Marc Davis is Chief Scientist of Yahoo! Connected Life and Director of ESP. His work focuses on creating the technology and applications that will enable the billions of daily media consumers to become daily media producers. His research encompasses the theory, design, and development of sociotechnical systems that leverage contextual metadata and the power of community to enable people around the world to produce, describe, share, and remix media. As Chief Scientist for Connected Life and Director of ESP (Early Stage Products), Marc and his team invent and help realize the future of mobile, social, media, monetization, and platforms. From 2002 to 2006, Marc Davis served as Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information where he directed Garage Cinema Research and co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for New Media. In 2005, Marc Davis worked with Yahoo! Inc. and UC Berkeley to create Yahoo! Research Berkeley where he served as Founding Director. At Garage Cinema Research and Yahoo! Research Berkeley, Marc Davis and his teams developed and deployed pioneering prototypes for context-aware mobile media. Marc Davis earned his B.A. in the College of Letters at Wesleyan University, his M.A. in Literary Theory and Philosophy at the University of Konstanz in Germany, and his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory.

Samir Kumar manages the Product Planning team for Business Experiences on Windows Mobile.  This includes mobile messaging, unified communications, line of business application scenarios and IT device lifecycle management.  Prior to this role he was the senior product planner for System Center- Mobile Device Manager 2008. Samir has been in Mobile Communications Business for more than five years and at Microsoft for a little over eight years.  He holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University.

Larry Lang is vice president and general manager of the Mobility, Signaling and Control Business Unit at Cisco. His team develops leading network offerings for mobile wireless operators, including IP radio access networks and the Mobile Service Exchange Framework, comprising packet gateways for GSM, CDMA and 3G. His team also develops solutions for service providers in the areas of next-generation signaling, call control and SIP-based session control. Previously at Cisco, Lang served as vice president of service provider marketing, including joint programs like Cisco Powered Networks. Past product responsibility included high-end routing, ATM, and the CiscoFusion architecture for switched internetworks. Notably, Lang initiated one of Cisco’s most successful products, the Cisco 7500. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Lang was vice president of product management at Ipsilon Networks, where he helped pioneer IP switching, predecessor to Mutiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). He also worked on new service definition at Bellcore (now Telcordia).

Stephen is a Director of Strategic Investments for Intel Capital, leading Intel’s investments in mobility (including wireless networking, fixed-mobile convergence, and mobile internet devices) and cleantech. He joined Intel Capital in 2002. His portfolio includes AeroScout, AirMagnet, Jajah, H-Stream, IPass and SoonR.
Prior to joining Intel Capital, Saltzman was the founder and general manager of Intel’s Wireless LAN Operation, where he led its growth into becoming the leader in the Wi-Fi market. The Wireless LAN Operation was Saltzman’s second new business venture at Intel. In the late 1980s, he helped the then newly formed PC Enhancement Operation grow from $6M/year to over $250M/year in three years. In this role, he was responsible for the AboveBoard line of memory boards and later initiating Intel’s first fax and modem products. In 1989, Saltzman established Now Software, where he was president and CEO. By 1994, Now Software became the largest Macintosh-only software publisher in the world. The company also reported five consecutive years of more than 100 percent compound annual sales and profit growth. In 1995 Saltzman started a children’s educational software company called Active Arts, which became an expensive way to learn that he wasn’t invincible. Saltzman is a former Inc. Magazine-Ernst & Young Software Entrepreneur of the Year finalist and a former Oregon High-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.