Jeff Barr has been at Amazon.com since 2002 and is nowSenior Web Services Evangelist. Along with his team of Web ServicesEvangelists, Jeff contributes to the Amazon Web Services Blog http://aws.typepad.com) makes frequentconference and user group appearances, and also finds time to meet withindividual developers. Jeff has operated his own consulting practice and alsospent some time at Microsoft, where he worked on Visual Basic and .Net. Jeffholds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the American University inWashington, DC and has performed graduate studies at the George WashingtonUniversity, also in Washington DC.

Greg Cohn is Director of Strategy and Business Development for Yahoo! Open Strategy, the Yahoo! Developer Network, and Yahoo’s Brickhouse incubator, helping drive innovation and open the Yahoo! platform to 3rd-party developers, publishers, and advertisers. He is active in cultivating the startup community and has been involved in several acquisitions, as well as being responsible for the landmark partnership with MySpace and Google to form the OpenSocial Foundation.

In a prior role at Yahoo!, Greg helped successfully launch the Yahoo! Publisher Network, and his history as an entrepreneur includes executive roles at Away.com (now a division of Cendant), Waterfront Media (publishers of the South Beach Diet online), and the Rocky Mountain region’s own NewWest.Net, among others. His early career was in the book industry, where he edited both fiction and nonfiction and was publisher of the bestselling Let’s Go Travel Guides for St. Martin’s Press.

Greg holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.Phil. in literature from Oxford. While his roots are on the coasts – he was raised on the East and lives on the West – he has family ties to the region and visits Colorado regularly.

Wade Davis has been described as "a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet, and passionate defender of all of life's diversity."

An ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker, he holds degrees in anthropology and biology, and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Mostly through the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent over three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among 15 indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations while making some 6,000 botanical collections. His work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies and to Borneo where he lived among the nomadic Penan in the forests of Sarawak.

In recent years Davis's research efforts have taken him to East Africa, Tibet, Polynesia, Mali, equatorial West Africa, New Guinea, Vanuatu, and the high Arctic of Nunuvut and Greenland. Author of ten books, including The Serpent and the Rainbow, One River, and Light at the Edge of the World, he is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lowell Thomas Medal (Explorers Club) and the Lannan Foundation $125,000 prize for literary nonfiction. In 2004 he was made an Honorary Member of the Explorers Club, one of 20 so named in the 100-year history of the club.

His film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, a four-hour series shot in Rapanui, Tahiti, the Marquesas, Nunuvut, Greenland, and Peru, that aired internationally on the National Geographic Channel in the spring of 2007. Phantastica, a two-hour special inspired by his books One River and The Lost Amazon, will air in spring 2008 on The History Channel. Davis recently completed a third film project, a 3-D IMAX film, Water Planet: A Grand Canyon Adventure, which will appear in the spring of 2008.

Google acquired @Last Software (SketchUp) in March of 2006. At that time, Scott was the VP of Engineering. Scott joined the SketchUp team in Oct of 2003. Prior to joining Google, Scott was Director of Technical Operations at ReturnPath and the Director of Engineering at E-mail Publishing / MessageMedia. Scott graduated from Iowa State University in 1982 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering.

Robert Maynard is currently Chief Investment Officer for the $11 billion Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho, where he is responsible for all investment activities of the organization. Previously he served as Deputy Executive Director of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, and as Assistant Attorney General for the State of Alaska. In addition to his duties for the Idaho Retirement System, Mr. Maynard participates in a number of investment-related organizations, including serving on the Board of Directors of the Pacific Pension Institute, the Board of Directors of The College of Idaho, the Board of Directors of the Boise State University Foundation, the Investment Committee of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Investment Advisory Board of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, the Board of Directors of the Evelyn Brust Education Foundation, and the Board of Directors of the Brandes Research Institute. Mr. Maynard also serves on the Board of Directors of the City Club of Boise, the Board of Directors of the Boise City Schools Education Foundation (ex officio), and was a National Trustee for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.Mr. Maynard has received a number of awards and recognitions for his activities in the investment area, including being named Chief Investment Officer of the Year in 2006 by the Institute for Fiduciary Education, also in 2006 receiving the Richard L. Stoddard Award by his peers (other state CIOs) for his outstanding contributions to the investment of public funds, and being a finalist in the first two Public Fund Investor of the Year awards by Institutional Investor Magazine (2004 and 2005). Mr. Maynard graduated magna cum laude from Claremont Men’s (now Claremont-McKenna) College in 1972, and received his J.D. from the University of California at Davis Law School in 1975, where he served as editor-in-chief of the law review. Mr. Maynard is married to Jane Byers Maynard, and has two children, Matthew and Emma.

Sanjiv Parikh is Managing Director of Venture Management, Corporate Ventures at HP where he is responsible for driving new growth opportunities for HP via equity investing and venture outreach. Sanjiv’s role is to accelerate innovation, foster entrepreneurship and assess early trends on behalf of HP. Sanjiv and his team engage with venture capitalists and startups to drive business development, commercial and investment relationships across HP.Previously, Sanjiv was a Director for the Emerging Business Team at Microsoft, based in Silicon Valley. The Emerging Business Team manages Microsoft’s interaction with venture capitalists and start-ups world-wide. Sanjiv was in charge of engagements with mobility and business intelligence oriented start-ups, venture capitalists and enterprises.Prior to joining Microsoft, Sanjiv was Managing Director of FairWinds Ventures, a private equity advisory and investment firm. He advised large corporations and assisted early/mid-stage companies with their private equity needs: which included M&A, spin-outs, financings, and interim management.Previously, Sanjiv was a Managing Director of Atrium Capital. Atrium Capital is a 17 year-old Sand Hill Road venture capital firm which, in addition to having its own financial fund, managed the venture capital activities of Fortune Brands, Hallmark Cards, R.R. Donnelley & Sons and W.W. Grainger. Atrium’s investments include AdForce, B2BWorks, DigitalPersona, FieldCentrix, InfoUSA.com, MapQuest, MetaTV, Multex and RedEnvelope.Prior to joining Atrium Capital, Sanjiv helped launch RightWorks Corporation; an enterprise software company in supply chain management and procurement that was sold to Internet Capital Group for $1.25 billion and is currently part of i2 Technologies.Previously, Sanjiv was a Principal with Mehta & Company, Inc.; a merchant bank specializing in private equity and turnaround management. Sanjiv invested in and helped turnaround several portfolio companies in various operating capacities, including: a $50 million nationwide healthcare services firm and a $100 million European seat belt manufacturer, among others.Outside of work, Sanjiv has been actively involved with The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE) in Silicon Valley since 1994. He organized the venture capital seminar for the 1994, 1995 and 1996 annual conferences. He is currently a Charter Member, and has been Co-Chairman and on the faculty of the TiE-Institute which aims to further education for entrepreneurs. Sanjiv also serves on the Board of Directors of the Wharton Club of San Francisco, a community and professional development organization of The Wharton School.On a personal note, Sanjiv is an avid sailor, having been sailing for over 25 years both competitively and for leisure. Sanjiv has sailed off the coasts of California, Maine, Maryland, Florida, and in the Mediterranean off the coasts of France, Italy and Greece.Sanjiv holds an engineering degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.