Ultra Light Startups - Past Panels and Speakers

Web Design for Startups August 2010

• Christopher Fahey, Principal, User Experience Director at Behavior Design
• Seth Giammanco, Principal, Technology Lead at Minds On Design Lab
• Dan Maccarone, Co-Founder at Hard Candy Shell
• Gloria Petron, President of the New York City Usability Professionals' Association

Game Dynamics and Marketing July 2010

• Ty Ahmad-Taylor, CEO of FanFeedr
• Chris Sullivan, Director of Sales, Eastern Region at Bunchball
• Eric von Coelln, Vice President of OMGPOP
• Gabe Zichermann, CEO of beamME and author of Game-Based Marketing

Financing Lean Startups June 2010

• Murat Aktihanoglu, Founder and CEO of Centrl Inc and organizer of Entrepreneurs Roundtable
• Brad Burnham, Partner at Union Square Ventures
• Joe Chin, Co-founder and CEO of SourcePad
• Peter Rothberg, Partner at Duane Morris

Mobile Startups May 2010

• Nihal Mehta, Co-founder and CEO of buzzd
• Alex Muller, Co-founder and CEO of GPShopper
• Rachit Shukla, Co-founder and CEO of Two Toasters
• Greg Yardley, Co-founder and Vice President, Products - Ad Optimization at Flurry

Ad Networks and Exchanges - April 2010

• Dean Harris, CMO of Kayak.com, Vonage, and HotJobs
• Jonathan Hsu, CEO of 24/7 Real Media
• Brian O'Kelley, CEO of AppNexus
• Anand Subramanian, Founder and Chairman of ContextWeb

SEO for New Websites - March 2010

• Seth Dotterer, Senior Director, Marketing at Conductor, Inc
• Christopher Hart, Director, Eastern Region Operations Bruce Clay Inc
• Kevin Lee, CEO of Didit and Founder of SEMPO
• Dennis Yu, Founder and CEO of BlitzLocal

Designing Social Websites - February 2010

• Bryan Hamilton, Director of User Experience at Razorfish
• Dan Maccarone, Co-Founder, Hard Candy Shell
• Alex Rainert, Principal, Tinker Studio
• Christopher-Ian Reichel, Director, Product Development - Social Media at Viacom/MTVnetworks

PR, Branding, and Buzz - January 2010

• Todd Barrish, Managing Director of LaunchSquad
• Rachel Honig, Managing Director, G.S. Schwartz & Co-Founder, Digital Power and Light
• Karl Schmieder, Founder of MessagingLab
• Lloyd Trufelman, Founder and CEO of Trylon SMR, publisher of NYConvergence

Bootstrapping vs. Venture Funding - December 2009

• Art Chang, CEO of Tipping Point Partners
• Brian Cohen, Founder/President of iFluence PR and Board Member at New York Angels
• Mark Davis, IT Venture Capitalist at DFJ Gotham Ventures
• Owen Davis, Managing Director at NYC Seed
• Dennis Mortensen, Director of Data Insights at Yahoo! and founder of Canvas, Evonax, and IndexTools

Email Marketing - November 2009

• Greg Cangialosi, CEO of Blue Sky Factory
• Neil Capel, Founder and CEO of SailThru
• Adam Rich, Co-founder and Editor-in-chief of Thrillist
• Maisha Walker, President of message medium and e-commerce columnist with Inc. magazine

Lead Generation - October 2009

• Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder of foursquare
• Austin Chang, Vice President, Strategy & Development at MTV Networks
• Noah Kagan, President and co-founder of Gambit
• Stephen Smyth President at Smythworks, LLC
• Dan Porter, CEO of OMGPOP (formerly known as ImInLikeWithYou)

Software-as-a-Service - September 2009

• Jed Alpert, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Mobile Commons
• Steven Asherman, Founder and President of Base One International
• Steven Greenwood, VP of Revenue at Drop.io
• Peter Stern, Founder and President of Zenbe

Local Business Models - August 2009

• Court Cunningham, CEO of Yodle.com
• Mark Josephson, CEO of Outside.In
• Mark Potts, Co-Founder and CEO of GrowthSpur
• Landy Ung, Co-Founder and CEO of 8coupons.com

User Experience - July 2009

• Whitney Hess, Independent user experience designer
• Alex Kirtland, Partner at UsableMarkets LLC
• Karen McGrane, Senior Partner at Bond Art + Science
• David Sansone, Director of User Experience at TBWA \ NY

Twitter Business Models - June 2009

• Greg Galant, Co-founder of The Shorty Awards and CEO of Sawhorse Media
• Ivan Kirigin, Co-founder and CTO of Tipjoy
• Andrew Kortina, Lead engineer at Bit.ly and Betaworks
• Phil Pearlman, Director at StockTwits

Bootstrapping - May 2009

• Elaine Bolle, President of ClassifEye
• Ramesh Haridas, Partner at Russian Hill Ventures
• Steven Krein, Co-Founder and CEO of OrganizedWisdom.com
• Nat Turner, Co-founder and President/COO of Invite Media

Monetizing Online Video - April 2009

• Zach Harris, Ad Products Manager at Blip.tv
• Paul Kontonis, Chief Executive and co-founder of For Your Imagination
• Roger Wu, Co-founder and President of Klickable.TV
• Tania Yuki, Senior Product Manager and Video Measurement Specialist at comScore

Employment-Related Business Models - March 2009

• Allen Ackerman, Founder and CEO of A-List Placement, I Have A Req and MAD-G
• Charlie O'Donnell, Co-founder & CEO of Path 101, founder of nextNY, and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at ITAC
• Jeff Stewart, Founder of Urgent Career and Urgent Ventures
• Eric Yoon, Founder and CEO of JobScout, and founder and former CEO of JobThread

Web Analytics - February 2009

• Bryan Eisenberg, Chief Persuasion Officer & co-founder, Future Now, Inc. Chairman Emeritus and Founder of the Web Analytics Association
• Dennis Mortensen, Director of Data Insights at Yahoo! and author of Yahoo! Web Analytics
• Marshall Sponder, Senior Web Analyst at Monster Worldwide and Social Media & Community Director of the Web Analytics Association

Online Revenue Models - January 2009

• Jay Levy, Founding Principal of Zelkova Ventures
• Martin Breslin, Managing Partner, The Hatchery and founder of Fiscvl Corp.
• David Schnurman, President of Lawline.com and founder and CEO of TrueNYC.com
• Steven Adler, CEO of Financial Summit Ventures

Open Source Content Management Systems - December 2008

• Steve Bruner (WordPress) founder and CEO of SlipFire
• Ezra Barnett Gildesgame (Drupal) GrowingVentureSolutions, and Co-author Drupal in Action.
• Vishy Venugopalan, Software industry analyst at The 451 Group
• Donna Marie Vincent (Joomla) principal of JoomSites, LLC

SEO and SEM - November 2008

• Sara Holoubek, Independent consultant, contributing editor of SearchBuzz, and director of SEMPO
• Adam Mazur, Founder and CEO of Comet Conversion
• Joseph McElroy, Search Artist at Gigapixel Creative
• Cesar Hervieux, Online media buyer and planner with Media Contacts

Outsourcing - October 2008

• Shishir Danani President & CEO of Ideavate Solutions
• Yao-Hui Huang Co-founder of The Hatchery and Gigapixel Creative
• Bala Mulloth Operations Manager of Brooklyn Enterprise on Science & Technology
• Javier Starkand Co-founder of The Spirus Group
• Randy Wilburn Founder of Randy Wilburn & Co. Real Estate and featured Outsourcing Evangelist

Online Advertising - September 2008

• Alex Baydin, Founder and CEO of PerformLine
• Derek Lee, Founder and CEO of SocialDough
• Rani Nagpal, Vice President, Affiliate Management at zanox, Inc
• Max Ramirez, Head of online ad sales for blinkx.com

Legal Roundtable - Monthly from April 2009 to March 2010

• Jason Burritt - Attorney, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
• Stephen Chin - Partner, von Simson & Chin
• Jon Freedman - Freedman Legal Group LLC
• Devang Gunderia - Partner at Pinkie Gunderia CPA
• Andrew Lerner - Counsel, Wormser, Kiely, Galef & Jacobs LLP
• Tedd Lustig - Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
• Diane Malanowski - SVP, Human Resources at SchoolNet
• Chunyee Myot - Chunyee CPA
• Charles von Simson - Partner, von Simson & Chin