Chad Dickerson is the CEO of Etsy. Chad was CTO at Etsy from September 2008 until July 2011. Before joining Etsy in fall 2008, Chad led the Brickhouse and Advanced Products teams at Yahoo!. Prior to this role, Chad was senior director of the Yahoo! Developer Network and launched the Hack Day program globally at Yahoo! Chad came to Yahoo! from InfoWorld Media Group (IDG) where he served as CTO for nearly five years. Prior to InfoWorld, Dickerson served as CTO of Salon.com and in various engineering positions at CNN, CNN/Sports Illustrated, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The (Raleigh, NC) News & Observer. Dickerson holds a BA in English literature from Duke University.

Liz Gannes has been a Silicon Valley-based business technology reporter since 2004, where she started her career as a reporter at Red Herring. She was the second employee at the technology blog network GigaOM, where she covered the rise of the social Web. As part of GigaOM, in 2006, Ms. Gannes founded NewTeeVee, a site that became the preeminent source for news and analysis about Internet video and ultimately the intersection of entertainment and technology. She graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in linguistics.

Russell Hamilton is a Senior Business Leader in Visa's Global Business Development group. He evaluates partnerships and strategic alliances for Visa's emerging products group, including mobile and online payments. Prior to Visa, Russell worked in business development for American Express and consulted for Booz & Co. He has an MBA from Stanford University and an MS in Engineering from UC Berkeley.

Ms. Labhard, Director of New Business Customer Solutions at Best Buy, focuses on identifying and developing new business growth opportunities that leverage mobile, social and web properties in honor of the retail customer. She is currently implementing location-based and new retail shopping format experiments that leverage new technology and customer experience innovations. Ms. Labhard's professional experience spans strategy, business development, and product development across digital and web properties in the retail and education industries.

Jay H. Lee joined American Express in April of 2008. As VP of Business Development for OPEN, Jay is responsible developing and executing a business development strategy consistent with OPEN’s transformation and diversification goals. Examples of growth areas for OPEN include: alternative payment transactions and financing, emerging distribution channels, next-generation marketing capabilities, and relevant business services. The Business Development team cultivates deals that range from marketing partnerships to investments and acquisitions. The current focus is on innovative capabilities and earlier stage companies that will help OPEN capture the high growth Small Business payments market. During his career, Jay has developed a track record of business building and accelerating innovation.

Will Lowry leads a product strategy and development organization focused on driving innovative, data centric media and advertising solutions. In this role he has overall responsibility for both online products and multi-platform data services. Previously he was the Marketing Director of Cloud Strategy and Development for AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. He designed and architected a cloud product and services strategy to direct priorities and solution architecture for the Consumer organization. Will owned concept, design, and delivery of raw and finished cloud services for AT&T branded services and 3rd party application developers. Will and his team partnered with AT&T teams and numerous technology partners to discover and evaluate new technologies and their application in product innovation.

Scott is a Product Manager at Google, where he runs the Apps Marketplace and thanks his lucky stars to be able to work with amazing developers revolutionizing the way businesses use the web. A startup guy at heart, Scott joined Google when it acquired JotSpot, where he ran developer and partner programs, and previously founded Inovie Software, maker of early Web collaboration service TeamCenter, acquired by SDRC. Scott holds bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from UC San Diego and was a PhD student at UCSD's Computer Systems Lab.

Kevin is director of the AppConnect program at Constant Contact. Kevin enjoys working with business leaders from other software companies focused on the small business space developing integration strategies, discussing business challenges, and making SAAS easier to use through integration. Kevin is responsible for the app partner program, as well as managing the Constant Contact MarketPlace.  Kevin has also speaks at events on the topic of email marketing and social media marketing. Prior to joining Constant Contact, Kevin was a software developer building interfaces for healthcare software apps.