Speakers
Martina Butler
Martina Butler is an 18 year old Radio and Television Broadcasting major at San Francisco State University. She hosts her own music podcast, Emo Girl Talk, where she plays music, talks about tv and responds to several listener audio comments weekly. She was the first teen podcaster to receive a major sponsorship and has since been sponsored by major companies such as CoverGirl, K-Mart and Johnson and Johnson as well as many others. She hopes to one day be an anchor woman and host her own television show.
Session:Teens and Video Panel
Adam Debreczeni
Adam Debreczeni is the founder and CEO of CrossWireStudio, a new media company that deals with software development and multimedia content. Under the CrossWireStudio label he developed the iPhone application Random Facts, the upcoming application iNews, and numerous Twitter and Pownce web applications such as ‘Public Wall’. He co-hosts the podcast TechToday which covers the weekly top technology stories. Other than his technological pursuits he produces and writes short films. He’s also a correspondent for TeenLink Sun-Sentinel which is a sister company of the Chicago Tribune.
www.heyad.am and twitter.com/heyadam
Session:Teen Developers
Mark Dwight
Mark Dwight is the founder and CEO of Rickshaw Bagworks, the San Francisco-based manufacturer of messenger bags, computer carrying cases, lifestyle luggage and accessories for the bicycle, outdoor and urban lifestyle specialty retail markets. Dwight founded Rickshaw in May, 2007. The company recently began manufacturing and shipping its first products from its San Francisco factory located in the historic Dogpatch neighborhood. Rickshaw sells directly to consumers via www.rickshawbags.com, and to select specialty retailers.
Prior to founding Rickshaw, Dwight was CEO of Timbuk2 Designs, another San Francisco-based messenger bag company. Dwight led a group of investors that acquired Timbuk2 in 2002, oversaw a financial turnaround and period of rapid growth, and then sold the company to private equity investors in 2005. The sale resulted in the locally-publicized distribution of $1.2 million to the company's 40 factory employees. During Dwight's tenure, Timbuk2's annual revenue grew from less than $4M to nearly $20M.
Dwight is a Bay Area native, with 20 years experience in high-technology and consumer marketing, product development, and manufacturing operations. Before joining Timbuk2, Dwight worked at Cisco Systems, holding various positions in manufacturing and marketing. Additionally, Dwight was the co-founder of Astro Studios, a San Francisco-based product design consultancy, and Director of Product Development for Kensington, a leading brand of consumer PC accessory products. Earlier in his career, Dwight worked for KLA/Tencor, Stratus Networks (previously Digital Microwave), and several high-technology start-ups. Dwight has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering ('82) and an MBA ('89), both from Stanford University. Dwight currently serves on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Mavericks Surf Ventures.
Session: Going Green
Adam Jackson
Adam Jackson is a San Francisco based social media evangelist for Yoono and a few other startups. He's has been blogging for 10 years, lifecasting for 3 and is known as the Web 2.0 party guy. You can find more about him as @adamjackson on Twitter and on DailyTechTalk.com which is only 1 of his five blogs.
www.dailytechtalk.com and www.twitter.com/adamjackson
Daniel Ha
Daniel Ha is a co-founder and CEO of Disqus. While not a prolific blogger himself, he contributes heavily on other websites as a commenter.
www.disqus.com and www.twitter.com/danielha
Rishabh Shooby Kumar
Rishabh Shooby Kumar is in the 12th grade at Archbishop Mitty High School. Shooby has been in the realm of technology and the Internet since the age of 11. Beginning by working for one of the most popular anime websites on the web, he has maintained and developed his interests in the ever-changing field. With experience working at Leo Laporte's TWiT.TV and Justin.TV, and Qik. At the age of 17, Rishabh looks forward to working towards a degree in business administration after high school.
Session: Teens and Video Panel
Jessica Mah
Jessica is a junior at UC Berkeley. In high school, she ran her own enterprise web solutions company before attending Simon's Rock, the Early College. While she's not pulling all-nighters to finish her computer science projects, she works on the PBwiki.com website, codes for internshipIN.com, and writes on her blog. Session: Keynote
Kyle Neath
Kyle is one of those designer types who also loves to play with code. He's been working with the web since '98 and has been helped build web and desktop experiences for dozens of high profile clients, including Apple, R.I.M, Oakley and Hewlett-Packard. He currently lives in San Francisco, CA and works with the rockstars at entp.com.
Session: Teen Developers Panel
Sam Purtill
Sam Purtill is a 19 year old software engineer. He joined the founding team of YouNoodle after finishing high school and has played a key role in building the technology behind the website. Prior to joining YouNoodle he founded Okapi Studio, an award winning design studio based in Romania.
Session: Teen Developer Panel
Dom Sagolla
Dom Sagolla is the founder of DollarApp, developing $0.99 applications for iPhone in San Francisco. He is also co-founder of iPhoneDevCamp, an international, not-for-profit developer community. Dom has been an engineer in research and development at HP Laboratories, the MIT Media Lab, and Adobe Systems. He's contributed Open Source at such startups as Macromedia, Odeo, and Dom.net, has shipped applications such as Dreamweaver and the Adobe Creative Suite, and has delivered platforms such as Twitter, Adobe Flash, and AIR. Dom can be found on Twitter dating back to its inception in 2006. His most recent effort is the official Obama '08 iPhone App, delivered in record time by an all-volunteer team.
www.dollarapp.com and www.dom.net
Session: Teen Developers Panel Moderator
Derek Johnson
Derek Johnson is the 23 year old CEO of internet startup, Tatango.com. With the vision to provide groups a free, easy and fast way to communicate with group members via SMS, Derek Johnson founded Tatango.com in 2007. Initially started as a way for his Fraternity to communicate with his Fraternity brothers, Tatango.com has grown to the leader in it's industry. As CEO, Derek is primarily focused on how to best translate user needs into a great service while directing Tatango.com in their strategic direction. A 23-year-old dropout of the University of Houston Entrepreneurial program, Derek has raised half a million dollars in investments for the company from private investors and the Bellingham Angel Group. Tatango.com has done over 35 million messages since their launch and services all types of groups such as College organizations, churches, athletic teams, political candidates and non-profit groups. As any entrepreneur will tell you, launching a company is hard work. Derek, a self proclaimed workaholic puts in 100+ hour workweeks to fulfill his vision of Tatango.com. Derek and the Tatango.com team have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, Mashable, TechCrunch, PC World, LifeHacker and other national publications.
Mark Bao
Mark Bao, 16, is a junior at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts and a parallel entrepreneur. He is the President & CEO of Avecora, under which he developed Avecora OnDemand, a software-as-a-service on-demand small business organization and team collaboration suite, and previously a social network advertising system for highly targeted advertisements using social data from around the web.
He started on entrepreneurship with DebateWare, which he co-founded, an enterprise application provider and consultancy for debate organisations, which has licensed its software and consulted for the largest student-run and funding-backed organisation in the nation. Previously, he also was a Facebook application developer, and sold three Facebook applications.
Currently, he is also co-founder and CTO at the startup TickrTalk, a platform for aggregating and sharing sports information and updates, as well as co-founder of Ramamia, a family sharing startup. In addition, he is the founder and CEO at Classleaf, an edutech startup for schools. He is also the co-founder of the startup Poolify, a wifi-based location-aware instant connector to find people around you.
Mark is a business guy with a technology leaning, as well as a developer. Mark is inspired by technology, innovation, virtual reality, and the integration of devices with each other and the social layer.
www.markbao.comSession: Teen Developers Panel
Dave Mathews
Dave Mathews is a consumer product expert and dynamic public speaker specializing in the convergence of digital entertainment devices. Dave holds nearly 40 U.S. patents and has appeared on more than 300 television shows. His television experience includes a five year stint as co-host of Net Talk Live! the first live interactive triple- cast (a syndicated television, radio and Internet broadcast). Dave is also a contributor to Ziff Davis' PC Magazine, O'Reilly's MAKE and other consumer-tech outlets as well as industry publications.
Dave is head of experience for boxee, a free, open source social media center that plays all local and most streaming media. Previously, Dave served as the Forward Thinker at Sling Media, identifying consumer trends leading to the development of the latest in digital media products. Prior to Sling, Dave was handpicked by the former chairman of Radio Shack as the Director, Product Innovation to develop their modern home strategy. Before joining Radio Shack, Dave was co-founder of Digital:Convergence creator of the CueCat - a first-ever consumer barcode reader, distributed through Forbes, Wired, Parade and Nielsen Media publications.
www.davemathews.com and twitter.com/gadgetgy
Session:Teens and Video Panel
Dan Grover
Dan Grover, 20, is an entrepreneur and developer of Mac, iPhone, and web applications. He currently runs Wonder Warp Software which publishes ShoveBox, an unobtrusive, ubiquitous information capture and organization tool for the Macintosh and iPhone. The company is also responsible for PhoneFinger, a freeware tool for iPhone developers, and Otis, a puzzle game.
As a software designer, Dan thinks that software ought to be fun to use and require as little thought as possible. He believes that the compounding effects of well-thought-out design can be a force for good.
He has been involved in numerous startups including Tapulous, Urban Interactive, and uLocate Communications.
In high school, Dan also co-founded WrongPlanet.net, a community for those with Asperger's Syndrome. The site has gone on to become the largest of its kind and has been covered in publications like The Washington Post and The Chicago Tribune.
Dan was a third-year student at Northeastern University in Boston, MA before recently taking a break to live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is originally from White River Junction, VT.
www.dangrover.com and www.wonderwarp.com
Session:Teen to Entrepreneur Panel
Jeff Hodsdon
Jeff Hodsdon is a Developer at Digg in San Francisco. After graduating Newbury Park High School in Southern California, he moved to San Francisco to work and attend school. Starting out with Java, he moved on to use PHP during an internship at Digg where he rewrote the mobile site. He is an active contributor to various open source projects, including PEAR, where he is a lead developer on Services_Facebook. Jeff is now a full time developer and is involved with tools and 3rd party integration at Digg.
When Jeff isn't coding he may be found at shows moshing and running around in a circle.
Session:Teen Developer Panel
Zack Rosen
Zack started the "DeanSpace" project, a Drupal based community organizing system used by grassroots groups during the Howard Dean presidential campaign. He then took a job at the Howard Dean campaign head-quarters to work as a web-developer and technical volunteer coordinator. Afterwards he co-founded and directed the CivicSpace project for two years. CivicSpace created and supported the first supported Drupal distribution which was geared towards non-profits and grassroots groups. In 2006 he co-founded a Drupal services company called Chapter Three (chapterthree.com). In 2008 he co-founded Mission Bicycle an online custom bicycle company.
Session:Going Green
Co-Chairs:
Sam Levin
Sam Levin is currently an on-air podcast technology and entertainment host for AppMinute and Cool Mac/Tech Picks. He is also a consultant in the emerging technology industry. Sam is the former Cofounder of the Stanford Mac Users' Group, a key special interest (Mac) group representing one of Apple's first Consortium based Universities.
Levin plays a critical role in forging a path for airing new products and technologies, and is widely credited in developing crucial relationships between entertainment and technology industries. Levin works with leading Macintosh, PC and mobile developers on influence and social media, business development, and strategic market development. Sam has also directed licensing initiatives for leading entertainment companies including Virgin Interactive, Broderbund, and Mattel.
For more than 20 years, Sam has worked closely with mobile, technology and digital imaging companies, providing him a special insight on the trends and future direction of personal computing and consumer electronics.
Daniel Brusilovsky
Daniel Brusilovsky is a 15 year old blogger/podcaster, entrepreneur, consultant, student and technology enthusiast. Daniel has been producing media content since March of 2007. Daniel hosts and produces one of the largest Apple-themed podcasts on the internet, the Apple Universe Podcast. Daniel has been working with WordPress since March of 2007, and still uses it on all his web sites.
In February of 2008, Daniel founded Teens in Tech, a media platform and community for teenagers wanted to produce media content. In his free time, Daniel also does audio/video production, brand evangelism, and marketing consulting for Web 2.0 and social media companies. Daniel also enjoys playing drums, and spending time with friends.
