Scott is a technologist, entrepreneur and inventor and was a founding CTO of priceline.com. As the CEO of Startup America, Scott now helps build enterprises that use technology, commercial processes, and incentives to create sustainable, scalable solutions to improve people's lives.

For more than a decade, David Blaine has been attracting the world's attention with his high-profile endurance stunts—from being buried alive in New York City for a week to being encased in a six-ton block of ice for three days and three nights, among other amazing feats.

Julien is a bestselling author of two books: the first, Trust Agents, was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. His most recent bestseller, The Flinch, has over 100,000 copies distributed. Julien's upcoming book, The Impact Equation, is due to release October 25, 2012, and you can read more about it on his popular blog, In Over Your Head.

After graduating from Stanford Business School Endress teamed up with two engineers from Google and Nokia to start Ditto, an ecommerce site for designer eyewear with proprietary 3D virtual fitting technology. Earlier this year, Kate and the team at Ditto raised $3 million in a round led by August Capital to further enhance the technology behind the service, and to grow the company’s own eye wear business.

Dorsey Co-Founded ExactTarget, Inc. in December 2000 and has been its Chief Executive Officer and President since December 2000. He is responsible for the overall leadership and direction of ExactTarget and Director of BidPal, Inc. He serves as a Member of Executive Committee at Indy Partnership, Inc.

Sarah Kathleen Peck is a writer, designer, storyteller and mover. She is the founder of the award-winning Landscape Urbanism website and leads the communications team for SWA Group, an international landscape architecture and urban design firm. Based in San Francisco, Sarah finds herself constantly moving: she is a 20-time NCAA All-American swimmer who has successfully swam from Alcatraz 9 times, most recently raising $29,000 for Charity: Water and swimming from Alcatraz in her birthday suit as part of the campaign.

Chris is a Co-Founder and former-CMO at ExactTarget, which started as a family dry-cleaning business. He also o-authored the book Email Marketing by the Numbers, one of the most definitive books on email marketing. Chris left ExactTarget to start Compendium, a content marketing platform that helps organizations capture and create original content. After a long career as a SaaS entrepreneur, Chris committed himself to making a difference. He bought Tyner Pond Farm, and has immersed himself in learning about "alternative" farming methods.

Erik has a passion for community and crowdsourced content. At reddit, he leads as the General Manager and helps make online advertising suck less. Erik was also recently named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Dave Co-Founded The Brandery, a Cincinnati-based startup accelerator that was recently named as one of the top programs in the country. Knox has a knack for identifying emerging trends in the digital space and leading innovation. He leads as the the CMO at Rockfish Interactive and Rockfish Brand Ventures.

Founder at Plesk, The Shadow Group, eTantrum, SecureSoftware, and SecureForce. he then became an Angel investor in companies like Plaxo, FormSpring, FormStack, and Blackridge. He founded Fortify.vc, a DC-based investment fund and their accelerator, The Fort.

Zach is the Product Manager at foursquare, where he is building an entirely new way for businesses to connect with local customers. Prior to foursquare, he spent 2.5 years at Google, where he worked to kickstart Google's social business platform and social search ads teams, as well as a complete redesign of Google's API.

Tom Searcy is a nationally recognized author and expert in key account sales. His methods of unlocking explosive growth were developed through years of real-world success. By the age of 40, Searcy has led four corporations, transforming annual revenues of less than $15 million to as much as $200 million in each case.

Carla is the lady of the land when it comes to Founders Funding Founders. Along with Jonathon Perelli (another Powder Keg speaker!), she has helped grow Fortify.vc, a D.C.-based investment fund, and co-founded their accelerator, The Fort. She knows social, marketing, PR and portfolio management and strategy as she works to find, mentor and grow successful.

You can call him an entrepreneur, writer, or lifelong student of psychology and philosophy. He’s led the entrepreneurial programs at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, co-founded StartupDigest, helped start TEDx Silicon Valley, served as a mentor for the Thiel Foundation 20 Under 20 program, and on and on. When it comes down to it, he’s recognized around the world for his entrepreneurial drive and expertise, especially when it came to creating a new group structure for StartupDigest’s 300,000 member community, thinking about events as an entry point to new communities.

Hailing from Portland, Brent has built several strong brands in his career. He can talk brand strategy, web analytics, behavioral targeting, site optimization, and, most passionately, entrepreneurship. In the midst of his impressive marketing career, he co-founded Second Porch, which was then acquired by a larger online vacation rental platform, HomeAway. He’s now the CMO at Urban Airship, an ExactTarget partner and highly successful mobile technology company.

Manpreet started early. He began his entrepreneurial career running a social networking startup in high school with his brother and continued his entrepreneurial drive as first employee at a D.C.-based investment management firm, Profit Investment Management, which went on to grow its assets 100 times over. While studying full-time, he became one of the youngest CFA charter holders in the world. Today, he’s President & COO of Seva Call, which recently went through a $1.3 million funding round and plans to launch nationally. He’s on a roll.

Matt is a technology and marketing entrepreneur in NYC, Colorado, California, and event London or Paris, depending on the day of the week. He’s an internet industry veteran of 16 years and started a company called Return Path in 1999 that boasts status as the global market leaders in a corner of the email universe called email certification and deliverability. He still runs it today. He’s also played his hand at marketing and online services at MovieFone, venture capital at General Atlantic Partners, and consulting at Mercer Management Consulting. Not to mention, he’s a Princeton grad. Oh, and he blogs.

Frank is a co-founder of Tech Cocktail, a "media company focused on tech startup events, news & entrepreneurial resources." His popular blog "Somewhat Frank" ended its run in 2010 so he could focus on Tech Cocktail's Blog. A maven of web startups, Frank Gruber knows how to effectively build relationships, tell founder stories, and host engaging events, making him the perfect candidate for a panel on Startup Communities.

A passionate entrepreneur, Ryan’s current devotion is helping foster entrepreneurship in the younger generations. As the Chief-of-Staff of the YEC, Ryan has the opportunity to help connect seasoned and successful founders with the untried looking for help as they launch their first companies. He helps them get their first 1,000 users and will share his experience tomorrow at the panel.

As the Co-Founder of both Staff.com and Time Doctor, Liam Martin has become an expert on the connecting staff with potential jobs online. His love of process design and marketing driven metrics helped his two fairly-recent companies take of successfully, reaching his "1,000 users" using strategies that he plans on sharing tomorrow.