Big Boulder Conference 2013 : Big Ideas, Big Data, Big Opportunities :: June 21-22, 2012 Boulder, Colorado

Gabriel is the CEO and Founder at Zauber, US/LatAm-based software boutique and social analytics company providing professional services and SaaS products for brands, media companies, TV networks and publishers in Latin America and the US. Zauber is the company behind social media monitoring and social curation products Tribatics and Flowics.

He's an Argentinean entrepreneur, but spends most of his time in Brazil and US, leading the international expansion of Zauber. Gabriel graduated from ITBA with a BS in Computer Engineering.

Rich Brown is Global Head of Elektron Analytics at Thomson Reuters. In his role, Rich oversees the strategy and financial success of the firm's offerings for Analytic Services. Over the last six years, he has developed the firm's machine readable news product portfolio including its award-winning News Analytics system which analyzes news and social media for attributes including entities, topics, sentiment, relevance, novelty, and psychological metrics. An expert in the application of text analytics for finance, Rich's experience encompasses analysis of unstructured data and natural language processing techniques designed to uncover alpha generating and risk mitigating strategies.

Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Rich co-founded and was the Chief Operating Officer at Foresight Research Solutions, LLC, a New York-based independent research firm and member of the NASD and SIPC. Before Foresight, Rich was a senior client manager for IBM in New York.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Management and International Business from The Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business.

Sean Bruich leads Facebook's measurement platforms and standards team. Sean and his team are responsible for measuring how advertising and branded content impact user's behaviors and perceptions, and for developing and standardizing methodologies for evaluating the effectiveness of marketing programs. Before joining Facebook, Sean was with Google's Customer Labs and Quantitative Marketing groups, where he managed Google's quantitative advertiser research and developed advertising effectiveness measurement tools for advertisers. Sean studied at Stanford University, where his research utilized brain-imaging technologies such as fMRI and EEG.

Conway leads a business development team at Twitter focused on global strategic partnerships related to web syndication and the data ecosystem. He also manages the team responsible for Twitter Certified Products Program. Prior to joining Twitter in 2012, Conway was Head of Strategy and General Counsel at Striiv, a consumer electronics startup in the health and fitness space. Earlier in his career, he served in both a business development and legal capacity at Google and YouTube, spending time focused on new business initiatives and product launches domestically and abroad, with a particular focus on China and SE Asia.

Conway earned a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University and a J.D. from Duke University.

Dr. Emery is currently a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For the past 16 years, she has conducted research on tobacco control policies and their relationship to both adult and youth smoking behavior. She is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Health Media Collaboratory, a multi-disciplinary research center, which focuses on the role of both traditional and social media on health behaviors, including smoking, illicit drug use, obesity, and pharmaceutical promotions.

Susan Etlinger is an industry analyst at Altimeter Group, where she works with global companies to develop both social media listening and measurement strategies that support their business objectives. Previously, Susan was a Senior Vice President at Horn Group, where she pioneered the agency's social strategy offering, advising start-ups to Fortune 500 companies on social media best practices and strategic plan development. Susan has a bachelor's degree in rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley.

Daniel Ha is the CEO and Co-Founder of Disqus. Daniel's background is in product design and web development. Previously, Daniel studied computer science engineering at UC Davis before deciding to drop out of school to pursue the startup world. Disqus is the web's most ubiquitous discussion network, reaching nearly one billion unique visitors every month and spanning nearly any topic or type of community imaginable.

Mike joined Foursquare in 2012 to lead its platform business development efforts. Previously, he served as General Manager at Songkick (the leading concert discovery service) and Category Manager at eBay. He received an MBA from Stanford University, where he is the author of over 20 business school case studies.

Maya Harris is the Sr. Director of Business Development at GetGlue, the leading social network for entertainment check-ins. She is focused on user growth and distribution of GetGlue check-ins across major media properties as well as brand engagement. Users check-in to GetGlue to share what they are watching, listening to and reading with friends; get fresh recommendations, exclusive stickers, discounts and other rewards from their favorite TV shows and movies. Maya came to GetGlue from Yahoo! and worked has worked at start-ups and major media companies in the US and Mexico. Maya studied International Relations and Business at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.

Daniel is a Brazilian entrepreneur who has founded more than 10 tech companies in the last 15 years in Brazil. He is now helping Scup to become an international company.

Dr. Hendrickson is the Principal Data Scientist at Gnip, the world's largest and most trusted provider of social data. At Gnip, he is responsible for data science projects that help Gnip and Gnip's customers understand and more effectively use social media data from publishers including Twitter, Tumblr, WordPress, Disqus, StockTwits. He is interested in discovering patterns, creating useful models and sharing a deeper understanding of how and why people use social media publishers, how information travels and why and what people choose to share.

Zach is Manager, Certified Program at Twitter. Prior to this role, Zach was an Analyst at Forrester Research focusing on social intelligence—the process of driving business insight with social media data. His research focused on the applications of using social media data for the enterprise, the process of identifying actionable insight from online conversation, and the technology and service vendors that make managing social media data possible.

Prior to joining Forrester in 2008, Zach ran the social media strategy arm of a UK-based marketing firm, where he developed a social media monitoring tool and delivered social business strategies. His work involved building and advising on corporate blogs, planning social media marketing campaigns, developing corporate social media strategies, and driving social media monitoring and measurement initiatives.

In this role, he is responsible for the creation and dissemination of valuable information from the quoting and trading in NASDAQ OMX's trading systems worldwide. Mr. Hyndman oversees various internal teams, including Sales, Product Management, Content Administration & Policy, and New Business Development.

He previously served as Senior Vice President of Transaction Services and was responsible for managing operations of U.S. equities trading platforms including The NASDAQ Stock Market, NASDAQ OMX BX and NASDAQ OMX PSX.

Prior to joining NASDAQ in 2004, Mr. Hyndman was the President of BRUT, an electronic communications network (ECN) that competed with the various equity markets in the U.S. He presided over the BRUT's merger with Strike Technologies in 2000, the sale of BRUT to Sungard Data Systems in 2002 and the eventual sale of BRUT to The NASDAQ Stock Market in 2004.

Prior to joining BRUT, Mr. Hyndman served as Vice President of Execution Services for the National Discount Brokers Group, managing 120 employees. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the State University of New York at Oswego. Mr. Hyndman also holds numerous licenses from the National Association of Securities Dealers, including the 4, 7, 24, 27, 53 and 63.

Rob is the Vice President of Product and Strategy at Gnip, the world's largest and most trusted provider of social data. At Gnip, Rob Johnson is responsible for driving the development and production of Gnip's products. He also plays an integral role in working with Gnip's social media publishers to make more public data available in the social data ecosystem. Previously, Rob was the co-founder of EventVue, and took part in the inaugural class of TechStars. Rob graduated from Clemson with a BS in Computer Engineering.

Heidi is the global product lead and Managing Director at Markit, a leading global financial information services company. At Markit, Heidi drives the strategy, development and production of products and services focused on identity management, collaboration and social data for the financial services industry. Prior to Markit, Heidi was the GM for digital strategy and development at a global investment bank. She received both her Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

Tumblr founder David Karp was born and raised in New York City, attending the Bronx High School Science before dropping out at age 15. An internship at Frederator Studios led to a gig leading product at UrbanBaby. When CNET acquired the company in 2005, Karp started his own development agency, Davidville. In 2007 his team launched Tumblr, now the home and platform for more than 70 million creators. As a top 15 US network, Tumblr serves an audience of more than 145 million people worldwide.

Abe Kazemzadeh is the chief technology officer of the Annenberg Innovation Lab (AIL), which is in the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. His roles include technical and scientific research, collaboration with AIL sponsors, project management, and software engineering. His technical experience includes natural language processing, speech recognition, human-computer interaction, affective computing, sentiment analysis, and computer-aided education. He has a bachelors degree in linguistics, a masters degree in computational linguistics, and a PhD in computer science, all from the University of Southern California.

Throughout his undergraduate and graduate studies, he was a member of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL), where he studied dialog agent design and evaluation, technology-based assessment of spoken language and literacy, and emotion recognition. His PhD dissertation, Natural Language Description of Emotion, is about how people describe emotions using natural language and how computers can understand and generate such language.

Adam Laiacano is a Data Scientist and Engineer at Tumblr, a blogging network with over 100 million blogs, where he's responsible for collecting and analyzing large volumes of data to gain a better understanding of trends and activity within the Tumblr community. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, and designed signal detection systems for low-power atomic clocks before joining Tumblr.

John Lovett is a veteran industry analyst and expert consultant who has spent the past decade helping organizations to understand and measure their digital marketing activities. Prior to joining Web Analytics Demystified, John was a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research where he led the Analytics and Optimization practice. John is currently the President on the Board of Directors for the Digital Analytics Association and author of Social Media Metrics Secrets.

As Vice President of Platform Services, Paul heads up Automattic's WordPress.com VIP services, and helps support and expand that program by identifying new business opportunities and spearheading new products and partnerships.

Prior to joining Automattic, Paul oversaw engineering, digital product, and design for Mansueto Ventures (publishers of Fast Company and Inc.) as their Chief Technology Officer. Previously he ran a small interactive agency, providing product strategy and technology consulting services for media and entertainment companies.

Will Mayo is the Director of Business Development for Government and Professional Services at Gnip. In this role, Will is responsible for identifying new opportunities for organizations to leverage social media data to better understand and improve improve customer relationships.

Prior to joining Gnip, Will served as a Senior Manager in Deloitte Consulting's Strategy and Operations group. In this capacity, Will provided strategic planning, customer relationship management, and data analytics expertise to address various clients within the government and non-profit sector.

Will has a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech and MBA from the University of Colorado - Boulder.

Chris Moody currently serves as the President and COO of Gnip, the world's largest and most trusted provider of social data. In this role, Moody is responsible for the day-to-day execution of Gnip's operations with direct responsibility for sales, marketing, finance, and business development.

Prior to joining Gnip, Moody served as Founder and President of Aquent On Demand, a leading provider of technology solutions for creative and marketing organizations. Prior to his responsibilities with Aquent On Demand, Moody served as Aquent's Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for the day-to-day management of more than 700 employees across 70 offices in 17 countries. Before joining Aquent, Moody served in senior management and technology consulting roles with IBM, Oracle, and EDS where he led engagements with more than 25 Fortune 500 companies.

Moody serves on the National Technical Advisory Board of Year Up, is an advisor to several technology startups, and is an active TechStars mentor. He also facilitates a monthly CEO Lunch for startups in Boulder. Moody has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University.

After graduating from the University of Tsukuba in 1989, Akira Morikawa entered Nippon Television Network Corporation and was assigned to the Systems Division. There, he engaged in a wide range of media businesses, focusing upon new projects in the fields of Internet advertising, video distribution, mobile services, in addition to both BS digital and international broadcasting. While involved in these new projects, he attended the Graduate School of International Politics, Economics and Communication at Aoyama Gakuin University, acquiring an MBA degree in 1999.

In 2000, he joined Sony Corporation where he was at first responsible for the new mobile contents business and later for the broadband service (for the content delivery company, AII Corporation launched together by Sony, Tokyu and Toyota). Functioning as the leader of the contents business, he was involved in the planning, services and sales as well as marketing of the projects.

Whilst learning about Korea's advanced broadband systems, he realized its high potential and saw a clear future in online gaming. He entered Hangame Japan Corporation (the former NHN Japan Corporation) in 2003 and later, in August of that year, was appointed for the important role as Senior Executive of the Hangame Division.

After being promoted to Director in September 2004, he supervised the Corporate Planning Department, and in October 2006, became Executive Vice-President, continuing his role of managing both the Business and Corporate Planning Departments.

He was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of NHN Japan in October 2007. In November, later that year, when NAVER Japan Corporation was established, he was also appointed as Chief Executive Officer of NAVER Japan; in addition to the post of CEO at the former NHN Japan.

After the business merger of January 2012, where NHN Japan Corporation successfully integrated with the corporation's 3 groups—NAVER Japan, Livedoor, and NHN Japan, Akira Morikawa continued his role as CEO, overlooking the entire company, as well as serving as the head of the Games Division.

In April 2013, he was appointed as CEO of LINE Corporation as a result of the company separation of NHN Japan Corporation and the subsequent change to its company name.

Shawn Rogers is Vice President Research for Business Intelligence at Enterprise Management Associates a leading analyst and consulting firm.

Shawn has more than 19 years of hands-on IT experience. Prior to joining EMA he co-founded the BeyeNETWORK, a global online publication covering business intelligence, data warehousing, performance management and data integration. He was also a partner at DMReview magazine (now Information Management) and has held various executive level positions with technology companies.

Steve Roy leads marketing and communications for Disqus. He's a 15 year veteran of storytelling for technology-driven organizations. Prior to joining Disqus, Steve spent five years in the New York office of Edelman where he co-led the firm's brand positioning practice. Steve is a graduate of Boston College.

Jaime Settle received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at San Diego, and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Government at the College of William & Mary. Jaime incorporates data and methods from the natural sciences into her research to help explain fundamental aspects of political behavior. Her dissertation examined how innate differences between people—genetic, psychological, and personality—moderate the effect of exposure to political contention on voter turnout. She is also interested in the potential of large-scale datasets derived from online social networks (such as Facebook) to refine an understanding of the effects of our social network on how we think, feel and behave politically. Her work has been published in the journals Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and American Politics Research. Her work with her colleagues has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and on National Public Radio.

Mohammad is the Manager for Data Science and Infrastructure at Pinterest, where he works on data infrastructure and analytics. Before Pinterest, he did data analysis for ads and search-based startups, and cofounded a consumer healthcare startup. He's got a B.S. in computer science and engineering from UCLA.

Paul Smalera is Technology Editor for Reuters.com, where he was previously Deputy Opinion Editor. Prior to joining Reuters, he was Senior Editor leading technology coverage at Fortune.com, and Staff Writer at Condé Nast Portfolio. His writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post and Slate's The Big Money.

Jason leads Thomson Reuters Special Services' innovation initiatives. He likes to solve national security and intelligence problems through gaming, collective intelligence, social data, virtual environments, and mobile applications.

Kostas is a Software Engineer in the Search and Relevance team at Twitter. He is responsible for analyzing the Twitter stream to generate Trending Topics. Prior to joining Twitter, Kostas was a Research Engineer at Yahoo! Labs where he first worked on Search Relevance and later managed the Social and Realtime team. Kostas holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Patras University, Greece, and a PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University.

1995 – Became a development member of one of the first internet search engines in Japan while obtaining his Master's degree at the University of Tokyo.

1997 – Left the University of Tokyo during his PhD and joined the search engine venture company, which he co-founded in his school years. Developed many advanced web systems.

2000 – Founded Hottolink Inc. as CEO. Lead development of search engine, social bookmarking services, search engine based on bookmarked social data, recommendation engine, blog mining service and other Web 2.0 services. Author of "How to live in a virtual world" and other books. Visiting professor of Digital HollyWood University.

Jud Valeski is co-founder and CEO of Gnip, the world's largest and most trusted provider of social data. From client-side consumer facing products to large scale backend infrastructure projects, he has enjoyed working with technology for over twenty years. He's been a part of engineering, product, and M&A teams at IBM, Netscape, onebox.com, AOL, and me.dium. He has played a central role in the release of a wide range of products used by tens of millions of people worldwide.

Jud pursues big ideas that have the potential to change large scale behavior. He lives passionately in Boulder, CO with his wife and two children.

Thomas Watson is the Vice President of U.S. Derivatives Market Data and Partner Products at NYSE Euronext. Tom is responsible for real-time and historical market data for NYSE Euronext's U.S. proprietary derivatives markets, NYSE Arca options, NYSE AMEX Options, and NYSE Liffe US, as well as synthetic and partner products.

Tom joined NYSE Technologies after 5 years at trading software vendors, Orc Software and Trading Technologies, where he oversaw product management for connectivity to the world's markets. Tom also spent 10 years at ABN AMRO in a variety of roles within the fixed income and derivatives trading businesses.

Tom has a Bachelor's Degree from Wabash College, and an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.