Om Malik is the founder of GigaOmniMedia, Inc., an online news and weblog that delivers technology news, analysis, and opinions to a monthly global audience of one million consumers and professionals interested in the world of hi-tech. His daily rants on tech/telecom and broadband can be found at http://gigaom.com . Panel: Panel Discussion: Scaling and High Availability Challenges

Dave McClure has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for almost twenty years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, blogger, & internet marketing nerd. He is an advisor or investor for Mint, Mashery, Simply Hired, TeachStreet, Oortle, CrazyEgg, SlideShare, Eventvue, RichRelevance, HealthUnity, & Canopy Financial. Dave is the conference chair for Graphing Social Patterns, and a co-chair for Web 2.0 Expo.

Tony Conrad Tony adds deep market development and management expertise to True Ventures. Tony is simultaneously a Venture Partner at True and Founder/CEO of Sphere , a leading blog search engine connecting mainstream and social media. Prior to founding Sphere, Tony was a general partner at VSP where he led consumer-tech and marketing software and services investments. Tony has served on the Board of Directors for Oddpost (acquired by Yahoo!)

Wow, so I guess I have been finished with school for a year now -where did the time go? I graduated from Washington State University with a degree in Communications, with an emphasis on Advertising and a minor in Fine Arts. I currently work at a High Tech PR agency in San Francisco but commute to Campbell.

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I am designing and integrating websites, mostly using drupal as a backend. In addition to that, I do a lot of audio and video related stuff.