Calgary Twestival is pleased to announce the following members of our social media panel for Thursday night.
Michael J. Sikorsky - Michael has been called a “CEO to watch” by CNN Money. In addition to speaking at conferences throughout the world, he has also spoken at Harvard Business School, MIT, and Stanford.
Michael has raised over $10 Million dollars for his ventures, won a national elevator pitch contest, holds a patent related to rendering, and sold his last company to ThoughtWorks when he was 28.
He is an active angel investor with portfolio companies across North America.
Michael’s current company, Cambrian House, is his 5th startup and has been called a “national treasure in the Web2.0 space, constantly pushing the boundaries in all that they do”. Recently, it was selected as the #4 best Web2.0 company across Canada by Backbone Magazine (Globe and Mail) and KPMG.
He blogs (infrequently:)) at killingmichael.com and is married to Camille and a proud father of twins: Vienna and Rayne.
Lyn Cadence - Lyn Cadence operates Cadence Public Relations and Your Book is Your Business PR, Inc newly established in 2008. She has done PR in the book publishing industry for over twenty years – as promotions director at Fifth House Publishers in Calgary (Alberta Publisher of the Year while she was there in 2006 and 2007) publicity and marketing director at Key Porter Books in Toronto, and as a publicist at Raincoast Books in Vancouver. Currently YBYB does work for Frontenac House Publishers and Kingsley Publishing as well as other businesses and not-for-profits. She is on the Business and the Arts Committee of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce and will soon be launching a new business online.
Jacob George - Jacob George is the Corporate Marketing & Communications manager at the City of Calgary. His responsibilities at the City include media relations, employee communications, corporate marketing and web operations.
Prior to joining the City, he has worked in advertising, marketing and brand management with various companies in Mumbai, Dubai and Calgary. Jacob won the marketer of the year award from Mattel Europa for his efforts to make Barbie an acceptable brand in the Middle Eastern countries.
The need to find avenues to reach, communicate with and engage Calgarians in more efficient and effective ways brought Jacob into the wonderful world of social media.
Daryl Pamplin - Daryl Pamplin who is known as Daryl Cognito in the podisphere has been dappling in social and new media since 2005. He is part of Canada’s first wave of podcasters and is possibly Calgary’s longest running podcaster. Daryl has been Twittering since March 2006 and according to twitter grader is part of Calgary’s “Twitter Elite”.
Daryl has taught podcasting for Chinook Learning Services as well as private classes. He has produced close to 200 podcast episodes, and has assisted with Calgary’s Addiction Centre’s podcast. Daryl is a founding member of Podcalgary. podCALGARY.org has grown from three guys with a passion for new media to a group of Calgarians with a passion for new and social media.
Wendy Peters (moderator) - Wendy has been pursuing her interests in web design, internet marketing and online communications since 2005. She works full time as a communications professional and is co-founder of SW Concepts, a local web design company.
Wendy has always maintained an interest in participating in the community she lives in. Currently, she is a leader with a Girl Guide unit in Calgary, an active frisbee player in the Calgary Ultimate Association and an avid participant of many design, social media and marketing interest and user groups in Calgary. She has been using Twitter since April, 2008 and began blogging late last year.
