Marc Canter is CEO of Broadband Mechanics, a company which is “bringing social to software”. Marc’s background is that he started a company called MacroMind - which became Macromedia - so he’s been in the software business for 23 years - and counting. Marc’s focus has been on open standards and the burgeoning world of open social networking. Panels, speeches, lectures, rants and embarrassing questions are his techniques to bring these issues up in public - around the world. A recent Data Sharing Summit brought together many of the players in this world - organized by Marc. Broadband Mechanics’ open platform - PeopleAggregator - is a white label solution available in source code or SaaS models.

Prior to MacroMind, he worked for Bally-Midway programming music for videogames. He claims to have programmed one of the earliest licensed music ("Peter Gunn" for Spyhunter). He started his career after college when he went to New York City to help his friends build a music studio called "Noise New York." It was during this time that Marc gained valuable experience and expertise working with laserdiscs, laser light shows, NAPLPS, pro audio and video equipment and a new technology called videodiscs.