invention and inventors. In the past, Peter has managed nonprofit online communities and lobbied for corporations such as Netscape Communications, EMusic.com, and Securify. He advises entrepreneurs in China, Aspen, Silicon Valley, New York City, Washington, DC, London, Austin, Seattle, and Israel.
		Tara Hunt Citizen Agency Celebrated as the 'Marketer 2.0', Tara has been infusing the marketing world with her roguish style - working in a plethora of industries, from non-profit to consumer beverages to technology. Not familiar with her casual-styled musings at HorsePigCow? Well, Tara's current project, Pinko Marketing, is a good place to start to get an idea of her marketing style. The basis? You need to be part of the community you serve. This goes beyond the conversation and into building deep and real relationships with your community of customers. Tara is a community-based movement evangelist, spending all of her free time on Barcamp, Coworking and Winecamp. She is also a supporter of the Open Source movement, the EFF, Creative Commons and the Intelligrid.
		Brett Hurt Bazaarvoice Brett is currently the Founder and CEO of Bazaarvoice. As a seasoned executive, Brett has extensive experience in the online eCommerce marketing arena. Previously, Brett founded Coremetrics, a leading eCommerce marketing analytics solution provider, after spending 10 years developing Internet-based software. Prior to Coremetrics, Brett was the founder and CEO of Hurt Technology Consulting and BodyMatrix, an online retailer of sports nutrition products. Brett serves on the Board of Directors of Shop.org as well as several other early-stage ventures. He is a Board of Advisors member to the non-profit Web Analytics Association and is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at The Wharton School. Brett holds an M.B.A. in High-Tech Entrepreneurship from The Wharton School and a B.B.A. in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin.
		Max Kalehoff Nielsen Buzzmetrics Max is VP-marketing for Nielsen BuzzMetrics, a firm which measures online word of mouth. Max is a noted expert on new media and its impact on the media and marketing industries. He’s addressed educational, industry and government groups – such as Columbia Business School, the Word-of-Mouth Marketing Association, the Advertising Research Foundation, the Marketing Sciences Institute, The Conference Board, the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) and the Public Affairs Office of the Pentagon. He pens a weekly column for MediaPost, and authors the AttentionMax.com marketing blog. His background includes marketing and managerial roles at Jupiter Media Metrix, comScore and Y&R.
		Matt Kaufman Edgeio Matt Kaufman has 14 years of technical leadership experience both product management and software engineering. He is currently the Director of Product at edgeio, a distributed online classified advertising system. Prior to joining the founding team at edgeio, Matt was VP of Product at Forterra Systems (formerly There.com) and VP of Product Development and Channel Services at RealNames corporation, an Internet navigation and search company. Matt began his career as a software engineer in the aerospace industry working for Lockheed Martin, UMDC, and Scitor.
		Rohit Khare CommerceNet Rohit Khare is the Director of CommerceNet Labs, which is investigating decentralized electronic commerce. An award-winning researcher in the fields of Internet protocols and decentralized systems, he founded KnowNow in 2000 and previously worked on Internet standards development at MCI's Internet Architecture Group and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He received his Ph.D. in Software Engineering from U.C. Irvine in 2003.
		Kevin Lawver AOL Kevin Lawver is currently a Principal Software Engineer at AOL, working on AIM Pages. He is an advocate for web standards, standards-based development, and is a member of the W3C CSS Working Group. He loves microformats, CSS and building web applications with them. He blogs with his wife at http://lawver.net, and runs the AIM Pages developer site at http://iamalpha.com.
		Oliver Luckett Revver Oliver Luckett is co-founder and senior vice president of network development. Prior to Revver, Oliver spearheaded the Internet efforts of Norman Lear's "Declare Yourself" non-partisan campaign, achieving more than one million online voter registrations through partnerships with Yahoo!, Google, IAC/InterActiveCorp, and Friendster.
		Jeff Nolan SAP Jeff Nolan leads the Apollo Strategy Group for SAP. Apollo is a competitive strategy, marketing, field engagement, and communication group with the sole mission of increasing SAP's competitiveness against Oracle. Previously, Jeff was with SAP Ventures where he led new venture capital investments and increased SAP's exposure to the broader venture capital community. Jeff continues to serve as an advisor to SAP Ventures and is on the Board of Directors at Socialtext. Before SAP, Jeff was with several ERP software companies and even founded an ISP startup. Jeff writes a well known blog http://www.venturechronicles.com, is Chairman of the Board of Directors for Students Rising Above, and serves as a board member for KIPP Bayview Academy. Jeff is an alumnus of Regis University in Denver.
		Beth Simone Noveck New York Law School Beth Noveck is a professor of law, the Director of New York Law School's Institute for Information Law and Policy, and the Director of the Democracy Design Workshop. Professor Noveck teaches in the areas of e-government and e-democracy, intellectual property, innovation and constitutional law. The focus of her current work is on Community Patent Review, a proposal being adopted by the United States Patent Office to create an online system for peer review of patent. She is a member multiple institutes, boards, and journals. Professor Noveck graduated from Harvard University and earned a J.D. from Yale Law School. After studying as a Rotary Foundation graduate fellow at Oxford University, she earned a doctorate at the University of Innsbruck with the support of a Fulbright grant.
		Jerry Paffendorf Electric Sheep Co. Jerry Paffendorf is futurist in residence with the Electric Sheep Company, the first company providing professional services for the emerging 3D Web AKA the metaverse. He also serves as research director of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to improving our understanding of accelerating technological change, its drivers, and implications.
		JP Rangaswami Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein JP Rangaswami has been Global CIO at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein since early 2001. He read Economics and Statistics at St Xavier's College, University of Calcutta, specialising in developmental economics. Originally a financial journalist, he has worked with technology in finance since 1980 with a number of large multinationals before joining DrKW in 1997. He was named CIO of the Year by Waters Magazine in 2003, and CIO Innovator of the Year by the European Technology Forum in 2004. He works closely with start-ups and early-stage companies, seeking to use technology as a key differentiator in capital markets.
		Greg Richardson Civitium Greg Richardson is a founder and Managing Partner for Civitium, the market-leading consulting firm for municipal/community broadband. Civitium serves as the trusted advisor on matters of strategy, policy, technology and communications planning for Philadelphia, Houston, San Francisco, Vancouver, Johannesburg and many others. Prior to founding Civitium, Greg served as Director of Wireless Consulting for Siemens. Prior to Siemens, he was a founder and the VP of Professional Services for Wireless Knowledge, a joint venture between Microsoft and QUALCOMM. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences and events.
		Peter Rip US Leapfrog Ventures Peter Rip is Managing Director at Leapfrog Ventures. He brings over 22 years of experience as a successful entrepreneur, private venture investor, and institutional investor. He has focused exclusively on early stage technology companies. Peter has a Ph.D. in Marketing from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a B.A. from Brandeis University, and was part of the marketing faculty at University of Chicago GSB. He has been a 'first money' investor in both consumer and enterprise software companies. His most recent exits were acquisitions of Outerbay Technologies by HP and Wily Technology by CA, both earlier this year. Peter currently is on the boards of Riya (http://www.riya.com), Vast (http://www.vast.com), Radar Networks (http:// http://www.radarnetworks.com), and Abgenial Systems (http://www.abgenial.com). Peter's blog can be accessed at http:// earlystagevc.typepad.com.
		Robert Scoble Microsoft Robert Scoble works as evangelist at Microsoft. He works with the Channel 9 group, which distributes video interviews with Microsoft developers and other employees. He also writes the popoular Scobelizer weblog (http://scoble.weblogs.com/). Prior to Microsoft, Robert worked for NEC, and prior to that he worked for Userland Software, developers of the Manila and Radio Userland blogging tools.
		Cydni Tetro NextPage With more than 13 years of high-tech product management and marketing experience, Cydni directs the strategy and execution of NextPage's global marketing initiatives -- including brand management, market research, marketing communications, product marketing and strategy. Prior to joining NextPage, Cydni oversaw the Novell Directory Services (NDS) product management group at Novell and managed Novell's NDS technical support and escalation team. She has also served as an IT manager for Nu Skin and as a tester and beta manager for WordPerfect Corporation. Cydni holds a master's degree in business administration and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brigham Young University.
		Esme de Guzman Vos MuniWireless.com Esme de Guzman Vos is the founder of Muniwireless.com, the portal for news and information about municipal wireless broadband projects. Since its launch in June 2003, Muniwireless.com has become the primary resource for cities, counties, consultants, systems integrators, vendors, and service providers in this space. Muniwireless organizes conferences, roundtables and webinars, and publishes a quarterly magazine. Esme is an intellectual property lawyer and runs her own company, Lemon Cloud BV, based in Amsterdam. She has served as Chief Legal Officer of Spray Network, a pan-European portal and Director Legal Affairs for Baan Business Systems worldwide.
		Mark Wallace 3PointD Mark Wallace covers the future of connectivity and virtual worlds at 3pointD.com. His writing on games and technology has appeared in The New York Times, Wired, the Financial Times and many other publications. He is the editor of the Second Life Herald and, with founding editor Peter Ludlow, co-author of the forthcoming book, Only A Game: A Cyberspace Murder on the Bleeding Edge Between Real and Online Worlds. He can most often be found in New York, but also in Second Life, EVE Online, World of Warcraft and other massively multiplayer online worlds.
		Michael Wiley General Motors Michael was recruited by GM in 1997 to help guide their burgeoning internet/intranet efforts and was behind the development of one of the first personalized employee portals which was honored by CIO Magazine in 1999. In addition, he has developed new media and web-based programs to help GM improve both internal and external communications globally, including GMability.com, the GM Media Online, GMTV, and the GM FastLane Blog. He has been the recipient of various industry honors and awards and has been frequently quoted by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, National Public Radio and others.
		Brian Zeug Yahoo! Brian Zeug joined Yahoo! in 2006 as the category development officer for consumer packaged goods. At Yahoo, Zeug leads a sales team focused on creating the most relevant and essential advertising and marketing programs for clients in the consumer packaged goods industry. Prior to Yahoo!, Zeug was at Masterfoods USA, a division of M&M Mars, where he served as marketing director for M&Ms. He also held senior positions in Masterfood's health/nutrition and sugar business units. Before Masterfoods, Zeug held several marketing and brand management positions at Unilever. Zeug sits on the marketing advisory board for the UNC Chapel Hill Kanan Flagler Business School, where he received his MBA, as well as on the board of directors for Gifford's Ice Cream and Confections.