Presenters

With a formal education in computer science, Nate Aune has always been intrigued with utilizing cutting edge technology to find solutions to everyday problems. He has been helping organizations with their IT needs since 1999 through his company Jazkarta, based in Boston, MA.

As founder of the Plone4Artists project, Boston Plone Users Group, and member of the Plone Foundation Board, Nate is very active in the Plone community. Nate regularly gives talks at conferences and organizes coding sprints at which developers come together from all over the world to code and share ideas.

Adriaan Bloem is co-founder of Dutch content management consultancy Radagio. He’s a guest analyst at CMS Watch and member of the steering committee of CM Pros Benelux.

Previously, he was project manager at Leiden University, where he worked on a wide range of web projects, including the selection and implementation of a new CMS, the electronic learning environment and systems for the administration and grading of legal essays. He was also involved in the development of a custom CMS at the Center for eLaw and the implementation of several commercial and open source content management systems.

For more than 2 decades, Linda Burman, CEO of L A Burman Associates Inc., has delivered innovative solutions addressing real business challenges faced by companies that want to increase the value of their content. Known as an analytical problem solver and an insightful consensus builder, she brings people and technology together to produce the optimal solution for DAM and ECM systems, publishing workflows and metadata strategies. Her clients include publishing companies, standards associations, tool vendors, and companies conducting corporate due diligence.

Linda is the VP of Content Management Professionals board of directors, co-author of Mastering XML PRO and former chair of the IDEAlliance PRISM metadata WG, which she founded in 1999. She is also a sought-after speaker at leading industry conferences. In previous work, she held senior marketing, technical, and product management positions at software and hardware companies including Apple Computer.

David Coleman, Founder and Managing Director of Collaborative Strategies, has been involved with groupware, collaborative technologies, and knowledge management since 1989. He is a thought leader, frequent public speaker, an industry analyst, and author of books and magazine articles on electronic collaboration, online community and social networks.

David is also the most frequent contributor to the Collaboration Blog, and the co-author of a new book called “Collaboration 2.0”.

Jeff Cram co-founded ISITE Design in 1997 and heads up ISITE Design Boston as its Managing Director. Cram has played an integral role in establishing the agency as a national leader in Web strategy, design and technology services. Cram has consulted for companies including Siemens, Xerox, Nike, Nintendo and WebTrends. He is a frequent speaker at national conferences on topics including Web analytics, search engine marketing and Web usability. Prior to ISITE Design, Cram worked for Nike as a Web communications consultant and led Web initiatives for WebTrends, the market leader in Web analytics solutions. Cram resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Linfield College.

Rob Dawson is a Senior Software Engineer at Ephox Corporation. He is one of the lead developers in their future content authoring tools. Rob has a wide range of software development and consulting experience, having worked on projects in pretty much every conceivable timezone, and he is currently based out of Brisbane, Australia, with his wife and 2-year-old son Isaac. When he isn’t working on software, he spends most of his time being a dad.

Percussion Software CTO Vernon Imrich frequently speaks and writes on CM-related topics such as content integration, XML workflow, and emerging web trends. He pursued graduate research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and has more than a decade of product architecture and design experience.

Vern is a member of CM Professionals and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and was chosen by CMSWatch as one of “Twenty Leaders to Watch in 2004.” Check out his blog, Contentions.

Salim Ismail is a successful angel investor and entrepreneur and is currently heading up the Brickhouse at Yahoo! The Brickhouse is Yahoo’s newly-launched program for rapid product development. He also co-founded Confabb.com (where he serves as Chairman) and advises numerous startups and founders on growing technology ventures.

In all, Salim has operated seven early-stage companies. He is a frequent speaker on internet technologies, private equity and entrepreneurship. Check out his blog, You’ve Got Ismail.

He is best known for co-founding and building PubSub Concepts, a New York based startup which builds Internet-scale Publish/Subscribe systems and is redefining how content is delivered over the Internet. PubSub was launched in early 2004 and led the category of Prospective Search starting with RSS and blogs. PubSub launched the Structured Blogging Initiative in 2005 with participation from over 50 leading technology companies. Salim built it to a $15 million valuation.

He started his career with CSC Europe building large-scale application systems and then spent five years as a management consultant restructuring some of the largest companies in Europe.

In 2001, Salim was presented with a New York City Award of Recognition by the Giuliani Administration, and in 2003 was nominated by Crain’s Magazine as one of New York City’s “Top 40 under 40” businesspeople. He frequently presents and speaks at conferences on the future of the internet, digital media, entrepreneurship and and private equity.

He has traveled extensively, has lived and worked in eight different countries, speaks 2.75 languages and has an honors degree in theoretical physics and computing from the University of Waterloo near Toronto, Canada.

Ruth Kaufman is a Senior Content Strategist at Avenue A | Razorfish. Her ten years of experience with web content span the full content supply chain – from writing and production to content management, retrieval and distribution. She has worked with a university program, a business news distributor, a content aggregation/syndication service provider, and IBM’s global web strategy team. Her most recent focus area has been on metadata and taxonomy for enterprise-scale content integration. Ruth was trained in cartography and has produced seminars for local New York City artists about web content strategy and effective site design for self-promotion.

Mary Laplante is Vice President of The Gilbane Group, an analyst and consulting firm that provides education, advice and market expertise in content management technologies. She oversees the Gilbane Group consulting practice, manages research projects, contributes editorial content, and participates in Gilbane conferences and other industry events.

Laplante has twenty years of experience in standards, publishing, software marketing, and research and consulting arenas. Prior to joining the Gilbane Group, she was a founding partner in Fastwater LLP, a consulting firm that helped companies take new products to market. From 1996 through 1998, she was a Director in the Dynamic Software Strategies Group at CAP Ventures/InfoTrends, a research and consulting firm that tracks markets for document and printing technology. She was the first Executive Director of the organization now known as OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), serving from 1993 through 1996. Mary currently serves as president of Content Management Professionals.

John Lovett focuses on the online customer experience and researches strategies and technologies that companies utilize to deliver a superior online environment. Lovett’s coverage areas include methods that companies deploy to successfully attract customers to the web site, tools to guide them through the online experience and tactics to facilitate conversions and build customer loyalty. Areas of research include eCommerce platforms, search technologies, web analytics, web wontent management tools, and emerging Web 2.0 technologies. Lovett addresses the technology challenges end users face and the solutions available to them from the marketplace.

Lovett brings over seven years of eCommerce research and analysis to the Aberdeen Group. Prior to joining Aberdeen, he was analyst for Gomez.com, a research and consulting firm specializing in online businesses. Prior to joining Gomez, Lovett was a marketing manager for Wave Sport. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Colorado State University.

Hilary Marsh is Managing Director of REALTOR.org, the Web site of the National Association of Realtors. She oversees the site’s 8,500-plus pages, including text and a broad range of multimedia content, and she sees guidelines as the necessary foundation for effective content management. Marsh has focused on online communications since 1996. Before joining NAR in 2005, Marsh was president of Content Company, an online content consultancy that helped associations, nonprofit organizations, and corporations communicate more effectively online.

Laura Melcher is Manager of Editorial Development for REALTOR.org, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) site serving Realtors, the media and consumers. Known as “The Voice for Real Estate,” NAR serves more than 1.3 million members, providing research, advocacy and\ governance.

Prior to joining NAR, Laura was Intranet Communications Manager for HSBC - North America, a global financial services company based in the United Kingdom. At HSBC, she managed intranet strategy, governance/standards and enhancements for the U.S. and Canada sites.

Laura began her career as a print (newspaper) journalist before moving into online media in the late 1990s. Her career interests include strategic site management, content development and management, usability and Web 2.0.

Todd O’Neill is a consultant and business analyst with 5 years of in the trenches, web content management experience at a Fortune 200 financial services company. He has “managed content” of some kind for over 20 years, from online ecommerce to CD-ROM for the-artist-known-again-as Prince to award winning video programs.

He is the author of DoingMedia, a blog for “clueless media producers.” He has taught college courses in California and Texas and presented at conferences for more than decade.

When not working with clients, talking with students, or writing a blog post, Todd spends time cycling, woodworking and puttering around the house.

Tony Pietrocola, President of Tenth Floor (maker of BASE-10 web content management software), has been named one of the most influential technology leaders in Northeast Ohio three times by Crain’s Cleveland Business, and Software Tech leader of the year by NEOSA.

Tony began his career as an Apple Computer Systems Engineer. In 2001, with three partners they launched Tenth Floor, a global Internet marketing solutions company. “We wanted to become immersed in Internet technologies across the Web,” said Tony. “Now, our clients benefit from our passion and dedication to implementing the most advanced technologies available on the Web.”

Tenth Floor has become one of the most successful interactive Web Content Management companies in the US. The cutting edge software is known for its ease of use and robust suite of functionality. Tenth Floor has offices in Cleveland, Minneapolis, New York and Washington DC.

With more than ten years experience in software development and Internet marketing technologies, Tony has empowered his clients with creative technology solutions and has provided strategic counsel for organizations such as Honeywell, Honda, The State of Ohio, Dow Chemical, U.S.Department of Defense, Arnold Palmer.com and a host of Fortune 500 companies.

Carmine Porco, General Manager and Vice President, Prescient Digital Media, has over 20 years of experience in the areas of Internet consulting, IT management, and software development. His strengths include employee self-service, content management, e-learning, customer care and Internet commerce primarily in the financial, government, health, energy and retail sectors.

Carmine runs the Toronto practice operations, as well as providing strategic counsel to numerous clients across North America including California Association of Realtors, British Columbia Lottery Corporation, Royal Bank (RBC Financial Group), Greater Vancouver Regional District, Tourism PEI, Ontario Realty Corporation and others.

Prior to joining Prescient, Carmine has held positions with Cisco, Deloitte Consulting, Quadravision Communications and Canada Life Assurance.

He is a frequent speaker on Content Management, Workforce Optimization, Portals and e-Learning having spoken at numerous conferences throughout North America and Europe.

Carmine has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from the University of Toronto.

Peter Prestipino is the Editor and Chief of Website Magazine, a print publication covering SEO, SEM, Design and Development for Web enterprises in pursuit of Internet success. Prestipino has ten years of experience, primarily in the search engine marketing and optimization industries and has played a key role in the successful launch and monetization of thousands of Web properties.

Jim Turner is the visionary behind One By One Media where he oversees business development. Jim is a well respected blogger, having contacts with other bloggers, marketers and advertising agents. When not speaking to groups like Blog Business Summit, Blog World Expo and the AMA, Jim is also a professional blogger that mentors other bloggers.

Travis Wissink, Solutions Architect and President of Technology Leadership and Consulting, calls the Washington, DC Metro area his home. He specializes in defining, planning and delivering advanced technology solutions to commercial, non-profit, and government enterprises. His areas of expertise include Portals, Service-Oriented Architecture, Web Services, Java EE and Content Services, including Content Integration and Enterprise Content Management.

Wissink is an author, technical editor, mentor and speaker on Content Services, SOA, Java EE, XML and Web Service technologies. He is active in the Capital chapter of the International Association of Software Architects, a co-lead for the Washington DC area BEA user group, and a founder and current Board Member of Content Management Professionals. Check out his blog, Composibility.