Keynote Speaker – Dr. Alvy Ray Smith, 2-time Academy Award-winner and co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios.
science at New York University and the University of California at Berkeley. He worked briefly at Cal Tech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on special effects for Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series for television.Dr Smith holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford University (dissertation: Cellular Automata Theory). He received an honorary doctorate from New Mexico State University, his undergraduate alma mater, in Dec 1999.His product, Altamira Composer, introduced the concept of image objects (sprites) to the personal computer imaging world. Sprites are based on the alpha channel concept, which he coinvented and for which he shares a 1996 technical Academy Award. He was awarded a second technical Academy Award in 1998 for digital paint systems as a fundamental contribution to filmmaking and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for “fundamental changes in the graphic arts and motion picture industries.”He directed the first use of full computer graphics in a successful major motion picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the “Genesis Demo”, while at Lucasfilm.He gave Pixar its name (an invented Spanish verb meaning, “to make pictures”).He initiated and negotiated the Academy-Award-winning CAPS (Computer Animation Production System) project between Pixar and Disney, the hardware and software system that Disney now uses for full production of all its “traditional” 2D animated feature films.Dr. Smith lectures extensively, holds two patents, has published dozens of articles on cellular automata, computer graphics, and genealogy and is an artist. He recently married Alison Gopnik.Moderator – Don Hahn, Producer
Noise Buffet/123guitartuner.com – Ben Long, Composer
Ben Long is a musician, composer and sound designer. His music and sound work can be heard in countless video games and 
across every major TV network. In the early days his focus was beating on pots and pans but soon discovered the family piano and guitar. After attending college on a choir scholarship and playing in bars his focus turned to building recording studios.Ben is a frequent guest speaker at industry events including SXSW Interactive and GDC China. Recent work includes games by Denver-based DireWolfDigital (Mystic Warlords of Ka’a / Warner Brothers)
and Boulder-based Backflip studios (Paper Toss 2.0 iPhone/iPad). His current mission is spreading the word about his online guitar tuner to the far reaches of the galaxy.
Harris Corporation – Harris Morris, President, Harris Broadcast Communications Division (BCD)
In this role, Mr. Morris oversees 1,960 employees working globally across the division’s Media & Workflow, Infrastructure & Networking and Transmission (radio and television) business units. Morris is focused on continuing BCD’s growth as a technology leader, particularly in new high-growth, media-driven markets. He also is overseeing BCD’s ongoing international expansion efforts.
Morris has served as vice president and general manager of the Media and Workflow area of the Broadcast Communications business since joining Harris in January 2008. Prior to this position, Morris served as chief strategy officer for the Thomson Learning Division of Thomson Corporation, where he played an instrumental role in the development and execution of Thomson’s growth strategy for international channel expansion and digital products. Previously, he was a partner and vice president for Bain & Company, a global business consulting firm. In his 13 years with Bain & Company, he helped a wide variety of global clients analyze markets, develop growth strategies, expand into international markets and drive operational efficiencies.
Morris has an MBA from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in economics and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia. Morris is a frequent contributor as an interviewee and author to periodicals and online publications, including Catalyst magazine, sportsvideo.org and the Financial Times.
Earthvisionz- Carla Johnson, Founder & CEO
Carla Johnson has 25 years of experience in 3D geospatial earth modeling, environmental hydrogeology, engineering, virtual earth website development and 
global green initiatives. In 1994 she founded Waterstone, Inc, an environmental consulting firm specializing in complex hydrogeologic flow and transport modeling. A leader in the application of 3D satellite and geospatial imaging, Carla’s company created and deployed the first 3D virtual earth (before Google Earth) web-driven software product (STAR) to manage the business and technical aspects of environmental issues, asset management, operations and planning at 13 US Air Force bases, Union Pacific Railroad and other large organizations. She has been seen on CNN, in documentary films, on the cover of LA Times Sunday Magazine and in The Economist. Ms. Johnson is also the CEO of EarthvisionZ, a Web 3.0 website company creating virtual earth social applications in verticals for sports, charitable giving, renewable energy, green living, world news, healthcare and more. EarthvisionZ produced the first-ever virtual earth sites for the Beijing Summer and Vancouver Winter Olympics, the ATP Barclays World Tour Finals, PGA Tour and Fox News. Her education includes degrees in Geology, Biology and Structural Geology and doctorate coursework in Environmental Engineering from the University of Colorado.
Orbotix – Paul Berberian, CEO
Paul Berberian is an experienced chief executive and entrepreneur who has founded and run seven high-tech companies over the last 18 years. In August of 2010 he became the CEO of Boulder based Orbotix. Orbotix has built a new gaming device that allows users to control a robotic ball, called Sphero, from their smartphone or tablet. Sphero recently won Popular Science Magazine’s ‘Best of What’s New’ award and began shipping to customer’s in December 2011.
In 2005, Paul co-founded Market Force Information, a consolidation of leading customer experience, mystery shopping and market research firms. Mr. Berberian is the former CEO and co-founder of Raindance Communications (NASDAQ: RNDC), a web and phone conferencing services company acquired by West Corporation in 2006. Before founding Raindance, Mr. Berberian was co-founder and CEO of LINK-VTC, a video teleconferencing company, which was sold in 1995 to Frontier Communications. Prior to LINK-VTC, Mr. Berberian was co-owner of a plastic badge manufacturer in Long Beach, CA. Mr. Berberian is a distinguished graduate of the US Air Force Academy.
Graphicly – Micah Baldwin, CEO
eBook stores including Amazon Kindle, Kobo and Apple iBookstore; Android devices including the Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet and Color and the Amazon Kindle Fire; websites and blogs through an industry leading HTML5 web app; and the only way to read, share and sell books on Facebook. Graphicly provides a system to publish and promote content, providing an immersive solution to tell, share and collaborate around story and understand how consumers are interacting with the content. More than 400 publishers and 6,000 creators from major publishers such as Image Comics and Chronicle Books, to indie creators from around the globe, use Graphicly’s platform to deliver and promote compelling stories and activate consumers with community and content. The Graphicly promotional network includes more than 100 million page views across more than 600 of the leading entertainment websites and blogs. For more information, please visit http://www.graphicly.com/partners.
Pixorial - Andrés Espiñeira, Co-Founder & CEO
Melissa is responsible for developing key messages and the marketing strategy Pixorial. She works closely with the product development team as well as the users to better understand what’s next in video. For more than a decade, Melissa has helped launch Internet start-ups with first-to-market technologies including Natural Language Search Company, Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com), and the early social network Tribe.net (co-launched with LinkedIn and Friendster). She was instrumental in launching ModernMom, a site run by co-CEO’s Lisa Rosenblatt and celebrity mom, Brooke Burke. Melissa was also a founding partner for the most comprehensive media on Twitter database, Mediaontwitter , which is currently, used by PR and media professionals around the globe.
inDemand Bands, Erik Dyce, Founder & CEO
wn to many as “Mr. Red Rocks,” Erik recently retired as the chief marketing officer of the City and County of Denver’s Arts & Venues division, which owns and operates eight other venues in addition to Red Rocks Amphitheatre. He oversaw marketing and sponsorships for the venues’ 1,300 events, which drew four million people on an annual basis. Erik’s innovative approach to marketing opportunities has helped many venues create revenue streams worth millions of dollars simply by uncovering hidden assets. His out-of-the-box thinking has led to many notable marketing achievements including the development of the Denver Theatre District as a tourist destination in downtown Denver; the production of the nationally distributed “Carved In Stone” CD series, multiple Red Rocks and Denver Performing Arts Complex television shows, DVDs & souvenir books and the wildly popular summer film series, “Film On The Rocks.”Previously he had been Facility Manager for McNichols Sports Arena as well as Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Currently he is a consultant to the venue and entertainment industries and CEO of In Demand Bands, an online marketing portal for the music industry and GA3, an air tour event company. He is also an adjunct professor at both the University of Colorado and Johnson & Wales University in Denver and sits on the boards of Outward Bound, the Denver Theatre District and the Colorado Tourism Office.
Fearless Revolution- Rob Schuham, Co-Founder
Rob Schuham is Chief Buzz/Digital Officer of The Climate-Reality Project for which he and Alex Bogusky (formerly of Crispin Porter + Bogusky) function as creative, digital and strategic leads. Rob and Alex are also founding partners of FearLess Revolution, a creative think-tank and consultancy focused on driving transparency and new capitalism among cor
porations large and small.Rob is also a co-founder of COMMON, a collaboratively shared brand and new venture startup accelerator, dedicated to the leveraging of social enterprise and entrepreneurialism to drive positive change in the world through rule-breaking innovation.
Rob is also CEO and founder of Action Marketing, an award-winning experiential marketing and digital agency, concepting and executing what’s never been done before for brands such as Pepsi, Adidas, Moet Hennessy, Ford, Virgin, the NBA and many others.
Rob is also Founding Partner of Undercurrent where he consults with global, complex corporations on far-reaching digital and social strategy helping to design digital architectures and campaigns for some of the largest brands in the world including GE, American Express, Estee Lauder, Levi’s, Jaguar/Land Rover, DonQ and others.
Rob Schuham professionally “grew up” up at storied ad agencies including Chiat/Day in San Francisco and Ayer in New York and Chicago. Rob then joined Schwinn Cycling & Fitness to help re-launch and re-position it to the American marketplace. Rob later became a Director at iconic adventure film and television studio, Warren Miller Entertainment where he founded Action Marketing.
