Current shortlist, and suggested topics for each speaker: Ray Chan, co-founder of 9gag.com Creating an online user-generated community and how it's similar to Wikipedia
Just to reiterate, that this is probablzy one of the worst possible choices and would most likely make us the laughing stock of the rest of the internet. In particular the comunity building aspect is highly questionable with ample evidence that 9gag is in large part a fake community, with institutionalized repost accounts (http://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/zacju/9gag_repost_machine_explained/) and no community that actively generates original content. Also 9gag is known for blatant copyright violations (see the recent 'the oatmeal' case). This is absolutely not a website that I would like to see Wikimedia assosiate with in any way. Dschwen