Twitter/Real-Time Discussion
Twitter's rise to fame has made it the poster child for the Real-Time web, offering new opportunities in communication and collaboration. Many challenges still remain for segment in its infancy, including customer experience, technology and monetization. Twitter's amazing growth has landed it with close to 30 Million users and growing. Here what's next in this space and how to capitalize on Twitter as a tool.
 Robbie Allen
Founder & CEO, StatSheet Network
Robbie is the Founder & CEO of the StatSheet Network, a collection of web properties that are giving sports fans interesting new ways to visualize sports stats. Since he founded StatSheet in 2007, Robbie has developed and launched four websites (Statsheet.com, StatPlot.com, StatFix.com, StatTweets.com), won a NCIDEA grant, been banned from Twitter, and developed a new sports content platform.
After becoming the leading source for College Basketball stats on the web, Robbie is now expanding the StatSheet Network to cover all mainstream sports.
 Don Brown
President & Cofounder, Twitpay
Don Brown is currently the President and a co-founder of Twitpay, which is dedicated to bringing commerce to Twitter. Twitpay enables users to send payments without registering for an account. Previously Don worked at IBM, Earthlink, Compucredit, and Safenet. He has over 15 years of experience in IT, as a software architect, infrastructure architect, security architect with deep data warehousing and analytics expertise.
 David Eckoff
Co-founder,Spitter; President, Revolutionary Ventures
David Eckoff is co-founder of Spitter, a real-time social news network for sports fans; and president of Revolutionary Ventures, a consulting company that specializes in taking revolutionary ideas from the drawing board to market. For the past three decades, Eckoff has been an innovator in start up companies and Fortune 500 alike. Previously, he served as Vice President, New Product Development & Innovation at Turner Broadcasting (CNN, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network); Senior Director at RealNetworks; Senior Vice-President at Rivals.com; and Founder of Inside Carolina.
In his consulting work, Eckoff helps businesses create new growth through innovation. Clients have included Kleiner Perkins backed Zazzle.com, live interactive broadcasting platform Ustream.TV, 3D Virtual World innovator Kaneva, and more.
 Jeramie McPeek
VP Digital, Phoenix Suns
Entering his 18th season with the National Basketball Association's Phoenix Suns this fall, Jeramie leads the organization’s digital and social media efforts. Under his direction, Suns.com has twice been named the top team site in the NBA and received the Website of the Year Award from the NBA in 2007. In his role as vice president of digital for the Suns and the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, McPeek oversees eight in-house websites, as well as the Suns' social media channels on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube.
In addition to his position with the Suns, McPeek is the "editor at large" for the NBA's official publications and has had nearly a thousand articles published in national magazines over the last 14 years.
 Jason Caplain (Moderator)
General Partner and Co-founder, Southern Capitol Ventures
One of the faces of the internet economy in the southeast, Jason is a general partner and co-founder of Southern Capitol Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with portfolio . A frequent speaker at industry events and conferences, Jason is very active in the technology scene of the southeast and mid-atlantic. His blog can be read here.
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