Aung Kyaw Moe is the founder and CEO of 2C2P, a Singapore-based payment provider specializing in next-generation e-commerce and m-commerce payment solutions as a service. He is also the founder and CEO of SinaptIQ, a Thailand-based e-commerce payment security provider specializing in 3D Secure payment technology. Prior to founding 2C2P, Aung launched PaySBuy, a SinaptIQ spin-off company providing e-commerce wallet services which was acquired by DTAC (Thailand’s second largest mobile operator, a part of Telenor Group) in 2007 and regarded today as the PayPal equivalent of Thailand. In recognition of his breakthrough innovations in the payments industry, Aung was named as one of Asia’s Top 25 Best Young Entrepreneurs by BusinessWeek Magazine in 2009.

Sam is the Practice Director for ABI's M2M Connectivity practice, widely known as an industry guru and has published over 50 M2M documents over the past 2 years. As head of ABI Research’s M2M Connectivity group, Sam Lucero manages the firm’s strategic and quantitative assessment of the global markets for Cellular M2M Connectivity and Wireless Sensor Networking technologies.

His extensive research experience across multiple networking and semiconductor markets gives him a broad perspective on how wireless connectivity markets are evolving.

Prior to joining ABI Research, Sam was a networking equipment analyst at In-Stat, where he managed that firm’s Ethernet switch market tracking service.

He has been widely quoted in news and trade journals, including the New York Times, The Economist, Investor’s Business Daily, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek.com, CNNMoney.com, USA Today, the San Jose Mercury News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Dallas Morning News, SmartMoney.com, Network World, CNET, Wireless Week, CommsDesign, Light Reading, and more.

After graduating from the University of California at San Diego, Sam spent three years working in Japan before returning to the US to earn an MBA with honors from Thunderbird School of Global Management.

As Vice President and Managing Director of Asia-Pacific & Latin America for AdMob, the largest mobile advertising network, Jeff is responsible for the company's strategy, operations and expansion across Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Prior to joining AdMob, Jeff was Director of Market Development for Motorola. Previously, Jeff was a marketing manager at Apple Computer, a business development manager for a wireless payment startup in Singapore and a management consultant for Price Waterhouse in United States and in Europe. Jeff holds BA from Taylor University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

John joined the company via the acquisition of Velocix in July 2009 where he served as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

Previously he served at Internet security firm, SurfControl where he also held the position of CMO. Prior to SurfControl, John was VP EMEA Marketing at Business Integration supplier webMethods. Before joining webMethods, John held marketing and technology leadership roles at mobile content delivery enabler, Volantis, B2B integration provider, Extricity, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard.

Based in Chennai, India, Tim is responsible for community evangelism, outreach, and development for the Asia Pacific region. Tim specializes in online marketing, community development, and enterprise collaboration.

Before Alcatel-Lucent, Tim held international sales and marketing management positions with divisions of Fair Isaac, GEC/Marconi, and Siemens. Previously Tim held senior marketing and community management positions at CollabNet, Jaspersoft, and Sun Microsystems.

Noah Kagan worked at Intel and was an early employee at Facebook and Mint.com. He then started getgambit.com with two partners which quickly became one of the leading companies for virtual currency monetisation.

Noah is currently working on AppSumo.com, helping people get great deals on amazing web applications. Noah holds a B.S. in Business Administration and B.A. in Economics from UC Berkeley. Follow him at twitter.com/noahkagan

In 2008, Hung-Hsiang moved to Singapore to head a new strategic design centre for ASUS. His philosophy of integrating a trident of seemingly dissimilar yet mutually complementary drivers of design innovation—people, technology and business—has led him to successfully establish and lead a multi-disciplinary team adept at research, design and development methods to explore strategic opportunities that bolster the global design philosophy and brand position of ASUS.

Since its inception, Hung-Hsiang and the Singapore team have played a pivotal role in the innovation think-tank of ASUS. Two years on, this satellite team has consistently delivered cutting-edge concepts based on market insights to inspire and motivate the company’s future design directions. To achieve this, Hung-Hsiang places equal emphasis on the team’s three core functions—design research, industrial design and user experience design. Every project calls on the expertise of each team, creating a cross-functional collaborative model which ensures that information and inspiration are relevant to the team and company at all levels during design and product development.

Inform. Inspire. Motivate. Moving the creative process along these three tracks on every project, Hung-Hsiang keeps his team focused on a common direction in spite of their functional differences, so that their creative output is always consistent and relevant to tomorrow’s demanding consumers, fast-paced technological advancement and competitive 3C industry. Only then will the trident drivers of innovation be amalgamated into every design process, keeping the team ahead in technological know-how, nimble on business considerations and connected with people and society.

Michael Galpert is one of the founders of Aviary, a suite of free web based creative apps. In his day to day he works on strategic business development, expanding Aviary's footprint and product offerings.

He is driven by a passion to help others do what they love and currently sits on the advisory board for Web 2.0 Expo New York, is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Helps organize Barcamp New York and is actively involved with the NYC-based tech community group NextNY.

Erwan Mace moved to Singapore from France at the age of 14 (6 years after writing his first lines of code on a Sinclair ZX81) and shared his time between Europe and Asia ever since.

After leading various internet, digital media and mobile technology initiatives for MNC's and smaller startups (Spray, Soundbuzz, Akamai, Vivendi Mobile Entertainment), Erwan started Bitsmedia Pte Ltd in 2009 and now focuses on building custom mobile applications for enterprise clients, SME's and startups. Erwan holds a BA Economics, Master's Information Systems and Master's Management Sciences.

Thomas is President and CEO of Bubble Motion, the leader in delivering social networking voice-services to mobile-first countries including India, Japan, Philippines and Indonesia. The company’s Bubble Blog platform is the market leading voice-blogging platform and is like voice-based Twitter. Prior to running Bubble Motion, Tom was GM of the Worldwide Telecom Business at BEA Systems, an infrastructure software company acquired by Oracle for $8.5B. Before BEA, Tom helped start five different companies. Tom holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a BS degree from UC Berkeley.

Dr KF Lai is co-founder and chief executive officer of BuzzCity, one of world’s leading mobile media companies in the development and marketing of mobile services and entertainment to a global audience. 

Established in 1999 in Singapore, BuzzCity’s business focuses on two distinct audiences: the newly connected emerging middle class in developing markets and the blue collar sector in developed regions. 

These "unwired" consumers are accessing the mobile Internet on their phones due to widespread and affordable wireless access. Prior to founding BuzzCity, Dr Lai worked as an applied researcher in laboratories funded by the Singapore government, specializing in pattern recognition and text retrieval. 

He graduated with First Class Honours in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and obtained his Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bernard is the co-founder of Chlkboard where he currently serves as the CTO and is instrumental in developing a mobile-web ad delivery system to help small and medium enterprises to market promotions. Prior to Chlkboard, Bernard was a founding partner in Thymos Capital LLP. In his stint as an early stage investor, he has guided his portfolio of companies (iHipo, AzukiSoft and Eteract) mainly on product development and business strategies, follow-up investments and expansion into China and Japan. He has recently received the accolade of Young Professional of the Year from the Singapore Computer Society (SCS) IT Leader Awards 2010. He currently contributes as a writer on SGEntrepreneurs.com and also as a host on This Week in Asia, a podcast dedicated to web/tech and mobile news in Asia which he has co-founded both online media enterprises.

Joichi Ito is the CEO of Creative Commons and founder and CEO of Neoteny Labs, a venture capital firm focused on personal communications and enabling technologies.

He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. In 1997, Time ranked him as a member of the CyberElite. In 2000, he was ranked among the “50 Stars of Asia” by Business Week and commended by the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for supporting the advancement of IT. In 2001, the World Economic Forum chose him as one of the 100 “Global Leaders of Tomorrow” for 2002. He was also listed by Vanity Fair as a member of "The Next Establishment" in 2007, and named by Businessweek as one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Web in 2008.

Andreas Hessler is Director of Ericsson's strategic M2M program for 50 billion connected devices. This program is driving activities across all of Ericsson's business units and functions together with collaboration with partner companies.

Before his present role, Andreas was head of Ericsson's networks business in the Middle East for 3 years and before that he was head of Marketing for Ericsson's 3G business where he was part of launching the successful Mobile Broadband sales and marketing activities starting in 2005.

Prior to joining Ericsson, Andreas was a Management Consultant with LEK Consulting based in London.

Ian Koh was appointed Head of Industry Verticals Practice for Region South East Asia & Oceania and Head of Engagement Practices for Singapore and Brunei at Ericsson Telecommunications Pte Ltd, Singapore since 2010.

In his Industry Verticals Practice capacity, Ian develops and creates innovative business for the proposition for industry sectors such as transport, utilities, government and healthcare for this region.

As Head of Engagement Practice for Singapore and Brunei, Ian leads the team to provide Mobile, Fixed Broadband and Multimedia solutions towards telecom operators in these countries.

Ian also carries the portfolio for Government and Industry Relations, working with government bodies like iDA, MDA, EDB and A*Star, on regulatory issues and industry development activities.

Ian was previously Head of Multimedia Solutions & Systems Integration (MMSI) at Ericsson Taiwan where he took the lead in developing and deploying solutions for IP Multimedia Solutions.

Prior to that, he was instrumental in helping to pioneer Ericsson Singapore's mobile data solutions, and spearheaded Singapore's first mobile data service deployments - such mobile trading, WAP services, GPRS and video streaming.

Ian joined Ericsson Singapore in 1998 to develop the newly formed mobile data unit.Ian holds a Honours Bachelor Degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and has a Graduate Diploma in Financial Management from the Singapore Institute of Management.

Dr. Andreas Birnik is Director of Smart City Solutions at Ericsson where he leads customer engagements across Southeast Asia and Oceania in financial services, government, healthcare, transportation and utility sectors.  Based in Singapore, Andreas is a firm believer that technology solutions can make a real difference to the key challenges of our time including aging populations, greater energy efficiency, rising carbon emissions, heavy traffic congestion and security threats.

Prior to joining Ericsson, Andreas worked across Asia as an advisor to telecoms operators, private equity investors and start-up technology companies. Earlier in his career Andreas held a variety of management positions in strategy, marketing and finance in telecoms operators in Europe and the Middle East.

In addition to his work at Ericsson, Andreas is also an adjunct faculty member in the Strategy & Policy Department at the National University of Singapore’s Business School.

Andreas holds a Masters Degree in Economics and Business Administration from Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden), a PhD Degree in Strategic Management from Cranfield School of Management (UK) and is currently studying Sustainability and Environmental Management at Harvard University (USA).

Kenny Mathers is a mobile new media executive with broad experience of wireless and videogames industries.

His corporate experience includes both start-up and large multinational organisations including McCann Erickson, Sony PlayStation, Motorola, JAMDAT Mobile and presently Nokia.

Kenny currently leads Forum Nokia's Developer Relations and Marketing teams, located in 4 locations across the APAC region. Kenny has been with Nokia for 3 years, and has been based in Singapore since July '06. Prior to Joining Nokia, Kenny held Marketing, Business Development and Product Development positions for some of the world's largest companies in the videogames and mobile industries. Most recently he helped to found the European operations for JAMDAT Mobile (now Electronic Arts Mobile), a US-based Mobile Games publisher. As part of the Global Management team, he helped to lead the company through the second most successful Nasdaq IPO of 2004 (behind Google). Kenny is married and has three children. He is an avid Liverpool FC fan and absolutely rocks on Guitar Hero (allegedly).

Currently a Senior Technology expert with Forum Nokia, Valerie has spent 10 years in the telecommunications industry with both internet and mobile development experience. She is currently focusing on Web Technologies and Mobile Java, and conducts technical presentations, trainings and technical consultation in these areas.

Eileen is a Senior Technology Expert within the Technical Services and Consultancy team of Forum Nokia Group in Nokia. Since joining Nokia in July 2004, she has been providing consultation and technical support to mobile operators and application developers. Her areas of expertise include Symbian, J2ME and Flash programming, SymbianSigned and latest tools and technologies on Nokia platforms. As part of her current job, she does technical presentations for Developer events, and also conducts comprehensive hands-on technical trainings.

Nicholas is currently Technical Manager for the Forum Nokia Technical services and consultancy team in APAC.

In his role, Nicholas is responsible for the technical team’s activities in all the key technologies that Nokia embraces. In addition he has responsibility for sales generation for consultancy. He has been with Nokia for 9 years, starting with Nokia Networks, Nokia mobile phones and Forum Nokia.

In his career, he has worked with Object-oriented software companies, building Integrated Development Environments ( IDE ) and UML case tools, prior to Nokia, he worked with telecom operator, British Telecoms, creating financial telephony software.

His recent projects with Nokia include the assessment of viable touch based applications for the new touch enabled range of Nokia devices.

He holds a bachelor of science in computer science, as well as a diploma in programming and systems analysis. He has recently completed his MBA with the University of Nottingham UK.

Ganesh Kumar Bangah is the Group Chief Executive Officer at Friendster, Chief Executive Officer at MSC Cyberport Sdn. Bhd, and Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer at MOL AccessPortal Berhad.

He is:
- A serial entrepreneur with experience of building a company from scratch into a multi-million dollar listed vehicle and then subsequently privatizing it for it's next growth stage.
- A Technocrat with a good savvy mix of corporate, business and technology understanding.

Ganesh Kumar Bangah’s Specialties:
Conceptualizing new and creative business models, careful and meticulous execution of these business models and developing corporate strategies for value and wealth creation from these new businesses.

Zaki is the founder and CEO of Game Ventures, a producer of social entertainment experiences, specializing in multiplayer games. Founded in 2009, GV projects include Howzat.com, the world's first "real action" sports game built in flash for the browser, XuQa, a popular social games network for Turkey and Pokerama, a Facebook app which was acquired by Ubisoft. GV is based in Singapore, with satellites in Karachi and Istanbul. In his free time, Zaki, who graduated from NUS in 2008, helps with strategy for TimeSvr.com, a fast growing virtual assistance service for busy people he co-founded while in school.

Bill Scott is VP Sales & Business Development for GetJar, the world’s most popular mobile application distribution and Developer community with over 200,000 registered developers. Prior to GetJar, Bill served as VP Latin America for Infospace, Critical Path, mForma, and Openwave. GetJar’s developer community sees more than 75 million consumer downloads every month from among 70,000+ different applications, from countries as diverse as the USA, UK, China, India and Indonesia.

Scott is the Google Apps Partner Lead for Google Enterprise and is focused on helping companies grow their business with Google Apps and the Google Apps Marketplace. A start-up guy at heart, Scott joined Google when it acquired JotSpot, where he ran developer and partner programs. He also previously founded Inovie Software, maker of early Web collaboration service TeamCenter, acquired by SDRC. Scott holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in computer science from UC San Diego and was a PhD student at the university's Computer Systems Lab.

Associate Partner Richard Kelly heads IDEO’s Shanghai office. His formal education was in design ergonomics, and he honed his business skills by working in various facets of the marketing arena, for both agencies and individual clients. Richard was director of retail marketing for the Dockers brand, followed by the Levi’s brand, where he obtained deep understanding of the opportunities for design thinking to be applied inside and outside of a global corporation. In addition, he ran his own brand-consulting businesses in London and San Francisco.

Currently, Dr. Duh is an assistant professor in the Division of System and Engineering Management. His research is multidiscipline. He is well trained in psychology, design and engineering fields. After graduation from Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HIT Lab) at University of Washington, he went to NASA-Johnson Space Center as a postdoctoral fellow involving in virtual reality training project.

Dr. Duh's interests are human-computer interaction, virtual interface design, interface usability testing and information navigation behavior. His current research focuses on exploring the psychological and physiological effects when human beings experience the virtual environment and the spatial awareness in virtual environments. Dr. Duh is a private pilot and certified advanced ground instructor. He likes traveling, camping, fishing and hiking.

Mr Reginald Wee graduated with distinction and a dual degree (B Sc in Computer and Electrical Engineering) from Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. He also holds an MBA from Rutgers University, USA.

He is currently Group Director (Technology Business Group) at International Enterprise (IE) Singapore, overseeing the Infocomms & Media, Machinery and Precision Engineering Divisions. Prior to this appointment, Mr Wee was based in Mumbai, India first as the Regional Director, then Group Director for South Asia at IE Singapore. IE Singapore is the lead government agency promoting the overseas growth of Singapore-based enterprises and international trade.

Prior to IE Singapore, Mr Wee was based in Chicago, USA as the Regional Director for the Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB). There, he led a team that attracted business interests and FDI from US companies to Singapore. EDB is the Singapore government agency responsible for planning and executing economic strategies to enhance Singapore's position as a global hub for business and investment.

He is married to Veronica Chia and they have three daughters.

Ismael Ghalimi is a passionate entrepreneur and fervent industry observer, founder and CEO of Intalio, creator of BPMI.org, and producer of the Office 2.0 Conference. Ismael sits on the Boards of Directors of BuzzGain, Egnyte, and Tonido, and is an advisor for 3TERA (acquired by CA), EchoSign, EveryTrail, Intellimaker, Move & Play, Muchobene, and Presdo. Ismael holds a Masters degree from Ecole des Mines de Nancy, and actually spent six weeks as a coal miner in Europe's deepest mine. Ismael is a professional scuba diver and instrument rated private pilot. He lives with his wife and two children in Palo Alto, CA, while spending a week a month in Singapore and Tokyo.

Arnaud Blandin acts as Vice President of Alliances for Intalio, where he is responsible for managing Intalio's systems integrator and technology provider partners. Arnaud also acts as Managing Director for APAC, following the successful launch of Intalio's offices in Singapore. Arnaud was instrumental in setting up an R&D office in Singapore.

Prior to his move to Singapore, Arnaud actively participated in the definition of Intalio's open source business model, by introducing Intalio|BPMS in the EMEA region. In the past 4 years, he established a solid network of partners, which resulted in securing over 350 customers, including several Global 2000 companies. In his early years at Intalio, Arnaud used his industry expertise to manage the first BPM implementations based on the Intalio offering, both in Europe and in the US. He participated in the definition of support, training, and consulting programs, as well as sales campaigns. Arnaud holds a Master of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from ENSEEIHT.

James A. Beasley is the Atom Software Business Development Director for Intel’s Software and Solutions Group. James has over 16 years of sales and marketing experience and has been with Intel for 10years, were he has held several roles including Global Director, Linux OSV / Open Source and APAC Regional MNC Manager based in Singapore. James holds an MBA from the University of California, and studied at Jochi Daigaku in Tokyo, Japan and Universiteit Maastricht in the Netherlands during his undergraduate and graduate studies.

Ellen Levy is the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at LinkedIn, having initially been on the Advisory Board when the company was founded, and subsequently the head of Corporate Development, Business Development and Strategy. Prior to LinkedIn, she was founding Managing Director of Silicon Valley Connect, working with corporations and entrepreneurs on opportunities for technology-supported innovation after having led a similar initiative while Executive Director of MediaX at Stanford University facilitating collaboration between industry, Silicon Valley, and the University research community.

Ellen has held formal roles in venture capital (Softbank; NeoCarta), startups (WhoWhere; Softbook), technology think tanks (Interval Research), big companies (Apple Computer; PriceWaterhouse), foundations (Clinton Global Initiative) and universities (Harvard; Stanford).

Scott Rafer runs Lookery Prequel, a consulting shop that provides Internet ad targeting systems and creates its own new publisher services. He is also co-founder and director at Mashery and Handroll.TV. Lookery Prequel was preceded by Lookery, one of the first ad networks on Facebook, portions of which were sold to Adknowledge in 2008; and MyBlogLog, a social network of bloggers, which Yahoo! acquired in 2007.

That’s the start of a long list. Rafer has been helping Internet publishers and users develop the 'next big thing' since 1995. Before 1995, Rafer headed-up the Internet products group at Kodak Hollywood, worked in investment banking at Needham & Company, and graduated from the management of technology program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Rafer regularly speaks at technology and business events, keynoting Singapore’s e27 event in 2009, SingTel Accelerate 2010, as well as speaking at Web2 Berlin, LeWeb in Paris, TheNextWeb in Amsterdam, and dozens of events across the US including four DEMO presentations, Web2, and Search Engine Strategies.

Amit Somani is currently the Chief Products Officer at Makemytrip.com, India’s largest OTA. Amit comes with over 15 years of experience. Prior to Makemytrip, Amit was a Group Product Manager at Google and led various global and JAPAC related efforts in Ads, Mobile and Search. Earlier, Amit was the Engineering and PM Director for the Enterprise Search and Discovery business at IBM based out of San Jose, California.

Amit has published several papers, holds 7 patents and is the recipient of 3 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement awards. He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IT-BHU, India (Gold medalist) and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA. Among his interests, Amit is a cricket enthusiast, enjoys reading and is a fusion chef!

Darius has recently joined McAfee Inc via the acquisition of tenCube, where he was a co-founder and CEO for 5 years. As CEO of tenCube, Darius has built tenCube from core founding team of 4 to 26 people, raised 2 rounds of financing, developed the award-winning mobile security suite WaveSecure, gained adoption by global brand customers such as Nokia and SingTel and brought the startup to profitability. He has also led tenCube through the successful acquisition of tenCube by McAfee, providing highly satisfactory returns to tenCube’s investors and employees. Darius was previously selected 25 Best Young Entrepreneurs in Asia by Business Week and Top Achievers Under 25 by The Straits Times, Singapore's national newspaper. He holds a B.Eng. degree in Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore. He has a cat and hopes to get a Michelin star someday.

Mak is the CEO and co-founder of Melioris, a leading company in Asia focusing on the financial cloud services. Melioris’ customers are mainly medium and large enterprises including global Fortune 500 companies such as Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Carrier, Sony Ericsson etc. The SaaS solutions provided by Melioris include receivables and collections management, Rebates Management, payables management including government grant processing and accounts payables etc.

Before founding Melioris, Mak was the CFO of SilkRoute Holdings, an e-commerce holding company. Mak was also the CFO and Co-founder of ECnet Limited, an e-supply chain management services company and has helped both companies to raise about S$100M of private equity investments.

A CPA, Mak has previously worked in Singapore Telecom International and has helped established financial control systems for local and overseas subsidiaries of Singapore Telecom International, including its paging operations in Cambodia. Mak started his career working in one of the Big 4 public accounting firms, Ernst & Young, and has worked in the audit, information system audit and corporate taxation departments.

Mak is a regular speaker at Cloud Computing conferences, Credit and Collections seminars, financial conferences conferences in Singapore and Malaysia and has participated in many international and regional conferences in US and Asia. In 2009, Mak was awarded the best developer award for the top 25 developers in Singapore, awarded by Digital Life, which is part of Straits Times.

Steven is well experienced in developing and delivering successful Internet services for consumers, having first founded Australia’s first online stock brokerage company Sanford Securities Limited. prior to co-founding mig33, one of the World’s largest Social Entertainment Services and Belldirect, Australia’s premiere independent online financial services company.

Steven is recognized as an authority on contemporary IT issues, with extensive private and public board experience, has served as a keynote speaker and panelists conferences throughout U.S. Australia and Asia. Steven received both a Bachelor of Commerce and an MBA from the University of Western Australia, along with a number of awards.

Websites:
Mig33: http://www.mig33.com
Belldirect: http://www.belldirect.com.au

Andrés Monroy-Hernández is a social computing researcher and a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. He is the creator of the Scratch online community: a popular website where kids and novices from around the world create and share their own animations and videogames. He also co-founded Sana: a mobile-based healthcare platform for the developing world. Andrés and his colleagues were awarded the best in class award at the MacArthur Foundation 2010 Digital Media and Learning Competition and an honorary mention at Ars Electronica in 2008. Andrés has presented his work on social technologies at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, the Oxford Internet Institute summer program in Brisbane, Australia and the OECD Foresight Forum in Ottawa, Canada. Andrés has worked at Microsoft Research, the Ex Libris Group and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He holds a master’s degree in Media Technology from MIT and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Tec de Monterrey in México.

As the leader of the Mozilla Project, Mitchell Baker is responsible for organizing and motivating a massive, worldwide collective of employees and volunteers who are breathing new life into the Internet with the Firefox Web browser and other Mozilla products.

Baker was born and raised in Berkeley, California, receiving her BA in Asian Studies from UC Berkeley and her JD from the Boalt Hall School of Law. Her law career included working for Sun Microsystems and Netscape. She has also sat on the board of the Open Source Applications Foundation.

Baker has been the general manager of the Mozilla project since 1999, helping shape the license under which Netscape's source code was released. In 2003, she became president and founder of the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to openness and innovation on the Internet. In 2005, Baker led the creation of Mozilla Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. As Chairman of the Mozilla Foundation, Baker continues her commitment to an open, innovative Web and the infinite possibilities it presents.

TIME Magazine profiled Baker under "Scientists and Thinkers" in its 2005 TIME 100. She is also been a participant in the World Economic Forum, All Things Digital, The Internet Cowboys Un-Conference, and the DLD Conference.

Kevin Lim (PhD in Communication) studies the co-evolution of network and culture. With an academic background in communication theory, his research has ranged from Control & Anti-Control in Internet-Regulated China, to Social Capital among Online Non-Profit Organizations, to Game Mechanics in the Classroom. Also known as the Social Cyborg, Kevin also experiments with video surveillance and networking devices as a mean of re-examining concepts of identity, privacy and memory. He currently works at the National Art Gallery (Singapore) as Assistant Director in Strategy & Experience. He can be located at @brainopera + http://theory.isthereason.com

James is Investment Manager at Neoteny Labs, a hybrid incubator that combines an early-stage venture fund with hands-on mentorship and incubation for its portfolio companies. James works closely with General Partner Joichi Ito on the fund and its portfolio companies.

Prior to Neoteny Labs, James was a member of the investment team at Walden International Singapore, which manages Seed Ventures IV Pte Ltd (S4), a fund organised under the National Research Foundation's Early Stage Venture Capital Fund Scheme that was focused on making investments into early-stage technology companies in Singapore. James was also part of the team that restarted operations in 2007 at Infocomm Investments (IIPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore managing assets in excess of US$200 million. Apart from being on the investment team, James was also involved in policy and incentive formulation and implementation, to promote Singapore as a location for R&D and Engineering operations by VC-funded startups.

James completed his Double Major: B.Sc in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon, and earned his M. Sc in Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford University.

As Head of Platform for PayPal Asia Pacific, Gene is responsible for driving region-wide third-party innovations and new, emerging business models powered by the PayPal X open platform, the first global payments platform open to third-party developers. He works closely with developers and strategic partners to create new products and offerings that go beyond traditional online and ecommerce services. Gene also sets the strategic direction for PayPal’s developer community program across the region. PayPal officially opened its platform to developers worldwide on November 3, 2009 with Adaptive Payments as the first available API.

Prior to this role, Gene was the Head of Merchant Services for South East Asia and India, responsible for driving awareness and acceptance of PayPal as a payment provider across the region. Gene and his team focused on working with large enterprise merchants and SMEs across a variety of industries to grow their ecommerce business. In this role, Gene accelerated merchant acquisition and forged a number of key strategic partner alliances for PayPal. Gene was one of the first few people hired into the PayPal Singapore office in 2006, where he was initially responsible for cross-border business development in Asia.

Gene joined PayPal from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, where he was responsible for the development and implementation of nationwide payment policies and legislation. His knowledge of the payments industry and regulatory frameworks has given him comprehensive experience in the payments space.

Gene graduated from Stanford University with a M.Sc. in Financial Mathematics and a B.Sc. in Mathematical and Computational Science.

Rob Mee is the CEO and Founder of Pivotal Labs. Pivotal is known for its rigorous agile development methods and rapid production of industrial strength software - and for its ability to transfer know-how to client teams. Rob was one of the earliest practitioners of agile methods, and continues to enjoy sharing the lessons he has learned while leading Pivotal, many of which are surprising and counterintuitive. He is based in San Francisco, where Pivotal has its headquarters.

Andi Boediman is a serial creative entrepreneur with ventures in the International Design School and Admire - an integrated marketing communication company. He is also part of the founding committee of FGDforum, a graphic art organization, and Adgi, a professional graphic design association. Andi has been consulting on various aspects of the creative industry for Indonesia government. Andi S. Boediman current position is the Chief Innovation Officer of Mojopia, which is a subsidiary of Telkom Indonesia that focuses on the ecommerce portal Plasa.com. The company is responsible in developing content and Internet roadmap in leveraging synergies of various companies within Telkom. Andi is the key strategist to lead the company foundation, from envisioning the road map, creating the business model and setting up the team to launch one of the most challenging initiatives by Telcom Indonesia.

Benjamin Joffe (@benjaminjoffe – benjamin@plus8star.com) is a renowned expert on Asia’s digital scene. During the past 10 years, he has been part of Japan’s mobile revolution, Korea’s Internet boom, China’s mobile crash and web 2.0 revival.

As CEO of the Asia-based digital strategy consultancy +8* | Plus Eight Star (www.plus8star.com), he works with clients such as Microsoft, Adidas, Nokia, China Mobile, Harvard Business School, the European Commission as well as media companies and startups worldwide to bring them the best practices from Asia’s web and mobile scenes.

Bridging technology, sociology and anthropology, his research today covers trust networks, digital identities virtual economies, online third places, artificial artificial intelligence (AAI) and social dynamics.

Benjamin shared insights in over 100 talks across 16 countries including at Stanford and Berkeley, has been quoted in Forbes, CNN and The Economist and was selected among China’s Top 100 Mobile Industry Influencers in 2007 and 2008.

Last, he is an angel investor in Asia-based global startups such as Cmune (www.cmune.com), a LeWeb 2008 startup laureate for Paradise Paintball (www.facebook.com/paradisepaintball), the world’s first “social FPS” game on Facebook and MySpace, and MyGengo (www.mygengo), a matching platform for translations.

Benjamin lives half the time in Beijing and the rest split between Silicon Valley, Europe, Asia and airport lounges.

A Certified Public Accountant and honours graduate from Nanyang Technological University's School of Accountancy, Stanley Tay was previously engaged with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Credit Suisse before he joined PurpleClick in 2007.
With an acute analytical thinking skills and keen sense in managing and inspiring people, he was swiftly promoted from Business Manager to Head of Strategy and Business Development in 2008; General Manager in 2009, and now as Managing Director of this fast-growing online marketing agency in 2010.

Stanley's in-depth fiscal knowledge and experience gave him the upper hand when tailoring online marketing solutions for clients from the financial industry such as Citibank, CPF and Fundsupermart. Besides being a great source of motivation and inspiration to all PurpleClick's staff, Stanley is also the best digital marketing advisor for various corporate clients.

A strong believer in online marketing, Stanley had previously shared his expertise at seminars conducted jointly with IE Singapore, Singapore Business Federation, Pacific Conferences, Textile and Fashion Federation Singapore and was a consultant at the Solutions Clinic in the 12th Annual Infocomm Commerce Conference in August 2008.

Hidetsugu Sugiyama is Director of R&D Support for Juniper Networks Asia Pacific based in Tokyo. He is responsible for developing technology partnership initiatives through Junos Developer Network Program in Asia Pacific and is focused on helping third-party developer partners for the software powered network development on the Junos Platform including Junos OS, Junos Space and Junos Pulse.

With over two decades in the information and communications technology industry, focusing on the networking and telecommunications sector, he has consistently demonstrated a desire to find and meet challenges of real world requirements and solutions. His current focus is the software powered network to support various innovative technologies such as IPOptical network plug & play, programmable switch, Inter-cloud technology and etc.

Ronnie Liew is a creative technologist who strongly advocates that technology and design mutually drive great digital work. He revels in exploring emerging technologies, pushing boundaries in the digital space and turning the next big idea into reality. His technical background in computer engineering and keen understanding of interaction design has equipped him to play a bridging role between technology and design, harnessing the best of both disciplines. 

Prior to joining R/GA, Ronnie was the Associate Director of the Creative Development group in AKQA, San Francisco. He provided leadership and direction for the group, playing a pivotal role in projects and overseeing global accounts such as Nike, Gap and Xbox. Prior to that, Ronnie was with XM Asia Pacific in Singapore, where he pioneered and led the frontend development team of the agency. During his stint, he planned and implemented creative and technical solutions for regional clients such as Nokia, Hewlett Packard and Visa. He has also previously done stints with TBWA\Tequila Singapore and OgilvyOne Singapore.

His work has won him major industry accolades including One Show Interactive, Cannes Cyber Lions and London International Awards. He was also invited to be on the judging panel for Singapore Creative Circle Awards and Cannes Future Lion. Most recently in 2009, Ronnie was featured in Creativity Magazine as one of the ad world's most inspired creative technologists.

In 1994, Chris started a software company that grew into an internationally acclaimed supply chain execution software solutions provider. Coming with 25 years experience in the IT industry and a computer science and mathematics degree, Chris is passionate about cloud computing, search and web2.0 technologies. He also actively participates in online social networks, blogs frequently about topics ranging from technology to photography, and continues to do software coding.

As CTO, Chris is responsible for putting in place a highly scalable and robust foundation of hardware, network, systems software, and applications that empower rednano.sg and Rednano LOCATE, the mobile search and directory application. Leading a highly passionate team of software engineers, Chris ensures that rednano.sg is constantly evolving and becoming more relevant to its users.

Gilbert Leong is a partner in Rodyk & Davidson LLP's Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group.

He has also been counsel to parties involved in the telecommunication industry. In particular, he has advised on disputes arising as between telecommunication licensees, application for licences, market access and infrastructural issues. Gilbert has also been very active in the field of data privacy/protection matters, having written and spoken widely on the area. As a member of the Legal Sub-Committee of the National Internet Advisory Committee, Gilbert participated in the drafting to the "Model Data Protection Code for the Private Sector".

Gilbert was featured in Who's Who Legal: Singapore 2008 for his work in regulatory compliance, was listed in Asian Legal Business "Legal Who's Who Singapore 2003" for Information Technology and recognised as the Asialaw Leading Lawyer 2008 for IT, Telecommunications & Media. He was a member of several technology-focused think tanks in Singapore.

Cory Ondrejka is the co-founder of Second Life where he architected the core code and hired the team responsible for Second Life's growth to over 12 million residents. The ecosystems he helped create led directly to the success of Second Life, as well as the ongoing use of Second Life as a platform for music, education, and business. Prior to that, Cory traveled an eclectic path from the US Naval Academy and nuclear power to defense contracting and video game development. More recently, he served as Executive Vice President for Global Digital Marketing at EMI Music. He was also a visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California where he taught a course on online communities and coordinated the MacArthur grant, driving research for the Public Diplomacy and Network Culture Project. He is currently hard at work on an unannounced startup.

Kristian Kloeckl is a research scientist at MIT, leading the real-time city group within the SENSEable City Lab and teaches design at the IUAV University of Venice. Having conducted his studies in Austria and England, he graduated in Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano and holds a PhD in Design Sciences. Kristian has been working as professional industrial designer between Italy and Austria after collaborations with the studios of Giulio Ceppi and Antonio Citterio in Milan. His projects have been exhibited at the MoMA (2008), the Venice architecture Biennale (2008) as well as the Vienna MAK (2009).

Bill Chang joined SingTel in November 2005 as the Executive Vice President of Business Group. The Business Group serves SingTel’s domestic and global corporate customers with a full range of Info-Communication Technology (ICT) services.

Bill has more than 18 years management experience in leading ICT companies and is actively involved in industry committees, task forces and advisory work.

Bill is currently a Board member and Chairman of the Incentives and Grants committee of the Workforce Development Agency (WDA). He is also the Chairman of Grid Comms Pte Ltd, Deputy Chairman of the Singapore Polytechnic Board of Governors. He also sits on the Advisory Committee of Singapore Management University School of Information Systems and Nanyang Polytechnic School of Engineering.

Bill was a member of the ICT sub-committee in the Government’s Economic Review Committee (ERC) in 2003 and also the Economic Strategies Committee (ESC) in 2009/10. He was a SiTF Councillor (2002/2004), Chairman of SiTF-AAC Internet Data Centre Committee (2001), and the executive committee member for Think Tank (1999/2000). In 2007, Bill received the National Day Public Service Medal Award for his contributions to Singapore’s workforce development.

Before joining SingTel, Bill was the Managing Director of CISCO Systems’ Advanced Services Group in Asia Pacific. He was responsible for the company’s operations in 13 regional countries.

Bill graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering from Monash University. He is married and has two children.

Wilson Tan has been in the telecoms industry for more than 10 years and is currently the Director of Business Development, SingTel. He is in-charge of driving industry development to build up various industry eco-systems to embrace Infocomm Technology (ICT). A key focus is in the education and logistics sector where SingTel is an active telecommunications and ICT provider to schools and companies both locally and abroad.

Wilson provides a technology application perspective on how schools can adopt ICT into pedagogy that includes mobile, game based and collaborative learning approaches. While for logistics firms, he is active in looking at how ICT can address supply chain pain points.
He is a regular speaker and moderator in many industry conferences and sits in various industry associations/institutions to play an active role in promoting the use of ICT across different industries. In Education, he sits in the Future School Steering Committee to drive infusion of technology into teaching and learning in Canberra Primary and is currently participating in workgroups for developing a National Infocomm competency framework for the education sector. He is also the ICT chair in one of the sub-Industry Groups for the Singapore Manufacturers’ Federation.

He holds a Masters in Economics and used to be an Economics lecturer at the University of Wollongong, Australia in the 1990s.

Amit Ranjan is the Cofounder & COO of SlideShare. SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations on the web. With 32 million monthly visitors, SlideShare is amongst the top 300 most visited websites on the internet.

Beyond his day job at Slideshare, Amit is also an early instigator on the Indian technology startup scene through his personal blog, Webyantra, which was regarded as THE place to know about the latest in Indian Web 2.0 . Prior to SlideShare, I had a career in product marketing, sales & consumer research, having worked for Pepsico, Asian Paints & Godrej. Amit has an MBA from FMS, Delhi University (’99 batch) and a Mechanical Engineering degree from REC Jaipur (’96 batch).

Ming is Founder and CEO of Socialwok, one of the most popular business social productivity services on the web for group collaboration and enterprise microblogging. Ming previously founded Druid, a popular open source project on Unified Communications for small medium businesses. He is also one of the committee members of the Singapore Google Technology User group (SG-GTUG).

As an entrepreneur and strategist, Laurie Racine operates from a perspective of ‘change’ – defining and implementing the mission and objectives of profit and non-profit corporations in digital technology, media, and learning– when the best approach is one that has not yet been considered.

Last year, Laurie co-founded Startl, a ‘hothouse for innovation.’ Startl is an enterprise with $3.5M in seed capital from the Gates, MacArthur, Hewlett, Kellogg and Lumina Foundations to identify new talent and digital media products for learners. The focus is on accelerating the process of moving from an idea to product, to funding, and then into learners’ hands.

And, in case there wasn’t enough to do, Laurie joined wOwowow.com as acting President for past year to help them build a cross media platform (online, offline and on radio) for the sophisticated, can-do woman 45+.

She is a founder of dotSUB, a technology driven media company. dotSUB is a digital platform that eliminates language as a barrier to video communication and makes it possible, through a browser, to offer radically low cost, highly flexible video content in multiple languages. dotSUB is often known for powering the TED Conference open translation project.

Laurie was also a principal and Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for the early market leader in browser based video mixing and distribution, Eyespot. She built strategic partnerships, with Lucas Films, NBA, MTV, Paramount, College Humor, Participant Productions, and Demand Media. Prior to Eyespot, Laurie was President of a private venture and foundation, endowed by the founders of Red Hat Inc. During her tenure she launched Lulu Press, invested the seed funding in Creative Commons and co-founded Public Knowledge, the leading public interest group in Washington DC, focusing on issues of the digital age.

She has been a Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center of the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California and was the President of Doc Arts, the corporation that produces the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

At present, Laurie is Chair of Teachers Without Borders and Public Knowledge. She also serves as a director on the boards of the Tribeca Film Institute, Open Road Media, Creative Commons and the University of California Humanities Research Council. Laurie sits on the Advisory Boards of Road Trip Nation and Fractor. She holds a BA from New York University and did coursework for a PhD in Human Genetics at University of California, Berkeley. She did not complete her dissertation.

Gaurav Oberoi has started and sold two software companies in the last four years. His first startup, BillMonk, was a consumer product to help roommate split bills and was acquired by Obopay. His second company, Precision Polling, was a self-service app for creating automated telephone polls and was recently acquired by SurveyMonkey. Currently, he runs the product arm of SurveyMonkey in Seattle.

Gaurav is also actively involved in the startup community: he is the founder of Seattle Tech Startups, the largest tech group in Seattle with over 2,200 members; a mentor for TechStars, a seed stage investment fund founded by Brad Feld and other prominent investors; and an advisor to several startups. In the past, he has held a wide range of roles including: working for Mitch Kapor as a product manager for Xmarks, working as an engineer on a core backend team at Amazon, and managing an engineering team at a mobile payments company (Obopay). Gaurav graduated with a degree in computer science from Rice University.

Matthew Talbot is Vice President of Sybase 365’s Mobile Commerce division. Sybase provides end-to-end mobile commerce solutions for FSIs, MNOs, ISPs and Merchants.

Sybase 365’s mCommerce suite includes solutions for mBanking, mPayments, mRemittance, mTopUp, as well as a number of value-added services, including an advanced Marketing module, and Sybase 365 Global Messaging network.

Sybase works with more than 200 leading FSIs, and over 850 MNOs around the world, including Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC, Commercial Bank of Qatar, IXE Mexico, Western Union, Vodafone, O2, Celcom, SingTel, Vimplecom, QTEL and T-Mobile, enabling a wide range of mobile financial services via protocols such as SMS, USSD, Mobile Internet and/or Application based (JAVA, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile).

Matthew joined Sybase in 2004 via the acquisition of Mobile 365, and took on the role of developing Sybase’s new mCommerce initiative in mid-2006.

Prior to his current role, Matthew held the position of Vice President of Sybase 365 Asia, where he led Sybase to become the leading provider of messaging services in Asia between MNOs and Enterprises such as Citibank, Microsoft and Singapore Airlines. Sybase today provides mobile messaging services to over 95% of the MVNOs in the region, including the likes of China Mobile, NTT DoCoMo, SingTel, Airtel, Telstra, as well as hundreds of enterprises around the world.

Before Sybase, Matthew was based in Beijing and Sydney, as CEO of MIG (Mobile Internet Group), a leading Wireless Application Service Provider and Co-publisher.

Raju Chellam is Managing Director of TechTrenders Asia Pte Ltd, a boutique management advisory firm that helps companies optimise their positioning to achieve maximum efficiencies. The firm also offers clients a unique “knowledge aggregation” service combining insights & trends from primary, secondary & government/economic data.

Raju has 25 years of experience in ICT industry in Asia. He was a member of Singapore’s National Grid Advisory Panel. He is on the Exco of the Business Continuity Management Group & is a Life Member of the Singapore Press Club. He frequently chairs & moderates distinguished panels for Singapore’s IDA & IT industry associations. He was one of the keynote speakers at CloudAsia2010 (May 3-7, 2010) and chaired two panel discussions -- on Virtualisation, and SaaS -- for enterprise users.

Raju was until recently Head of Influencer Relations for the Asia-Pacific & Japan region at Hewlett-Packard. Before HP, he was Vice President of the APJ region at Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, a New York based market intelligence firm that focuses on the ICT issues of SMEs. Prior to AMI, Raju was BizIT Editor with The Business Times, Singapore's prime business daily newspaper. He continues to write a regular IT/telecom column for BT. Before BT, he was Managing Director of Gradiant Infotech, a Singapore-based firm that offered IT outsourcing & managed services in the South-East Asia region.

Mr. Lam is the Founder and CEO of The Amdon Group, a company that specialises in pedagogy training and practice, interactive content development and Science and Technology education for students and professionals worldwide. He has also co-authored 7 Secondary Science textbooks for use in Singapore and worldwide. Mr. Lam led the team in Amdon to create the i-board® Learning System: a method of inquiry-based learning through the use of the interactive whiteboard (i-board®), which featured its award-winning CoolScience! courseware . The i-board® learning system has since benefited more than 10,000 students in worldwide.

In 2008, Mr. Lam led the team in Amdon to develop concepts that push the envelope on digital textbooks offered worldwide. This led to the development of amBook™, an interactive textbook that frames content on an inquiry-based pedagogical framework. Since its launch, amBook™ has been hailed by industry players and teachers as one of the world’s most innovative learning resource in this era.

Mr. Lam also led an effort to offer a series of multi-user serious gaming experience for learners in the primary and secondary levels, in collaboration with local schools and the Ministry of Education (Singapore).

Since 2005, Mr. Lam has been engaged by Ministries of Education and Schools in Singapore, the region and the Middle East to lead change management projects and research on the effectiveness of technology to promote deep learning in students. Mr. Lam currently serves as a member of the National Infocomm Competency Framework Technical Committee (Education) in Singapore.

Anthony Volodkin created The Hype Machine five years ago in his dorm room and has been unable to stop thinking about how people discover music ever since.  In that time, a small, passionate team has been assembled around the product and the Hype Machine now reaches over 2 million people each month.  Prior to that, he spent six years doing IT consulting while constantly carving out evenings to see live music.  Anthony was born in Moscow, Russia and has been living in Brooklyn, New York since he was 12.

Anthony has given talks about music discovery, context and the evolving ways people are finding media at SXSW 2009, YouPix (Brazil), You are in Control (Iceland), In the City (UK) and more.

David currently oversees new Business Development opportunities for TransferTo in Asia. Prior to TransferTo, David sourced deals for Canrim Ventures, a Venture Capital advisory firm in Singapore. He co-founded and is currently a member of the Board of Directors at Global Nomads Group, a US-based educational broadcasting organization. David holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Andy Zain has been regarded by many as one of the mobile industry pioneers in Indonesia. He founded Mobile Monday Indonesia, a global networking forum for professionals in the mobile industry.

Mrigank Tripathi is the Founder and CEO at Voicetap Technologies in India, a telecom startup based out of India. Voicetap has developed a voice-based platform that allows people to connect with each other on the basis of topics rather than numbers. Currently, they are working on creating a connection between Knowledge Experts and Knowledge Seekers. They currently have more than 6000 users of the service.

Prior to VoiceTap, Mrigank spent 12 years of experience in telecom strategy consulting and his specialties include startups, telecom VAS, Strategy Consulting, Sales and Marketing, Incubation of Startups, Fund Raising as well as Corporate Finance Support.

Chee Yue holds a Business Administration degree from the National University of Singapore and has more than 20 years of business, advertising, digital entertainment and online games experience. He started his career in advertising and worked for a decade at various multinational advertising agencies like JWT, Saatchi & Saatchi and Batey Ads before Chee Yue started his first business venture Adinc.com in 2000.
 Chee Yue successfully led Adinc.com, a creative marketing company to the merger with three marketing companies in U.S. and Europe in March 2001 to form AKQA Inc. The merger has been described as “The biggest new media deal of the year” by Financial Times, April 3, 2001.  
Chee Yue served as the Regional Director, Asia for AKQA Inc., over the last 8 years first based in Singapore and later shuttled between Singapore and Shanghai for the opening and operations of AKQA Shanghai office till the completion of the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

At present, Chee Yue is spending more time in his hometown Singapore exploring and experimenting with 3-D Gesture Recognition, Augmented Reality and Video Gaming technologies to help clients and partners to design and deliver immersive user experience that connect and engage their customers effectively.

Robert Goldberg is Zynga's SVP of Corporate Development. He brings over 25 years of senior management experience at industry leading media, e-commerce, enterprise software companies and venture capital firms, including Idealab and NBCi.

Prior to Zynga, Robert was the Managing Director of Crossroads Ventures and early stage venture firm. Prior to founding Crossroads, Robert was the Managing Director at Idealab where he pioneered the capital-efficient strategy of "innovation through milestone investing" which tied frequent operating and innovation milestones to successive capital investments. Robert partnered with the operating teams and to manage the Idealab portfolio of companies including Snap, Insider Pages, X1, New.net/Vendare Media, Desktop Factory, Evolution Robotics, and Energy Innovations.

Prior to joining Idealab, Goldberg spent more than 20 years in senior management, corporate investment and strategy positions at media, e-commerce and enterprise software companies, including NBCi, Looksmart, and Thinking Machines. He has developed and invested in successful companies across many industries including Web Search, Decision Support Systems, Enterprise Search, Performance Based and Cross Media Advertising. Robert holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Applied Science from Columbia University in New York City.

Robert has also served as a director for numerous companies as well on industry and non-profit boards including the Interactive Advertising Bureau, New York, NY - An Association of Online Advertisers and Publishers, the Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena, CA - The State Theatre of California and Universal Giving - an organization that enables individuals to donate and volunteer to top performing charities worldwide.

Reza an entrepreneur, investor and a strategy-consultant to corporations and the public sector. In addition to working on his own entrepreneurial initiatives, he has been active as a venture partner with IDG Ventures and also as a founding partner at Digital Direction, an executive advisory practice in the field of Digital Strategy and Execution.

Reza has 17 years of experience in senior leadership positions across a range of businesses in TMT, marketing strategy, advertising, and management consulting and is recognized as one of the leading experts on the digital space in SE Asia. He sits on the boards of a number of companies in the region, including MOL Global, a leading payment provider across SE Asia. He has also taught courses in digital media at the graduate level at SMU.

Reza has been based in Singapore for the past six years but still maintains a strong, ongoing connection to industry-players located in his previous home, Silicon Valley. In addition to the roles described above, Reza has held a number of senior roles at Yahoo!, culminating in his assignment as Managing Director of Yahoo! SE Asia from 2004 to 2007 where he ran the end-to-end operation, including product, engineering, sales, marketing, strategy and G&A teams.

Reza has graduate degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Boston University and was a PhD student at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business in the field of quantitative marketing.

Jean Miller is an organizational strategist with special interest in intercultural communication, social networking and global market development. She consults on digital strategy for market programming, education, and corporate training. She serves on Evalueserve's Circle of Experts and as Managing Director for Social Networking for US-India Corridor consulting group.

She recently served as the Global Digital Marketing consultant to EMI Music, where she developed organizational strategy on digital marketing, community and social networking tools. Previously, she was International Initiatives Manager and head of German Market Development for Linden Research Inc., where she developed, managed and executed customer acquisition and retention programs for Second Life, a collaborative, social networking, online virtual world platform, as well as negotiated and managed opportunities in Brazil, Korea, and Singapore. Earlier in her career, she worked in inter-cultural communication within online virtual communities and also managed relationships for LucasArts, LucasFilm with international distribution partners.

Ms. Miller is a graduate of Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service. She holds a Master of Science in Global Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and a Master of Arts in Global Communication from the University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication.

Bret Terrill is a pioneer in the social games industry. Most recently, he was the Senior Director of Corporate Development at Zynga, the largest and most popular social game network in the world. Previously, he co-founded Tenuki, one of the earliest social games companies. Bret also writes passionately about the social games industry on his personal blog (www.bretterrill.com).

As one of the first YouTube employees, Hong Qu designed and implemented vital parts of the site such as sharing tools, profile channels and video response. Prior to YouTube, Hong has worked at Yahoo and numerous startups.  He is a graduate of UC Berkeley's School of Information and Wesleyan University.

Dr. Serkan Toto is the first and sole Asia-based writer for the TechCrunch blog network, covering technology news and trends, the web and mobile industries, and digital media. Serkan frequently travels over Asia to speak at technology industry events and find patterns with potential to change the future of the web and mobile landscapes. Based out of Tokyo since 2004, Serkan's main focus is his work as an independent web and mobile industry consultant. He is sept-lingual, holds an MBA and is a PhD in economics.