Aaron Marcus, President of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A), was graduated in physics from Princeton and in graphic design from Yale. In 1967, he became the world's first graphic designer to work full-time with computer graphics at AT+T Bell Labs. In the early 1980s, he was a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, founded AM+A, and began research as a Co-Principal Investigator of a project funded by the US Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In 1992, he received the National Computer Graphics Association's annual award for contributions to industry. In 2007, he was named an AIGA Fellow. In 2008, he was elected to ACM's CHI Academy. He is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of User Experience and an Editor of Information Design Journal. Mr. Marcus has written over 350 articles; published 14 books, and, lectured, tutored, and consulted internationally for 45 years. He is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Design, IIT, Chicago.

user-interface design/analysis,information visualization,sign/symbol systems,cross-cultural communication

Lindsey Carnett Featured in the Forbes Most Powerful Woman Business Leader issue, Lindsey Carnett has taken her business expertise across America and enlightened marketing peers and those new to the industry about mobile marketing and positive online reputation. Having spoken at Electronic Retailing Association D2C and at the ERA Great Ideas Summit, and guest lectured at universities, Carnett has gained the reputation as an expert in the field of marketing and public relations. Most recently Carnett received a Top Women in Business Award from Pacific Coast Business Times, a Bronze Stevie Award as Female Entrepreneur of the Year and received multiple 40 Under 40 Awards. Carnett is also CEO and President of Maven Retail Partners, Inc., a sales and retail distribution company and sits on the Board of Directors as PR and Media Chair for the Los Angeles Chapter of Women in Sports and Events (WISE), sits on the Marketing Committee for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ventura County, as well as the Electronic Retailing Association (ERA) Hispanic Council.

Social Media, Media relations, lifestyle and consumer public relations, brand positioning

Mike O´Neil is the Founder and President of the nation´s leading social media strategy and online presence company, Integrated Alliances. Mike is a true pioneer in the mix of social media, LinkedIn, networking and web-based business applications. Mike became a charter LinkedIn user in early 2004 when it was just getting started. Mike is now the world´s first and foremost LinkedIn trainer and social media speaker. Mike has delivered over 300 sessions in the last 3 � years.Mike is equal parts speaker, trainer and business sales consultant who delivers with a high energy �rock and roll� style. He presents the most basic to the most advanced material and ensures that everyone feels included and well served.Mike´s expertise includes LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and even blogging, many others. Mike´s speaking and training are equally high energy, highly informational and very entertaining. He sprinkles his presentations with action items that attendees can take back and use right away. Mike has impeccable Social Media credentials. He is ranked #26 globally on LinkedIn (27,000 connections). A LinkedIn user since Jan. 2004, he is also a pioneer LinkedIn Group owner (#1,751 of 400,000+) with 27,000+ Twitter followers and 3,000+ Facebook friends.

Software as a Service, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Industrial Design, User Interface (UI) Design, Keynote Speaker, Motivational Speaker, Conference Speaker, Workshop Trainer, Breakout Trainer, Conference Trainer , Strategic, Innovative Thinker, Visionary, Blue Sky Futurist , Entrepreneur, Business Owner, Joint Venture Lover!, Channel Sales, Channel Partners, Channel Development, Blogger, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Dr. Debra Zahay is a Full Professor of Marketing at Aurora University in Aurora, Illinois where she teaches in the Digital Marketing Minor. She holds her Doctorate in Marketing from the University of Illinois, her Master of Management from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, her Juris Doctor from Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois and her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Zahay researches how firms can facilitate customer relationships, particularly using customer information. Some of the journals in which she has published include Journal of Interactive Marketing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Decision Sciences, Industrial Marketing Management. She has presented her work at many academic and practitioner conferences. She recently co-authored the third edition of the textbook Internet Marketing: Integrating Online and Offline Strategies with MaryLou Roberts. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Database Marketing and Marketing Strategy Management and Industrial Marketing Management and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing. She also writes a column on Internet Marketing Entitled “Going Interactive” for AMS Quarterly. Dr. Zahay has been the President of her own database and relationship management consulting firm since 1993 and has extensive experience helping companies identify and develop customer relationships. Her prior business experience includes senior marketing management responsibilities at MCI Telecommunications and Dun & Bradstreet. She has also served as a Vice President on the Executive Board of the Chicago American Marketing Association and currently serves on the Symposium Planning Committee of the Digital Analytics Association.

Interactive Marketing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Decision Sciences, Industrial Marketing Management,Internet Marketing: Integrating Online and Offline Strategies

Sandra Rust was born in blue Island, Illinois in 1958. She received her BA from Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Sandra attended graduate school at Governors State University in University Park, Illinois. Bever Digital Design was founded 8 years ago by Sandra. Bever Digital Design is a digital design company specializing in graphic design for web applications. Bever Digital Design creates custom Worpress themes, logo design, web banners, and web graphics.

professional web design, web development, eCommerce, online shopping carts, flash, multimedia, website hosting, search engine optimization, web marketing, (SEO), software development, and graphic design.Online Colleges

Lorie is a Research Professor in the computer science department at Dartmouth College, Director of the Digital Arts Minor, and the Director of DALI Lab. Before coming to Dartmouth, Lorie was Senior Research Scientist in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and a Professor in New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Lorie’s expertise is in building tools that communicate complex information in easy to understand ways, using a mix of design, technology, story-telling and behavioral economics. Lorie is an artist as well as a technologist. She has worked on award winning films (e.g. two Emmy Awards, a Cine Golden Eagle Award) that have been screened internationally (e.g. the Museum of Modern Art NY, the Sundance Film Festival, the NY Film Festival, the London Film Festival the Whitney Biennial). The Neukom DALI Lab is a new research and development lab in the computer science department at Dartmouth College. Teams of graduate and undergraduate students, staff and faculty work together to design and develop innovative technology tools that help our partners communicate effectively, make data meaningful and information accessible. DALI partners with faculty, Centers across campus, non-profits and start-ups. The DALI Lab is supported by the Neukom Institute for Computational Science. Lorie’s work has been funded by Intel, Sony, Microsoft, The National Science Foundation, Electronic Arts, The Neukom Institute for Computational Science, the Morgan Family Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has two patents (one pending). She is a Fulbright Scholar, a Whiting Foundation Fellow and a Donella Meadows Sustainability Leadership Fellow. Lorie is also the President and Co-Founder of TellEmotion, Inc., an energy feedback company with clients around the globe and offices in Vermont and Arizona.

Information Visualization, Creative Communication, Animation, Modeling, Graphics, Motion Capture, Motion Studies, Film

Sean´s background is very diverse across a wide range of disciplines and verticals. He has run several successful businesses over the past 30 years and eventually used that experience to benefit other small businesses as a consultant. Sean�s greatest strengths are in business development, digital marketing, Brand development, SEO/PPC and his ability to quickly grasp complex business models and simplify them for all team members. Sean is CEO of NuSvara LLC a NY based social media inbound marketing agency. NuSvara brings a sense of clarity, focus, and urgency to understanding a companies Internet footprint, online reputation management, and over all social media engagement. He has lectured on this subject to multi audiences. Prior to that Sean was Co-Founder/VP Business Development of One Social Media in Des Moines Iowa one of the first companies to recognize and develop social media services for the SMB market in the US. OSM represented many of today�s top authors and speakers as well as businesses in many verticals. Before OSM he was the President and founder of Extreme Excellence LLC, a marketing and consulting firm working in the financial services arena. He was instrumental in the creation of MyStockTools.com. Cherry Financial Partners in Sept of 2008 purchased both companies and is still in operation today. He is equally as comfortable in boardrooms on Wall Street and small offices on Main Street. Sean earned his undergraduate degree in Bible and Theology with a Minor in Ancient Hebrew from Davis College in Binghamton NY, and was later awarded Alumnus of the Year in 2003. He is currently an advisor to the school and holds the distinction of being the top recruiter for the college outside of the staff, an honor he has held for over 15 years. His passion for business is equaled only by his passion for NPOs and at risk teenagers. He has held numerous management positions, including Executive Director with several local non-profits. He is currently acting in an advisory position with a Faith Based NPO under development in Central New York where he lives with his wife, Deborah.

Social Media | Social Marketing strategist | Social Media Marketing Consultant | Inbound Marketing | Online Marketing Consultant | Online Marketing Strategist | Inbound Social Media Consultant | Social Media Agency | Digital Marketing | Online Digital Marketing Consultant | Online Strategist | Inbound Marketing Strategist | inbound Marketing Consultant | Digital marketing Strategist | Digital marketing Consultant | SEO | SEO Consultant | SEO Manager | SEO and PPC Strategist | LinkedIn SEO | LinkedIn Consultant | LinkedIn SEO Consultant | LinkedIn Strategist | LinkedIn SEO Strategist | LinkedIn SEO Manager

Dr. Qingde Li received the BSc in mathematics from Beijing Normal University in 1982 and PhD in computer science from the University of Hull in 2002. He has been a Lecturer in Computer science at the University of Hull since 2001. Previously he was a professor and the deputy head of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Anhui Normal University, China. He was a visiting scholar in the Department of applied Statistics at the University of Leeds from Oct 1990 to May 1992, and in the Department of Computing at the University of Bradford from Sept 1996 to Aug 1997. Before he joined the department, his research interests were mainly with fuzzy sets and random sets. His most current research interests are in the area of 3D graphics, such as shape modeling, medical image processing and visualization, GPU-based scientific simulation and special graphics effects. His most recent notable research contributions have been the development of two mutually related spline techniques, namely, PSP-spline (PSPS) and 2D solid spline (2DSS), where PSPS is simpler than B-spline in its mathematical representation but much more powerful than NURBS in geometric design, and 2DSS is a kind of area spline technique, which is a powerful tool for freeform solid modelling.

GPU based real time 3D medical image processing, Computer graphics, Implicit surfaces for shape modelling and processing, Biologically-based geometric modelling, Heterogeneous solid modelling, Big data visualization.

Dr. Warren Viant has been the Head of Computer Science at the University of Hull since 2004. He has extensive experience of computer graphics, software engineering and games development and has been teaching these subjects at the Masters level since 1996. His research, in over 50 peer reviewed publications, has focussed mainly on virtual and augmented reality systems, with primarily application areas being surgical training and computer-assisted surgery. He received a British Computer Society award for the latter project. Prior to becoming an academic he was a research engineer at British Aerospace, working on advanced cockpits and flight simulation.

Simulation and Visualization

Marian Betts Working in tandem with Professor Dr. Nell Arnold of Glades – GEI, Queensland, Australia, I have been involved with international strategic planning and development for over ten years. Projects on which we worked included working with private/government agencies in 75 countries in designing and restoring cultural heritage ventures such as state buildings, global libraries and galleries, parks, historic and new cityscapes, as well as designing, developing and building websites for some of them.As an artist I am accomplished in traditional artwork in oils, watercolor, and pen & ink; black and white photography printing; wildlife photography; digital painting and photo manipulation and restoration. I have won six awards for my digital artwork, been selected as the first international artist for the Out of Australia Series, and commissioned by the Australian National Council of Women to create their logo for the 2011 NCWQ Forum.

Conservation: wildlife; alternative fuel sources; water preservation,conservation and creation;and environmentally sound architectural designs.Photography, art, literature,Interior Design,Clothing Design