David Kirkpatrick, senior editor, internet and technology at FORTUNE, specializes in the computer and technology industries, as well as in the impact of the Internet on business and society. He writes a column which appears weekly on fortune.com and through e-mail subscription. Kirkpatrick joined Time Inc. in 1978 while working as a video artist, and started at FORTUNE in 1983. In 1991 he began covering the computer beat. In 1990 his story "Will You Be Able to Retire?" was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in the personal service journalism category. He has written cover stories on Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Intel Sun, and numerous other topics including blogging. He is regularly ranked one of the most influential tech journalists in the U.S. Kirkpatrick has appeared frequently as a technology industry expert on CNN and PBS. Working with other FORTUNE editors, he developed and hosts Brainstorm, a multi-disciplinary conference which brings together global leaders to interact and discuss the future. The conference, first held in 2001, takes place annually in Aspen and is produced in partnership with the Aspen Institute. David is currently in the throes of a book project, "The Facebook Effect", which will be published mid-2009. He is in constant demand as a speaker and moderator at conferences, including the World Economic Forum, The World Congress on Information Technology, and other global events.
	Tara Lemmey is founder and CEO of LENS, a network of leading thinkers focused on strategic innovation; currently, she works with Fortune 2,000 companies on innovation and next-generation strategies. She is a leading member of the Markle Taskforce on National Security in the Information Age, where she has chaired the technology group for the last 3 years. Her works have been published in Wired, Business 2.0 and the Harvard Business Review. She is a Technation World Class Challenge Leader and commentator on public radio. Prior to LENS, Lemmey was the executive director and president of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to protect civil liberties, privacy and freedom of expression in the area of computers and the Internet. Tara is also an advisor to Dr Andrew Weil's Program for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, and is on the board of the AIGA Center for Brand Experience - a leading design and brand organization worldwide; and, she serves on the Department of Homeland Security’s Privacy Advisory Committee, which is tasked with providing insights on how to best preserve privacy and civil liberties while enabling better national security. An experienced entrepreneur, Lemmey was the founder of Narrowline, an online advertising and market research firm, and is currently on the advisory boards of Metasound and eNutrition. In addition, she has been an ecommerce advisor to the U.S. Postal Service and Cybercash. In the nonprofit arena, she is one of the founders of TrustE, a nonprofit organization advocating privacy on the Internet, and is currently on the group's board. Lemmey was recently named one of the 10 most important people to the future of digital music by Spin magazine for her efforts to protect the rights of consumers. She is also a delegate of Fortune's Most Powerful Women, and an Embassy of the Future Commissioner.
	Mary Anne Hitt has maximized the multimedia potential of Google Earth to fight the heartbreaking brutality of mountaintop removal in Appalachia. She is deputy director of the Sierra Club's National Coal Campaign, which includes leading the Club's entire mountaintop removal campaign, and overseeing all their efforts on coal pollution in the U.S. east and midwest. As executive director of Appalachian Voices, Mary Anne joined forces with Google Earth Outreach to lift the cloak of secrecy that has allowed coal companies to flatten almost 1 million acres, destroy 474 mountains, bury over 1,000 miles of streams, and devastate local communities in one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. The public response has been overwhelmingly successful, making the ILoveMountains.org campaign one of Google Earth's showpiece projects. Using a perfect blend of media strategies and cutting-edge, accessible technology, it has paved the way for using Google Earth as a powerful activist tool. Currently a fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program, Mary Anne's previous experience also includes working as executive director of both The Ecology Center and the Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project. She was a recipient of the Len and Sandy Sargent Environmental Advocacy Award at the University of Montana, where she received her Master's of Science in environmental studies, and was a Whittle Scholar at the University of Tennessee and founder of the campus organization Students Promoting Environmental Action in Knoxville. She grew up in the mountains of east Tennessee, just outside Gatlinburg and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
	Rebecca Moore Rebecca Moore is a computer scientist and longtime software professional.  At Google, she started and now manages the Google Earth Outreach program, which supports nonprofits, communities and indigenous peoples around the world in applying Google's mapping tools to the world's pressing problems in areas such as environmental conservation, human rights, cultural preservation and creating a sustainable society.  Her personal work using Google Earth was recently instrumental in stopping a plan to log more than a thousand acres of redwoods in her Santa Cruz Mountain community.  Rebecca earned her undergraduate degree from Brown University in Artificial Intelligence, Masters from Stanford in Cognitive Psychology and spent several years in the Stanford PhD program in Computer Science before taking leave to join a Silicon Valley startup
	Kris Krug introduces visual artists, musicians and other professionals to emerging technologies and explains how the Internet can be used to fast-track their careers. After publishing a ground-breaking online magazine for several years in California, Kris relocated again to BC to become president of Bryght - a "web 2.0" start-up who offer a unique Drupal hosting service. Through enthusiastic outreach, Kris helped create a marketplace for community-centric websites and his evangelism spawned an eco-system of related companies in Vancouver. In 2007 Bryght was acquired by full service web agency Raincity Studios of which Kris now serves as President. Educated in Communications and Philosophy at Trinity Western College, Kris also moonlights as a fashion photographer, shooting subjects from executives to rock bands for fun and profit and organizes photowalks for aspiring and established photographers to exchange tips. Well known in the web social media and blogging community, Kris regularly speaks at conferences and media programs around the world about Internet tools, new media, and evolving copyright standards. He is an organizer of the Vancouver tech conference Northern Voice as well as a catalyst for workshops and "un"conferences - most recently in Beijing and Shanghai where Kris participated in international economic leadership events in advance of the 2008 and 2010 Olympics. Kris' skills bridge the technology, business and art communities. Through his unique approach to aesthetics and open business, he encourages collaboration to produce personal and professional expression online and openly assists new tech enterprises with entrepreneurial challenges.

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