For 35 years, Britt Blaser has been forming companies and organizing projects. In the 70's and 80's, he was a real estate developer in Colorado, work requiring the formation of partnerships, creative financing and quasi-governmental agencies to deliver utilities and, in one case, to develop an interchange on a federal highway.

In 1986-92 Britt was the angel investor and later President and CEO of Dynamac Computer, the first authorized Macintosh clone.

In 1992-4, he co-founded the Trust Company of Washington in Seattle.
For the last decade he has advised clients on a range of increasingly technical projects.

Britt was a USAF combat pilot in Vietnam (awarded 2 Air Medals and 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses); Author, Xpertweb peer-to-peer reputation protocol; Senior advisor for Internet strategy for the Howard Dean Campaign; Senior architect for web strategy, Spirit of America; Widely read blogger at "Escapable Logic".

Now based in Manhattan, Britt founded and serves as CEO of three organizations collaborating to bring social networking tools to quasi-governmental and activist self-forming groups: Open Resource Group, LLC, and ORGware LLC, and the Independence Year Fund, a 501(c)3 in formation.

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Scott Bradner has been involved in the design, operation and use of data networks at Harvard University since the early days of the ARPANET. He was involved in the design of the original Harvard data networks, the Longwood Medical Area network (LMAnet) and New England Academic and Research Network (NEARnet). He was founding chair of the technical committees of LMAnet, NEARnet and the COrporation for Research and Enterprise Network (CoREN).

Mr. Bradner served in a number of roles in the IETF.  He was the co-director of the Operational Requirements Area (1993-1997), IPng Area (1993-1996), Transport Area (1997-2003) and Sub-IP Area (2001-2003). He was a member of the IESG (1993-2003) and was an elected trustee of the Internet Society (1993-1999), where he currently serves as the Secretary to the Board of Trustees.  Scott is also a trustee of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN).

Mr. Bradner is the University Technology Security Officer in the Harvard University Office of the Provost.  He tries to help the University community deal with technology-related privacy and security issues. He also provides technical advice and guidance on issues relating to the Harvard data networks and new technologies to Harvard's CIO. He founded the Harvard Network Device Test Lab, is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, a weekly columnist for Network World, and does a bit of independent consulting on the side.
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Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company.

Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. In 1997, President Clinton recognized their work with the U.S. National Medal of Technology. In 2005, Vint and Bob received the highest civilian honor bestowed in the U.S., the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes the fact that their work on the software code used to transmit data across the Internet has put them "at the forefront of a digital revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication, and entertainment."

From 1994-2005, Vint served as Senior Vice President at MCI. Prior to that, he was Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), and from 1982-86 he served as Vice President of MCI. During his tenure with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1976-1982, Vint played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies.

More here.
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Robin Chase is founder and CEO of Meadow Networks, a consulting company that provides transportation solutions for the new world by applying innovative wireless technologies to solve problems of congestion, infrastructure financing, and car dependency.

She is also founder and former CEO of Zipcar, which she led to become the largest and fastest-growing car-sharing company in North America. Zipcar's use of the Internet and wireless technology enables rental cars to emulate personal cars. The company's disruptive technology facilitates secure vehicle entry and authorized payment processing of hundreds of thousands of driving transactions in real-time, giving its members on-demand access to cars by-the-hour. Robin is also known for the evangelical virtual community she created among the members.

Robin lectures widely and has been frequently featured in the major media including the Today Show, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Fast Company, Wired, and Time magazines, as well as several books on entrepreneurship. She has received many awards, including the Massachusetts Governor's Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit, InfoWorld's Top 100 Innovators of 2001, and cited as a Trendsetter by Fast Company in its 2002 Champions of Innovation awards.

Robin graduated from Wellesley College and MIT's Sloan School of Management, and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University.
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Barbara A. Cherry is Professor of Telecommunications at Indiana University. Dr. Cherry brings to her research an interdisciplinary academic background integrated with telecommunications industry experience. Prior to joining the faculty at Indiana University, she was Senior Counsel with the Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis of the FCC. Prior to joining the FCC, she was Associate Professor and Associate Director of the James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law at Michigan State University. Prior to entering academia, Barbara also worked on public policy issues while employed with Ameritech and AT&T. Barbara holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.A. in Economics and Law from Harvard University while recipient of a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Economics, and a B.S. in Economics summa cum laude from the University of Michigan.
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kc claffy is principal investigator for the distributed Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), and resident research scientist based at the University of California's San Diego Supercomputer Center. kc's research interests include Internet workload/performance data collection, analysis and visualization, particularly with respect to commercial ISP collaboration/cooperation and sharing of analysis resources. kc received her PhD in Computer Science from UCSD in 1994.

[kc points us to "an interview that partly came out of the stuff I learned at BigHook for the last two years," and to CAIDA's three year plan.]
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Mr. Coburn is a managing director and global technology strategist in the technology group of UBS Investment Research. Mr. Coburn is responsible for integrating the research efforts of 120 technology and telecom analysts worldwide. In 2001, UBS's global tech team ranked number two in the technology category in the Institutional Investor European Survey. Featured in both Fast Company and Barrons, Mr. Coburn was also a regular contributor to The Red Herring for three years. Prior to joining UBS, Mr. Coburn served as a portfolio manager and technology analyst at Lynch & Mayer Inc., based in New York. Mr. Coburn holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Steve grew up in North Central Montana acquiring an interest in the night sky, the back side of TV sets and amateur radio. This led to physics and math resulting in a Ph.D. in particle physics from SUNY at Stony Brook and a postdoc spent scattering quarks.

Bell Laboratories took an interest and Steve became part of the institution for two decades. The first was spent doing lithography and applied physics research. Printing really small lines and measuring them. He made fundamental contributions to photomask inspection and metrology, deep UV optics, automatic defect classification, off axis lithography and near field microscopy.

Changing from small lines to fast networks, he moved to high bandwidth networks. Getting net to people and businesses in a variety of ways ranging from MMDS, to low power TV, to free-space optics as well as very early work in cable modems.

It became clear that social issues were going to be as important, if not more important, than technical issues and he partnered with groups of social and computer scientists in the labs working on community networks, educational MOOs, data mining and music. He formed a team that was multicasting live concerts over the Internet in 1994 and built an early voice over IP telephone system a year earlier.

The AT&T-Lucent breakup saw Steve move to the new AT&T Research Labs where he continued his mixed mode of work into next generation network access and human computer interaction. He became particularly interested in digital music and was involved in several music projects ranging from a system that tried to name the tune you sang to it, to AAC music compression and sound field reconstruction, to an early online music store for independent musicians. He became associated with Oberlin College and initiated a long term study of the use of music by students that ran from 1995 to 2004 that spans the pre-Napster to current iPod periods.

After 2000 he shifted his focus to geo-aware messaging systems and very low bandwidth, very low power communications, sound field reconstruction for conference rooms and technology for the elderly and handicapped.

In 2002 he and three others left AT&T Research to found Omenti Research - a company that brings technical and social expertise together to understand at a deep level how people use technology specializing in how people communicate with people, organizations and machines. Technical and social-technical due diligence, design, testing, prototyping and modeling working with folks from VCs to DARPA to mature firms.

Steve and his wife Sukie live in New Jersey with their ferrets. Steve builds things like cosmic ray telescopes, attempts art and music with limited success, and mentors students with greater success.
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Susan Crawford is Assistant Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, teaching cyberlaw and intellectual property law. She is also a Policy Fellow with the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, D.C, a Fellow with The Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and is active with the Internet Policy Project of the Aspen Institute. Ms. Crawford received her B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington, D.C.) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy.

Susan is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Innovation Network (www.innonet.org), a member of the Board of Directors of ICANN, a member of the Board of Directors of Greenwood Music Camp, and a member of the advisory boards of SquareTrade, Renovation in Music Education, Voxiva, and other groups. Susan, a violist, lives in New York City.
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Dr. Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., a start up company focused on dynamic sharing of information across the Internet. He is also on the board of the Internet Society, and chair of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee. Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, while he was a graduate student at UCLA, he was part of the team that developed the protocols for the Arpanet and laid the foundation for today's Internet. He organized the Network Working Group, which was the forerunner of the modern Internet Engineering Task Force and initiated the Request for Comment (RFC) series of notes through which protocol designs are documented and shared. He remained active in the Internet standards work through the IETF and IAB. For this work, Dr. Crocker was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet Award. Dr. Crocker experience includes research management at DARPA, USC/ISI and The Aerospace Corporation, vice president of Trusted Information Systems, and co-founder of CyberCash, Inc. and Longitude Systems, Inc. Dr. Crocker earned his BA in math and PhD in computer science at UCLA, and he studied artificial intelligence at MIT.
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Greg Elin is data application developer working at the intersection of massively distributed data and user experience. He helps organizations articulate and prototype new technologies focusing on databases. Mr. Elin created the open source image annotation technology Fotonotes and is the Chief Data Architect of the Sunlight Foundation whose mission is using the Internet to further transparency in Congress. As a member of Sunlight Labs he assists watchdog organizations in developing web service APIs, web 2.0 applications, and cool widgets for making federal government data more accessible and insanely useful. Mr. Elin holds a Masters from the Tisch School of the Arts's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a B.A. in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania.
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David Isenberg says, "I hired Anders into the Opportunity Discovery Department (ODD) at Bell Labs. It was not easy; typical Bell Labs hires not only have a Ph. D. but they're usually recognized experts in their field as well. We hired Anders because of his deep interest in the economics of technology, his international perspective and a maturity that belied his chronological age. He had founded the technology section of the Swedish financial daily newspaper, and he had actually read Schumpeter, While at Bell Labs he wrote a magnificent set of scenarios on how IPv6 might roll out (or not). I am thrilled Anders was able to join us at BigHook this year!"
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Tom is retired from Motorola, where he founded and headed the Canopy wireless broadband operation. Most of his 39-year career at Motorola has been focused on wireless data in one form or another; he has over 60 patents that span many of the basics for that industry. He is now Executive Vice President and Director of Corporate Strategy for MemoryLink, a company that is focusing on bringing new technologies and applications to the wireless Internet.
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Brett Frischmann is an Associate Professor at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law. This Fall, he is visiting at Fordham Law School. He teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property and Internet/cyberspace law. Most recently, he published An Economic Theory of Infrastructure and Commons Management , in the Minnesota Law Review. Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig published a Reply, Re-Marking the Progress in Frischmann, in the same issue. Professor Frischmann's recent work has been or soon will be published in the Review of Law and Economics, the Columbia Law Review, Jurimetrics, and the University of Chicago Law Review. He is working on a book on his infrastructure theory that will be published by the Yale University Press.

Professor Frischmann received his Bachelors of Arts and Masters of Science degrees from Columbia University and his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to joining the Loyola faculty, Professor Frischmann was an associate with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC, where his practice focused on communications, e-commerce and intellectual property law. He also clerked for the Honorable Fred I. Parker on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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Douglas Frosst is currently a senior partner at South River Partners, a marketing strategy and communications firm located in Ottawa. He is also a Master's candidate in the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University. Prior to joining South River Partners, he led the Connected Communities initiative at Cisco Systems, Inc., with the goal of enhancing team collaboration and interactions for greater productivity and competitive advantage. This project was the next step in the company's information technology evolution, building on its successes with transaction productivity. The new horizon of competitive advantage uses network and information technology to amplify stakeholders' ability to innovate, influence, motivate, educate, decide.

The Connected Communities initiative was a direct outcome of a multi-year research project he led in his previous role as Senior Manager and Executive Editor of Executive Thought Leadership at Cisco Systems. In this capacity he was responsible for developing and delivering research, analysis, and insight on the interplay of networks, productivity, innovation, and competitive advantage. The Interactions research projects that gave rise to Connected Communities explored the opportunities and barriers to greater productivity and competitive advantage.

Working directly with the executive staff and office of the president, Douglas developed a strategic research agenda, from primary and secondary sources, for executive engagements at the highest levels of corporations and governments. The research was a collaborative effort with experts at a variety of institutions, including the Economist Intelligence Unit, INSEAD, McKinsey, MIT, Oxford, Wharton, and the World Economic Forum.

Douglas' work has involved extensive written and verbal communication. He has published articles and research in a variety of internal and external journals, including the World Economic Forum's Global Information Technology Report, and has presented these findings at a wide range of executive events.

In addition to his work at Cisco, Douglas serves on several boards, providing an additional dimension of experience with smaller companies. As a director he has assisted with a range of activities, including strategic decision making, acquisitions, market entry and pricing, and other facets of competitive advantage. Douglas studied computer science and actuarial science at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and is currently a Fellow of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Roxane Googin publishes the High Technology Observer, a technology investment strategy service for money managers. Primarily focused on longer-term trends that effect investments over a period of years, one focus of HTO since 2000 has been on "The Paradox of the Best Network", sometimes extrapolated into "Googin's Law". The Paradox states that "The best Network is the hardest one to make money running". This is because it is perfectly plain and perfectly extensible, inevitably leading to a never-ending cycle of loss-leading capacity expansions. It becomes, in short, like DRAM, the perfect capital repellent.

Not only has this fundamental truth not been addressed by industry, investors or regulators, it has spread. The growing gap between what is best for long-term, broad-based social gain (open systems with limited DRM) and what is best for near-term capital appreciation (closed systems, false scarcity) has grown from networks, to incorporate software and a growing body of content. Indeed, it seems to be engulfing tech itself.

Googin's Law abstracts the Paradox beyond just networks to state: "Open technology is good for the economy yet bad for business. Closed technology is good for business yet bad for the economy". This unaddressed conflict is leading to stagnant NASDAQ performance and inappropriate network investment at the national level To mature to the "next level", into the information economy, we need to break with the proprietary, scarcity mindsets of the old asset-based industrial age, but how?
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I am the CTO of Hilllcrest Communications, a new startup working in the overlapping areas of media and telecommunications. My prior work history includes a stint as President and CTO of Broadsword Technologies, as the CTO for the NTG division at Tellabs, a Director of Portfolio Planning and Management for Tellabs corporate, an engineering manager at Bell Labs, now Lucent, and CTO/VP of Engineering at Coherent Communications (acquired by Tellabs). I'm dedicated to what might be called the 'idiot savant' network as opposed to a walled-garden "smart" network or the transport-only "stupid" network and the products I've been involved with demonstrate that.
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With an open minded enthusiasm for all varieties of string music, both traditional and modern, folk and classical, Alex Hargreaves pursues his musical education with teachers of all different styles, including Matt Glaser, Mike Marshall, Darol Anger, David Grisman, Mark O'Connor, Christian Howes, Johnny Gimble, Paul Anastasio, and Bruce Molsky. Alex is also an active performer playing in venues around the country ranging from Wintergrass Festival in Seattle, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco, Rockygrass, and the International Bluegrass Music Association in Nashville. Although his main instrument is violin, he is a multi-instrumentalist, playing mandolin, piano and guitar.

* In 2007, Alex was the youngest ever to win the Grand Champion division at the National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest in Weiser, Idaho.
* In 2005, 2006 and 2007, Alex won the Championship Division of the Oregon Oldtime Fiddlers Contest. In June, 2006, Alex won the Junior Division (ages 17 and under) at the National Oldtime Fiddlers’ÄöˆÑˆ¥ Contest in Weiser, Idaho.
* Alex has performed with David Grisman, Chris Thile, Sean & Sara Watkins, and Darol Anger. Other musicians and bands he has shared the stage with include Old School Freight Train, Christian Howes, David Bromberg, Laurie Lewis, Tom Rozum, Country Current, Noam Pikelny, Danny Barnes, The Greencards, Chris Eldridge, Billy Contreras, Jeremy Kittel, Rushad Eggleston, Randy Elmore, Brittany Haas, Crooked Still, Hanneke Cassel and Tristan & Tashina Clarridge.
* In August, 2005, Alex was awarded the Daniel Pearl Memorial Violin at the Mark O'Connor String Conference in San Diego. Built by master violin maker Jonathan Cooper, the instrument honors the memory of slain journalist Daniel Pearl. Each year, the violin is awarded to a young musician to play for one year. In this way, the violin, the musicians, and the music will continue, year after year, to inspire Daniel Pearl's eternal dream of peace, harmony, and cultural understanding.
* In 2007, Alex was awarded a Belle Foundation Cultural Development grant for his musical achievements. In addition, he was chosen for an Alternative Styles Award from the American Strings Teachers Association (ASTA) and invited to perform at their annual convention in Detroit, Michigan.
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Dewayne Hendricks is CEO, of Tetherless Access, Inc. (TAI), a Fremont, California based company which does research, product development and deployment of broadband wired and wireless data devices and services. TAI is the new incarnation of Tetherless Access Ltd. (TAL) where he was its CEO and co-founder. TAL was founded back in 1990 and was one of the first companies to develop and deploy Part 15 unlicensed wireless metropolitan area data networks which used the TCP/IP protocols. TAL eventually went public in 1996. He is also a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Technological Advisory Council (TAC http://www.fcc.gov/oet/tac). He has participated in the installation of wireless networks in many parts of the world such as Kenya, Tonga, Mexico, Canada and Mongolia. He has been involved with radio since his teens, when he obtained his amateur radio operator's license.
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David Hofstatter is Founder, President & CEO of CallWave, Inc.  After many years driving the innovation process (or lack thereof) within the traditional value chain of telecom carriers and their vendors, in 1998, Mr. Hofstatter stepped outside of the old telecom world, and defined a truely customer-centered approach to telecommunications services at CallWave.  He is responsible for the experience of over 7 million on-line and 25 million offline users of CallWave's services, which provide internet-enhanced call delivery of calls which have been missed because a CallWave subscriber is on-line and their line is busy, or because they are away from the phone.  Prior to founding CallWave, Mr. Hofstatter was responsible for strategy and advanced product development at Digital Sound Corporation where he pioneered the technology behind web-based unified messaging in 1995 and made early discoveries of the significant market adoption barriers for complex "unified" services.  Prior to Digital Sound, Mr. Hofstatter began his career in 1983 with his current business partner Bob Dolan, at Mr. Dolan's first startup, ComDesign, Inc, a manufacturer of packet-based switching equipment.  Mr. Hofstatter has a degree in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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David S. Isenberg spent 12 years at AT&T Bell Labs until his 1997 essay,"The Rise of the Stupid Network," was received with acclaim everywhere in the global telecommunications community with one exception -- at AT&T itself! So Isenberg left AT&T in 1998 to found isen.com, LLC (an independent telecom analysis firm based in Cos Cob, Connecticut) and to publish The SMART Letter, an open-minded commentary on the communications revolution and its enemies.
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Clegg Ivey is Co-Founder, Vice President: Strategy, Voxeo Corp. Clegg leads Voxeo's strategy to acquire competitive and complementary businesses. Clegg was previously CEO of Vogistix, where he led the development of applications that combine Voice over IP and Web technologies to solve vertical industry problems.

Prior to founding Voxeo, Clegg was an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the nation's leading technology law firm. While at Wilson, Mr. Ivey specialized in technology law and served as technology lead on several groundbreaking cases. In addition, Clegg has over 10 years experience with software design and development.

Clegg attended Tulane University where he graduated magna cum laude with a quadruple major. He also holds a law degree from the University of Chicago.
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Don Jackson is Vice President of Advanced Telephony at Tellme Networks, where he works on enhancing the functionality and features of Tellme's connections to phone and data networks.  His responsibilities include the SIP version of the Tellme platform, and the development of communication applications for carriers and service providers.
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Chad Jones is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His main research contributions are to the study of long-run economic growth. In particular, he has examined theoretically and empirically the fundamental sources of growth in per capita income over time and the reasons underlying the enormous differences in standards of living across countries. In recent years, he has used his expertise in macroeconomic methods to study the economic causes behind the rise in health spending and longevity. He is the author of Introduction to Economic Growth, an undergraduate-level textbook.
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Peter Kaminski has more than 20 years of executive management and technology development experience, specializing in leading-edge applications of network and information technologies, especially those that help interconnect people.

Kaminski co-founded and is currently CTO of Socialtext, Inc., the first and leading enterprise wiki vendor.

In 1999, Kaminski co-founded Yipes Communications, the defining national provider of metro Ethernet networking services. He developed its internal enterprise application infrastructure as Vice President Technology Development.

Kaminski built his first commercial Internet product in 1993: "NetCruiser," an innovative, comprehensive and award-winning graphical Internet browser distributed to hundreds of thousands of subscribers by NETCOM Online Communications.

Kaminski says, "I have a passion for helping people connect, with the belief that connecting with others makes the world a better place. Five centuries ago, I would have built with stones, spanning rivers to connect people on opposite banks; these days I use computers, software and networks, and span global geography and time."
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Steve Kamman is an analyst at Fidelity investments covering Mid-Cap Tech, Media, and Telecom stocks. He joined Fidelity in 2006. From 2001-2006, Steve covered the Networking industry as an Analyst at CIBC World Markets. He was part of CIBC's Telecom Services research team from 1999 - 2000. Prior to his MBA, Steve worked in Corporate Development at MCI Telecommunications Corp for 2 years and in Andersen Consulting's Tech, Media, and Telecom practice for 5 years. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA Cum Laude from Yale University.
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Paul Kowert began playing the violin at age three and the bass at age nine. His first bass teacher, Rosemary Poetzel, encouraged his musical growth in both jazz and classical arenas. Since then his major teachers have been Catalin Rotaru, Bruce Bransby and Richard Davis. When he was twelve, Paul was the principal bassist in Disney's Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. At fourteen, he soloed with the Madison Symphony Orchestra as winner of the Fall Concerto Competition. As a sophomore, Paul joined the UW Chamber Orchestra, and he has been the youngest member of the Madison Symphony Orchestra for the last two years. Paul will begin his first year of study with Hal Robinson and Edgar Meyer at The Curtis Institute of Music. Paul plays jazz in various venues around Madison and plays a mean blue- grass mandolin.
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Casey Lide is a principal with The Baller Herbst Law Group, PC, a national law firm based in Washington, DC, and Minneapolis, MN, that specializes in representing local governments and public power utilities in matters involving telecommunications, cable television, high-speed data communications, Internet access, wireless telecommunications, right-of-way management, pole and conduit attachments, and barriers to the public-sector entry into telecommunications. Prior to joining Baller Herbst, Mr. Lide served as in-house counsel for Digital Signature Trust Co., a leading provider of Internet security and authentication tools. He has also held positions with the Federation of American Research Networks (FARNET), and as Director of Policy and Networking Programs for EDUCAUSE, a national information technology association of higher education institutions. Mr. Lide is a graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University ('94) and The Ohio State University College of Law ('97). He is admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia, and is a member of the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors and the Federal Communications Bar Association.
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Andrew Maffei is a communications specialist who has worked at Woods Hole for the past nineteen years, helping innovative oceanographers and engineers to use networks of all sorts to do their research. His most recent work, NEPTUNE, is a collaborative project aimed at installing a multi-Gigabit Ethernet backbone around a tectonic plate, in 2500 meters of water off the west coast of the US and Canada. This is being done to enable the long-term (30 year), multi-disciplinary study of a single chunk of ocean. He also runs a project called SeaNet that spaoratically connects oceanographic research vessels to the Internet.
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Mike Marshall has performed with some of the top acoustic string instrumentalists in the world, including Stephane Grappelli, Mark O'Connor, Bela Fleck and Joshua Bell. He has been at the centre of the acoustic music scene since the beginning of his career as a member of the original David Grisman Quintet. His mastery of mandolin, guitar and violin, together with his ability to swing between jazz, classical, bluegrass and Latin styles, has gained him critical acclaim.

In 1983 Marshall forged a partnership with violinist Darol Anger, and together they formed the Montreux Band with pianist Barbara Higbie, bassist Michael Manring and steel drum virtuoso Andy Narell. This band helped point the way for much of the acoustic instrumental music of the 80s and 90s.

More here.
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Jerry Michalski (ma-call-ski) is the founder and president of Sociate, a technology consulting firm. Through Sociate, Jerry offers advice, speaks, writes and invests, taking a more hands-on role in developing the products and services he has written about for a dozen years. His interests lie mainly in the many ways that technology and people interact -- in private and business settings, and at all scales: as individuals, businesses, economies and societies.

Jerry is working on his first book, which offers (among other things) a humanist answer to the dysfunctions of consumer capitalism, innovative approaches to improve the world's culture and help creators make a better living, and ways for corporations to make transparency and openness profit drivers, not just ethical guidelines.

For the five years before he founded Sociate, Jerry was the Managing Editor of Release 1.0 , Esther Dyson's monthly newsletter, and co-host of the annual PC Forum. For the five years before that, Jerry was an industry analyst and research service director with New Science Associates, which was later bought by Gartner Group. Jerry earned an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA in Economics from UC Irvine. He was raised in Peru and Argentina and speaks fluent Spanish, German and French.
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Gardner is the Airplane House caretaker, manager and Historian. He is a Jungian with degrees and belts in too many things, so he gardens now and tells outlandish stories which silhouette the truth in much the same way that weekends sneak up on Wednesday.
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Desiree Zeljka Miloshevic is the Special Advisor to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Advisory Group Chair, and International Affairs and Policy Advisor at Afilias, a global leader in domain name services. In addition, she represents the Gibraltar ccTLD (.GI) at CENTR, and other major European institutions. First elected to the ISOC Board in 2004, she also currently serves on the Board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (2004-2007), Creative Commons UK (2004- ), the Irish ENUM Forum Policy Advisory Board (2005- ), is a member of Advisory Council of Open Rights Group UK (2005- ). She is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and has been a judge in the Technical Innovation Section of the annual Webby Awards since 2003.

One of the founding European members of the ICANN ccNSO (March 2004), Ms. Miloshevic's work in the internet field began in 1993 as one of the first hostmasters for Demon Internet, the United Kingdom's first consumer Internet access provider. She participated in the informal, peer-coordinated policy making process for the .UK domain until supervision of the UK ccTLD was assumed by Nominet in 1996. In subsequent years she has worked as an expert technical and policy consultant for new top-level domains (e.g., .MUSEUM and .PRO), and has participated in the work of many Internet councils, workshops and constituencies in the areas of DNS policy and Internet governance. She has also contributed lectures to CEENET, the South East European CyberSecurity Cooperation Forum, the Eastern European Networking Association, the Stability Pact for South East Europe, and many other regional fora.

Desiree's decade-plus of close and productive interactions with regulators, intergovernmental leaders, academics, artists, and community activists throughout the world provide her with a unique set of resources with which to engage the often complex, cross-sectoral challenges of Internet technical coordination and governance.

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Ewan Morrison is editor of the Executive Thought Leadership team at Cisco, providing editorial direction and content strategy for various content projects and broadcast properties. Previously, Ewan served on the editorial staff of iQ, a business technology magazine published between 2000-2006 by Cisco, ultimately as the publication's editor in chief. Prior to joining Cisco, Ewan held editorial posts at a variety of decidedly non-tech publications, including Longboard Magazine and Snowboard Life Magazine. He resides in San Clemente, California with his wife and family.
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Elliot Noss has been a leader in the Internet industry for nearly ten years and has been a driver in the evolution of Tucows Inc. for the last seven. Trained as a lawyer, he joined Tucows in 1997 as Vice President, Corporate Services. He was subsequently appointed president and CEO of Tucows Inc. in May 1999.

During his tenure, Tucows has grown to become a leading destination for Internet software and application downloads. In 2000, the company created the wholesale domain name registration market with the launch of the OpenSRS (shared registration services) platform. In August 2001, he helped orchestrate Tucows' merger with Infonautics, Inc., under the Tucows name. Since then, Mr. Noss has rapidly expanded Tucows wholesale services to offer digital certificates, DNS, and email services to a growing international Reseller channel.

He champions areas of vital interest to the Internet community including; privacy, ICANN reform and registrar matters, the implications of emerging technologies, and the emergence of small and medium-sized ISPs and web hosting companies as the unrecognized backbone of the Internet economy.

Mr. Noss chairs the University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science Advisory Board and is a distinguished graduate of the University of Toronto where he earned a BA. He also earned an MBA and LLB from the University of Western Ontario.
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Tim Nulty is general manager of the Burlington (VT) telecom project, a city-wide fiber-to-the-premise network that provides cable tv, telephone and high-speed internet to all households and businesses directly. The network is "open access", i.e. provides wholesale transport on a non-discriminatory basis to any provider who wishes to use it to distribute services to final customers. 1800 customers have been connected and approximately 10 new subscribers are being connected every day. The project will complete wiring the City by autumn 2008 and will go cash-flow positive shortly thereafter. Tim has a Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University and has held many positions in economics, telecommunications and government. Much more -- delightful! -- here.
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Andrew Odlyzko is Director of the interdisciplinary Digital Technology Center and an Assistant Vice President for Research at the University of Minnesota. Prior to assuming that position in 2001, he devoted 26 years to research and research management at Bell Telephone Laboratories, AT&T Bell Labs, and AT&T Labs, as that organization evolved and changed its name. He has written over 150 technical papers in computational complexity, cryptography, number theory, combinatorics, coding theory, analysis, probability theory, and related fields, and has three patents. The projects he has managed have been in diverse areas, such as security, formal verification methods, parallel and distributed computation, and auction technology. In recent years he has also been working on electronic publishing, electronic commerce, and economics of data networks, and is the author of such widely cited papers as "Tragic loss or good riddance: The impending demise of traditional scholarly journals," "The bumpy road of electronic commerce," "Paris Metro Pricing for the Internet," "Content is not king," and "The history of communications and its implications for the Internet." He has an honorary doctorate from Univ. Marne la Vallee and serves on editorial boards of over 20 technical journals, as well as on several advisory and supervisory bodies.
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Jorge Ortiz is an entrepreneur involved in several startups:

RadioBus, MP3 based mass media for public transportation buses.

Vozlibre.org, (in planning) Web based citizen media.
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Frank Paynter, owner for the last ten years of Sandhill Technologies, LLC, is a consultant and project manager for a limited number of clients, including university, government, telco, non-profit, and financial institution executive management. Frank's focus is on appraisal of large organizations' current conditions, and planning and executing change in their networked communications systems and information technology services.

Among his other pursuits, Frank is a freelance writer presently finishing a book on bloggers and social networks and working on a children's story about a disappearing cat.¬¨’ÄÝ He is also a farmer sponsoring a Community Supported Agriculture operation that feeds 50 local families on his farm south of Madison.

Frank has a BA and MBA from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and is currently (2007 - 2008) an Honorary Fellow in Sociology there.
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Adam Peake is a senior researcher at the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), Tokyo. He works on projects related to telecommunications, Internet and broadband policy, network and information security policy and trends, and follow-up activities for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Adam has been working on Internet policy related projects in the Asia Pacific region since the mid-1990s, and has been active in policy-making activities for Internet resource allocation since that time. He was a participant in the G8 Dot Force, which made recommendations to the Group of Eight nations for action to address the "digital divide". He is currently a member of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Group on the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Before coming to Japan in 1989, Adam was employed at British Telecom as a project manager working on the interconnection of Other Licensed Operators (cellular radio, radio paging and competitive telephony carriers.)
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Robert Pepper (he prefers to be called "Pepper") is Senior Managing Director, Global Advanced Technology Policy, Cisco Systems Inc.

Pepper leads a team driving Cisco's global agenda for advanced technology policy in areas such as broadband, IP enabled services, wireless, security and privacy. He joined Cisco in July 2005 from the FCC where he served as Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy and Chief of Policy Development beginning in 1989 where he focused on issues cutting across traditional industry and institutional boundaries as a result of new technologies and convergence and led teams implementing telecommunications legislation, planning for the transition from analog to digital television, designing and implementing the first spectrum auctions in the United States and developing policies promoting the development of the Internet. Before joining the FCC, he served as Director of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy. His government service also included Acting Associate Administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and initiating a program on Computers, Communications and Information Policy at the National Science Foundation. His academic appointments included faculty positions at the Universities of Iowa, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, and as a research affiliate at Harvard University. He serves on the board of directors of the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI), the advisory boards for Columbia University and Michigan State University, is a Communications Program Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a non-resident Fellow at the Annenberg Center at the University of Southern California. He also is a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Spectrum Management Advisory Committee and the UK's Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board. Pepper received his BA. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [back]

Mark Peshoff is Senior Director of Executive Thought Leadership, Cisco Systems. In this position, he manages a team which support's Cisco's need to be positioned and recognized as the preeminent thought leader regarding the role and relevance of networking in solving Cisco's customer's most important business problems.

Mr. Peshoff has a proven track record of building successful teams in diverse and challenging markets. He joined Cisco in 1996, previously serving as Director of Service Provider Marketing for Cisco Systems. In this position, he led several teams within Cisco, including the Solutions Management & Marketing, Segment Marketing, Strategic Marketing and Press Relations/Analyst Relations teams. These groups advocate, support and enhance value for the company's Service Provider products and services. He also was Director of Marketing for Cisco's Integrated Access Business Unit and Director of International Marketing for the company's Optical Transport Business Unit.

With more than 23 years in the industry, Mr. Peshoff's experience includes sales management, consulting, product marketing, field marketing, product management and acquisitions assessment and integration. Prior to Cisco, he spent 14 years with Hewlett-Packard, building the company's first Network Consulting Organization. Within both Cisco and Hewlett-Packard, he has held key sales management and marketing positions in Europe and Asia Pacific.

Mr. Peshoff is a recognized speaker internationally. He is one of Cisco's top speakers, frequently delivering addresses at conferences throughout the world.
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JP is CIO for BT Global Services. BT Global Services works in 170 countries and is the fastest growing division within BT Group, supporting large businesses and organizations across the globe. Before BT, Mr Rangaswami led on collaborative technologies at the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein is now the subject of several Harvard Business School case studies. Mr Rangaswami is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society for the Encouragements of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He holds a degree in economics and statistics from St. Xavier's College, University of Calcutta.
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Dr. Reed is, by inclination, a designer of large-scale systems structures and concepts - algorithms, protocols, architectures, business models, and processes. His career includes 15 years as a student and professor of computer science and engineering at MIT, 10 years leading advanced commercial personal computer software innovation as v.p. R&D/chief scientist at Software Arts and Lotus Development Corp., 4 years as a senior scientist at Interval Research Corp., and 4 years as an independent technology strategy advisor and consultant to industry in areas related to computing and communications infrastructure and applications. He is known for key early contributions to the architecture of the Internet in the '70's. He has made major contributions to the design, implementation, and technology strategy of a variety of very successful commercial software and systems products. Reed is currently employed by the MIT Media Lab and by Hewlett-Packard Labs. At MIT he co-leads both the MIT Communications Futures Program and the Viral Communications Research Group at the Media Lab, and at HP he is an HP Fellow.
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Jean Russell, founder of Nurture.biz, is a certified NLP Coach. She feels passionately about bringing out the best in others, which earned her the name Nurture Girl. Jean holds a BA in English and Philosophy, and she loves learning about technology, visual representation of information, community networking/network weaving, and leadership development. She works with leaders running social-benefit organizations.
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Doc is the Senior Editor of Linux Journal, the premier Linux monthly and one of the world's leading technology magazines. He also runs the new Doc Searls' IT Garage, an online journal published by Linux Journal's parent company, SSC.

He is co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual, a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Borders Books and Amazon.com bestseller. (It was Amazon's #1 sales & marketing bestseller for thirteen months and sells around the world in nine languages.)

He also writes Doc Searls Weblog. J.D. Lasica, author of Darknet, and proprietor of ourmedia calls Doc "one of the deep thinkers in the blog movement." Doc's blog is consistently listed among the top few blogs, out of millions ’ÄöˆÑˆÆ by Technorati, Blogstreet and others.

In August, 2005, Doc recieved the fist annual Google O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Communicator.

In 2006, Doc was named a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Information Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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Aaron Swartz (born 1986) is a writer, web developer, and entrepreneur. At age 14 he was a co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification. Since then he has become a member of the W3C's RDF Core Working Group, co-designed the formatting language Markdown with John Gruber, and been very involved in many other projects.

Aaron was the founder of Infogami, a startup that was part of Y Combinator's first Summer Founders Program. Previously, he attended Stanford University for a year, before leaving to work on his company full-time. Infogami joined reddit, another company that was involved with Y Combinator's inaugural session, and both products are now part of not a bug. Infogami is well short of its full functionality, and has not been updated since May 2006 when Swartz apparently discontinued its Google Ads service.
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During the course of her 25-year career, Sara Wedeman has been a clinical psychologist, a banker, a researcher, a writer and consultant. She has:

Run her own successful consulting firm;

Former principal of the Center for Applied Research;
Led the Research Division of CoreStates Financial Corporation (now Wachovia Corporation);

Practiced as a clinical psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania and in private practice.

Sara holds a Ph.D. in Professional Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, Masters' degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College, and a B.A. from Swarthmore College as well as a certificate in Business Administration from the Wharton Graduate School.

As long as we're talking about infrastructure economics, Sara's description of Economic Psychology is worth a thoughtful glance.
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Richard S. Whitt is the Washington Telecom and Media Counsel for Google Inc. In that capacity, Rick is responsible for Google's wireline, wireless, and media advocacy before the Federal Communications Commission, other federal agencies, and the U.S. Congress. Most recently he has represented the company's interest in broadband policy issues (such as network neutrality), spectrum policy matters (such as the 700 MHz auction and TV white spaces proceedings), and the "unregulation" of VoIP and other Web-based applications.

Prior to joining Google in January 2007, Rick founded and headed NetsEdge Consulting, a public policy consulting firm that provided legal analysis, regulatory strategy, and advocacy counsel to Web-based companies. From 1994 to 2006, Rick worked at MCI Communications, where most recently he served as vice president for federal law and policy. Rick previously spent over five years as an associate attorney in the communications practices of two D.C.-based law firms. Rick is a 1988 cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, and a 1984 magna cum laude graduate of James Madison University.
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Michael Wise is Group Technical Advisor, Platform Research & Development
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. A Time Warner Company
Michael.Wise@Turner.com

Michael has served in various roles at AOL and Time Warner since 1998. Since March, 2007, he has been the Group Technical Advisor in Turner Broadcasting's Platform Research & Development group. In this capacity, he provides technology strategy and planning counsel to various Turner and Time Warner executives and corporate groups including Digital Media Technologies, New Products, Investments, Legal, and members of the Platform R&D Group. In his role, Michael also represents Turner in industry standards bodies and consortia including the OMA and ISMA.

Previous to his role at Turner, Michael held various technical and managerial roles at AOL, and was deeply involved in AOL's digital media strategy, planning, and execution. Michael also worked in the Time Warner office of the CTO, and prior to AOL, Michael worked for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) on various large scale distributed computing projects for the US Government.

Michael has a BA in Economics and Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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