Speakers:

•  Mark Dowds, CEO, Brainpark
  Mark Dowds is an original thinker, entrepreneur, coach, and leader. He is known for his deep insight into people, relational dynamics, and his systems perspective on organizational development. His ability to explain and process communicational barriers and opportunities has helped many organizations navigate bureaucracy, retain staff, and create a high performing culture.
  
  Mark's soft skills and smile often disarm people and make the space for firm and straight communication. His no nonsense style of facilitation helps clients get to their desired outcome while actively engaging in the process. He typically utilizes a dry sense of wit, humor, and creativity that makes for some great motivational and inspiring communication. He loves to see people's eyes light up as they discover their passion and place at work and is committed to drawing out the best in each person he meets.
  
  Mark has instructionally designed many eLearning and classroom training experiences and has published several books which gives structure to his hobby of writing. Mark is a certified NLP trainer from the NLP University in Santa Cruz, California and is currently completing his masters in Organizational Psychology focusing on Systems Psychodynamics. He has a certificate in Business Development and Marketing, a diploma in Care and Counseling, and a degree in Divinity. He sits on the Board of Directors for the Ireland Fund of Canada and Give Meaning Foundation.
  
  Some of the clients Mark has worked with include Amex, Royal Bank of Canada, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Rogers Communication, Youth Specialties, CIBC, and many funded start-ups. He is the co-founder of Brainpark, Inc., comes from Ireland and resides in San Francisco, USA.
  
  
•  Jonathan Yarmis, Research Director, AMR Research
  Jonathan Yarmis has over 25 years of experience in the technology industry. At AMR Research, he is responsible for studying advanced, emerging, and disruptive technologies such as social networks, mobility, and location-based technologies.
  
  Before AMR Research, Jonathan was the senior vice president of analyst relations at Hill & Knowlton, where he was responsible for providing strategic positioning and messaging support to clients such as HP, Yahoo, Motorola, Business Objects, QUALCOMM, Symantec, CA, Verisign, and Deloitte Consulting.
  
  Prior to Hill & Knowlton, Jonathan worked as vice president of enterprise strategies at Waggener Edstrom Strategic Communications. Jonathan has also held various senior level positions at media and research companies including Gartner, Inc., where he spent 10 years as an industry analyst.
  
  Jonathan received his BA from Hamilton College.
  
  
•  Reuven Cohen, Founder & CTO, Enomaly
  Reuven is a trusted adviser to client executives with strong team leadership, interpersonal and business skills gained at the technical development and ownership level. Extensive system design and implementation skills gained from designing, developing and implementing systems critical to business success for a variety of industries. Experienced at defining a strategic direction and developing the organizational consensus necessary to execute a successful strategy. Capable of leading teams and extracting business value from the application of innovative technology to intractable business challenges.
  
  Reuven was recently awarded the 2006 FITC Canadian Software Developer of the Year and was newly elected to the board of Advisors at Seneca-York University. He frequently speaks at conferences in Canada, US and Europe. He is extremely knowledgeable in all facets of emerging enterprise technologies.
  
  
•  Hooman Beheshti, VP Product Engineering, Strangeloop Networks
  With over 15 years of experience working in the networking technology realm, Hooman is well versed in load balancing, application acceleration, and content delivery networks. He previously served as the VP of Technology for Crescendo networks and the CTO for Radware Inc., where his insights and technical expertise helped bring innovative, award winning networking products to market. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, he helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware. Hooman’s experience ranges from defining and driving the development for load balancing, web acceleration, and application delivery products, to leading the technical evangelism initiatives behind them. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine.
  
  
•  Bryan Bogensberger, CEO, ReasonablySmart
  Since graduating from Wilfrid Laurier University, Bryan spent the first 8 years of his career in sales, marketing and operations management in the corporate world with the Frito-Lay and Future Electronics. He then started his software career with satellite messaging software provider, Dolphin Software. After a year with Dolphin he co-founded a SaaS Marketing Operations Management company, Marketingisland, at which he was President and CEO for 8 years.
  
  
•  James Duncan, CTO, ReasonablySmart
  James is a veteren of many startups, most successful, some not. James spent 7 years at Fotango as the CIO, where he was responsible for much of the thinking that went into the Zimki platform. Having spent a year working on a SaaS application with Marketingisland in Montreal, James is diving back into the Platform-as-a-Service space with Reasonably Smart.
  
  
•  Vishy Gopalakrishnan, Founder and CTO, Mobility Partners
  Vishy works with enterprise customers to envision and deploy wireless mobility solutions. He is a co-author of Work Goes Mobile: Nokia's Lessons from the Leading Edge (John Wiley & Sons), which traces Nokia's experience leveraging mobility technologies to transform itself into a truly mobile enterprise.
  
  Prior to co-founding Mobility Partners, Vishy was part of Nokia's Enterprise Solutions group, where he worked with Global 1000 customers to create mobility strategies, deploy line-of-business mobility applications, and develop effective methods to address the impacts of wireless mobility on IT operations and security. He also drove original thought-leadership activities in collaboration with institutions such as Stanford University. Prior to Nokia, he worked at Capgemini (formerly Ernst & Young Consulting) and Motorola.
  
  He maintains a blog at vishygopalakrishnan.blogspot.com.
  
  
•  Felipe Coimbra, Founder, YOWtrip
  Mr. Coimbra is a software engineering graduate of Auburn University. He has worked with web development for over five years and has experience with programming, designing, and marketing Web sites.
  
  He has founded two internet companies: I-stats and YowTrip. Originally from Salvador, Brazil, he is fluent in Portuguese, English, and French.
  
  
• Steve Wylie, General Manager and Conference Director, TechWeb
• Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group
• John P. Pironti, CGEIT, CISA, CISM, CISSP, ISSAP, ISSMP, Chief Information Risk Strategist, CompuCom
• Thomas Vander Wal, Principal & Senior Consultant, InfoCloud Solutions, Inc.