Art Rascon (Keynote), Emmy award winning reporter, and anchor for KTRK-TV’s 13 Eyewitness News in Houston. Since joining KTRK-TV, he has covered such major events as the war in Kosovo, Middle East conflicts, natural disasters in Latin America, the Pope’s travels, the U.S. Presidential elections, terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington D.C., and the Iraq war, reporting directly from Baghdad.

Bonita Burton is an associate Managing Editor for Visuals at Orlando Sentinel and the San Jose Mercury News. She has been at the Sentinel for a little more than three years. Previously, she spent four years as Business Design Director of The San Jose Mercury News. She is a Ricks College graduate.

David Canaan is the Chief Executive Officer of Laurel Group, a brand

development firm in San Francisco. He has assisted leading brands such as Universal Studios, Apple, Hewlett Packard, Whirlpool and Citibank. He has over 30 years experience in brand identity and image development for a wide variety of industries.

Rusty Payne is the Associate Director of Public Affairs for the Drug Enforcement Agency, based in Washington, D.C. He is a Ricks and BYU-Provo alumnus who has worked widely in political and governmental communications, including stints as media director for two members of Congress.

Bruce Richardson Bruce Richardson currently serves as Director of Communications for PetSmart, Inc., a Fortune 500 specialty retailer based in Phoenix Arizona. He previously managed communications for another Fortune 500 company, Phelps Dodge Mining Company, and served a brief stint as a political appointee as Director of the Office of Information and Public Affairs for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in Washington, D.C.

Coleen Staples Coleen Staples is a PR practitioner working for A&R Edelman in Silicon Valley. Coleen is a BYU-Idaho graduate; She previously worked as a public relations specialist for the Utah Attorney General’s office, a position created for her because she did such an excellent job as an intern there.