Business Technology

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: Gregory Miller: OSCON 2010, The O'Reilly Open Source Convention - ...

Greg (link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gmiller/) is a Co-Executive Director of the OSDV Foundation. He brings 24+ years experience in the tech sector, divided between software development and technology business development. He is also a (non practicing) IP lawyer involved in Internet & technology public policy. His technical experience is in user interface, distributed computing, and digital security. He has significant product management/marketing experience in large firms and start-ups. He's spent the past 7 years in VC sector advising start-up ventures. Greg’s interests in voting technology and digital democracy have become his pursuits.

[Publish Date: July 19, 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: Ward Spangenberg: Velocity 2010, Web Performance & Operations ...

Mr. Spangenberg is a seasoned security technology executive with a comprehensive background in both business operations and technology. His broad background with security solutions has enabled him to determine and implement best practices for managing confidentiality, security, and privacy issues from both the business perspective (such as process development, informed consent, and data statistics collection) as well as executing and supporting the technical perspective (host and perimeter security, access control and monitoring). In addition Mr. Spangenberg has extensive experience in designing and fielding security solutions for Fortune 1000 clients utilizing both enterprise as well as cloud architecture and deployment models. Mr. Spangenberg is also a respected speaker/researcher on PCI DSS, Cloud Computing, and Cloud Compliancy Issues. Mr. Spangenberg is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance.

[Publish Date: June 22, 2010]

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

Kevin is Microsoft’s Platform Strategy (link: https://blogs.msdn.com/kevinboyle) Advisor in Southern California. In this role, he creates strategic partnerships with the most promising local startups and Microsoft’s Enterprise customers. Kevin analyzes a company’s goals, strategies, and capabilities to figure out what Microsoft partnerships and technology might accelerate its business goals. When an opportunity which will benefit both Microsoft and the client company surfaces, Kevin advocates for the customer inside of Microsoft to develop the appropriate business relationship and/or fund a jump-start using Microsoft’s bleeding-end technology. In 2005, Kevin struck a partnership with MySpace to provide direct access to the team creating Microsoft’s next generation Web technology. This relationship allowed MySpace to add 500,000 new users each week and earned Kevin Microsoft’s ‘Worldwide Architect Evangelist of the Year’ award.

[Publish Date: May 03, 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]

Anatomy of an Open Source Cloud Ecosystem: OSCON 2010, The O'Reilly Open ...

By James Urquhart

If cloud computing is one natural conclusion of open source business models, what kind of cloud ecosystem would best support open source as a whole? Join James Urquhart, author of the "Wisdom of Clouds" blog on the CNET blog network, as he explores the technology and business models that could drive the open source opportunities of tomorrow--and a few that won't.

[Publish Date: July 19, 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]