Ryan Boyles
Technical Evangelist, IBM

Ryan Boyles is a technical evangelist for open source and emerging technology at IBM. He has spent his career in software development working on front ends and applications. Ryan is an accomplished inventor with over a dozen patents. Ryan is an advocate for social software tools and community management in business.

Ryan loves local community, having a hand in hosting popular events like Ignite Raleigh, Triangle Tweetup, Raleigh Twestival, and Triangle Social Media Club. Ryan enjoys speaking at conferences large and small, including Web2.0 Expo San Francisco, Social Fresh Charlotte and as a Dad blogger at the Type-A Mom conference. You can find Ryan online at http://flavors.me/rab and connect with him on twitter @theRab.

Wayne Sutton
Biz. Dev/Marketing Strategist for TriOut

Wayne Sutton helps individuals, startups and businesses succeed in understanding how to communicate on the social web via brand strategy, social networks and location-based services. With nearly 10 years experience in the technology and social media sector, he’s provided counsel to business leaders ranging from founders of small start-ups and representatives of non-profit organizations to CEOs of large and small corporations.

Wayne has spoken at various conferences and events such as SXSW, Social Media Breakfast, Triangle American Marketing Association, Pubcon Austin and Blog World. He also contributes to the TriOut blog by keeping the community aware of location-based promotions and covers the social media, location space on his blog at SocialWayne.com

Tom Craig
Chief Privacy Officer, MediaMath

Tom Craig is a recognized expert on DSPs, digital marketing and consumer privacy. As CPO of MediaMath, the industry leader in digital media technology and creator of TerminalOne, Tom plays an integral role both in developing the company’s technology platform as well as ensuring its operations adhere to a strict policy of consumer privacy. Tom spearheaded the effort to make MediaMath the first and only DSP to be NAI compliant and he sits on the IAB Public Policy Council which helps shape online privacy policy. Prior to MediaMath, Tom led the Global Marketing Solutions organization at AOL where he was responsible for the company’s corporate marketing platforms, data product development and marketing information strategy. While there, he managed a $45 MM budget that included extensive internal and external platform development with companies such as DoubleClick, Epsilon Digital and Experian.

Elizabeth Johnson
Attorney, Poyner Spruill

Attorney Elizabeth Johnson leads the Privacy and Information Security practice at the North Carolina law firm Poyner Spruill. She represents clients in diverse industries such as healthcare, financial services, insurance, retail, telecom, utility, technology, and consumer goods and services with a comprehensive and practical approach to information security. Her clients vary in size from Fortune 100 companies to local non-profits. Additionally, she was listed among the top privacy professionals in Computerworld’s “2008 Best Privacy Advisors” report.