- Aaron Salmon - @aaronsalmon - Jovial lad & life enthusiast, UI Designer/Developer, Co-Founder of OhSoWe
- Adrian Holovaty
- Alex Bratton - @alexbratton - Lextech Global Services - serious mobile apps , Lextech Labs - Critical video, anytime, anywhere
- Ali Pasha
- Anders Conbere
- Andrew Huff, editor & publisher of Gapers Block, content guy at Weightshift
- Andrew Mason Groupon
- Andrew Rench
- Ari Gesher - Senior Software Engineer & Blogger at Palantir Technologies
- Arun Sivashankaran - Co-Founder at OhSoWe, @arun_76
- Atkins Meyer - Engineering Director at Threadless. Console hacker and Android nerd.
- Aza Raskin Humanized, Mozilla, now Massive Health
- Barry Rodgers - Principal, North Side College Prep High School
- Ben Collins-Sussman - Google Chicago; open source software, photography, musical theater composition, amateur radio, piano, banjo, interactive fiction
- Ben Huh
- Benjamin T Stanley - Research and Development Chef | Basic American Foods | food genius | food innovation | taste consulting | fermentation | @chefbtstanley
- Bill Guschwan
- Bill Hammack - creates short videos on engineering (sample video, or most recent series.) To identify at conference use this tip/comment from a Reddit reader about my appearance: "Mark Hamill has really let himself go." [drop24 on Reddit ] University of Illinois
- Blagica (blah-gee-tsa) Bottigliero - Social Media Director, Motorola Mobility. Rockin' mom to Lily.
- Bob Lee
- Borja Sotomayor - Scientific Writer + CS Lecturer, University of Chicago. Community Manager, OpenNebula.
- Brad Fitzpatrick
- Brandy Agerbeck | graphic facilitator, artist, drawing enthusiast | tweets, tumbles, flickers, videos
- Brett Elemendorf
- Brett Goldstein - Director, Predictive Analytics - Chicago Police Department
- Brett Slatkin
- Brian Aker - Data Differential, rock climber, data design, Drizzle, Monorails
- Brian Duncan
- Brian Fitzpatrick - Google, Chicago, IL. Data Liberation and Transparency Engineering
- Brynn Evans
- Charles Slutzky
- Chloe Johnston
- Chris Gansen
- Chris Messina
- Christen Carter - Owner at Busy Beaver Button Co. and co-curator of the world's only Button Museum!
- Christie Hefner - Former Chairman & CEO, Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
- Christine McClure - librarian, photographer, data geek
- Chuck Templeton - Co-Founder OhSoWe.com, Founder OpenTable.com, Eco Alarmist, Student of Leadership and Entrepreneurship. @CTemp "suck it"
- Cole Pierce - Artist, Music Blogger at Field Mic, Videographer and Educator at Chicago Teachers' Center of NEIU
- Conrad Jahrling
- Craighton Berman - Industrial Designer & Creative Director, Chicago, Ill. Scott VanDenPlas' Jack.
- Dan Berlin - Google DC. Public Sector Engineering and Open source lawyer.
- Dan O'Neil - EveryBlock, CityPayments, Demolition Hold List & CTA Alerts.
- Dan Ratner
- Dan Roth
- Dan Sinker
- Dan Woods
- Daniel Sauter - UIC New Media Arts, Processing.Android
- Dan Yocum - incredibly boring and nondescript gov't title - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Mild mannered grid & cloud computing physics guy by day...
- Dave Baum
- Dave Beazley
- Dave Dribin - @ddribin - Apple, Chicago, IL; retro-games, emulation, chiptune, electronics hacking, Arduino
- Dave Goodman
- David Anderson - Google. Student pilot, electronics hacking, emulation, reinventing rounder wheels
- David Chelimsky - DRW Trading. Lead maintainer of RSpec. Author: The RSpec Book
- David Falck - Peaksmart, CumulateLabs, memorizing old Scottish poems ;)
- David Schalliol - managing editor at Gapers Block, visiting assistant professor at IIT, photographer
- Dean Kamen - FIRST - DEKA Research, Manchester, NH
- Dennis McClendon
- Dirk Elmendorf
- Don Sritong
- Doug Bradbury Software Craftsman at 8th Light, Inc Founder of Walk 'n Code
- Doug van der Molen
- Dug Song - Co-founder Duo Security, Arbor Networks, Tech Brewery, a2geeks, a2newtech, a2skatepark, OpenSSH, etc. #startups #security #skateboarding
- Dylan Richard
- Ed Zotti
- Eric Lunt - CTO, BrightTag ... former CTO & co-founder of FeedBurner
- Eric Peyton
- Eszter Hargittai - research on online participation, information seeking (prof @Northwestern) webuse.org
- Evan Miller
- Francesca Slade
- Gabi Fitz
- Gabriel Burt
- Gordon Kummel
- Gwendolyn Graff
- Harper Reed
- Ian Bicking (or maybe more relevantly), Mozilla Labs, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Ioan Raicu - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology -- expertise in distributed systems, grids, clouds, and supercomputers
- Jacob Lee - Google New York - @arthurdenture
- Jacob Matthews
- Jake Trussell - Creative Director @ World Business Chicago - Music Producer/DJ/Remixer @ Mashit.com
- Jason Gessner - Google Chicago - Tech Lead/Manager Display Advertising - maker, artist, dad, Milwaukeean, comic book nerd, abrasive music aficionado.
- Jason Huggins @hugs
- Jason Kunesh, founder Fuzzy Math user experience studio in Chicago. @jdkunesh or jdkunesh.com Chicagoan, geek, I know what Jeff Solin's lip tattoo says.
- Jason Tillery
- Jeff Solin - Owner @ Solin Systems Consulting, CS Teacher / curriculum enthusiast @ Northside College Prep, Co-founder Chicago chapter of CSTA, musician @ home, motorcycle rebuilder @ garage
- Jeff Veen
- Jen Masengarb - Senior Mgr of Educational Research @ Chicago Architecture Foundation; developing national digital architecture curriculum for HS students. K-12 design educator, writer of Chicago haikus.
- Jessica Thebus
- Jim Coudal
- Joe Born Chicago Electronics Entrepreneur, Founder Neuros, Digital Innovations @JoeBorn
- Joe Kottke
- John Bracken
- John Tolva
- Jon Trowbridge - Google Chicago
- Jonathan Lewin
- Joseph Baldwin - artist, & founder of noisivelvet, and heading up the mobile garden project
- Joshua Fritz
- Juliana Rotich
- Julie Shapiro - Artistic Director, Third Coast International Audio Festival (story + sound) / gallopinging
- Justin Massa - metro chicago info center | food genius | gov data | maps | equity | boxing - @justinmassa
- Justine Nagan - Executive Director, Kartemquin Films- Executive Producer, The Interrupters, Director/Producer, Typeface
- Karen Wickre
- Karl Fogel -- open source, civic software, radical copyright reform
- Kate McGroarty - Recent winner and resident of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry's "Month at the Museum" contest. Chicago based theatre artist, educator and novice improv guitarist.
- Katherine McCarthy
- Ken Pelletier
- Kurt Preston
- Larry Adams - VP of product @ narrative science, youth soccer coach, go Steelers! (sorry Dean)
- Leon Chism
- Lindsay Gaskins
- Lori Park
- Mark Achler - SVP of Video Game Group at Redbox - introduction manager for the Apple //c.
- Marc Hannah
- Marcin Wichary – user experience designer at Google, HTML5 advocate, Pac-Man enthusiast :·), photographer
- Mark Hayward - Juggler, Yo-yer, Self-Proclaimed Cool Guy. Sculptor and maker of things. As seen on Letterman.
- Mark Spencer
- Matt Gornick - Software Engineer at Inventables, CEO at OrangeQC, Co-Founder at IlliniCrime.com | Blog | @mgornick
- Matt Hancock
- Matt Hansen - Google Chicago
- Matt Maloney
- Matt Shobe
- Michael Slaby
- Michael Tolva
- Michael Wielgat
- Mike Hakimi - mike@hakimi.com - Amateur blacksmith and heavy metal guitarist. Builder of telecom and tech companies in my spare time.
- Mike Hettwer
- Moshe Tamssot - Entrepreneur - Founder, CookItFor.Us, Managing Partner, Innovation Center, Inc., Founder, Monks of Invention , Intrapreneur - Founder, Kraft New Services, Inc., GE Capital, American Express
- Nathan Ingersoll
- Nell Taylor - Founder/Director, Chicago Underground Library
- Nick Piepmeier - Google Chicago; Data Liberator, game{r, developer}, generative media fiend.
- Nick Rosa
- Nicole Montanye
- Noah Hurwitz - Founder Gravity Mobile , musician, car nut, vinyl toy maker and collector @hurwizle
- Pallavi Kaushik
- Patrick McCarthy - Inventor, Painter, Member of the circuit bent duo, Roth Mobot, Director of The Rubber Monkey Puppet Company, Instructor at the Experimental Sound Studio and the Old Town School of Folk Music, Host of the weekly Experimental Electronics eSymposium
- Paul Smith, co-founder EveryBlock, programmer, map maker, Friends of Bloomingdale Trail, Election Day Advent Calendar
- Pek Pongpaet - ShelfLuv, BizTome, @pekpongpaet
- Philip Tadros, Founder & CEO of Doejo @philcoextra
- Ravi Singh - Mobile Researcher, interested in all things Mobile on any platform from Blackberry , Android, iOS to Beagle Boards and modified Arduino's. If we can tweak it , I am interested , if we can't let's find a way in.
- Richard Yoo - Founder and former CEO of both Rackspace and ServerBeach - http://www.richardyoo.com - @richardyoo
- Richie Vos
- Rick Clark
- Roshan Choxi - Developer at Groupon, Developer at merge.fm | @choxi
- Ross Kimbarovsky, co-Founder crowdSPRING.com
- Russell Gayle - Google Chicago
- Sandor Weisz - (@santheo, @pzlr). Designer, EveryBlock. Author, The Puzzler.
- Sara Schnadt - artist, curator, co-founder of Chicago Artists Resource website, dev for Get Your Sh*t Together artists' business software
- Scott Brown
- Scott Robbin - Web Developer, Weightshift. Music and movie enthusiast. Novice drummer.
- Scott Robertson
- Scott VanDenPlas - Philosopher. Futurist. Everyone's pal. Craighton Berman's Tyler Durden.
- Shaun Cox
- Shelly Mujtaba - Co-founder Peaksmart, CumulateLabs
- Stel Valavanis
- Steve Brown - Trick Creator at 365 YoYo Tricks, curator at Steve Brown Gallery, Marketing Director at Bigshot Toyworks, National Yo-Yo Master
- Steve Delahoyde
- Sue Khim
- Suneel Gupta - Founder@KahaniMovement; ProductGuy@Groupon
- Tasos Karahalios
- Ted Homatas
- Theo Gray
- Tom Berend - Lead Innovator - Nike Global Footwear - Innovation Kitchen - tom.berend@nike.com - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdgsXZtxLKs
- Tommy Stephenson - Inventor, Experimental Musician, Member of the circuit bent duo Roth Mobot
- Victoria Groom
- Will Leinweber
- Brynn Evans
- Will Robinson - Google Chicago
- Zach Kaplan - Inventables, Chicago, IL - We're an online hardware store for innovators catch me at @zkaplan or our company @inventables
- Zach Smith
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