M. Asif Ismail
M. Asif Ismail is a reporter at the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit investigative journalism outfit, Center for Public Integrity. He has been working on a project named "Pushing Prescriptions," which tracks how the pharmaceutical industry is influencing the nation's public policy and its consequences. During his eight-year stint at the Center, Ismail has reported on a number of issues, including stem cell research, human cloning, the Enron scandal and Pentagon contracts. He was also a contributor to the Buying of the President 2004, a New York Times bestseller. As part of the Center's investigative team, he has won several top journalism awards, including an Investigative Reporters and Editors prize. Ismail has been associated with the digital media in one way or the other since 2000. From 2001 to 2003, he was the production editor for the Center's award-winning website, publicintegrity.org. Speaking at: Using the Web to cover healthcare.

Marcus Messner
Marcus Messner is an assistant professor at the School of Mass Communications at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research focuses on the growing influence and adoption of new media formats. Speaking at: Sharing the research.

Mark Bide
Mark Bide is Project Director of ACAP, Automated Content Access Protocol, and is a consultant for Rightscom Limited, a consultancy that specializes in the provision of solutions for the management, trading and protection of intellectual property rights and digital content in the network environment.He has 35 years experience of the publishing industry, having been a
Director of the European subsidiaries of both CBS Publishing and John Wiley & Sons. Subsequently, he developed one of the most highly respected independent publishing consultancies in the UK, with particular expertise in the impact of network technology on the information value chain. He remains involved in standardisation strategies, and was closely involved in the development of the DDEX standards project for the music industry, particularly the Global Release Identifier (GRid) and the Musical Works Licence Identifier (MWLI). Speaking at: ACAP: Should publishers adopt a new standard?

Mark Rose
Mark Rose was named Tribune's director for sales strategy in February, 2006. He leads a group focused on strategic sales initiatives and operations that drive sustainable growth for Tribune's interactive businesses. His group is directly responsible for yield management and optimization, advertising product development, B2B marketing, and sales channel management. Previously, Rose was with Tribune Media Net, which is Tribune's national sales organization for the newspaper group. In his three year tenure there, Rose managed diverse initiatives ranging from preprint distribution agreements to sales channel optimization to advertising innovation. Rose joined Tribune Company in 1998 as a business school intern in Tribune's corporate development group and joined full-time thereafter. He lives on Chicago's northwest side and is married with two kids and a Labrador retriever. He earned an master's of business at the University of Illinois and a bachelor's of arts at American University. Speaking at: Optimize and monetize.

Mary Kane
Mary Kane is the economy reporter for The Washington Independent. She is a business writer whose work has appeared in Salon, The Washington Post, Politico.com, The Newark Star-Ledger and other publications. She covered finance for Newhouse News Service in Washington for 11 years. She lives in Arlington, Va., with her husband and three children. Speaking at: The Washington Independent: Cutting-edge online coverage.

Matt Chittum
Matt Chittum is the data delivery editor for The Roanoke Times. He is the developer and proprietor of the paper's online data library, the DataSphere, which launched in October, 2007. The library includes information from citation fish data to public school enrollment figures, from a Virginia Tech football recruits mash-up to a database of recently uncovered graves in an old segregation-era cemetery for black Roanokers. Chittum also provided data, analysis and an online database of senior care resources for the paper's 2008 Age of Uncertainty series, which documented challenges and issues presented by the graying of Roanoke's population. He also collaborated on an interactive map showing how Virginia will age over the next 30 years. A Roanoke native, Chittum has been with the Times 15 years, all of it as a writer until September, when the newspaper created the position he now holds. Speaking at: Using the Web to cover healthcare.

Matt Cutler
Matt Cutler serves as vice president of marketing and analytics at Boston-based Visible Measures, the independent third-party measurement firm for Internet video publishers and advertisers. Before joining Visible Measures, Cutler helped to found 80108 Media (now Go2 Media), a venture-backed direct-to-consumer mobile media firm. Previously, Cutler led strategic marketing at SPSS, the world's leading provider of predictive analytics software and services. Cutler joined SPSS as part of the acquisition of NetGenesis, a pioneering Web analytics company he co-founded in 1994. While at NetGenesis, Cutler helped create the Customer Profile Exchange standard, an XML-based standard for privacy-enabled customer data interchange, and the Webmasters Guild, the world's first professional association for Web masters. Cutler plays as much soccer as he can, holds an undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and lives in Needham, Mass. Speaking at: The next new metrics.

Matthew Ericson
Matthew Ericson is the deputy graphics director at The New York Times, where he helps oversee a staff of 30 journalists who produce information graphics for the printed newspaper and interactive pieces for nytimes.com. He joined the Times in March 2003 as the national graphics editor and has produced graphics on a wide variety of topics including the war in Iraq, the 2004 and 2006 elections, and the effects of Hurricane Katrina. Before coming to the Times, he was a graphic artist and web site editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Speaking at: New York Times: Election Guide.

Mayhill Fowler
In June 2007, Mayhill Fowler began covering the 2008 election 2008 for "Off the Bus" at The Huffington Post as a citizen journalist. Though she had no training or previous experience as a journalist, she had always wanted to be a writer and had been pursuing that goal for 12 years. She received her bachelor's from Vassar College and an master's in English literature from the University of California Berkeley. Speaking at: Ethics panel.

Meg Smith
Meg Smith is a Washington Post researcher who specializes local news. She was the lead researcher for the Post's coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 and the "Being a Black Man" series in 2006. Smith graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with degrees in journalism and library science and has been at the Post since 2000. Speaking at: Free fact checking online.

Meredith Artley
Meredith Artley is the executive editor of latimes.com. Page views to the site have grown more than 60 percent since Artley's arrival last year, fueled by the launch of new coverage and features such as a blog network, an emphasis on visual and interactive journalism, redesigns to key areas of the site and tighter alignment with the print newsroom. Before coming to the Los Angeles Times, Artley lived in Paris as the editor and director for IHT.com. During her tenure, unique visitors to that site more than doubled. Artley started her career at NYTimes.com in 1996, where she held various editorial positions over the course of six years. As associate editor, she managed the site's producers. She oversaw special projects, site redesigns and led coverage of 9/11. She was also part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team for the "Race in America" series in 2000. Speaking at: L.A. Times: Setting-up and streamlining a multimedia newsroom.

Merrilee Cox
Merrilee Cox is a veteran broadcast journalist and manager, serving most recently as Washington bureau chief for ABC News, Radio. During more than 20 years with ABC, she traveled extensively and was directly involved in coverage of news events including the war in Iraq, U.S. elections and political conventions, the Millennium Celebration and numerous Olympics. Cox is currently an adjunct instructor at the Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland where she is also a third-year PhD student in Journalism and Media Studies. She received her master's degree from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and her bachelor's in political science from American University. Speaking at: Making a good intro/outro for your podcast.

Michelle I. Seelig
Michelle Seelig received her PhD. in mass communication from Florida State University. Seelig teaches courses in photography, Web design, advertising design, communication theory and research methods. Her research interests include the convergence of new and traditional media in news organizations, the role of content producers in visual communication, as well as the impact of technology on pedagogy. Seelig has written and presented scholarly articles on mass communication, visual communication, as well as communication and technology. She has taught at Florida State University and Temple University. Seelig also has professional experience in video production, photography, as well as desktop publishing, and web design. Seelig's current research projects include exploring the presentation of still images on a Web site set to music, environmental sound, or narration; trends in traditional media's presence on the Web; and an investigation of the economic viability of the Web and other emerging technologies converging with traditional media. Speaking at: Sharing the research.

Mike Lillis
Mike Lillis is the congress reporter for The Washington Independent. He has covered health care policy for Inside Washington Publishers and previously served as a Washington correspondent for Iowa's Waterloo Courier. Speaking at: The Washington Independent: Cutting-edge online coverage.

Mindy McAdams
Bio forthcoming. Speaking at: Integrating Web journalism into college curriculum.

Neda Ulaby
Neda Ulaby reports on arts and culture for NPR. Her work includes profiling authors, musicians, and others who inform the world through creative expression, and covering the complicated relationships between art, artists, and society. Ulaby came to NPR in 2000. She was recruited through NPR's Next Generation Radio Initiative, and first helped to produce Weekly Edition: The Best of NPR. After landing a position on the cultural desk as an editorial assistant, she started reporting regularly for the desk, augmenting her radio work with arts journalism for the Washington City Paper. Ulaby was born in Amman, Jordan, and grew up in the Midwest. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College, she worked as an intern for the features desk of the Topeka Capital-Journal. She now lives in Washington, D.C. Speaking at: Superpanel.

Nora Paul
Nora Paul is the director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota. From 1991 to 2000, Paul taught news library management, computer-assisted research and new media leadership at the Poynter Institute. She joined Poynter after serving as editor for information services at the Miami Herald from 1979 to 1991. Paul is the co-author of Behind the Message: Information Strategies for Communicators. She has traveled throughout the world presenting seminars and lectures on research methods and innovation in online news. Her work at the Institute focuses on evolving digital storytelling forms, eye-tracking research, and news game development. Speaking at: DiSEL research: Everyday usability and design decisions.

Patrick Thornton
Patrick Thornton is the editor and head writer for BeatBlogging.Org, a grant-funded journalism project. BeatBlogging.Org is looking for beat reporters who are pushing the practice of beat reporting using online tools like blogging and social networking. Thornton interviews, profiles and writes about innovative journalists and journalism companies. Prior to working at BeatBlogging.Org, he was a Web editor for Stars and Stripes in Washington, D.C. Mr. Thornton also runs a popular journalism blog on the state of journalism, The Journalism Iconoclast. He has a B.A. degree from Lehigh University in journalism and political science. Speaking at: Ethics 2.0: New Ethics in Age of New Media

Paul Overberg
Paul Overberg is a database editor at USA TODAY where he does much of the organization's demographic data analysis. With other members of USA TODAY's data team, Overberg helps editors, reporters and visual journalists obtain, analyze and present data in print and on the Web. He had earlier been a science and environmental reporter at Gannett News Service in Washington, D.C., and a reporter and editor at The Courier-News in Bridgewater, N.J. Speaking at: Make crime pay.

Paul Volpe
Paul Volpe is deputy politics editor at washingtonpost.com where he helps direct the day-to-day coverage of the politics team, assists in the development of political databases, maps and video projects, and plays a lead role in the planning for the general election campaign and November election. Volpe spent three years at Congressional Quarterly where he helped imagine and develop innovative databases, applications and other informative tools to present political news online. As newsroom technology manager there, he helped direct editorial strategy and technical development of Congressional Quarterly's Web sites, and was instrumental to launching CQ Politics, the company's principal consumer publishing venture. Previously, Volpe spent two years as online managing editor for World Wildlife Fund, where he led a comprehensive site redesign and created original narrative and multimedia content. He started as a researcher and news aide for the Washington Post editorial and op-ed pages. Speaking at: Putting universities to work: Collaboration between industry and academia.

Peter Horrocks
Peter Horrocks leads the multimedia newsroom at the British Broadcasting Company. Before the BBC merged radio, television and online news in October, 2007, Horrocks was the head of Television News. In that role, he introduced major changes -- in particular, boosting BBC News 24 and put it at the heart of BBC News. Horrocks has an extensive background in news and current affairs. He was editor of Newsnight and Panorama as well as head of TV Current Affairs. He edited the general election results programs in 1992 and 1997. Horrocks has been involved in a number of BBC projects, including leading the BBC's "Connecting with Audiences" initiative and the BBC's review of its relationship with independent producers. Horrocks joined the BBC in 1981 as a news trainee after earning a degree in history at Christ's College in Cambridge, England. Speaking at: Merging newsrooms, managing drama.

Phil Zepeda
Phil Zepeda is an interactive editor for msnbc.com, working out of New York City. His interests include computer programming, data visualization, interactive media and soccer. Zepeda is passionate about using technology, such as database-driven applications, as a powerful and engaging means of storytelling. Before msnbc.com, Phil was the interactive learning fellow for News University, a project of the Poynter Institute, where he developed interactive training for journalists. Zepeda is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied multimedia journalism and worked on two multimedia documentary projects, including the award-winning Atacama Stories site. Speaking at: msnbc.com Bridge Tracker.

Regina McCombs
Regina McCombs is a faculty member of the Poynter Institute, teaching multimedia and helping develop distance-learning programs. Until recently, she was the senior producer for multimedia at StarTribune.com in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Before joining StarTribune.com, McCombs spent 13 years as a television producer and photographer at KARE-TV. The winner of numerous Best of Photojournalism and Pictures of the Year International awards for multimedia storytelling, as well as an Emmy for her video work, McCombs has been a regular speaker around the country, talking about finding new ways to tell stories on the Web, especially with video. For StarTribune.com, she coordinated the multimedia team's coverage, shot and edited video stories, created audio slide shows, produced major projects and trained staff in creating multimedia. She also taught classes in online journalism and television news at the University of Minnesota, where she received her master's degree. Speaking at: Integrating Web journalism into college curriculum.

Retha Hill
Retha Hill is the director of the New Media Innovation Lab and professor of practice at Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism. Previously, Hill was chief editorial officer of BET.com and vice president for content development for BET Interactive, where she was the executive in charge of content strategy, convergence and integration with the BET Network. Formerly, Hill was executive producer for special sections at washingtonpost.com, where she created new content products. Previously, she was responsible for long-range planning for the Web site's Arts and Entertainment coverage. Before joining the online division, Retha was a Metro reporter at The Washington Post. Hill spent four years as an adjunct professor of journalism in the graduate school at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is active in journalism and media organizations including the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Minority Media Executives. Speaking at: Putting universities to work: Collaboration between industry and academia.

Ric Camacho
As vice president of digital syndication for Thomson Reuters Media, Ric Camacho is responsible for global strategy, development and revenue for value-added digital products. His work covers multimedia, text, photo, video and more, in 10 languages and multiple geographies. Previously, Camacho was Vice President of Integration Services at Dow Jones Licensing Services, where he oversaw the delivery of professional services and customized solutions to media and financial services companies. He has held similar positions at CBS MarketWatch, Pinnacor and Inlumen. Speaking at: Content distribution in emerging markets.

Richard Graves
Richard Graves founded Fired Up Media to help young people from around the world tell their stories from the frontlines of global warming. Graves has also served as editor for ItsGettingHotinHere.org -- dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement and -- communications coordinator for the U.S. youth delegation to the U.N. climate negotiations in Bali. Graves graduated from Macalester College with a bachelor's in Asian and environmental history after founding MacCARES and developing innovative projects on green building and renewable energy investment. Speaking at: Beyond Green.

Russ Stanton
Russ Stanton, a 10-year veteran of the Los Angeles Times, is the newspaper's 14th editor. Stanton started at the Times in 1997 as a reporter in Orange County. After holding a number of editor positions, he was appointed business editor in 2005, leading a staff of 65 reporters and editors who work in Los Angeles and in eight bureaus around the world. In 2007, he was named to the newly created post of innovation editor, where he oversaw the online news report and started to integrate the print and Web operations. Before joining the Times, Stanton worked at the Orange County Register for nine years, as well as the Riverside Press-Enterprise, the San Bernardino County Sun and the Visalia Times-Delta. Stanton is a 1984 fellow of the Herbert J. Davenport Economics Program at the University of Missouri and a 1981 graduate of the California State University, Sacramento. Speaking at: L.A. Times: Setting-up and streamlining a multimedia newsroom.

Ryan Thornburg
Ryan Thornburg is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with a special interest in online journalism and the future of news. He's currently researching the staffing structures of online newsrooms, and created a service-learning course called "Public Affair Reporting for New Media," which pairs students with working journalists. Before joining UNC, Thornburg spent his career in online newsrooms, most recently as managing editor of USNews.com. At Congressional Quarterly, he was managing editor of CQ.com and the founding editor of CQPolitics.com. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq and 2004 presidential election, he led washingtonpost.com's national and international news staff. His work in online media has contributed to several professional awards, including seven EPpy awards at washingtonpost.com and several honors by the Online News Association. As for professional failures, his biggest was the well-intentioned but short-lived Carolina Political Report. Speaking at: Putting universities to work: Collaboration between industry and academia

Sandeep Junnarkar
Sandeep Junnarkar is an associate professor at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the founder and editorial director of www.livesinfocus.org, a multimedia Web site that features stories on underreported issues. The site recently received an Knight Foundation New Voices grant to examine the impact on family relations and dynamics when one or more member of a family is incarcerated. Junnarkar previously served as the New York bureau chief of CNET News.com, winning an Online Journalism Award in 2002 for his three-part report on the security risks of online banking. Junnarkar helped to create online editions of The New York Times, working as breaking news editor, writer, and Web producer when the paper went live on the Internet as The New York Times on the Web. Speaking at: Free fact checking online.

Sanjay Trehan
Sanjay Trehan is the chief executive officer of NDTV Convergence Ltd., a company under the NDTV Networks Plc umbrella. It houses all the dotcom and mobile properties of the NDTV Group. Central to the plans of NDTV Convergence is building synergy between television channels, the Internet and mobile applications. Under Trehan's leadership, NDTV Convergence launched India's first full service WAP portal: mobile.ndtv.com. NDTVkhabar.com, launched in March, 2008, is the first-of-its-kind rich media Hindi portal targeting the growing number of Hindi speaking online users. Before joining NDTV, Trehan was vice president for broadband and Web 2.0 at Indiatimes, where he took Indiatimes into the online gaming arena. An alumnus of St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, Trehan is a founding member of Internet and Mobile Association of India. He has also published a book of poems. Speaking at: Innovate online video.

Scott Hensley
Scott Hensley edits and contributes to The Wall Street Journal Health Blog. The blog offers news and analysis on health and the business of health. An editor in the paper's New York health and science bureau, Hensley joined the Journal in 2000 and covered health care and the pharmaceutical industry for seven years. He also wrote "Follow the Money" an online column that looked at the health-care industry. His story about Pfizer Inc.'s failed attempt to develop an anti-aging pill was part of a series on soaring drug prices that won a New York Press Club award for business coverage in 2003. Born in Texas, Hensley earned a bachelor's degree in natural sciences from Johns Hopkins University and a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists. Speaking at: Using the Web to cover healthcare.

Sean Connelley
Sean Connelley works for the Los Angeles Times as a Web developer, primarily working with Flash. During his six months there, Sean has worked mainly on spatial analysis projects. Before joining the L.A. Times, Connelley worked at The Oakland Tribune for six years. He started out as a photojournalist, then dabbled in video before finally being named a senior multimedia producer. While there, he produced numerous award-winning projects. His last project, "Not Just a Number," a violence-prevention community journalism project of The Oakland Tribune, was recently named the National Press Photographer Association's best multimedia package as well as the Online News Association's service journalism award for small-sites and the Knight Foundation's Knight Public Service Award at the 2007 Online Journalism Awards in Toronto. Speaking at: Making crime pay.

Spencer Ackerman
Spencer Ackerman is the national security reporter for The Washington Independent. He is a former reporter-blogger for Talking Points Memo where he covered topics including Iraq war contracting and national security. A former staff writer for The New Republic, Ackerman's work has appeared in a variety of publications including The American Prospect and The Washington Monthly. Speaking at: The Washington Independent: Cutting-edge online coverage.

Sridhar Pappu
Sridhar Pappu is the politics reporter for The Washington Independent. He has served as the politics reporter for The Washington Post's "Style" section. He was also a correspondent for The Atlantic. His work has appeared in many national publications including Sports Illustrated, Salon and Men's Journal. Speaking at: The Washington Independent: Cutting-edge online coverage.

Steve Fox
Steve Fox joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst last August and has been working to incorporate multimedia across the curriculum. Fox has thus far developed three courses modeled after his multimedia journalism course. The courses allow students to work in teams in a newsroom-like environment where they work on packages -- using video, audio and photos to tell stories. He is also working with students on amherstwire.com, a news Web site staffed completely by students. Fox has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and reporter for print and online publications, including 10 as an editor at washingtonpost.com. He also edits part-time for espn.com. Fox has consulted for several start-up Web site and also collaborated with Mark Briggs and Jan Shaffer in producing "Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive -- A Digital Literacy Guide for the The Information Age." Speaking at: Ethics panel; The A-plus blog.

Steve Safran
As the founder of lostremote.com, Steve Safran has more than 15 years experience as a television producer, Web news executive, and on-air "news from the Web" personality. Safran is a founding board member of the Media Bloggers Association and a member of the RTNDA/F Website & Digital Strategy Task Force. Steve has a master's degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University College of Communications and a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Trinity College in Hartford. He lives outside Boston with his wife, three children and a dog named "Fenway." Speaking at: Mobile platforms.

Sue Robinson
After a dozen years as a journalist, Sue Robinson received her PhD in Mass Media & Communication from Temple University in Philadelphia in 2007. She now teaches reporting skills, press theory and communication scholarship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor. She researches online journalism. Speaking at: Sharing the research.

Sumita Singh
Sumita Singh has been the senior vice president of marketing of Thomson Reuters Media since November, 2007. She leads the division's efforts to gather, manage, communicate and leverage global and cross-business knowledge of the customers, markets and competitors in order to provide insights that support business strategy. Previously, Singh was the group director of Market Research, Insights & Development at WebMD Health where she was responsible for spearheading the company's efforts to build a marketing analysis and research group and strategically incorporating metrics, consumer insights and reporting into the business Singh holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Delhi, a master's in mass communications from the University of Florida and an master's of business in marketing from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Sumita currently lives in Fort Lee, New Jersey with her husband and daughter. Speaking at: The next new metrics.

Susan Keith
Bio forthcoming. Speaking at: Sharing the research.

Tiffany Campbell
Tiffany Campbell is a producer for special projects and multimedia for seattletimes.com. That means she gets to do what she likes best -- a little bit of everything. Lately, she's been working on Web interactives with the Times' award-winning investigative journalists and developing Web video for seattletimes.com. Campbell began her journalism career in Atlanta, Ga., working for CNN. She held several positions during her nearly three years there, including video journalist and broadcast writer. She switched to Web journalism exclusively in late 2004, when she relocated back to the Pacific Northwest to work for The Seattle Times. Campbell majored in Journalism and in English from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash. Speaking at: Video editing basics.

Tiffany Shackelford
Tiffany Shackelford is a communications strategist at Phase2 Technology, a leading provider of open source web software solutions, application development and consulting services. In addition, she is the sole proprietor of a small consulting business, which assists clients with online marketing, business development and partnerships, developing content for Web 2.0 tools and syndication. Shackelford also serves as the executive director for Capitolbeat, the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors. Previously, she was assistant managing editor at Stateline.org, an online news site that she helped create. Before that, Shackelford held positions at the Democratic Leadership Council, Progressive Policy Institute, Culligan Water and Nordstrom. A 1996 graduate of East Carolina University, Shackelford studied creative writing and visual art and has done post-graduate work at Marymount University. She is currently the 2008 conference co-chairwoman for the Online News Association. Speaking at: Hello, Semantic web!

Tom Tague
Tom Tague leads Thomson Reuters Calais initiative, spearheading strategy, product development and partner relations efforts. He also oversees the Calais developer community at OpenCalais.com, evangelizing the Calais Web service and working closely with commercial and non-commercial developers alike. Tague brings more than 25 years of solutions experience and domain expertise to Thomson Reuters. Previous roles include executive vice president, Client Solutions for Darwin Partners -- which he grew to $40 million in revenue in four years -- and co-founder and chief operations officer of Tessera Enterprise Systems, a quantitative analysis and data warehousing company he helped grow to $30 million in five years. Tague also served in senior roles at database marketing pioneer, Epsilon and systems management company, Electronic Data Systems. Speaking at: Hello, semantic Web!

Tristan Harris
Tristan is the co-founder and chief executive of Apture, a company pushing new paradigms in online publishing and monetization. Before stepping out of the Stanford Computer Science Masters program to start Apture, Harris was a Mayfield Fellow with the Stanford Technology Ventures Program in entrepreneurship, an alumnus of Wikia and has two pending patents from his work at Apple Computer. When not evangelizing Apture, he spends his time playing Yann Tiersen music on the piano and dancing Argentine Tango in San Francisco. Tristan holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Stanford, with a focus in human-computer interaction. Speaking at: Hello, semantic Web!

Troy Thibodeaux
Troy Thibodeaux is database editor for the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Associated Press. Working with his colleagues in the multimedia department, he develops data-driven interactive applications using Ruby on Rails, Flash, and Flex. During his time with AP, Troy has worked on projects that tracked presidential campaign finance and primary results, gave insight into the plight of Iraqis displaced by the war, visualized the relationships among the Supreme Court justices, and detailed the use of earmarks in Congress. A large part of his job is translating between tech-speak and editorial-speak. Troy entered journalism by a roundabout route, working as a technical writer and trainer for the internet division of the Advance Publications newspaper group while finishing a Ph.D. in English literature. Speaking at: I have this spreadsheet...

Tyson Evans
Tyson Evans is the new-media design editor of the Las Vegas Sun and its sister company, Greenspun Interactive, where he focuses on the intersections of visual storytelling and the Web. He also serves as editor of the Society for News Design's online journal, Update, and is president of the Bridget O'Brien Scholarship Foundation, which funds original and international student-reporting projects. Before joining the Sun, he was a news designer at the Los Angeles Times and editor of the UCLA Daily Bruin. Speaking at: Las Vegas Sun: Site redesign

Vincent Diga
Vincent Diga is a trained fine artist turned designer. He brings his fine-art sensibility to a range of media including motion, print, illustration and Web. He has collaborated with various design houses in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles, providing work for clients such as Apple, MediaStorm, NBC/Universal and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Speaking at: Creating good runners and grahics for Web video.

Wendy Warren
Wendy Warren is the editor and vice president of Philly.com, the Philadelphia region's leading local media Web site. Philly.com produces original video and online content and showcases the work of the city's two daily newspapers, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News. Prior to being named to her Philly.com role in May 2008, Wendy was an assistant managing editor at the Philadelphia Daily News. She ran the newspaper's news and online operations; she also ran the Daily News' multimedia project to cover the 2007 Philadelphia mayoral race, The Next Mayor, a partnership with public broadcaster WHYY to focus the race on issues, rather than personalities. Prior to joining the Daily News in 2000, Wendy was the business editor and a business writer at The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., where she was named a Times-Mirror Journalist of the Year in 1998. Wendy also spent five years working for The State in Columbia, S.C. There, she covered several business beats and state courts. Originally from Roanoke, Va., Wendy graduated from James Madison University in central Virginia. Her husband, Daniel Robinson, is an associate professor of English at Widener University; she has one daughter, Sarah Margaret. Speaking at: Superpanel