As the Director of Community at Flickr, Heather oversees member activities for one of the world's largest and most popular photo sharing communities. An award-winning designer with over ten years' experience, she joined Flickr in May 2005 and has seen the community grow to 30 million members sharing 2.9 billion photos and video. Previously, Heather was the creator of The Mirror Project and the cofounder of JPG Magazine.
"brilliant" —boingboing.net
Authentic conversation leads to more connections between people and ideas.
I make authentic conversations happen at companies, organizations and conferences like Google, South by Southwest Interactive, BlogHer, AIGA, Social Venture Network, Forum One’s Marketing and Online Communities Conference and Overlap 08.
My uniquely interactive talks often involve bringing out the best in you, other speakers and the “audience.” This means:
•you don’t have sit through another Powerpoint
Veronica is the co-host of Revision3’s tech-centric show, Tekzilla, and Qore on the PLAYSTATION Network. Previous to that, she hosted several other online video shows and podcasts, including Mahalo Daily, Buzz Out Loud, MP3 Insider, and Crave. She also created tech video content for CNET TV, including the popular series Prizefight.
Veronica frequently guest hosts other technology-related podcasts, and also speaks about technology, gaming, and social networking. In her spare time, she hosts the science fiction and fantasy-themed podcast / book club The Sword and Laser.
Tara ‘miss rogue’ Hunt has spent most of her adult life online, either participating in or building communities. From the first wave of online marketing when she was in Canada, showing companies how to brave this new medium, all the way to being part of one of the companies in Silicon Valley that led the wave into Web 2.0: the participatory web.
Lauren Cooney has ten years of experience building technical communities and strategies for enterprise software companies. Cooney joined the Information Management CTO Office in January 2007, focusing on strategy and community evangelism around Web 2.0, Info 2.0, and open source technologies and products. She is currently responsible for Info 2.0, IBM's new Web 2.0 offering. Prior to her role in Information Management, Cooney worked on Apache Geronimo in the WebSphere Group as the IBM lead for building community and programs.
Kristen Kuhns is the former Executive Director and one of the founders of the East Bay IT Group www.ebig.org, a 10,000 member non-profit for technology executives in the bay area. She was also the VP of operations at TierSolution, Inc. where she ran the operations of the East Bay office, the office in Bangalore, India, and consultants who are currently scattered as far as Canada, Russia, Dubai, India, the UK, and across the US. Before joining TierSolution Kristen was the IT Liaison for Borden Capital Management Partners, the management team of Borden, Inc.
Jessica Mah is a sophomore in college and aspiring entrepreneur - she's 17 years old and feeds on the idea of being an underage entrepreneur. Later this spring, she will be featured in the PBS TV Series, Biz Kids. As of recently, she became a TEDster.
