Chris Aliberti

Vice President

Insight Investments Corp

Chris has been in the technology business for 23 years having started in Networking for the first 13 years and then moving into the data storage and protection field. His career began in technical architecture and design with Telco and Cisco, moved into sales at Cisco and then Storage and data protection sales for EMC, then NetApp. After several years in sales Chris moved into a channel sales role followed by a Distribution manger role, Sales Manager and presently the Vice President of Sales for Insight Integrated Systems, a Division of Insight Investments Corp.

Chris Brogan

Vice President of Strategy and Technology

CrossTech Media

Chris Brogan has over 16 years of telecommunications and enterprise technology experience, including software release engineering, project management, data center planning, and solutions architecture. He left the enterprise behind in 2006 to work on events in the burgeoning field of Internet video, social media, and social computing technologies. Chris is co-founder of the PodCamp unconference series, which launched over 30 events all over the world to promote the understanding and use of podcasting, videoblogging, and other social media technologies to build relationships and extend communities. He has blogged since 1998 (when it was called "journaling"), and keeps a blog at http://chrisbrogan.com/

Cameron Byers

Customer Support Manager

Astaro

At Astaro Corporation Cameron leads customer and partner technical support as the Support Engineering Manager for North and South America. Cameron currently holds diplomas in Electronics, Network and Telecommunications engineering. A career in the Canadian military, prior to joining the Astaro engineering team gives Cameron a firm understanding on the importance of infrastructure and data security for today's networks.

Peter Chianchiano

Territory Sales Manager

Raritan

Peter Chianchiano is the Raritan Territory Sales Manager for Southern California and the state of Arizona. Raritan is the leading supplier of solutions that securely monitor, access, control and manage IT devices in the datacenter. Peter has extensive experience in the datacenter having been involved in hundreds of installations designed and improving efficiency.

Peter has over 20 years of IT experience and has worked at American Power Conversion, Dell and Cisco. He is a member of AFCOM and takes part in the local chapter of the VM Ware users groups.

James Gaskin

Author and Columnist

James Gaskin has been solving computer and network problems for businesses small and large since 1984. He also writes books, articles, and jokes about technology AND real life. In 16 books and hundreds of articles, network consultant Gaskin tells people faster, cheaper, newer, and smarter ways to connect to each other and the world. A founding member of the Network World Lab Alliance, Gaskin focuses on small office issues and product testing. He is the leading voice for the small business market through his long-running Small Business Technology newsletter distributed by Network World. As a speaker, Gaskin travels the country in Hawaiian shirts helping people laugh at their IT pain while teaching them new ways to put technology to work. In venues such as Network World Technology Tours and seminars at leading industry conventions such as Networld + InterOp, Gaskin delivers objective information stripped of marketing hype in his trademark "unbiased and unboring" style. When avoiding computers, Gaskin plays classical chamber music on the violin and tennis (but not at the same time) in the Dallas area.

Rob Hollis

Wireless Broadband Sales Manager

Day Wireless Systems

Alexander Mak

Systems Engineer

Hummingbird

Alexander Mak is a Systems Engineer with Hummingbird and has over five years of experience resolving issues and implementing solutions using Humming Connectivity and 12 years experience in the IT industry. He has been involved with implementing solutions for different verticals including semiconductor, financial, US government, military and medical organizations.

Mike Mogavero

Data Sytem World Wide

Randy Montoya

Sales Director

BridgeWave Communications

Sean Percival

seanpercival.com

Sean Percival is a web developer and author with many years experience of messing around on the Internet for fun and profit. He has been featured in Forbes Magazine, The Orange County Register and several online publications. Sean Percival lives in Hollywood, California with his wife Laurie.

Judy Ravin

President

Accent Reduction Institute (ARI)

Judy Ravin is the President of the Accent Reduction Institute (ARI) and author of nationally best selling computer-based learning systems for rapid American accent training. Ravin has acquired international acclaim for her system that enables people to quickly master techniques for American pronunciation and effective communication. Judy and her faculty also provide the program,?Building Bridges: Eliminating Language Barriers?? which teaches English speakers how to ?tune their ear? to different accents.

Clients include: General Motors, Cisco, Pfizer, Compuware, the National Education Association, Cornell University, as well as Fortune 100 companies, universities and US Federal agencies. Ravin and her methods have been featured in the New York Times and Computerworld Magazine as well as on CNN.com, Yahoo!Finance, NPR, and NBC National Nightly News with Brian Williams.

Dean Richardson

Vice President of Sales

ArcMail Technology

Coy Thorp

Regional Sales Engineer

WatchGuard Technologies

15+ years experience in technology, including helpdesk, hardware engineering, and network administration and management. I worked primarily in the Silicon Valley software development industry, with a focus on highly-available business applications and software-as-a-service offerings for large pharmaceutical and bio-tech customers. My direction for the past 7+ years has been defending corporate data in an ever-changing threat environment, without sacrificing business flexibility.

Jim Torres

Sr. Systems Engineer

Fluke Networks

Jim Torres, Sr. Systems Engineer at Fluke Networks, helps customers analyze and diagnose their data networks. At Fluke Networks Torres is responsible for helping customers understand the strategic importance of network monitoring and analysis, using Fluke Networks solutions to increase the value of IT departments and improving the companies? business. Torres has more than 15 years experience working with IT departments both internationally and domestically in the computer, oil and manufacturing industries as well as the IT departments of the federal, state, county and city levels.

David Troup

CEO & Founder

MailFoundry

Labeled a "serial entrepreneur" by colleagues, David has been starting successful companies since he was in high school during the first PC revolution. David founded MailFoundry to bring continuity back to email in a world where, as he puts it, "anti-spam has ruined email." David operates as a hands-on CEO, overseeing new product development and engineering as well as field marketing and business development. With a BS degree in Artificial Intelligence and a lifetime of applications "visioneering", David not only knows the ins and outs of the architecture and coding behind his products, he has the understanding and vision of where communications and technology are headed and how they are changing the way we work and live.