Adam Blum is the Vice President of Engineering at Mobio Networks, which provides a platform for rapid mobile application development. Previously, he was Vice President of Engineering and CTO at several successful software startups.

Adam has authored several technical books and is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his B.S. in computer science from the University of Maryland and his M.S. in computer science from George Mason University.

Paul Brigner is Executive Director of Internet and Technology Policy for Verizon. In this capacity, he works to identify and assess emerging technology issues through an ongoing dialog with research institutes and think tanks.

Prior to his current role, Paul was Executive Director of Federal Regulatory Affairs. In that role, he served as an advocate for Verizon's regulatory policy positions at the Federal Communications Commission and had responsibility for a broad range of FCC proceedings involving broadband, video, homeland security, and emerging technologies.

Paul joined Verizon in 2001 as Senior Technical Manager of Customer Management Systems, with responsibility for implementing the group’s technical architecture strategy. He also managed the development of an ordering system for access service requests.

Paul began his career developing software in Houston, Texas, with Tenneco Gas and Enron Capital & Trade Resources, where he helped develop one of the energy industry’s first Internet-based trading systems. He later worked with Cambridge Technology Partners as a Senior Consultant to the United States Customs Service. Before joining Verizon, Paul was Chief Architect and Assistant Vice President of Digital Focus, where he led the development of many Java/J2EE enterprise software solutions for clients across a variety of industries.

Paul received his Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center and his Bachelor of Business degree, summa cum laude, from Stephen F. Austin State University. He is admitted to practice law in Virginia, Texas, and the District of Columbia.

Fabrizio Capobianco is the Chief Executive Officer at Funambol, which is the leading provider of open source push email and PIM (contacts, calendar, tasks & notes) synchronization software for the mass market. He is a serial entrepreneur as well as a veteran executive of large companies such as Reuters and Tibco. He founded the first Italian web company in 1994 and later founded a software company that produced an information portal product for customers that included Kraft, Novartis, Italian Broadcasting Television, and the Italian Stock Exchange.

Fabrizio has been recognized as a top "40 under 40" tech leader and a visionary in the field of consumer mobile email. He has taught courses on wireless and has one of the best blogs in the mobile industry. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pavia, Italy.

Timothy Chou has been recognized as a visionary in the software industry. His book, The End of Software, predicted a radical shift in software economics that is playing out from Webex to Google. The book is based on his experiences as the President of Oracle On Demand.

Timothy has been featured in Forbes magazine and quoted in leading publications such as Business Week, The Economist, and The New York Times. In addition, he has been interviewed on CNBC and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. A frequent speaker at investor conferences sponsored as CSFB, Bank of America, and Merrill Lynch, Timothy has become known as a thought leader for the next generation of software.

He recently co-founded Openwater Networks and Qenso and serves as an advisor to CastTV and StrikeIron. He is also on the board of directors at Blackbaud, which is a market leader in software for nonprofits.

Timothy began his career at Tandem Computers and prior to his tenure at Oracle, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of Reasoning Corporation.

He has taught at Stanford University for over fifteen years, where he recently launched the first class in Software as a Service. He has also lectured at the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business.

Timothy earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Illinois.

Didier Diaz is Senior Vice President of Product Strategy Management at ACCESS. In this capacity, he co-directs the ACCESS worldwide product strategy management organization, which is responsible for defining ACCESS’ long-term product strategy as well as providing the product development organization with detailed product requirements and specifications. Didier also leads the company’s global strategic product marketing activities for the ACCESS Linux Platform™, the industry’s first fully integrated, commercial grade Linux-based platform tailored for smartphones and mobile devices.

Didier came to ACCESS in 2005 from Aliph, where he was Vice President of Product Development for this startup that develops DSP-based noise canceling technologies for wireless devices. Prior to joining Aliph, he was Senior Director of Product Marketing for Messaging Products at AT&T Wireless. In this position, he managed the entire portfolio of messaging applications and led the introduction of MMS (multimedia messaging) on the AT&T Wireless network.

Previously, Didier was Vice President of Product Marketing for OmniSky, where he helped define the requirements and specifications for the global software and technology development team at this award-winning wireless Internet service. Prior to OmniSky, Didier spent 15 years in product marketing at Apple Computer, where he developed and introduced the Macintosh® II, the original PowerBook® line, and the Macintosh Performa line.

A native of France, Didier earned his M.B.A. from L’Ecole Supérieure de Commerce du Havre.

Madeline Duva is the President of 3rd Eye Consulting, which advises start-ups. As an embedded software entrepreneur with over 20 years experience, she has been instrumental in developing and executing strategic initiatives throughout her career.

After several years at Fidelity Investments, Madeline moved to Silicon Valley where she held senior management positions at Communication Intelligence Corp, PenOp, Dejima, and Revere Data. She was the CEO at China MobileSoft, which developed a complete Linux platform for mobile phones. When CMS was acquired by PalmSource in 2005, Madeline was named Vice President of Silicon and ODM partners. She began her own consulting firm following the acquisition of PalmSource by ACCESS.

Madeline serves on the advisory board for a number of companies in the mobile industry, including 3jam, Eye-Fi, and Nexage. She earned her B.A. and M.A. in economics from Vanderbilt University.

David Farber is the Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University with secondary appointments at the Heinz School and EPP. In 2003, he retired from the University of Pennsylvania where he held the Alfred Fitler Moore Chair of telecommunications with appointments in the Engineering School and the Wharton School. His background includes positions at the Bell Labs, the Rand Corporation, Xerox Data Systems, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Delaware.

From 2000 to 2001, Dave served as Chief Technologist for the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to his appointment to the FCC, he served on the U.S. Presidential Advisory Committee of Information Technology.

Dave currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he received an Honorary Doctorate. He is a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and he is also a member of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.

Dave was awarded the Sigcomm Award for life long contributions to communications and Philadelphia’s John Scott award for Contributions to Humanity.

Nat Goldhaber is a Managing Director at Claremont Creek Ventures and its resident expert on mobile technology. His broad interests include areas such as mobile payments and social networking, and past investments include Ask Jeeves, Shiva and Macromedia. He is currently on the board of cFares and TargetCast Media.

Nat has twenty years of experience in IT as the CEO of Cybergold, the founder of Centram Systems West, the founding CEO of Kaleida Labs, and a Vice President at Sun Microsystems. Prior to his business career, Nat served as Interim Director of the Energy Agency under Pennsylvania’s Lt. Governor, William Scranton, III.

Nat serves on the advisory board for the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs, is a member of the U.S. Secret Service Electronics Crime Taskforce, and a board member at the Federation of American Scientists. He earned his Master’s degree in education and is an emeritus member of the Executive Board of the College of Letters and Science at UC Berkeley.

Dr. Martin Griss is Associate Dean for Research at Carnegie Mellon West, where he is focused on launching a new mobility program. He previously served as associate dean for education and director of the software engineering M.S. program at Carnegie Mellon University.

Martin has over 40 years of experience in software development, education, and research. He spent two decades as the Principal Laboratory Scientist at Hewlett-Packard, and as Director of HP's 70-person Software Technology Laboratory. Martin is a leading authority on software reuse and component-based development. He led HP’s corporate reuse program, and was widely known as the “Reuse Rabbi” at HP Labs.

Martin spearheaded work on software agents, software tools and processes, UML standards, and component-based software engineering. As an adjunct professor at UC Santa Cruz, he is currently researching software engineering, symbolic computation and context-aware intelligent software agent systems. He was previously an associate professor at the University of Utah.

Martin is co-author of the popular book, Software Reuse: Architecture, Process and Organization for Business Success. He has published over fifty papers, 60 technical reports, and numerous columns, panels, and tutorials on software reuse, components, and agents. He earned his B.S. in mathematics and physics from the Technion and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois.

Dr. Bob Iannucci is Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Nokia Research Center.

Dr. Iannucci has played a defining role in Nokia’s research and development work since joining the company in 2004. From the beginning, he challenged traditional management thinking, pushed to establish a research environment suited to internet ways of working, and has set a bold course of action towards more exploratory systems research that focuses on new business opportunities and new competences for Nokia’s future. As Head of NRC he has initiated many open research partnerships with universities and beta communities, and has been instrumental in assembling open, flexible and geographically focused research teams to take NRC’s tradition of breakthrough innovation into exciting new areas.

Throughout his career Dr. Iannucci has consistently shown an ability to balance scientific and technological understanding with business insight. In his role as CTO, he is intent on bringing new dimensions of renewal to Nokia by continuing to drive its research strategy and innovation processes in new ways and new directions.

Dr. Iannucci holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the author and co-author of two books and several academic papers. He has five patents.

Pat Kenealy is the Managing Director of IDG Ventures SF. He rejoined the firm in January 2006 after a 20-year career managing media and venture capital operations at media giant International Data Group (IDG).

Pat was founder and CEO of IDG's Digital News Publishing subsidiary and Publisher and CEO of its PC WORLD Communications subsidiary. Finally, as CEO of IDG itself, he oversaw media, market research, and event businesses in more than 50 countries. As a publishing executive, Pat has been a tireless champion of new media and an advocate for the positive effect of information technology on organizations and individuals.

In addition to being founder and Managing General Partner of IDG Ventures Pacific in San Francisco, he was a founder and General Partner of IDG Ventures Atlantic in Boston and IDG Ventures Europe in London.

Pat has invested in more than a dozen early-stage IT and new media investments, which have collectively returned more than six times their committed capital. Some of his board and observer seats have included Babycenter.com, FutureTense, Spinner.com, Service Metrics and Andromedia. He currently serves on the boards of Quova and Digital Persona.

Before joining IDG, Pat held a number of publishing and editorial management positions at Ziff-Davis Publishing and Cahners Publishing. He earned his B.A. from Harvard University.

Pradeep Khosla is currently Dean of the College of Engineering, Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor in the College of Engineering and School of Computer Science, and Founding Director of CyLab at Carnegie Mellon. His previous positions include -- Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director, Information Networking Institute, Founding Director of Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES), and Program Manager at Defense Advanced Researh Projects Agency (DARPA) where he managed a $50M portoflio of programs in real-time systems, internet enabled software infrastructure, intelligent systems, and distributed systems.

Pradeep is a recipient of several awards including the ASEE 1999 George Westinghouse Award for Education, Siliconindia Leadership award for Excellence in Academics and Technology in 2000, the W. Wallace McDowell award from IEEE Computer Society in 2001, and Cyber Education Award from the Business Software Alliance (2007). For his contributions to technology and education he has been elected as Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), and member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Pradeep’s research has resulted in 3 books and more than 350 articles in journals, conferences, and book contributions. He currently serves on several editorial boards of journals and book series. He is a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences, and invited to participate at thought leadership forums organized by Fortune Magazine, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Milken Institute, World Economic Forum, and Blouin Foundation, for example.

Pradeep is a consultant to several companies and Venture Capitalists and has served on the technology advisory boards of many start-ups and currently serves on several advisory boards including Iron Leaf Capital Corporation, iNetworks LLC, ITU Ventures, and Alcoa CIO’s Advisory Board. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Quantapoint Inc., BitAromor Inc., the Children’s Institute, the IIT Foundation, Mellon-Pitt (MPC) corporation, the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative (PTEI), Doyle Center, and Pittsburgh Technology Council. He also serves on the advisory boards of several universities in the US. He is a member of the IT advisory committee, CSIRO, Australia, and a member of ITU High Level Experts Group for the Global Cybersecurty Agenda (GCA). He has served as member of the Strategy Review Board for Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan; Council of Deans of the Aeronautics Advisory Committtee, NASA; National Research Council Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design; and Senior Advisory Group for the DARPA Program on Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems. He is a co-founder of Quantapoint Inc., and BiometriCore Inc.

He received B. Tech (Hons) from IIT (Kharagpur, India) in 1980, and both MS (1984) and PhD (1986) degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Susan Mason is a General Partner at ONSET Ventures, where she specializes in hardware and software investments in the communications, networking, and security arenas. Prior to joining ONSET in 1996, she led a successful consulting practice that helped Fortune 100 companies capitalize on emerging markets and technologies. Early in her career, she held positions in marketing and engineering design of high-performance systems and microprocessors for Fujitsu Microelectronics, Fairchild Semiconductor, and NCR Microelectronics.

Susan currently serves on the boards of 1020, Airplay, Brilliant Networks, ClariPhy Communications, Glimmerglass, Obopay, PacketMotion, Securent (acquired by Cisco in 2007), and SS8 Networks. She is a Kauffman Fellow as well as a founding board member and Chairman of the Center for Venture Education.

Susan earned her B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado and her M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. James H. Morris is a Professor of computer science and Dean of the West Coast Campus of Carnegie Mellon University. From 1992 to 2004, he served as department head and then Dean of the School of Computer Science. He held the Herbert A. Simon Chaired Professorship of Human Computer Interaction from 1997 to 2000.

For ten years, Dr. Morris worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center where he was part of the team that developed the Alto System, a precursor to today’s personal computer. From 1983 to 1988, he directed the Information Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon, a joint project with IBM, which developed the prototype university computing system, Andrew. He has been the principal investigator of several NSF and DARPA projects aimed at computer-mediated communication, and he is a founder of the MAYA Design Group, a consulting firm specializing in interactive product design. He consults for Google and Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

Dean Morris earned his Bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University, his M.S. in management from MIT, and his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley where he developed some important underlying principles of programming languages: Inter-module protection and lazy evaluation. He was a co-discoverer of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt string searching algorithm.

Matt Murphy has been a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers since 1999. His focus areas of investment include mobile applications and communications/computing infrastructure.

Matt is either a director or works closely with the management teams of Autonavi, Dash, Pelago, M2Z, IPUnity, Kodiak Networks, RGB Networks, Stoke, Aerohive Networks, Ocarina, Xsigo, and eASIC. He was previously a board observer at Google (from initial investment to IPO) and a director at Peakstream (acquired by Google).

Prior to KPCB, Matt led product management at Netboost, a semiconductor start-up that was acquired by Intel. He also led business development for the Network Systems Group at Sun Microsystems and was a product line manager for networking platforms. For a number of years, he was a strategy and technology consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton and Accenture.

Matt earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from Tufts University and his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Dr. J. Gerry Purdy is Vice President and Chief Analyst at Frost & Sullivan, where he monitors and analyzes emerging trends, technologies and market behavior in the mobile computing and wireless data communications industry in North America. Prior to joining Frost & Sullivan in 2006, Gerry was Principal Analyst at MobileTrax. He also held management positions at Compaq, Fujitsu and Phoenix Technologies.

Gerry is a nationally recognized authority on mobile and wireless devices, wireless data communications, and connections to the infrastructure that power the data in wireless handhelds. For more than 16 years, he has been developing state-of-the-art concepts that challenge people's mind-sets, and new ways of thinking and forecasting in the mobile computing and wireless data arenas.

Often quoted, his ideas and opinions are followed closely by industry thought leaders. He publishes Inside Mobile, which is a bi-monthly newsletter that has a readership of over 300,000 people.

Gerry currently serves as a venture advisor to IDG Ventures SF. He is also an advisor to East Peak Advisors, which is a boutique M&A firm focused on mobile and wireless. He was previously a venture advisor for Diamondhead Ventures, where he focused on emerging companies in the mobile and wireless industry.

Gerry is a member of the Program Advisory Board of the Consumer Electronics Association and a frequent moderator at CTIA conferences and the GSM World Congress. He earned his B.S. in engineering physics at the University of Tennessee, his M.S. in computer science at UCLA, and his Ph.D. in computer science and exercise physiology at Stanford University.

Dr. Ted Selker has been an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory for ten years. He created the Context Aware Computing Lab, has been co-director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, and also of the Counter Intelligence/ Design Intelligence special interest group on product design of the future.

Prior to joining MIT, Ted was an IBM fellow. He has also worked at Xerox PARC and Atari Research Labs. He served as a consulting professor at Stanford University, and he taught at University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Brown University.

Ted's research has contributed to products ranging from notebook computers to operating systems, and his work has resulted in 59 patents. His inventions have received more than 30 awards from publications like PC Magazine, Business Week, and BYTE. Ted was co-recipient of the Computer Science Policy Leader Award for Scientific American 50 in 2004 and the American Association For People with Disabilities Thomas Paine Award for his work on voting technology in 2006.

Dan Siewiorek is the Buhl University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He leads an interdisciplinary team that has designed and constructed over 20 generations of mobile computing systems.

Currently, he is Director of the Human Computer Interaction Institute. He was previously Director of the Engineering Design Research Center and co-founder of its successor organization, the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, where he served as Associate Director. Dan has also served as an Associate Editor at the Association for Computing Machinery, as Chairman of the IEEE Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing, and as founding Chairman of the IEEE Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems.

Dan has written over 475 papers and eight textbooks in the areas of parallel processing, computer architecture, reliable computing, and design automation. He has received the American Association of Engineering Education Frederick Emmons Terman Award, the IEEE/ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award, and the ACM SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contributions Award.

Dan is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and AAAS. He earned his B.S. from the University of Michigan, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Tony Wasserman is Director of the MS Program in Software Management at Carnegie Mellon West and Executive Director of the Center for Open Source Investigation.

He was previously Vice President of Bluestone Software, which was acquired by Hewlett Packard. Tony was responsible for the Company’s West Coast labs and its products for mobile devices.

As founder and CEO of Interactive Development Environments, Tony led IDE for ten years. He contributed to the architecture of IDE's innovative Software through Pictures software modeling environment.

Prior to starting IDE, Tony was a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. At UCSF, he and his research team produced the open source User Software Engineering (USE) distribution, which is an environment that supports rapid prototyping of interactive information systems. He was also a lecturer in the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley.

Tony is a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his B.A. in mathematics and physics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Leonard Waverman is the new Dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. Prior to this appointment, he was Chair of Economics at the London Business School.

Len has an extensive career in academia as a Professor in the Department of Economics, Director of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, Research Associate at the Laboritoire d'Economie Industrielle Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique in Paris, and Senior Affiliated Research Fellow in the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia University in New York. His current research examines the social and economic impacts of computer and mobile phone use in emerging markets, such as Africa.

Len is a world-renowned expert in the fields of information and communications technology and natural resources management. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, a member of Vodafone's Advisory Board on the Social Importance of Mobile, and a director of the Nexus Mundi Foundation.

Len earned his BComm and his M.A. from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was awarded the medal of Chevalier dans les Ordres de Palme Académique by the Government of France.

Thad White is Vice President of Products at 3jam. Previously, he served as Senior Director of Product Management for Yahoo!'s mobile business unit, where led the team responsible for extending Yahoo!'s products and services beyond the PC to mobile devices. Yahoo!'s mobile product portfolio under Thad's supervision included the leading U.S. mobile portal and the leading U.S. mobile IM service.

In an earlier role as Director of Product Management for Yahoo!'s broadband business unit, he was responsible for launching the industry-leading SBC Yahoo! Dial and DSL services. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Thad was a consultant with Accenture in Washington, DC, where he helped a major telecommunications company launch its first consumer Internet service.

Thad earned his Bachelor's degree in cognitive science and linguistics from Rice University.

Christy Wyatt is Vice President of Software Platforms and Ecosystem for Motorola. She is responsible for the development and management of the company’s strategic platforms, ISV, and developer ecosystems. Christy and her global team drive platform definition, design, and development and cultivate a thriving developer environment through partner recruitment/management, tools development and support, ISV management, and go-to-market programs. She currently serves as Motorola’s board member for the Linux Foundation, LiMo Foundation, and Eclipse Foundation.

Prior to joining Motorola, Christy served as Worldwide Developer Relations Director at Apple Computer where she was responsible for partners, global alliances and evangelism. Before her tenure at Apple, Christy was Senior Director at PalmSource. While responsible for licensing and developer relations, she grew the developer community from 3,000 to 200,000 with more than 14,000 applications.

Christy has also held key technical, sales and business development roles at Sun Microsystems, JavaSoft and ESRI.

Yongguang Zhang is the Manager of Wireless and Networking at Microsoft Research Asia. From 1994 to 2006 he was with HRL Labs, leading various research efforts in internetworking techniques, system developments, and security mechanisms for satellite networks, ad-hoc networks, and 3G wireless systems. At HRL, he was a co-PI in a DARPA Next Generation Internet project and a technical lead in five other DARPA-funded wireless network research projects.

From 2001 to 2003, he was also an adjunct assistant professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. . His current interests include mobile systems and wireless networking. He has published one book and over 50 technical papers in conjunction with major conferences and journals in his field including Sigcomm, Mobicom, Mobisys, and ToN. He recently won best demo awards at MobiSys’07 and at SenSys’07. He is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, was a guest editor in an ACM MONET Journal, and has organized and chaired/co-chaired several international conferences, workshops, and an IETF working group.

Yongguang earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University.