Moderator:

Sam Levin
Sam Levin is currently an on-air technology and entertainment Host for Sam's Cool Picks and Co Host of Rock & Roll Geek Gadget Show. He is also a consultant in the emerging technology industry. Sam is the former Co founder of the Stanford Mac Users' Group, a key special interest (Mac) group representing one of Apple's first Consortium based Universities.
Levin plays a critical role in forging a path for airing new products and technologies, and is widely credited in developing crucial relationships between entertainment and technology industries. Levin works with leading Macintosh, PC and mobile developers on influence, social media, business development, and brand evangelism. Sam has also directed licensing initiatives for leading entertainment companies including Virgin Interactive, Broderbund, and Mattel.
For more than 20 years, Sam has worked closely with technology companies, providing him a special insight on the trends and future direction of personal computing and consumer electronics.

Panelists:

Adil Lalani, Twitvid
Adil Lalani is a young Canadian entrepreneur, who is currently the Co-founder and CTO of TwitVid.com, the leading video sharing service for Twitter. TwitVid is used by many celebrities including Britney Spears, Coldplay, Demi Lovato, Jonas Brothers, and many more, and has raised money from DFJ, the late Rajeev Motwani, Amidzad, and other prominent angels in the valley. Prior to starting TwitVid, Adil was studying Software Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He also had another start-up called Surfyourwork.com, an online collaboration system for teachers and students, which got acquired in May, 2005 for over a million.

Fergus Hurley, Clixtr
Fergus Hurley, CEO of Clixtr, is an Irish entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. He graduated from University College Cork in Electrical Engineering in 2006. He completed his Master's thesis in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2008. He attended the Stanford Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Graduate School of Business during the summer of 2008. Following the course at Stanford he started a mobile web company called Clixtr, The Ultimate Social Camera. Clixtr, at it's core is a real-time, location-aware, mobile photo sharing platform which allows people to collaboratively share photos at events and tune into events happening nearby and around the world. Clixtr secured seed funding from DFJ and Silicon Valley angel investors in March 2009. Clixtr released the first version of its iPhone application in September 2009 at TechCrunch50. Clixtr was one of the top 50 companies selected by TechCrunch, out of over 1,000 applicants, to launch on stage at TechCrunch50. You can start having fun with Clixtr today by downloading the Clixtr iPhone app from the Apple App Store or by using the Clixtr web app at www.clixtr.com.

Ben Satterfeild, Twiddla
Ben has been building and growing internet-based companies for the past 3 years, and has been an avid user of internet technology since the early 90s. Ben studied biology and psychology with a minor in Asian Studies at Drew University, where he got his first taste of the potential for technology and the internet. He was doing his homework on online forums as early as 1994. Ben traveled extensively throughout India (working on a research project), Yemen (working with UNESCO) and China (where he did his thesis on Traditional Chinese Medicine).
In 2001, he began his Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine at Emperor's College in Santa Monica, CA. It was during this degree that Ben realized that he could combine all his interests and skills into a business, and so he founded Rootdown.us, an online hub for the Traditional Chinese Medicine community. During the process of making Rootdown.us, Ben saw the need for an easy way to collaborate with a remote team. Working closely with one of the lead developers on Rootdown, Jason Kester, Twiddla was born.