2010 Speakers and Panelists

Keynote Speaker:

Marshall Kirkpatrick - VP of Content Development and Lead Blogger
ReadWriteWeb

Marshall Kirkpatrick is the lead writer at ReadWriteWeb, one of the top information technology blogs on the internet and syndicated daily online by the New York Times. Marshall has established himself as one of the web's leading voices on bleeding edge technology thanks to his ability to find signal burried in real-time noise, primarily through the use of innovative online research systems built for first mover's advantage and crowdsourced data mining.He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, two dogs, two cats and three chickens.

Over the past 10 years the Web has evolved to offer a wide variety of easy ways for people and machines to publish data online. That data, from blogs to Facebook to real-world sensor data,  is now being recognized as a platform that entrepreneurs can innovate on top of, be it for technology services, market research or promotion of products and services.  Marshall Kirkpatrick is the lead writer at one of the world's leading technology blogs, ReadWriteWeb.com, where a distributed international team of writers uses and reports on the entrepreneurial technologies surrounding this new web as a platform.