Rob Glaser
Mitch Kapor
Michael Robertson
Doc Searls

Rob Glaser
CEO, RealNetworks, Inc.

Rob Glaser, founder and CEO of RealNetworks, Inc., has long been intrigued with the nexus of media, computing, communication and the Internet. Since founding Real in 1994, Glaser has played an integral role in the transformation of the Internet into the next great mass medium. In 1995 under Glaser's direction, Real introduced the groundbreaking RealAudio. Followed by, RealVideo, RealPlayer and the systems to distribute audio and video including the Helix technologies, RealNetworks has continued to innovate and bring technologies to market. Additionally in 2000, RealNetworks began offering aggregated premium content online directly to consumers in a subscription service. In 2003, RealNetworks purchased Listen.com and built the Rhapsody music service into the leading music subscription service. With the combination of technology and business systems for monetizing media, RealNetworks and Rob Glaser are at the forefront of the Internet media revolution.

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Mitch Kapor
Founder, The Mozilla Foundation

Keynote speaker Mitchell Kapor, creator of Lotus 1-2-3 and chair of the Mozilla Foundation, is also currently founder and Chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation, which is developing Chandler, a new personal information manager. He founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 and designed Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer app" which made the PC ubiquitous in business. Kapor is also the co-founder (in 1990) of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization working in the public interest to protect civil liberties on the Internet. He currently serves as a Director of the Mitchell Kapor Foundation, which funds programs in the area of environmental health, and of the Level Playing Field Institute, whose mission is to promote innovative approaches to fairness in higher education and workplaces by removing barriers to full participation.

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Michael Robertson
CEO, Linspire, Inc.

Michael L. Robertson is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Linspire, Inc., a consumer software company that creates choice in the marketplace by offering the world's most affordable software. Robertson is also the Chief Executive Officer of SIPphone.com, a company that harnesses the power of the Internet to allow customers to make free long distance phone calls. Robertson's past ventures include his tenure as Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board at MP3.com (www.mp3.com) from March 1998 to August 28, 2001. As the mastermind of MP3.com, Robertson established the largest collection of digital music in the world, amassing more than 1 million downloadable MP3 files. Prior to establishing MP3.com, Mr. Robertson served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Media Minds Inc., a developer of digital picture software, and MR Mac Software, a developer of networking and security tools.

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Doc Searls
Senior Editor, Linux Journal

Doc Searls is a writer and speaker on topics that arise where technology and business meet. He is the Senior Editor of Linux Journal, the premier Linux monthly and one of the world's leading technology magazines. He also runs the new Doc Searls' IT Garage, an online journal published by Linux Journal's parent company, SSC. He is co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual, a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Borders Books and Amazon.com bestseller. (It was Amazon's #1 sales & marketing bestseller for thirteen months and sells around the world in nine languages.) He also writes Doc Searls Weblog. J.D. Lasica of Annenberg's Online Journalism Review calls Doc "one of the deep thinkers in the blog movement." Doc's blog is consistently listed among the top few blogs, out of millions – by Technorati, Blogstreet and others.

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