Praveen leads developer evangelism and the docs and tools organization at X.commerce to help developers learn, build, and use the PayPal, eBay and X.commerce platforms. Before that, he was the lead evangelist for PayPalX, and a systems architect for identity and authentication at Amazon, and earlier he did the same at AOL. Praveen has long been a proponent of open standards, and has been a big supporter of grassroots efforts such as OpenID and OAuth.
Maya Baratz, Head of New Products, The Wall Street Journal. Maya has spent some time on both the product and editorial sides of new media -- previously working at companies including MTV Networks, Flickr, Monster.com, and Terra Lycos. Picking up The Knight Foundation's Silver Knight Award in 1996 and a Webby Award in 2006, she's been also published and quoted by publications including The Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, SF Weekly, The Huffington Post, Neiman Journalism Lab and the BBC, among others. Most recently, she led the release of WSJ Social, The Wall Street Journal's standalone publication
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Intel Corporation
Genevieve Bell is an Intel Fellow and the Director of Intel’s Interactions and Experience Research Lab. Dr. Bell joined Intel in 1998 as one of its first anthropologists, and immediately began to change the way Intel thinks about its strategy and its products. She helped drive the company’s first overseas field studies and conducted groundbreaking research in urban Asia. In 2005 Bell utilized her unique perspective on the many different ways humans interact with technology to create a visionary plan for the future of TV. She became the driving force behind Intel’s emerging focus on user experience
Sloane Berrent is Vice President of Digital Marketing for Lippe Taylor and its sister agency ShopPR, both communications and public relations agencies in New York. Sloane has over ten years of experience in digital marketing across industries including nonprofits, early-stage startups and in the traditional agency capacity.
She has been blogging since 2005, first as an editor for the largest city-based blog in Los Angeles, LAist.com and then for her own blog, The Causemopolitan.
Previously to working at Lippe Taylor, she ran her own consultancy, Answer With Action, building and e
Mike Brenner is the Founder of StartupBaltimore.org – an online media publication that aims to shine a light on Baltimore's early-stage innovation and tech community.
Mike is also the Founder and CEO of Sunrise Design – a creative web studio in Baltimore that designs and develops beautiful web products for local clients.
Aside from his professional involvements, Mike has played a key role in helping organize and shape the city's tech community by helping start some of the following initiatives: Refresh Bmore, Beehive Baltimore, BaltimoreTech.net, Civic Hack Day, Startup Weekend, and
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Oktay is responsible for non-profit and donation-related global product features globally. He was a co-founder and CTO of MissionFish, eBay Inc.’s non-profit partner for cause marketing and donation programs. MissionFish has been an eBay partner since 2003 and has helped raise a quarter of a billion dollars for charities. Oktay is also responsible for integrating those donation and nonprofit related capabilities into PayPal. He has served as the CTO of the Points of Light Foundation and as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has developed imaginative, Internet-based solutions
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