• Microsoft Expression
• YouTube
• AOL
• HP
• Pepsi
• Yahoo!

• Sony
• Tribal DDB Worldwide
• East Media
• .CO
• Corbis Images
• Rackspace

• Aquent
• Behance
• paidContent.org
• Guardian.co.uk
• Business Insider
• Time Out New York

• IDG
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• 2Advanced.Net
• KobeMail
• Museum of the Moving Image

Official Presenting Sponsor:

Microsoft Expression Studio opens up a new world of creative possibility. Its professional design tools give you the freedom to make your vision real - whether you're designing for standards-based Web sites, rich internet applications, rich desktop experiences, or Silverlight. For more information, visit www.microsoft.com/expression.

Official Video Sponsor:

Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the world's most popular online video community, allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small.

People's Voice Presenting Sponsor:

AOL is an online media company providing an extensive suite of brands that attract a vast worldwide audience. With more than 80 original content sites, 3000 content producers, and 80% original content, AOL owns and operates the largest family of original sites on the web. AOL is focused on producing quality content, attracting engaged consumers, and providing advertising services across AOL's owned and operated properties and the world's leading ad network, Advertising.com. Find out how we can help you achieve your marketing goals at advertising.aol.com or email us at sales@corp.aol.com.

Official After-Party Sponsor:

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. In particular, HP's Imaging and Printing Group is harnessing the power of the web to make printing more personal. With the launch last year of the world's first web connected home printer, HP provides easy touchscreen access to printable content via print apps. Print apps connect to personalized, customizable and easy to access digital content - directly from the printer - allowing people to print the way they live. For more information on HP's innovative, web connected print solutions visit: www.hp.com/touchprinting.

Official Soft Drink Sponsor:

Pepsi Refresh Project: In an effort to support those who generate innovative, optimistic ideas, the Pepsi Refresh Project (www.refresheverything.com) will award more than $20 million in 2010 to move communities forward. Individuals can apply for grants to benefit a variety of projects and site visitors can vote for the best ideas for funding. The Pepsi Refresh Project is an evolution of the Refresh Everything initiative Pepsi launched in 2009, which showed the brand as an optimistic catalyst for idea creation, leading to an ever-refreshing world. Pepsi will fund projects that make a difference in six categories: Health, Arts & Culture, Food & Shelter, The Planet, Neighborhoods and Education.

Official Sunset Cocktails Sponsor:

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most trafficked Internet destinations and a world class online media company. Yahoo!'s vision is to be the center of people's online lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit http://pressroom.yahoo.com or the company's advertising blog, http://www.yadvertisingblog.com.

Official Sponsor:

Headquartered in San Diego, Sony Electronics is a leading provider of audio/video electronics and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Operations include research and development, design, engineering, manufacturing, sales, marketing, distribution and customer service.

Sony is noted for a wide range of consumer audio-visual products, such as the BRAVIA LCD® high-definition television, Cyber-shot® digital camera, Handycam® camcorder, MP4 HD bloggie™ cameras and Walkman® personal stereo. Sony is also an innovator in the IT arena with its VAIO® personal computers; and in high-definition professional broadcast equipment, highlighted by the XDCAM® HD and CineAlta™ lines of cameras and camcorders, and the SXRD™ 4K digital projector. The latest news and information is available at the company's web site at www.sony.com/news.

Official Design Partner:

Tribal DDB Worldwide is a global communications agency that includes 56 offices spanning 36 countries throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific region. The first digital agency to win the Grand Prix in Film (for Philips "Cinema 21:9") at the International Advertising Festival at Cannes in 2009, Tribal DDB was also the first digital agency to ever win Global Agency Network of the Year from Advertising Age in 2007. In 2005 Tribal DDB was named Interactive Agency of the Year by Adweek and the Cannes International Advertising Festival, where it took home the most Lions and the Cyber Grand Prix.

Official Online Creative Partner:

East Media is a full service software product development company specializing in Web and mobile application strategy, design, development, and product management. We leverage our technical expertise, passion for elegant user experience, and creative problem solving to provide clients with elegant custom solutions that exceed expectations. We call it product craft.

Official Community Sponsor:

.CO is the new web address that gives you a truly global, recognizable, and credible option for branding your online presence. It's the online space where possibility meets opportunity; where people can fulfill their dreams and the world's next great enterprises will have a home. This summer, 25 years after the introduction of .com, a new era of the Internet will be born - an era where the name of your website, business or brand is based on what you really want - not just what's left over. .CO is the the perfect platform for today's socially networked individuals, entrepreneurs and companies to create .COmmunities, share .COntent, and .COnnect, .COmmunicate and .COllaborate. For more information, please visit www.COinternet.co.

Official Image Sponsor:

Corbis Images is a leading visual media provider for advertising, marketing and media professionals, providing a comprehensive selection of stock photography and illustration. Corbis' award-winning creative, documentary, archival, fine art, current events and entertainment imagery helps the creative community make distinctive advertising and publishing for web sites, magazines, newspapers, books, television and films. Corbis has offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia that serve more than 50 countries. For more information, visit www.corbisimages.com.

Official Sponsor:

Rackspace Hosting, (NYSE: RAX), the world's leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry, provides Fanatical Support to more than 99,000 customers in 120 countries through its portfolio of hosted IT services, including Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing and Email and Apps. The San Antonio-based company has grown from a local start-up in 1998 to the global leader today, exiting 2009 with more than $600 million dollars in revenue and customers from 40% of the FORTUNE 100. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.

Official Career Partner:

Aquent is the only global talent agency that specializes in marketing and design. We pair outstanding talent with challenging jobs to create inspired, productive partnerships. Our Interactive Design practice is focused on advancing the careers of the incredible talent we represent and on giving our clients access to the best Interactive talent on the planet.

We're a world-leading innovator in improving the way companies, and talent, work. From pioneering benefits for project-focused talent, to building a worldwide network of Interactive subject matter experts who truly understand the interactive space, we love what we do, so we work hard every day to do it better.

Official Media Partner:

paidContent covers the evolution of the digital media and entertainment industries globally, with a particular focus on emerging business models and innovation within those sectors. The site's blend of news and analysis is widely read by senior executives in the media, entertainment, publishing, advertising, marketing, and technology sectors. Started as a blog by journalist Rafat Ali in 2002, paidContent is now owned by Guardian News and Media Ltd (of the UK) and is headquartered in New York.

Official Media Partner:

Guardian News and Media is one of the largest global news brands. Owned by the Scott Trust (UK) and based on the values of independence and intelligent journalism, guardian.co.uk has seen exponential growth in the number of Americans reading the website.

With a rich heritage of global political coverage, environmental thought leadership and witty and irreverent sports and culture content, guardian.co.uk appeals to the "internationalist" American digital consumer, accounting for one third of the global online audience.

Official Media Partner:

Business Insider is a new kind of business site, designed to take full advantage of the online medium with high-velocity real-time news, analysis, commentary and tools. Of course, check out Silicon Alley Insider coverage of tech, telecom and digital media at www.businessinsider.com/sai.

Official Media Partner:

Behance develops products and services that organize the creative world to make ideas happen. These include the Behance Network, the world's leading platform for creative professionals to showcase their work; Action Method, a radical and intuitive approach to productivity and project management; and 99%, a conference that focuses not on inspiration, but on execution. The Behance Network is the leading online showcase of creative talent, but is invitation-only for membership. Behance welcomes the Webby community to sign up directly using this special link.

Official Media Partner:

Since 1995, Time Out New York has been the go-to playbook for the savvy local, the night-owl hipster and the cultured sophisticate. Time Out New York launched with the goal of integrating into the fabric of the city. Now, Time Out New York actually shapes the fabric of New York with its weekly presentation of thousands of things to do. For more information, please visit www.timeoutnewyork.com.

Founding Partner:

International Data Group (IDG) is the world's leading technology media, events, and research company. IDG's online network includes more than 450 web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment and video games worldwide. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries including CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World. IDG's lead-generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and decision makers. IDG is a leading producer of more than 750 technology-related events including Macworld Conference & Expo, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Entertainment for All Expo (E for All), DEMO, and IDC Directions. IDC, a subsidiary of IDG, is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events. Over 900 IDC analysts in more than 90 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends.

Vote Tabulation Consultant:

PricewaterhouseCoopers consulting professionals leverage our network of global resources and industry knowledge to help clients implement their business strategies and priorities to build effective organizations, innovate and grow profitably, reduce costs, manage risk and regulation, and leverage talent. As business integrators, we look across the entire organization -- focusing on strategy, structure, people, process and technology -- to help our clients drive sustainable change that yields measurable results.

Official Hosting Partner:

Why compromise for performance, uptime or service when you can simply have it all? At 2Advanced.Net we have amassed the industry's finest experts to design and deliver our superior next-generation network platform. Built from the latest in Cisco high-speed data communications technologies and reliable IBM server class systems, you can rest assured that 2advanced.net is the hosting solution for peace of mind.

Official Award Sponsor:

KobeMail, an email deliverability leader, brings together all the technologies, authentication standards and accreditation programs required for maximizing delivery to the Inbox. Under it's KobeCertified Program, KobeMail gives email marketers the tools they need to improve results of email campaigns and build trust with their customers.

Partner:

The Museum of the Moving Image advances the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique and technology of film, television, and digital media. It does so by collecting, preserving, and providing access to moving-image related artifacts; screening significant films and other moving-image works; presenting exhibitions of artifacts, artworks, and interactive experiences; and offering educational and interpretive programs to students, teachers, and the general public.