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Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform The Way You Lead: Web ...

By Charlene Li

The biggest barrier to the adoption of social technology in an organization is resistance to being open--a fear on the part of leaders that if they let go of control, chaos will ensue. This presentation will highlight lessons from a new book, "Open Leadership" that looks at a new paradigm for strategy and business.

[Publish Date: May 03, 2010]

Speaker: Eric Picard: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Eric Picard is the Advertising Technology Advisor to the Advertising Platform Engineering team at Microsoft, where he works on long term vision and coordinates between the business and technology teams. Eric has held several pivotal advertising technology roles at Microsoft where he covered several key areas, including working on the long term ad platform and product strategy - determining what the end-state of Microsoft’s ad platforms and other advertising offerings should look like. He also managed emerging media planning, and the advertising technology acquisition planning from 2005 through 2007. Formerly, Eric was founder and director of product management at Bluestreak, where he invented and oversaw advertising products. A frequent speaker across the online advertising industry, Eric has written a monthly column about advertising technology since 1999. Eric’s primary goal is to define the future of advertising technology at the ecosystem level: trying to set in motion the...

[Publish Date: May 03, 2010]

Speaker: Dawn Foster: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Dawn Foster (link: https://fastwonderblog.com/) provides consulting services (link: https://fastwonderblog.com/consulting/) for companies wanting to engage with online communities by focusing on the business value of engaging with online communities and social media and helping companies find a way to engage that supports the overall strategies and business goals of the company. Dawn has more than 14 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, community building, community management, open source software, market research, social media, and RSS.

[Publish Date: May 03, 2010]

Speaker: Aslak Hellesøy: RailsConf 2010 - O'Reilly Conferences, June 07 - ...

Aslak Hellesøy is the Chief Scientist of BEKK (link: https://bekk.no/,) a Norwegian business and technology consulting firm. In 2003, after seven years of Java programming, he fell in love with Ruby. He has contributed to dozens of open source projects and is the founder of the Cucumber (link: https://cukes.info/) project.

[Publish Date: June 07, 2010]

Speaker: Kevin Lynch: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 - Co-produced by ...

As chief technology officer and senior vice president, Experience & Technology Organization, Kevin Lynch oversees Adobe’s experience design and core technology across business units. This role includes driving Adobe’s technology platform for designers and developers across desktops and devices, including Adobe® Flash® Player, Portable Document Format (PDF), Adobe Flex® and Adobe AIR™, the cross-operating system application runtime that bridges the computing power and data capabilities of the desktop with the real-time dynamic capabilities of the web. He also oversees Adobe’s developer relations program, including the integration of customers and partners in the development process through Adobe Labs and customer advisory councils.

[Publish Date: May 03, 2010]

Speaker: Chander Kant: O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2010 - O'Reilly ...

Chander is the CEO and founder of Zmanda. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and data protection software. He has been involved on both the technology and business sides of open source software and was named one of the "Top 20 Linux Luminaries" by Linux World Magazine in 2004. Prior to Zmanda, Chander founded and ran LinuxCertified, Inc., an open source product and services company. Earlier in his career, Chander was a business development executive at VERITAS software and served as a product line manager for storage software at SGI. Chander holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (where he did research work in Database Management Systems) and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

[Publish Date: April 12, 2010]

Speaker: Brad Stone: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Brad Stone joined The New York Times in December 2006. He covers Internet trends and consumer technology from the newspaper’s San Francisco bureau. In addition, he contributes to the Times’ technology blog, Bits. From 1998 to November 2006, Mr. Stone served as the Silicon Valley Correspondent for Newsweek magazine, writing for the technology and business sections of the magazine and authoring an online column, Plain Text, on our evolving digital lifestyles. Originally from Cleveland, Mr. Stone graduated from Columbia University in 1993 and lives with his wife, Jennifer Granick, and their two daughters.

[Publish Date: May 03, 2010]

Speaker: Dharmesh Shah: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Dharmesh Shah is founder and Chief Technology Officer of HubSpot, an Internet marketing software (link: https://www.hubspot.com/) company dedicated to helping small businesses leverage the Internet to get found by qualified prospects and convert more of them into leads and customers. Prior to HubSpot, Dharmesh was founder and CEO of Pyramid Digital Solutions, an enterprise software company that was acquired by SunGard in 2005. He also runs OnStartups.com (link: https://onstartups.com/,) the top blog and online community for entrepreneurs. He is an active member of the Boston area entrepreneurial community, an angel investor in over a dozen startups and a frequent speaker on the topic of entrepreneurship and Web marketing. Dharmesh holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Alabama and an M.S. in the Management of Technology from MIT. He is the author of the business bestseller Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (link:...

[Publish Date: May 03, 2010]

Launch Pad: Where 2.0 Conference 2010 - O'Reilly Conferences, March 30 - ...

One of the strengths of Where 2.0 is the startups—a new company that bursts onto the scene with an innovative and promising new technology or business model. Chosen Companies will have the opportunity to launch their new product onstage at Where 2.0, where entrepreneurs will debut their companies or launch new products.

[Publish Date: March 30, 2010]

Speaker: Robert Acker: Where 2.0 Conference 2010 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

Robert Acker is the President, CEO, and Founder of Aha Mobile, Inc. He brings more than 12 years of experience in developing and launching technology-based consumer products and services. Robert was most recently senior vice president of marketing at Dash Navigation, where he headed marketing, advertising, product management, and PR for the company that developed the first Internet-connected GPS device. Prior to that he served as vice president of music services at RealNetworks where he oversaw the leading on-demand music service Rhapsody and the company’s music download store. Before that, Robert was the first full-time employee at XM Satellite Radio, where he wrote the original XM business plan and served as vice president of marketing and vice president of product development and planning. There he negotiated the company’s first strategic partnerships, created the XM brand, set pricing, launched the service and developed the company’s award-winning radio lineup. Robert...

[Publish Date: March 30, 2010]