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And now, here are the people who have submitted sessions:

Cassie Bair

Cassie serves as Director of Marketing for Mobile Accord. Prior to Mobile Accord, Cassie worked in the nonprofit community in cause marketing, communications and membership development. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Appalachian State University in Applied Communications and a Master of Arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Integrated Marketing Communications.

  • Superman & Clark Kent: Mobile’s Dual Role in Saving the World One Text Message at a Time

Timothy Bates

Timothy Bates is a Product Management and Strategic Marketer with over 20 years experience with high tech and communications industry experience. Today after successful leadership roles in start-ups and turnarounds he works on longer term engagements as an interim executive functions helping align technology with markets so that they define and deliver value.

  • Lean Product Management – A Learning & Agile Product Approach

Marianne Carr

Marianne Witterholt Carr has over 20 years of marketing and consumer insights experience working with such Fortune 100 companies as Wal-Mart, Kmart, Dairy Queen and Whirlpool. Her passion is inspiring innovation in brands, projects, products and people. Carr recently earned a 4.0 and a master’s in Leadership and Organizations with a specialty in Strategic Innovation and Change.

  • Innovating the Innovation Matrix: Radical Innovation re-defined.

Catherine Connor

Catherine Connor is a product manager at Rally Software. She is passionate about providing solutions to portfolio managers and product managers working with agile teams. Catherine has over 20 years of experience in supporting product management solutions from Borland, Rational and now Rally. Lately she has played both the product owner role and product manager role for Rally agile offerings.

  • Experiences in leveraging idea sites to better understand your users
  • Product Owner and Product Manager Scars Directly from the Horses’ Mouth
  • Product Managers and Product Owners: Cutting Their Teeth

Isaac Davenport

Isaac Davenport PhD is CTO of Syncroness Product Development. Isaac has been involved in dozens of product development programs spanning industries from medical, oil and gas, instrumentation, consumer, to avionics. He has worked with dozens of firms and seen the product development approach of startups and fortune 500 companies from the inside.

  • It will cost how much to develop this product!?

Pamela DeBellis

Pam is a medical device and healthcare strategy consultant who focuses on innovation, commercialization, and communications. She has successfully developed, managed, marketed and launched numerous products exceeding $60 million in collective sales globally for Medtronic and other healthcare companies. Pam has an educational background in materials and mechanical engineering and has been awarded two U.S. patents for medical products.

  • “So you want loyal customers. Tell me about your customer experience planning process.”

Jamie Duklas

Jamie Duklas leads the social media division at Booyah Online Advertising. He is on the board for the Social Media Club and serves as a guest lecturer for the University of Colorado. Jamie has an MBA from the University of Denver and a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

  • Exploring the Power of Social Media

Keith Duncan

Keith Duncan is an NPDP with 10 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies on how to align their new product development, ideation, strategy and portfolio management processes.

  • The Chasm in Your Portfolio

John Farnbach

John helps company leaders get better new product results without all the crisis management and fire fighting. He is Principal of Silver Streak Partners LLC, and has over 35 years’ experience consulting in, doing and managing product development.

  • Need a Better Way to Measure New Product Investments?
  • What’s Holding Back your New Product Ship?

Jennifer Fawcett

Jennifer has been providing product management expertise for over 20 years, and loves being a product owner. Jennifer spent several years in Product Management at Rational Software (now IBM-Rational), as product manager for the Requirements Management business unit, and in their IP division, bringing their thought leadership and process education to market. Jennifer is Senior Product Owner for Tendril.

  • Product Owner and Product Manager Scars Directly from the Horses’ Mouth
  • Product Managers and Product Owners: Cutting Their Teeth

Michael Jones

Michael is Vice President of Focused Test Inc. FTI designs and markets test equipment for high volume semiconductor electrical testing. Michael has a background in engineering, applications, and customer development and holds an MBA from University of Denver.

  • Startup Product Management

Jorge Latre

Jorge R. Latre works with Global 1000 companies to embed systematic innovation – from the front-end to commercialization – into companies such as Whirlpool, Shell, Crayola, and Best Buy. He worked with NASA as an engineer in mission planning, simulations, and advanced software applications for ten years. Jorge holds an MBA from MIT as well as MSEE and BSEE degrees.

  • When a new product challenges the company’s status quo

Dick Lee

Dick Lee is president of Value Innovations. He is a past member of the BOD and 3 time past chairman of the Industrial Research Institute. Dick has been the VP and General Manager of 2 divisions of Fortune 500 companies, the VP R&D at Pharmaseal, the manufacturing arm of American Hospital Supply, and the VP Strategic Business Operations at Johns Manville.

  • OFFSHORING – Is this a right decision for your product?

Larry McKeogh

Using 7 years of high performance camera hardware design and 11 years of software and hardware product management/marketing experience Larry blends technology and customer needs understanding to develop just the right product.

  • Take Stock of Your Product

John Milburn

John Milburn has “walked the walk” in technology product management. Throughout his 20+ year career, he has managed over 40 hardware and software products, as well as founded and headed marketing for a venture-backed startup, Lane15 Software. John is an instructor and consultant for Pragmatic Marketing, where he works with all types of technology companies around the globe.

  • The Future of Product Management

Larry Marine

A veteran UX design expert, Larry has created market dominating product and website designs for top companies, such as FedEx, Proflowers, American Airlines, Cardinal Health. He is known as an expert by other UX experts and clients alike. Larry’s presentations were well reviewed at last year’s Product Camp.

  • Finding design mistakes that kill success

Michael May

Michael May is a seasoned product management veteran with over 14 years experience working for companies that create both hardware and software products in the utilities, physical security, radio communications and flow measurement industries. He has product development process, marketing and project management experience and has managed products in all stages of the product life cycle process.

  • Sales Driven Voice of the Customer – The Horror!

Ronica Roth

As Solutions Evangelist, Ronica owns Rally’s services strategy, developing new coaching and training “products”. As an Agile Coach, she helps organizations adopt Agile for both strategy & execution. As a 15-year software professional, she has been BA, PO and all-around bridge between biz & dev.

  • Agile Portfolio Steering

Gordon Sims

Gordon has served as vice president of product strategy, client program management, and service sales and delivery functions for McKesson Corporation’s healthcare IT business. Previously, he ran a Boulder-based sporting goods company and was a corporate banker early in his career. His focus is on turning satisfied customers into loyal customers.

  • “So you want loyal customers. Tell me about your customer experience planning process.”

Bill Quinn

Bill Quinn is the VP of Marketing at Trada.com. Bill comes from a variety of product marketing and management roles that uniquely qualify him to speak on marketing metrics.

  • Measure Everything – Knowing your funnels, metrics and how to manipulate them for your advantage