Mashable Social Media Day at the Irish Innovation Center, San Jose, CA, June 30, 2011

What:   A networking event (“MeetUp”) in celebration of Social Media Day

Where:  The Irish Innovation Center, 189 W. Santa Clara Street, San Jose, CA 95113

June, 30th at 4:00 p.m. LIVE VIDEO FEED

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Session I Panel Moderator: 

RICHARD A. MORAN, Venture Capitalist, Author, ITLG Management
Rich Moran is a San Francisco based venture capitalist, bestselling author and evangelist for organization effectiveness. He began his career in Silicon Valley at Atari. Richard is best known for his series of business books beginning with Never Confuse a Memo with Reality and is credited with starting the genre of "Business Bullet Books". His newest book is Sins and CEOs to be released in late 2011. He is a Partner at Irish Technology Capital and serves on the boards of Accretive Solutions, Mechanics Bank and Integreon.
Twitter: @richmoran

Session I Panelists:

FERGUS HURLEY, Founding CEO of Focal Labs
Fergus is an Irish mobile Internet entrepreneur and product designer based in San Francisco. Hurley developed the patent pending real-time, GPS-based photo sharing platform behind Clixtr.com and PicBounce.com, which have been featured in TechCrunch and Venture Beat. He raised funding from top-tier Silicon Valley investors and was selected as one of the Silicon Valley 50 Irish Americans in Technology 2011. Hurley has a BE from University College Cork and a Masters in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. www.focallabs.com, Twitter: @fergushurley

CHARLES J. ORLANDO, author, relationship expert and Facebook personality
Charles is a regular contributor to radio programs and print publications for his social media and relationship expertise, and has been featured on Mashable.com, Yahoo!, and MSN.com. Author of The Problem with Women... is Men: The Evolution of a Man's Man to a Man of Higher Consciousness, a book on relationships that is currently being optioned for film and TV, Charles single-handedly grew his Facebook Fan Page from 600 Fans (March 1, 2010) to over 500,000 Fans in 12 months with zero advertising dollars, while maintaining a 65%+ monthly Fan return rate. www.theproblemismen.com,
Twitter: @charlesjorlando

PHILO NORTHRUP
Philo Northrup is Co-Founder of enVie Interactive, publisher of VIE, a new brand of social game that is a female friendly, casual MMO (massive multiplayer online) game. A 17-year veteran of the video game industry, Philo will explain the concept of “Productive Play” and how it is the reason why social media means business. Philo is also a sculptor who's artwork has been the subject of over 40 exhibitions. He is best known for his ArtCars for which he was awarded a2007 National Endowment for the Arts Grant. www.philo.com, www.viethegame.com

KEVIN SPIER, Bunchball
Kevin Spier has spent the last three years at Bunchball, the leader in Gamification technology and expertise.  He and his teams work with such companies as NBC, ABC, Playboy, HP, Comcast, Warner Brothers, Nestle, and many others toutilize game mechanics to drive high value activity among consumers, visitors, and employees.  Kevin will discuss what “Gamification” is, who is using it and why so you can learn if this is something your company should be thinking about. www.bunchball.com,

Twitter: @kspier

Session II Panel Moderator: 

SUSAN ETLINGER, Industry Analyst, Social Media Business Advisor
Susan Etlinger is an Industry Analyst with Altimeter Group where she focuses on social media analytics and strategy. For the past twenty years, she has worked at the intersection of people, processes and technology, in companies such as Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., and in the agency world, most recently at Horn Group. Susan is regularly interviewed and asked to speak on social strategy and best practices for business, and has been quoted in outlets including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The San Francisco Chronicle, the BBC, the San Jose Mercury News and Fast Company. Susan’s is a published translator and has a B.A in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley. You can follow Susan on her blog at susanetlinger.com, on Twitter at twitter.com/setlinger, and on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/susanetlinger.

Panelists:

DR. ELIZABETH CHURCHILL, Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo!
Dr. Elizabeth Churchill is manager of the Internet Experiences group at Yahoo! Research. Originally a psychologist by training, throughout her career Elizabeth has focused on understanding the ways in which people interact – whether their interactions are primarily face to face or are technologically mediated. She previously worked at PARC, the Palo Alto Research Center, and before that at FXPAL, Fuji Xerox’s research lab based in Silicon Valley where she led the Social Computing Group.

She has co-edited 5 books and has published within the areas of theoretical and applied psychology, cognitive science, human computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work. Elizabeth has a BSc in Experimental Psychology, an MSc in Knowledge Based Systems–both from the University of Sussex–and a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Cambridge. She is the current Vice President of the Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SigCHI) and the co-chair of the ACM's Mobile HCI conference, to be held in the Bay Area in 2012. More details of her research and some of her publications can be found here: http://research.yahoo.com/Elizabeth_Churchill 

RANDY KSAR, MOTOROLA
Randy currently manages the global social media strategy for MOTODEV which is Motorola Mobility's developer program focused on smartphones and tablets. He is constantly listening and engaging with the MOTODEV community via blogs, discussion boards, and social networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Previous toMotorola Mobility, Randy worked on viral marketing programs for Yahoo! and online marketing roles at Roxio, Handspring, and Sony Electronics. In his spare time, he volunteers for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program running marathons, cycling century rides and raising funds to find a cure for blood-related cancers. For any social media, marathoning or cycling advice.

Twitter: @djksar.

IRENE KOEHLER, Social Media Strategist, Almost Savvy
A frequent speaker and social media strategist, Irene has a passion for guiding those learning to leverage online tools and technology to manage their online brand and reputation, while achieving business objectives. Using social media isn’t difficult, it’s only new. Irene has a particular talent for working with those in the early stages of learning, those who are Almost Savvy.

 

When not working with clients, Irene can be found blogging at www.AlmostSavvy.com, tweeting at @IreneKoehler on Twitter or interacting with the Almost Savvy community on Facebook

CHRIS CLARK, Business Operations Director, Loopt

Chris Clark is the Director of Business Operations for Loopt, a (a social service that connects people to their community, based in Mountain View). His responsibilities include managing Loopt’s live products and services, overseeing new product development and maintaining the company’s strategic partnerships. Prior to joining Loopt, Chris managed a team at AT&T which helped launch the iPhone and other new products and services. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University. In his spare time, Chris serves as a commissioner for the city of Mountain View and as board vice president for the Community Health Awareness Council. www.loopt.com

Twitter: @clarkcr