Chris Shipley
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| Born | January 1962 Scottdale, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Technology writer and analyst |
Chris Shipley (born and raised in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, United States) is a writer, analyst, commentator, and strategist, and has tracked the technology industry for more than 25 years.
She is co-founder and CEO of Guidewire Group, a technology services firm focusing exclusively on early-stage technology ventures. Shipley consults with emerging technology companies around the world to identify market opportunities and accelerate business growth. At Guidewire Group, Shipley was instrumental in creating the first social media conference, BlogOn, held at University of California at Berkeley in 2005. She is widely acknowledged for popularizing the term social media.
As executive producer of the DEMO Conference from 1996–2009, Shipley was responsible for helping more than 1,500 companies launch their products to the audience of 700+ industry insiders, investors, early adopters, and journalists who attend DEMO events twice each year to hear her analysis of the state of the industry and see the technologies that she vetted on their behalf. During her tenure as executive producer, Shipley introduced companies including TiVo, VMWare, salesforce.com, GrandCentral, and Ribbit to the audiences at her conferences.
Shipley began her career in technology journalism in 1984 as a writer and then editor at PC Week. She later became the executive editor at Ziff-Davis's PC/Computing magazine, then joined the company's online publishing division, ZDNet, where she was responsible for introducing online publications on CompuServe, Prodigy, and Ziff-Davis's Interchange Online Network. In 1994, Shipley became the founding editor of Computer Life magazine, based in San Francisco. In addition to these publications, Shipley has written for PC Magazine, InfoWorld, Working Woman, and Us Weekly.
She is the author of two books, How to Connect (Ziff-Davis Press, 1993) and (with Matt Fish) How the World Wide Web Works(Ziff-Davis Press, 1996).
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