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Daniel recently joined early-stage startup Tiny Speck in
San Francisco as Director of Design. Tiny Speck, started by a bunch of
the core
ex-Flickr team is developing a massively multiplayer online game called
Glitch
that will be launched in the fall.
For the past four years Daniel was the creative director
at the social news website Digg where he helped the site grow from a
niche
technology news site into one of the leading media services on the web
with a
massive and passionate community. Working with Digg founder Kevin Rose,
Daniel
and his design team shaped the user experience and product direction of
Digg.
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Read more... [Daniel Burka, Tiny Speck]
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Alfredo Tan, Senior Director of Sales, Facebook |
 Alfredo Tan is Senior Director of Sales at Facebook, where he leads a team responsible for strategic marketing relationships with agencies and Fortune 500 companies across Canada. Prior to Facebook, Alfredo was responsible for a broad portfolio as a Senior Director at Yahoo! in charge of leading the Mobile, Business Development and Search Marketing teams. He also managed the Rogers Yahoo! Partnership across media, internet, and wireless. Alfredo has also worked as Strategic Alliances Director at Sympatico MSN and was responsible for media sales, business development and strategic partnerships.
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Kate Inglis, Published Author, Blogger and Community Founder |
 Kate Inglis, a writer and photographer, lives on the edge of a meat-grinder sea on the far eastern coastline of Nova Scotia where she was born. Since 2004, her personal blog sweet | salty has chronicled a journey that's been equal parts joy and unexpected bumps. She founded a collaborative blog for babylost parents called Glow in the Woods, a warm, embracing and entirely cherub-free community. She spends a lot of time with her camera in-hand, chasing light, and writes for Shutter Sisters as a founding contributor. In November 2009 her first novel was published - The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods, a book January Magazine calls "a spirited tale, gorgeously rendered." The second edition lands in Canada and the U.S. in April 2010.
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Lynne Conrad, Founder, Activ8Business |
 Lynne Conrad is a veteran Executive Virtual Assistant. Her expertise is founded in intelligent and productive business uses of emergent online tools and media including Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google, Flickr and many other social networking sites. Lynne was the first registered Virtual Assistant in the province of New Brunswick and currently celebrating over 6 years in the industry.
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Read more... [Lynne Conrad, Founder, Activ8Business]
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Rob Goodlatte, Product Designer, Facebook |
 Rob is a product designer at Facebook, where he designs features and products for an audience of over 400 million. He is the designer behind Facebook Lite — a simple, fast version of Facebook designed for low-bandwidth users. Rob also designed the latest release of Chat as well as Facebook's new user experience. Rob is graduate of Duke University with a degree in Computer Science. Prior to Facebook, Rob worked as a freelance designer and developer. His work has been published in several design books and recognized by the Webby Awards, the SXSW Web Awards, and other industry honors.
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Eric Pierni: Senior Marketing Manager at Kijiji |
 Eric Pierni is the senior marketing manager for Kijiji Canada and responsible for overseeing the company's advertising sales. As a member of the original team that launched Kijiji Canada Classifieds in 2005, Pierni played an integral role in developing and driving the website’s original online marketing strategy, including all of Kijiji’s
Internet and offline marketing campaigns. He has also been involved in Kijiji’s community building and product development activities.
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Read more... [Eric Pierni: Senior Marketing Manager at Kijiji]
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Alex Liot, Director, Digital Products & Operations, Transcontinental Media |
 As the Director of Digital Products & Operations (NS & PEI) for Transcontinental, Alex has spent the past 5 years helping newspapers and their clients incorporate digital into their marketing programs. Within Transcontinental he has held multiple roles at the Halifax Daily News: Advertising Consultant, Publication Manager and National Sales manager, with a client scope from major multinationals to local owner operators. An entrepreneur himself, his true passion is helping small and medium businesses innovate in their use of digital marketing in local markets.
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Saul Colt, Zoocasa.com - Head of Magic |
 Saul Colt is an accomplished word of mouth marketing professional with more than a decade of diverse experience. He currently heads up the marketing department at Zoocasa.com , a Canadian search engine for home buyers, as well historically he was the first international employee of Zipcar Inc, hired to launch the Canadian operation. Prior to Zoocasa, Saul led the "magic" department at FreshBooks.com , the world leader in online invoicing and time tracking for freelancers and serviced based professionals.
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Read more... [Saul Colt, Zoocasa.com - Head of Magic]
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 Robert Swick is an Internet marketing expert with over 10 years in
Internet consulting and leadership roles. A communications professional
for over 15 years, Mr. Swick had his first Internet-based business in
1994. He has been strategic consultant on hundreds of websites and
CD-ROMs for promotion, education, and information delivery to special
audiences. Robert is a frequent speaker on Internet marketing topics.
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Read more... [Rob Swick, AlphaSearch]
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Bruce Thompson, CEO, Impact Communications |
 As CEO of Impact Communications, Bruce encourages this entrepreneurial thinking within the entire Impact team – both strategically and creatively – so that everything they do is imbued with energy, and focused on results. Bruce's supportive and motivating leadership style was honored when he was named one of Canada's top bosses, and number 1 in Nova Scotia, in Monster.ca's 2005 Best Bosses Competition.
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Read more... [Bruce Thompson, CEO, Impact Communications]
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Eric Karjaluoto, Founding Partner - smashLAB |
 Eric Karjaluoto is a founding partner of the digital agency smashLAB. He has directed projects for groups including CN, Tourism Vancouver, and Canadian Heritage. He is a strong advocate of strategy and pragmatism in design.
In 2007 he spearheaded Design Can Change, an effort to unite designers and address climate change. The team at smashLAB has also launched the online community MakeFive and a crowdsourced design and marketing site called undrln. TIME, the Lotus Awards, and ICOGRADA have recognized his work; meanwhile, the agency has been featured in The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, and Studio 4.
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Read more... [Eric Karjaluoto, Founding Partner - smashLAB]
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 Dan Martell is the co-founder of www.Flowtown.com, a social marketing platform for small businesses. An award-winning Canadian entrepreneur, at 25, Dan formed his first start-up, Spheric Technologies Inc., and watched it grow by an average of 152% per year before he sold the company 4 years later in mid-2008.
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Read more... [Dan Martell, Flowtown]
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Leonard (LG) Roberts, Genie Knows |
 Leonard Roberts is a Senior Business Development Manager at Genieknowsmedia.com . He has a background in Electronic Commerce, from which he continues to draw. His expertise is derived from assisting premium advertisers and agencies at gaining real measurable ROI from their campaigns and online initiatives through the philosophy of using a multi pronged approach that combines both contextual ppc and display cpm advertising. In his three years with the company, he has developed a keen wit for building partnerships with fortune 500 advertisers such as Yahoo, Verizon, Bell Aliant , Bo Dog and More.
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Malcolm Fraser, President, ISL |
 Malcolm Fraser is the Founder and President of ISL, one of Canada’s most established web marketing and development companies.
Malcolm has been a leader in the web marketing industry for over 15 years and has been recognized nationally for his innovative approach to the application of technology.
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Peter Sickles, AlphaSearch Internet Marketing |
 Peter Sickles is a writer and search engine marketing professional with
six years of experience in Internet promotion and 12 years in
professional communications including public relations and travel
marketing. Peter's formal background in Public Relations and his book
and magazine writing experience, provide the foundation for his work
optimizing, creating, improving and adapting, website promotion copy.
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Read more... [Peter Sickles, AlphaSearch Internet Marketing]
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 Stephanie's first real job was at an ISP in 1995 and she has worked in Web ever since. In her current role at ISL Stephanie provides strategic consulting in the areas of Internet marketing, user experience design and usability, and information architecture. Prior to joining ISL Stephanie spent 10 years in Vancouver, first with The Electric Mail Company as a Marketing manager, and with Antarctica Systems as product manager for visual search engine software. Stephanie was a lecturer for the first post-secondary Internet marketing degree program in North America at the University of British Columbia in 1998 and hasn't stopped speaking about the web. Stephanie is a volunteer mentor with Techsploration: Women in Technology and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Acadia.
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Craig Moore, Spider Video |
 Craig
Moore
is
the
principle
creative
energy
behind
Spider
Video.
Based
out
of
Halifax,
Spider
Video
specializes
in
web-‐based
video
production,
integration
and
strategy.
As
one
of
the
regional
innovators
in
developing
online
video
and
branded
entertainment
Craig
has
created
several
ongoing
video
series
including
SurfDonkey
and
Bad
Dad.
He
also
continues
to
help
foster
the
local
online
community
as
one
of
the
organizers
of
Podcamp
Halifax.
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Read more... [Craig Moore, Spider Video]
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Mausam Prince Kalra, VP Local Search, GenieKnows.com |
 Mausam originally joined Genieknows Inc. in April 2001 as Chief Technical
Officer, bringing with him an extensive skill set and invaluable industry
experience and knowledge.
Mausam moved on to become VP of Genieknows.com and currently has
responsibility for product development and sales & marketing and sales for
Genieknows Local.
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Read more... [Mausam Prince Kalra, VP Local Search, GenieKnows.com]
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Gerry Carew, Director of Digital Products & Operations, Transcontinental Media |
 Gerry is the Director of Digital products and operations in Newfoundland Labrador for Transcontinental. An early adopter into the Internet world, Gerry was the first print sales representative to target online sales exclusively for local St. John’s daily paper, The Telegram back in 1999. Gerry started his career in Radio sales and has 20 years experience in the event video production business and has created his own YouTube-style Newfoundland themed website. Gerry has 17 years in advertising and is excited about how digital marketing is extending the reach for local business.
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Jeff White, Principal at Kula Partners |
 Growing up in rural Nova Scotia, Jeff always knew he wanted to do something creative with his life. Yet, in spite of his artistic tendencies, he also had an insatiable appetite for the business of how things work.
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Read more... [Jeff White, Principal at Kula Partners]
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Carman Pirie, Principal at Kula Partners |
 An award-winning marketing strategist, clients and speaking
audiences alike turn to Carman for his insights into how the evolution
of the social web is changing the world of communications.
Carman is co-founder of Kula Partners, a marketing agency built for
our hyper-social world. Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Kula Partners
works with a range of regional and national clients creating marketing
strategies and programs designed to grow brands by connecting people to
each other.
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Read more... [Carman Pirie, Principal at Kula Partners]
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Ryan Lejbak, CEO and Co-founder, Zu.com Communications |
 Ryan Lejbak began his career advancing interactive technology in 1995 founding zu.com communications with partner Tony Zuck. Ryan drives zu.com's exploration of uncharted waters in web and mobile technology. With his enthusiasm and steadfast moral compass, he believes that being a techno-junkie doesn't have to come at the expense of the environment or your local community.
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Savior A. Joseph, Director of Digital Marketing at Colour |
 Savior is one of Colour's resident online experts, and is their Director of Digital Marketing. As a lead online consultant for novascotia.com - the Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage's official visitor website - he's responsible for a variety of online strategies, including application development, Social Media strategy and the integration of online and offline media.
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Read more... [Savior A. Joseph, Director of Digital Marketing at Colour]
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AIM covers all major topics in Internet marketing – from social media to search engine optimization, website usability to website design. 
Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She is currently a Web Evangelist for Opera Software, and a member of the W3C CSS Working Group. Among her thirty-plus books is the The Zen of CSS Design, co-authored with Dave Shea. The book artfully showcases the most progressive csszengarden.com designs. A popular and colorful individual, Molly has a particular passion for people, blogs, and the use of technology for social progress.
Speakers 