An accomplished Realtor, broker & business owner, Matt is the Chief Evangelist at Diamond Dwellings, based in Atlanta, Ga. With a powerful vision for the future of real estate marketing, Matt & his team have built a new kind of real estate brokerage. One that’s based on the power of internet marketing through the artful use of blogs, video, social media, listing syndication, web-based back office systems & the host of new tools available today.

Matt is also dedicated teacher and trainer in social media & internet marketing.

http://diamonddwellings.com

Jeff has over twenty years experience as both a successful entrepreneur and a senior executive in a large corporation.

As company founder and CEO he led J.J. Grace, Inc. (dba AdOut, TheSpecDept.com, TSA Design Group) to the Inc. Magazine list of the 500 fastest growing companies in America and the following year won Cisco’s Growing With Technology Award recognizing innovative companies networked for growth.

As a senior executive and Group President of Vertis, Mr. Turner brought the needed vision and leadership to a highly diversified corporate Group and integrated the operations, the focus and the spirit of that Group back into the organizational mainstream.

Throughout his career, Jeff has excelled at bringing extraordinary vision, creativity and innovative solutions to challenging situations.

In his experience, he has recognized and applied the science and creativity of communication to his organization. It has been instrumental in achieving uncommon successes. His insights and knowledge, both practical and academic are integral to how Real Estate Shows designs and delivers breakthrough sales communication.

http://www.realestateshows.com/

Brad is the co-founder of REtechSouth, managing broker and co-owner of Maxsell Real Estate, and an accomplished commercial agent in the North Atlanta real estate market. He also serves as the Vice President for the Cherokee Association of Realtors and as Director for Security Bank of North Metro. Brad leads technology workshops, speaks at round table meetings, and never settles for the status quo.

He enjoys real estate, technology, good music, nice people and dark beer. (the order varies by day)

Sherry Chris was appointed President and CEO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC in October of 2007. Her appointment followed Realogy’s announcement that it had entered into a 50-year agreement with Meredith Corporation to license the Better Homes and Gardens® name to launch a new and dynamic global residential real estate brand. Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, which is the 5th residential brand for Realogy, will officially launch in July of 2008.

Sherry was most recently Chief Operating Officer for Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. Overall, Sherry has more than 27 years of real estate experience, including, significant senior management positions in the areas of sales and marketing and new technologies, and franchise management. A native Canadian, she began her real estate career in Canada and held increasingly senior positions with Royal LePage for 16 years before taking on executive roles with Real Living (Ohio) and Prudential CA/NV/TX Realty. She joined Realogy in 2006.

Well known within the real estate industry, Sherry is a frequent speaker at real estate and technology conferences. She has served, and continues to serve, on a number of industry- and technology- related advisory boards, including Trulia and Google Real Estate, and she is a past chairman of The Realty Alliance. Sherry is a graduate of The University of Western Ontario, and earned an MBA from the Ivey School of Business. Married for 21 years, she divides her personal time between homes in Toronto, Canada, and Morristown, New Jersey.

Under Dan’s leadership, Prudential Georgia Realty has become one of the strongest real estate companies in metro Atlanta. For the past 18 months, Prudential Georgia Realty has consistently outperformed the market in unit sales, sales volume and listing marketshare growth. Prudential has received numerous local and national honors including their 5th consecutive Consumer’s Choice Award for Executive Home Sales, the highest ranking for Home Sellers by J.D. Power and Associates and most recently was the first large broker in the nation to receive the Realtor.com Online Marketing Award of Excellence.

Dan is a true entrepreneur and a real live American success story. Starting as a shrimp boat captain on the coast of Georgia, Dan worked his way through college. He received his accounting degree from the University of Georgia. His career began as an auditor which explains his attention to the details of owning a successful business. Since then, he has grown the company to 24 offices with more than 1,300 agents, making Prudential Georgia Realty one of the largest and most successful real estate firms in the nation.

Forsman is widely recognized by his peers in the real estate and business community for his leadership and innovation. He says that the secret to his success is listening carefully to the needs of his agents and developing solutions that help them deliver superior consumer value and achieve the highest net profit.

Although he is quick to give the credit to his agents and employees, Dan is well-known in the industry. He participates on the National Advisory Council of Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, the Trulia National Advisory Council, the Realtor.com National Advisory Council, The Realty Alliance Board and is a Director for First Multiple Listing Service. He is also a past President of the Atlanta Borad of Realtors.

Dan has received many personal honors including:
* “Broker of the Year” which is the highest honor available from Prudential Real Estate Affiliates.
* Dan was recognized as Realtor of the Year plus received the Captain of Industry Award, the Five-Star Circle of Service Award and The President’s Award from the Atlanta Board of Realtors.

Dan has been a popular headline speaker at many events including the Employee Relocation Council, the Metro Atlanta Relocation Council, the RIS Media’s CEO Conference, the Inman Real Estate Connect, Georgia Association of Mortgage Brokers, Mortgage Bankers Association of Georgia and many other events. He has also been featured recently on 11Alive, Fox5 News and numerous local radio stations. Dan has also become well-known for his series of video market reports which can be found at AtlantaRealEstate2009.com.

Dan Forsman lives what he believes… “Climb the ladder of success, take your family with you and enjoy the ride!” He is married with four children, and enjoys his active home life in the northern suburbs of Atlanta.

http://www.prudentialga.com/

David Carroll, is the founder and visionary of softRealty.com. softRealty.com is partnering with real estate professionals to deliver a fresh new user experience that will captivate home buyers and reinforce their professional value. Search Connect is their flagship product providing an IDX property search engine designed to help agents promote themselves and their web sites with the appeal found in many of the large national property search engines and best of all – it’s free. David spent the last decade consulting as a professional software architect and developer, specializing in designing and implementing various enterprise solutions. David’s technology specialties include cross browser warfare, AJAX head butting, Web UI hacking, MS SQL Server 2005, C#, WCF and all things .NET, XHTML/CSS/JavaScript, Service Oriented Architecture, BizTalk Deep Diving, and a whole playground of technology. David received a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Oglethorpe University.

http://softrealty.com

Teresa Boardman is a Realtor with Keller Williams in St. Paul, MN. She started The St. Paul Real Estate Blog as an experiment in 2005 and gained national and local attention. An early adapter and pioneer who’s blog is used as a model in web 2.0 seminars and classes nation wide. National columnist for Inman news, contributor to the AgentGenius.com blog.

http://www.stpaulrealestateblog.com/

Ines is all Miami, all the time. A Miami Beach Realtor® with Majestic properties, Ines authors Miamism.com and MiamismPix.com, is a contributor at AgentGenius.com and is always on communication’s leading edge. She goes out of her way to engage and be engaged, often using Mojitos to keep the mood light and give everything she does a Miami flavor. You can find her goofing off or instigating trouble at any of the social media sites.

Ines is bi-lingual and credentialed with a Bachelors Degree in Architecture from the University of Miami. She specializes in Miami Beach Luxury properties, historic homes and architecturally relevant real estate with a focus in relationship building and exceptional customer service.

http://www.miamism.com/

Kelley Koehler, aka the Housechick, is usually found keeping her head down and her eyes focused on her growing real estate business in Tucson, Arizona. You may also find her on Twitter, where she doubles as a super hero, at the ARE-TEC blog, where she champions an IDX she helped design and teaches other agents how to make their listing search generate business, or on Agent Genius, where she writes about the two things she knows best: the every day life of a real estate agent and the technical details and design of real estate websites. Despite her engineering background, Kelley enjoys translating complex technical concepts into understandable and clear ideas that are practical and useful to the striving real estate agent.

http://www.housechick.com