Schedule: Speakers

Patrick Allen is the Acting Administrator of Oregon’s Building Codes Division, a part of the Department of Consumer and Business Services. There he manages a staff of over 100 employees responsible for setting state standards for plumbing, electrical, structural and other construction work, providing inspections for specialized structures like boilers and elevators, licensing construction trades, and overseeing the administration of the building code through local building departments across Oregon. He is currently responsible for the design and implementation of a first-in-the-nation statewide on-line building permit system. Mr. Allen has been with the Building Codes Division since 2007.

Prior to his current job, Mr. Allen managed Oregon’s Office of Regulatory Streamlining. There he was responsible for guiding the efforts of state agencies to make their business... Read More.

Anne Armstrong has more than thirty years experience in technology journalism and publishing. She was a member of the Federal Computer Week launch team in 1987, and has worked on both the editorial and business sides. She began her career as a science journalist, and started Langley Publications, a research and newsletter company. Armstrong served as president of Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) from 1999 to 2002. She holds degrees from Vanderbilt University and Johns Hopkins University, and represents 1105 on ABM’s Government Affairs Committee.

Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. and founder-director of the Center for Social Media there. She is co-principal investigator, with Washington College of Law professor Peter Jaszi, in a project on creativity and copyright, which since 2004 has changed industry practice and creative options by expanding the utility of fair use. She is the author of, among others, Documentary: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2007), The Daily Planet (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and of Communications Policy in the Public Interest (Guilford Press, 1999). She has been a Fulbright and John Simon Guggenheim fellow and has served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival among others. She has received numerous journalism and scholarly awards,... Read More.

Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen’s College at Oxford University, England, 1976. Whilst there he built his first computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television.

He spent two years with Plessey Telecommunications Ltd (Poole, Dorset, UK) a major UK Telecom equipment manufacturer, working on distributed transaction systems, message relays, and bar code technology.

In 1978 Tim left Plessey to join D.G Nash Ltd (Ferndown, Dorset, UK), where he wrote among other things typesetting software for intelligent printers, and a multitasking operating system.

A year and a half spent as an independent consultant included a six month stint (Jun-Dec 1980)as consultant software engineer at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Whilst there, he... Read More.

Doug Birnie is the team leader of the interagency United We Ride (UWR) initiative housed in the Federal Transit Administration. This initiative, sponsored by the Federal Interagency Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility seeks to coordinate federal assistance programs that provide mobility assistance to transportation-disadvantaged populations including persons with disabilities, older adults, youth and persons and families that are low income.

He is co-chair of the Council’s Work Group on Policy and Regulatory Relief. He has been active in shaping FTA’s system change mobility management strategies. He also was instrumental in the creation of FTA’s Job Access and Reverse Commute Program and the public transportation human service transportation coordination planning process.

Birnie has been involved with managing and overseeing FTA technical assistance... Read More.

Maury Blackman has been CEO of Accela, Inc. since 2007. He joined the company in 2000 with years of experience managing Internet enterprises, evaluating emerging technologies, and establishing long-term strategic partnerships. He has served in a variety of business-development capacities at Accela, most recently as senior vice president of sales and marketing. Under his leadership, company sales realized triple digit growth, surpassing $40 million in the trailing four quarters prior to his 2007 appointment to president and CEO and to the Accela board of directors.

Prior to joining Accela, Mr. Blackman served as president of Telebuild, LLC, a leading Internet solution provider for construction professionals and architects. During his tenure, he forged successful relationships with construction industry cornerstones such as The American... Read More.

Kate joined Pro Bono Net in August 2006 and coordinates projects related to automated document assembly as the NPADO Project Coordinator. Kate earned a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota. After graduating in 2002, she became an Americorps*VISTA for Montana Legal Services Association (MLSA) in Helena, Montana and worked on Montana LawHelp.org and Montana ProBono.net. After her year of service, she transitioned to MLSA’s Technology Project Coordinator and her role expanded to include working on document assembly, video conferencing, and LiveHelp. She lives in Baltimore.

Adam Blum is CEO of Rhomobile, the open mobile framework company, and a seasoned speaker. He is a longtime CTO/VP of Engineering of several successful startups in the web services and mobile spaces (Commerce One, Systinet, Good, Mobio). He is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon and advisor to several other software companies.

Richard Boly a career U.S. diplomat and currently the Director of the Office of eDiplomacy, an applied technology think tank for the U.S. Department of State. Previously, he was a National Security Affairs Fellow the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he launched the Global Entrepreneurship Program. He recently served in U.S. Embassy, Rome, where he developed and ran a program to promote entrepreneurship in Italy. Other embassy assignments include the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Paraguay. Richard is the most junior diplomat to win the Cobb Award for commercial diplomacy. In a prior life, he was the first Presidential Management Fellow with the Inter-American Foundation, was a consultant with the Inter-American Development Bank, and founded and ran a shrimp hatchery in coastal Ecuador.... Read More.

danah boyd is a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She recently completed her PhD in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley.

Dr. boyd’s dissertation “Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics” focused on how American youth use networked publics for sociable purposes. She examined the role that social network sites like MySpace and Facebook play in everyday teen interactions and social relations. She was interested in how mediated environments alter the structural conditions in which teens operate, forcing them to manage complex dynamics like interacting before invisible audiences, managing context collisions, and negotiating the convergence of public and private life. This work was funded by... Read More.

Judy Brewer directs the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). She has coordinated five areas of work with regard to Web accessibility since 1997, ensuring that W3C technologies (HTML, CSS, SMIL, XML, etc.) support accessibility; developing accessibility guidelines for Web content and applications, browsers and media players, and authoring tools; improving tools for evaluation and repair of Web sites; developing resources for education and outreach on Web accessibility; and monitoring research and development which may impact future accessibility of the Web. WAI guidelines include the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, developed through a collaborative effort with individuals and organizations around the world, and adopted by an increasing number of governments to ensure accessibility of the Web... Read More.

Licensed (Illinois) professional engineer experienced in municipal engineering and public works. Also interested and experienced in virtual worlds and online tools and communities and working to help others explore how these tools can enhance the engineering/public works industry. In pursuit of this endeavor I publish an online magazine, Grid Works, that explores how Web 2.0 and virtual worlds are used by the engineering and the public works industry.

Evan Burfield co-founded Synteractive in 2003 and in his role as Chairman and CEO, he is responsible for all aspects of corporate direction and strategy.

Evan launched his dynamic, entrepreneurial career in 1996 by founding netDecide, the leading provider of enterprise wealth management solutions to top tier financial service firms such as Bank of America and Ernst & Young. Under his leadership, netDecide won numerous analyst recommendations and accolades, including the Investor’s Choice Award by the Financial Services Outlook Conference in 2001. The company was sold to Informa Investment Solutions in 2003, at which time it was profitable with over $11 million in annual revenue.

Prior to Synteractive, Evan served as Director of Strategy for Oakwood Global Finance, a London-based global financial services firm... Read More.

Kirsten Burgard entered federal service as a loan specialist at the Cleveland Regional Loan Center (RLC), an office of the Department of Veterans Affairs in 1997. Ms. Burgard moved to the St. Paul RLC in the winter of 1999 to assist in the implementation of a Quality Control team for home loan reviews. She was promoted to VA’s central office in the summer of 2000 to write VA loan policy. At Central Office, Ms. Burgard became involved in the Loan Guaranty division web presence, maintaining content for the site and recommending innovative solutions to meet the needs of veterans and lenders. In the spring of 2007, Ms. Burgard moved to the Office of Information and Technology (OI&T)to work in the office of IT Strategic... Read More.

Michael W. Carroll joined the WCL faculty in 2009 after visiting during the 2008-09 academic year. He previously was a member of the faculty of the Villanova University School of Law. He teaches and writes about intellectual property law and cyberlaw. Prior to entering the academy, he served as a law clerk to Judge Judith W. Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Joyce Hens Green, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Chicago. Professor Carroll’s research focuses on the search for balance in intellectual property law over time in the face of challenges... Read More.

Michelle Chronister is a Presidential Management Fellow in the Federal Citizen Information Center at the U.S. General Services Administration. She works as a web content manager for USA.gov.

Cammie Croft comes to the White House from the Obama-Biden Transition Project, where she served as the Deputy New Media Director, specializing in online communications. Prior to that, as the New Media Rapid Response Manager for the Obama for America campaign, she oversaw efforts to integrate new media and communications, including managing websites such as FighttheSmears.com and UndertheRadar.com. Before joining the campaign, Croft built the tracking and media monitoring program at Progressive Accountability, a rapid-response communications advocacy campaign that provided video of Republican Presidential candidates for the mass public. Croft also worked as the Rapid Response Mobilization Director for Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, where she led their new media efforts, working with MoveOn.org’s online tools to mobilize Americans opposed to the war. Croft holds... Read More.

John Crupi is CTO of JackBe Corporation, an enterprise mashup platform provider, supporting some of the most advanced and secure mashup implementations in the US Government. John is co-author of Core ‘J2EE Patterns,’ has been featured on the Fox Business Network, and has been named as a member of the Software Development Magazine’s Dream Team and a Washington Tech Titan.

Linda Y. Cureton is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). As NASA CIO, she provides the requisite leadership to transform the management of information technology (IT) capabilities and services to support and enable NASA’s mission. She ensures that the Agency’s information resource management (IRM) strategy is in alignment with NASA’s vision, mission, and strategic goals. Accordingly, Ms. Cureton ensures the development of integrated IRM strategies, including standards, policies, NASA Enterprise Architecture, IT security, management, and operations. She has the responsibility, authority and accountability for ensuring that NASA’s information assets are selected, controlled and evaluated consistent with federal policies, procedures, and legislation.

Ms. Cureton was appointed as the NASA CIO in September... Read More.

City Camp Head Counselor, Bridgeborner, Va Beacher, Family Guy

Technology Executive with experience in information technology, product/new business development, and business management. Strategic decision maker capable of navigating near term situations while steering toward long term corporate goals. Eleven years experience from post graduate education and industry in advanced visualization, human computer interaction, data portability, interoperability, web services, and distributed computing. Pioneer in Extract, Transform, Load – Visualize (ETL-V), a category he created at Bridgeborn. Specializing around distance learning, training, business intelligence, collaboration, information sharing, and information management activities in government and commercial sectors. Hands-on product manager. Skilled writer and communicator. Specialties:

ETL-V, visualization, human-computer interaction (HCI), distributed systems, web services, data portability, interoperability, W3C standards, SOA, Web 2.0, collaboration, systems architecture,... Read More.

Jack Dangermond is the founder and president of ESRI. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Redlands, California, ESRI is widely recognized as the technical and market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, pioneering innovative solutions for working with spatial data on the desktop, across the enterprise, in the field, and on the Web. ESRI has the largest GIS software install base in the world with more than one million users in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide.

Dangermond fostered the growth of ESRI from a small research group to an organization of over 2,900 employees, known internationally for GIS software development, training, and services.

Dangermond holds nine honorary doctorates from California Polytechnic University-Pomona, State University of New York at... Read More.

Anil Dash is a pioneering blogger who helped found Six Apart, the world’s biggest blogging company. Dash is a recognized expert on web technology, web culture and the software industry, having founded one of the earliest and most popular blogs on the Internet, at Dashes.com, which was named one of MSNBC’s “Best of Blogs”. A frequent keynote speaker, Dash has given presentations around the world about the future of social communication online and the relationship between social and traditional media.

Mary Davie is the Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Assisted Acquisition Services (AAS) in GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS). As the Assistant Commissioner, Mary is responsible for overseeing the acquisition and delivery of $4B in information technology and professional services products, services and solutions to federal agency customers worldwide.

Prior to her current position, Mary served as the Acting Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Customer Accounts and Research in FAS. Mary led business development and marketing efforts intended to increase customer awareness and satisfaction with GSA products, services and solutions. She was responsible for developing strategy and planning for new business, developing customer relationship management and account management strategies and policies, and leading teams of GSA employees to foster... Read More.

High tech marketer, data geek, 20 year online community member who got a lethal cancer diagnosis in 2007 and survived, using many e-patient behaviors. Became lead blogger on e-patients.net and founding co-chair of Society for Participatory Medicine.

See also: About page and Wikipedia entry

The Honorable Earl Devaney is the chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. Prior to his role at the RAT Board Chairman Devaney was the Inspector General at the Department of the Interior, where among other things he investigated disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Christopher Dufour is a former founding member of the IED Task Force Tech Team. He has worked for multiple defense and intelligence contractors on a variety of interagency irregular warfare, strategic communication, influence operations, and public diplomacy projects. He attained his MA in Government & Communications from Johns Hopkins University where his thesis, “Strategic Service: Reforming the U.S. National Security Apparatus for the 21st Century,” was accepted with highest honors.

Since then, “Du4” has sought to bring creativity and innovation to every partner and client with whom he has worked. He currently writes a blog – Must.Be.AWESOME!!! – that investigates the roots and wherefores of all things AWESOME. A musician, performer, and born entertainer by nature, Du4 also acts as a creative... Read More.

Fred Dust is a Partner and a Practice Lead for IDEO, the global design and innovation firm. At IDEO, Fred leads Systems at Scale, the group responsible for helping clients with large systemic infrastructural questions from governmental shifts, to behavior change, and beyond. During his tenure at IDEO, Fred has helped guide the realization of a future-focused education center at Stanford; taken Nike executives shopping; and worked with patients and staff to help build innovative service models for Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente. Most recently, he helped The American Red Cross redesign the donation experience and the Transportation Security Administration evolve airport security. Fred is a member of the Board of Governors at Parsons The New School, and also acts on the... Read More.

An expert in public policy, open systems and collaboration, David works advises the mayor of Vancouver on open government and open data. He also serves as a consultant to other governments and publishes on the topic frequently.

Michael Edson is the Smithsonian Institution’s Director of Web and New Media Strategy. Michael has worked on numerous award-winning projects and has been involved in practically every aspect of technology and New Media for museums, including content development, digitization, blogging, gaming, public access to collections, information architecture, networking, place-of-business applications, programming, project management, graphic design, animation, audio and video production, mobile platforms, and citizen-created content. helped create the Smithsonian’s first blog, Eye Level, and the first Alternate Reality Game to take place in a museum, Ghost of a Chance. Michael has a BA from Wesleyan University.

An author, columnist and popular speaker, Bill is one of the country’s leading authorities on government reform. A global director for Deloitte Research and director of the Deloitte Public Leadership Institute, he is responsible for research and thought leadership for Deloitte’s public sector industry practice.

He coined the terms “Government 2.0” and (with co-author Stephen Goldsmith) “Governing by Network” in his 2005 and 2006 books of the same names. His writings have won numerous awards including the Louis Brownlow award for best book on public management, the Sir Antony Fisher award for best book promoting an understanding of the free economy, and the Roe Award for leadership and innovation in public policy research.

He is a former manager of the Texas Performance Review and director... Read More.

Dr Mark Elliott is Director and founder of Collabforge. As chief consultant for Collabforge, Mark has successfully designed and managed a range of high profile Gov 2.0 projects working closely with clients in a highly versatile and collaborative capacity.

In late 2007 through mid 2008, Mark led Collabforge’s reengineering of the City of Melbourne’s ten-year planning process, in order to enable a collaborative outcome across its large and diverse stakeholder groups. This reengineering also provided for the successful integration of a wiki-based collaborative environment, for both internal collaboration and external public consultation. The result was an award-winning, world’s first city plan to be developed in a wiki – FutureMelbourne.com.au.

Prior to founding Collabforge, Mark completed a PhD investigating the underlying dynamics and mechanisms that... Read More.

Tom has over 25 years experience in software products and services. Most recently, he was CEO of Systinet Corporation, a privately held software company that provided a foundation for service oriented architectures (SOA) in Global 2000 companies. Prior to Systinet, Tom was the executive vice-president, international for webMethods, the fastest growing software company in the USA from 1998 to 2003.

Before webMethods, Thomas was President, Asia Pacific for the Baan Company. Tom enjoys spending time in Australia, snowboarding, and playing golf. Thomas Erickson earned his honors degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Alex Fishman is the lead analyst at the Recovery, Accountability and Transparency Board where he investigates potential cases of fraud, waste and abuse in Stimulus spending. He also oversees the implementation of the RAT Board’s unique technology.

Price B. Floyd was appointed Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs on 8 June, 2009. He serves as staff advisor and assistant to the Secretary of Defense and Deputy Secretary of Defense for public information, internal information, and community relations as well as information training and audiovisual matters in support of DoD activities, leading a worldwide public affairs community of some 3,800 military and civilian personnel.

Prior to joining the Defense Department, Mr. Floyd was the Director of External Relations for the Center for New American Security (CNAS). CNAS was an unheard of start-up national security think tank when Mr. Floyd joined their staff in 2007 and by the time he left in June 2009, it had become one of the... Read More.

Judith is the co-founder and Executive Director of the New Organizing Institute, a training, research, and development organization for technology-enabled organizers, activists, staff, and leaders. In 2008 Judith worked on the Obama new media team, coordinating their field and new media efforts. Previously, she was the senior political strategist at the AFL-CIO, where she also co-founded the Analyst Institute. During the 2004 presidential election, she worked on the Kerry campaign’s internet operations. She advises political campaigns, unions, hill, government, and non-profit organizations on campaigns, organizing, targeting, strategy and technology infrastructure. She worked for five years in technology at the University of Chicago where she also organized with social justice organizations.

Sarah leads The Innovation Unit’s work on Radical Efficiency: different, better and cheaper public services. Sarah is also developing our work on eco-literacy and innovation networks.

Prior to joining The Innovation Unit, Sarah was Director of Strategy for the New York Public Library (NYPL) system. She led the design and redevelopment of NYPL’s first strategy team and was Director for its first two years. During this time, Sarah ran a system-wide review of the library’s mission statement, which led to the adoption of a rejuvenated and unified mission for NYPL’s 91 research and community libraries. Stimulating a culture of innovation was core to the role – building the infrastructure (and running several) action research projects, initiating ‘user-insights’ research and establishing an innovation fund... Read More.

Miguel Gomez is the Director of AIDS.gov, a portal to all Federal domestic HIV/AIDS information and provides guidance on how HIV/AIDS programs can use new media tools. Mr. Gomez introduced podcasting on AIDS.gov and also hosts a blog that showcases the use of new media for HIV prevention, testing, and treatment. Mr. Gomez has been working on HIV/AIDS issues since 1984 and has held positions with national AIDS organizations and the Federal government. He is the Office of the Secretary’s senior representative to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Web Council.

Policy Economist, newspaper columnist and financial entrepreneur

Drawing on more than 15 years experience in writing, branding, design and strategic communications, Jeff Guin’s mission is to inspire connections to heritage values through new media.

Jeff’s passion for heritage preservation emerged as he grew up among the historic homes and sites of Natchitoches, La., the oldest town in the Louisiana Purchase. After receiving his bachelor’s in Journalism and English from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, he served as a communications manager for a Fortune 500 company. His experience there included facilitating strategies to promote and protect special sites of cultural and environmental value.

These sites and the people who seek to protect them served as inspiration as he returned to his hometown and NSU to pursue a Master’s degree in Folklife and... Read More.

Eric Hackathorn started with his first computer before he learned to ride a bicycle. His father was kind enough to allocate him 100 KB of the family’s 10 MB hard drive: one of the first commercially available of its kind. Since that time, he has spent a majority of his time dabbling in all things computer related. After graduating from high school, he started working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder, Colorado. At the same time, he attended and then graduated from the University of Colorado majoring in electrical and computer engineering. He continues his work at NOAA today as a program manager.

Eric has taken a back seat to his much handsomer counterpart Hackshaven Harford. Hackshaven is Eric’s avatar... Read More.

Dustin is the Chief-Information-Officer (CIO) & Municipal Judge for the City of Manor, Texas. Dustin led the City of Manor through an extensive 3-year network and system infrastructure rebuilding as well as numerous other projects that helped to bring Manor to the forefront of technological innovation. In 2009, Dustin was named as one of the Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers of Technology in the nation by Government Technology Magazine. Many of Dustin’s projects have received international recognition and awards for their innovative application in government operations. Dustin enjoys traveling the country speaking to federal, state and local government agencies about what Gov 2.0 and innovation can do for their agencies. He and his wife Amanda have been married for 5 years and have two... Read More.

Lead for NIH/FDA patient-safety initiative, social media strategist, exploring the role of government in Health 2.0, @levy413’s mantra: Mission! Tool! Metrics! Teach!

Doug Hassebrock oversees all investigative efforts of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and the Recovery Operations Center. In addition to his current duties, Mr. Hasselbrock is a Lt. Colonel in the US Air Force Reserves. Mr. Hasselbrock was formerly a Special Agent for the Dept of Interior IG and Air Force OSI

Sandro Hawke is a software developer and systems architect at W3C, where he has specialized in Semantic Web technologies since 2000. He has developed numerous prototype and experimental systems, demonstrating Linked Data principles and the utility (and limitations) of formal knowledge representation in the open Web environment. He coordinates the development of foundational Web Standards as the W3C staff contact for the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group and the Web Ontology Language (OWL) Working Group. Since 2009, with the new focus on open government data, he has served as W3C staff contact for the eGovernment Interest Group.

Virginia Hill is a former Presidential Management Fellow and current public affairs professional at the National Institutes of Health. As a PMF, Virginia became fascinated with citizen engagement and open government and focused her rotations in communications and management analysis. In her current role, she works with the NIH Clinical Center’s Deputy Director to forge international partnerships and bring new and creative ideas to educational programs across the agency. She manages the office’s Twitter account (CCMedEd) and other outreach activities.

Jeanne Holm is the Chief Knowledge Architect at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology. Ms. Holm leads NASA’s Knowledge Management Team, looking at how to access and use the knowledge gathered over the many missions of the US space agency to support missions and to drive innovation. As a lead for the award-winning NASA public and internal portals, she was at the helm of NASA’s web during the largest Internet event in Government history—the landing of the Mars Exploration Rovers on the surface of Mars. As the lead implementer for technologies supporting project managers at NASA, her team’s solutions are helping to drive how people will manage space missions in the future, learn virtually, and share lessons learned.... Read More.

Andrew Hoppin was appointed as the first ever Chief Information Officer for the New York State Senate in February 2009 with a mission to dramatically improve government transparency, citizen participation, and operational efficiency for the Senate through technology. The CIO’s Office works in three main realms: opening up the Senate’s legislative and administrative data for public access (for transparency), overhauling the Senate’s internal communications and collaboration infrastructure (for efficiency), and launching new Web 2.0 / social media technologies for the Senate (public participation).

The new NYSenate.gov website, launched in May, has been heralded as a leading example of the use of “Web 2.0” technologies by a legislature, inviting citizens to become creators of content on the site as well as consumers of content, and... Read More.

Nadia Ibrahim has worked as a Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) since 2003. As a Senior Policy Advisor on the Employment Supports Team, she assists in coordinating the agency’s cross-team Health and Employment Initiative, which includes mental health and personal assistance services (PAS) issues.

Prior to joining ODEP, Ms. Ibrahim served as a Peer Counselor at the ENDependence Center of Northern Virginia (ECNV), a community-based resource and advocacy center managed by and for people with disabilities. There she provided one-on-one peer counseling, independent living skills training; and information and referral services in working with participants to establish and attain their goals in areas such as employment, housing, transportation, and personal care. She has also worked... Read More.

Peter Jaszi directs the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic, teaches domestic and international copyright, and writes about copyright history and theory. Co-author of a standard textbook, Copyright Law (Lexis, 7th ed., 2006), he also helped edit The Construction of Authorship (Duke, 1994); the University of Chicago Press will publish a follow-up volume, (Con)texts of Invention, in 2008. In recognition of his advocacy for the public interest, Jaszi received the American Library Association’s 2007 L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award.

Clay is Director of Sunlight Labs. Prior joining Sunlight, Clay was one of the four founders of Blue State Digital, the progressive left’s premier technology and online strategy firm. This firm, which was born out of the Howard Dean campaign, was also responsible for Barack Obama’s Web presence. At Blue State Digital, Clay was responsible for developing the organization’s brand and building its initial client roster. He also had a hand at building some of the company’s early technical tools. Before joining Blue State, Johnson was the lead programmer for Dean for America in 2004, overseeing the development of grassroots tools like GetLocal, DeanLink and Project Commons. Prior to entering politics, Johnson was a technologist at Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) where he helped to develop... Read More.

Jeff Jonas is Chief Scientist, IBM Entity Analytics Group and an IBM Distinguished Engineer. The IBM Entity Analytics Group was formed based on technologies developed by Systems Research & Development (SRD), founded by Jonas in 1984, and acquired by IBM in January, 2005.

Prior to the acquisition Jonas lead SRD through the design and development of a number of unique systems including technology used by the Las Vegas gaming industry. One such innovation played a pivotal role in protecting the gaming industry from aggressive card count teams. The most notable known as the MIT team featured in the book “Bringing Down the House”, and recent movie “21.” This work is frequently featured in documentaries appearing on, the Discovery Channel,... Read More.

Chris C. Kemp joined NASA Ames in 2006 as Director of Strategic Business Development and helped forge partnerships with Google and Microsoft. Since 2008, he has served as Chairman of NASA’s Web Council and Chief Information Officer for NASA Ames Research Center. As CIO of a NASA field center, he is responsible for most of the IT infrastructure at NASA Ames (networks, datacenters, systems, etc.), and several NASA-wide services, including the NASA Security Operations Center (SOC).

Chris is also responsible for conceiving and establishing NASA’s Cloud Computing Pilot Nebula, which is currently supporting several Federal websites with the General Services Administration and the Office of Management and Budget.

Prior to joining NASA, Chris helped create... Read More.

Timothy Kephart is the founder and CEO of Graffiti Tracker Inc., which has provided graffiti tracking and analysis service for cities since 2006. Kephart began his graffiti research as a graduate student at California State University, Long Beach in 2000.

Rob Klause brings seventeen years of experience in the management, design, and development of high profile, high traffic web properties and database and desktop applications within both the private and Federal sectors.

Currently the Open Source Practice Director at Siteworx, Rob is skilled in identifying the tools, infrastructure and business needs necessary to achieve client online goals. Prior to joining Siteworx, Rob served as the Executive Office of the President Web Manager until December 2009. At the White House, Rob oversaw the transition of the President George W. Bush website to the National Archives, while simultaneously leading a successful launch of President Obama’s new WhiteHouse.gov at 12:05 PM on Inauguration Day.

Over the first year of the Obama Administration, Rob, working closely with the White... Read More.

Rochelle Klempner is the chief counsel to the New York State Courts Access to Justice Program. She primarily works on self-help tools for litigants who do not have an attorney, which includes the development of statewide publications, website: www.nycourthelp.gov, and A2J programs.

Elizabeth Losh is the Writing Director of the Humanities Core Course at U.C. Irvine and teaches courses about political communication and digital rhetoric. Her first book, Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes was published by MIT Press in 2009. She writes about institutions as digital makers, the discourses of the “virtual state,” the media literacy of policy makers and authority figures, and the rhetoric surrounding regulatory attempts to limit everyday digital practices. She has published articles about national digital libraries, government websites and online video channels, state-funded online learning efforts, videogames for the military and emergency first-responders, political blogging, and congressional hearings on the Internet. Her current book project, Early Adopters: The Instructional... Read More.

Debra Lavoy has been working with collaborative and social media for over 15 years at companies such as AOL and Adobe and now serves as Director of Product Marketing for Digital and Social Media at Open Text. She is a regular speaker in the D.C. area, where Obama’s transparent government initiative has created a world of thought and activity on the need to leverage both cultural and technological advances to move ahead to new levels of customer relationships and organizational productivity.

She blogs at productfour.wordpress.com.

Senator Kate Lundy has represented the Australian Capital Territory in the Senate in the Australian Federal Parliament as a member of the Australian Labor Party since 1996.

She held many portfolios in opposition including Information Technology, Manufacturing, Consumer Affairs, Local Government, Sport and Health Promotion.

Elected for the fifth time, as part of the Rudd Labor Government Senator Lundy is currently Chair of the Joint Standing Committee for the National Capital and External Territories and a long-standing active member of the Senate Environment, Communications and the Arts Committee. She is also one of the Federal Parliament’s representatives on the Advisory Council of the National Archive of Australia.

As Manager, Digital Engagement in the Strategic Communication Branch of the Department of Justice, Pat is managing a business transformation program of internal and external online initiatives and providing advice, analysis and consultation on the effective use of new media and emerging technology across the Justice portfolio.

Prior to joining the Victoria Department of Justice in December 2009, Pat was principal policy adviser at the State Services Authority where he managed the development of a Victorian Public Service Innovation Action Plan for the Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet.

Previously Pat worked as a senior consultant at the Nous Group, a management consultancy providing expertise in strategy and public policy, information management and technology, organisational capability and leadership. Before relocating to Australia in... Read More.

Commander Scott McIlnay, U.S. Navy, graduated from Boston University in 1995 with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science. During his initial tours of duty, he served as the communications officer and main propulsion assistant on board the destroyer USS Arthur W. Radford (DD 968) and as navigator aboard the destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG 57). He then moved to the public affairs career field in 1999. CDR McIlnay served as an action officer at Public Affairs Center Norfolk. He subsequently worked in the community relations and media relations departments at the U.S. Atlantic Fleet/Fleet Forces Command where he completed the Naval War College Fleet Seminar Program and attended Joint Forces Staff College, completing a master’s degree in security studies from the Naval... Read More.

John McRee brings 10 years of expertise to his role as a lead user experience architect for EffectiveUI. Specializing in design process management, user research, persona development, information architecture and interaction design, John creates highly engaging architecture and interaction models that drive exceptional user experiences.

John joined EffectiveUI in 2007 as an interaction designer and has worked on high-profile projects such as Herff Jones eDesign, Navy Federal Credit Union and ABN AMRO. He has partnered with Adobe to provide Mercedes Benz UX consultation. Most recently, he worked on Qwest Communications’ business-to-business Web portal, which has increased Qwest’s Web site conversions and business leads dramatically.

Carmen Medina is retiring this February from a 30+year career at CIA, most recently the Director for the Center for the Study of Intelligence. During her time as a senior manager of analysts, Ms. Medina was a key senior leader supporting the introduction of social media and new technology in support of analysis. She was the senior leader at CIA who gave the green light to Intellipedia. Ms. Medina has written broadly on the business of analysis and is unusual for senior managers in her recognition of the need to embrace the 2.0 revolution to improve analysis.

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Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O’Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, the Web 2.0 Summit, and the Gov 2.0 Summit. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is on the boards of CollabNet and Safari Books Online, and is a partner in O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

Dr. John Ohab is a new technology strategist at the US Department of Defense, where he helps guide the planning and delivery of technology initiatives for the Public Web Program. John also hosts the Defense Department’s weekly science and technology podcast, “Armed with Science: Research and Applications for the Modern Military,” which received the 2009 APEX Award for Publication Excellence and the PR News Non-Profit Award.

John received his B.S. in Biopsychology from UC Santa Barbara in 2002 and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UCLA in 2007. His doctoral work in Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael’s lab focused on the role of adult neural stem cells in brain repair after stroke. John joined the Defense Department as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow with... Read More.

Jay is a pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist with a masters in public health. He’s been called the Doctor of the Future and one of the top 10 most creative people in health care by Fast Company. I’m also one of Esquire’s 2009 Best and Brightest “Radicals and Rebels Who Are Changing the World.”

He started a practice in NYC on September 24, 2007. His practice became Hello Health via a partnership with Myca so other doctors could practice this way. Hello Health is a mixture of secure social network and electronic medical record that enables doctors and patients to connect both in their office and online via email, IM, and video chat.

He now has a design firm... Read More.

Mr. Pluschkell is founder and CEO of spigit, and an officer of Raven Holdings Inc. an emerging technology management fund. Prior to founding spigit Mr. Pluschkell formerly served as President and CEO of HyperFeed Technologies, Inc. from 2003-2006building low latency ticker plants for exchanges and hedge funds. In 1996 Mr. Pluschkell founded MXnet, a financial market extranet and successfully sold it to IXNet/IPC. After the sale Mr. Pluschkell served as an officer of IXNet. After a successfulIPO IXNet was sold to Global Crossing in 1999. Mr. Pluschkell moved to CA to become EVP of Sales, Products and Marketing for Global Center, a subsidiary of Global Crossing. After a successful sale to Exodus communications in 2001, Mr. Pluschkell became President of Broadband at... Read More.

Melissa Rach is director of content strategy at Brain Traffic, an agency focused on helping clients tackle messy content problems. Melissa worked on her first online project in 1993. Since then, she has become a respected authority on how organizations incorporate interactive content into their overall communications strategies. Her methodologies have been taught at universities nationwide and recognized in books for nearly a decade, from Webmastering for Dummies (2000) to Content Strategy for the Web (2009).

Armando is the VP of Engagement at Cultural Strategies and Director of Community Engagement at United Way Capital Area/Hands On Central Texas in Austin, TX. Armando’s experience is deep rooted in the community and nonprofit sector. He specializes in building capacity & creating change with a focus on Hispanic Engagement, project management, leadership development & social innovation. Armando has over 12 years experience in community engagement, volunteerism & social media, and has developed innovative engagement strategies (grassroots to social media) & cultural programming for many nonprofits & businesses including, MPower Labs/RISE Entrepreneurship Conference Tate Austin Hahn, Lance Armstrong Foundation & ACTIVE Life. He serves on the national Points of Light/Hands On Network’s Neighboring Taskforce, is a frequent panelist/presenter at local & national conferences (United... Read More.

Michael Reardon is a Supervisory Policy Advisor for the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) at the U.S. Department of Labor. He directs ODEP’s Employment Supports Policy Team, which addresses a wide range of issues affecting the employment of people with disabilities, including transportation, housing, assistive technology, personal assistance and health care. He previously served as the Disability Program Manager for the Department of Transportation’s Office of Civil Rights and as a Policy Advisor for the Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities. He came to Washington, DC from Columbus, OH where he was Director of the Ohio Developmental Disabilities Alliance, a state-level advocacy organization for people with disabilities. He has a Masters in Public Policy from Ohio State University where he... Read More.

Dr. Paulette Robinson is the Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning for the Information Resources Management College at the National Defense University. As part of her position, she is also responsible to review all student assessment plans and create evaluation capabilities for College courses and programs. She is also manages technology for the College. In this position, she manages a distributed learning instructional design group, oversees technology purchases, reviews emerging technologies for inclusion in the innovations and simulations lab, implements technology and facilitates instructional use of technology for the College. In addition, she is the leader for the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds. A group of over 1,000 from government (federal, state, local and international), industry, and academia who are interested in the use of... Read More.

Alec Ross serves as Senior Advisor for Innovation in the Office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In this role, Alec is tasked with maximizing the potential of technology in service of America’s diplomatic and development goals.

Prior to his service at the State Department, Alec worked on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team and served as Convener for Obama for America’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications Policy Committee.

In 2000, Alec Ross and three colleagues co-founded One Economy, a global nonprofit that uses innovative approaches to deliver the power of technology and information about education, jobs, health care and other vital issues to low-income people. During his eight years at One Economy, it grew from a team of four people working in a basement to the... Read More.

Robbie Schingler is an Engineering Project Manager in the Office of the Center Director at NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) where he focuses on non-traditional partnerships and new ventures for NASA. Robbie works in the Small Spacecraft Division helping to bring small spacecraft partners and flight projects into NASA, and most recently was the Capture Lead for the NASA Small Explorer Program (SMEX) proposed mission called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).

Robbie is one of the co-founders of the NASA CoLab project in 2006, and is an active participant in creating public participation and open innovation at NASA. Previously, he has worked at NASA in three different positions: program and policy analysis in the Science Mission Directorate... Read More.

John Sheridan is Head of e-Services and Strategy at the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) in addition to serving as a co-chair of the W3C’s eGovernment Interest Group. OPSI is a key enabler for the re-use of government information, with responsibility for the re-use strand of policy development the operationally the management of Crown copyright and database rights (the UK Government’s Intellectual Property). John works at the intersection of information policy, technology and online service delivery. With a background in Information Technology, specializing in the Web, he has led a number of projects to enable government data, in particular using Semantic Web technology. John was part of the team of officials support the Power of Information strand of policy development. John has... Read More.

Victoria is a Postdoctoral Associate in Law and a Kauffman Fellow in Law at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. After completing her PhD in statistics, she obtained a Master’s in Legal Studies in 2007 from Stanford Law School where she created a new licensing structure for computational research. Her paper proposing this Intellectual Property framework, called the “Reproducible Research Standard,” won the Kaltura Writing Competition, given in connection with the Third Conference on Access to Knowledge (A2K3) in 2008. She completed her PhD in statistics at Stanford University in 2006 with advisor David Donoho. A component of her dissertation was the development and release of SparseLab, a collaborative platform for distributing code and data underlying published papers that focus on sparse solutions... Read More.

Rusty Talbot joined Synteractive in 2006 and is a Director in the Public Sector practice. In this capacity, Rusty is responsible for ensuring that business solution engineering teams provide successful solutions to client problems.

At Synteractive, he has focused on supporting a large goverment organization in a myriad of transformation projects. Rusty and his team are working to transition the organization from a traditional command-and-control organization—arranged around a geographic hierarchy—into an agile, learning organization with functional experts collaborating across multiple dimensions of expertise. To achieve these goals, Rusty and his team have supported the Corporate Information Director in developing strategy, defining policy, and conducting business analysis, as well as architecting and implementing integrated solutions based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. This has included... Read More.

Lena Trudeau serves as Vice President at the National Academy of Public Administration. In this capacity, she leads the National Academy’s service delivery organization, supervises the conception and execution of strategic initiatives, opens new lines of business and drives organizational change. She has recently worked on studies for U.S. Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS Science & Technology Directorate, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, and Department of State.

In addition, Lena is a founder of the Collaboration Project, an independent forum of leaders committed to leveraging web 2.0 and the benefits of collaborative technology to solve government’s complex problems. In that role, she has led online interactive stakeholder dialogues for organizations including the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of Management and... Read More.

GARY GETS BUSINESS: Meet Gary Vaynerchuk (VAY NER CHUK), a 34 year old New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best-Selling author who is also a self-trained wine and social media expert. From a young age, it was clear that Gary was a businessman. At 8 years old he was operating 7 lemonade stands in his neighborhood and by 10 he had moved onto selling baseball cards at local malls. In high school while working at his family owned liquor store, Gary started reading The Wine Spectator and wine books, and realized collecting wine offered an allure similar to his previous hobby of collecting baseball cards. With a wealth of knowledge and an entrepreneurial spirit, Gary spent every weekend of his college... Read More.

Joel Whitaker is Senior Advisor to the Center of Innovation for Science, Technology and Peacebuilding at the United States Institute of Peace. Current major projects include:

• “Smart Tools for Smart Power” – identifying high-impact opportunities for technology to bolster peacebuilding and stability operations, including improving training through simulations and serious games;
• “Blogs & Bullets” – understanding the impact of online discourse in conflict zones, including the Middle East, and the potential to analyze new media for crisis early warning;
• “Climate Change and Conflict” – assessing the effects of droughts, floods, and ecosystem breakdown on international hotspots, and identifying potential climate-impacted conflict flash points;
• “Science & Engineering Diplomacy for Conflict Prevention” – benchmarking the impact of international technical collaborations on preventing and managing conflict, and... Read More.

Steve Willett has spent a decade in the US Government developing web-enabled solutions. As a Fed 100 Award-winner in 2008, Steve was recognized as an ‘Agent of Change’ for work that included the introduction of server-side mashups, Web 2.0 interfaces, and the first service-oriented architecture presentation layer within the intelligence community. Steve is currently working in the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Office of the CTO and manages the agency’s Intelligence Community Data Layer (ICDL).