Todd Smith

Todd Smith founded Tivoli Systems in 1990 and was the company's chief scientist responsible for creating the distributed architecture that evolved into the CORBA standard widely adopted within the industry today. Prior to Tivoli Systems, Mr. Smith worked at IBM where he focused on object-oriented systems, distributed architectures and a variety of other important technologies. He is the author of several key patents ranging from the Internet cookie to heuristic detection of phish sites.

Dr. Alexander Tuzhilin

Dr. Alexander Tuzhilin is a Professor of Information Systems and the NEC Faculty Fellow at the Stern School of Business at New York University. His current research interests include data mining, personalization, recommender systems and click fraud detection. He has published over 90 papers in the leading CS and IS journals and conference proceedings on these and other research topics. He received his B.A. degree in mathematics from NYU, M.S. degree in engineering economics from Stanford, and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU. In addition to NYU, he has held visiting positions at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (Paris, France).

Brett Hurt

Brett Hurt is the Founder and CEO of Bazaarvoice, where he is responsible for guiding the company's strategy and overseeing day-to-day operations. Brett is a seasoned executive and is widely recognized throughout the online industry for turning groundbreaking ideas into leading businesses.

Mr. Hurt has extensive experience in the online marketing arena, especially as it pertains to the eCommerce industry. He founded Coremetrics in February 1999 after spending 10 years developing Internet-based software. Brett helped grow Coremetrics into the leading marketing analytics solution for the eCommerce industry, servicing more than 600 clients. Forrester Research eventually rated Coremetrics #1 in the industry.

Prior to Coremetrics, Mr. Hurt was the founder and CEO of Hurt Technology Consulting and BodyMatrix, an online retailer of sports nutrition products. Before that, he was a consultant at Deloitte Consulting and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Mr. Hurt has more than 15 years of Internet programming experience and has developed multiple software applications, including Internet marketing analysis solutions, eCommerce platforms, Web-based classroom management applications, virtual communities, multiplayer online games, and Bulletin Board System (BBS) software.

Tom Cuthbert

Tom Cuthbert is the founder of Click Forensics. For several years he has been one of the leading industry voices in the battle against pay-per-click advertising fraud.  He developed the Click Fraud Network™, the first and largest service of its kind that advertisers use to monitor online advertising campaigns for click fraud. It's also the first service to report accurate monthly and quarterly data on the overall industry-wide click fraud threat level.

Mr. Cuthbert has spoken on the topics of pay-per-click advertising and click fraud at top industry events, including ad:tech and the Search Engine Strategies conference. He has also appeared as a click fraud industry expert on CNBC and Bloomberg television. Mr. Cuthbert has been a key member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Click Measurement Working Group that established guidelines for click measurement. He also founded the Click Quality Council, which represents more than 100 leading advertisers who work together to provide advertiser input into the development of industry click quality measurement standards.

Joydeep Ghosh

Joydeep Ghosh is currently the Schlumberger Centennial Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin. He joined the UT-Austin faculty in 1988 after being educated at IIT Kanpur, (B. Tech '83) and The University of Southern California (Ph.D’88). He is the founder-director of IDEAL (Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Lab) and a Fellow of the IEEE. His research interests lie primarily in intelligent data analysis, data mining and web mining, adaptive multi-learner systems, and their applications to a wide variety of complex engineering and AI problems.  Dr. Ghosh has published more than 250 refereed papers and 35 book chapters, and co-edited 20 books. His research has been supported by the NSF, Yahoo!, Google, ONR, ARO, AFOSR, Intel, IBM, Motorola, TRW, Schlumberger and Dell, among others.  At UT, Dr. Ghosh teaches graduate courses on data mining, artificial neural networks, and web analytics. He was voted the Best Professor by the Software Engineering Executive Education Class of 2004.

William Wright

William, a Ph.D. in cognitive science, is an artificial intelligence expert who has built numerous analytical and predictive systems over the past twenty years, including the Falcon Credit Card Fraud Detection System at HNC, the Advanced Fraud Screen system at CyberSource, and numerous adversarial modeling systems for the U.S. military.