blake folgado Co-Founder of Venteo, first out of garage company

Award winning UI UX designer with over 20 years of experience. Designed for Alexa (Amazon), CBS Sports, Foreclosure.com, and many startups.

Brendan Sera-Shriar a.k.a. digibomb Brendan Sera-Shriar has been an interactive designer, developer, college and university professor, community manager, author, consultant, and professional speaker at some of the largest corporations and festivals in the world, including Microsoft, Mozilla Firefox, Sun Microsystems, WordCamp, BlogWorld, SXSW and more. His work has also appeared in TechCrunch, TechVibes, WordPress TV, and a host of other blogs. He was also featured in the October 2012 issue of Marketing Magazine. Not only does Brendan help others build their businesses he has also founded a few himself, including StartupBump, Creer Magazine, and PressWork just to name a few. Despite being known best for his work as a WordPress designer, developer, and WordCamp speaker and organizer, Brendan’s best communications skills lie in his ability to help organizations understand how they can build communities around their products and services. Brendan is currently working on an e-book with his new business partner Brendan Tully Walsh who he has founded Brendan & Brendan Consulting with. Specialties: Public Speaking, Presentation Desig,n Project Management, Event Production, Documentation, Blogging, Social Media and Strategy, Training, Marketing, Branding, Creative Campaigns, Community Management and Building, Connecting People.

CEO of Forty (http://forty.co), a nationally-respected design firm specializing in deep customer experiences. Author and speaker on design, branding, user experience (UX), and marketing.