| Aaron Salmon |
| Adam Siegel |
| Adrian Holovaty |
| Ali Pasha |
| Anders Conbere |
| Andre Pluess |
| Andrew Mason, founder of Groupon |
| Anjali Shenoy - Founder juntese.com - Integrated social networking for users in micro communities. |
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| Atkins Meyer - Solutions Architect at Threadless.com / skinnyCorp |
| Barry Rodgers - Principal at Northside Prep. Most interested in creating the Creating the 21st Century Classroom -- enhancing learning through 1:1 mobile computing. |
| Ben Collins-Sussman |
Ben Hagen - Likes to break things and then make them (more) secure.
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Ben Schmitz - chitown hacker
Ben Singer |
| Benjamin T Stanley - Bell Flavors and Fragrances (Chicago, IL) Research and Development Chef and Passionate Foodie. Looking to organize and inspire fun Chicago dining events. |
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| Borja Sotomayor - Computer Science Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL); involved in grid computing and cloud computing research; open source developer on the Haizea and OpenNebula projects; CS education enthusiast. |
| Brett Elemendorf |
| Brian Duncan |
| Brian Fitzpatrick - Google (Chicago, IL) Interested in building an engineering culture in Chicago, the Open Web, and customer service |
| Britt Selvitelle - Twitter (San Francisco, CA) Interested in people getting passionate about things. |
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| Brynn Evans (San Francisco, CA) |
| Charles Adler - Co-Founder of Kickstarter : passionate @ ux, design, social technologies, and an open web. looking fwd to learning something ne |
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| Charlie Catlett |
| Charlie Festa |
chetan conikee
Chris Duesing - Java and Erlang developer, currently at the Chicago Climate Exchange.
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Chris Gansen (Chicago, IL) - web stuff for IBM, always in search of a good taco.
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Chris McAvoy - VP Technology, skinnyCorp / Threadless - but I'd really like to talk about roasting coffee or flying kites. I'd like to hear someone else talk about server side javascript.
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| Chris Messina (San Francisco, CA) |
| Chuck Templeton |
| Cole Pierce (Chicago, IL) Artist, makes paintings, sound and video installations, and mix CDs. Also a videographer for the Chicago Teachers Center of NEIU |
| Conrad Jahrling |
| Cory Wright |
| Craighton Berman (Chicago, IL) - Designer of objects, interactions, and experiences. (craightonberman.com fueledbycoffee.com) |
| Dan O'Neil |
| Dan Ratner (Chicago, IL) - Serial entrepreneur, author, boulevardier, and man about town. |
| Dan Sinker - Asst Professor @ Columbia College Chicago, founder cellstories.net |
| Dave Baum - Google (Chicago, IL) |
| Drew Robinson (Chicago, IL) |
| Dave Goodman |
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| David Chelimsky |
David Falck
David Wachtendonk (Chicago, IL) - Creator of interactive murder mystery events, teambuilders, and stuff. Interested in learning more about mobile goe-based games.
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Drew Olson
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| Dylan Richard |
| Eric Lunt |
| Eric Marcoullier |
| Eric Peyton |
Frank Wiles - Revolution Systems, LLC - PostgreSQL and Django, centered around scaling and performance. Lawrence, Kansas.
Genevieve Thiers - Founder of Sittercity and Chicago's opera-singing entrepreneur. (Free, legal music after the jump.)
Griffin Caprio - Organizer Chicago Lean Startup Circle & A Part-Time CTO. |
| Gwendolyn Graff |
| Harper Reed |
| Howard Tullman |
| Ian Bicking - Man At Large (Minneapolis) - expanding the reach of the open source ethic, civics, Python stuff |
| Igor Stamenkovic |
| Ioan Raicu |
| Jacob Lee - Google (New York, erstwhile of Chicago) |
| Jason Gessner |
| Jason Huggins - (Oak Park, IL) - Founder, Sauce Labs Inc. Creator, Selenium web testing library. Interested in cloud app development; open source hardware hacking. (Arduino!) |
Jason Kunesh - Fuzzy Math (Chicago): luvs ux, service design, internet of things, social responsibility, guitars, comics, narrative arts.
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| Jason Rexilius |
| Jason Tillery - thinklinkr: Interested in real-time web application development. |
Jeff Judge
Jeff Talbot
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| Jim Kimball |
| Joe Born -Neuros Technology and Digital Innovations (Chicago, IL) Interested in bringing innovation and brainpower back to physical goods |
| Joe Kottke |
| Joe Van Wettering |
John Bracken
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| Jon Trowbridge |
| Jonathan Lewin |
| Jordan Ho |
Josh McAdams
Joshua Davison - Lead Software Engineer at Centro. Professional interests: Software, software teams. Personal interests: the intersection of technology with audio and visual art.
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| Juliana Rotich |
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Kapil Chaudhary - CoFounder and Managing Partner of I2A, CoFounder and Managing Director of Excelerate
Ken Pelletier |
| Lara Miller |
Leon Chism - cto of viewpoints, former chief architect of orbitz and sometimes hacker. thinking about teams, games, serious play, knowledge acquisition, and building my outboard memory.
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Mark Hayward - Full-time professional juggler, and yo-yo guy. Cofounder of howtoyoyo.com Also interested in the Model A Ford (1928-31).
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| Matt Hansen - Google (Chicago, IL) |
| Matthew Spenko |
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Moshe Tamssot - Entrepreneur & Intrapreneur (American Express, GE, Kraft Foods).
Founder, The Innovation Center, Inc.
Founder, The Monks of Invention
Founder, Kraft New Services, Inc.
Food Hacker & BBQ Pit Master
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| Nate Kontny - Co-founder of Inkling, doing prediction markets and other collaboration tools. I've been blogging a lot here. |
| Nathan Ingersoll |
| Nikola Milivojevic - (Chicago, IL), CTO @ MagDrive, start-up that brings change in Wind Industry. Likes cycling, travel and good food! |
| Noah Hurwitz |
Pallavi Kaushik - (Chicago, IL) Technical innovator at Motorola Applied Research. MIT Media Lab alum. Enjoy linking user research and technology to business needs.
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| Pek Pongpaet |
| Phil Tadros |
| Rania El-Sorrogy |
| Ravi Singh - (Burbs,IL)Interested in all things mobile and portable from UMPC's &mobile platforms Android,iPhone,Blackberry,WinMo,S60. Even the Zune ! |
| Richard Yoo |
Richie Vos - Web apps, aquariums, scuba (Chicago, IL)
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Ross Kimbarovsky - coFounder, crowdSPRING.
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| Ryan Blitstein - The SGE Fund (Chicago, IL) - Interested in fostering (and funding) innovation for social benefit |
Sara Schnadt - artist, co-founder Chicago Artists Resource, i <3 data aesthetics/vis, empowering artists w/ open source
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Scott Robbin - formerly of Songza, currently of Weightshift.
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| Scott van den Plas |
| Scott Wilson |
Sean Chou
Sean Murdock - Executive Director of the NanoBusiness Alliance
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| Shelly Mujtaba |
| Stel Valavanis - onShore Networks and AM3 and ECMC and We the People Media (Chicago, IL) interested in asterisk, mythtv, openwrt |
| Steve Brown - Steve Brown Gallery & Steve Brown Is My Hero (Cleveland, OH) - yo-yo performer + art dealer + entrepreneur |
| Steve Cardamone -- -- www.givesomethingbackfoundation.org -- "Lockport, IL" -- Passionate about humanity and helping folks find and use their gifts. MBA with a heart. Interested in blending awesome business practices with nonprofits. |
| Steve Delahoyde - Filmmaker and design/architecture writer. Spends days doing things of all kinds at Coudal Partners |
| Ted Homatas |
| Tiffany Holmes |
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| Zach Kaplan - Inventables (Chicago, IL) Also check out Inventables new marketplace |
