Chris Brogan
Chris Brogan is President of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency, and home of the Inbound Marketing Summit conferences and Inbound Marketing Bootcamp educational events. He works with large and mid-sized companies to improve online business communications like marketing and PR through the use of social software, community platforms, and other emerging web and mobile technologies.

Chris is a ten year veteran of using social media and both web and mobile technologies to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals.

Chris speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at [chrisbrogan.com], a blog in the top 10 of the Advertising Age Power150, and in the top 100 on Technorati.

He is co-author of the book Trust Agents.

Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah is one of the fresh, young voices on the social media transformation of business.  He is a Partner at Altimeter Group, a social media research and advisory firm started by Charlene Li.  In this role he publishes industry reports and provides social media counsel to clients. He also writes a daily blog called Web Strategy by Jeremiah and speaks at Technology, Web, PR, and Marketing conferences about web and media strategy.

Until recently, he was a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research focused on Social Computing for the Interactive Marketer.  Before Forrester, Jeremiah’s was responsible for the strategy and development of corporate web programs at PodTech.net an online media network as the Director of Corporate Media Strategy. Jeremiah founded and lead the Community Marketing program at Hitachi Data Systems and has experience in Web Marketing, Intranets, Extranet and User Interface Design at companies such as Exodus Communications, Cable and Wireless, and World Savings (now Wachovia).

Ellyn Angelotti
Ellyn Angelotti is the Interactivity Editor of Poynter Online and an Adjunct Faculty member. Since joining the Poynter Institute in April 2007, she has taught and written about innovations in multimedia development, social networking and how news organizations connect with users through interactivity methods (like user commenting). She podcasts weekly for University of Florida's Journalism Now , a weekly discussion covering multimedia, data and social aspects of modern news.

Prior to coming to Poynter, she guided the development of nontraditional multimedia sports content at the Naples Daily News as the New Media Sports Editor. While attending the University of Kansas, she worked as a multimedia producer for World Online, the Web department for the Lawrence Journal-World. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Online-Broadcast Journalism and Spanish.

Shawna Coronado
Shawna Lee Coronado is a book author, locally syndicated newspaper columnist, energetic speaker, and environmental and health correspondent with over eighteen years of experience with sales, marketing, and public relations. Social media has been the primary tool she has used for branding, promoting, and building her successful business.
 
Building community and educating others on how to do so has become Shawna’s driving passion since she experienced a dramatic life transformation. After suffering for many years with severe stress and illness, Shawna took command of her lifestyle. She downsized, built her own company, and started her life over from scratch; ignoring conventional wisdom and creating her own healthier way of living and conducting business.

Shawna speaks internationally on building community, simple living and green lifestyle tips for the everyday person. She consults for corporate entities as well, educating on how green living can reduce expenses and enhance business by improving sales. Her green lifestyle blog, www.gardeningnude.com, was picked up by ChicagoNow. Her gardening blog, The Casual Gardener, is based on her original newspaper column, which educates the online community on sustainable gardening, techniques to save money during a down-economy and home vegetable production. Her goal with both blogs is to better the world through community involvement and simple living. Learn more about Shawna and her inspirational business success story at www.thecasualgardener.com.

Sarah Evans
A public relations and new media consultant at Sevans Strategy, Sarah has worked extensively in the non-for-profit, higher education and healthcare sectors. A self-described "social media freak," she initiated and moderates #journchat, the weekly live chat between PR professionals, journalists and bloggers on the microblogging platform, Twitter.

She is a guest writer for Mashable, one of the most popular social media blogs in the world and runs her own blog PRsarahevans.com. She most recently worked with a local crisis center to raise more than $160,000 in three weeks with the help of social media and was part of the Guinness World Book record breaking #beatcancer team.

A graduate of Millikin Univeristy in Decatur, Illinois, she is a life-long St. Louis Cardinals fan living in Chicago.

Scott Raymond
Scott Raymond is the co-founder and CTO of the location-based social network Gowalla. He has spent the last several years developing products that enable digital collectibles -- virtual goods that inspire curiousity and playfulness.

A Kansas City native, Scott graduated from the Unviersity of Kansas in 2001 with a degree in Linguistics. Scott is the author of Ajax on Rails, published by O'Reilly Media. He currently lives in Austin, Texas. 

Shea Sylvia
Shea Sylvia is an interactive marketing professional who specializes in social media strategy and execution, blog development, content management and copywriting, with a little bit of web and graphic design thrown in for good measure.

Shea blogged professionally for b5media, one of the largest blog networks on the web, where she spent four years as an entertainment writer. After a stint as a dating columnist for Wichita’s Naked City Magazine, Shea decided to venture out on her own, developing the concept for verb [ICT] – a hybrid blog/magazine with a decidedly Wichita slant. Shea will be joining the Cerner Health Online Marketing team in May 2010.

Zena Weist
Zena Weist is a Digital Practitioner and Integrated Media Strategist with over 15 years of online marketing expertise including executive leadership in digital start-ups, account management with interactive agencies and client-side roles in online brand engagement, project management, social media initiatives and web implementation with Sprint, Hallmark, Embarq and currently, H&R Block.

Zena is an iWorkingmom who’s passionate about: all things social web, her four fun-loving kids, one adorable husband, customer advocacy, autism awareness, craft beers, red wine, all things chocolatel; and, running. Zena co-founded the Kansas City Chapter of the Social Media Club.

Ramsey Mohsen
If it is happening in Kansas City, Ramsey Mohsen is probably there. As one of Kansas City’s most influential video bloggers, Ramsey turns his webcam onto an event, provides his optimistic commentary, and posts the final cut on his blog, YouTube, Facebook and several other social media sites.

Ramsey is a pioneer in the video blogging space, as the first "life-caster" in the Midwest featured on the famed Justin.tv Website and now is a major "event-caster."

Tony Botello
Tony Botello is a writer, reporter, blogger and life-long resident of Kansas City. Botello holds a degree in Communication Studies from The University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has reported for The Kansas City Hispanic News and Dos Mundos. His blog Tony's Kansas City is one of the most popular in metro area and Botello has been named Readers Choice "Best Blogger" in Kansas City in The Pitch "Best Of Issue for the years 2007, 2008, and 2009.