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Adam Arthur

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Adam B. Arthur attended Marshall University, where he majored in Business Information Systems. He has a sixteen year background as an entrepreneur in the marketing, public relations, and professional music industries. In recent years, Adam served in the West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources as a media specialist. He primarily focused on public information management, media coordination, branding design, Web 2.0 applications and Internet technology. Adam has frequently consulted for Web 2.0-savvy businesses in the areas of interactive technologies, SaaS applications, marketing, branding, web/print graphic design, and sales/business management. He is one of fifty-five GovLoop.com Community Leaders, a member of the U.S. Federal Government Web Content Managers Forum, a member of the Accessibility, Technology and Innovation, and Training and Development Sub-Councils, and has participated in several well known software beta-testing projects. More recently, Adam joined the Communities of Practice Program (CoPP) and NCPHI Communications Team at CDC, located within the National Center for Public Health Informatics in the Division of Alliance Management and Consultation. After agency reorganization, Adam briefly served as a CDC SharePoint council member, the site collection administrator for CDC’s Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support (OSTLTS/CDC), and site administrator for phConnect.org- a co-operated collaboration project for public health workers. Arthur also served as a liaison in the newly re-purposed Communities of Practice Program, under the Knowledge Management branch (OSTLTS/CDC). Adam is currently working in the Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (OSELS) at CDC, running the Virtual Platform Initiative and the Public Health Informatics Virtual Conference. In his spare time, he does media production and designs virtual environments for various platforms. Specialties Marketing & Advertising, New Technologies, SaaS, Web 2.0, Gov 2.0, Virtual Worlds, Social Networking/Marketing, W3C Standards, Sales, Government, Human Resources, Public Relations & Communications, Media Production, Graphic Design, Non-Profit Organizations, Print Media, Community Health, Research, Online Media, Internet, Social Marketing, Interactive Media, SEO, SEM, PPC, Management Consulting, Professional Training & Coaching, Photography, Computer Hardware, Computer Software, Analytics.

Dave Neilsen

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With over 150 unconferences, including three virtual unconferences, Dave Nielsen has pushed the boundaries of interactive attendee techniques. Known for innovative CloudCamps, Dave created the Unpanel and the Virtual Unpanel which, like an unconference, allow the event attendees to determine the agenda. Recently Dave opened the Silicon Valley CloudCenter, a physical event location where he conducts both online and offline event experiments while educating attendees about Cloud Computing.

Kevin Novak

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As the Vice President of Integrated Web Strategy and Technology for the American Institute of Architects, Kevin is directly responsible for the implementation of an institute wide web and technology strategy. He is the current co-chair of the W3C Electronic Government workgroup and is the former chair of the Internet in Developing Countries Task Force under the .MOBI Foundation. Kevin was formerly the Director of Web Services at the Library of Congress. In this role, he created a strategy and a centralized web services division which lead the management and development of the Library’s extensive website comprising over 22 million items digitized from its collections and served in a variety of multimedia formats. He provided leadership on many Library partnerships and initiatives including the World Digital Library, the Library of Congress Experience, and management of THOMAS legislative information service. He also led the Library’s partnership with Flickr showcased via Flickr Commons, and strategic and technical projects and partnerships with One Laptop Per Child, Microsoft, and Google.