Keynote Profiles

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  Guy Kawasaki Managing Director

  Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of nine books including Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
  
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/guykawasaki
  Blog: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/
  Twitter: @guykawasaki

   

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  Jeremiah Owyang Partner, Customer Strategy

  Jeremiah Owyang is a Partner focused on customer strategy at Altimeter Group and author of the popular blog “Web Strategy,” which focuses on how corporations connect with their customers using Web technologies.  According to Technorati, the Web Strategy blog is in the top 1% of all blogs, and has over 40,000 subscribed readers.
  
  Hailing from enterprise web management and a former industry analyst, Jeremiah consults and speaks on the topics of disruptive technologies for brand-related customer strategies.
  
  In the realm of disruptive technologies, Jeremiah is frequently sought after and has appeared on Bloomberg TV and is quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USAToday, the Associated Press and other technology and business related publications.  He was featured in the 2009 “Who’s Who” in the Silicon Valley Business Journal.  As a speaker, he has keynoted the Internet Strategy Forum, Web 2.0 Expo, SXSW, and dozens of other venues.
  
  Previously, Jeremiah was a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, focused on social computing for the interactive marketer.  Prior to that, was the Director of Corporate Media Strategy at PodTech Network, a podcasting and online video startup.  From 2005-2007 Jeremiah held the title of Manager of Global Web Marketing at Hitachi Data Systems and launched the community and blog program.  He also served as the Intranet Architect at World Savings (now Wells Fargo) and was a user experience professional at Exodus Communications.
  
  Jeremiah is active within the Web community and has hosted workshops, events, and community tweetups across the globe.  He’s active on Twitter as well and has over 52,000 followers.  He earned a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing from San Francisco State University.
  
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jowyang
  Blog: http://web-strategist.com/blog
  Twitter: @jowyang

   

   

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  Robert Scoble Top 100 Tech Blogger and Community Builder

  Robert Scoble is a top 100 tech blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He currently works for Rackspace and is building a community for people fanatical about the Internet called Building 43. He previously worked for Fast Company as a video blogger. He is also the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, with Shel Israel.
  
  Blog: http://scobleizer.com/
  Twitter: @Scobleizer

   

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