Brady Forrest (organizer of Ignite and Co-Chair of Web 2.0 Expo)

Brady Forrest started Ignite, a geek event which has spread to over a hundred cities worldwide. He is Chair for O'Reilly's Where 2.0 and co-Chairs Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and NYC. Brady writes for O'Reilly Radar tracking changes in technology. Brady lives in Seattle, where he builds robots and cars for Burning Man and competes for Mayor of finer establishments.

Chris Shipley (PIVOT, past organizer of DEMO conferences)

Chris Shipley is Chairman and CEO of Guidewire Group, the global advisory firm providing measurement and mentoring for early stage technology companies. As executive producer of the DEMO Conferences from 1996 – 2009, Chris helped more than 1500 companies bring products to market. She is currently producing PIVOT, a new conference focused on the strategic challenges of Brand Marketers as they leverage conversational marketing to engage with always-on consumers.

Dave McClure (organizer of Startup2Startup, SMASH summit, etc)

Dave McClure likes to hang out with entrepreneurs, and occasionally help or invest in their startups if they let him. Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years. Sometimes he does real work like Startup2Startup & Smash Summit, but these days he mostly does useless stuff like sending lots of email, blogging, and hanging out on Facebook and Twitter. Dave also likes to play ultimate frisbee when his knees don't hurt.

Chris Pirillo (organizer of Gnomedex)

As the founder of Lockergnome and Gnomedex, Chris records an avg. of 1,000 videos per year and once cracked the “Top 100″ most subscribed on all of YouTube. His live stats are impressive: over 5 million unique live video viewers watched Chris do his “thing” in 2007 – a total of 2+ million live viewer hours with an average viewing time of 25 minutes per visitor. In one month durring 2008, stats from the live video feed were recorded at 1,141,472 Viewers, 827,159 Unique Viewers, 395.5 Average Viewers and 279,878 Viewer Hours.

Andrew Hyde (founder of Startup Weekend & Community at TechStars)

Andrew has a passion for community and startups. He runs Ignite Boulder, TEDxBoulder and boco ... a food/tech/music conference.. Andrew works for TechStars and is a founder of StartupWeekend. He has founded three startups (one failed, one sold and his current project is doing quite well). Andrew is also a marathoner, Ironman competitor, blogger and event organizer.

Sarah Milstein (GM of Web 2.0 Expo)

Sarah Milstein is TechWeb’s General Manager and Co-Chair for Web 2.0 Expo; she is also coauthor with Tim O’Reilly of The Twitter Book. Previously, she was on the senior editorial staff at O’Reilly Media, where she founded the Tools of Change for Publishing Conference (TOC) and led development of the Missing Manuals, a best-selling series of computer books for non-geeks.

Jeff Sandquist (Senior Director of Platform Evangelism for Microsoft)

As a "platform evangelist," Jeff Sandquist leads a team to share information about Microsoft to millions of developers and technology enthusiasts across the globe. Sandquist oversees the online experience for Microsoft's top events such as Mix Online along with the pioneering online community "Channel 9" that combines video blogging, RSS, and interactive discussions to bring Microsoft and its customers closer together through transparency and dialogue.

Myles Weissleder (organizer of SF New Tech)

With passion and energy, Myles helps give voice to those who need it and want to rise above the clutter. As Vice President of Public Affairs for Meetup.com from its launch in early 2002 until late 2006, Myles helped the tiny startup get noticed nationally. Today, among other projects, Myles is the organizer and founder of the SF New Tech Meetup, San Francisco’s most influential gathering for tech lovers — established in March 2005.

Charles Hudson (organizer of Social Gaming Summit, Freemium Summit)

Charles is the VP of Business Development for Serious Business, a leading producer of social games for the social web, whose flagship game is the popular Friends for Sale. In addition to working at Serious Business, Charles produce technology conferences such as Virtual Goods Summit and the Social Gaming Summit focused on the intersection of gaming and social media.

Brian Zisk (organizer of SFMusicTech Summit)

Brian Zisk is a serial entrepreneur and technology industry consultant specializing in digital media, web broadcasting and distribution technologies. Brian's company BuzzMakers Inc. throws some of the best conferences of their kind, including the SF MusicTech Summit and the Future of Money and Technology Summit. Brian is a co-founder of Collecta, the ultra-hot realtime search engine. Brian was previously a founder of The Green Witch Internet Radio which was sold to CMGI (NASDAQ: CMGI) at the turn of the millennium.

Chris McCann (founder of Startup Digest)

Chris McCann is an entrepreneur, writer, and general activist in the entrepreneurial community of Silicon Valley and San Luis Obispo. He has led the entrepreneurial programs at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, started Innovation Quest an alumni led incubator at the University, and is the founder of the [Startup Digest]. .

Cass Phillipps (Founder of WebWallflower Events, producer of FailCon)

Cassandra has been a startup event producer for two years, working on and producing numerous conferences including Inside Social Apps, Girls in Tech, Finance4Founders, SF MusicTech Summit, SF Beta, SNAP Summit, and many more. She is the creator and producer of FailCon, the first conference ever to openly discuss entrepreneurial failures and what we can learn from them, hailed by NBC, NPR, KQED, and Wired Magazine as an incredible success!

Danielle Morrill (Organizer of Seattle 2.0 Awards, Dir of Mktg at Twilio)

Danielle leads marketing for Twilio. Danielle also sits on the board of Startup Weekend, and prior to Twilio, Danielle was Editor in Chief for Seattle 2.0 and Community Manager for location based service Whrrl.com. She has organized several large scale events including the Seattle 2.0 Awards, an open API event at San Francisco City Hall and most recently the San Francisco TechCrunch 5th Birthday event.

Kai Chang (Co-Curator of TEDx Berkeley)

Kai Chang most recently served as managing director and co-curator of TEDxBerkeley, one of the largest TEDx events in the world at 700 attendees, with 157,000 viewers worldwide on the TEDxBerkeley streaming channel. In addition, he is co-founder of Triton Networks, a stealth software startup. He has the distinction of having one of the longest continuously-updated blog (live since 2001). Kai is a Crossfit enthusiast and in his spare time, indulges in his unhealthy love of cheesy 80s music and Karaoke.

Michael Doyle (Virtual Edge Institute)

Michael is the founder of the Virtual Edge Institute an industry organization dedicated to advancing the development and adoption of virtual event and meeting technology and best practices for collaboration, marketing and learning. He is a 20-year veteran of trade shows, magazines and online publishing with extensive marketing, content and business development experience.

Edith Yeung (Founder of BizTechDay)

Edith is the founder of BizTechDay the most impactful entrepreneur technology conference serving the entrepreneur community every year in San Francisco, a guest host of CBS 5 Startup Profile, the go-to consultant in building communities, a lecturer at UC Berkeley International Program, board member of the San Francisco Small Business Week, and a sought-after speaker.