DCWEEK 2011

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Adam is a General Partner with Fortify.vc - a seed and early-stage venture fund based in Northern Virginia.

His experience previous to joining Fortify.vc focused on building start-ups and brands from the ground up. Fazackerley founded concept2creations (c2c) in 1999 with the mission of designing and producing professional web, print, graphic and strategic marketing solutions that delivered clear and concise corporate messaging.

Before starting c2c, Adam worked for UUNET Technologies, Cello Technologies and Osborn Capital.

Fazackerley’s time at Osborn Capital gave him a love for th… Read more

SITES, Traveling Exhibitions

Alex Budak is a social entrepreneur and travel writer, and is currently the co-founder of StartSomeGood.com, a platform for empowering social innovators. He recently completed a Masters in Public Policy at Geogretown University, focusing on the intersection of technology and social entrepreneurship. His econometrics-based thesis, "Facebook, Twitter and Barack Obama: New Media and the 2008 Presidential election," is the first such paper to quantify how new media informed the national elections in 2008. He's visited 25 countries and lived for longer periods in Germany and India, and his tr… Read more

Alex Howard (@digiphile) from O’Reilly Media (@OReillyMedia)

Gov2.0 DC Correspondent, @OReillyMedia. Intrigued by technological change, taken with ideas, cooking, the great outdoors, books, dogs, and media, in all forms.

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Alexis is Co-Founder; VP, Strategic Development of the Curbed Network. The Curbed Network delivers intelligence on real estate & interior design (Curbed.com), restaurants & dining (Eater.com), fashion & shopping (Racked.com) and urban travel (Gridskipper.com). Through the years, Alexis has been involved in every stage of company development from incorporation, to ad sales to capital raising; she now focuses on strategic partnerships and ecommerce initiatives.

Before joining Curbed full-time, Alexis worked in investment and nonprofit management with emphasis on venture capital & private…

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Allyson has been named one of the Most Influential Women in Tech by Fast Company, a "Tech Titan" by the Washingtonian and one of the top 30 women entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter by Forbes for her leadership role in technology and social media. 

As Founding Partner of Rad Campaign she leads the firm’s online strategic services. For over a decade Allyson has helped non-profit organizations and political campaigns create dynamic and award-winning websites and online marketing and recruitment campaigns. 

As part of the first generation of online advocacy experts, Allyson has a thorough understand…

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Amanda has lived and worked in Toronto, Atlanta, Buenos Aires, Madrid, London and lately home seems to be wherever her suitcase is parked. She is Founder of Connect the Dots Foundation; established in 2009 to incubate and craft fresh global campaigns and initiatives that use technology to connect people offline for a good cause.  

Amanda spent the first part of her career working in non-traditional roles within boutique creative agencies and communication firms. She then delved deeper into event management and commercial property eventually co-founding Space-2, an innovative film and event lo…

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Amber Pfau has specialized in publicity work in the restaurant and hospitality industries for close to ten years. Since 2002, she has been a presence in Washington, D.C., working in the public relations arena, and in October 2006, she launched her own business as an independent PR consultant.

Partner, Wiley Rein LLP

Hi there, I am Andreas Weigend. My expertise is in social and mobile technologies and in consumer behavior: I study people and the data they create. In today's increasingly digitized world, consumers are sharing data in unprecedented ways. This Social Data Revolutionrepresents a deep shift in how people make purchasing and lifestyle decisions.

 

I advise companies that want to embrace this new reality of social data. Together, we design interactive platforms and real-time systems, empowering them and their customers to make better choices. Previously, as the Chief Scientist of Amazon.com, I …

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OhMyGov.com, an organization that equips communications professionals in the government space with digital productivity tools and services that monitor and analyze performance and influence.

Andrew Ray represents public and private companies and financial sponsors in a broad range of corporate and finance matters. Andy has extensive experience in the telecommunications, media and technology (TMT), government contracts, and energy and project finance sectors. Since 2009, Andy has been designated a Leading Lawyer by the publication Best Lawyers in America.

Prior to joining the firm, Andy served as a clerk to the Hon. James M. Sprouse of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Andy has taught at George Mason University School of Law as an adjunct professor and is …

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Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP

I run Mixergy, a project were proven entrepreneurs teach how they built their businesses. Participants include the founders of LivingSocial, 37signals, Sun Microsystems, Y Combinator and LinkedIn.

Previously, I parlayed a stack of credit card debt to build Bradford & Reed, a $30+ million a year online greeting card company.

When I’m not running Mixergy, I enjoy sneaking beer and edamame into movie theaters with my wife.

Andy is a designer born and raised in Pennsylvania and now proudly living in Baltimore, Maryland. In the spring of 2011 he co-founded Friends of The Web along with his three favorite people. The small design and development studio builds websites and mobile applications for themselves and others. He is passionate about connecting people, through the Internet or otherwise, authorship, typography, and hip-hop.

Andy co-founded Brighter Planet in 2005 and continues to design and integrate its products and services. Andy has been chief of staff to political consultant Joe Trippi, personal assistant to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and a member of Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign web team. A long-time technologist, he is also an Eagle Scout.

Andy co-founded Brighter Planet in 2005 and continues to design and integrate its products and services. Andy has been chief of staff to political consultant Joe Trippi, personal assistant to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and a member of Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign web team. A long-time technologist, he is also an Eagle Scout.

How to Create a Conversation, Engage Your Audience, and Fuel a Pandemic Conversation - Angela Hausman, PHD, Co-Host and Associate Professor of Marketing at Howard University School of Business in Washington DC. Editor the European Journal of Marketing.

Angie Goff is a multi-media journalist in Washington DC.

Goff spent several years covering news, traffic and entertainment at WUSA in Washington. She also anchored and reported for WIS-TV in Columbia, SC where she won an Emmy. Other stops in her career include KMEG-TV in Sioux City, Iowa and Entertainment Tonight.

Contact Angie through Facebook and Twitter

Anthony E. Braddy founded CMC, LLC in 2008, with over 10 years experience in the Information Technology industry. Having held positions of responsibility and accountability in all software development and project/program management, his vision was to create an organization that helped their clients improve overall efficiency and effectiveness by leveraging process improvements combined with innovative usage of new and existing technologies. In addition to being the lead architect for business process reengineering projects, Anthony leads the charge in securing new business opportunities and ke… Read more

Social Media Editor
Reuters

Maven
arunranga.com
Arun's worked on the Netscape browser and on Firefox, spending about 10 years of his adult life working on the Mozilla open source project. He also worked as an architect at AOL, and currently writes and acts in New York city, as well as co-founded South Asian language startup samosapedia.com

Arcade Sunshine Media

How to Harness Your Latent Infuence and Leverage It Exponentially and Efforlessly - Barry C. McLawhorn host and Fouder of BedRock Viral Marketing & Associates.

My name is Ben Milne. I’m currently living in Des Moines Iowa building a company called Dwolla. Our company is built around the simple idea that moving money should be easy, affordable, transparent, and safe.

I believe wealth should be distributed among populations without inherently being diminished through the act of distribution.

General Manager of Mobile, The Washington Post

Bill Flook covers IT, biotech and venture capital for the Washington Business Journal. As one of the WBJ’s two tech reporters, he spends most of his time writing about entrepreneurship and the startup scene. Bill joined the Business Journal in June 2010 after four years on the Virginia politics and government beat for the Washington Examiner, where he covered the Kaine and McDonnell administrations as well as local, state and federal elections. A 2004 graduate of Gettysburg College, he got his start in journalism at the Northern Virginia Daily in Front Royal, Va. His broadcast appearances in… Read more

http://birdsofapleather.wordpress.com

I thrive on creativity and the company of intelligent, driven people. I love to lead teams working on important problems. I am generally suspicious of people who wear jean shorts. I enjoy criticism and learning from my mistakes. My passion ranges from acute circumstances, putting out a fire I started in my friend's home in Sydney, to chronic problems, making a different for the military community.

Program Director of IT for InsideNGO

Bonnie is an expert at making meaningful connections between people, place, technology and play to catalyze massively collaborative civic innovations for tangible real world impact. As the Director of Social Innovation at iStrategyLabs, Bonnie brings a delightfully playful perspective with a background in city design and participatory planning, game and adventure design and online organizing and community building. She offers over 10 years of international experience in design and strategy, campaign implementation and events, and project management in local grounded and global online engage… Read more

Brandon Thomas serves as Director of Product Management for The Washington Post Company’s corporate digital team. Previously, he founded Nico Networks, a social media consulting and development firm that explored the burgeoning world of social applications in the political space (acquired by The Washington Post Company in 2008).

Thomas has a diverse background of leadership and execution, which includes building a client service team for a software startup, providing product guidance to a large electronics retailer, building a live-shot television studio for a national political campaig… Read more

Working to bring surprise and delight to consumers around the world every day, Brett was an early product hire at LivingSocial and hasworked horizontally across all areas of the company. He's now responsible for mobile product strategy and LivingSocial Instant.

Brian Dresher is Mashable’s Director of Business Development and is based out of the D.C. area. In this role, Brian identifies and manages traffic-driving, revenue-generating, and brand-building opportunities. Through these strategic areas, Brian has created new revenue streams through content and brand licensing initiatives; enhanced Mashable’s content partnerships with established media brands including CNN, Yahoo, Washington Post, US News, and USA TODAY; and developed mobile and tablet app partnerships with niche social media brands including Gowalla, Float, News.me, and UberMedia. B… Read more

As Senior Vice President of Telecommunications Solutions at comScore, Inc., Brian consults with companies in the wireless and wireline ecosystems to provide consumer, competitor and marketplace insights, allowing clients to make critical data-driven marketing and product development decisions. Brian manages key strategic relationships with major wireless carriers and Internet service providers. Previously, Brian managed comScore’s banking practice.

Brian came to comScore from Capital One, where he helped expand Capital One Bank’s online marketing in addition to overseeing various st…

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Brian Solis is principal at Altimeter Group, a research-based advisory firm. Solis is globally recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders and published authors in new media. A digital analyst, sociologist, and futurist, Solis has studied and influenced the effects of emerging media on business, marketing, publishing, and culture. His current book, Engage, is regarded as the industry reference guide for businesses to build and measure success in the social web.

Brian Wong is the founder of kiip (pronounced "keep"), a mobile rewards network, backed by True Ventures. Kiip has raised over $4.4 million in funding to date and is redefining the advertising industry through a "moments"-based value model, versus the traditional attention based screen estate model. Very recently, Kiip was listed by Forbes as one of the "4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Put on Your Watch List", and was also named to the Dow Jones' FasTech50 List. Brian was also recently listed to AdAge's Creativity Top 50. Techcrunch and the Wall Street Journal called Brian the "youngest person… Read more

Having worked in the fashion industry for nearly ten years in both women’s wear and men’s wear, Cally Rieman's clothing is marked by the breadth of her experience, “tough and chic, austerity without pretense. I design clothing for women that embodies the grace and ease that makes men’s wear so powerful.” Rieman took an unconventional path into the world of fashion, graduating from Denison University with a degree in East Asian Studies and Political Science. Her interest in fashion began during a study program in Taiwan, where she taught English to the owner of a textile manufactur… Read more

Dir of Emerging Media
The Humane Society of the United States
As Director of Emerging Media at The Humane Society of the United States, Carie leads social media and online advertising campaigns for the nation’s largest and most powerful animal welfare organization. Though focusing on fundraising and advocacy on a day to day basis, she particularly enjoys using Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare for the purpose of community building. As media is constantly changing, a large part of Carie’s responsibilities include evaluating new technologies and trends, as well as brand monitoring. Carie is a … Read more

Caroline McCarthy is a writer and editor who worked as a journalist for five years covering technology for CNET.com, writing the column "The Social" and appearing as a commentator on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," NBC's "Today," CBS' "The Early Show," and her personal favorite, G4's "Attack of the Show."  She currently puts her writing skills to work on the marketing team at Google.

EIR
First Round Capital
Charlie is a Principal at First Round Capital, working on very early stage investments in the New York City area. He founded New York’s largest independent innovation community group, nextNY, and was voted one of the 100 Most Influential People in New York Technology the last three consecutive years by Alley Insider. Charlie was the Co-Founder & CEO of Path 101, an innovative startup in the career guidance and recruiting space, which raised half a million dollars and was a Business Insider Startup 2009 Finalist. Before founding Path 101, he spent a year as the Director of…

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Cheryl Kollin, Principal, Full Plate Ventures, will discuss the local, sustainable food movement in our region and the barriers small-producers face in getting their products to market.

In August 2010, Cheryl co-founded CityPockets, a daily deal wallet that help users keep track of all their deal purchases in one spot, and sell vouchers they can't use in a secondary deals marketplace. CityPockets was participated in LaunchBox Digital's Fall 2010 Accelerator program and subsequently raised $750K from angel investors in May 2011.

Cheryl was recently named "25 Women Driving NY's Tech Scene" by Betabeat (bit.ly/25womendrivingtech) and blogs about her personal startup journey at cherylyeoh.com 

Prior to starting CityPockets, she was a management consultant at KPMG, Opera Solution, a…

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Chhaya is Future of Music Coalition’s COO and Events Director and has been with the organization since 2006 (aka when we still worked out of Jenny Toomey's spare bedroom). Prior to moving to Washington, DC, she spent several years coordinating tours at noted Boston roots music booking/management agency Concerted Efforts for artists such as Orchestra Baobab, Ali Farka Toure, Rokia Traore, Booker T. & The MG's, Yat-Kha and others. She has also traveled internationally tour managing Pape & Cheik and The Holmes Brothers.

At FMC, Chhaya organizes events, manages the organization's finances, ke… Read more

Founder and CEO, DisruptiveApps, Inc.

Specialist, Social Business for Deloitte Consulting. Postdigital Architect. Founder/Chairman, Social Media Club. UX/IA Guy. Game Changer.

Chris is passionate about entrepreneurship, problem solving, and seeking adventure.  Prior to co-founding Signal, Chris worked at PwC and obtained a B.S. from Purdue University.

Sr Engineer
Millennial Media
Christopher Brown is a Senior Engineer at Millennial Media, the nation's largest independent mobile advertising company. At Millennial, he develops for several mobile platforms including iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 7, and helps create tools to support publishers and developers. He co-founded TapMetrics, a mobile analytics company, that was acquired in 2010. Chris holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and lives with his wife in Washington, DC.

Electro-Acoustic Musician

Clint O'Brien from Care2 (@care2)