Adam Bain is the president of global revenue at Twitter. Prior to joining Twitter, he served as President of the Fox Audience Network (FAN). Read →

Adam Zbar is CEO of Tap11, the Twitter business intelligence service, which supports over 500 major brands and marketing firms. Twitter selected Tap11 as a top six app at their Chirp conference, where the judges viewed Tap11 as the “Omniture of the real-time web.” Read →

Akash along with his wife, Rana are the founders of CurryUpNow, the Bay Area’s first Indian Street FoodMobile Truck. Akash oversees CUN’s menu, new item creation and social networking. Read →

Andrew M. Israel is the Founder / Editor of the popular life-style and photo blog AspenSpin.com. Following a distinguished career on Wall Street, Israel re-located to Aspen, Colorado where he continues to “live the dream” by skiing every day and partying every night. Read →

Angela Dunn is a “happy connector of people and ideas.” As creator of “one of the top five nightclubs in the world,” according to George Wayne, writer for Vanity Fair Magazine, Dunn honed an intricate knowledge of social anthropology which she now focuses on social media. Read →

Avinash Kaushik is the co-Founder of Market Motive Inc and the Analytics Evangelist for Google. Through his blog, Occam’s Razor, and his best selling books, Web Analytics: An Hour A Day and Web Analytics 2.0, Avinash has become recognized as an authoritative voice on how marketers, executives teams and industry leaders can leverage data to fundamentally reinvent their digital existence. Read →

Bernardo A. Huberman is a Senior HP Fellow and director of the Social Computing Laboratory at HP Labs. His current research is focused on the interaction between social behavior and information technology, with an emphasis on the phenomenon of crowdsourcing and social attention. Read →

Author of the acclaimed new book on social media and business, Engage!, Brian Solis is globally recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders and published authors in new media. A digital analyst, sociologist, and futurist, Solis has influenced the effects of emerging media on the convergence of marketing, communications, and publishing. Read →

Considered a leading search engine expert, journalist Danny Sullivan has written about search for nearly 15 years. Danny is editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, which covers search marketing and search engine news. Read →

As chief executive officer, David is responsible for Gigya’s overall business strategy and day-to-day operations. He is a frequent speaker and author of articles on how online businesses can apply social identity and technologies for competitive advantage. Read →

Eric Mantion owns the Social Media strategy, including Twitter, Facebook, and Community (Blogs & Forums) for Intel’s largest “growth pillar” – the $1B+ Embedded Group that focuses on everything from Robots & Communications Infrastructure to Smarter Home Phones & In-vehicle Entertainment systems. Read →

Ginny founded her public relations and marketing agency following a long and varied career that spanned banking, retail sales and merchandising, real estate and human resources. Ginny has seen first-hand, through her own business and that of her clients, the benefits of engaging in social media channels such as Twitter. At the same time she understands the need to effectively apply the limited resources of a solopreneur or small business owner and knows the key to maximizing the investment of those resources lies in tried and true best business practices and strategic planning. Read →

Harry McCracken is the founder and editor of Technologizer, a Web site and community about personal technology, from the Web to phones to consumer electronics. Read →

James is a social media strategist dedicated to helping companies build user experiences that drive sales, awareness and brand recognition. He plays a lead role in rapidly examining and radically improving and organization’s connected communities and social media ROI. Read →

Jennifer Love is a communications executive and brand strategist with more than 20 years of experience including extensive national and international integrated marketing, communications, social media strategy and brand expertise. Read →

A 15-year industry veteran, Jesse’s expertise in web-based business and product development, branding and user experience has been instrumental in helping CoTweet become the go-to Twitter platform for the world’s most admired brands – including Coca-Cola, Dell, Ford, Intuit, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Pepsi, Salesforce.com, Sprint, Target, and Whole Foods among others. Read →

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau in 1997. Her column BoomTown originally appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and also online at WSJ.com. With Walt Mossberg, she currently co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech conference with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many other leading players in the tech and media industries. Read →

Karsten Januszewski is, at heart, a developer. He’s been writing code since he was 12 years old, and has been making a living as a software engineer for the last 15 years, with Microsoft for the last 9 years. His first tweet was March 12, 2007 and since then he’s written numerous Twitter applications, including The Archivist and The Archivist Desktop, which are tools for archiving and analyzing Tweets. Read →

Kimarie Matthews leads Customer Loyalty and Social Web Programs for Wells Fargo’s Internet Services Group. She is focused on customer listening, improving customer satisfaction, and responding to customers in the social web (@ask_wellsfargo and @). Kimarie has been working on improving customer experience in financial services for over 10 years. Read →

Called by some Twitter’s original Cinderella story and the Queen of Twitter, Laura “@Pistachio” Fitton is credited with explaining Twitter’s value to Guy Kawasaki and dozens of other tech leaders. She has been speaking professionally about the business use of Twitter since October 2007 Read →

Linda Rutherford is Vice President of Communication and Strategic Outreach for Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, the nation’s largest airline in terms of domestic Customer boardings. Responsibilities include overseeing Employee Communications, Public Relations and Creative Services, Emerging and Multi-Media, Corporate Outreach and Preparedness, and Community Relations and Charitable Giving. Read →

Maksim Ovsyannikov leads Zendesk’s strategic product direction as VP of Product Management. Ovsyannikov has over a decade of experience in strategy and product management within the enterprise and SaaS software space, spanning Fortune companies such as IBM, ADP and Saba. Read →

Mark Yolton leads the professional social networking communities for SAP, the world’s largest business application software company. The SAP communities use social media tools and best practices to enable more than two-million individual members to interact around the clock and around the world in 200+ countries and territories. Read →

Nic Adler grew up on the Sunset Strip. His father, legendary producer Lou Adler, opened The Roxy Theatre the year Nic was born. After years as a band manager, promoter, and restauranteur, Nic took the helm at The Roxy in 1998. In 2006, Nic found himself and The Roxy at the center of a shaky industry struggling to re-define itself. An entrepreneur and community builder, Nic was drawn to the cutting edge concepts he found in the burgeoning field of social media. In 2007 he launched a blog that went on to win The VH-1 Rock Honors Award for Best Music Venue Website. Read →

Othman (@othman) is Director at Twitter, working on Geo and Search. Prior to Twitter, he was the co-founder & President of Mixer Labs (GeoAPI.com/TownMe), which Twitter acquired. Before Mixer Labs, Othman was at Google, where he managed a number of products including the Google Toolbar, Google Gears, early Firefox extensions, as well FastNet (real-time fetching and caching infrastructure). Read →

Pattie is President of Write-Communications.com, Chief Strategist at Marketing-Advantage.net and Founder of WomenCentric® a sassy new global directory of women experts, authors & speakers. Read →

Paul Yiu is the Principal Group Program Manager for Bing social search, the team responsible for the Bing-Twitter integration (bing.com/twitter) and additional projects focused on leveraging social content for search. Read →

Ragy Thomas is the founder and CEO of Sprinklr. Sprinklr provides a SaaS social media management system and related services for large enterprises. He also serves as the chairman of the board of directors at Kenscio and is a member of the technical advisory board of Goodmail Systems. Read →

Rick Bakas is the Director of Social Media Marketing at St. Supéry winery in Napa Valley and is a certified sommelier. In his role, he is responsible for creating and executing all the digital strategy for the Skalli Family wineries, including St. Supéry and sister wineries in France. Read →

Robert Fine is the founder of Cool Blue Company LLC and creator of the Cool Twitter Conference World Tour and Government 2.5. Read →

Ryan Holmes – HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes’ entrepreneurial endeavors include successes in a variety of industries from founding a pizza restaurant chain to building the top online paintball equipment supplier in Canada before launching the popular social media dashboard tool.

His interest in tech emerged early after winning an Apple II in an elementary school programming contest. Ryan founded digital agency Invoke Media in 2000 to provide holistic marketing, development and design services. Invoke also developed products including early CMS and e-commerce web apps, the Memelabs contesting platform, and then social media dashboard HootSuite. Rapid growth led him to spin-out HootSuite in December 2009 when he partnered with funders to facilitate additional growth. Read →

Creativeland Asia is one of the fastest growing independent creative houses in India and has already made a foray into design, film production, television content, brand incubation and licensing, music and digital media. Creativeland was recently awarded a place on the Cannes Shortlist for its work with Parle Agros’ Hippo snack brand, which uses Twitter to turn consumers into inventory trackers. Read →

Currently on the staff of corporate communications in Ford Motor Company, Scott heads up the social media function and holds the title Global Digital & Multimedia Communications Manager. He is a strategic advisor on all social media activities across the company, from blogger relations to marketing support, customer service to internal communications and more, as social media is being integrated into many facets of Ford business. Read →

Seth is an entrepreneur. He has founded three active Internet companies: Majestic Research (2002-), SocialMedia.com (2007-) and stickybits (2010- ). Stickybits, Mr Goldstein’s most recent company, connects digital media to real-world objects via barcodes. Consumers use the mobile app to augment the physical world with their own content. Brands can now participate in these conversations about their products directly through their barcodes. Read →

Shashi is the senior vice president of Search and Marketplaces at Yahoo!, responsible for delivering innovative, meaningful search, local and listings experiences on Yahoo! Search results pages and across the Yahoo! network on all connected devices. Read →

Shrinath Navghane is the founder of SocialMedia2Go, a boutique social media solutions company based in Pune, India, which specializes in running product-specific Twitter campaigns. After the terrorist attack on Pune’s German Bakery, Shrinath organized a Twitter-based fundraising campaign for victims and their families. Read →

In less than one month, media entrepreneur and travel writer Stefanie Michaels joined the ranks of Martha Stewart, Jimmy Fallon and Time Magazine by breaking into Twitterholic’s Top 100 with more than 200,000 followers. She was named a “suggested user” by Twitter, a status for which one Twitter user offered to pay $250,000 (and was turned down). Read →

Steve is responsible for keeping Edelman and its clients in the vanguard. He studies global technology, media and online trends and shapes them into actionable insights and marketing communications strategies. Read →

Tobias Peggs is the CEO of OneRiot, the ad network for the realtime social web. He previously held the position of President, responsible for strategy, sales, distribution and marketing. Prior to OneRiot, Tobias led strategic initiatives at Netdecisions where he directed cross-functional teams in the US, UK and India. He has spent 10+ years in both consumer web and enterprise software industries. Read →

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Vicky leads PR Newswire’s Audience Development team. Vicky is the voice and team leader behind the PR Newswire brand on Twitter, and the author of, “Straight Tweet: Giving Voice to a Brand,” a very well received white paper from PR Newswire. Read →

Zoë Keating is a one-woman orchestra. She uses technology to layer the sound of her cello, creating sophisticated classical music with a pop sensibility. Increasingly considered a role-model for DIY artists, she has sold over 35,000 copies of her self-released albums. Read →