Speakers

Keynote: Mike Volpe

Mike Volpe is VP of Inbound Marketing at HubSpot, an Internet marketing software company, where he leads the company’s lead generation and branding strategy through inbound marketing, including blogging, search engine optimization, video marketing, and social media.  Since Mike joined HubSpot, the company has grown from about a dozen beta customers to over 3,000 customers, from 5 employees to 160 employees, and raised $33 million of venture capital in two rounds of financing.

Mike is a cutting-edge B2B inbound marketer (@mvolpe) with over 19,000 followers on Twitter, and speaks at numerous conferences including Inbound Marketing Summit, SEM for SMB Conference, MITX, Worldcom PR Conference, AMA Albany, NEDMA Conference, Boston University PRSSA and Harvard Business School Marketing Conference.  Mike also hosts a weekly live marketing video podcast HubSpot TV and blogs frequently.

Before HubSpot, Mike worked as Director, Marketing Operations at SolidWorks where he launched a number of inbound marketing initiatives such as SEO, PPC, blogging and podcasting.  Mike is an MBA graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management and received his B.A. in Economics and Government, summa cum laude, from Bowdoin College.  He is a Co-Founder and Director of the Boston Scholars Program and a former Director of the Alumni Fund at Bowdoin College.

Keynote: Patrick Schwerdtfeger

Patrick Schwerdtfeger,  International Speaker and Author of “Webify Your Business – Internet Marketing Secrets for the Self-Employed” (2009) as well as “Make Yourself Useful – Marketing in the 21st Century” (2008), will be a Keynote Speaker at SocialBizWorld 2010 – Fall.

Patrick spoke at 127 events in 2009, and speaks about the Online Branding, Modern Entrepreneurship and the Social Media Revolution at conferences and business events around the world.

Patrick is the founder of Tactical Execution, an online marketing agency and is also the organizer of the Entrepreneur & Small Business Academy, one of the nation’s 50 largest entrepreneur clubs. Patrick’s educational podcasts have been downloaded over 50,000x and his articles have been featured on thousands of different websites and blogs.

Patrick has a gift for explaining complicated subjects in simple language, making his presentations empowering and insightful. He is a prolific content creator and offers resources including YouTube videos, podcasts, articles, downloadable PDFs, blog posts and tips via Twitter.

Keynote: Roohi Moolla

Born in Burma, growing up in England, Scotland and Wales, moving to Canada with my family as a teenager and then to the US as an adult, Roohi Moolla has had the privilege and pleasure of having lived and traveled all over the world. With more than 28 years of experience spanning careers in Architecture and Information Technology, Roohi’s unique background in the creative and technology fields has given her a passion for solving business problems with out-of-the-box thinking.

In her early career, Roohi was involved in a number of large-scale residential and commercial ventures in Toronto, Canada. For the past 16 years, her career in website technology has included a number of software startups, including the dating site that became Match.com, a proprietary Bid/RFP procurement and subscription system (now publicly traded as Onvia) and a Syndicate Municipal Bond Trading platform, BondDeskSyndicate – which gave me the opportunity to travel all over the US to train corporate executives including underwriters, bankers, and investors.

These days, Roohi writes, speaks, blogs and acts as a resource for all things Social and Digital Media, including SocialBizNow,  a news and information website on social media, technology and the digital web. She is also the founder of Neighborhoodnow, an online community portal, and the Producer of SocialBizWorld.

Roohi holds a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from the University of Manitoba and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Arizona, and is a Microsoft Certified Professional.

Special Guest: The TwitchHiker aka Paul Smith

Before he was a writer, blogger and author, Paul Smith was an award-winning radio producer, trainee rocket scientist and almost, but not quite, inventor of the portable toaster.

In March 2009, he had an idea to test whether relationships formed through social media networks had value in the real world, and embarked upon the Twitchhiker project – an attempt to travel to the opposite side of the planet within 30 days, relying entirely on the goodwill and generosity of people using Twitter.

Unable to ask for help, pay for transport or accommodation or plan more than three days’ ahead, Paul depended on offers made by individuals and businesses on Twitter to travel from Europe, across the US and into the Southern hemisphere. Along the way, his journey saw him spend time in the company of numerous Twitter users in Petaluma, Sonoma and San Francisco.

In March this year, Paul received the Shorty Award for best use of real-time content, and in August his book - Twitchhiker: How One Man Travelled the World by Twitter - was published by Summersdale. As well as continuing to blog about travel at Twitchhiker.com, Paul operates a successful digital agency developing mobile applications.