Speaker Bios

Rich Bader

President and Chief Executive Officer, EasyStreet Online Services
Rich and his team at EasyStreet have built Oregon's largest independent Internet and IT services provider by focusing on the needs of local businesses and delivering reliable service day in and day out.
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Brent Barton

CTO & Managing Consultant, Solutions IQ
Brent Barton is the CTO and Managing Consultant at Solutions IQ, where he plays a key role in implementing the strategic vision of an Agile organization. He is also highly regarded as a Certified Scrum Trainer and is recognized as an international leader in Agile consulting.
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Dylan Boyd

Vice President of Sales & Strategy, eROI, Inc.
Dylan leads business development and strategy in both online and traditional environments for clients of eROI. He has helped to build and grow internet presence strategy for both retail, corporate and web-only customers.
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Christi Day

Online Spokesperson & Emerging Media Specialist, Southwest Airlines
Christi Day serves as an online Spokesperson for Southwest Airlines, the nation's largest airline in terms of domestic Customers boarded. Christi specializes in Emerging Media and web 2.0.
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Dawn Foster

Online Community Consultant, Fast Wonder
Dawn Foster is a consultant, community manager, event organizer, blogger, podcaster, technology enthusiast and business professional. She provides consulting services for companies wanting to engage with online communities and has more than 13 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, market research, social media, blogging, podcasting, rss, community building, web 2.0, and open source software.
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Jason Grigsby

Mobile Specialist, Co-Founder, Cloud Four
Jason Grigsby was one of the project leads on the Obama iPhone
Application and helped design the user inferface for the Wall Street
Journal's Blackberry application. He founded and organizes Mobile
Portland, a local mobile development user group.
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Brian Jaminson

Co-Founder and CEO, Open Sourcery
Brian is a seasoned entrepreneur with many technology-related companies to his credit. He has worked with Linux, open source, and the Internet professionally since 1995. Brian serves on the board of the Software Association of Oregon (SAO) and as President of the Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs (POSSE).
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Lance Kidd

CIO, Halton Co.

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Kent Lewis

President, Anvil Media, Inc.
With a background in integrated marketing, Lewis left a public relations agency in 1996 to start his search engine marketing career.
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Jay Lyman

Analyst, Enterprise Software, The 451 Group
Jay covers open source software for The 451 Group, focusing on Linux operating systems and distributors, virtualization, databases and other free and open source software created by communities and used by enterprise organizations.
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Robert McDowell

Vice President, Information Worker Business Value, Microsoft
Mr. McDowell joined Microsoft in 1990 to establish Microsoft Consulting Services...
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Sean Odom

Senior Network Engineer, 24x7 I.T. Solutions
Sean Odom is a well known technical speaker and instructor who brings 18 years of technical experience to clients throughout Oregon. He is the author of 24 networking, operating systems, and network security books for Cisco and Microsoft.
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James Rice

Creative Director, Ascentium

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Tom Sedory

IT Director of Corporate Responsibility, Nike
For 15 years, Tom has been a part of Nike, leading software research and development for all areas of Nike's "front of the house" including Sales, Retail, Product Creation, and Brand Marketing. Tom's passion for the environment drove him to volunteer time to work with Nike's Corporate Responsibility teams and Facilities to look for IT solutions to environmental challenges.
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Rick Turoczy

Writer, Silicon Florist

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Jim Wasko

, IBM

Raven Zachary

iPhone Strategy & Product Development, Small Society
Raven Zachary is an iPhone advisor who works with investors, startups, and established companies on iPhone strategy and product development. He has directed the launch of two 'Top 20' iPhone applications - Obama '08 for Obama for America and Nearby for Platial. Raven is the founder of iPhoneDevCamp, a not-for-proft iPhone developer conference.
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