A brilliant line-up at the forefront of where art and commerce meet. Artists and Geeks who understand the audience.
Speakers
Heather Gold – Driven to comedy by law school, Gold never does the same set twice. Her unique style—raw and participatory, inflected by confessional politics—is a reflection of her unorthodox artistic path: studies at Yale and Northwestern Law, training at Groundlings, plus years soaking up Hollywood and the geek culture of the Net and Silicon Valley.
Harrison Greenbaum – After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard (where Harrison co-founded the Harvard College Stand-Up Comic Society), Harrison moved to New York City to pursue stand-up comedy full time. Featured on SPIKE TV, the Discovery Channel, and SIRIUS Satellite Radio, Harrison has already received many honors for his comedy.
Carmen Lynch – “I made my network debut as one of the final 20 comics on the first season of Last Comic Standing on NBC. I’ve been on Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend” and was featured on HBO’s US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen.”
Morgan Murphy - How old are you? I am 28. Where were you born? Portland, OR. I hear you moved around a lot, is that correct? Yes, it is. You sure know a lot about me, me. When did you start doing stand-up? When I was 18. Does this get funnier? No. Have you written for TV? Yes. Have you been on TV? Yes.
Rachel Feinstein - Rachel Feinstein grew up outside Washington DC, the daughter of a civil rights lawyer and a blues musician, giving her a keen eye for the absurd and unjust. She developed her hilarious, character driven style by opening for her father’s blues band as a kid and doing impressions of various loud and jarring relatives.
Dan Allen – Producer and storyteller. CEO of SuperMango Media.
The Unknown Commenter – Brash, some say brilliant others say he’s just a troll. Every site has one though.
Brian Alvey – Co-founded the publishing company Weblogs, Inc. Time Warner’s America Online purchased Weblogs, Inc. in October 2005. In November 2006, AOL also purchased the blogging platform Blogsmith which Alvey built. Blogsmith is used to power Weblogs, Inc. and other AOL blogs such as TMZ.com. In June 2007 he and Craig Wood launched a new publishing platform company, Crowd Fusion.
Chris Pearson – Chris has a huge audience as the founder and Chief Architect of Thesis. The #1 wordpress design used by some of the biggest blogs in the world.
Dan Patterson - A new voice. Dan Patterson. Dan is in charge of digital platform development for ABC News Radio. He is working to help that organization reach it’s new digital audience.
C.C. Chapman – In 2007 I co-founded the marketing agency The Advance Guard and it was my first time being a full blown entrepreneur. In the summer of 2009 the company was acquired by Campfire where I currently am a partner and Creative Director.
Chris Brogan – Chris Brogan is President of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency. 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.
Jason Calacanis – Poker player.
Loren Feldman – Puppeteer.
