Rogelio (Ro) Choy
COO, Formspring
Formspring is a question-and-answer-based social website. Ro was previously the CEO of Peerpong, a Q&A service using NLP/semantics for identifying interests and knowledge from social streams. Prior to Peerpong, Ro was Chief Revenue Officer for RockYou and responsible for leading all the business efforts for the company and Director at eBay Motors, leading the online parts business. Prior to eBay, Ro co-founded Cima Systems, a leading VOIP software provider for auto dealers. Ro serves as an advisor to a number of social media focused startups including Applifer, Nanigans, Wildfire Interactive, Project Slice, Adnectar, 500 Friends, Guestmob, Facepad, Replybuy, J2Play, GamesthatGive and Groupcard.

Shashi Bellamkonda
Social Media Swami, Network Solutions
Shashi Bellamkonda is the Director Social Media and Public Relations for Network Solutions a company that provides domain names and online tools for small business customers and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and serves as a member of the Marketing Advisory Board of SCORE . The employees gave him the title of "Social Media Swami".

Recognized as one of the Top 100 Tech Titans by the Washingtonian magazine in 2009 & 2011 and awarded the honor of being in The 100 Small Business Influencer 2011 Champion List by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com. Featured as a speaker at national and regional small business, communications and marketing at conferences such as Digital East 2010, SXSW, IABC, PRSA, and Affiliate Summit.

Duke Chung
Co-founder, Parature
Duke Chung co-founded Parature with a vision to provide superior customer service and social engagement software accessible via the Internet. Today, Parature’s cloud-based product supports nearly 35 million end users worldwide in diverse industries from associations, federal and educational institutions, gaming, services, and technology companies.

Duke is recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in the Greater Washington Metropolitan region and has been widely recognized for pioneering innovation with such honors as being named The Washingtonian magazine’s Power 150 as a ‘rising star’ and most recently to the Bisnow on Business ‘Top 35 under 35 Entrepreneur’ in the Washington region.

Kevin Dando
Director, Digital Marketing & Communications, PBS
Kevin Dando oversees social media promotions of PBS’s broadcast and online content. As part of this work, he manages PBS's social media venues, including its Twitter and Facebook pages, which together have nearly 2 million followers. He also oversees PBS’s YouTube channel, which recently had its 100 millionth video view. Kevin was recently featured in the book “Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business” (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).