Helped create two of the most successful startups in history, Facebook and the Barack Obama campaign.

The World famous business magazine, Fast Company, featured Chris on its April ’08 cover under the headline: “The Kid Who Made Obama President”.

Today, only 26 years old Chris Hughes, can brag about creating two of the most successful startups in modern history: Facebook and the Barack Obama campaign.

Founder of Facebook and My.BarackObama.com (MyBO), an online community that was key on the election of Barack Obama as US President, Chris has become one of the most well known figures of the Web 2.0.

Chris, after earning the respect of the online community as Facebook co-founder, created the largest online community ever built in politics, My.Barack Obama.com, a social media community that generated over 2 million unique users, who planned 200.000 offline events, wrote over 400.000 blog posts, and raised $30 million on 70.000 fundraising pages.

Chris is considered the poet of among the three Facebook founders. He met Mark Zuckeberg and Dustin Moskovitz in Harvard and become Facebook spokesperson.

Today, Chris is an accomplished speaker and an intuitive consultant for all technology needs. He has figured out how to reach out to large communities through the usage of new media, building communities that help organize and optimize resources. All projects Chris is involved in have a guaranteed success.

Director of User Experience of Zappos.com, recently acquired by Amazon thanks to its customer focus

… and its spectacular growth (over $1 Billion in sales annually)

As Amazon founder and CEO, Jeff Bezzos, said recently: “Zappos is the kind of business I admire because they know how to focus on customer service”. Many companies claim to have a customer focus, but zappos has proven they really do becoming a reference on the sector on the difficult task of selling shoes online.

Brian, joined Zappos almost seven years ago, and has helped developed zappos creativity to attract customers and other businesses all over the World. Since early last year, Brian decided to leave Marketing and Creative Services and focus solely on growing and evolving Zappos’ User Experience team, with the sole focus on creating a better and more useful web site. Today, the sale of the company to Amazon is living proof of the success of Brian’s team.

But Brian’s creativity goes beyond his professional career. An experience user of social media, you can find him as an active member on social networking.

Brian has also earned a reputation as an accomplished public speaker on some of the main tech events in the World, as well as in TV interviews.

Author of the book The Facebook Era and creator of Faceconnector, the first business App in Facebook.

Her professional experience includes positions at Salesforce.com (currently), Google and Microsoft.

Clara joined salesforce.com in 2006 and is responsible for Enterprise Social Networking Alliances and Product Strategy. Independently, Clara developed Faceconnector (formerly Faceforce) in 2007, the first business application on Facebook. She is the author of “The Facebook Era” about how online social networking is transforming customer relationships and how we approach sales and marketing.

Clara’s wide online experience also includes working in strategy and business operations at Google and as a software developer at Microsoft. Clara holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science and economics from Stanford University, as well as a Master’s Degree in internet studies from Oxford, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar. She blogs at www.thefacebookera.com and is clarashih on twitter.

Founder of 1800flowers.com, one of the top conversion online stores worldwide.

1800flowers.com ranks consistently as one of the top 10 eCommerce with the highest conversion rates in the World

According to Nielsen Online / Marketing Charts, 1800flowers.com is one of the top 10 conversion online stores in the World every month consistently, with conversion rates over 20% solid. This means one in every five unique visitors to the store end up buying. Meanwhile, any conversion rate in Spain over 1% is considered a success for most sectors.

Jim McCann is a highly successful entrepreneur whose vision and energy have helped grow 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, the company he founded in 1976, into the world’s leading florist and gift company. McCann’s focus on customer relationships and his willingness to embrace new technologies and business channels helped change the way flowers and other gifts are marketed for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays and special occasions.

McCann’s strategy for growth includes an effective combination of birthing new businesses and making acquisitions of businesses and brands that resonate with customers as great sources for exceptional gifts. One such new business is the BloomNet® wire service which provides retail florists with diverse resources such as website hosting, a comprehensive technology platform for retail store management and the industry’s first and only online digital floral directory.

McCann is a published author and award winning public speaker as well as a frequent guest on radio and television programs nationwide.

President and founder along with his brothers of the biggest advertising agency of Spanish capital, Comunica+A.

He created a advertising and promotional agency that was specialized in the customer behavior during the buying process, when he was only 30.

Nowadays, 12 years later, Comunica has over 200 professionals and has presence in 5 countries. It’s also a reference in the creative strategies directed to “sell more and better”.

In the last year, along with Eduardo Berrocal, has created The Internet Sales Company, a interactive marketing agency with the same philosophy as Comunica + A.

Director of Information and Content for RTVE.es.

After some years missing from the online channel, Ricardo and his team has position the Spanish public radio & TV in the forefront of interactive media.

Ricardo started his journalist caereer in the economic daily newspaper Cinco Días and, after some time as a reporter in the Middle East, become Chief of Contents and information at Ya.com, an online news portal. Ricardo is also responsible of launching the online portal for the newspaper 20minutos.es.

Ricardo Villa earned a Masters Degree in Journalism from the prestigious El País Journalism School.

CEO of Google Spain.

The main goal of the company in Spain is to improve user experience and to offer to SMEs a platform to strength their online presence.

Javier’s professional career has been developed mostly on Internet, working at Yahoo! Spain from may 2000, where he has appointed Vicepresident of Sales for Euroep in September 2006. He also has worked in the marketing and sales departments of Johnson Wax and Procter & Gamble.

Borned in Córdoba (South of Spain), Javier Rodríguez Zapatero has a Bachelors Degree in Economic Science and Business Administration, with a specialty in Finance. He also earned a Masters Degree in Accounting and Auditing.

Javier is an active member of several associations related to technology and has been a professor on several MBA programs.

CEO ofRed.es.

Sebastián’s professional career has been attached to information technology and communications in the private sector. He started in Hewlett Packard and later on worked at Lucent Technologies. Before joining Red.es he was part of PricewaterhouseCoopers team.

Muriel is a Telecommunications Engineer from ETSIT-UPM and Executive MBA from IESE. He has also coauthored several books like a Study of the industry of digital content in Spain or Fiscal Incentives for science, technology and R&D

Founder and CEO of Buy VIP.

Gustavo has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biochemistry and an Associates Degree in Computer Science and Marketing. He is also MBA from University of Houston and PDG from IESE. Gustavo worked as CEO of Portum between 2000 and 2005, specializing on eProcurement. Prior to that he worked at IBM as Marketing Manager, both in Spain and in the European company headquarters in Paris. He started his professional career at Procter&Gamble and McDonald’s.

Since 2006 he is CEO of Buy VIP, an online store he founded as a different Business model, based on a store online accessible by invitation and always having a smaller supply that demand. The business has boomed form the very beginning of its conception.

Founder and President of Grupo Intercom.

Antonio’s Internet activity started in 1995 with the creation of Intercom, a company he founded with 23 friends and a starting capital of 10 million pesetas ($75.000).

During its life, Grupo Intercom has financed more than 30 start ups and has grown from a 15 employees company in 2000 to today’s 350 employees. Some companies of the group, such as Infojobs, is no. 1 on its sector in Europe. Softonic is also the largest software download business in Europe. Most of the business ideas became from within the company.

Founder and CEO of eDreams.

Javier co-founder eDremas in 1999, with an multinational team and several European and American venture capitalists. Since then, the company has been growing every year and today it’s a highly profitable company. Javier started his career as satellite designer in France and the United States. His executive experience started at McKinsey & Cia. In 1995 he moved to Silicon Valley and worked at Netscape and AOL.

Javier earned an MBA from Standford University and a Bachelors Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He’s been in the boards of the airline Vueling and the fashion and jewelry company Raquel Moreno.

Innovation Director of Grupo BBVA.

David has specialized in digital marketing and eCommerce. His professional career has developed around innovation through the use of internet, both on traditional markets and on new business models.

David joined eBay team soon alter iBazar acquisition. For over two years he was responsible for business development, establishing collaboration agreements with the internet key players in Spain, such as Google, Yahoo or MSN.

Presently, David is part of the corporate innovation team at Grupo BBVA, and his responsibilities include identifying new Business opportunities in internet.

David earned an MBA from IESE and The Wharton School and has a Bachelors Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad de Zaragoza.

International Vicepresident of Verivox.

Verivox is one of the largest comparison online portals for energy and telecommunications products and services in Europe.

The website allows consumers to compare tariffs and offers quickly and switch instantly to the provider that best suits him.

As International Vicepresident of Verivox, Richard is responsible for all company activities outside Germany, including its geographic expansion. Richard has over 15 years of professional experience in marketing and sales and has lead teams of over 200 people working in 35 different countries that have generated sales of up to 200 million Euros in international activities.