vBusiness Expo Speakers

Robert Gehorsam has more than 20 years of management experience in the online games and entertainment world. In recent years, he has applied that experience to leveraging commercial game technology for national security applications. Robert has participated in several government studies on this subject and speaks frequently on the topic. Before joining Forterra Systems he served as Senior Vice President, Programming and Production at Viacom's CBS Internet Group, where he was responsible for content, creative, production and operations for CBS.com, CBSnews.com and related wholly-owned CBS internet properties. Prior to joining Viacom, he was Senior Vice President for Programming and Production at Sony Online Entertainment (SOE).

Jeremy Hunsinger is completing his Ph.D. in Science and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech. He has taught courses centered on digital media and archives, library 2.0, political economy, and internet policy. His research agenda unites theory with critical technical practice in the realms of political economy, ethics and cultures of the internet, learning environments, cyberinfructures, higher education and research. This research centers on the transformations of the modes of production in the information age. At Virginia Tech, he was one of the founders of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture and a 2006 Scholar Fellow. He attended the Oxford Internet Institutes 2004 Summer Doctoral Programme and was Graduate Fellow of the NSF Workshop on Values in Information Systems Design. He is an Ethics Fellow at the Center for Information Policy Research at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 2007-2008. He is currently collaborating with researchers around the world on a diverse array of projects including the co-editing the International Handbook of Internet Research (Springer, 2007/8), the Australian Creative Resources Online project and Learning and Research in SecondLife.

Jonathon Richter, Ed.D., of the University of Oregon, is an educational technology research scientist, educator, and futurist. Dr. Richter's research interests include the use of technology for enhancing critical, creative, and futures thinking, particularly for exceptional children with diverse learning styles and using democratic collaboration and creative tools, such as wikis, blogs, and other Web 2.0 tools. One of Jonathon's particular interests is in assisting formal educational institutions to frame and negotiate change through the development of Personal Learning Environments, Electronic portfolios and Multi-User Virtual Environments (such as Second Life or Active Worlds) and connecting those learning environments with Learning Management Systems such as Blackboard, WebCT, eCollege, or Moodle.

Chris Collins is an IT Analyst in the UCit Instructional & Research Computing department at the University of Cincinnati. She currently manages the campus-wide podcasting and Second Life projects at the University of Cincinnati, and serves as the Second Life Ambassador for the Ohio Learning Network, a consortium of 80 colleges and universities in Ohio.