Speakers

Kirk Laughlin
Contributing Editor
InformationWeek

Kirk Laughlin is an award-winning writer, moderator and subject expert in information technology and business strategies. He has served in a variety of editorial leadership roles during his 18-year career in journalism. Prior to working with Tech Web, he was Editorial Director at Ziff Davis Media/Enterprise Events which included developing programming content for leading Ziff brands - EWeek and CIO Insight. At Ziff Davis, Laughlin built content programs in the areas of CIO strategies, Web 2.0, enterprise mobility, financial industry solutions, storage, security, unified communications, risk management, IT governance, virtualization and business intelligence. He has worked with many leading technology suppliers in developing strategic content solutions for a variety of media platforms.

Prior to joining Ziff Davis, Laughlin served as Editor-in-Chief of several media organizations including America’s Network Magazine, a weekly business magazine; Telecom Planet, a website devoted to networking and wireless issues; and Applied Mobility. He has also directed the launch of several tech industry custom publications. He has won three awards for editorial excellence from the American Society of Business Publication Editors and two awards from the Western Publications Association.

Jonathan Geiger
Executive Vice President
of Intelligent Solutions, Inc.

Jonathan Geiger has over thirty years of management and hands-on experience in information management, including data warehousing, customer relationship management, quality assurance, data administration, application development and support, productivity management, and training. He was also a leader in Total Quality Management activities at a major electric utility company. Mr. Geiger specializes in data management, data warehousing, and customer relationship management, having gained his initial experience as a program manager at the electric utility company, and subsequently as a consultant. Mr. Geiger performs strategic consulting for companies in a variety of industries, to augment their data warehousing and customer relationship management efforts. These industries include manufacturing, paper and pulp, chemical, financial, retail, telecommunications, transportation, utilities, software development, pharmaceutical, education, energy, insurance, and non-profit. Mr. Geiger is a recognized leader in business intelligence. He has co-authored three books and over sixty articles. In addition to his consulting work, Mr. Geiger presents frequently at national and international conferences, and he is a course developer and seminar instructor.