Brian Solis, FutureWorks

Brian Solis is principal of FutureWorks PR, an award-winning PR and Social Media agency. Solis blogs at PR2.0 and bub.blicio.us, and regularly contributes insight to many other sites and publications. Solis is co-founder of the Social Media Club, is an original member of the Media 2.0 Workgroup, and also contributes to the Social Media Collective.

Among new marketing tools and philosophies, Solis is also an expert and thought-leader in Web 2.0 and the new technology landscape. He documents the rapid evolution of products and services and how businesses and consumers can actually use these tools. He is also an active leader in spotlighting and cultivating new start-ups and emerging visionaries in Silicon Valley and also Southern California.