SXSW Interactive 2012 speakers

Alex is a founder and managing director of 137 Ventures, a growth-stage private technology company investmentfirm. He is also chairmanof ImmunePath, which has developed the technology to manufacture blood cells from embryonic stem cell lines.  Previously, he was anentrepreneur-­‐in-­‐residence at Founders Fund, where he focused on deep science investing. Prior to that he created and launched HappStack, todays leading open source Haskell application server. Alex isa serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits including Shop.com and PowerSet.

Anna Beatrice Scott, Ph.D. is The Master Conduit at the arts and action consultancy, Vita Vibrare, where thinking is done at a higher frequency. An Arts in Action agitator, Vita Vibrare provides strategy, programs, user engagement studies and analysis to develop innovative story making tools at the nexus of traditional and new media. Deep, immersive content is their specialty. Anna B. Scott performs afrofuturist conjurations with dance, digital devices and text, on stage, in blogs, books and through strategic marketing plans. Scott has worked in arts management, production, performance, research and education since the late 1980s. Her work and process traverse many genres and roles; she is a convergent human. Trained in traditional, collaborative performance from the African Diaspora, Scott is always looking to join the Arkestra. She has been fortunate to collaborate with Pat Payne, Ulysses Jenkins, Sheron Wray, Meg Wolfe, Najité, Brian Getnik, and Ritsu Katsumata on an array of performance work. Her Fall 2011 participation in Ulysses Jenkins' work "Black Gold Fever" can be seen at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions as part of Pacific Standard Time Festival. Her team, VISCERA Performance Instigation Troupe, completed a 'high tech' street theater installation at the Van Nuys FlyAway bus station. The inaugural performance in the Los Angeles World Airports and Public Art division of the Department of Cultural Affairs new Ephemeral Art program, ‘Bout To Get On occasionally appears around the city.The next installation is "PATCH: A 'Bout To Get On Boogie" to be performed in February at The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles. The piece will use AR (QR-Code, Layar, & shortcode) to develop the structure of the live improvisation. Please visit http://flyawaybus.tumblr.com for information on the show. As a performance scholar trained in ethnography and certified in Human Subjects Research Protocol, Scott has published one book and several articles that examine the impact technological advances exert on memory and therefore performance of identity, paying attention to the repercussions of taking up the brand and branding strategies as new identity markers. She served University of California, Riverside as an assistant professor of Dance History & Theory for nine years and continues to work as a thesis and career adviser at large. Her passion for arts-centered analysis energizes innovation in clients and collaborators. It is her pleasure to bring their secret aspirations to fruition through the application of research, storytelling, and prescient data analysis.

Barb Dybwad has been living and breathing the online new media world for the past decade, sporting a patchwork career path from web development to professional blogging to managing virtual teams. She's currently head of content at Tecca, a consumer electronics website aiming to make technology fun and accessible to a mainstream audience. In past lives she has been Senior Tech Editor at Mashable, Senior Editor at Engadget, Director of Production at Crowd Fusion, Producer of the Joystiq network, founder of WoW Insider, Massively and Big Download, and Editor-in-Chief of the Social Software Weblog. Her work has appeared in Forbes, CNN, ABC News, USA Today, and Yahoo News. Barb is a gamer, information junkie and musician who likes to travel, be outrageously distracted by funny cats, and blog about an obscene number of sometimes unrelated topics. She has spoken, written, and made media appearances on multiple topics in the fields of social media, technology, gaming and virtual worlds, and lives in the endlessly amusing city of Los Angeles, CA after enjoying the gorges of Ithaca, NY for 11 years.

Technology is subversive. I've been an activist with Greenpeace for 30 years. In that time, I've delayed a nuclear weapons test, hung a banner on the Statue of Liberty, sailed on four oceans, lived in six countries, saved whales and learned to pilot a hot air balloon for the cause. I was setting up email communications with alligator clips in Moscow in the mid 1980s, online activism websites in the early 90s, and jumped all over twitter when it debuted at SXSW in 2006. As an early adopter, I learned how to spot technologies Greenpeace might bend to activist purposes and organizational needs, and developed some skills in getting them adopted. Follow me @brianfit
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Started by Brit Morin, Brit is a lifestyle brand that seeks to provide the digital generation with innovative technologies, consumer products and do-it-yourself ideas for creative living in and around the home. Browse categories like Food, Living, Tech, Style, and Health for inspiration on adding delight and order to the chaos of your daily life.

Brooks is the VP of Business Development at Inigral (creators of the Schools App on Facebook). Prior to Inigral, Brooks joined Infegy (creators of Social Radar) as the first employee and SVP of Business Development. At Infegy, Brooks helped grow the bootstraped social data analytics company into an international software firm serving many of the worlds largest companies.

Bruce has 17 years experience as a venture capital investor, entrepreneur, technology investment banker and corporate attorney. Prior to joining Blumberg Capital in 1998, Bruce co-founded and held several senior management positions within technology companies including Charles River Computers. Bruce also structured and managed early-stage technology transactions at Hambrecht & Quist, Mayer Brown & Platt and Bankers Trust Company. A native of New York, Bruce earned his BA in Finance and Communications, cum laude, from Yeshiva University, and his MBA and JD from Fordham University. Bruce serves as a member or observer on the Board of Directors of DoubleVerify, CaseStack, Insightix, LiteScape, Correlix, Nolio, Revionics, Yap.tv, BringIt, NearbyAd, Mertado, Any.do and Offertarget. He also serves on the board and the investment monitoring committee of the Jewish Community Foundation of Northern California.

Bryan House is the vice president of product marketing at Acquia, where he was employee #6 when he joined almost four years ago. In his role, Bryan is responsible for evangelizing Drupal and Acquia to analysts, media, and customers around the globe.

BUTCH LAZORCHAK is a digital archivist at the Library of Congress working in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, a collaborative project that supports a network of partners exploring the long-term stewardship of digital information of all kinds. He is participating in a mentoring session at SXSW on Tuesday March 13 at 12:30 at the Holiday Inn, Town Lake (http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/ev...). Come talk about digital preservation, the future of libraries, digital information, whether you should go to library school or not, the best tacos in Austin or whatever is on your mind! He is also the owner/operator of Squealer Music, a record label with an international roster of refuseniks and experimentalists including the Acid Mothers Temple, Gold Sparkle Band, Last Days of May, Chris Speed's yeah NO, and many others. Twitter: squealermusic

Carlo is the Director of Developer Marketing Services for the Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP). In this role, he leads the company's efforts to support companies in their outreach to mobile developers through strategic consulting and tactical support. He also helps to build WIP's own community of mobile developers through its WIPJam events and online resources. Carlo has more than a decade's experience in the mobile industry, beginning just after the turn of the century when he worked for Nokia at its headquarters in Finland and mobile data services were in their infancy. Before joining WIP in 2010, Carlo worked as a freelance consultant and writer while he completed an MBA; prior to that, he was Senior Analyst for Floor64, a Silicon Valley-based analyst firm, where he covered the mobile and fixed telecom industries. He also helped launch and spent five years running TheFeature.com, a thought leadership site owned by Nokia. Carlo is a well-known mobile blogger at MobHappy.com, and his writing has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, Business 2.0 magazine and on Dow Jones Newswires.

Carlos is the global Product Marketing Manager for the Google Maps API. His goal is to promote innovative uses of the Google Maps API and to be a steward of the 700,000+ developers around the world who make up the Google Maps API ecosystem.

A leader in interactive communications, marketing and brand management, Cathryn Posey is also a mentor, and the founder of Tech By Superwomen - a movement to organize and connect aspiring and established women in the tech industry for mentorships, partnerships and allies.

Cathy Brooks has spent her life saturated in media – from print to broadcast and on-line. She currently heads Communications and Social Strategy for mobile search start-up, The Everything Project. Launched in May 2011, The Everything Project has redesigned search from the bottom up for mobile. To slake her thirst for content creation, Cathy blogs for myriad sites and hosts The Conversation, a weekly, on-line program that focuses on how technology is changing our world. In her copious amounts of spare time, Cathy operates Other Than That, advisory services for companies and individuals wishing to navigate the complexities of persuasive storytelling in business. Previously Cathy ran business development for San Francisco-based start-up Seesmic, and prior to Seesmic, Cathy worked with global analyst firm Guidewire Group. Cathy also headed the talent and booking departments at TechTV, curated content at LeWeb for several years and has held several executive positions with PR agencies.

Charles is an internet and digital media professional with investing and operating experience across a range of seed stage, private venture-backed and publicly traded technology companies. Charles currently leads games, social networking and mobile application partnerships for Google’s mobile advertising business. Prior to Google, Charles was on the business development team at AdMob; he also helped launch Boomerang Networks, a virtual currency monetization startup catering to facebook game developers; and was previously an associate with TriplePoint Capital, where he was involved with the firms investment in Facebook, Acclaim Games (acquired by Playdom/Disney), TwoFish (acquired by LiveGamer) and QuickHit Sports (acquired by Majesco Entertainment).

The founder of Heat Vision, a small new media publishing, design, and event company, Christopher is an award-winning Web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993. As a sought-after speaker and trainer, Christopher regularly demonstrates the use and benefits of practical standards-based designs. He also chairs the online and traditional conferences for Environments for Humans including the CSS Summit and AIGA In Control Conference. He was Co-Lead of the Adobe Task Force for the Web Standards Project (WaSP) as well as Co-Lead of its Education Task Force. Author of numerous Web design and digital imaging books, including HTML5 Cookbook, Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites, and CSS Cookbook, Christopher has also written for MSDN, A List Apart, .net Magazine, and Web Reference. Follow him at @teleject on Twitter.

Chuck Martin is Director of the Center for Media Research at MediaPost Communications and CEO of Mobile Future Institute. He has been a leading pioneer in the digital interactive marketplace for more than a decade. He is the author of The Third Screen (Marketing to Your Customers in a World Gone Mobile), in which he defines the implications, strategies and tactics for businesses to thrive in the mobile revolution.

As a lead developer at Carbon Five, Courtney has been working with clients to develop custom web applications using agile and lean techniques for over a decade. Prior to agile achieving its status as the true best practice for effective development and before lean user experience had gained traction, she was coaching companies on how to get clean, tested code to their users quickly and iteratively. Courtney is now developing new ways of integrating design processes into the rapid iterative development cycle and testing agile stories not just on the back end but with real customers feedback that can better inform development cycles. Recently Courtney has participated in the LUXr Residency and the Women Who Code group in San Francisco. When not being a web geek, she is heading out to find the best rock climbing spots worldwide; usually ending up back home, happily wrestling with a boulder or cliff in Yosemite Valley.

As the leader of Resource Interactive’s research and development lab, Dan is responsible for finding, understanding and applying emerging media for clients in the digital space. His unique blend of creative, business and technical experience makes him a favorite among clients where he speaks in real terms about how emerging technology will affect their brands and consumers’ lives. He is regularly called into projects to drive big ideas for clients including Victoria’s Secret, VS PINK, Sherwin-Williams, Apple, and a wide array of Procter & Gamble brands. With his specialty in emerging media, Dan is frequent contributor to the Advertising Age’s Digital Next Blog, and has been featured in other media outlets such as USA Today, Business Week, Internet Retailer and the E-Commerce Times. Additionally, Dan is a highly sought-after speaker, having taken the podium at events for SXSW, National Retail Federation, Online Market World, Internet Retailer, Young Presidents Organization, and many Fortune 500 brands.

I am an Executive and Relationship Coach. I help my clients take life & career from good to great to Extraordinary in less than three years. “Extraordinary” means recapturing the Big Dreams they had as kids, making it work in the "real world" so that life is passionate and rewarding (materially, spiritually, emotionally). We focus on mission, leadership, courage, productivity, spirituality, conflict, and relationships. My ideal client is 40 - 45, successful, innovative, but perhaps starting to burn out on achieving old dreams. Perhaps they are ready for their next professional step. Perhaps they’re overwhelmed by daily BS and want to feel alive again, like they are making a difference. Perhaps they want to develop a more authentic vision of their masculinity or femininity and show up differently in their marriage or career. I see myself as the Shaman for the Digital Tribe Arthur had Merlin
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Socialite & nerd. Hacker since age five. Stanford President Scholar. Founder of PBworks, Hacker Dojo, SuperHappyDevHouse, and Mexican.VC. Award winning startup mentor for Founders Institute. Named Plaxo (exited to Comcast for >$100m), advised Attassa in their sale to YouSendIt, consultant for MP3.com (IPO), Like.com (sold to Google), and a dozen others.

Ekaterina Walter is a marketer, thinker, speaker, and connector. As a Social Media Strategist for Intel, Ekaterina works at the intersection of high tech and integrated marketing—driving campaigns and helping colleagues to leverage new media in support of business goals. She believes that building relationships with customers should be at the core of any business and that social media provides a perfect opportunity to do so. At Intel Ekaterina is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy. She sits on the Board of Directors for Internet Strategy Forum. You can find her on Twitter @ekaterina. She blogs on her blog "Building Social Bridges" as well as on Mashable, AdWeek, FastCompany, Social Media Examiner and others.

Erin’s marketing and production initiatives at Facebook pioneered breakthroughs in the social space for many organizations and industries. Supporting marketing programs in mainstream media, current events, sports and non-profits, Erin led Facebook’s 2010 Olympic initiatives and Vote 2010 Midterm Elections coverage. She built media partnerships around TODAY Show Throws a Wedding, The GRAMMYs, American Music Awards, Golden Globes, Mother's Day and Memorial Day and developed key marketing assets such as Facebook Live and Facebook Stories. Most recently, Erin produced a Live Town Hall with Barack Obama, participated in a MTV documentary titled “Diary of Facebook," and directed and produced the live coverage of Facebook's f8 Developer Conference. A live show she co-produced for Oprah recently aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Erin received an Emmy nomination for her producer role on ABC’s coverage of the Midterm Elections. Now in partnership with Randi Zuckerberg, Erin brings her passions to R to Z Studios as Director of Production. She recreated the Home Shopping network of the web for BeachMint and produced Cirque du Soleil’s behind-the-scenes videos, delivered via an application on Facebook. Erin holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Marketing from The University of Colorado.

Galia was the CEO of Particle Code (acquired 2011) and one of its founders. As CEO, Galia was responsible for the company’s daily operations, business relationships and general karma. Before Particle Code, Galia co-founded Mytopia, a leading social games business acquired by 888 (LSE: 888). At Mytopia, Galia ran business development and helped raise its first round of financing.
Galia has a BA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College and an MA in International Relations and International Economics with a specialization in Energy Policy from SAIS Johns Hopkins. She is an avid recycler and aspiring yogi.