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Robin Raskin

Robin Raskin has spent the past 30 years exploring what it means to be living in digital times. An author, editor, magazine publisher, blogger, TV and radio personality, and consultant, Raskin says she’s never met a media she doesn’t like and is happiest when she’s promoting how kids, seniors and women interact with technology.

In 2007, Raskin became the co-founder of The Sandbox Summit : A Playdate with Technology, an event created in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association (CES). That show has grown to encompass six different technology conferences and showcases (and two awards shows) (http://livingindigtaltimes.com), that all take place at the January CES in Las Vegas.

Raskin is the former editor of PC Magazine and Editor in Chief of FamilyPC and one of the founder columnists at Yahoo!Tech. She’s been a columnist for USA Today Online and has authored 6 books about parenting in the digital age. Her latest book is The Parents’ Guide to College Life. (Random House 2006).

Raskin lives in NYC and the Hudson Valley, with her husband, her three drop in now and then children, and closets full of obsolete technology.

Susan Walker

Susan Ayers Walker

Susan Ayers Walker is a leading edge boomer and a freelance journalist reporting on the intersection of technology and aging. Her articles have appeared in AARP the Magazine, AARP.Org, ACM’s Interactions, EETimes, MIT Insider, American Society on Aging Newsletter and other industry journals.

She is a nationally known speaker on technology for aging-in-place and technology for caregiving. She has appeared on NBC, and CBS, and participated in a variety of radio talk shows.

She is the co-founder and managing director of the SmartSilvers Alliance with a mission to foster technology applications that assist independent living for the older consumer.

Located in Silicon Valley, she co-produces the BoomerTech series of technology panels and videos that focuses on the +50 market in consumer driven healthcare, brain fitness, and lifestyle applications.

Susan received her BSEE in electrical engineering from Northeastern University and her Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers

Linda Nessim-Rubin

Linda Nessim-Rubin is Managing Partner of Living in Digital Times, which focuses on lifestyle shows and events. Together with Robin Raskin, she has created some of the most popular and fast growing events at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Linda is also the Founder of Design Concept, a production company hosting corporate events, tradeshows and summits. Prior to Living in Digital Times and Design Concepts Linda completed an 18-year stint as Executive Vice President of Communications and Branding for The Princeton Review, a leading provider of education services and products, with more than 200 publications and 150,000 students worldwide. In her role, Linda was responsible for overseeing all public relations, market research, marketing communication efforts and Human Resources for the company. With over 25 years of professional experience in the marketing of cutting-edge educational products, Linda has been quoted in publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Business Week.

Sherri Snelling

Sherri Snelling brings more than 25 years’ experience in the health care and technology industries to her role as co-Producer of the Silvers Summit Conference at CES. She is currently CEO and founder of the Caregiving Club and is a nationally recognized expert on America’s 65 million family caregivers with special emphasis on how to help caregivers balance “self-care” while caring for a loved one.

Sherri is a contributing editor on caregiving for ThirdAge.com, wowOwow.com as well as other online, print and broadcast media reaching more than 5 million Boomer women every month. In addition, she is the executive producer and host of a caregiver makeover reality TV program premiering on RLTV in 2011. She is the former Chairman of the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC), a caregiving advocacy non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C.

Sherri is a frequently sought caregiving expert by various media and has been featured on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, ABC World Evening News, MSNBC, Fox Business Network, CNN and in the New York Times, USA Today, PARADE, Prevention and WebMD. She has served on the caregiving advisory councils for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as well as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the Alzheimer’s Association.

Prior to founding Caregiving Club, Sherri was the senior director for caregiver programs at UnitedHealthcare, one of the nation’s leading health care insurers. Sherri spent the first half of her career in consumer technology where she was head of marketing communications and corporate social responsibility for Canon and she also worked in marketing and PR capacities for Nintendo, Atari, Gemstar’s VCR Plus+, and consulting positions for Activision, Pepsi and Baja Fresh.

Sherri holds a B.A. in journalism and political science from the University of Southern California.

Robin Raskin

Susan Ayers Walker

Linda Nessim-Rubin

Sherri Snelling

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