Bill Hammack - creates short videos on engineering (sample video, or most recent series.) To identify at conference use this tip/comment from a Reddit reader about my appearance: "Mark Hamill has really let himself go." [drop24 on Reddit ] University of Illinois
Blagica (blah-gee-tsa) Bottigliero - Social Media Director, Motorola Mobility. Rockin' mom to Lily.
Dan Yocum - incredibly boring and nondescript gov't title - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Mild mannered grid & cloud computing physics guy by day...
Ioan Raicu - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology -- expertise in distributed systems, grids, clouds, and supercomputers
Jason Gessner - Google Chicago - Tech Lead/Manager Display Advertising - maker, artist, dad, Milwaukeean, comic book nerd, abrasive music aficionado.
Jason Huggins @hugs
Jason Kunesh, founder Fuzzy Math user experience studio in Chicago. @jdkunesh or jdkunesh.com Chicagoan, geek, I know what Jeff Solin's lip tattoo says.
Jason Tillery
Jeff Solin - Owner @ Solin Systems Consulting, CS Teacher / curriculum enthusiast @ Northside College Prep, Co-founder Chicago chapter of CSTA, musician @ home, motorcycle rebuilder @ garage
Karl Fogel -- open source, civic software, radical copyright reform
Kate McGroarty - Recent winner and resident of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry's "Month at the Museum" contest. Chicago based theatre artist, educator and novice improv guitarist.
Katherine McCarthy
Ken Pelletier
Kurt Preston
Larry Adams - VP of product @ narrative science, youth soccer coach, go Steelers! (sorry Dean)
Leon Chism
Lindsay Gaskins
Lori Park
Mark Achler - SVP of Video Game Group at Redbox - introduction manager for the Apple //c.
Marc Hannah
Marcin Wichary – user experience designer at Google, HTML5 advocate, Pac-Man enthusiast :·), photographer
Mark Hayward - Juggler, Yo-yer, Self-Proclaimed Cool Guy. Sculptor and maker of things. As seen on Letterman.
Ravi Singh - Mobile Researcher, interested in all things Mobile on any platform from Blackberry , Android, iOS to Beagle Boards and modified Arduino's. If we can tweak it , I am interested , if we can't let's find a way in.