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Our Panelists:


Roger Dooley @rogerdooley

Roger Dooley - President of Dooley Direct, LLC.

Dooley, author of the popular blog, Neuromarketing, is a consultant and entrepreneur who combines knowledge of emerging phenomena such as brain science-based marketing and social networking with decades of hands-on marketing experience. He helps companies understand the implications of new technologies and techniques, and guides them in the implementation of practical strategies to adapt to them.


Dr. A.K. Pradeep - @neurofocus

Dr. A.K. Pradeep - President and Chief Executive Officer of Neurofocus

Before founding NeuroFocus, Dr. Pradeep was the Founder and Managing Partner of Meridian Consulting, LLC a privately held California company specializing in governance consulting, and customizing and applying GE best practices to multiple industry sectors. He is also the founder of BoardVantage, a company founded in 2000 providing web based corporate governance platform for corporate boards of directors. Dr. Pradeep serves as Chairman of the Board of Wilderness Press and as Chairman of Vigiliant Privacy Corporation. He holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.


Ben Sykes

Ben Sykes - Founder of interActoid and Human Experience evangelist

Ben Sykes is a dev/design hybrid with 14 years experience designing / dev'ing positive human experiences for rich internet applications, desktop / soft clients and web sites.

He has worked as a user experience designer for Microsoft (Visual Studio, MSN Live), User Experience Design Manager for Cisco Systems, Ireland (WebEx, Enterprise IM), Associate Creative Director for American Idol Underground, even created the search engine Information.com.

His career started around designing edible experiences for the plate, coupled with the desire to tell stories. He worked as a chef to subsidize his work on motion pictures ("American Beauty", "Murder in the First", and others).

His culinary experiences ultimately helped shape his ability to serve users needs, create positive experiences, and design around story and biological neural processes.


Brian Clark

Brian Clark - Founder of Copyblogger, new media writer/producer, entrepreneur, and recovering attorney.

Brian Clark teaches online marketing, social media and copywriting techniques at Copyblogger, and instructional design and learning psychology with his Teaching Sells program. Brian uses all the techniques he teaches “in the field” as the CEO of a multi-million dollar online enterprise, and will offer practical applications related to the way our brains work.

Brian Clark - @copyblogger