Alan McIntosh is the Vice President of Operations for CBS Interactive, the premier online content network for information and entertainment. With hundreds of millions of unique visitors each month, CBS Interactive is a global top 10 web property and the largest premium content network online across brands like CBS.com, CBSNEWS.com, Gamespot.com, CNET.com, TV.com, last.fm, NCAA.com, and CBSSports.com.  With over 14 years of extensive experience in information technology operations, Alan leads CBS Interactive’s strategic technology initiatives and is responsible for all Internet infrastructure, applications, and data center operations. Prior to joining CBS Interactive, Alan has held various leadership positions with companies including Oracle, Siebel, and McAfee.

• 3:15 - 5:00 - APP DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT (Judge)

Alan Boehme has received worldwide acclaim for his ability to jump-start and transform global business through the innovative use of technology to enter new markets, improve customer service, and enable business-processes change across a wide range of functions. Before joining ING, Alan was working with a number or early-stage organizations: Alan served as the vice president and CIO for Juniper Networks; as the executive vice president and CIO for Sage Software; and as the e-technology and e-business CIO for GE Power Systems. He also held various senior positions with DHL Express. In addition, Alan is an active member of various venture capital and early-stage-company advisory boards.

• 9:30 - 11:00 - DATA 2.0 (Judge)
• 3:15 - 5:00 - INFRASTRUCTURE (Judge)

Biren Gandhi is CTO of Network Products at Zynga responsible for exploring, creating and deploying cutting-edge technologies that serve as backbone for many social games produced by Zynga. He also serves as a technology strategist and advisor to some stealth mode startups in the SF Bay Area and abroad. Prior to Zynga, he has played key technical roles at enterprise, consumer web and social networking companies, including Facebook.  Having a firm belief in collaborative leadership, he loves to clone himself and produce leaders of tomorrow by sharing the knowledge around. Biren is actively involved in social entrepreneurship and community outreach initiatives through a number of non-profit organizations in United States and India. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

• 3:15 - 5:00 - APP DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT (Judge)

BJ Fesq is one of six Technology Fellows at Bank of America. He leads enterprise strategy for the Grid Computing and Application Lifecycle Management domains. BJ also runs the Markets Innovation & Research program and a Shared Services team aligned to the Global Markets business. Prior roles include Chief Architect of Global Markets Technology, Senior Director of Structured Finance Technology at S&P, and development roles at JP Morgan Chase, CSFB and Chubb. BJ has been an active participant in industry standards bodies, from OASIS to the JCP. BJ earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Rochester, where he studied the application of Artificial Intelligence to the Robotics domain.

• 1:30 - 2:45 - VIRTUALIZATION (Judge)

Babcock is one of three editor-at-large writers at Information Week and has been with the magazine for six years. He is charged with reporting on database, Web services, cloud computing and open source code. He is the former New York correspondent, software editor and technical editor of Computerworld; former technology editor of Interactive Week and former editor-in-chief of Digital News. He is a graduate of Syracuse University with a BS degree in journalism.

• 1:30 - 2:45 - COMMUNICATION (Judge)

Chris Weitz is a director with Deloitte Consulting LLP in their Technology Strategy and Architecture practice. He has more than 25 years of experience in IT strategy, architecture, integration and operations, with a focus on IT infrastructure. Chris works with technology companies around the world, and has helped many of them in their efforts to drive their large-scale strategy, integration and infrastructure projects. His current focus is on next generation data centers and cloud computing, working with vendors and service providers to help them bring value to companies through new computing architectures and services models.

• 1:30 - 2:45 - VIRTUALIZATION (Judge)

David Berlind is editor-in-chief of TechWeb.com and the Chief Content Officer for its parent company, TechWeb. Aside from these titles, David currently spends a good chunk of his time helping to define TechWeb’s strategy when it comes to new media, the integration of events and editorial, and the best ways to meaningfully engage the various social networks. David’s career in media started in 1991 when he joined Ziff-Davis’ PC Week to write technology reviews. After eventually becoming the Director of PC Week’s testing lab, he moved over to ZD’s Windows Sources Magazine as Editor-in-Chief and then to Computer Shopper as Editorial Director. In 1998, David joined ZDNet where he led the site’s family of business technology properties and eventually helped to lead CNET Networks’ push into new media such as blogging and podcasting.

• 11:30 - 12:30 - COMPLIANCE (Judge)
• 1:30 - 2:45 - VIRTUALIZATION (Judge)
• 3:15 - 5:00 - INFRASTRUCTURE (Judge)

Jeff Kaplan is the Founder and Managing Director of THINKstrategies, the only strategic consulting firm focused entirely on the business implications of the transition of the technology industry from product-centric to services-driven solutions. THINKstrategies helps IT/business decision-makers with their sourcing strategies; solution providers with their marketing strategies; and venture firms with their investment strategies. Kaplan is also the founder of the Managed Service Showplace and Software-as-a-Service Showplace, the highest ranked, vendor-independent, online directories and best practice resource centers focused on SaaS and managed services. Prior to forming THINKstrategies, Jeff served as VP of Marketing and Business Development at InterOPS Management Solutions, and was Director of Strategic Marketing at International Network Services (INS).

• 1:30 - 2:45 - COMMUNICATION (Judge)
• 3:15 - 5:00 - APP DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT (Judge)

Jeremy Toeman is an expert in consumer lifestyle technology. Over the past ten years he has designed, built, and marketed numerous award-winning products in the "convergence" space. Jeremy founded Stage Two in October '06, where he and his team advise companies on product design, go-to-market strategy, messaging/positioning, social media, and PR services. Stage Two clients have included Best Buy, Boxee.TV, NETGEAR, Pogoplug, Clicker.com, Bug Labs, DivX, Electronic Arts (EA), Vudu, and others. Jeremy was also a cofounder of Mediabolic (acquired by Macrovision in 2007), a VP at Sling Media (acquired by Echostar in 2007), founder of Legacy Locker, and on the advisory board of numerous startups and non-profits.

• 9:30 - 11:00 - DATA 2.0 (Judge)
• 11:30 - 12:30 - ANALYTICS (Judge)

Proven organizational and technology change agent with a unique ability to set long term visions, build strategies while driving tactical operations to deliver concrete business results aligned with the strategies. Exceed in aggressive qualitative and quantitative goals. Jerome creates value by mixing the right balance of innovative and conventional technologies or processes. He helps his business partners achieve their goals, leveraging talented people, agile methodologies and constructive change management processes. Currently building Intuit’s Cloud infrastructure in support of Intuit’s IT aggressive efficiencies goals and Intuit’s CTO product development effectiveness goals.

• 11:30 - 12:30 - COMPLIANCE (Judge)

Joe Weinman leads global portfolio strategy and business development for AT&T, the world's largest telecommunications and information technology firm. A 28-year veteran of the company, a prolific inventor and author, and frequent global keynote speaker, he has held a variety of executive positions of increasing responsibility spanning research and development at AT&T Bell Laboratories, marketing, sales, product management, engineering and operations, and corporate strategy and business development.

• 1:30 - 2:45 - VIRTUALIZATION (Judge)

Joseph Crawford is the executive director of the IT Solutions product portfolio for Verizon Business. Crawford has held a number of positions of increasing responsibility at Verizon Business and its predecessor companies, bringing more than 15 years of experience in the design, development and deployment of cost-effective, high performance operations management and IT solutions management. In his current role, Crawford leads the Hosting, Colocation, Remote Application Management, Data Center Outsourcing and Help Desk products. Before his current assignment, Crawford was assistant vice president of engineering for MCI and prior to MCI, Crawford founded the IT engineering organisation at Digex.

• 11:30 - 12:30 - COMPLIANCE (Judge)

John Quinn is a hands-on Internet industry executive with broad experience in all aspects of developing and running large scale world-class, high-availability web infrastructures. Quinn has been leading Digg’s Engineering efforts since March 2008. Previously he was CTO/VP Engineering for SquareTrade for 8 years and was a Principal Software Engineer at Oracle, also for 8 years.

• 3:15 - 5:00 - INFRASTRUCTURE (Judge)

Lew Moorman is instrumental in driving strategic planning, product development and new business initiatives for Rackspace. He joined the company in April of 2000 and has served a variety of strategy and marketing roles throughout the company's growth. Before joining Rackspace, Moorman held several positions at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, advising a variety of high technology clients on critical strategic issues.

• 3:15 - 5:00 - INFRASTRUCTURE (Judge)

Lior Nir leads the Global Strategy, Portfolio Management, and Business Development teams for Nokia’s Services Platform business unit. In this role, Lior sets the strategy and manages the portfolio of Nokia’s Cloud Computing and Data Core Services, which enable Nokia’s Services and mobile devices to serve 100s of millions of active users. Prior to this role, Lior was the General Manager of Nokia's personal media sharing service, Ovi Share. He built and launched this Service in over 100 countries and managed the Services Social Media ecosystem. Before this, Lior was the Director of Global Product Marketing for Nokia Enterprise Mobility Solutions, responsible for the development and execution of the go-to-market strategy.

• 9:30 - 11:00 - DATA 2.0 (Judge)

Mitchell has over 30 years of experience as a CEO of public and private software companies. Most recently, he was Chairman and CEO of Liberate Technologies, a provider of platform software for the delivery of digital services by cable television companies. Previously he was chairman of the board and CEO of Sybase, Inc., and founder and CEO of Powersoft, which merged with Sybase in February 1995. In 1991, Hummer Winblad invested in the company, which became the leading provider of client-server development tools with its flagship product, PowerBuilder. The merger with Sybase in 1995 was, at the time, the most valuable in the history of the software industry.

• 1:30 - 2:45 - VIRTUALIZATION (Judge)

Nicholas Rockwell is the CTO for MTV Networks’ digital business, which includes some of the internet’s most popular and recognizable brands: MTV.com, VH1.com, Nick.com, and ComedyCentral.com. Nick has led MTV Networks’ digital technology organization since 2000. Prior to serving at MTV, Nick built the technical infrastructure of SonicNet, a startup that became a cutting edge music news and information source on the web. 

• 9:30 - 11:00 - DATA 2.0 (Judge)

Ping is a partner at Accel focusing on IT infrastructure and digital media platforms. His areas of interest also include datacenter virtualization, cloud computing, and internet datacenter scalability. He currently is an investor/Board Member of BitTorrent, Cloudera, Imperva, Mu Dynamics, Raptr, Verivue and YuMe. Ping was responsible for Accel's investment in Reactivity (acquired by Cisco) and Mochi Media (acquired by Shanda). Prior to Accel, Ping was a director at Juniper Networks. He managed Juniper's flagship router product portfolio and worked on Juniper's acquisition of Netscreen Technologies. He also worked as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company, advising technology clients in their growth strategies.

• 11:30 - 12:30 - COMPLIANCE (Judge)

An information technology industry veteran with more than 18 years of experience, Ravi has played a leading role in developing Virgin America’s innovative, guest-friendly and cost-effective technology platforms from prior to the airline’s launch. Ravi has and continues to lead Virgin America’s strategic technology initiatives, including the development of Virgin America’s data centers, storage subsystems, core application infrastructure and integration, and the architecture of its award-winning, user-friendly Web site. Ravi’s experience reflects a broad cross-section of disciplines, including software development methodologies, project management, performance management, systems development, data/application architecture, ERP and CRM applications.

• 1:30 - 2:45 - COMMUNICATION (Judge)
• 3:15 - 5:00 - APP DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT (Judge)

Sam Diaz is a veteran journalist who spent the last decade covering many facets of the tech industry from two power centers: Silicon Valley and Washington DC. He covered the industry as a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News, an editor/reporter/blogger for the Washington Post and now a senior editor for ZDNet, a CBS Interactive site. He started his career at The Fresno Bee and also worked briefly as the director of social media strategies for a San Francisco public relations firm. He holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism News-Editorial and English from California State University, Fresno.

• 11:30 - 12:30 - ANALYTICS (Judge)

Sergio brings to NVP over 13 years of operational experience in marketing, product management, business development, sales and finance from a wide range of business and consumer technology companies. Sergio is focused on investments in the software, internet, and media sectors. Before joining NVP, Sergio was Vice President of Product Marketing at Photobucket, which was successfully sold to News Corp for $300 Million; and Director and General Manager of the consumer electronics division at eBay. Prior to eBay, Sergio was the co-founder and led sales and marketing at Cymerc, which was a hosted software solution for small and medium enterprises. He grew Cymerc from inception to more than $15 million in revenue. Sergio was also an early employee and marketing manager at Portal Software (now part of Oracle). Portal Software created one of the leading enterprise billing software platforms and had a successful Initial Public Offering.

• 11:30 - 12:30 - ANALYTICS (Judge)

Sheila Gulati is responsible for driving all aspects of marketing for Microsoft’s application platform and developer technologies including SQL Server, Visual Studio, and BizTalk Server. Previously, Sheila was General Manager of Developer and Platform Evangelism in the US and held that same post at Microsoft India, focused on developing a strong software and services ecosystem for India. Prior to that, she was at the Microsoft Corporate headquarters in Redmond where she served as Worldwide Business Manager for the Server and Tools business. Sheila started at Microsoft over ten years ago as part of the Corporate Development team that managed Microsoft’s strategic equity portfolio.

• 3:15 - 5:00 - APP DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT (Judge)

Sunil joined Battery in 1998 and focuses on investments in IT infrastructure and financial services. Sunil is currently an investor in GreenBytes, Neocleus, Next Investments, and Viridity Software. He has previously served as a director or board observer at CipherTrust, Inc. (acquired by Secure Computing), Netezza Corporation, Storigen Systems (acquired by EMC), @stake (acquired by Symantec) and Storability Software (acquired by StorageTek). Sunil has also been involved with other Battery investments including Cbeyond and Akara (acquired by Ciena). Prior to joining Battery, Sunil worked in the Technology Banking Group at Alex Brown & Sons, Inc., where he worked closely with growth companies in the communications and software industries.

• 1:30 - 2:45 - COMMUNICATION (Judge)

Trae Chancellor is responsible for driving enterprise requirements for the salesforce.com application and Force.com platform product strategy. Chancellor leverages his experience leading the IT department’s transition to cloud based computing to build best practices for the emerging IT enterprise model. In 2009 salesforce.com won Information Week's top IT Innovation award for the high tech vertical and # 5 overall, demonstrating salesforce.com’s innovation in building the IT organization of the future. Previously, Chancellor was CIO at salesforce.com and grew the company from approximately $400 million in annual revenue to over just under $1 Billion annual revenue.

• 11:30 - 12:30 - ANALYTICS (Judge)