Speakers

  • Sean Branagan, CEO & eVangelist
    Digital Vertical Marketing
    Sean is CEO & eVangelist of Digital Vertical, a search and social media firm headquartered in Syracuse, providing services for companies in targeted vertical markets nationwide.

    A graduate of Syracuse University's Newhouse School, he is founder and President of Communigration, Inc., a technology marketing firm, and has served as Senior Director of Marketing for a $125 million national Internet services company headquartered in Boston.

    Sean’s experience with the Internet and World Wide Web began in 1993 at a national super computing center. Since then he has engaged in online strategy, interactive marketing and website production for dozens of organizations, including Bulova, the DuPont Registry, Global Marine Systems, Ltd. (UK), Lighthouse International, Time-Warner/Road Runner, Welch-Allyn, and Wilton-Armetale.
  • Glen Chwala, Black Belt
    Central New York Technology Development Organization (TDO)
  • Donna Herlihy
    NY Family Business Center
  • Tom Huegel and Sam Serianni, Senior Partners
    Wireless Business Group
  • David L. Nocilly
    Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC
    David L. Nocilly of Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC, is a registered patent attorney with extensive experience preparing and prosecuting patent, trademark, and copyright applications, in the U.S. and overseas, for electromechanical, biomedical, and mechanical inventions. He counsels inventors and assists companies with intellectual property strategies. Mr. Nocilly is a member of the Onondaga County and New York State Bar Associations and an adjunct professor at Syracuse University College of Law. He is a graduate of Cornell University (B.S., Biology, 1991) and Syracuse University College of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, 2000).
  • Jeffrey M. Stanton, Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Programs
    Syracuse University School of Information Studies
    Jeffrey is the Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Programs in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. Dr. Stanton’s research focuses on organizational behavior and technology, with his most recent projects examining how behavior affects information security and privacy in organizations. He is the author with Dr. Kathryn Stam of the book, The Visible Employee: Using Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance to Protect Information Assets – Without Compromising Employee Privacy or Trust. Stanton has also published articles in Computers and Security, Communications of the ACM, Computers in Human Behavior, the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Information Technology and People, the Journal of Information Systems Education, the Journal of Digital Information, Surveillance and Society as well as Behaviour & Information Technology. Dr. Stanton is associate editor at the journal Human Resource Management. His research has been supported through 15 grants and supplements including the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award. Dr. Stanton’s background also includes more than a decade of experience in business – both in established firms and start-up companies. Program
  • Jim Stapleton,
    National Grid and representative of NYSERDA
  • Experts from the Center for Information Security, Assurance and Trust

New York's Creative Core