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Benesch, Susan

Susan Benesch founded and directs the Dangerous Speech Project, to study rhetoric that can inspire violence - and to find ways to prevent this without infringing on freedom of expression. To that end, she conducts research on methods to diminish harmful speech online, or the harm itself. She regularly foists related ideas on tech companies, to improve both content moderation and user behavior. Trained as a human rights lawyer at Yale, Susan has worked for NGOs including Amnesty International and Human Rights First. She teaches at American University and is Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She hosts monthly dinner concerts at her home in DC.

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Bradner, Scott

Scott Bradner was 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 was theVP for Standards from 1995 to 2003 and Secretary
to the Board of Trustees from 2003 to 2016. Scott was also a member of the IETF Administrative
Support Activity (IASA) as well as a trustee of the IETF Trust from 2012 to 2016.

Mr. Bradner retired from Harvard University in 2016 after 50 years working in computers,
networking, security and identity management. He still does some patent related consulting.

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Buell, Mark

Mark Buell is the Regional Bureau Director of the Internet Society for North America. In this role, Mark oversees the Internet Society’s engagement activities in Canada and the United States.

From 2009 to 2016, Mark held a variety of positions with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), the registry for the .CA country code top-level domain. At CIRA, Mark provided senior level support for the organization’s activities in the domestic Internet policy and global Internet governance fora. In 2010, Mark initiated the Canadian Internet Forum, Canada’s IGF and continued to coordinate the event until 2016. He also established CIRA as a leader in the domain name industry in the use of social media.

Prior to joining CIRA, Mark spent a decade working in Indigenous health policy, first as a Community Development Officer at an Inuit land claim organization in the Western Canadian Arctic, then as the Director of Communications and Research at the National Aboriginal Health Organization in Ottawa.

Mark is based in Ottawa, Canada.

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Cagle, Susie

Susie Cagle is a Columbia-trained journalist and self-taught illustrator covering economics, labor, and technology. She is a business columnist for the Nation, and writes and draws regularly for the Guardian, New York Times, Vox, and others. She was previously a staff reporter at ProPublica, and a John S. Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford. She's cartooned the Silk Road trial, federal narco-terror stings, the California housing crisis, and numerous problems with "the sharing economy." Along with editor Manjula Martin, she developed Who Pays Writers, a crowdsourced directory of pay rates and contract terms for freelance journalists at a time of great industry disruption and uncertainty.

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Chase, Robin

Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world; as well as co-founder of Veniam, a network company that moves terabytes of data between vehicles and the cloud. Her recent book is Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism. Her current passion is working with cities to maximize the transformation possible with the introduction of self-driving cars.

She sits on the Boards of the World Resources Institute and Tucows, and serves on the Dutch multinational DSM’s Sustainability Advisory Board. In the past, she served on the boards of Veniam and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the French National Digital Agency, the National Advisory Council for Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the US Department of Commerce, the Intelligent Transportations Systems Program Advisory Committee for the US Department of Transportation, the OECD’s International Transport Forum Advisory Board, the Massachusetts Governor’s Transportation Transition Working Group, and Boston Mayor’s Wireless Task Force.

Robin lectures widely, has been frequently featured in the major media, and has received many awards in the areas of innovation, design, and environment, including the prestigious Urban Land Institute’s Nicols Prize as Urban Visionary, Time 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators, and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers. Robin graduated from Wellesley College and MIT's Sloan School of Management, was a Harvard University Loeb Fellow, and received an honorary Doctorate of Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

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Cherry, Barbara

Barbara A. Cherry is Professor, formerly in the Department of Telecommunications, and now in the Media School at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Her research is primarily focused on evaluation of deregulatory policies, governance structures, international comparative analysis of infrastructure industries, and framing of analyses from a complexity theory perspective.  Dr. Cherry’s research reflects an interdisciplinary academic background integrated with policymaking experience in the telecommunications industry and government, having held positions at the FCC, the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law at Michigan State University, Ameritech and AT&T.  Since 2008, Dr. Cherry has been a member of the Board of Directors of the International Telecommunications Society.  In 2017, she became a member of the Internal Board for the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, which focuses on the study of governance as it relates to a variety of research areas.  Dr. Cherry holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from 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. with Highest Honors in Economics from the University of Michigan. Her Indiana University home page is http://mediaschool.indiana.edu/profile/?p=cherryb.

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Crandall, Steve

Raised in North Central Montana. Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from Stony Brook, postdoc at BNL and then applied physics and lots of stuff ranging from lithography to digital audio and even HCI before moving to AT&T Research after the AT&T/LU fission. Focused on cable Internet, HCI until 2001 and co-founded Omenti which is currently focused on consulting in HCI and applied physics (mostly energy) as well as some dabbling in the fashion industry, sports science, STEAM education, and animation. Recreationally getting back into real physics (brown dwarf formation) as an amateur/professional (eg - for fun). Ferret keeper and my Montana accent returns in the presence of native speakers.

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Crocker, Steve

Steve Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc.  Last November he completed service as chair of the ICANN board of directors. 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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Dunn, Alix

Alix Dunn is founder and departing Executive Director of The Engine Room, an international non-profit organization that helps activists, organizations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact in promoting equality, justice, human rights, good governance and accountability.

Alix spent the better part of the past 7 years developing The Engine Room and is transitioning into a fellowship at Cambridge University's Centre for Governance and Human Rights in the fall and a consulting practice. Previously, she worked in the human rights community in Egypt from 2009 until 2013. She sits on the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court and the Advisory Council of Open Technology Fund. She plays a mean game of chess.

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Feld, Harold

Harold is Public Knowledge's Legal Director. He is responsible for managing and mentoring PK's growing legal team and acting as lead attorney for issues before the Federal Communications Commission and the courts. He is also lead attorney for the Public Interest Spectrum Coalition, of which PK is a proud member.

Before becoming Legal Director at Public Knowledge, Harold worked as Senior Vice President of Media Access Project, advocating for the public interest in media, telecommunications and technology policy for almost 10 years. Prior to joining MAP, Feld was an associate at Covington & Burling, worked on Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act, and accountability issues at the Department of Energy, and clerked for the D.C. Court of Appeals. He received his B.A. from Princeton University, and his J.D. from Boston University Law School. Harold also writes Tales of the Sausage Factory, a progressive blog on media and telecom policy. In 2007, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin praised him and his blog for "[doing] a lot of great work helping people understand how FCC decisions affect people and communities on the ground."

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Farber, David J

David J. Farber is Co-Director of the Cyber Civilization Research Center (CCRC) of the Global Research Institute of Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.

Dave has also served as Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy at the School of Computer Science (SCS) of Carnegie Mellon University with secondary appointments at the Heinz School and EPP and then as Adjunct Professor of Internet Studies in SCS and Adjunct Professor in EPP. In addition he was Visiting Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stevens Institute of Technology.

In 2003, he retired from the University of Pennsylvania where he holds the Alfred Fitler Moore Emeritus Professor of telecommunications with appointments in the Engineering School and the Wharton School. . His background includes positions at Bell Labs, the Rand Corporation, Xerox Data Systems, University of California at Irvine and the University of Delaware.

From 2000 to 2001, he served as Chief Technologist for the Federal Communications Commission. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center), ISC (Internet Systems Consortium) and the Stevens Institute of Technology.

Prior to his appointment to the FCC, he served on the U.S. Presidential Advisory Committee of Information Technology.

He was awarded the Sigcomm Award for life long contributions to communications and Philadelphia’s John Scott award for Contributions to Humanity as well as an Honorary Doctorate from Stevens and a Pioneer of the Internet Society Hall of Fame.

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Frischmann, Brett

Brett Frischmann is the Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics at Villanova University. In this new role, Brett will promote cross-campus research, programming and collaboration; foster high-visibility academic pursuits at the national and international levels; have the ability to teach across the University; and position Villanova as a thought leader and innovator at the intersection of law, business and economics.

Brett is an affiliated scholar of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, and a trustee for the Nexa Center for Internet & Society, Politecnico di Torino. Previously, he was the 2016-2017 Microsoft Visiting Professor of Information and Technology Policy, Princeton University, and a Professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City where he taught courses in intellectual property, Internet law, and technology policy. 

Brett has published books on the relationships between infrastructural resources, governance, commons, and spillovers, including Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources (Oxford University Press, 2012), Governing Knowledge Commons (Oxford University Press, 2014, with Michael Madison and Katherine Strandburg), and Governing Medical Research Commons (Cambridge University Press, August 2017, with Michael Madison and Katherine Strandburg). Frischmann received his BA in Astrophysics from Columbia University, an MS in Earth Resources Engineering from Columbia University, and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center. After clerking for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practicing at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC, he joined the Loyola University, Chicago law faculty in 2002.  

His latest book is Re-engineering Humanity (Cambridge Feb/Mar 2018), which he is co-authoring with RIT philosopher Evan Selinger. The book examines techno-social engineering of humans, various ‘creep’ phenomena (e.g., boilerplate, nudge, and surveillance creep), and modern techno-driven Taylorism.

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Gillmor, Dan

Dan Gillmor directs the News Co/Lab (http://newscollab.org) at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he is a professor of practice. The News Co/Lab works with partners on experiments designed to improve the information ecosystem -- and counteract misinformation -- by focusing on the demand side of media. A former technology columnist, Dan also teaches digital media literacy for ASU Online, and is author of several books including "We the Media" and "Mediactive." More about Dan at http://dangillmor.com/about .

More about Dan here: http://dangillmor.com/about

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Goldstone, Heather

Heather Goldstone is science correspondent for WCAI and WGBH Radio, and host of Living Lab, a weekly radio interview show about science and culture. She holds a Ph.D. in ocean science from M.I.T. and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her reporting about scientific and environmental issues on Cape Cod has appeared on NPR, PBS News Hour, The Takeaway, and PRI’s The World. She also hosted an NPR-sponsored blog, Climatide, exploring the impacts of climate change on coastal communities. She has twice been part of reporting teams that have won regional Edward R. Murrow awards. In 2014, she was recognized for the breadth of her reporting with WGBH’s Margret and Hans Rey/Curious George Producer award.

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Gonick, Lev

Lev Gonick has been teaching, working, and living on the Net since 1987.

Lev Gonick is Arizona State University's new Chief Information Officer. He will lead ASU's University Technology Office (UTO), which is responsible for providing technology services and support to ASU’s more than 72,000 on-campus students, 28,000 online students and 15,000 faculty and staff. 

Previously, Lev was CEO at DigitalC, charting the course to civic tech collaboration through technology leadership, data-driven solutions, and place-based activation. Digital C is a civic tech collaboration that partners with communities (mostly in Ohio) to design technology-driven programs and services to create smarter, more connected and more inclusive communities. 

Lev was a co-founder (in 2003) and CEO (2013-2015) of OneCommunity, the award-winning organization enabling innovation, collaboration and productivity through next generation broadband networks.

From 2001 to 2013, Lev was Chief Information Officer at Case Western Reserve University, where he and his colleagues were internationally recognized for technology innovations in community engagement, learning spaces, next generation network projects, and organizational development. Lev's innovations, including the Case Connection Zone, catalyzed national initiatives such as US Ignite, launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Planning, and Gig.U, an effort of more than two dozen research universities to drive a broadband upgrade for America.

Inside Business magazine named Lev to its Power 100 list in 2015, and Government Technology recognized Lev as one of the "Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers in Public-Sector Innovation" in 2011. That same year, Crain's Cleveland Business named Gonick one of its "10 Difference Makers" in Northeast Ohio, and Broadband Properties honored him with a Cornerstone Award for "using fiber to build an inclusive society and empower individuals." In 2010, he was honored as "Visionary of the Year" by the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors. Lev has been recognized by ComputerWorld as a Premier 100 IT leader and by CIO magazine with a CIO 100 Award.

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Googin, Roxane

Roxane writes the High Technology Observer, an investment advisory focused on technology disruption.  Her focus encompasses the entire technology stack from semiconductor fabrication to socioeconomic trends resulting from hyperscale service use.  With two teens the latter trend is up close and personal.  Historically the focus of HTO has been on how technology and socio-economics coevolve in an increasingly entangled “Techonomic” manner.  While still paying attention to platforms like social networks and blockchains and their impact on commerce and governance, her current focus is on how the end of Moore’s Law spells the unravelling of this evolutionary engine as we know it.

Roxane has a BS-EE from the University of Tennessee and an MBA from the University of Virginia.

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Greer, Evan

Evan Greer is a transgender activist and musician based in Boston. She's the campaign director of Fight for the Future, the viral digital rights group known for organizing the largest online protests in history from the SOPA Blackout to the recent Internet-Wide day of action for Net Neutrality. Evan tours internationally as a speaker and performer and has collaborated with artists like Pete Seeger, Talib Kweli, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Billy Bragg, Amanda Palmer, Ted Leo, and Against Me. Evan writes regularly for The Guardian, TIME, Newsweek, and HuffPost, has been a guest on All Things Considered and Good Morning America, and is a regular commentator on issues of tech policy, LGBTQ rights, and civil liberties.

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Hallak, Shuli

Shuli Hallak is the Executive Director of the Internet Society, NY Chapter, where she is in charge of programming and events. Her focus is on helping end users understand digital privacy and making sure that the Internet remains a beneficial resource for those who use it as well as those who build on top of it. As ED, Shuli has been working closely with leading technology companies on Digital Preservation and ensuring that the data we create today remains accessible to us in the future. 

Prior to ISOC, Shuli was a professional photographer specializing in large scale infrastructure. She has photographed cargo ships, oil rigs, coal mines, power plants, and contraband in Dubai. Her work has been published extensively in Fortune, The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and many others.

Shuli's work on the Internet was profiled in Fast Company in December 2014 here: https://www.fastcompany.com/3026171/invisible-networks-one-womans-fantastic-quest-to-photograph-the-living-internet

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Harihareswara, Sumana

Sumana is the founder of Changeset Consulting, providing project management services to open source software projects. Since 2007 she has been contributing to and leading open source software communities.

More generally, she's a programmer, technology executive and open source expert who practices and teaches technical and people skills. She's on LinkedIn.

She often gives public talks, including keynote addresses at conferences.

She lives in New York, New York in the United States of America. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science at the University of California at Berkeley and a master's in technology management at Columbia University, and participated in the Fall 2013 and Fall 2014 batches of the Recurse Center (formerly Hacker School). I have worked at Salon.com, Fog Creek Software, Behavior, Collabora, the GNOME Foundation, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Hendricks, Dewayne L.

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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de Holanda, Hamilton

Hamilton de Holanda is a musician known for his instrumental virtuosity on the 10-string Brazilian mandolin and for his beautiful compositions. He started playing the mandolin at 5 and appeared at his first performance at six. He has collaborated with other significant artists such as Mike Marshall, Dave Matthews, Wynton Marsalis, Chick Corea and Bela Fleck and virtually all of Brazil's greatest musicians. He has received several Latin Grammys, including Best Brazilian Song (2015), for "Bossa Negra," and Best Instrumental Album (2016) for "Samba de Chico." He's played at The Smithsonian, Lincoln Center, The Grand Palais of Paris and the Philharmonie Konzerthaus of Berlin. He plays solo, in duets with other great musicians (João Bosco, Armandinho Macedo, Steffano Bollani, Yamandu Costa, Roberta Sa and others), with his trio, with his quintet and as a featured soloist in jazz bands and symphony orchestras around the world. His monthly Baile do Almedinha concerts in Rio de Janeiro attract a range of popular talent and are becomming a tradition that captures the essence of Brazil's culture. Hamilton lives in Rio.

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Isenberg, David S.

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), to publish isen.blog, and to produce conferences such as F2C: Freedom To Connect.

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Jones, Matthew L.

Matthew L. Jones teaches at Columbia. Right now, he’s writing about the history of the data sciences, communications surveillance agencies and the places they meet. He recently published the first account of how hacking for snooping around became legit internationally (The spy who pwned me), the centrality of database infrastructure for understanding data mining, including Google’s pagerank, and a book, Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage (Chicago)

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Kak, Amba Uttara

Amba Kak is public policy advisor at Mozilla, based in New Delhi. She works on developing their positions on laws, regulations and other political developments relating to technology globally, with a focus on India. She recently joined the policy team from her previous role as tech policy fellow with the Mozilla foundation where she focused on network neutrality laws in India. As legal consultant with the National Institute of Public Finance & Policy, she provided policy advisory to the Indian telecom regulator (TRAI) and other government bodies. Before that, at the Oxford Internet Institute she conducted research on user experience with zero-rated data plans in India. Her thesis was awarded distinction and widely cited during the regulatory debate on Facebook FreeBasics.

Amba has also worked as Counsel for the National Campaign for People's Right to Information and legal researcher to two government constituted high-level expert committees. She holds a degree in law from the National University of Juridical Sciences, India. She attended the University of Oxford, where she completed a BCL from the Law Faculty as well as a Masters from the Oxford Internet Institute. Amba is a former Google policy fellow and Rhodes Scholar.

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Kennedy, Pat

J. Patrick Kennedy is the CEO and majority owner of OSIsoft. He is also the founder of Lit San Leandro, a project begun in 2011 that allows installation of a fiber optic loop through several areas of the City using existing conduit. Lit San Leandro offers an opportunity to revolutionize San Leandro's infrastructure, positioning the City to be a major player in the high-tech and clean-tech economies.

On March 2, 2012, Lit San Leandro went live, with the first piece of fiber being activated, connecting its first building to the fiber optic network.  The infrastructure for the complete loop is on schedule to be completed by Summer 2012.

Pat's other venture, OSIsoft, has grown from a small software startup in 1980 to a highly profitable global corporation. Prior to founding OSIsoft, Dr. Kennedy worked as a research engineer for Shell Development Company and as an applications consultant for Taylor Instrument Company.

Dr. Kennedy attended the University of Kansas where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. A registered professional engineer in control systems engineering, he holds a patent on a catalytic reformer control system. He co-authored a chapter of the book "Planning, Scheduling and Control Integration in the Process Industries," C. Edward Bodington, ed. (McGraw-Hill Co., 1995), and is the author of numerous papers.

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Livingood, Jason

Jason Livingood serves as Vice President of Technology Policy & Standards at Comcast. He helps serve as the public face of Comcast’s Internet services and network, both to governments and regulators, as well as to standards forums and other groups. As part of this role, he coordinates Comcast’s efforts to do things including (1) develop open standards such as at the IETF, (2) spur R&D such as via leading the Comcast Innovation Fund and engaging with universities around the world to conduct research of interest to Comcast, (3) apply research and standards to initiate new network and services’ concepts and (4) engage with governments, regulators and other external key stakeholders.

Jason joined Comcast in 1996 to help the company launch high-speed Internet services, and has also been instrumental in the creation and launch of Comcast’s business class Internet services, Xfinity Digital Voice, Xfinity Home, Xfinity WiFi. He has held a wide range of roles in the company, including in architecture, engineering, operations, software development, DevOps, and product management.

Jason has several patents and IETF RFCs in his field, and currently serves on the BITAG, the FCC’s CSRIC, and the board of the Open Connectivity Foundation. He has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, ICANN’s SSAC, and other industry groups. He holds a M.B.A., concentrating in Technology Management, as well as a B.S. from Drexel University.

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Lynch, Lucy

Lucy Lynch recently retired from the University of Oregon where she was the Assistant Director for International Partnerships of NSRC, The Network Startup Resource Center, an organization that works directly with the indigenous network engineers and operators around the world who develop and maintain the Internet infrastructure in their countries and regions by providing technical information, engineering assistance, training, donations of networking books, equipment and other resources. The end goal of NSRC's work is to make it easier for local scientists, engineers and educators to collaborate via the Internet with their international colleagues by helping to connect communities of interest.

Lucy continues to volunteer with the NSRC and in the IETF and she still takes an active interest in federated identity deployments - mostly in an R&E context. She has spent the last year engaged in local politics and has learned some interesting/disappointing lessons.

Lucy was Director of Trust and Identity Initiatives for the Internet Society (2006-2014), Her assignment with ISOC was to examine some of the major issues affecting trust in the Internet and to develop projects and partnerships to help address those problems. Topics of particular interest included: federated identity, end user privacy and security, and technical mechanisms for enabling network trust.

Prior to joining the Internet Society, she worked at the University of Oregon as a member of the Academic Computing and Network Applications Group. Her assignments with the University included work with the Network Startup Resource Center (including acting as project Co-PI), the Oregon RouteViews Project, and the UO Multicast Team. In addition, she has been an active participant in both the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), she is currently serving as a member of the IAB privacy and Security Program, and has served as Chair of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) from 2003 to 2006.

Lucy was an undergraduate at the University of Oregon Honors College in the same class as David I.

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Maher, Katherine

Katherine Maher is the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that supports Wikipedia and its sister projects. She is a longtime advocate for free and open societies, and an expert in leveraging technology for social impact.

Katherine was appointed Executive Director in July 2016, after serving as the organization’s first Chief Communications Officer. She has lived and worked around the world, leading the introduction of technology and innovation in human rights, good governance, and international development. She was a founding member of the UNICEF Innovation team, where she helped introduce open source innovation for health and child welfare. She has worked with the National Democratic Institute, the World Bank, and Access Now on programs supporting innovative technologies for democratic participation, civic engagement, youth entrepreneurship, open government, and human rights.

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Miloshevic, Désirée

Désirée Zeljka Miloshevic is the Internet Public servant and works out of Europe for Afilias Plc, a global domain name registry.

She served as the Special Advisor to the United Nations Internet Governance Forum Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group Chair, MAG, 2006-2009, as Secretary of the Board for Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility from 2004-2007; Creative Commons UK 2004- 2006; the Irish ENUM Forum Policy Advisory Board 2005-2007 and ICANN EU Regional At-large Organisation (2006-2012).

She serves on the board of Internet Society (2004-2010); (2012-2019); Share Foundation (www.labs.rs) and Advisory Council of Open Rights Group UK. She chairs the board of Domen JV, a registry for .ME. She spent 2 years 2008 and 2012 at the Oxford Internet Institute researching Internet governance institutions processes and the topic of trust.

As of 2015 she runs descon.me – an annual multidisciplinary 48 hours hackathon unconference in Belgrade, which builds capacity and awareness of security issues around the Internet of (broken) Things, Personal data, robots and wearables.

Désirée'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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Mitchell, Christopher

Christopher Mitchell is the Director of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in Minneapolis. He has a Master's degree in Public Policy with a focus on Science / Technology from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

Christopher's work focuses on telecommunications--helping communities ensure the networks upon which they depend, are accountable to the community. He has published several reports, articles, and interviews while also offering technical assistance to communities around the country. He can be contacted at christopher@ilsr.org

He is also a sports photographer, running his own company that contracts regularly with the University of Minnesota as well as other clients from area colleges to youth sports organizations. See some of his photography here.

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Mohan, Ram

Ram Mohan (@rmohan123) is Executive Vice President, & Chief Technology Officer of Afilias, Inc. Ram oversees key strategic, management and technology choices for the company's domain name business, which includes .INFO, .ORG, .AU and .IO. Ram has led the strategic growth of the company in registry services and security as well as new product sectors such as Managed DNS, Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and Anti-abuse products.

Before joining Afilias in September 2001, Ram held various leadership positions at Infonautics Corp., a pioneering online database and content distribution company. Ram is the founder of the award-winning CompanySleuth product, and helped architect Electric Library, a widely used reference database, and Encyclopedia.com. Ram was also founder of the technology behind TurnTide, an anti-spam company acquired by Symantec in 2001.

Ram serves on the Board of Directors of ICANN, is a founding member of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), the Chair of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), and has authored numerous global internet-industry standards. He recently joined the Board of the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, which promotes the value of dialog in healthy democracies and creating global citizens. He is an active angel investor, with investments in over 11 entrepreneurial startups.

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Nulty, Leslie

Leslie is an economist and financial analyst who has been working on building successful rural fiber-to-premises networks in rural Vermont since 2007.  The first of these, East Central Vermont Telecommunications District (operated by ValleyNet), has now succeeded in transitioning from its initial crowd-funding ($7 million raised) to $40 million in the municipal bond-market and is in the process of connecting every single premises in its 25 member towns.  In 2016, along with Tim Nulty and 6 other local partners, she started Mansfield Community Fiber, Inc., building FTTx in rural northwestern Vermont, where she now serves as CFO and Board member.  First customers were connected in October 2017 and expansion and customer acquisition is on-going.  Prior to this she managed an upscale food co-op in Vermont and worked in a private venture-capital telecom development fund in Central Europe.

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Nulty, Tim

Tim Nulty is CEO of Mansfield Community Fiber (MCFiber), a startup FTTx company targeting rural areas of northwest and north central Vermont.   Before that he was CEO of ECfiber, a similar FTTx in east central vermont.  Tim and Leslie started ECfiber in 2008 and led for 6 years until it became strongly successful when they both retired from actvie management (they are still on the Board) because of the very long commute on top of 60 hour work weeks.  They then started MCFiber in their own area of Vermont.  Prior to that, Tim served as the the  General Manager of Burlington Telecom (BT), Burlington, Vermont from its initiation in 2002 through 2007. In 1998, Tim served as Chief Financial Advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and then Deputy Chief Executive Officer & Chief Financial Officer of the $50 billion DOE project to clean up the Hanford Nuciear Weapons Facility in the State of Washington).  He retired from that position in February 2001. From 1994 to 1997, he founded and was chief executive officer of Central European Telecom Investments (CETI), a $50 million venture capital acquisition and operating fund, identifying and building private sector telecom companies throughout Central Europe.  From 1985 to 1994, Tim was Principal Ecomomist and Senior Telecom Project Officer for the World Bank and International Finance Corporation.  During this period he organized and managed projects involving approx. $1 billion of the WB’s own money and syndicated funds of an additional $2.5 bn.   Prior to this, from 1975 to 1984 he was the Chief Economist for the U.S. Senate’s and then the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committees on Commerce.  Tim Nulty holds a Ph.D in Economics from Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.

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Odlyzko, Andrew

Andrew Odlyzko is a Professor in the School of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota. He is engaged in a variety of projects, from mathematics to security and Internet traffic monitoring. His main task currently is to write a book that compares the Internet bubble to the British Railway Mania of the 1840s, and explores the implications for future of technology diffusion. His home page is http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko

Between 2001 and 2008, he also was at various times the founding director of the interdisciplinary Digital Technology Center, Interim Director of the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, Assistant Vice President for Research, and held an ADC Professorship, all at the University of Minnesota. Before moving to Minneapolis 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. 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.

He has managed projects 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 may be known best for an early debunking of the myth of Internet traffic doubling every three or four months and for demonstrating that connectivity has traditionally mattered much more for society than content.

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Pepper, Robert

Robert Pepper leads Global Connectivity and Technology Policy at Facebook, joining the company in 2016. He was formerly Vice President for Global Technology Policy at Cisco. He is responsible for the international aspects of Facebook's advanced technology policy, working in areas such as broadband, IP enabled services, wireless, security and privacy and ICT development.

At Cisco, Pepper worked with governments and business leaders across the world in areas such as broadband, IP enabled services, wireless and spectrum policy, security, privacy, Internet governance and ICT development.

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 led teams developing policies promoting the development of the Internet, implementing telecommunications legislation, planning for the transition to digital television, and designing and implementing the first U.S. spectrum auctions.

He serves on the board of the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI) and advisory boards for Columbia University and Michigan State University, and is a Communications Program Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He is a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Spectrum Management Advisory Committee, the UK's Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board and the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy.

Pepper received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Portinari, Marcos

Marcos Portinari is Hamilton de Holanda's manager. He produces Hamilton's records, shoots, edits and produces music videos and documentaries, handles bookings, tour logistics and publicity for Hamilton and his band. Marcos wrote the lyrics for the song "Bossa Negra", which won the Latin Grammy for Best Brazilian Song in 2016. Before Marcos and Hamilton started working together, Marcos was a surfer, wind surfer, body board pioneer and international traveler. He is based in Rio de Janeiro and he's fluent in 5 languages.

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Rantanen, Matthew

Matthew R. Rantanen is the Director of Technology for the Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association (SCTCA) and Director of the Tribal Digital Village (TDV) Initiative that was started back in 2001 designing and deploying wireless networking to support the tribal communities of Southern California. Matthew, of Cree Indian, Finnish, and Norwegian decent, has been described as a "cyber warrior for community networking" and is considered an expert on community wireless networking. He is an advocate for net-neutrality, broadband for everyone, and opening more unlicensed spectrum for public consumption, always looking out for the unserved and under-served. Matthew helps the member tribes of SCTCA with technology development and strategy, from radio station applications to tribal administration computer purchases and solutions.

He has helped SCTCA develop a spin-off for-profit tribal technology corporation that manages several business development ventures within networking and business to business marketing solutions.

Matthew serves as the Chairman of the board of directors at Native Public Media(NPM). He was named to the FCC Native Nations Broadband Task Force by the FCC Chairman, in 2011 to present. He was also named to the Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council's (CSRIC) at the FCC in June 2013.

Matthew was appointed as Co-Chair of the Technology and Telecom Subcommittee of the National Congress of American Indians. Working with tribes to draft telecom policy and promote better working relationships between Tribal Governments and the US Federal Government.

Matthew is frequently a guest subject matter expert speaker on community wireless networking and grassroots efforts to support unserved and under-served communities, with emphasis on tribal communities. He has been invited to speak at CTC conferences, the Ford Foundation, Google, Grantmakers in the Arts, Community Technology Foundation of California (ZeroDivide), the New America Foundation, the California Emerging Technology Fund, Palomar Community College, Community Wireless Summit(s), City WLAN Conference (Lahti, Finland), the AirJaldi Summit (Dharamshala, India), the International Community Wireless Summit, Vienna Austria, Barcelona Spain, Berlin, Germany, and the White House, USA. He has testified several times at hearings for the Federal Communications Commission and the California Public Utilities commission.

Matthew continually works with the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) speaking at the telecom subcommittee meetings, New America Foundation, FreePress, Media Access Project, and the FCC rural ITI conferences. Matthew got his undergraduate degree at Washington State University.

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Ruff, Nithya

Nithya A. Ruff is the Head of Comcast’s Open Source Practice.  She is responsible for growing Open Source culture inside of Comcast and engagement with external communities.  Prior to this, she started and grew the Western Digital’s Open Source Strategy Office. She first glimpsed the power of open source while at SGI in the 90s and has been building bridges between companies and the open source communities ever since. She’s also held leadership positions at Wind River (an Intel Company), Synopsys, Avaya, Tripwire and Eastman Kodak. At Wind River, she led a team of product managers in managing a world class embedded Linux distribution and was a board member of the Yocto Project  focused on the advocacy or marketing of the project. Nithya is a Director at Large on the Linux Foundation Board and represents community interests on the board. She also sits on the board of CodeChix a community focused on retention and development of women in engineering.

Nithya has been a passionate advocate and a speaker for opening doors to new people in Open Source for many years. She has also been a promoter of valuing diverse ways of contributing to open source such as in marketing, legal and community.   You can often find her on social media promoting dialogue on diversity and open source.  She has spoken at multiple conferences such as OSSummit, OSCON, All Things Open, SCALE, Grace Hopper, OpenStack, VMWorld, OS Strategy Summit and Red Hat Summit on the business and community of open source.   In recognition of her work in open source both on the business and community side, she was named to CIO magazine’s most influential women in open source list. She was recently one of 4 people to win the 2017 O’Reilly Open Source Award for exceptional contribution to open source.  

Nithya graduated with an MS in Computer Science from NDSU and an MBA from the University of Rochester, Simon Business School.  You can follow her on twitter @nithyaruff

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Saitta, Eleanor

Eleanor Saitta is a hacker, designer, artist, writer, and barbarian. She makes a living and a vocation of understanding how complex transdiciplinary systems and stories fail and redesigning them to fail better. Saitta runs Systems Structure Ltd., a boutique security architecture and strategy consultancy that works with firms seeking to build or grow security practices or specific high-exposure products, advises news organizations and NGOs targeted by nation states, and builds immersive transmedia participation events. She is also a member of the advisory boards of the International Modern Media Institute, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Geeks Without Bounds (GWoB), the IFTF Governance Futures Lab, and the Calyx Institute, and works on the Trike security ecosystem modeling project and the Briar/Bramble distributed messaging system.

Saitta is a regular speaker at conferences, universities, and other institutions including the O'Reilly Velocity, KiwiCon, CCC Congress, Hack in The Box, Transmediale, ToorCon, Knutepunk, HOPE, Arse Electronika, Harvard, Yale, and the London ICA. She lives at the private performance venue The Attic in Helsinki, Finland, and travels regularly through Berlin, London, and NYC. She can be found at https://dymaxion.org and on Twitter as @Dymaxion.

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Seltzer, Wendy

Wendy Seltzer is Strategy Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), improving the Web's security, availability, and interoperability through standards. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded the Lumen Project (formerly Chilling Effects Clearinghouse), helping to measure the impact of legal takedown demands on the Internet. She seeks to improve technology policy in support of user-driven innovation and secure communication.

Wendy has been a Fellow with Yale Law School's Information Society Project, Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy and the University of Colorado's Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. She has taught Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Antitrust, Copyright, and Information Privacy at American University Washington College of Law, Northeastern Law School, and Brooklyn Law School and was a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute, teaching a course at the Said Business School. Previously, she was a staff attorney with Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and First Amendment issues, and a litigator with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel. She serves on the Advisory Board of Simply Secure; served on the founding boards of the Tor Project and the Open Source Hardware Association, and on the boards of ICANN and the World Wide Web Foundation.

Wendy speaks and writes on copyright, trademark, patent, open source, privacy, web security, and the public interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School, and occasionally takes a break from legal code to program.

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Sohn, Gigi

Gigi Sohn is a Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy and a Mozilla Technology Policy Fellow. She just completed a year as an Open Society Foundations Leadership in Government Fellow.

From 2013 to 2016, Gigi was Counselor to the former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler. She advised the Chairman on a wide range of Internet, telecommunications and media issues, representing the Chairman and the FCC in a variety of public forums around the country as well as serving as the primary liaison between the Chairman’s office and outside stakeholders. Singled out by Chairman Wheeler as “the conscience of the Chairman’s office” for her tireless advocacy on behalf of American consumers and competition, Gigi was named by the Daily Dot in 2015 as one of the “Heroes Who Saved the Internet” in recognition of her role in the FCC’s adoption of the strongest-ever Network Neutrality rules.

For twelve years, from 2001-2013, Gigi served as the Co-Founder and CEO of Public Knowledge, the leading communications policy advocacy organization serving the interests of consumers in Washington.

Gigi holds a B.S. in Broadcasting and Film, Summa Cum Laude, from the Boston University College of Communication and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She lives in Washington, DC with her wife, Lara Ballard, their daughter Yosselin and their cats, Pepe and Zap.

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Thanki, Richard

Rich Thanki is the co-founder and technology lead of Jangala, a newly set up charitably owned start up focusing on providing humanitarian emergency internet access. The need for low cost, easy to use and high performance Wi-Fi systems has been acutely felt during the current refugee crisis impacting Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Jangala is developing and deploying systems to address the current emergency as well as those in the future.

In his previous life, Rich has worked extensively in the economics of licence-exempt, or unlicensed, spectrum. As a graduate at Ofcom he performed some of the first assessments of the possible gains from licence exempt UHF spectrum. Subsequently he authored a number of studies uncovering and analysing the substantial and growing impact of wireless devices using the licence-exempt bands. Most recently he worked with Microsoft in 4 African countries looking at the social and economic impact of affordable internet access in rural communities.

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Turner, Brough

Brough Turner [pronounced "Bruff"] is a communications industry engineer and entrepreneur. He is founder of netBlazr Inc., a startup working to change the landscape for broadband Internet access in urban areas. Previously Brough was co-founder and CTO of Natural MicroSystems and NMS Communications. While his leading interests are technology and innovation, his career has included roles in engineering, operations, finance, marketing and customer support. In the 90s and 2000s he wrote widely on telecommunications topics in trade and general business publications and was a frequent speaker at telecom industry events around the world. While currently focused on netBlazr, Brough occasionally blogs at http://blogs.broughturner.com on communications-related technology, economic and social issues.

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Vasile, James

James Vasile has fifteen years experience as a user, developer, advocate and advisor in the free and open source software world. His expertise is in software licensing and community-building, as well as non-profit and small business startup. He focuses on free software and open source production, although his work and interests often take him far beyond the world of software. Much of what James does involves teaching people how to build successful businesses around free software and ensuring licensing alignment in multisource FOSS stacks.

In addition to his work with OTS, James is the founding Director of the Open Internet Tools Project. He is also a founding member of the board of Overview Services, which makes open source software that powers Pulitzer-winning data journalism.

Previously, James was a Senior Fellow at the Software Freedom Law Center, where he advised and supported a wide range of free software efforts.

A former Director of the FreedomBox Foundation, James remains active in several technology development efforts. His FreedomBox work has been recognized by an Innovation Award at Contact Summit 2011 as well as an Ashoka ChangeMaker's award for Citizen's Media.

James frequently speaks and writes about technology trends and free software. His FreedomBox talk at Elevate Festival, for example, has been received well, and his writing on FOSS project managementand work on extension licensing and derivative workshave been widely read.

James was a founding board member of Open Source Matters, the non-profit that supports Joomla. He began his career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. You can learn more about him from his LinkedIn profile.

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Weinberger, David

David Weinberger writes about the effect of the Internet on our ideas. He is currently a writer in residence at Google PAIR (People and AI Research). He is on leave as a senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. For almost five years he co-directed Harvard's Library Innovation Lab.

He is the co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto (updated, with Doc Searls, here), and the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Everything Is Miscellaneous, and Too Big to Know. David has written many times for Harvard Business Review and Wired, and his work has appeared in journals as diverse as Scientific American, TheAtlantic.com, Science, The Chronicle of Higher Ed, Salon, Smithsonian, USA Today, and TV Guide. He has been a frequent NPR commentator, is a columnist for several journals and sites, has been an advisor to presidential campaigns, was a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. State Department 2009-2011, and was a journalism fellow at the Harvard Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy in 2015 where he wrote about the rise of news media open platforms.

David is currently working on a book about an epochal change in our paradigm of how the future works. He blogs at Joho the Blog and tweets as @dweinberger.

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Whitt, Richard S.

Richard S. Whitt recently took an opportunity to resume his consulting practice, NetsEdge LLC, to address the strategic and tactical challenges companies encounter where law meets technology. His practice focusses on emerging platform technologies, market dynamics, corporate policy and regulatory issues.

Prior to this, Richard spent eleven years at Google, rising to Corporate Director for Strategic Initiatives at Google's Mountain View headquarters.  In that capacity, he ran an inter-departmental effort to develop and implement corporate policy.  Most recently, he worked with Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf and Google's Chief Economist Hal Varian on such topics as the Internet of Things, machine learning ethics, digital preservation, and rural broadband deployment.  Richard also guided the Google high-speed fiber access team’s approach to deploying broadband infrastructure globally, in Cuba and other emerging countries, interfacing with government regulators and international organizations.

From mid-2012 to mid-2014, Richard was vice president for global public policy and government relations with Motorola Mobility, a Google company. Prior to joining Motorola, Richard served as Google’s director and managing counsel for federal policy, overseeing strategic thinking on privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, Internet governance, free expression, and international trade.  In his first five years with Google’s DC office, Richard headed up the public policy team on telecommunications and media issues. Among other achievements in that role, he led Google’s advocacy on open Internet, broadband deployment, and spectrum policy. Richard also guided the Company’s participation in the 700 MHz spectrum auction, involvement in TV White Spaces spectrum allocations, and launch of Google Fiber.

Prior to joining Google in 2007, Richard founded his current effort, NetsEdge, as a technology policy consulting firm.  From 1994 to 2006, Richard worked in the legal department at MCI Communications, where he was promoted to vice president for federal law and policy. Before that, he spent five years as an attorney in the online communications practices of two large Washington, D.C.-based law firms.

Richard is a 1988 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, and a 1984 graduate of James Madison University. He currently resides in San Francisco, California.

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Wizner, Ben

Ben Wizner is the director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. For nearly 15 years, he has worked at the intersection of civil liberties and national security, litigating numerous cases involving airport security policies, government watch lists, surveillance practices, targeted killing, and torture. He appears regularly in the global media, has testified before Congress, and is an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law. Since July of 2013, he has been the principal legal advisor to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Ben is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law and was a law clerk to the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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