Human Circuitry: a Tech Conference of Inspiration and Influence
Schedule & Speakers
Thursday, August 20, 2009
| 7:00pm - 10:30pm | - | Pre-registration Party at the Maritime Event Center, Bell Harbor |
Friday, August 21, 2009
| Time | Activity | |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00am - 9:00am | - | Casual Mingling |
| 8:45am - 9:30am | - | Breakfast & Networking |
| 9:00am - 9:30am | - | Opening Remarks - Chris Pirillo |
| 9:30am - 9:45am | - | Art of the Interview - Warren Etheredge |
| 9:45am - 10:30am | - | Rise of the Trust Agents - Chris Brogan |
| 10:30am - 10:45am | - | (BREAK) |
| 10:45am - 11:30am | - | Active Skepticism Online - Phil Plait |
| 11:30am - 12:15pm | - | Life Extension for Geeks - Christine Peterson |
| 12:15pm - 1:30pm | - | Buffet Lunch |
| 1:30pm - 2:15pm | - | Personal Manufacturing: The Robots that Sharing Built - Bre Pettis |
| 2:15pm - 2:30pm | - | (BREAK) |
| 2:30pm - 3:15pm | - | FoldIt - Firas Khatib |
| 3:15pm - 3:45pm | - | Todd Friesen |
| 3:45pm - 4:00pm | - | (BREAK) |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm | - | Best of Ignite! - hosted by Brady Forrest |
| 4:30pm - 5:15pm | - | My Cancer is Social - Drew Olanoff |
| 5:15pm - 5:30pm | - | Announcements - Chris Pirillo |
| 7:00pm - 11:00pm | - | Party - Spitfire [2219 4th Ave, Seattle, WA] - Sponsored by Picnik & HP |
Saturday, August 22, 2009
| Time | Activity | |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00am - 9:45am | - | Breakfast & Networking - Sponsored by Starbucks |
| 9:30am - 9:45am | - | Opening Remarks - Chris Pirillo |
| 9:45am - 10:00am | - | A Twitter Top-Ten List (with Humor!) - Frank Eliason |
| 10:00am - 10:45am | - | Hacker Journalists - Mark Glaser and Jim Ray |
| 10:45am - 11:00am | - | (BREAK) |
| 11:00am - 11:20am | - | Nerd Craft: A Field Guide - Beth Goza |
| 11:20am - 11:30am | - | Building Influence Online - Micah Baldwin |
| 11:30am - 12:15pm | - | 20,000,000 vs 20: Audience vs. Impact - Jay Grandin & Leah Nelson |
| 12:15am - 1:30pm | - | Buffet Lunch |
| 1:30pm - 2:15pm | - | TBD |
| 2:15pm - 2:45pm | - | TBD |
| 2:45pm - 3:00pm | - | Amazon, Affiliates & Taxes - Angel Djambazov |
| 3:00pm - 3:15pm | - | (BREAK) |
| 3:15pm - 4:00pm | - | A Conversation about Social Change through Social Media - Mark Horvath |
| 4:00pm - 4:15pm | - | (BREAK) |
| 4:15pm - 5:00pm | - | Prosthetic Culture - Amber Case |
| 5:00pm - 5:15pm | - | A look back at Gnomedex 9.0 - Kris Krüg |
| 5:15pm - 5:45pm | - | Announcements, Farewell - Chris & Co. |
| 6:00pm - 11:00pm | - | Party - See Sound Lounge [115 Blanchard St, Seattle, WA 98121] - Sponsored by RealPlayer SP |
Chris Brogan
Chris Brogan is a ten year veteran of using social media and both web and mobile technologies to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Chris speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at chrisbrogan.com, a blog in the top 10 of the Advertising Age Power150, and in the top 100 on Technorati.
Chris is also the cofounder of the PodCamp new media conference series, exploring the use of new media community tools to extend and build value.
He recently became president of New Marketing Labs, a social media agency. He runs the Inbound Marketing Summit events with CrossTech Media. Chris frequently speaks at and attends marketing and social media events, sharing his passion for all things social media.
Chris won the Mass High Tech All Stars award for thought leaders for 2008. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, The Montreal Gazette, Newsweek, and some other places.
Amber Case
She's spoken at various conferences including MIT's Futures of Entertainment, Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference, Ignite Portland, and Ignite Boulder.
She founded CyborgCamp, an unconference on the future of humans and technology. She can be found online at http://www.twitter.com/caseorganic.
Amber received her degree in Sociology/Anthropology from Lewis and Clark College in 2008 with a thesis on “The Cell Phone and Its Technosocial sites of Engagement”. She is available for speaking engagements, corporate training and consulting, data aggregation, analytics, blog consulting, and online efficiency training.
Micah Baldwin
Micah got his start as a university fundraiser, being one of the first to fuze online activities and marketing strategies into alumni fund-raising. In 1996, he sent one of the first email campaigns to help drive alumni fundraising. Over his career, Micah helped universities such as The Catholic University of America and the University of San Diego see their annual giving programs grow by more than 150%.
Focusing on business development, online marketing and advertising, and product strategy, Micah was instrumental in the growth of companies such as MyPersonal (now Synacor - IPO), ServiceMagic (acquired by IAC), Indigio Group (acquired by Bridgeline Software) and other less successful startups, such as Kozmo.com.
Micah has helped author several books on internet and search marketing, and started the #followfriday meme on Twitter, which has become part of the fabric of the social web. A frequent speaker and with appearances on CNN and articles in many of the leading blogs, including Mashable and ReadWriteWeb, you can read about Micah’s philosophy of success through failure at his blog, Learn To Duck.
Beth Goza
Phil Plait
Phil writes the Bad Astronomy Blog, now hosted by Discover Magazine, and he blogs for the JREF and for SkepticBlog.
His booksdebunk many misconceptions about astronomy, and to his chagrin he still deals with Moon Landing deniers, astrology, and UFO believers to this day.
In his opinion - and he's right - the Universe is cool enough. Why make up stuff about it?
Warren Etheredge
Additionally, Warren is one of the founding faculty of TheFilmSchool, along with Tom Skerritt and Stewart Stern. For six years, Warren served as the Curator for the 1 Reel Film Festival (at Bumbershoot). Warren has staged over 40 plays in New York, published five books, written countless magazine articles and recently completed a feature-length documentary, HUMOR ME. He is the host of Words & Wine and The Good Life, conversation series with A-list authors, and is a regular contributor to Seattle's NPR affiliate, KUOW.
Bre Pettis
In the past, he has supported the creativity of others as a school teacher in Seattle Public Schools, as the creator of the weekly video series "Weekend Projects" published on the Make: Magazine website, and as a producer of new media for Etsy.com. He co-founded MakerBot Industries to bring manufacturing to the masses and he co-founded Thingiverse so there would be a place for to share digital designs on the web. He is also a founder of NYCResistor, a hacker collective that seeks to learn, share, and make things.
When Bre's not making things, he is sleeping.
Christine Peterson
Her work is motivated by a desire to help Earth's environment and traditional human communities avoid harm and instead benefit from expected dramatic advances in technology. This goal of spreading benefits led to an interest in new varieties of intellectual property including open source software, a term she is credited with originating.
More recently, having noticed that — as some crudely put it — "aging sucks", she works to further life extension, especially within the tech community.
She serves on the Advisory Board of the International Council on Nanotechnologyand the Editorial Advisory Board of NASA's Nanotech Briefs, and served on California's Blue Ribbon Task Forceon Nanotechnology.
Christine is the co-author of one book on nanotech, and another on collaboration technologies. She is a member of IEEE, and an alumna of MIT.
Mark Glaser
Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column.
Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his son, Julian. He is politically liberal, but tries to hew to moderate and unified views in his writing. He does not own specific stocks of publicly traded companies (only mutual funds), and tries to disclose all conflicts of interest.
Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour", NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the Indiana Collegiate Press Association's annual meeting at Ball State University. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels.
Jim Ray
Leah Nelson & Jay Grandin
Nelson’s short documentary, Kaka’win, traveled to numerous festivals and was awarded Best Canadian Short at Toronto’s Planet in Focus Film Festival. While working on Bongo, they followed anthropologist and director of Urban Project, Danya Fast and were granted unique access to a world few outsiders are welcomed into. The trust they gained allowed them to witness a life-changing and often taxing experience in the lives of a group of street hustlers and brings an intimacy to the film that is necessary in telling their guarded stories.
Drew Olanoff
Drew was diagnosed with Stage III Hodgkins Lymphoma on May 20th of this year. Instead of curling into a ball and weeping as so many others have and do - Drew decided to fight back the only way he knew how... long, hard and loud.
Blame Drews Cancerwas born out of a strong desire on Drew's part to raise awareness for this horrible disease, as well as money for the Live Strongorganization. He began to blame anything and everything on his cancer, even before he was officially diagnosed. Lost his car keys? Blame the cancer. Don't feel like having to shave today? Blame the cancer.
Using the hashtag #blamedrewscancer on Twitter, more than 9000 people have blamed over 16,000 things on Drew's cancer. Even Jon Bon Jovi has blamed my cancerfor something!
Drew Olanoff may have cancer - but it doesn't have him.
Mark Horvath
Frank Eliason
One February 2008 day, Scott Westerman, a VP from Comcast’s Southwest region, sent Frank Eliason an email: I love what you are doing out on the Internet, you make us proud. Have you ever checked out Twitter? I think it would be a perfect place for you…
After listening on Twitter for a few months, Frank started to tweet in early April using what is now his ID: ComcastCares. He is talking with Comcast customers every day.
Over the course of his first year on Twitter, he has learned a lot about business communication. Customers want to have as much real-time information as possible.
That simple email more than a year ago brought a new era in listening and interacting with Comcast customers. Much has been made of Frank and his team's efforts on Twitter, but to him it’s just common sense. If someone needs assistance, you offer to help.
Frank has always lived in the Philadelphia area. He's married to Carolyn, and they have three children: Lily, Robyn and their angel Gia. Besides enjoying helping others, his interests include sports - especially football! He's also a self-professed gadget Geek!
Firas Khatib
Angel Djambazov
Born in Bulgaria, Angel Djambazov has spent his professional career in the fields of journalism and online marketing. In his journalistic career he worked as an editor on several newspapers and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Wyoming Homes and Living Magazine. Later his career path led to online marketing where while working at OnlineShoes he earned the Affiliate Manager of the Year (2006) award at the Affiliate Summit, and In-house Manager of the Year (2006) award by ABestWeb.
Currently Angel is the OPM for Jones Soda for which he won his second Affiliate Manger of the Year (2009) award at Affiliate Summit Angel also serves as OPM for Keen Footwear, Intelius, and Core Performance, has an advosiry role with PopShops.com which was awarded Best Affiliate Tool (2007 and 2008) award by ABestWeb, and is the Managing Editor for Revenews.com.
Angel lives north of Seattle, spending his free time reading up on obscure scientific references made by his wife, Jenn, while keeping up with a horde of cats and a library of books.
Kris Krüg
After publishing ground-breaking online magazine *spark-online, Kris co-founded the Drupal pioneer company Bryght of which he served as President. Through enthusiastic outreach, Kris helped create a marketplace for community-centric websites and his evangelism spawned an eco-system of related companies in Vancouver. In 2007 Bryght was acquired by full service web agency Raincity Studios of which Kris served as President until earlier of this year.
Since his departure at Raincity Studios in 2009, Kris has been focusing on his international photography career alongside his various involvements in the technology and digital landscape. Kris is a fervent evangelist for open culture and creative commons licensing and frequently speaks at conferences and the media about the blurring lines between pro and amateur, shifting copyright standards and using technology to promote and share artistic work.
Well known in the web social media and blogging community, Kris regularly speaks at conferences and media programs around the world about emerging technology, photography, and creative commons. He is an organizer of the Vancouver tech conference Northern Voice as well as a catalyst for workshops and "un"conferences. He has spoken at international economic leadership events in Beijing and Shanghai for the 2008 and 2010 Olympics as well as TEDxShanghai, Vancouver Arts Summit and nextMEDIA conference. Kris also sits on the board of directors for Woodwards W2 Media Arts Lab and the board of advisors for the Vancouver Biennale and the Reel Youth Film Festival. Active in many worlds, Kris' skills bridge the technology, business and art communities.
Todd Friesen
Todd Friesen is considered by many to be an SEO pioneer. He entered the SEO world in 1998 and has since worked with top-name clients like Sharper Image, Nike, Neiman Marcus and Accor Hotels North America on natural search optimization. He is an expert in search engine marketing, a former administrator at Webmasterworld, and former moderator for Search Engine Watch. He co-hosted the popular SEO Rockstars on WebmasterRadio.FM, as well as a regular speaker at Search Engine Strategies, WebmasterWorld Pubcon, SMX and other conferences including Shop.org. He has also a regular contributor to OMMA Magazine and regularly posts on his own blog at www.oilman.ca.
Todd is the VP of Search at Position Technologies and works with new and established companies to optimize existing sites and help architect new ones to achieve optimal natural search engine rankings. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calgary and currently resides in Gig Harbor WA.
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