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SPEAKER'S BIOS AND PHOTOS  Joey Tamer
is a widely-acclaimed strategic consultant to technology and media
CEOs, U.S. and worldwide. Her work helps create wealth for founders
and investors of entrepreneurial ventures, and a high return on
investment for Fortune 500 in-house ventures. Her capital strategies
drive up her clients’ valuations and profitability. She consults
to Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies, capitalized start-ups, and
investment funds. Her clients have included J.P. Morgan Capital,
Sony, IBM, Apple, Hearst, Blockbuster, Technicolor, Harper Collins,
Discovery Channel, Time-Warner, Agfa and Scitex.
Her clients say she is “a brilliant strategist and a practical, down-to-earth, get-it-done person,” “invaluable in understanding the competitive landscape and alternative strategies” and that she “cuts right through the noise, giving a clear vision of the future,” “protecting us from liability and cutting our costs.” Through the emergence of the PC, new media, and the Internet, her clients have been in the business, enterprise and consumer sectors, with companies in technology, hardware and software, media and entertainment, publishing and advertising, distribution, and investment and venture funding. She has worked in the U.S. Europe and China . A strategist, policymaker, dealmaker, and negotiator, her work includes strategies on entry, exit, capitalization, return on investment, growth, positioning, pricing, distribution, risk-assessment, new market and international expansion, due diligence, and intellectual property.  Genevieve Bell
is a Senior Researcher within Intel Research. She is a member of
Peoples and Practices Research - an interdisciplinary team of research
social scientists and designers embedded within Intel's advanced
research and development labs. Since joining Intel, Bell has conducted
ethnographic research in a variety of consumer spaces, including
malls, retail districts, and museums, as well as within a range
of different American households. Bell has also conducted significant
research beyond the US, including a five-country, strategically
situated, ethnographic study of European domestic spaces for several
Intel product groups, and a study of the emerging middle classes
in China and India.
She is particularly interested in issues of cultural difference as they are expressed around technology adoption and use. Bell has recently completed a three year research project focused on gaining a better understanding of the ways in which cultural practices in urban Asia are shaping people's relationships to new information and communication technologies. As part of this project, she has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in 7 Asian countries, encompassing 100 households in 17 different cities. Insights gained from this project have shaped product offerings, investment decisions and strategic planning at Intel. Prior to joining Intel in 1998, Bell taught anthropology and Native American Studies at Stanford University. Bell received her BA/MA in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in 1991. She earned a PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University in 1998. She is working on a book based on her fieldwork in Asia.  Declan Dunn
is the founder of the only Internet Marketing System proven in companies large and small, The Right Now
Marketing System, which empowers businesses globally online. Right Now Marketing has helped many small
businesses as well as larger companies, such as American Express, Network Solutions, Priceline, One World Live,
JingleGram, Intel, Office Max, PBS, ABC, Travelocity and Toshiba.
Right Now Marketing is drawn from Declan's 10 years of experience creating results for clients of all sizes. The author of many books on Internet commerce, which have included: Director of Sales (1996), Beginner's Guide to Internet Marketing (1997), Insider's Guide to Affiliate Programs (1998), Winning the Affiliate Game (1999), and Net Profits (2000).  Carolyn Leighton
founded WITI in 1989 as a worldwide e-mail network for women in
all technology sectors. At the time WITI was established, Ms. Leighton
was President of Criterion Research, a research consulting firm
for the high tech industry which she founded in 1984, as well as
chair of the Core Competency Database Project at Stanford University.
Due to Ms. Leighton's leadership and vision, WITI has grown to be
first and only worldwide organization completely dedicated to women
working in and pursuing careers in technology with an advisory board
comprised of highly esteemed leaders in the technology industry.
Ms. Leighton has 20 years of experience as an educator and entrepreneur.
In addition to WITI, she founded three start-ups in the high-tech
and legal sectors. She attended the University of Michigan and has
a bachelor's degree in human development from Pacific Oaks College.
Ms. Leighton was named one of the "Top 100 Women in Computing" in
1997 and 2000.
 Margaret Heffernan
has produced documentaries for the BBC, run the trade association
IPAA which represented the interents of independant film and television
producers in the United Kingdom, and was the CEO of ZineZone Corp.
and iCAST Corp. She was named one of the Internet's Top 100 by Silicon
Alley Reporter in 1999, one of the Top 25 by Streaming Media magazine
and one of the Top 100 Media Executives by The Hollywood Reporter
in 2000. She has recently released a new book, The Naked Truth:
A Working Woman's Manifesto on Business and What Really Matters.
She has spoken widely at most major Internet conferences and been
interviewed on CNN, CNNfN and CNBC as well as various American cable
and radio stations. Ms. Heffernan sits on the boards of several
companies and continues to advise businesses on how to build sustainable
cultures.
 Robin Raskin
has been translating technology into consumer-friendly terms for
more than 20 years. Today, as a technology consultant, spokesperson,
and author she spends a great deal of her time focusing on family
life in a digital world.
She's been the Editor in Chief of FamilyPC, editor of PC Magazine, and columnist for USA Today Online and the Gannett News Service, winning numerous prizes for her coverage of technology. Raskin has authored 6 books about parenting in the digital age, for publishers including Random House, Simon and Schuster and Hyperion. Recently she's served as a consultant to both publishing and high tech companies, helping them reach consumers who want to benefit from the high tech lifestyle. She also serves as Director of Communications at The Princeton Review, a company that helps students, parents, and schools achieve success in the gamut of standardized testing from kindergarten right through graduate school.  Marilyn Tam
is a Corporate Trainer, Speaker, Author, Executive Director and Co-founder
of Us Foundation, www.usfoundation.org. She speaks and works with people
and companies on how leadership, change management, diversity and community
service are the defining characteristics of a successful company and life.
Marilyn was formerly the President of Reebok Apparel and Retail Group; CEO Aveda Corp. and Vice President of Nike Inc. She is a director on the national board of SCORE Foundation. SCORE is the Resource Partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration www.score.org and is dedicated to entrepreneurial education and the formation, growth and success of small businesses nationwide. Marilyn speaks and trains from experience, on the challenges and the opportunities inherent in doing business in today's diverse global marketplace. Her book, "How to Use What You've Got to Get What You Want", published in mid 2003, is already in four languages, English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish. In the book she reveals the principles and tools that have made her an international success story and most important of all, a person at peace with herself. Her goal in writing "How to Use What You've Got to Get What You Want" was to give others the secrets so that they too can achieve their dreams. Marilyn is one of 50 women featured in the just released coffee book, "Fearless Women, Mid Life Portraits". These women, movie and television personalities, business executives, musicians, and Olympic athletes share their insights and feelings about how they have become wiser and more powerful with age.  Jean Bartik
, one the First ENIAC Computer Programmers. Born December 27, 1924
in Northwest Missouri in Gentry County, Jean Bartik grew up on a
farm, the 6th of 7 children. She applied and was hired in March
of 1945 at the University of Pennsylvania, for the Army Ordnance
at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Her title was "computers" with a sub-professional
rating, at that time, women were not given professional ratings.
She was put into the position of programmer for a new machine called
the ENIAC which was 80 feet long and 10 feet high, a parallel machine
which was very difficult to program. While it was being moved to
Aberdeen, Jean formed a group at the University of Pennsylvania
to change it to a stored program computer. The ENIAC went on to
run at Aberdeen for 10 years and computed 100 scientific problems.
Jean went on to work on the BINAC and UNIVAC1. She took 16 years off to have children and came back in 1967. At that point, she worked in publishing about minicomputers and communications, marketing minicomputers, providing market support, running users' groups, doing competitive analysis, and back to publishing.  Oprah Winfrey called Marcia Wieder America's Dream Coach®. She is a top rated presenter on visionary thinking, goal achievement and team building to companies such as Lucent, American Express, Wells Fargo Bank and teaches at the Stanford Business School. She has spoken to thousands of teenagers, the National Guard, at Girl Scout Camp, and even to prison inmates. Marcia has written four books and is the founder of Dream Coach University®, where she trains coaches and leaders. She has often appeared on Oprah and The Today Show and is featured in her own national PBS television special entitled Making Your Dreams Come True. As a former president of the National Association of Women Business Owners, she has been in the White House often where she has met three U.S. presidents. And although she doesn't drink it, she is the winner of the Chivas Regal Entrepreneur of the Year Award.  Kay Mauchly Antonelli
, one the First ENIAC Computer Programmers. Born February 12,
1921 in Ireland, Kay came to the United States as a young child.
During the early 1940's, Kay, a recent math graduate from Chestnut
Hill College, was employed as a "computer" by the
University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Engineering. These
"computers" were responsible for making calculations
for tables of firing and bombing trajectories, as part of the
war effort. The need to perform the calculations more quickly
prompted the development of the ENIAC, the world's first electronic
digital computer, in 1946. |
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