SPEAKERS

Gong Szeto		Gong Szeto is an internationally recognized designer, formerly Director of Design at PEAK6 Investments, LP, Chief Creative Officer of Rare Medium Inc., and principal at i/o 360 digital design. Gong has lectured world-wide, and is a recipient of numerous international design awards and was part of I.D. Magazine’s Top 40 Innovators in U.S. and Europe. He has work in the permanent collections of SFMoMA and Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Gong holds a BArch from the University of Texas at Austin, and has studied business, finance, economics, and IP law at NYU and Harvard. He was most recently a finalist in the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. He lives in Santa Fe.
Robert Young		Robert Young gave up his successful sportswear business when he heard the story of three Native Americans who froze to death in their homes simply because they did not have adequate housing. After discovering that thousands of other Native Americans also faced a similar plight, he founded the Red Feather Development Group which works with local volunteers to build cost efficient and environmentally friendly straw bale houses on American Indian reservations.
Phil Klein		Phil Klein has been a writer of text and software for the nonprofit sector, a business intelligence consultant for corporations and philanthropies, an intercultural traveler and an introspective socializer. Based currently in Seattle, he frequents northern New Mexico when he can, and also Orcas Island in the Northwest and Martinique in the Caribbean with his wife and two daughters.
Adarsh Pallian		Adarsh Pallian has been geeking out for over ten years as a software developer, designer, entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, blogger, and internet marketing nerd. Adarsh is the founder of Pallian Creative, a tech and design firm based in Vancouver who created the wildly popular twitter grouping app Tweetizen. Adarsh is also the co-founder of Chart.ly, a stock charting twitter app that has been acquired by Stocktwits.com. Recently, Adarsh teamed up with Boris Wertz of WM Ventures to createJustBought.it - a social shopping app based on twitter and facebook.
George Martinez		The Honorable George Martinez is the Founder/Chairman of the Global Block Foundation and an award-winning artist, activist, educator and a political pioneer of the Hip-Hop community. He is the first Hip-Hop artist/activist elected to a political office in the United States and is a former Assistant Director of Intergovernmental Relations for the Office of the New York State Attorney General. George is a former Doctoral Fellow of Political Science at the City University of New York and is currently an adjunct faculty member at Pace University. George is also a founding board member of both the Hip-Hop Association (H2A) and the Blackout Arts Collective not for- profit organizations and since 2007, he has served as a US Cultural Envoy for the United States Department of State. (www.globalblock.org)
Brian Adams		Brian Adams is a freelance photographer based in Anchorage, Alaska. His work has been published nationally and internationally in publications including The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Time, and The New York Times. He specializes in environmental portraiture; some of his notable subjects have included musical artist Time Easton, Iditarod champion Lance Mackey, former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, and others. His recent collections depicting life in rural Native Alaskan villages are currently on display at the Alaska House Gallery in New York City and the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts in Princeton, New Jersey.
Mark Lautman		Mark Lautman is a founding director of the Community Economics Lab, a private not-for-profit think tank innovating new approaches to economic development that work in a labor and capital constrained economy. His consulting practice is conducted under Lautman Economic Architecture LLC. He is a frequent conference speaker and author of a new book on economic development entitled Catastrophic Full Employment, to be published in early 2010.
Lillian Montoya-Rael		Lillian Montoya-Rael is the Statewide Coordinator for the NM Early Childhood Development Partnership and the Owner of LMR Consulting LLC. Her firm helps corporate and non-profit leaders navigate through everyday strategic and organizational challenges. The firm designs, develops, and implements programs that make our communities better places to live and work. Whether it’s a new initiative or an established program that needs attention, she helps clients to implement collaborative, innovative and effective solutions to address their unique needs. She has over 20 years of direct work experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. In addition, she promotes corporate citizenship through her active leadership roles in community and state organizations. Her professional and volunteer experiences have immersed her in such areas as education, economic development, community development, and corporate giving. Her varied background has positioned her to positively influence issue management in the public-private space.
Alice Loy		Alice Loy has worked in Costa Rica, Mexico, and the American Southwest as a natural resource management consultant with native communities. Having built successful multiple-bottom lines companies, Alice turned her attention to the emerging field of Cultural Entrepreneurship and in 2006 co-founded the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship (GCCE) with the mission of bringing entrepreneurship resources into communities steeped in culture and struggling economically. Alice lives with her husband and two children in New Mexico, the "Home of Cultural Entrepreneurship".
Naomi Natale		Naomi Natale is an installation artist, photographer and social activist. Born in Perugia, Italy and raised on the East Coast of the United States, she currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Naomi is most interested in the links between art and activism, using art to inspire social change. She accomplishes this by creating and directing large-scale art installations that engage hundreds and thousands of artists, activists and children to act on behalf of a social cause. Naomi believes that by inspiring action through art, you can change the world one person at a time. She was the founder and director of The Cradle Project, a fundraising art installation designed to publicize the plight of the 48 million children orphaned by disease and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, Naomi is the founder and director of a new project titled One Million Bones, a fundraising art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims killed or displaced by present genocides.
Vanessa Fox		Vanessa Fox, called a "cyberspace visionary" by Seattle Business Monthly, is an expert in understanding customer acquisition from organic search. She shares her perspective on how this impacts marketing and user experience at ninebyblue.com and provides authoritative search-friendly design patterns for developers at janeandrobot.com. She's also an entrepreneur-in-residence with Ignition Partners, Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land, and host of the weekly podcast Office Hours. She previously created Google’s Webmaster Central, which provides both tools and community to help website owners improve their sites to gain more customers from search and was instrumental in the sitemaps.org alliance of Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Live Search. She was recently named one of Seattle’s 2008 top 25 innovators and entrepreneurs. Look for her book Marketing in the Age of Google in early 2010.