2008 Conference Speakers
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Marc Saltzman
Marc Saltzman has reported on the high-tech industry since 1996 as a freelance journalist, author, lecturer, consultant, and radio and TV personality.
His specialties lie in computers, consumer electronics, gadgets, video games, Internet trends and DVD reviews.
Along with his weekly syndicated columns with Gannett News Service, CNN.com, USAToday.com and CanWest Media, Marc currently contributes to more than 50 prominent publications.
Marc also writes a daily blog, Sync, available at www.sync-blog.com, and contributes each week to the popular USA Today blog, Technology Live (http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/).
Marc was one of the first journalists in the world to break open the MP3 phenomenon in late 1997 on CNN.com. He correctly predicted this controversial audio file format would revolutionize the recording industry.
He has written 14 books with Pearson Education and McGraw-Hill/Osborne and has also written video game manuals for Quake II and Sin, writing fiction for the game as well as contributing names for many of the weapons and creatures.
Marc is also the host of Gadgets and Gizmos and Super Software, two television shows seen on G4TechTV, and G3, a twice-a-week feature on the Morning News show in Canada, which airs on the Global Television Network. He also writes for and hosts two radio shows: Tech Talk with Marc Saltzman, on Canada's most listened-to talk station, CFRB (1010AM in Toronto, and Plugged In with Marc Saltzman, a nationally syndicated radio vignette (60-second interstitial) that airs daily Monday to Friday, on AM and FM radio stations across Canada, the U.S., the U.S. Armed Forces Network and on XM Satellite Radio's NHL Centre Ice channel (roughly 2.5 million listeners daily).
Marc is one of the Game Critics Awards judges for the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), and is also a judge for the annual Spike TV Video Game Awards and the annual Codie Awards to recognize innovative software and online services.
