Nov 16 2011
Matt Mullenweg – IT speaker
Founder of WordPress and Automattic and IT speaker
Mat Mullenweg is the founding developer of the popular open-source blogging software. After quitting his job at CNET, he has devoted the majority of his time to developing a number of open source projects and is a frequent speaker at conferences, such as Canada’s Northern Voice and the WordCamp events organized around WordPress software. In late 2005, he founded Automattic, the business behind WordPress.com and Akismet.
There’s no such thing as a wrong note, and to focus on people first – Mullenweg
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Simone Brunozzi is a technology enthusiast, involved in IT and computing since an early age. He joined Amazon.com in 2008 in the role of Web Services Evangelist, travelling across Europe and vicinity to showcase the innovative new solutions by Amazon Web Services and help developers build businesses and applications. He has followed the “Cloud Computing” paradigm shift since 2006, and believes that it is going to replace the traditional computing model.
Ben was one of the first .com millionaires after developing a search technology called Pulsar. Currently he is MD of The Rainmakers, which is an innovations and corporate venturing company. In 2007 Ben joined Brightstation Ventures a VC fund with $100m to invest, Ben is currently involved in a large number of start-up companies such as GoDine the restaurant booking service, a graduate recruitment company called Brave New Talent and he has just launched Freetricity that takes advantage of the UK governments feed in tariff scheme to provide solar power for free. Ben has advised both the UK and US governments, multinationals and global academic institutions in technology and trends. He also headed up technical and environmental investments and due-diligence for the Rotch Property Group who has over £1 Billion in asset management.
Brent Hoberman co-founded lastminute.com in 1998; three years after he had drafted the initial idea when working as a strategy consultant. Lastminute.com was the UK’s highest profile site and is one of Europe’s leading ecommerce companies. He was CEO until 2006 and then became the chairman and chief strategic officer of lastminute.com. He admits to being bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and has founded or backed a number of other companies since lastminute.com
Dinesh Dhamija is a business entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of the successful online travel agency Ebookers. Dinesh was awarded the 2003 Entrepreneur of the Year award by the Management Today magazine. More recently, he was the founder and chairman of the Copper Beech Group, a firm involved in residential property development in Romania and education infrastructure in India. 
James McKelvey is the co-founder of Square, a new mobile payment platform. A revolutionary service that enables anyone to accept credit cards anywhere. His other company Mira, started out as a software company. Eventually, Mira was refocused as a digital publishing company, providing services and conferences. Currently, the company provides online submission management, peer review, conference planning services and traditional print and electronic publishing services for more than 100 organisations from numerous disciplines. 
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Toby Bishop is the director of the Deloitte Forensic Center for Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP in Chicago. A thought leader on fraud prevention and detection with a special focus on the issue of financial statement fraud, he is the former president and CEO of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the global professional body for anti-fraud specialists.
Raoul Chiesa is a cybercrime advisor. As well as being the Founder (former CEO, CTO), Strategic Alliances Director at @ Mediaservice.net, he is a founder member of CLUSIT – the Italian Information Security Association – and he is a Board of Directors member at ISECOM, CLUSIT, OWASP Italian Chapter, Italian Privacy Observatory (AIP/OPSI). Both Raoul and its security team work on research areas such as X.25 and PSDN networks, VoIp Security, Malware Analysis, Social Engineering, SCADA & Industrial Automation, Home Automation, Satellite communication, Mobile Security, SS7 threats and much more.
Inma Martinez is the President of Stradbroke Advisors, a corporate advisory and fund-raising firm based in London. She is the Co-Founder & Former Chief Executive of Escape Velocity, a 3i-funded AI software company in the early days of mobile services. She has been described by Fortune and TIME magazines as one of Europe’s top talents in Human Factors and Social Engagement through technology. Combining her academic background with that of finance, technology and entrepreneurship has allowed her to bring to organisations a broad and creative vision, an active attitude towards problem-solving and an approach to innovation that empowers companies and increases shareholder value. 
