Joe Gregorio
Developer Relations, Google

Joe works in developer relations at Google, focusing on Google Wave and its associated APIs, open source, and federation protocol. Previously he worked on Google App Engine and the Google Data Protocol. He is a member of the AtomPub Workgroup, editor of the Atom Publishing Protocol, and co-author of the URI Template specification. He has a deep interest in REST and web technologies, writing “The RESTFul Web” column for the online O’Reilly publication XML.com, writing the first desktop aggregator written in C#, and publishing various Python modules to help in putting together RESTful web services. He also coined the term Megadata years before the term NoSQL came about.

Rod Smith
VP, Emerging Internet Technologies, IBM Corporation

Rod Smith is an IBM Fellow and Vice President of the IBM Emerging Internet Technologies organization, where he leads a group of highly skilled innovators responsible for developing solutions to help businesses realize the value of emerging technologies to the enterprise. In his many years in the industry Rod has moved IBM and the IT community to a rapid adoption of technologies such as Web services, enterprise mashups, XML, Linux, J2EE, rich internet applications, and various wireless standards. As an IBM Fellow, Rod is helping lead IBM’s strategic planning around big data and practices, with a focus on how these technologies can bring real business value to IBM's customers.

Rod's expertise encompasses emerging internet technologies, including big data solutions, web 2.0, DIY analytics, sophisticated data analytics, rich internet applications, web standards, social/collaborative networking. He was also an early champion of Java, S.O.A., web services, and mashup technologies.

Bob Young
Founder and CEO, Lulu.com

Bob Young is the founder and CEO of Lulu.com, a premiere international marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 660,000 recently published titles and more than 15,000 new creators from 80 different countries joining each week.

In 1993, Young co-founded Red Hat, the open-source software company that gives hardware and software vendors a standard platform on which to certify their technology. Red Hat has involved into a Fortune 500 company and chief rival to Microsoft and Sun. His success at Red Hat won him industry accolades, including nomination as one of Business Week’s “Top Entrepreneurs” in 1999.

Young has won numerous industry awards, including been named one of the “Top 50 Agenda-Setters in the Technology Industry in 2006” and was ranked as the fourth “Top Entrepreneur for 2006,” both by Silicon.com. He has also authored a book “Under the Radar” and contributed to other books such as “Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur’s Soul”.