We are looking for speakers for SNAP Summit: FailCon!

We do NOT want founders, marketers, heads of BizDev, etc. who want to talk about their awesome new product, their company, or pitch us their “game-changing” idea.  We want successful founders, investors, and marketers in the social web who will come up on stage and tell us about their mistakes, their failures, what they learned, and how it helped them reach success.  If you think you or someone you know fits the bill, let us know!  

Larry Chiang

Larry Chiang;

Hi I am Larry Chiang. Nice to meet you.
I started a company in college that helps college students with their FICO credit score. Its called Duck9. I also wrote a book, “What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School”. I blog at Business Week about venture capital, entrepreneurship and sales. My book is a sequel to a book I did not write, “What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School” written by my mentor Mark McCormack. In it he talks about selling, entrepreneurship and reading people.

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Chris Cunningham

Chris Cunningham; CEO and Co-founder, Appssavvy

Chris Cunningham, founder and CEO of appssavvy, is at the forefront of social media and the applications that provide relevant marketing opportunities for consumers and advertisers whether they are on Facebook, MySpace, other social networks or the iPhone. Since appssavvy’s founding in early 2008, Chris has focused on creating a great company by bridging the gap between developers and publishers of social media applications, such as LivingSocial, Flixster and Zynga, and the advertiser and agency community. Within the first year of business, appssavvy has delivered more than 75 campaigns involving brands including adidas, ChapStick, Kimberly-Clark, Lexus, Oakley, Purina and Sony Pictures, among dozens of others. Prior to appssavvy, Chris was global vice president of sales at Freewebs. In addition, he was vice president of sales at Bolt Media and director of sales for Digital Music Network and Music Vision. Chris is a graduate from the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Kevin Barenblat    

Kevin Barenblat; CEO and Co-Founder, Context Optional

Kevin Barenblat is co-founder and CEO of Context Optional, a social marketing firm leading brands in marketing and consumer promotions across social networks. Over thirty Fortune 500 companies such as Absolut, Digitas, Hearst, Microsoft, Ogilvy, and OpenTable have partnered with Context Optional to connect with customers across Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and the iPhone.
After graduating from Stanford with an engineering degree Kevin worked at Boston Consulting Group, a leading strategy consulting firm. He then earned an MBA from Harvard Business School before taking on strategy and marketing roles for start-up companies in the San Francisco Bay area. Kevin often speaks on successful social marketing strategy and tactics for branded engagement at events such as Ad:Tech, O’Reilly’s Web 2.0, MediaPost’s OMMA, and Digital Hollywood.

Vinay Mahagaokar

Vinay Mahagaokar; RockYou, Director of Product

Vinay Mahagaokar is the Director of Product Management at RockYou. His team manages all of RockYou’s applications on Facebook and MySpace. Some of the apps Vinay has worked on include RockYou Live, RockYou Pets, Likeness, and Truth Box. Prior to RockYou, Vinay worked at Microsoft. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford.

Mark Pincus

Mark Pincus; CEO and Founder, Zynga

Bio forthcoming



Kavin Stewart

Kavin Stewart; CEO and Co-Founder, LOLapps

Kavin Stewart is co-founder and CEO of LOLapps. He has led the company from its founding to a base of over 50 million monthly unique visitors across various social networks. Kavin graduated from Berkeley’s school of engineering with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. While he feverishly dreamed of becoming a game programmer the way most little boys dream of becoming an astronaut or racecar driver, his first job post-college turned out to be coding Java installers, which is just as exciting as it sounds. From there he held a wide range of programming and product management roles, most recently including PM at Offermatica (acquired by Omniture).