Archive for the Speakers 2012 Category

Principal Scientist of Analytics, Lithium Technologies Inc. Michael Wu is the Principal Scientist of Analytics at Lithium Technologies Inc. Michael received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley’s Biophysics graduate program, where he modeled visual processing within the human brain using math, physics, and machine learning. He is currently

Sarah Milstein is co-author, with Tim O’Reilly, ofThe Twitter Book and a frequent speaker on social media for business. From 2009 through 2011, she ran the Web 2.0 events for UBM TechWeb, in conjunction with O’Reilly Media, and was co-chair of the influential Web 2.0 Expo. Previously, she

Director, Persuasive Tech Lab Executive Director, Mobile Health 2012 at Stanford BJ Fogg directs the Persuasive Tech Lab at Stanford, where he teaches behavior design. A psychologist and innovator, he devotes at least half of his time to industry projects. His work empowers people to think clearly

Entrepreneur and Speaker Chief Strategist and Co-Founder, Involver Rahim Fazal considers it a person’s duty to always stretch personal limits and therefore grow as a human being. Certainly he has put that belief into practice throughout most of his life. At a young age, he is already

Creative Director, Rock Health Leslie oversees Rock Health’s marketing, social media and curriculum. As a designer and patient advocate, she helps startups with branding and communication. Prior to Rock Health, Leslie worked as one of the first employees at a VC-backed start up, and spent over eight

Associate Professor at University of Colorado Denver Business School Sheana Bull, Ph.D., M.P.H. is trained in Public Health and Sociology and works as an Associate Professor with appointments in the Department of Community and Behavioral Health, Colorado School of Public Health and in the Department of Health

Impatient Science Dr. Roni Zeiger is the former Chief Health Strategist at Google where he led efforts ranging from Google Flu Trends to Symptom Search. He is now co-founder and CEO of Impatient Science, which aims to leverage the knowledge of expert patients in order to accelerate

Director, Calming Technology Lab, Stanford University Director, R&D, bLife Inc. Neema directs the Stanford Calming Technology Lab. He is currently teaching “d.compress: Designing Calm” at the Stanford d.school. He is also director of research & development at bLife, which is creating the world’s first personal wellbeing service.

Vice President, Communications & Marketing Richard leads PR, brand strategy and marketing activities at the nonprofit HopeLab and its spinoff social enterprise Zamzee . At HopeLab, founded by Pam Omidyar, Richard drives dissemination of insights from HopeLab’s R&D work to harness the power and appeal of technology