G. Cody QJ Goldberg, former Sports Marketing Manager, adidas America Cody was raised by counter-culture hippies in the hills of Northern California. He doesn't really know how he got from there to where he is today, but he's enjoyed the ride. He received his BFA in Film/Television from New York University then spent a year in Mexico playing percussion in a band of gypsies. That's true. He began his "professional career" in 1999 when he accepted a job in the mailroom at adidas. He was soon working for adidas at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and is currently busy preparing for the 2008 Beijing Games. Between stints at adidas, Cody worked for Red Bull Energy Drink here in Portland as a Field Marketing Manager. He was responsible for introducing the sugary elixir to all Oregonians, and considers his greatest achievement the very successful Red Bull Flugtag of 2004. He loved that time, but is thrilled to be back at adidas where he handles duties for both Skateboarding and Olympic Sports.

Jason Goldberg, VP Marketing & Creative Services, MTI Jason has been a retail designer and visual merchant for more than 20 years. He's worked for many of the largest retail and product brands in the US including Blockbuster, Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart, Virgin, T-Mobile, Verizon, Levi's and Proctor & Gamble. Jason has been a principal at MTI since 2001. MTI pioneered the practice of taking products out of "product jail" (display cases) and allowing shoppers to engage with them. Today MTI is one of the largest and best known firms in the interactive merchandising space.

Garett Stenson, CEO & Creative Director, db clay inc. Organized pack rat, born in Lander Wyoming 1979, lives Downtown Portland, often walks to work, content developer, guacamole is religion, time capsules and collects things, anxiety, nostalgia, don’t like grammar, broke his shin in High School, Marketing Degree Portland State University, paid his way through college by hand making and selling nearly 30,000 Wallets, loves flowers, loves clouds, loves Portland bridges, loves big family, friends, influence for design: architecture, fond childhood memories, music, crafts, technology, thinking, etc.

Brian Linver, Partner, Pinnacle Marketing Group At PMG, it’s rare that opportunity knocks. That’s because Brian usually opens the door before it can. Known for his big, blue-sky thinking and ability to upend conventional strategy, he repeatedly finds opportunity where it’s least expected. Brian’s path to PMG started at the University of Texas where he graduated with a BBA in Marketing. He then moved on to Dow Chemical’s marketing department for a few years then into account services at Ogilvy & Mather. His final stop was at AT&T Wireless for eleven years, where he pioneered mobile marketing programs with partners like MTV, Disney, and the NFL, among other feats. Brian has been involved in the evolution of wireless from analog to digital, from primarily a voice centric device to a convergent tool and from a business to business luxury item to a consumer necessity. True to form, Brian saw an opportunity to build a dynamic, wireless marketing organization at the nexus of divergent business needs and an emerging, mobile marketplace. Thus, PMG was hatched.

Moderator - Sheila Hamilton Five-time Emmy-winner Sheila Hamilton began her convergent reporting career in documentary film before producing and reporting two-decades of investigative news for such television stations as Portland's KATU and Salt Lake City's KTVR. She authors the popular "Writing for Radio and Television" e-newsletter and teaches convergence journalism to seasoned reporters looking to move from print to radio or television. Sheila is the news director and afternoon show co-host at KINK. She also produces Subject Earth, Homepage, Speaking Freely.

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