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Amy Ray

Amy Ray has been making her solo music in between Indigo Girls' records and gigs for the past 12 years. She started an indie label, Daemon Records in 1989. After releasing over 40 records by her favorite artist, in 2000 she decided to venture into making her own music, influenced by punk, rock, and appalachian music. Ray took writing cues and musical inspiration from many of the artist on her label and bands she had met through the underground community. Her first record Stag featured her partnership with punk icons, The Butchies, along with The Rockateens and Joan Jett. Her second release Pro… Read more

SXSW Music Accelerator: Round One A Pitches SXSW Music Accelerator: Round One B Pitches

Amy Rosen

GREY nyc
Amy Rosen has music supervised ads, film and television. She's honored to have had the chance to work with Leonard Cohen, Morphine, Ray Charles, Bjork, Ray Davies, Nick Cave, Arcade Fire, Jim Steinman and countless other brilliant musicians.

Cash For Songs: Insider Secrets of Music Placement

Amy Sample Ward

Membership Dir
NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network
Amy Sample Ward is a blogger, facilitator and trainer focused on leveraging social technologies for social change. In 2009, she co-authored Social by Social: A practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact, and has contributed to various other publications about social media. She is a conversation-starter and thought-leader, writing about strategic uses of new technologies for communities and organizations on her blog (AmySampleWard.org) and the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIReview.com/Opinion).

Social Media Boundaries: Personal/Personnel Policy

Amy Seimetz

Dir

Shooting and Editing the Non Scripted Feature

Amy Snyder

Comm Specialist
Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District
Amy Snyder graduated with honors from the University of Illinois in 2010 with a double degree in Communication and Rhetoric. Since July 2010, she has worked at the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District as the Communications Specialist. Her position was created for social media and transmitting information. Amy manages the transit agency’s pages on five social networks and also writes a blog and enewsletter.

Sexy Data Solutions for Public Transit Systems

Amy Thibodeau

Content Strategist
Facebook
In May of 2010 I left my job as head of marketing for a London-based digital agency to travel around the world for a year. While visiting places like Australia, Japan, Thailand and Laos, I co-founded a content strategy agency and spent a lot of time thinking about what makes content good.

Copy Matters: Content Strategy for the Interface

Amy Todenhagen

Assoc Experience Dir
Razorfish
Amy Todenhagen is an Associate Experience Director at Razorfish were she creates and implements digital strategies and user experiences for clients across industries, including retail, media and automotive. She received a Masters in Information Management and Systems from UC Berkeley, focusing on human-computer interaction. Amy moved from San Francisco to New York to avoid Bay Area traffic.

Connected Cars, Connected Cities and Urban Driving

Amy Vernon

Head Honcho
amyvernon.net
Amy spent nearly 20 years as a professional daily newspaper journalist before the Great Newspaper Culling of 2008. She made a seamless transformation from old media to new and has been featured in articles in a variety of publications and sites, including the New York Times and Venture Beat and has written for a variety of websites including The Next Web, Network World and the SourceForge blog.

Branded Content: We're All Publishers Now

Amy Webb

CEO
Webbmedia Group
Amy is an author, speaker and future thinker, adapting current and emerging technologies for use in communications. She has spent close to 20 years working with digital media, founding several web-based companies and now advising various startups, retailers, government agencies and media organizations as well as Webbmedia Group's clients all over the world.

I Used Data Analytics to Game Online Dating

Ana Andjelic

Digital Strategist
Droga5

Your Social Media Job Is Dead: Now What?

Anastasia Goodstein

VP Digital Svcs
Ad Council
Anastasia serves as Vice President of the Advertising Council’s Digital group where she manages the team in charge of digital and social strategy for all Ad Council campaigns as well as AdCouncil.org. Prior to joining the Ad Council, she lead the product development and marketing for the Inspire USA Foundation’s primary service, ReachOut.com, a digital space for teens struggling with depression or other mental health issues. She has worked in media for the past 15+ years and helped launch youth oriented web and television properties for brands like Oxygen, AOL and … Read more

Reaching Teens on the Digital Streets

Andi Shively

Former Co-Dir
Cooperation Texas

Tech Cooperatives: A Better Way to Make a Living

Andie Grace

Comm & Regional Network Mgr
Burning Man

Burning Man Meet Up

Andre Blackman

Founder/Managing Editor
Pulse+Signal

Digital Health: Borrow from Developing Countries?

Andrea Hickerson

Asst Professor, Department of Comm
Rochester Institute of Technology
Andrea is an assistant professor of Journalism in the Department of Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology. She teaches class in journalism and new media. In 2010 she received a Knight grant to create a platform for crowd-sourced coverage of a live event using mobile phones. Andrea also conducts research on political and transnational communication. She moonlights as a blogger for the local paper.

Binary Bitches: Keeping Open Source Open to Women

Andrea Leonelli

Content Ops Mgr
MXP4
Andrea works as Content Operations Manager at social music gaming start-up MXP4. He also hosts the podcast Digital Music Trends that he started in April 2009; a show complemented by a blog completely dedicated to digital music technology companies (www.digitalmusictrends.com). Andrea graduated from Salford University with a BA in Popular Music and Recording Techniques and an MA in Composition and spent four years working for Universal Music in London.

The Evolution Of Music Discovery In The Cloud

Andrea Miller

CEO & Founder
Yourtango.com
Andrea Miller is the founder and CEO of YourTango, a digital media brand dedicated to love and relationships. YourTango offers award-winning content, community and connections to relationship experts. No matter which lovestage its users are in--single, taken, engaged, married, starting over, or complicated--YourTango helps them live their best love lives.

The Algorithm Method: Love in the Social Media Age

Andrea Phillips

Transmedia Creator
Deus Ex Machinatio
Andrea Phillips is a transmedia writer and game designer. Her work includes a variety of educational and commercial projects, including Routes Game, Perplex City, The 2012 Experience for Sony Pictures, Cathy’s Key, and True Blood.

A Creator's Guide to Transmedia Storytelling

Andrea Quijada

Executive Director
Media Literacy Project

Mega-Mergers & the Future of the Internet

Andrea Schulle

Principal
As Such Communications
Andrea Schulle is the principal of As Such Communications, a communication and event strategy, design and execution firm in Austin. Andrea specializes in partnering with inspired clients that are ready to maximize their marketing dollars by implementing creative and innovative communications strategy and campaigns. She also co-founded PR Soup, a collaborative blog site where she and her colleagues serve up PR and marketing advice for entrepreneurs, solopreneurs and small business owners.

Social Flubs: Can Bad Publicity Be Good?

Andrea Schwalmstolz

Editor & Core Contributor
GeekMom
Andrea is an editor and core contributor at GeekMom.com who writes often about parenting, special education, or the arts. In a second career, she co-facilitates multi-family counseling sessions as a NYS "Family Development Credentialed" parent advocate. She has passed on a love of photography and film editing to her two teenaged sons, as well as a fascination with aliens, zombies, and post-apocalyptic survival.

The GeekFamily Guide To the Movies

Andrea Vaccari

Cofounder and CEO
Glancee
Andrea Vaccari is the Cofounder and CEO of Glancee, a mobile app that makes it easy to meet people with common friends and similar interests. Previously he worked at Google on Maps, and at MIT and SFI to investigate people's lifestyle through their interaction with digital technologies. His work has been exhibited at the MoMA in New York City and the Design Museum in Barcelona, Spain.

Social Discovery and the New Startup Scene

Andrea Von Foerster

Music Supervisor
Firestarter Music
Andrea has done music supervision for film, television and online projects for over ten years. Credits include music documentaries such as The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights and Butch Walker: Out Of Focus. Independent films such as (500) Days Of Summer, It’s Kind of A Funny Story, From Prada To Nada, Bellflower and Excision. And studio films such as Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Chronicle and Chasing Mavericks. Television work includes The O.C., Grey’s Anatomy, Dollhouse and Stargate Universe and numerous MTV shows such as Run’s House… Read more

The Recipe For Success: Old School vs. New School

Andrei Scheinkman

Interactive News Editor
The Huffington Post

Content and Coding Are Not Commodities

Andres Levin

Producer
AMOR CRONICO

Is There a Latin Alternative?

Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Postdoctoral Fellow
Microsoft Research it Media Lab
Post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research and a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. He is the creator of the Scratch Online Community, a website where young people create, share, and remix their animations and video games. His research on online collaboration has examined issues ranging from remix culture, copyright, and, more recently, social media in wartime. His work has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, Wired, and has received awards from Ars Electronica, andthe MacArthur Digital Media and Learning C… Read more

Designing Creative Online Communities for Kids

Andrés Traslaviña MS Ed

Sr Business Consultant/Dir LaTam
Talent Plus Inc
Andrés holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s degree in Education/Psychology, both from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He lived and studied in Japan’s Sapporo University as part of their study abroad program. Andrés leads the Latin American expansion for his company, he worked in higher education as a Director of Admissions and Marketing, Guest Satisfaction Trainer for Japan’s Renaissance Sapporo Hotel, and in guest relations at Walt Disney World.

Social Media in Colombia: An Agent for Change

Andrew Bujalski

Andrew Bujalski wrote & directed the films Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation, and Beeswax.

Mentors - Filmmakers 2: Narrative

Andrew Busey

Venture Partner
Austin Ventures

Investments in Austin Technology

Andrew Coulton

Mr
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Andrew Coulton is the Administrative Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival and a Director of Festivals Edinburgh - the high-level organisation created in 2007 by the Directors of Edinburgh’s 12 major festivals to lead on their joint strategic development and maintain their global competitive edge.

Open Art, Open Audiences: The Edinburgh Festivals

Andrew Crow

VP, Experience Design
GE
Design Director at GE. Speaker, designer, strategist. Past lives include VP at Razorfish and designer at Adaptive Path. I like to poke things with sticks.

Designing for Context

Andrew Dalack

University Of Michigan Law School

Transnational Beats: Muslim Americans and Hip Hop

Andrew Glasgow

VP
MTV

Crowdsourcing: Next Gen Consumers in the Driver's Seat

Andrew Gruen

PhD Candidate
University of Cambridge
Andrew is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Sociology, where he studies news organizations. He is also a visiting scholar at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. His dissertation is investigating viability models for born-digital, accountability journalism producing news enterprises.

Reporters & Evangelists: Politics of Online News

Andrew Hampp

Sr Correspondent-Branding
Billboard

Importance of Online Video and Social Media

Andrew Hsu

CEO and Founder
Airy Labs

Social, Mobile, Location-Based Games

Andrew Hurwitz

Schreck Rose Dapello Adams & Hurwitz LLP
Andrew Hurwitz is a partner in the Entertainment Group at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. He has represented award-winning entertainment talent and leading media companies for almost 20 years, and is widely considered one of the nation’s top film and television industry lawyers.

Maximizing Film Revenues

Andrew Keen

The antichrist of Silicon Valley
Keen Productions

Digital Vertigo

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Group Prod Mgr, Accessibility
Adobe Systems Inc
Andrew Kirkpatrick is Group Product Manager for Accessibility at Adobe Systems. Andrew’s team attends to accessibility issues with product teams across the Adobe product line and works with customers and standards groups, including representing Adobe on the FCC Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee, offering guidance for implementation of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act; the United States Access Board Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee, reviewing Section 508 sta… Read more

The Future of Access to Digital Broadcast Video

Andrew Krents

Attorney
Motta & Krents LLP
We are a boutique intellectual property law firm that represents numerous independent record labels and music publishers: Ultra Records, Ultra International Music Publishing, The Royalty Network, Beggars Group, Cooking Vinyl, The Orchard, Babygrande Records, among others.

The Basics of Music Publishing Income Streams

Andrew Leimdorfer

N/A
BBC
I am the product manager responsible for the output of BBC News Specials. Our remit is to help increase our audience’s engagement with the BBC’s online journalism using new formats and innovative technology.

Open Web, Open News: Reporters & Developers Remix

Andrew Maguire

CEO
Intern Match

Marshalling Your Army of Interns

Andrew Mcafee

Principal Research Scientist
MIT
Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at MIT, studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses.

Create More Value Than You Capture

Andrew McLaughlin

VP
Tumblr

SOPA/PIPA: Why the Open Internet Needs Us

Andrew Mer

VP Acquisitions
SnagFilms
Andrew Mer is VP of Content Parterships for SnagFilms and has been instrumental in building the SnagFilms library of over 900 documentary films. SnagFilms library consists of single titles from individual filmmakers and producers to multiple titles from many of the most widely known and respected distributors, aggregators, and broadcasters including, Virgil Films & Entertainment, E1, Alive Mind, Cactus Three, PBS, ITVS, Sundance Channel, Cinetic Rights Management and IndiePix.

Mentors - Open Call 1

Andrew Murdock

Producer
The Hobby Shop
Andrew “Mudrock” Murdock has over 30 years in the recording industry. He cut his teeth in his hometown of Boston running a studio for a decade and then headed for Los Angeles shortly after producing a multi-platinum record for Godsmack. After working in a number of studios around L.A., Mudrock opened The Hobby Shop Studios in 2005 and has called it home ever since.

Cool Garage Recording Tools and the Crap to Avoid

Andrew O'Dell

CEO
PereiraO'Dell
Tennessee-born Andrew O’Dell, 40, is the CEO and Co-Founder of ad agency Pereira & O’Dell headquartered in San Francisco. He is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years experience starting businesses in the Bay Area. His strong digital background has seen the dichotomy of booms and busts true to the ad world lending to his keen awareness of future business and consumer trends. His management team would agree that O’Dell cuts a very charismatic image for the agency. Andrew co-Founded digital advertising agency Lot21 in 1997, and went on to become president at AKQA before c… Read more

What’s Good for the World Is Good for the Agency

Andrew Paryzer

Dir of Accounts
Blue State Digital
Director of Accounts, Blue State Digital

How Digital Softened Brazil's Iron Lady

Andrew Rasiej

Founder & Pres
Personal Democracy Media/Ny Tech Meetup
Political and Social Entrepreneur, Professional Doer. Founder of Personal Democracy Media, Senior Advisor to the Sunlight Foundation, Chairman of NY TechMeetup

Beyond SOPA/PIPA - Moving Forward with Engine Advocacy

Andrew Rossi

Dir, Producer
ARossi
Andrew Rossi is a director, producer and cinematographer of documentaries. His most recent film, "Page One: Inside The New York Times" takes viewers to the front lines of the debate about the future of newspapers, following writers on the media desk at the New York Times. "Page One" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is being co-distributed by Magnolia Pictures, Participant Media and History Films, the people behind such films as "An Inconnvenient Truth" and "Food, Inc.". Previously Andrew directed "A Table In Heaven," an HBO feature documentary about the owners of … Read more

Mentors - Producers

Andrew Sims

Co-Founder
Hypable
Andrew Sims is a 22 year old living in Los Angeles. He has a passion for online media and podcasting because of their amazing growth over the past few years. He got started in the online media world with MuggleNet.com, the world's largest Harry Potter fansite, when he joined in 2004 (after running his own equally awesome Potter site beginning in 2001). During 2011 he decided to create a MuggleNet for multiple fansites, and Hypable was born.

Potterize It! Sharing the Magic of Fan Culture

Andrew Slack

Exec Dir
The Harry Potter Alliance
Andrew Slack co-founded the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA). Under his leadership, the HPA has created over 130 chapters internationally, sent five cargo planes to Haiti, built libraries across the world, and continues to advocate for equality, media reform, and human rights.

Reaching Teens on the Digital Streets

Andrew Steele

Creative Dir
Funny or Die
Andrew Steele serves as Creative Director of Funny Or Die, and is the executive producer of HBO’s “Funny Or Die Presents,” and Comedy Central’s “Jon Benjamin Has a Van.” Steele spent 12 years writing for “Saturday Night Live,” the last four as head writer. During his tenure on the show, he won both Emmy and Writer’s Guild Awards. Prior to his time on ‘SNL,’ Steele worked with John Stewart’s MTV and Paramount TV’s talk shows, as well as for MTV, Comedy Channel and Nickelodeon.

Funny or Die: Future of Comedy & Everything Else Funny Or Die: Future of Comedy & Everything Else

Andrew Terng

Systems Engineer
Tumblr

Scaling to Infinity: Dealing with Rocket Growth

Andrew Vilcsak

Mobile Platform Lead
Airbnb

Taming the Market in Your Pocket

Andrew W.K.

ANDREW WK

Nardwuar & The Evaporators with Andrew W.K.

Andrew Wagner

Dir
Krrb
Andrew Wagner is the current director of Krrb and the New York Times "What You Make of It" columnist. Most recently he served as the editor-in-chief/chief brand officer of ReadyMade magazine. Prior to joining ReadyMade in 2009 he served as the editor-in-chief of American Craft magazine. Wagner was also the executive editor and founding managing editor of Dwell magazine, where he helped push the boundaries of architecture and design journalism, garnering the publication the coveted American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) General Excellence Award in 2005. In 1997, Wagner founded LIMN,… Read more

The Future of Lifestyle Media

Andrew Wilkes-Krier

Andrew WK
ANDREW W.K. - The King of Partying

Fox Digital Presents New Series Artist Central Music Video Feedback Session Blood Music Sex Magick

Andrew Wilson

EA Sports

Digital Sport: Know More, Do More

Andrew WK

Fox Digital Presents New Series

Andrew Yang

Founder and Pres
Venture For America

How to Build Entrepreneurship Communities

Andy Bardagjy

Researcher
MIT Media Lab
Andy Bardagjy is a second year masters student at the MIT Media Lab where develops novel imaging and display technologies. When he is not toiling over his research, he is probably brewing beer, building robots, or taking photos.

MIT Media Lab: Making Connections

Andy Bernstein

Exec Dir
HeadCount Inc
Andy Bernstein helped found HeadCount in 2004, and became its executive director in the Spring of 2008. He spearheads the organization's fundraising, marketing, artist relations and strategic planning, under the guidance of HeadCount's board of directors. He has been a featured speaker at the South by Southwest music conference, and appeared as an expert commentator on ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and several other television networks. He also served as executive producer of a documentary called "A Call to Action," and produced public service announcements starring Jay-Z, Dav… Read more

Doing Good, Only Better

Andy Chung

Designer
Facebook
Canadian designer recently relocated to sunny California, currently working at Facebook on the product design team.

Copy Matters: Content Strategy for the Interface

Andy Cohen

EVP, Dev & Talent, Bravo Host, “Watch What Happens Live”
Bravo
Andy Cohen is Bravo's Executive Vice President of Development and Talent, a position he has held since November 2011. He is responsible for overseeing the network's current development slate, creating original content, developing innovative formats and identifying new talent. He also serves as Executive Producer on Emmy and James Beard award-winning "Top Chef," and “The Real Housewives” franchises.

Top Chef: How Transmedia is Changing TV

Andy Currie

Exec Creative Dir
Grey Advertsiing

Andy Dixon

Ex Con
ExConWithConvictions.com

#140conf: Future of Story Telling

Andy Donner

Director
Physic Ventures

Funder vs. Funded: Fireside Chats with…

Andy Forssell

SVP, Content
Hulu LLC
Andy Forssell is senior vice president of content for Hulu where he leads all strategy and operations for the content businesses. In his time at Hulu, Andy has accelerated the growth of the content business from just two content providers in 2007 to more than 330 today, and has led the expansion into original programming. Andy brought to Hulu more than a decade of experience at Siebel Systems and Oracle Corporation where he served in a number of leadership roles including product development, customer care, datacenter operations and supplier management for their hosted CRM … Read more

Changing the Channel: The New Golden Age of TV Changing the Channel: The New Golden Age of TV

Andy Hadfield

CEO
Real Time Wine
Andy Hadfield is a digital native (can’t really remember life without the Internet) and is fascinated with the impact it is having on our lives and businesses. An entertaining and compelling personality, Andy speaks with authority and insight about the new shape of life, work and play in the digital world.

You Don't Need Bandwidth to Be Awesome

Andy Harrower

Head of Broadcast Licensing
PRS For Music
Andy Harrower, Head of Broadcast Licensing at PRS for Music, is responsible for the licensing of all TV and radio broadcasters in the UK and for leading PRS’s negotiations with major broadcasters including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky.

Do We Need Music Collecting Societies in the Digital Age?

Andy Hume

Web Developer
Clearleft Ltd
Andy is a developer from the UK. He currently works for the web consultancy Clearleft in Brighton. Prior to that he led an engineering team at Microsoft working on Bing Maps and other large client-side applications.

CSS for Grown Ups: Maturing Best Practices

Andy Kahl

Prod Mgr
Evidon
Andy does all of the strategerizing for Ghostery, a leading privacy browser add-on. When it comes to new features, it's up to Andy to figure out the what, when, where, and why.

Sex, Lies and Cookies: Web Privacy EXPOSED!

Andy Kleinman

Chief Business Officer
Scopely

Mentors - Production 2

Andy Leach

Dir of Library & Archives
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum
ANDY LEACH is Director of Library and Archives of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Andy has overseen the establishment of the new Library and Archives, the hiring of its staff, and the development of its policies and procedures. He manages general operations, develops library collections, works with donors to facilitate donations of archival materials, and provides research assistance to visitors. Andy holds degrees in music history and library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) … Read more

New Digs: A Rock and Roll Library and Archives

Andy Macdougall

Squeegeeville.com

Artist Central Clinic: Screenprinting Your Gig Poster

Andy Olyphant

Moir/Borman Entertainment Inc

Demo Listening Session 2

Andy Rachleff

Pres & CEO
Wealthfront Inc

LEAN STARTUP: Baby Got (Feed)Back - Putting the Lean in Learn

Andy Somers

Sr VP
The Agency Group

Touring Beyond The Borders

Andy Whittaker

Founder
dogwoof

Mentors - International The World is Watching: An Int'l Sales Workshop

Aneesh Chopra

Former CTO of the USA
Advisory Board

Why Invest in Health Tech?

Angee Simmons

Exec Producer, Prom & Multimedia
KCPT
Over the past sixteen years, I've been proud to work for KCPT, Kansas City Public Television. It's afforded me the opportunity to produce, write, and direct a variety of media including promotional materials, interactive web sites, mobile applications and long-form documentaries.

Hyper Local Public TV Station Models: Content 3.0

Angel Anderson

Experience Dir
Crispin Porter+Bogusky
This is my first time attending SXSW and I'm excited to present a talk about the Battlefield Art of Design Triage: Tips on how to provide solid UX design–even when there’s no time, deliver mercy killings, and help worthy projects thrive.

The Battlefield Art of Design Triage

Angela Buttolph

Online Editor
Grazia

Why Karl Keeps His Shades On: Style & Social Media

Angela Maiers

Three Innovative Approaches to Mobile Learning
Angela Maiers Education
Angela Maiers is an award-winning educator, speaker, consultant and professional trainer known for her work in literacy, leadership and global communications.

Three Innovative Approaches to Mobile Learning

Angela Sarafyan

Angela Sarafyan is an actress who can be seen in “Let’s Big Happy” and the upcoming “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2."

Fox Digital Presents New Series

Angele Beausoleil

Chief Innovation Officer
Agent Innovateur Inc
Angele is founder of Agent Innovateur Inc., a new type of agency focused on creating better products, experiences and technologies for the digital consumer. She is currently incubating two social entreprises, pioneering an applied innovation graduate PhD program at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and is the editor-in-chief for Society of Digital Agency's (SoDA) annual trend report. A "traditigal" marketer, Angele has spent over 20 years in both traditional and digital marketing communications. Prior to launching her new agency, Angele led Da… Read more

What’s Good for the World Is Good for the Agency

Angeline Vuong

Sr Prod Strategist
Huge Inc
Angeline Vuong creates -- mainly digital products, words and fuzzy feelings. She currently works as a Senior Strategist at HUGE for some of the world's largest digitally driven businesses. Prior to that, she spent time running social marketing efforts at MOLOTOV for A-list funny people and spearheading social strategy & community efforts for Citysearch + crowdSPRING. She's worked on projects for the United Nations Development Programme, PepsiCo, Dell, National Geographic, Toyota, SVEDKA Vodka, StumbleUpon, Cisco Consumer Products & more.

Your Social Media Job Is Dead: Now What?

Angelo Volandes MD

Founder, Nous Foundation; Internist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Asst Professor, Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
A key ingredient to informed patient-doctor discussions regarding end-of-life care includes the patient’s ability to understand and imagine hypothetical disease states and medical interventions like CPR. However, studies suggest that there are numerous barriers to communication between doctors and patients. One innovation to surmount these barriers includes using video decision aids to reinforce end-of-life conversations. Dr. Angelo E. Volandes leads a grou… Read more

Are Wired Hospitals Losing the Patient Connection?

Anil Dash

Founder
Activate
I live at anildash.com

The Nick Denton Interview: The Failure of Comments

Anil Dewan

Dir of New Media
KCRW
Anil Dewan Bio Anil Dewan is director of new media for KCRW and KCRW.com. He oversees the radio station's digital strategy and operations and is responsible for expanding the organization's presence to social media, blogs, and developing its mobile presence. He oversaw KCRW's most recent project, the KCRW Music Mine -- an iPad app focused on music discovery.

Music Discovery: Man vs. Machine

Anindita Sempere

Exec Dir
The Writing Faculty
Anindita Basu Sempere is a writer, educator, and occasional dog rescuer. A graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts’ program in Writing for Children and Young Adults and the MIT Media Lab’s Future of Learning Group, she’s interested in the intersection between storytelling, education, and technology. She is the Executive Director of The Writing Faculty, an online tutoring company.

The Secrets and Surprises of DIY Promotion

Anita Pyke

Partner
PETPROJECT.MOBI
I'm a South African living in Austin, TX. My background, interest and expertise are content and media related. I started out in book publishing, and headed up the non-fiction division of a prominent South African publisher before moving over to the magazine division of Africa’s largest media company, where I worked on launching new magazines and experimental projects for developing markets. I worked on experimental distribution projects in informal settlements (townships) and co-ordinated media sponsorship for the 2007 Soweto Festival. I also worked on cross-platform pr… Read more

Street-Level Genius: An African Maker Safari

Anjuan Simmons

Principal
Adverlyze
Anjuan Simmons is an information technology consultant who helps companies understand and implement enterprise software solutions. He is currently a Principal at Infosys, a 44.2 billion dollar technology services company with a global client base of 612 companies. Before joining Infosys, Anjuan worked as an executive for consulting giants Accenture and Deloitte.

Race: Know When to Hold It and When to Fold It

Ankit Agarwal

CEO
Micello

The Building Blocks for Indoor Navigation

Ankit Shah

CEO, Head of Prod
Alternote

Startup Balance: Being Awesome Outside the Office

Anmol Madan

Co-Founder/CEO
ginger.io
Anmol has extensive research experience in modeling large‐scale human behavior data using statistical and pattern recognition methods, and leads the overall product vision at Ginger.io. His past research has been featured in academic publications in computer science, and popular media and press. He received his PhD from the Media Lab, at MIT (with Prof. Alex Pentland).

How STDs Can Be Good for Your Health

Ann Friedman

Exec Editor
GOOD Magazine
Ann Friedman is the executive editor of GOOD magazine and the curator of LadyJournos!, a website that highlights the work of women journalists. Prior to that she was deputy editor of The American Prospect and one of the editors of Feministing.com.

It's Not News, It's Business

Ann Handley

Chief Content Officer
MarketingProfs
Ann Handley is the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs and the co-author of Content Rules (Wiley, 2010). Also, she wears glasses.

Brand Journalism in the Real-World

Ann Mack

Dir of Trendspotting
JWT
Ann Mack oversees global trendspotting for JWT where she and her team help brands turn shifts in the zeitgeist—related to everything from technology, gaming and globalization to retail, philanthropy and the environment—into opportunities. Ann has worked on strategic projects for clients including Unilever, Kellogg’s, Estée Lauder and Kimberly-Clark. She is most widely known as one of the industry’s most famous experts on cultural and behavioral movements, trends and memes and their impact on brands and brand behavior.

FOMO: How Can Brands Tap into Fears of Missing Out

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