The Great Kat (Katherine Thomas) is the only Violin Virtuoso turned Guitar Shredder in the world, bringing Classical Music to the masses with Shred Guitar and Speed Metal. After listening to Beethoven since birth, The Great Kat realized that her mission was to become a composer and musical revolutionary. At the age of 15, The Great Kat won a Full Scholarship to attend the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City as a Violin Student. The Great Kat became the Concertmaster of the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra and won the "Robert Hufstader Scholarship" in Composition and Theory at Juilliard. The Great Kat graduated with Honors from The Juilliard School and began performing, first as a Classical violin soloist at Carnegie Recital Hall as winner of the exclusive "Artists International Competition" and then soloing extensively in Mexico, the U.S. and Europe. After touring the world, The Great Kat realized that Classical music was dead, so she began updating Classical Music with Speed Metal and transcribed intricate violin solos to the guitar. Kat developed a new genre of music: “SHRED/CLASSICAL” Music -- Fast, Furious, and Virtuosic. The Great Kat is the only musician taking note-for-note authentic Classical Music scores (from Vivaldi, Beethoven, Bach, Wagner, Liszt, Paganini, Sarasate, Bazzini, Rossini and more) and entering the original Classical Music scores into music-notation software, editing, arranging and mixing with vicious, raw Speed Metal and Shred Guitar.

Eliane Fiolet is the co-founder and editor of Ubergizmo.com, one of the top high technology and consumer electronics blogs in the U.S. and the world, distributed in 6 languages and read in 212 countries. She largely writes about technology, usability, design, and web applications. Among other things, the site is a Webby Award Honoree, has been ranked as a Top100 Blog by PC Magazine, ranks very high in Nielsen’s Blogpulse and was nominated in “Best Technology Blog” at the Bloggie Awards. Ubergizmo is also a media partner with DEMO and Web 2.0. In her parallel life, she owns a Corporate ID design business that helps companies create great brands. Prior to opening her own agency, Eliane worked for a top design firm, Minale Tattersfield Design Strategy, where she created identities for Fortune 500 companies. She also worked in the video game industry as a designer for an award-winning adventure game. Eliane holds a master degree in visual communication from the "Art Decoratifs" college.

Renee Blodgett is co-founder of Traveling Geeks. She is also the CEO and founder of Magic Sauce Media, a new media consultancy dedicated to communications, social media, viral marketing and branding strategies and campaigns, where she coaches and consults to organizations, individuals and companies worldwide. She has launched companies and products from 11 countries, lived in 10 and explored more than 65. She is also the founder and editor of We Blog the World, a blog dedicated to global storytelling and the latest developments in social, cultural and technology trends and blogs at Down the Avenue, a blog that focuses on technology, social media trends, marketing, PR and culture. She has been blogging for more than ten years and is passionate about where emerging technologies and social media can bridge the gap across the continent. Renee has held advisory board positions on b5 Media, a global new media network, Cozmo Media, which taps into community to put video content in front of the right audience, Toktumi, a virtual home office VoIP phone solution, Radus, a dynamic media rich social network and content aggregator, BlogHer, the first conference and group blog dedicated to women bloggers, which now has nearly 20,000 blogs in its global network and PopTech, an innovation conference whose goal is to accelerate the positive impact of world changing people and ideas.

Chris Heuer has over 15 years experience as a digital visionary, creative media technologist and holistic marketing strategist, allowing him to provide an invaluable perspective that frames the modern day challenges of organizations grappling with technology driven change in an approachable way. Over the last 3 years his leadership has built Social Media Club into the world's leading organization for Social Media Professionals. In the process, Chris has become a world-class speaker and facilitator, hosting round tables and speaking to Social Media Professionals around the world. Chris can speak to any issue or challenge related to Social Media, and also is able to speak to a variety of issues concerning social change, modern management, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, organizational transformation, innovation, co-creation, holistic business strategy, web site development, user experience, and the knowledge economy.

Dana Oshiro is a Canadian-born writer, PR pro and web strategist with a soft spot for technologists, artists and determined underdogs. She is the startup writer for one of the world's top 20 most popular blogs ReadWriteWeb, and sends frequent musings to Villagers With Pitchforks and her @suzyperplexus Twitter account. ReadWriteWeb is a popular weblog that provides web technology news, reviews and analysis. Currently one of the world's top 20 most popular blogs, ReadWriteWeb speaks to an intelligent audience of web enthusiasts, early adopters and innovators. http://www.readwriteweb.com