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Speakers
 Tim Armstrong
VP Advertising Sales, Google
Tim Armstrong presides over Google's North American advertising sales and operations teams. Tim's team is located in cities across the U.S. and Canada, providing customers with local partnerships as well as centralized sales and services. His team works with some of the world's most widely recognized brands and advertising agencies, as well as some of the fastest growing medium-sized companies. Tim joined Google from Snowball.com as that company's vice president of Sales and Strategic Partnerships. Prior to his role at Snowball.com, Tim served as director of Integrated Sales & Marketing at Starwave's and Disney's ABC/ESPN Internet Ventures working across the companies Internet, TV, radio, and print properties. He started his career by co-founding and running a newspaper based in Boston, MA, before joining IDG to launch their first consumer Internet magazine, I-Way.
 Alan Balutis
President & CEO, Government Strategies, INPUT
As President & CEO, Government Strategies at INPUT, Alan Balutis leads Consulting, Analysis, and Events to help IT contractors and government organizations jointly succeed in advancing government IT initiatives. Mr. Balutis has spent 27 years in public service, having held senior management, budget, finance, planning, and IT positions in the Department of Commerce and what's known today as the Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Balutis was the first recipient of the Commerce Award for Outstanding Management and received a Silver Medal and two Gold Medals - the Department's highest honors. Mr. Balutis also has been recognized by the President as a Meritorious Executive twice and has been named five times to Federal Computer Week's (FCW) Federal 100 list as one of the most influential executives in the Washington IT community.
 John Blossom
President, Shore Communications, Inc.
Mr. Blossom's career spans more than twenty years of marketing, research, product management and development in advanced information and media venues, including major financial publishers and financial services companies (Citicorp, Quotron and for Reuters Holdings PLC), as well as earlier experience in broadcast media. Mr. Blossom served as a Vice President and Lead Analyst at Outsell, Inc., where he provided research and analysis coverage of content technologies and financial and corporate information markets for major corporate clients, and developed successful online ecommerce services for research reports. For his excellence in qualiitative research, Mr. Blossom was recognized with the Vendor of the Year award by Standard & Poor's in 2001.
 Nick Brien
CEO & President, Universal McCann
Mr. Brien, 43, comes to Interpublic after a long career at Publicis Groupe's Leo Burnett and Starcom, where he played key roles in shaping and leading those companies' media, advertising and integrated marketing offerings. Brien will be based in New York and will report to Mark Rosenthal, the recently-appointed Chairman and CEO of Interpublic's media operations. Murray Dudgeon, who had taken on the CEO role at Universal McCann on an interim basis, will remain with the company in his role as Chief Operating Officer.
 Jim Buckmaster
CEO, Craigslist, Inc.
CEO since November 2000, Jim has led craigslist to be the world's most used classifieds in any medium, and one of the most popular websites in the world (trailing YHOO, TWX, MSFT, EBAY, GOOG, NWS in page views) -- while maintaining its renowned public service mission, non-corporate vibe, and headcount of less than 20.
Formerly served as craigslist's lead programmer and CTO, contributing the site's multi-city architecture, search engine, discussion forums, flagging system, self-posting process, homepage design, personals categories, and best-of-craigslist.
Before joining craigslist, directed web development for Creditland (defunct) and Quantum. In 1994-95, built a terabyte-scale database-driven public website for ICPSR at U-Mich.
Graduated summa cum laude from Virginia Tech with a bachelors in biochemistry, and studied medicine and classics at the University of Michigan.
 Bill Burger
VP - Marketing, Copyright Clearance Center
Bill Burger is vice president of marketing at Copyright Clearance Center, the world's leading provider of content licensing solutions for corporations, colleges and universities. Bill's first career was journalism. He spent 14 years as an editor, writer and foreign correspondent at Newsweek, where he focused on business, economics and international affairs while working in New York, London and Tokyo. As the magazine's European economics editor in the early '90s, he became interested in the convergence of information and technology and the emergence of new economic models and distribution channels. So in 1995 he began his second career, in the information industry, first at AT&T and then as vice president of content and media services at Infonautics, the pioneering company that introduced the eLibrary research service into the K-12 and consumer markets. Over the years he has helped several companies launch new services for the consumer and business markets. He joined Copyright Clearance Center in 2005 and leads the company's product marketing and marketing communications teams.
 Neil F. Budde
General Manager, Yahoo! News
Neil Budde joined Yahoo! in November 2004 as Yahoo!'s general manager of Yahoo! News. In this role, he oversees Yahoo!'s news initiatives, including the operations of Yahoo! News, and is responsible for ensuring that Yahoo! delivers the most timely and comprehensive news offerings online or offline. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Budde spent more than 25 years working for newspapers and online publishers. As the founding editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal Online, the largest paid news site on the Internet, Budde directed the design, development and evolution of the product from the inception of WSJ.com.
Jason Calacanis
Founder and CEO, Weblogs, Inc.
Jason Calacanis is a blogger and internet entrepreneur. He is the founder of Weblogs, Inc., which has been one of the most visible attempts to turn blogging into a viable advertising-based business model. Calacanis was the founder of Silicon Alley Reporter and Digital Coast Reporter magazines. SAR, as it was referred to, grew from a photocopied newsletter to a 300 page glossy magazine with a staff of 70 employees. The magazine, however, was hit hard by the dotcom implosion and in September of 2001 Calacanis changed the name to Venture Reporter. VentureReporter.net was sold to Dow Jones corporation.
 Jason Cassidy
VP - Corporate Strategy, Development & Licensing, Reed Business Information
Jason Cassidy heads the Corporate Strategy, Development & Licensing Group at Reed Business Information US. The group's responsibilities include mergers and acquisitions, international expansion, business development and licensing, new product development and strategic planning. Jason has been with Reed Business Information US for 5 years and prior to his joining Jason was an Investment Banker for the Metals, Mining & Steel Group of Salomon Smith Barney. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Economics from Harvard University.
 Y.S. Chi
Vice Chairman, Elsevier
On 1 June 2005, Elsevier announced the appointment of Youngsuk ''Y.S.'' Chi to head the company's global academic and customer relations. Reporting to CEO Erik Engstrom, Mr Chi will become Vice Chairman at Elsevier. Y.S. Chi is a prominent figure in international publishing, most recently serving as chairman of Random House Asia.
 Jim Debth
Internet General Manager, The American-Statesman
Jim has been the Internet General Manager for The Austin American-Statesman since December of 2004. He is a new media pioneer and has been involved in publishing and interactive communications for more than 15 years, with more than 10 years in the Internet industry. Before joining statesman.com, Jim was the New Media Director for cjonline.com and The Topeka Capital-Journal where they won a 2004 Eppy (Editor and Publisher award) for Best Internet News Site. His new media career began in Cedar Rapids, IA, where he was VP and General Manager of Interactive Media Inc.(the interactive subsidiary of Gazette Communications), which served their newspaper, TV station, radio station and statewide farm publication. - in the early (1994) beginning of the Internet. He then joined Real Media (now 24/7 - Real Media), the Internet ad network and ad-delivery software company, as Group VP, Strategic Development. He developed partnerships with clients including USA Today, Times Mirror and GolfOnline and with newspaper groups including Hearst, Belo and Gannett.
 Susan DeFife
Chief Executive Officer, Backfence.com
Susan has been a leader in the local technology community as the founder and CEO of womenCONNECT.com, an internet portal for women in business; as CEO of StreamingText; and as an executive of the NPD Group. Susan lives in McLean and was a longtime McLean Little League and McLean Youth Soccer mom; her children, Paul and Gina Fioravanti, graduated from McLean High School and the Madeira School, respectively. She has been active in many local community and business groups, ranging from serving as Vice Chair of the Northern Virginia Roundtable to being Den Mother for her son's Cub Scout troop and Cookie Mom for her daughter's Girl Scout troop.
 Esther Dyson
Editor At Large, CNet Networks, Inc.
Esther Dyson is editor at large at CNET Networks, where she is responsible for its monthly newsletter, Release 1.0, and PC Forum, the high-tech market's leading annual executive conference. She recently published a review of the K-12 Ed Tech market space for Release 1.0. At Release 1.0 and in her private investment activities, Dyson focuses on emerging technologies, emerging companies and emerging markets. In 1994, she had already explored the impact of the Net on intellectual property. In 1997, she wrote a book on the impact of the Net on individuals' lives, Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age. Dyson is also an active player in discussions and policy-making concerning the Internet and society. From 1998 to 2000, she was founding chairman of ICANN (the organization responsible for overseeing the Domain Name System).
 Hal Espo
President, Contextual Connections, LLC
Hal Espo has more than 25 years experience as an operating executive as well as a business and product development professional in the electronic information industry. Hal served as Chief Operating Officer of Index Stock Imagery, Inc., a web-based commercial stock photography and illustration vendor, and previously was the Chief Operating Officer at CORSEARCH, Inc., a trademark research firm serving Fortune 500 companies and law firms. Earlier, he served as AVP Business Strategy at Insurance Services Office, Inc., a major information supplier to the property & casualty insurance industry, and for more than 10 years worked in strategy and planning, alliance development, direct and reseller channel sales, marketing and product development at LexisNexis and Knight-Ridder Information/Dialog Information Services, Inc.
 Bambi Francisco
Columnist & Correspondent, MarketWatch, Inc.
Bambi Francisco is a columnist and correspondent for MarketWatch. She writes a twice-weekly syndicated commentary column on Internet trends and investing in public and private companies. Her column also goes out to more than 300,000 subscribers. She regularly appears on MarketWatch Weekend, a business magazine show aired on CBS. Prior to her role, she was the morning business anchor for KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco. She also appeared daily on Viacom's cable channel Spike TV, and was a producer at CNNfn. She's received recognition for her financial reports by both The Journal of Financial Reporters and Adweek. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary.
 Lee Greenhouse
President, Greenhouse Associates
Lee Greenhouse is President of Greenhouse Associates (www.greenhousegrows.com), a consulting firm providing product and market strategies to publishers, media companies, online information businesses, and software companies. The firm helps its clients identify and launch new businesses, expand existing businesses, and diagnose problems with existing businesses. With expertise in both business and technology, Greenhouse Associates’ advisory services span a broad range of needs, including market analysis, product validation, business planning, distribution strategies, competitive analysis, financial analysis, and due diligence for acquisitions.
 Richard J. Harrington
President & CEO, The Thomson Corporation
Richard J. Harrington is president and chief executive officer of The Thomson Corporation. Thomson is a leading global provider of integrated information solutions to business and professional customers in the sectors of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. Since his appointment as CEO in October 1997, Mr. Harrington has led the transformation of Thomson from a diverse holding company into a focused provider of integrated information solutions.
 Jeff Jarvis
Blogger, BuzzMachine
Jeff Jarvis is former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the NY Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He was until recently president & creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Now he is working as editor of a new news startup, still in stealth. He is working with The New York Times Company at About.com on content development and strategy and consulting for Advance and Fairchild. In 2006, he will become associate professor and director of the new media program the City University of New York's new Graduate School of Journalism. He is a columnist for Media Guardian. He says he is at work on a book.
 Donald R. Katz
Chairman and CEO, Audible, Inc.
Donald Katz is founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Audible, Inc., the Internet's premier audio information and entertainment service. In his 10 year tenure with Audible, Donald Katz has led the company to top-10 rankings in the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 competition for 2002, 2003, and 2004. Katz is the winner of the 2004 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for New Jersey, and was honored in 1999 as Entrepreneur of the Year by Silicon Alley trade magazine Alley Cat News for his pioneering work at Audible.
 Ed Keating
Vice President, Content Division, SIIA
Ed Keating is Vice President of the Content Division for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Keating has over 15 years of experience in the information industry as both an internal manager and a consultant. He has led marketing, product management and sales organizations at both startup and established information companies. His work to enhance product processes and organizational effectiveness has helped numerous companies enter unfamiliar markets and launch new products.
 Michael J. Kelly
President, AOL Media Networks
Michael J. Kelly is the President of AOL Media Networks which is responsible for the marketing, distribution and advertising and search revenue for America Online Inc's web properties and affiliated Time Warner digital brands. The Media Networks organization was formed in February 2004 and is headquartered in New York City. Mike was previously President, Global Marketing at Time Warner, where he oversaw the company's Global Marketing group, which works with partners to develop and implement cross-platform marketing solutions that take full advantage of all of Time Warner's businesses.
 David Kirkpatrick
Senior Technology & Internet Editor, Fortune
David Kirkpatrick is senior editor for internet and technology at Fortune magazine. Consistently rated one of the most influential tech journalists in the U.S., he has written cover stories on Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Sun, as well major features on blogging, open source software, 64-bit computing and numerous other topics. His weekly column appears on Fortune.com, CNNMoney.com and by free email subscription. He is also the organizer and moderator of the annual Brainstorm conference, co-hosted by Fortune and the Aspen Institute, which for the past five years has brought together a diverse group of global leaders from business and other fields to better understand the future. After growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, as well as a year and a half in Nigeria, Kirkpatrick attended Amherst College. He also spent two years at art school in New York. His video art has been shown at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
 James Kollegger
CEO, Genesys Partners, Inc.
James G. Kollegger is CEO of Genesys Partners, Inc. a venture capital/investment banking/development firm that specializes in early stage information technology ventures. He is one of the pioneers of the electronic information industry and an industry leader who helped build the Information Industry Assn., who named him their first "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 1987. Genesys Partners follows a jewel-in-the-rough strategy; and takes a very hands-on approach to developing its portfolio companies. Examples include Portaga, a web services platform for the travel industry that permits travel booking directly from Outlook, using an artificial intelligence agent, Knovel Corp., a software/content database engine that automates work flow for engineers and scientists, and Cognia, a database creation engine using natural language processing and software platform, for the biotech and pharma industries.
 Gene Landoe
President & CEO, CT and Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services
Gene Landoe is president and CEO of CT and Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services. Landoe oversees all of CT’s day-to-day operations, which includes running its four business units: Compliance & Governance, UCC Solutions, Litigation Solutions and Trademark Solutions. Under Landoe’s direction, CT has built on its renowned service foundation to transform into a legal technology and service leader. Landoe led CT through a reorganization in early 2006 to further focus the company’s business on customer workflows. In his four years as president and CEO, Landoe has overseen CT’s evolution and growth into an end-to-end provider of complete compliance, corporate transactions, litigation support and trademark solutions.
 Dr. Tom Leighton
Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Tom Leighton co-founded Akamai Technologies in September 1998. Serving as Chief Scientist, Dr. Leighton is Akamai's technology visionary as well as a key member of the Executive Committee setting the company's direction. As one of the world's preeminent authorities on algorithms for network applications, Dr. Leighton's work behind establishing Akamai was based on recognizing that a solution to freeing up Web congestion could be found in applied mathematics and algorithms. Akamai has demonstrated this through the creation of the world's largest distributed computing platform that dynamically routes content and applications across a network of over 15,000 servers. Dr. Leighton's technology achievements at Akamai earned him recognition as one of the Top 10 Technology Innovators in U.S. News & World Report.
 Dr. John M. Lervik
Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, Fast Search & Transfer (FAST)
John M. Lervik serves as the Chief Executive Officer and is a co-founder of Fast Search & Transfer (FAST). Dr Lervik served as the company's Chief Technology Officer from 1997 to September 2001 overlooking all of the company research and product development activities. Dr Lervik holds a PhD from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and was awarded the best overall PhD at NTNU in 1996/97. John has also recently been honored as one of eight members named to the 2005 Forbes Magazine list of world technology innovators. The EGang-Masters of Information-are those entrepreneurs and companies figuring out how to separate the gold from the gravel on the Web.
Jonathan Lewin
CEO, eMeta Corporation
Jonathan Lewin is CEO and Founder of eMeta Corporation, an award-winning software company that provides access control and ecommerce solutions to companies like McGraw-Hill, NYTimes.com, Reed Elsevier and Reuters. Mr. Lewin is responsible for eMeta’s strategic vision, continued growth, technical excellence and customer satisfaction. Previously, he managed the operations of new media and Internet technology companies in Boston and London. A frequent speaker on technology and business topics, Mr. Lewin has been quoted by leading publications, including eContent, Financial Times, InformationWeek, KM World, Network World, Publishers Weekly and Software Business. He holds a BA from Harvard University.
 Joe Mansueto
Chairman, CEO & Director, Morningstar, Inc.
Joe Mansueto founded Morningstar in 1984. He has served as chairman since the company's inception, and as chief executive officer from inception to 1996 and from 2000 to present. In 2001, Mansueto was recognized by SmartMoney magazine as one of 30 power brokers. He received the Distinguished Entrepreneurial Alumnus Award from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 2000. In 1993, he was given the KPMG Peat Marwick High Tech Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and in 1992 won the Rosenthal Award for Excellence in Investment Research from the University of Chicago.
 Harold McGraw III
Chairman, President & CEO, The McGraw-Hill Companies
Harold McGraw III is chairman, president and chief executive officer of The McGraw-Hill Companies. He was elected chairman in December 1999; chief executive officer in 1998; and president and chief operating officer in 1993. He has been a member of The McGraw-Hill Companies' Board of Directors since 1987.
Mr. McGraw has led a transformation of the Corporation, consolidating 15 diverse units into three focused business segments, each one a market leader.
In financial services, Standard & Poor's is the world's leading provider of financial analyses and risk assessments. In education, McGraw-Hill Education is a leader in the United States K-12 education market and in higher education and professional information. And in business information, the Corporation provides critical news, insight and solutions globally in BusinessWeek and through leading portals in the energy, aviation and construction industries.
 Mark McLaughlin
SVP & GM, Naming and Directory Services Business Unit, VeriSign, Inc.
Mark McLaughlin is senior vice president, general manager of the VeriSign Naming and Directory Services Business Unit. The Naming and Directory Services Business Unit runs the Internet's .com and .net system and provides powerful, proven platforms to businesses to support their mission-critical applications across disparate networks, devices, and end points. Prior to joining the Naming and Directory Services business unit, Mr. McLaughlin was vice president of Corporate Business Development for VeriSign. In this role, Mr. McLaughlin lead VeriSign corporate wide business-development efforts and was responsible for strategic VeriSign agreements and relationships with IBM, Microsoft, FDC, Inuit, eBay, Sun Microsystems and other leading technology companies. Before that, Mr. McLaughlin was the general manager of the VeriSign Payment Services Business Unit, leading the VeriSign Internet payment business.
 Dennis Miller
General Partner, Spark Capital
Dennis Miller is a General Partner at Spark Capital. Spark's main focus is on early stage investments in the conflux of the media, entertainment and technology industries. Prior to Spark, Mr. Miller was the Managing Director of Constellation Ventures where he focused on niche programming services, distribution opportunities on new platforms created by the increasing fragmentation and dislocation in the media marketplace, and technologies that allow media to be provided in ways that reflect today's consumer. His investments at Constellation include College Sports Television-recently sold to CBS for 325 million , TV ONE, a cable network serving the African -American market now in 23 million homes and co-owned by Comcast and Direct TV ; K-12, an online education service serving over 17,000 students in eleven states and founded by Lowell Milken and Larry Ellison; The Gospel Channel, Fathom Online (a leading search engine marketing company). He has also served on the Board of Directors of Capital IQ which was sold to McGraw Hill in 2004. Prior to Constellation Ventures, Mr. Miller was Executive Vice President of Lions Gate Entertainment, Executive Vice President of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and Executive Vice President of Turner Network Television.
 Adele Morrissette
Founder and Partner, North Haven Partners
Adele Morrissette, Founder and Partner, works with emerging companies primarily in the media, advertising and direct marketing and information services industries. Before forming North Haven Partners, Adele was a partner and Managing Director at SG Cowen Securities Corp. and built the firm's investment banking practice in both traditional media and new media/internet industries, including digital imaging, storage and delivery companies. Adele's clients while at Cowen included Pixar, Spyglass, N2K, Panavision, Applied Graphics Technologies, Valley Media, and Creo Products, Inc. Adele's prior ten years of investment banking experience at L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin and Bankers Trust Co. combines an unusual blend of technology and traditional media: she has assisted in the initial public offerings of more than fifty companies, including The Sharper Image, New World Pictures and Software Publishing Corporation. Adele has also been a successful early stage investor in a number of portfolio companies including Starmedia Networks, Tripod (purchased by Lycos) and PerfectMatch. Adele has a M.B.A. in finance and entrepreneurship from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and holds a B.A. from Wellesley College where she graduated with high honors as a Wellesley Scholar. Adele is member of the Business Leadership Council for Wellesley College and was recently appointed to The MBA Advisory Board of The Tuck School.
 Gary J. Neeleman
President, Neeleman International
Gary Neeleman is currently President of Neeleman International Media Consulting Inc. Neeleman
spent 27 years with United Press International, first as a correspondent for 7 years in Brazil and later as vice president and general manager over editorial and business in the Latin America and Caribbean areas. He then joined the Los Angeles Times Syndicate International in 1985 and served as Executive world-wide VP for syndicate operations. He also worked for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate International for 4 years before retiring and estasblishing his own consulting company. He is currently the Honorary Brazilian Consul for the State of Utah and is well known for his lectures and articles about Brazil and in 1985 authored a Bantam Book, "Farewell My South", which tells the story of the Southern Confederate migration to Brazil after the Civil War. As a correspondent in Brazil he covered most of the major events which occured in Brazil from the 1958-1966 and beyond. He is the father of 7 children, 3 of which were born in Brazil and carry dual citizenship.
 John Patrick
Author, consultant, corporate director, President, Attitude LLC and former VP - Internet Technology at IBM
John Patrick is President of Attitude LLC and former vice president of Internet technology at IBM, where he worked for thirty-eight years. During his IBM career John helped start IBM's leasing business at IBM Credit Corporation, and was senior marketing executive for the launch of the IBM ThinkPad brand. Starting in the early 1990s, John dedicated his time to fostering Internet technologies. One of the leading Internet visionaries, John is quoted frequently in the global media and speaks at dozens of conferences around the world. Business 2.0 named him as one of the industry's most intriguing minds, Industry Week named him one of the top 30 people who drive innovation and provide the initial spark to economic growth, and Network World called him one of the 25 most powerful people in networking.
 Bill Pollak
President & CEO, American Lawyer Media, Inc.
William L. Pollak was appointed as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of ALM, Inc., in March 1998. Mr. Pollak, 49 joined ALM after 15 years with The New York Times, the last six as Executive Vice President. During his career, he has held a variety of marketing, advertising and circulation positions. Mr. Pollak graduated from Harvard College in 1978 earning an A.B. degree. He received an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School in 1982. Mr. Pollak is married and has two children. They live in Chappaqua, NY.
Jeff Pulver
Chairman and Founder, pulver.com, Inc.
Jeff Pulver is the Chairman and Founder of pulver.com, and one of the true pioneers of the Internet telephony/VoIP industry. Leveraging well over a decade of hands-on experience in Internet/IP communications and innovation, Mr. Pulver is a globally renowned thought leader, author and entrepreneur. He is the publisher of The Pulver Report and VON magazine, and creator of the industry standard Voice on the Net (VON) conferences, where all sectors of IP communications come together to discuss, debate, and advance the industry. Additionally, Mr. Pulver is the founder of Free World Dialup (FWD), the VON Coalition, Global IP Alliance, Vivox, pulverinnovations, and is the co-founder of VoIP provider, Vonage.
 Mark Rosenthal
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Interpublic Media, Interpublic Group
Mark Rosenthal is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Interpublic Media for the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. In this position, Mr. Rosenthal oversees all of Interpublic’s worldwide media operations, including Initiative, MAGNA Global, Universal and a number of leading specialist media agencies, with capabilities that range from programming and content development to interactive, retail and media barter. He works directly with Interpublic Chairman and CEO, Michael Roth, to refine and implement a strategy that aligns all of Interpublic’s media assets and maximizes the benefits they deliver to clients. For nearly a decade, as President and Chief Operating Officer of MTV Networks, Mr. Rosenthal was a leader in growing and extending the reach of that company’s world-class media brands, both geographically and into areas such as films, books, consumer products and the Internet. During his tenure, revenue and earnings from the company’s operations more than tripled as MTV Networks’ 96 television channels grew to reach 400 million households in 164 countries around the world. Additionally, Mr. Rosenthal led the restructuring of one of the industry’s largest advertising sales groups. In the process, he developed deep relationships with senior decision-makers within the advertising community. He also helped lead the execution and integration of acquisitions that added brands such as Comedy Central, VIVA, The Nashville Network (now Spike TV), College Television Network (now mtvU), Country Music Television, and Noggin to the MTV Networks franchise.
 Judy Russell
Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office
Judy Russell, former director of the Office of Electronic Information Dissemination Services and Federal Depository Library Program at the U.S. Government Printing Office, returned to GPO in January 2003 when she assumed the position of the Superintendent of Documents. Appointed by Bruce R. James, Public Printer of the United States, Russell is the 22nd Superintendent of Documents, and the first woman to hold the post. In making the appointment James said, "GPO is fortunate to have a person of Judy's drive and extensive experience in the field of Government information directing our information dissemination activities. She will bring to all of the Superintendent of Documents' operations a clear vision for the 21st century and a determination to remake our services to meet the expectations of our customers."
 Webb Shaw
Director - Editorial Resources, J.J. Keller & Associates, Inc.
As Director of Editorial Resources, Webb Shaw leads content creation, content software development, custom project development and corporate knowledge management at J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. With 1,000 + employees based in Neenah, WI, J. J. Keller is the leading North American publisher of regulatory, compliance and best-practice materials - print, software and online - in the heavy-duty trucking, workplace safety, construction, hazmat and human resources markets. While at J. J. Keller, Mr. Shaw has served as senior-management champion for: development of KellerOnline®, the premier interactive safety management tool and winner of the 2005 CODiE Award for Best Vertical Market Business Content Solution; development of Prospera™, the online people management tool for HR professionals; creation of the company's content-software product line (Keller-Soft®), CMS implementation and ERP evaluation/selection. His previous experience is with Knight-Ridder, Harcourt Brace and Eaton Corp. He has previously spoken at IIS and the SIIA's Content Forum.
Chris Shipley
Co-Founder & Editorial Director, Guidewire Group, LLC
Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO conferences, has covered the personal technology business since 1984 and is one of the top analysts covering the technology industry today. Shipley has worked as a writer and editor for a variety of technology consumer magazines including PC Week, PC Magazine, InfoWorld, Working Woman and US Magazine. She has written two books on communications and Internet technology, has won numerous awards for journalistic excellence, was recently named Host of the Year by Conferenza, and was assigned to Fortune Small Business Magazine's 'most perfect board of directors. Shipley is the co-founder and editorial director of Guidewire Group, LLC, a social media company advancing innovative products into emerging markets.
 Roger Simon
Chief Executive Officer, Pajamas Media
Highly acclaimed mystery novelist and screenwriter Roger L. Simon conceived and co-founded Pajamas Media in 2004 with fellow blogger Charles Johnson. Simon’s charter as the Chief Executive Officer is to realize the vision of coalescing the Internet’s brightest minds and most compelling content into a single source that will, in turn, redefine journalism in the 21st century and beyond. Simon’s award-winning Moses Wine detective novels have been published in the U.S. and 13 other countries and have been described by the Los Angeles Times’ Charles Champlin as "a deliberate work of social history." Additionally, Simon has written for the major Hollywood studios for over 20 years.
 Patrick Spain
Chairman & CEO, HighBeam Research, Inc.
Patrick Spain is the founder of HighBeam™ Research, LLC. Spain created HighBeam™ Research as Alacritude, LLC to serve as a vehicle for building an online research service for individuals. Spain is a cofounder and was former chairman and CEO of Hoover's, a leading online provider of company information headquartered in Austin, Texas. Spain was among the first to recognize the value of online information services and the Internet to build brand, expand sales reach and reduce marketing, selling and distribution costs for publishing companies. Prior to Hoover's, Spain worked in the telecommunications industry first as a lawyer and then as a business executive, as a real estate developer and as an economic consultant. Spain sits on advisory boards of several private technology companies and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago in Ancient History and a J.D. from Boston University.
 Pam Springer
President & CEO, ECNext, Inc.
Pamela Springer, President and CEO of ECNext, brings over 21 years of leadership experience in technology-based companies and publishing organizations. Specializing in helping publishers market, sell, and deliver content online, ECNext's Web and search marketing expertise brings relevant searchers to publisher's content. Springer's executive management expertise applied to planning, developing and implementing successful go-to-market strategies has consistently produced strong growth for emerging technology companies. A veteran manager in Fortune 500 companies, Springer has also served in executive positions with several emerging growth companies, successfully planning and orchestrating all phases of marketing for high-end technical solutions. During this time, Springer has been instrumental in raising multiple rounds of funding and helped guide a number of acquisitions and a successful IPO. Her publishing background includes experience with two leading publishers, Ziff-Davis and IHS. Prior to serving as Vice President of Sales for ECNext, Springer served as Vice President North American Sales, Interliant, Inc., Vice President Sales, reSOURCE PARTNER, Inc., Vice President Sales, Litton Enterprise Solutions, and Vice President Sales, Metatec, Inc.
 Dr. Robert Sutor
Vice President - Standards, IBM Corporation
Dr. Robert Sutor is the Vice President of Standards for the IBM Corporation.
In this role he is responsible for driving and executing the cross-company business and technical strategy for open standards and open source as they relate to software, hardware, services, vertical industries and emerging markets. Previously, Dr. Sutor was Director of WebSphere Product and Market Management. This included ownership of the WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ and the WebSphere Business Integration product lines, as well as Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture. A 22 year veteran of IBM, Dr. Sutor worked for 15 years in IBM Research, specializing in symbolic mathematical computation and Internet publishing. In 1999 he moved to the IBM Software Group and focused on jump-starting industry use of XML. This led to positions on the Board of Directors of the OASIS standards group and the vice chairmanship of the ebXML effort, a joint OASIS/United Nations endeavor. Dr. Sutor then led IBM's industry standards and Web services strategy efforts.
 Swaminathan
CEO, IRIS Business Services (India) Private Limited
Swaminathan (That’s his first name, he has no last name!) founded IRIS, an Indian information and research company, in 1994, among India’s earliest internet start ups... Trained as an economist at Yale University, he served in senior positions in the Indian media, with The Economic Times and Business India. Best known for myiris.com, India’s preferred personal finance destination where people research stocks and mutual funds before trading in them with an intermediary of their choice, IRIS is synonymous with high quality actionable content that spans a range of databases, from market data to news written by our journalists, policy & economy information (We also run India’s only Parliamentary newspaper), industry sectors and commodities, corporate information and mutual funds. We also serve banks and mutual funds apart from running shared services for brokerage firms. Leveraging its skills and experience in Indian markets, IRIS has recently started working with global information players, investment banks, brokerages and institutional investors with an offering that includes global information and research support, managed data services and technology.
 Bob Tedeschi
E-Commerce Columnist, The New York Times
Bob Tedeschi has written the E-Commerce Report column for the Times since 1998. Writing mainly for the Monday Business section, he has covered the Internet economy through its ascendancy, its crash, and its second incarnation. He also covers technology-related trends for the Travel section, Circuits and other sections in the paper, and has been named one of the nation's most influential technology writers.
 David G. Thomson
Author and Chairman, The Blueprint Growth Institute
David G. Thomson is the author is the recently released book by John Wiley & Sons, Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth. Blueprint to a Billion, is the first quantitative dissection of how America's most successful growth companies made it to the top: Microsoft, Google, eBay, Staples, Starbucks to name just a few. These elite companies demonstrated a unique growth pattern - one of exponential growth. Marshall Goldsmith, one of America's top CEO Coaches predicts Blueprint to a Billion as "2006's Most Important Business Books". Thomson has been leading business growth for 20 years in general management and executive sales/marketing at Nortel Networks and Hewlett-Packard. He also served as an Associate Principal during his five years at McKinsey & Company. Thomson graduated with an Electrical Engineering Degree from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario. He resides with his family in Overland Park, Kansas. David can be contacted at david@blueprinttoabillion.com
 David Worlock
Chairman, Electronic Publishing Services, Ltd.
David Worlock is a Cambridge History graduate who joined Thomson Corporation as a trainee in 1967, and subsequently worked in educational and academic publishing before managing Thomson's school-based publishing as Group Executive Publisher in the late 1970s. Between 1980-85 he was CEO of the pioneer development of EUROLEX, the UK's first online service for lawyers, subsequently acquired by Reed Elsevier in 1985. In that year he founded Electronic Publishing Services Ltd, a research and consultancy company based in London and New York which has worked alongside the digital content industry in developing strategies for products and markets in consumer and business sectors. David Worlock is currently chairman of Electronic Publishing Services Ltd.
 Ken Wasch
President, Software & Information Industry Association
Wasch's involvement in SIIA is based on both personal and professional interests. His long-standing interest in computers and software, coupled with the industry's need for a central trade association, led him to establish the Software Publishers Association (SPA) in 1984 with an initial group of 25 software firms. Wasch has led the association from its infancy to its merger with the Information Industry Association in January 1999, resulting in the formation of SIIA.
 Dr. Daniel Zaharevitz
Chief, Information Technology Branch, DTP (Developmental Therapeutics Program), National Cancer Institute, NIH
Daniel Zaharevitz has worked for over twenty years as a
scientist in the federal government. He has a PhD in
chemistry and has spent most of his career developing
chemical data sets and analysis tools that are useful in
drug discovery and development. For the last six years he
has been Chief of the Information Technology Branch in the
National Cancer Institute's Developmental Therapeutics
Program (DTP). He oversees not only the development of
software for use in DTP's internal projects, but also the
development of the DTP web site, where scientists from
around the world can take advantage of the wealth of data
generated by DTP projects.
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