Keith has a long history of technology leadership, starting with being GM’s youngest-ever vice president at the age of 26 after earning his B.S. degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University and MBA from Harvard University. After 10 years with GM, Keith joined the founding team of Rasna Corporation. Keith helped lead Rasna to be recognized as #3 on the Inc. 100 list of Fastest-Growing Companies. The company was sold in 1995 to Parametric Technologies for $500 million.
Jeffrey Hayzlett is a global business celebrity and former Fortune 100 C-Suite Executive. From small businesses to international corporations, he has put his creativity and extraordinary entrepreneurial skills into play, launching ventures blending his leadership perspectives, insights into professional development, mass marketing prowess and affinity for social media. He is a well-traveled public speaker, the author of the bestselling book, The Mirror Test, celebrity editor to one of the largest-circulation business publications and one of the most compelling figures in global business.
Leonard Armato has distinguished himself as a ground breaking marketer, brand strategist, and entrepreneur. As such, he is regularly featured in the media outlets such as USA Today, CNBC, Fox News, Bloomberg and Advertising Age, among others.
Shelly Palmer is the host of NBC Universal's Live Digital with Shelly Palmer, a weekly half-hour television show about living and working in a digital world. He is Fox 5 New York's On-air Tech Expert (WNYW-TV) and the host of Fox Television's monthly show Shelly Palmer Digital Living. He also hosts United Stations Radio Network's, Shelly Palmer Digital Living Daily, a daily syndicated radio report that features insightful commentary and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and entertainment. He is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry-leading advisory and business development firm and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards).
Alisa Maclin is Vice President of Marketing for IBM's Smarter Commerce Initiative. Smarter Commerce is a unique approach designed to help companies better integrate and more effectively manage their value chain — including buy, market, sell, and service processes — to put the customer at the center of decisions and actions. As leader of Smarter Commerce marketing, Ms. Maclin is responsible for global marketing strategy and execution for IBM’s commerce related product and services portfolio, including over $2.5B in recent acquisitions.
The future is Brian David Johnson's business. As a futurist at Intel Corporation, his charter is to develop an actionable vision for computing in 2020. His work is called "future casting"—using ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data, and even science fiction to provide Intel with a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. Along with reinventing TV, Johnson has been pioneering development in artificial intelligence, robotics, and using science fiction as a design tool. He speaks and writes extensively about future technologies in articles and scientific papers as well as science fiction short stories and novels (Science Fiction Prototyping: Designing the Future with Science Fiction, Screen Future: The Future of Entertainment Computing and the Devices we Love, Fake Plastic Love, and Nebulous Mechanisms: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories). He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter.
Chris CurtinDigital Collective Co-Chair
SVP, Marketing Strategy, Digital and Innovation
Hewlett-Packard Company
Chris Curtin is SVP, Marketing Strategy, Digital and Innovation at HP, where he is responsible for driving the HP brand in existing and emerging digital channels. His oversight includes digital media buying, social media, mobile marketing and managing HP.com, the company’s global web presence. In overseeing HP.com, Chris is responsible for driving the most ambitious website redesign project in the company’s history. The new HP.com provides new online customer experiences and world class web publishing operations.
Cory Johnson is an editor-at-large for Bloomberg Television and the co-host of "Bloomberg West," the hour-long weekday program that covers innovation, technology and the future of business from Bloomberg's studios on the West Coast. Johnson provides in-depth coverage of Internet companies, social media, cloud computing and other developments in technology, media and entertainment.
Elisabeth Charles, a marketing executive with extensive experience in the retail and food-and-beverage industries joined PETCO in February, 2009, in the new role of Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. She leads the marketing and advertising activities for PETCO, a pet specialty retail leader with more than 1,000 stores across the United States.
Jay Habegger is a digital media pioneer and co-founder of Boston-based OwnerIQ, Inc. OwnerIQ is an online advertising firm that has invented Ownership Targeting: target your online campaign based on the knowledge of what consumers own.
Steven Bushong is senior vice president, Marketing Operations, ABC Entertainment Group of The Walt Disney Company.
Tony Wells, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for 24 Hour Fitness joined the company in 2007. Areas of responsibility include; advertising, promotions, brand management, public relations and sponsorship marketing for the company which is headquartered in the San Francisco bay area.
Amy Millard is a cloud-based software marketing expert, a Facebook and Twitter addict, and a regular conference speaker on the subject of marketing and social media. Prior to Hearsay Social, Ms. Millard led marketing for several global software companies, and she also ran a division of Netscape. She earned her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and her MBA from Stanford University.
Robert Matthews joined Microsoft in 2009, bringing more than 17 years of experience building popular consumer brands. A passionate leader and award-winning marketer, he is a recognized expert at creating engaging brand experiences, igniting consumer passion and mobilizing organic advocacy. In his current role, Rob oversees the Advertising, Media, Brand, Experiential and direct marketing functions across IEB. During his time at Microsoft, Robert and his team have developed an executed numerous award-winning campaigns including the launches of Halo Reach, Forza 3 and Kinect for Xbox 360, the latter of which became the fastest selling consumer device in history.