We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added two new keynote speakers to our already impressive list:

Jascha Franklin-Hodge is a founding partner of Blue State Digital, where he currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer. Blue State Digital spearheaded Obama for America’s extensive online fundraising, constituency building and peer-to-peer networking initiatives, all of which helped to create momentum for Obama’s successful presidential campaign. Jascha managed the team that built and ran the my.barackobama.com technology platform, and worked directly with Obama for America’s New Media team in providing the tools and platform to engage supporters, donors and volunteers. In addition, he managed the server and systems infrastructure that powered the Obama web presence.

Ching-Yung Lin is a Research Scientist and Project Lead at IBM| T. J. Watson Research Center. Since 2006, Dr. Lin has been the lead on the IBM SmallBlue project. SmallBlue is an IBM Corporation effort including worldwide Research, Software, and Service divisions. Inside IBM, this platform has been capturing and analyzing both people networks, document networks, and the cross-layer links between people and documents. An external product version of this platform (IBM Atlas) is available to other organizations. His research mainly focuses on multimodality signal analysis and complex network analysis, with applications on machine learning, distributed computing, embedded vision system, social computing and security. In 2003, Dr. Lin created and led more than 100 researchers in 23 worldwide research institutes for the first large-scale collaborative video semantic annotation project.

Visit our keynotes information page for more information.

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Kaitlin Pike is the new Community Manager for Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @W2E.

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