One of the most widely recognized and influential strategists in American politics, Joe Trippi was heralded on the cover of The New Republic as the man who "reinvented campaigning." Winner of two Golden Dot awards for Best National Internet Campaign in '04 and '06 and hailed as one of Washignton DC's Top 100 Tech Titans by Washingtonian Magazine in 2009, Joe Trippi is especially renowned within the technology community.

After over a decade building online communities and developing search engine technology, Giovanni Gallucci is recognized as an award-winning new media producer, an entertaining public speaker, successful buzz marketer, author, technical editor, and social media strategist. Giovanni has provided seo and social media consulting services and training for companies like Microsoft, Exxon, Hilton Hotels, Gateway Computers, and NASCAR, and is on the faculties of AdobeTV and xTrain.com providing training in social media, search marketing and podcasting. Additionally, he has been covered in a variety of media outlets including Business Week, CBS, CNN.com, Fox Business News, The New York Times, and USA Today among others.

Christer Holloman represents a new generation of inspiring business innovators. He is a successful serial entrepreneur and intrapreneur with 15 years of experience; advising, funding, starting, building and selling B2C and B2B companies as well as launching new products and services within existing businesses in both North America and Europe. Christer is the Chairman of First Tuesday, Europe's largest network for high growth technology companies and their investors. He has been identified as one of London's 1,000 Most Influential Individuals and ranked as Top 25 Within New Media by Europe's largest regional newspaper, The Evening Standard.

Michelle Corteggiano and Jodi Mallow Maas inspire industry leaders to embrace and strategically integrate the power of social media to exponentially grow and market their brand. Their guidance on proper digital presence (online branding), engaging your audience, social media best practices and search engine optimization, ensures that their clients capitalize on this new media. The widely sought after "Dynamic Duo" are known for their contagious passion, high energy and "be as you are" philosophy.

Founding partner of the world premier customer-centered consultancy, Peppers & Rogers Group, Martha Rogers is an Adjunct Professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Dr. Rogers is co-author of the 2008 book, Rules to Break & Laws to Follow and she is widely published in academic and trade journals.

Clara is an author, blogger, and entrepreneur who pioneered the use of social networks for business in 2007 with her Faceconnector application, which integrates Facebook and Salesforce CRM. Clara is founder and CEO of Hearsay Labs, a social media marketing and sales software startup based in Silicon Valley. Previously, Clara was Product Line Director of the AppExchange at salesforce.com and worked in corporate strategy at Google.

Cali Lewis is the host and producer of GeekBrief.TV, an online news show about technology and consumer electronics. The show is downloaded millions of times each month by viewers from around the world. Cali makes regular appearances on TV (MSNBC, NBC, ABC, FOX and G4 Canada) to talk about new and exciting gadgets. She knows from experience how to build, grow and maintain a successful online brand.

John Seely Brown is not only the Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation, he is also a Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost at USC. Brown has published over 100 papers in scientific journals and was awarded the Harvard Business Review's 1991 McKinsey Award for his article, "Research that Reinvents the Corporation" and again in 2002 for his article "Your Next IT Strategy."

Known in Silicon Valley as the man who brought bid brand marketing to the personal computer industry in the 80s, John Sculley is a former President and CEO of Pepsi and CEO of Apple Computer. Today Sculley is partner with his brothers of the private investment firm, Sculley Brothers LLC. The companies mission is to help build new companies for the new economy with a primary focus on stage ecommerce companies with exciting growth opportunities.

Daniel Burrus is one of the world's leading technology forecasters and business strategists, and is the author of six books, including the highly acclaimed Technotrends, which has been translated into over a dozen languages.  He is the ...