Speakers
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This is our list of 2012 speakers.
2012 Speakers
We are so excited to bring you our lineup of amazing speakers! Please visit their sites and follow them on Twitter.
Sarah Auerswald is the co-Founder of MomsLA, a Community of over 100 of the Top Mom Bloggers in Los Angeles. She’s also the Mother of two Tween boys, and as such, has become quite an expert on the media they consume. She blogs about that on SarahAndSons.com. Sarah is a member of the Playstation Family Blogger group and a PBS Kids VIP Blogger, and has been a part of the Yahoo! Motherboard. Sarah’s blogging has landed her on the Oprah show, in the New York Times and on CNN.
twitter: @MomsLA, @SAuerswald
website: MomsLA, SarahAndSons
session: The Family That Blogs Together , Saturday, June 30, 11:15 AM
Leticia Barr is the founder of Tech Savvy Mama. She is a DC Metro area dwelling mom of 2 with a background in classroom technology integration and school administration who uses everything she learned from in her previous career in her current one as a professional blogger, Parents.com columnist, and social media strategist. She frequently advises brands dedicated to protecting kids both in real life and in the ever-changing online and mobile spaces about family internet safety and security issues. Leticia is a seasoned speaker whose work has been recognized by Parents Magazine’s Editors’ Pick for Best Tech Blog, Babble’s Top 100 Mom Blogs, and among the 50 Top Twitter Moms by Babble.
twitter: @TechSavvyMama
website: Tech Savvy Mama
Session: Parenting Digital Kids, Saturday, June 30, 04:15 PM
Simone Bernstein is a sophomore at St. Bonaventure University in upstate New York. She is an active volunteer in her hometown of St. Louis, MO and in her college community. Simone co-founded with her brother the website VolunTEENnation.com, an online resource for youth to easily find volunteer opportunities. She has spoken at numerous conferences, has a column at the Huffington Post, and was honored in 2010 as a L’Oreal Woman of Worth.
twitter: @volunTEENnation
website: VolunTEENnation
session: Blogging For Good, Sunday July 1, 11:30 AM
Dawn Borglund is the brand manager at Rise, a digital marketing and branding agency, and a graduate professor of transmedia storytelling and marketing at the University of Central Florida. Dawn knows people. Which is why she’s perfect at connecting businesses to their target audiences. She’s worked with clients like Grant Hill, Hart and Huntington and Tamia to give them record-breaking results. She’s also performed in the Chicago Improv Festival and directed interactive broadcasts from India.
twitter: @DawnBorglund
website: Rise
session: Welcome Keynote, Friday June 29, 5:30 pm
Daniel Brusilovsky is the founder and CEO of Teens in Tech Labs, a company dedicated to helping young entrepreneurs by providing them the resources they need to get off the ground. Along with Teens in Tech Labs, Daniel is currently involved in ‘Olive The Movie’ as an Associate Producer, and as the Silicon Valley Evangelist for JESS3.Previously, Daniel was on the founding team of Qik (acquired by Skype), and has worked at TechCrunch (acquired by Aol), Apture (acquired by Google), atebits (acquired by Twitter), and Etude (acquired by Steinway & Sons). In addition to his own startup, Daniel also actively advises Everyme and mezz.
twitter: @danielbru
website: Daniel Brusilovsky
session: The Next Steve Jobs? Meet the Teen Entrepreneurs Saturday, June 30, 9:30 AM
Dave Carroll is an award winning singer-songwriter, social media innovator, author, speaker and consumer advocate from Halifax, Canada. With twenty years experience in the music business, when faced with a difficult customer service issue with United Airlines in 2009, Dave used his ability as a master storyteller to share his issue with the world. The resulting YouTube music video called “United Breaks Guitars” became an instant viral hit and today over 150 million people have been introduced to his story.
With significant impacts in the areas of customer service, social media, branding and self-empowerment Dave’s career as an entertainer and songwriter has expanded. He is now a highly sought after professional speaker, a published author and he is increasingly being commissioned for songs for other people and organizations. He is also co-founder of Gripevine.com, an on-line customer complaints resolution platform that brings consumers and businesses together in a mutually beneficial way, resulting in improved service for consumers and improved results for companies.
His ability to extract the essence of a message and craft it into song is a rare gift that is attracting fans of all ages. His warm and often humorous delivery of his story and its implications is both entertaining and educational. Songwriter, performer, author, speaker and consumer advocate, Dave Carroll is said to be “one of the nicest guys in the business.”
twitter: @davecarroll
website: DaveCarrollMusic.com and Gripevine.com
session: Keynote: United Breaks Guitars, Saturday June 30, 5:45 PM
Sandie Angulo Chen is the senior movie critic for Common Sense Media, a leading provider of reviews, information, and tools for parents to make informed decisions about their children’s media consumption. She’s also a contributing entertainment writer for The Washington Post, Variety, Aol’s Moviefone, and MTV’s Next Movie.com. Sandie is the founder of Teen Lit Rocks , an intergenerational online book club and young adult literature site. She’s also the editor in chief of the collaborative local blog The DC Moms, and writes about motherhood, movies, and more at Urban Mama. Sandie lives in the Washington D.C. area with her husband and three children.
Twitter: @urbanmama, @TeenLitRocks, @CommonSenseNews
website: Teen Lit Rocks, Urban Mama
Session: Parenting Digital Kids, Saturday, June 30, 04:15 PM
Sheila Bernus Dowd is a serial entrepreneur, visionary, community builder, and speaker, Sheila leads Clever Girls Collective‘s overall vision and strategic alliances. Clever Girls Collective is one of the largest blog networks in the world. Over the last 18 years, Sheila’s led dozens of high-performance teams and raised over $10M in operating capital for social venture start-ups. As co-founder of the Left Coast Live music festival and conference, Sheila has been directly responsible for securing sponsors and hiring the emerging artists who showcase the best of the West Coast, revitalizing San Jose’s music scene. Sheila is a sought-after and inspirational speaker especially among the digital and blogging community, and has spoken about blog monetization and SEO on over a dozen panels. Sheila serves on the Yahoo! Mother Board, is the co-founder Lookiloos.com (a nationally syndicated home and garden site), and frequently trains local non-profits on social media applications.
twitter: @xiaolinmama
website: Lookiloos.com, Clever Girls Collective
session: The 21st-Century Paper Route, Saturday, June 30, 11:15 AM
Tauni Everett, a former public relations executive, spent the last 12 years handling communications and events for an array of clients, from the NBA and Olympics to Utah’s Governor’s office. Her work has graced the pages of the nation’s most prestigious newspapers and her clients have appeared on both local network television and more well-known broadcasts like the Today Show.
Maya Ganesan has been writing poetry since she was four years old. In 2009, at age 11, she published Apologies to an Apple, her first full-length collection of poems. She has since been featured in several online and print journals and anthologies, such as Crab Creek Review, Hobble Creek Review, and Fire on Her Tongue (Two Sylvias Press, 2011). Maya has spoken at a number of local events, including TEDxRedmond, which she has also co-organized since its inception in 2010. Maya lives in Washington State, where she continues to write and publish poetry.
twitter: @mayaganesan
website: MayaGanesan.com
session: Growing Up Digital, Saturday, June 30 2:30pm
Alexander (Xander) Hansen’s love of creating digital content began by watching videos on YouTube. Xander immediately knew he wanted to be a part of it! Xander created his first video by enlisting the help of his brother and a simple camera mounted on a tripod. He posted that video and the rest is history. That history includes several videos with hundreds of thousands of views (some approaching one million), a revenue share partnership with YouTube, and hundreds of subscribers on his YouTube channel.
Xander is constantly creating new content for his YouTube subscribers. He just recently jumped into the world of Twitter and Facebook and is currently working on expanding his Social Media reach.
twitter: @xadr123
website: youtube.com/xadr123
session: The Family That Blogs Together , Saturday, June 30, 11:15 AM
Stephanie Hansen left the corporate world 6 years ago to focus on her true love, chauffeuring, also known as, raising two teenagers. Stephanie didn’t leave her motivation in the boardroom. Instead, she began to immerse herself into the world of social media. 3.5 years later she is currently the Online Community Manager for 2 national magazines and handles social media for a DIY and craft conference. Stephanie considers herself to be well rounded and realizes that one can not live on work alone. Her spare time is spent reading, cooking, eating, blogging, tweeting, watching trashy reality TV, and cuddling up in her Snuggie while riding her unicorn. All this while raising 2 growing teenagers, a Papillon, and a chinchilla with her husband Brian.
twitter: @sahans
website: The Daily Blarg
session: The Family That Blogs Together , Saturday, June 30, 11:15 AM
Helen Jane Hearn is the Director of Content Operations at Federated Media where she finds creative patrons to support the art of the independent web. Helen Jane has written at helenjane.com since 1998. An entertaining enthusiast, Helen Jane is also a certified specialist of wine and founder of Cheesewhizzes, a nation-wide cheese tasting club (featured in Food & Wine magazine). Helen Jane has spoken at SXSW, the Foodbuzz Festival, Mom 2.0 and was a keynote speaker at the 2011 EVO conference. Helen Jane is also captain of her bocce team, Joanie Loves Bocce. She lives and plays in Napa Valley with her husband and two toddler daughters.
twitter: @helenjane
websites: HelenJane.com, Federated Media
session: The 21st-Century Paper Route, Saturday, June 30, 11:15 AM
Cecily Kellogg is best known for her popular blog Uppercase Woman, her raw tone and humor on Twitter as @CecilyK, and her posts about social media and moms on MomCrunch for Babble. Cecily lives in the Philadelphia area, is happily married, is mom to a fierce and amazing daughter, and has occasionally been called a bad ass. Cecily also currently works with AboutOne doing Social Media Strategy. Cecily was named by Babble as one of the Top 100 Mom Bloggers in 2011 (and Top 50 Twitter Moms in 2010).website: Uppercase Woman
session: Blogging and Pinterest and Google+, Oh My!, Sunday, July 1, 9:45 AM
Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo is a digital artist, technologist and educator. She is particularly interested in time and transience. Her artwork has been internationally exhibited and performed, including at Giacobetti Paul Gallery, Exit Art and HERE Arts (NYC), UCLA Hammer Museum (LA), Point Éphémère (Paris) and the Museums of Modern Art in Bogotá and Medellín (Colombia). She recently self-published “Of and In Cities,” an academically framed art book about five of her photographic projects, and “Cross Urban,” which documents the first two years of an ongoing collaboration with Klaus Fruchtnis. Cynthia has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) and a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications (ITP) from New York University. She is currently Assistant Professor of Integrated Design in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design and a founding member of Occupy University.
twitter: @cynthialawson
websites: CynthiaLawson.com
session: Action! Digital Video Workshop Saturday June 30, 9:30AM-12:30 PM
session: Digital Photography Studio, Saturday Jun 30, 2:30 PM-5:30 PM
Tracy Levesque is co-owner of YIKES, Inc, a Philadelphia web design and development company located in Fishtown, where she spends her days creating custom themes for WordPress. Tracy has been designing websites since 1995 and working with WordPress specifically since 2007. Tracy has taught and assisted for WordPress classes and has spoken at the Philly WordPress Meetup group, Philly Tech Week and WordCamp NYC 2012.
Tracy is also involved with the sustainable business and green building movement, having achieved B Corp certification for YIKES and a green renovation of 2 buildings in Fishtown that are seeking LEED certification.
twitter: @liljimmi
website: Yikesinc.com
session: Master of the Blog: WordPress Workshop, Sunday July 1, 9:45 AM-12:45PM
Danielle Liss is the Chief Marketing officer of FitFluential. She is also a lawyer who has been blogging for 8 years. Danielle travels the country speaking about legal issues related to blogging. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband and their two hairless cats.
twitter: @danielleliss
website: Kitten a Go-Go and Fitfluential
session: Is That Even Legal? Saturday, June 30, 2:30 PM
Amy Mascott is the creator of teachmama.com , where she shares tools and resources parents can use to become the best teachers for their children. Capitalizing on learning opportunities in the every day and inspiring curiosity through games and play, Amy encourages a ‘lifestyle of learning’ where parents both prepare their children for school and help them to grow excited and informed about the world around them. Recognizing the need for more peer collaboration, Amy built the community ‘we teach’ a forum for parents and teachers to connect, share ideas, and grow into better educators—no matter the classroom. ‘we teach’ has grown quickly into one of the most successful and highly-trafficked educational forums on the web. A reading specialist, writer, consultant, and mom to a crazy-cool 8, 6, and 5-year-old, Amy’s reflections on literacy, parenting, and social media have been featured on dozens of online and print publications, including Scholastic Parents Online, PBS Parents, readwritethink.org, Mom’s Homeroom, and more.
Twitter: @teachmama
Websites: Teach mama & we teach
Session: Parenting Digital Kids, Saturday, June 30, 04:15 PM
Maili Anne McBride is a second-year college student residing in southern California. She began her writing career using Wattpad.com, the leading social media site for avid readers and amateur writers. Maili’s knowledge of social media has allowed her to personally connect with fans worldwide and keep them informed. Her book caught the attention of Wattpad readers and Sourced Media Books, a traditional publisher. With over 1.5 million reads, Wait! He’s Real?
twitter: MailiAnne
website: Wattpad.com
session: Growing Up Digital, Saturday, June 30 2:30pm
Michele McGraw is a mom of 4 who blogs & vlogs at Scraps of My Geek Life, a blog offering daily commentary, advice, reviews and shared experiences of how her real life and the digital domain connect. Michele shows families how to use technology to enhance their lives. Her 16 year old son, Nathan, is a budding filmmaker who has written and produced several Lego movies and starred in 6 drama productions in the past 2 years. Sami, 13, dances her way through life and enjoys creating videos with her friends and younger sister and brother.
twitter: @scrappinmichele
website: Scraps of My Geek Life
session: The Family That Blogs Together , Saturday, June 30, 11:15 AM
Nathan McGraw is 16 years old and a Junior in High School. He has been creating videos since he was 7 and uploading to YouTube. He has taken several TV production summer camps, worked on an independent film and has had a role in 7 high school productions in the past 2 years. He can also be found behind the camera in many of his mother’s videos. Nathan plans to go into film production as a career (plans to be the next Steven Speilberg).
website: Scraps of My Geek Life
session: The Family That Blogs Together , Saturday, June 30, 11:15 AM
Sami McGraw is 13 years old and in the 8th grade. Sami loves taking video anytime she can and often uses video as her tool for school projects. She contributes videos to her mom’s blog. Sami has been taking dance for many years and would like to do something with dance and video as a career.
website: Scraps of My Geek Life
session: The Family That Blogs Together , Saturday, June 30, 11:15 AM
Tori Molnar is the fifteen year old President and CEO of Utoria, LLC. Utoria is a unique business opportunity where young women can come to earn money and develop essential business skills. Tori also founded She Can Make Change, an organization that empowers women to put change not only in their pockets but in the world around them. Overcoming Cerebral Palsy and the early death of her father were challenges, but she didn’t let that stop her. Now she travels all over the country talking about how she took the two events that could’ve ruined her life and turned them into positive experiences. Tori’s motto is “Inspiration, Motivation, Determination” and that’s exactly how she plans on rising to the top!
twitter: @myutoria, @shecanmakechange
websites: My Utoria , She Can Make Change
session: The Next Steve Jobs? Meet the Teen Entrepreneurs, Saturday, June 30, 9:30 AM
Tereza Nemessanyi is Co-Founder and CEO of Honestly Now, the website and apps where your friends and smart strangers give you advice on all your burning questions. A seasoned media and tech entrepreneur, she was the first employee of CETV, which IPO’d in 1995. Tereza has worked at senior levels with dozens of companies including PwC, The Walt Disney Company, Unilever and Interpublic. She was named one of Forbes’ “Top Ten Female Entrepreneurs to Watch” (2011), and gained wide acclaim with her Reuters Op Ed proposing an “XX Combinator”, to overcome the barriers which keep women out of venture-grade tech entrepreneurship. She has an MBA from The Wharton School and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania; however, her deepest inspiration comes from her mother, an immigrant from Czechoslovakia who restarted her own career at age 40. She lives in New York with her husband and two young daughters.
twitter: @TerezaN
website: Honestly Now
session: Becoming An Overnight Sensation, Saturday June 30, 8:45 AM
Nick Normile is a student at the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania and is an intern at the Venture Capital firm Artists and Instigators. Prior to college, Nick apprenticed at the restaurant Lacroix at the Rittenhouse for four years, in addition to working at the restaurants Osteria, Amada and Fork all in Philadelphia and running his own catering and private dinner business. Nick is best known however, for writing the popular food blog Foodie at Fifteen which has won numerous awards including “Best Teen Blog” at the 2009 Bloggies.
As a result of his blog and his cooking, Nick has been featured in The Guardian (UK), AOL.com, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Magazine, Philadelphia City Paper, WHYY, ABC Philadelphia, and (strangely enough) CosmoGirl Indonesia.
twitter: @foodieatfifteen
website: Foodie at Fifteen (Now 19)
session: The Next Steve Jobs? Meet the Teen Entrepreneurs Saturday, June 30, 9:30 AM
Kim Orlando is the founder of TravelingMom.com, and the TravelingMom Blogger Network, the nation’s top web site and blog network for moms who travel with (and without) their kids. TravelingMom.com was named one of the top 4 family travel websites by Sherman’s Travel in 2010. In addition to the magazine-style destination reviews, travel stories, product reviews, and other content, TravelingMom.com has a network of expert bloggers, each of whom writes from a specific perspective–Traveling GrandMom, Special Needs TravelingMom, Traveling with Babies Mom, TravelingMom with Teens, Traveling with Pets Mom and about 50 others. Orlando is a sought-after speaker and broadcast source on travel issues relating to moms and provides travel commentary for BlueSuitMom.com, Wyndham’s Women on Their Way, CityBuzz, DailyBuzz, Ripley’s Radio and MomTalkRadio.
twitter: @travelingmoms, @kimorlando
website: Travelingmom.com
session: Let’s Go! Travel Blogging Workshop Saturday June 30 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
JOHN PACINI is an entrepreneur, business advisor, and occasionally syndicated radio host. John has been involved in numerous parent-focused ventures over the years, as well as an integral member of the Mom 2.0 Summit team since its inception. During his career, John has advised over 40 startups through growth, business development, and fundraising. He has also worked with a list of large companies that includes John Hancock, Best Western, and Harman International, as well as numerous family offices, top executives, and professional athletes. John lives with his wife, Carrie, and two children in Houston. You can follow him on Twitter @superjohn.
twitter: @superjohn
website: http://www.dad2summit.com
session: The Next Steve Jobs? Meet the Teen Entrepreneurs Saturday, June 30, 9:30 AM
Theresa Payton is a well-known and highly respected national authority on cybersecurity, e-crime and fraud mitigation, and technology implementation. She has over twenty years of advanced business and security technology expertise and leadership at the highest levels of government and in the financial services industry, including being the first woman to serve as Chief Information Officer at the White House.
As the cyber expert on the newsmagazine show “America Now,” Payton joins hosts Leeza Gibbons and Bill Rancic as she provides tips to help viewers navigate the digital world in a smarter, safer way. She is CEO and president of Fortalice®, LLC, and has served as a key advisor to government and corporate leaders in their efforts to improve the policies, procedures, workforce, and utilization of technology to confront cyber threats. She also holds a Top Secret security clearance and is a member of the FBI’s North Carolina Infragard.
Payton’s first book, “Protecting Your Internet Identity: Are You Naked Online?” was released in April 2012 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, and is available via Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
twitter: @FortaliceLLC
website: Fortalice Solutions
session: Safety First: What Every Kid (and Parent) Needs to Know About Internet Security, Saturday June 30, 9:#0 am
Dwan Perrin gets up each morning, ties her cape on and sets out to change the world. As a single mother of three she left the corporate world to work from home and care for her daughter with special needs. Dwan has been involved in social media since 2000, starting blogging in 2006. She’s an avid traveler, writer, mom blogger, mentor and public speaker.
Dwan mentors teens in her free time and hopes to use her professional platform to educate and advocate for teen pregnancy prevention. A teen mom herself, Dwan feels very strongly about her role in this area. Making a difference in other young adults’ lives and being a good role model is something she strives for.
twitter: @MommaDJane
website: Momma DJane
session: The Family That Blogs Together , Saturday, June 30, 11:15 AM
Tapanga Perrin is a teen blogger and has been active in social media since 2007. Starting like most of us, blogging, she’s progressed to Facebook and then Twitter. Tapanga is a lifestyle blogger sharing her love of music, movies, TV entertainment and book reviews. When she’s not staying on top of current media trends, you’ll find Tapanga using her blog as her online journal sharing life experiences, including her dream of joining the military and becoming a surgeon.
As part of the Junior Cadet Corps, Tapanga has learned leadership skills in her role as Commander and actively participates in community service as part of her enrollment.
twitter: @TheyCallMeT
website: They Call Me T
session: The Family That Blogs Together , Saturday, June 30, 11:15 AM
Ricarose Roque is a graduate student in the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab and a member of the Scratch Team. Part of her research involves studying and supporting creative collaboration in the Scratch Online Community, where young people from all over the world can share and remix their own interactive media projects. Her latest research includes conducting outreach and engaging families in Scratch, supporting parents and their children in becoming full and creative participants in today’s digital society. Ricarose received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from MIT.
twitter: @ScratchTeam and @RicaroseRoque
website: Scratch.mit.edu and Ricarose.com
session: Creativity Without Bounds: Build Your Own Games, Stories, and Animations in Scratch, Saturday, June 30, 2:30-5:30 PM
Jo-Lynne Shane is a former teacher turned digital mom. She discovered a morbid addiction to fonts and vector graphics and launched DCR Design in 2007 as a way to justify a monthly subscription to iStockphoto. You can find her designs gracing blogs across 46 states. She retired from design in 2010 and now focuses her time on her lifestyle blog, Musings of a Housewife. She is also a co-founder of Philly Social Media Moms as well as a brand ambassador, freelance writer, social media consultant, and coffee addict with a penchant for colorful handbags. Jo-Lynne is a happily married mother of three living in a rural suburb of Philadelphia.
twitter: @JoLynneS
website: Musings of a Housewife
session: Secrets of Professional Blog Design, Saturday June 30, 4:15 PM
Dresden Shumaker is six foot tall, plaid-clad, and relentlessly in search of the world’s best peppermint mocha. She blogs daily at CreatingMotherhood.com. A former Hollywood insider, Dresden now spends her days working in PR and new media for a Philly tech startup and her evenings negotiating with her three year old son about the number of toys he may bring into the bathtub. For sport Dresden helps bloggers create perfect frames for their content by assisting with web and graphic design. Dresden is a single mom and lives in a multigenerational home in Philadelphia.
twitter: @Dresdenplaid
website: CreatingMotherhood
session: Secrets of Professional Blog Design, Saturday June 30, 4:15 PM
Sree Sreenivasan is a professor and Dean of Student Affairs at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches in the digital media program, including social media and digital entrepreneurship. He specializes in explaining technology to journalists and the general public. He writes the SreeTips blog for CNET and appears regularly on CBS and elsewhere to talk tech. For more than eight years, he served as technology reporter for WABC-TV and WNBC-TV in NYC. During 2009-11, hewas part of the founding team of DNAinfo.com, a Manhattan news site with Joe Ricketts, Ameritrade founder (and new owner of the Chicago Cubs). The site was named one of the six hottest news startups of 2010 by BusinessInsider. He has written articles for The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Rolling Stone, National Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes and Popular Science. He is co-founder of SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association, a group of 1,000+ journalists across the US & Canada. In 2009, he was named one of AdAge’s 25 media people to follow on Twitter and in 2010 was named one of Poynter’s the 35 most influential people in social media. He is creator of such learning opportunities as Social Media Weekend, Social Media One-Night Stand and more.
twitter: @sree
websites: Sree.net and SreeTips
session: Social Media You Need For College, Sunday July 1, 9:00 AM
Lane Sutton is a 15-year-old young entrepreneur and digital native who has grown up with technology and social media since he was 2 years old. He is a Social Media Coach helping brands, companies, colleges, and people market and grow their social media presence online. Lane regularly speaks to conventions, corporations, business professionals, college students (both undergraduates and post-graduates) about the business of social media, personal branding, reaching the future generation of customers, online privacy, and inspiring fellow youth to follow their passions in the entrepreneurial world.CNN, Forbes, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and New England Cable News, among other local, national and international media outlets have all profiled Lane as the kid to watch.
twitter: @lanesutton
website: Lanesutton.com
session: Growing Up Digital, Saturday, June 30 2:30pm
Abby West is a senior editor at Entertainment Weekly/EW.com, where she is in charge of the online galleries, one of the busiest and highest-performing areas of the entire site. (She also occasionally writes about her guilty pleasures–daytime TV and romance novels.) Previously, she was a reporter for People magazine, working on both celebrity and real-life crime stories. She lives in New Rochelle, NY, and has two wonderful tweens who keep her on her toes and laughing.
twitter: @EWAbbyWest
website: Entertainment Weekly
session: Write On! Writing Skills Workshop for Bloggers, Sunday July 1, 9:45 AM-12:45 PM
Lynette Young is the CEO of Purple Stripe Productions. She has been blogging since 1997, podcasting since 2004, and has been a social media professional since 2006. She has been helping others put their dreams into action as a social media coach, social technology specialist, and a strategist for businesses regarding implementation services. Her love (besides her family) is Google+. Ms. Young believes that Google+ is the future for business and, as such, is the founder and curator of The Women of Google+. She is a 1st Generation Google+ User, one of the 50 Most Followed Women of Google+ with over 1 million followers. She also hosts a weekly broadcast On-Air Hangout.
twitter: @lynetteradio
Google +: Lynette Young
websites: Purple Stripe, Women of G+
session: Blogging and Pinterest and Google+, Oh My!, Sunday, July 1, 9:45 AM
