With over 10 years’ experience in online measurement, media and marketing, Jeff brings both perspective and unique insights to the world social media analysis. 

As Manager of Accounts at Sysomos, a Marketwire Company, Jeff works with some of the world’s largest agencies and brands to implement successful social media monitoring initiatives and help them gather insight and intelligence from their communications efforts.  Much of Jeff’s work focuses on optimization of data collection and understanding the message and metrics around content collection. 
Jeff has also held positions at comScore, the word-of-mouth marketing agency Matchstick Inc., and The Media Company.  You can follow Jeff on Twitter @jeffcann.

37, French. Entrpreneur (again). Co founder of Appsfire.com (mobile app discovery) Isai.fr(early stage fund) and Topify. Formerly general manager of LightSpeed Gemini Internet Lab, an israeli VC investing in early stage Internet startups.

Ouriel sits on the board of Wikio.  He's founded the french version of TechCrunch  one of the most popular blogs in Europe (and was a regular contributor on TechCrunch.com) and of his personal blog and the founding member of ISAI, a seed stage fund based in France. Ouriel graduated from HEC School of Management.

Sara Davar leads business development, sales and growth for Meltwater Buzz on the East Coast in U.S.
Sara has risen through the ranks of Meltwater since joining the Stockholm office for Meltwater in 2006. In the past 5 years she has focused on growth and people development as Sales Manager, Managing Director and Area Director in Philadelphia, Stockholm, London and the UK and Benelux region. Sara was a founding member of Meltwater’s Social Collaboration platform Meltwater Drive before moving over to help grow the North American operation of Meltwater Buzz in January 2011.

As the importance of Social Media analysis and intelligence is becoming increasingly apparent to most organizations in the U.S. Sara’s focus is to expand the East Coast region in order to meet the demand of the market.

Prior to Meltwater Sara worked in the UK with Retail Design as an Export Manager where she worked with clients from all parts of the world. She grew up in Stockholm Sweden, studied at University in UK and is currently living in New York City.

As it is apparent from her experience Sara thrives on travelling and is fascinated by the variations and means of international business culture. She is also known to be a ‘wanna-be’ tech geek and true ambassador of the power of Social Media.

Matt supports Appcelerator's worldwide community of Titanium developers.

Matt has extensive experience in developing web applications using the LAMP stack, as well as moving into NoSQL data structures.  He also enjoys researching new technologies such as MongoDB, HTML5, and web sockets to apply them where it is appropriate.  Matt has been developed mobile apps for Android (Java), iPhone (Object-C), and cross-device using Appcelerator's Titanium platform.

Alex Kinsella, is the Team Lead, Product Management for BlackBerry App World, at Research In Motion (RIM). In this role, he works with the BlackBerry developer community to ensure RIM has the best-in-class app store in the market.  His responsibilities involve focusing on the overall developer experience as well as monetization and marketing options for BlackBerry App World.

Alex joined RIM in 2008 after spending the previous eight years working in mobile software development in the direct store delivery industry.

Alex holds a Bachelors of Science in Russian & Eastern European Studies from Florida State University.

Andrew is president at Vringo, where he is responsible for managing company operations with a focus on content, marketing and product strategy.  Prior to rejoining Vringo in this capacity, he had served as a company director and as General Manager of Vringo’s U.S. operations and SVP, Content & Community from May 2007 to February 2009.

Mr. Perlman rejoined Vringo after serving as vice president of global digital business development at EMI Music Group, where he was responsible for leading distribution deals with digital partners like Verizon, Microsoft, Zed and Grooveshark for EMI’s music and video content.  Prior to Vringo, Mr. Perlman was senior vice president of digital media at Classic Media, Inc., a global media company with a portfolio of kids, family and pop-culture entertainment brands, from June 2005 to May 2007.

Brian is currently Director of Technology Alliances for Rovi Corporation.  He has over ten years of experience in the computer electronics industry.  Brian started his career as a hardware engineer, and has held a number of embedded hardware and software development roles.  As a technical account manager, Brian helped define his company's first connected TV apps as the first CE "widget" platforms were entering the market.

Brian has participated in several "hack day" events, and enjoys developing in Python. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife and daughter.

As former co-founder of The BGK Group, a firm that provides compliance training to the securities industry, Joanna specializes in helping regulated firms comply with rules and regulations. Prior to launching a training firm, Joanna led delivery for Member Education programs at FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) for six years. Joanna came to FINRA with 15 years of experience consulting with C-Level executives to develop and implement marketing strategy for educational programs for the financial services industry. She is a member of Financial Women's Association (FWA) Communications and Digital Media Committee, is pursuing a Film and Production Certificate at New York University, enjoys gathering thought leaders together to speak on hot topics and splits her time with her husband, Jerry between Jersey City and Ocean Grove, NJ.

Chris Hulls is the Co-founder and CEO of Life360. Prior to Life360, Chris worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and was accepted to Harvard Business School. However, a cancer scare and recognizing the lack of effective communication methods in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina lead him to defer his admission and co-found Life360. Chris was also an active soldier in the U.S. Air Force before his undergraduate studies.

Max Katz is a Senior Systems Engineer and Lead RIA Strategist at Exadel. Max is a well-known speaker appearing at many conferences, webinars, and JUG meetings.

Max leads Exadel's RIA and mobile strategy. Part of this role is working as developer advocate for Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder (gotiggr.com), a cloud-based application for building mobile Web and native apps for any device. In addition, Max leads Exadel's open source projects (exadel.org) such as Fiji, Flamingo, and JavaFX Plug-in for Eclipse.