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Askin, Jonathan

Jonathan Askin is a Professor at Brooklyn Law School, teaching Technology, Telecommunications, New Media, Internet and Entrepreneurial Law. Jonathan is the Founder and Director of the Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic, designed to represent and advocate on behalf of Internet and new media startups and causes. Jonathan is also a communications, Internet and media attorney and consultant, representing clients on strategic business development and policy advocacy. Jonathan was previously General Counsel to pulver.com Enterprises, which controlled more than 50 operating companies touching various aspects of Internet communications, media and entertainment. Jonathan was President and General Counsel to ALTS, formerly the leading national trade association representing facilities-based competitive telecommunications industry. Jonathan was a senior attorney in the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau before joining ALTS. Prior to the FCC, he was a Deputy Public Advocate with the New Jersey Public Advocate and Ratepayer Advocate, where he represented the public on telecommunications and cable issues. Jonathan also practiced law with the New York offices of Davis, Polk and Wardwell. Jonathan is an honors graduate of both Harvard College and Rutgers Law School, and clerked for the late Chief Justice Robert Wilentz of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

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Bradner, Scott

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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Burnham, Brad

Brad Burnham began his career in information technology with AT&T in 1979. He held a variety of sales, marketing and business development positions there until 1990 when he spun Echo Logic out of Bell Laboratories. As the first AT&T "venture," Echo Logic was a catalyst for the creation of AT&T’s venture capital arm, AT&T Ventures. When Echo Logic was sold in 1993, Brad joined AT&T Ventures as an Executive in Residence. He became a principal at there in 1994 and a General Partner in 1996. At AT&T Ventures, Brad was responsible for 14 investments including, Argon Networks, Audible, Avesta Technologies, Classic Sports Network, Multex Systems, Physicians Online, and Paytrust.

Brad currently serves on the boards of Indeed, Pinch Media, Tumblr, Wesabe, Adaptive Blue, SimulMedia, UpCompany, Meetup, and Bug Labs. Brad has a BA in Political Science from Wesleyan University, is married with two kids and lives in New York City.

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Cherry, Barbara

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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Clark, Judi

Judi Clark has been helping people understand and use computers (and other appropriate technologies) since the punchcard days. She has done community development, network and domain administration and site hosting, and even taught web site design long before it was fashionable. Judi is trained to do scenarios and unconferences (and more mundane things like law and semi-truck driving). She loves to engage in conversation about speculative, the impossible, and the unknown.

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Comstedt, Anders

Anders Comstedt is Senior Advisor and consultant in telecom issues, in particular related to deregulation, alternative shared infrastructure and business development. Trying to get away from the Nordic winters he is increasingly active in East Africa. The Nordic summers he try to spend on his yacht among the Stockholm islands, checking rural wireless.

He has the last years been a board member of a few smaller ventures, including both "VoIP" and Cabling companies. He has managed cross border sub-marine cable roll-out in Europe, to projects changing policy in developing countries. But he is more known for his early engagement as advisor to new fibre infrastructure initiatives out of being the first CEO of AB Stokab 1994 - 2002, a telecom network infrastructure provider in Stockholm, Sweden, pioneering leasing dark fibres in a large scale to all operators and end users in an area.

Affiliated to TS-Lab at KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, he talks on telecom policy issues and engages in some of the lab's capacity building projects in developing countries, including the creation of IX:es and lately the regional research and education network, Ubuntunet Alliance, in Southern and Eastern Africa, that will grow to connect African universities in a similar way to Geant in EU and Internet 2 in the US. He is co-author on some reports on transforming laggard markets to Open Access, including one on Sub Saharan Africa, but is more interested in changing processes on the ground than writing reports.

As a former chairman of the company handling domain names in the .se domain, he has been involved in the Swedish Internet development. Prior to that he has had several executive positions in the telecoms industry. This includes subsidiaries of both Telia, and the Ericsson group. He has also been an advisor in business development and developer of industrial controls. Born 1950, he has an MSEE from Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden.

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Crandall, Steve

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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Crawford, Susan

Susan Crawford is a professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City and a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy.

She was a full professor at the University of Michigan Law School between July 1, 2008 and July 1, 2010. She was on leave from Michigan to co-lead the FCC Agency Review team for the Obama-Biden transition (11/08-1/09), and served as Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (2009). As an academic, she teaches internet law and communications law. She is a member of the boards of Public Knowledge and TPRC. She was a member of the board of directors of ICANN from 2005-2008 and is the founder of OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the internet that takes place each Sept. 22. One of Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology (2009); IP3 Awardee (2010).

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, a violist, lives in New York City.

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Crocker, Steve

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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del Villar, Rafael

Rafael del Villar is currently a Commissioner at Mexico's Comision Federal de Telecomunicaciones (Cofetel). Before that he was an economic researcher at the central bank, Banco de México. He has been Minister of Economic Affairs at the Mexican embassy in France between 1991 and 1993, where he was involved in the negotiations that led to Mexico joining the OECD and in the drafting of the federal law on economic competition, which came into force in 1993. As Director General of Economic Research at the Federal Competition Commission he participated in the opening of the long-distance telecom market and wrote the draft Federal Telecommunications Law. Between 1995 and 1996 he was involved in producing the draft law on interconnection regulation and in designing the radio electronic spectrum auction. As an economic researcher at the central bank, Del Villar has participated in several studies and projects focusing on the structure of Mexico's financial system, payments systems and the protection of personal data, among others. Del Villar proposed the interconnection payments system for low value transactions between Mexico and the US, which was adopted in 2003. In 2004 he designed a methodology for conflict resolution and interconnection between railway companies. He has participated in the drafting of several laws and is the author of numerous publications.

Del Villar has a BA in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), and a Mastera and a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylania. He has been a professor at the University of Texas and ITAM.

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Ekman, Pontus

Pontus Ekman is a retired high-tech entrepreneur from Sweden.

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el-Imam, Nadia

Nadia EL-Imam is a young cosmopolitan from a multicultural background, interested in using digital technologies to address complex societal challenges. She is passionate about the power and potential for young people to make a difference in the world by creating and testing innovative solutions to local issues. She has co-initiated the "Wikicrats" project with the European Commission, an initiative to bring new perspectives to the EC's discussion of future technology and digital policy initiatives. Also, Nadia is a recent addition to the team behind Critical City, an urban gaming platform.

Nadia has a proven track record in designing usable, accessible, visually-arresting interactive interfaces. She combines creativity with expertise in usability research, and human-computer interaction to produce innovative digital communication products. She has a strong sense of aesthetics and attention to detail. She does prize-winning user experience design for a rage of clients including Syrup Stockholm and posts regularly on Kikazette, a pop/fashion blog.

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Felten, Benoit

Benoit Felten is a senior analyst in Yankee Group's Research group with expertise in Fibre to the Home/Business, both commercial and municipal projects, business models and economic and societal impact. He helps operators, vendors and end user businesses to understand the trends in the evolution of broadband connectivity and the drivers for adoption. His current work focuses on business models around commercial FTTH, public/private partnership mechanisms for local and national governments, services over very high bandwidth access and the economic and social impact of very high broadband. Before Yankee Group, Felten was at Arcome, a French telecom consultancy and analysis firm. He also writes the Fiberevolution blog in which he expresses some of his views on fiber to the home across the world.

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Forster, Jim

Jim Forster is passionate about extending the Internet. He started at Cisco when it was quite small and spent 20 years there, mostly in IOS Software Development and System Architecture, and becoming a Distinguished Engineer. While at Cisco he started working on projects and policies to improve Internet access in developing countries, speaking at conferences in Africa including the East Africa Ministerial Broadband Workshop in Kigali, Rwanda in 2007; and the TEDGlobal event in Arusha, Tanzania. Now he engaged in both for-profit and non-profit efforts to extend communications in Africa and India. He is on several Board of Directors, and an Angel investor in US and international projects, including Medcommons in the US, Esoko Networks in Ghana, and AirJaldi in India.

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Freeburg, Tom

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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Gaylord, Art

Art Gaylord is the Director of Computer and Information Services at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where he is responsible for all non-administrative computing, networking and telecommunications services including a mixed fiber optic and wireless network serving six major private and federal government organizations in the Woods Hole area. Prior to taking this position in 1999, he developed and directed computing facilities at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of Illinois. He has over 40 years of experience in information technology with expertise in collaborative and distributed computing, scientific computing, networking and voice over IP. He has led several large research projects funded by state and federal government agencies as well as major corporations including Digital Equipment, HP, IBM, GTE and Hughes.

He is a co-founder and Chair of the Board of OpenCape, Inc., a non-profit corporation bringing advanced network services to support the economic, educational, public safety and governmental needs of the southeast Massachusetts region. OpenCape was awarded a BTOP grant as part of the ARRA stimulus program which is being matched by state, county and private funding.

He holds BA and MA degrees in chemistry from Wesleyan University and an MS (1/2 thesis short of PhD) in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Gaylord has been a speaker at numerous conferences worldwide and has publications in both computer science and chemistry.

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Geddes, Martin

Martin Geddes is a consultant on the fusion of the IT and telecoms industries.

I have a specialist interest in the future of voice and personal communications, and believe there is a major change ahead as telephony gets 'Googled', becoming a feature of global commerce platforms. My current focus is on Cloud Communications.

Earlier lives have included being Director of Strategy at BT Innovate & Design, a division of BT Group, and I was Chief Analyst at STL Partners from 2006-2008, where I co-founded the Telco 2.0 Initiative, a consulting, research and events business designed to catalyse business model innovation, and collaboration across the telecoms-media-technology ecosystem.

For the period 2001-2004 I was a technology specialist at Sprint in Overland Park, KS, where I also started a popular strategy blog called Telepocalypse.

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Googin, Roxane

Roxane Googin publishes the High Technology Observer, a technology investment strategy service. Focused on long term trends rather than on short term trading ideas, one area of focus since 2000 has been on the continuing ramifications of the “Paradox of the Best Network”, which stipulates that the best network, perfectly plain and extensible, is also the perfect capital repellant. Like DRAM vendors, owners of such networks get caught in endless cycles of loss-leading capacity extensions. While service providers have hidden from this “bit pipe” future, behind favorable regulations, re-monopolization, as well as behind the hope of delivering new types of traffic or services beyond bandwidth and voice, these efforts are doomed to failure as ever smarter endpoints, including the iPhone, increasingly disintermediate them. This basic paradox has haunted Telecom investment for 8 years now, and will continue to do so until it is resolved.

As a cross-industry analyst, I am interested in more than bandwidth. I am particularly interested in how next-gen applications that bring together now forms of software, delivered over new forms of bandwidth and user devices, can deliver the next generation of productivity improvements. In earth-saving terms, I wonder how the intersection between IPv6, machine to machine communications, wireless access, GPS, social networking and collaboration, can act to transform energy intensive behaviors such as daily travel and supply chain management. I also wonder about the degree that we will collectively allow these forces to degrade our privacy in the name of conservation. Secondarily, since the primary source of atmospheric carbon comes from coal fired power plants, I wonder how power lines can be used to transmit data about energy usage to reduce peak loads, and hence minimize the need for new plants. As with the above example, the ultimate trade-off may again be between efficiency and privacy. Finally, if power lines are used to transmit usage data, one wonders how long it will take for them to be transformed into yet another bandwidth vehicle to the home.

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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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Hoang, Aymeril

Aymeril Hoang [Twitter: @aymeril] is the Economic Counselor for Technology and Innovation at the Embassy of France in Washington, DC. His portfolio covers Innovation and Competitiveness in the private sector as well as Information Technologies and Internet.

As manager of a French Government-owned team of 4 based in San Francisco in 2005-08, he advised more than 30 European high tech start-ups entrepreneurs in their US business development. Previously, he was head of the Telecommunication Team at the Competition Directorate of the French Ministry of Economics. He started his career in 1999 as Assistant General Counsel at the French Communications Regulatory Authority (ARCEP) where he focused on internet sharing and local loop unbundling issues.

He holds a Master in Economic Law from University of Paris-Assas and a Bachelor of Econometrics from University of Paris-Sorbonne. He also graduated from Ecole normale superieure (Cachan; Management, Law & Economics) and passed the French 'Agrégation' in Management and Economics.

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Huval, Terry

Terry Huval has served as Director of Lafayette Utilities System (LUS) since 1994. In 1998, Huval was instrumental in convincing city leaders to build a fiber ring around the city, making Lafayette one of a handful of cities offering high speed broadband technology to businesses and schools. Today, Huval is leading an initiative to bring broadband fiber directly into the home. LUS's proposed Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) initiative will offer high-speed cable, Internet and digital phone service to the residents and businesses of Lafayette through the use of fiber optics technology. The project has garnered a ground swell of local support and international attention. Upon completion of its current implementation, Lafayette will distinguish itself as one of the largest cities in the United States to operate a municipally owned FTTH system. Deeply engaged in the local Cajun culture, Huval is the leader of one of the most established and recognized Cajun bands in the area, the Jambalaya Cajun Band. In 2007, Terry was inducted into the Cajun French Music Association Hall of Fame.

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Isenberg, David

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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Ito, Joichi

Joi Ito is the founder and CEO of Neoteny (www.neoteny.com), venture capital firm focused on personal communications and enabling technologies. He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. In 1997 Time Magazine ranked him as a member of the CyberElite. In 2000 he was ranked among the "50 Stars of Asia" by Business Week and commended by the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for supporting the advancement of IT. In 2001 the World Economic Forum chose him as one of the 100 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" for 2002.

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James, Nathaniel

Nathaniel James is currently consulting the Mozilla Foundation on their new Drumbeat initiative, focusing on developing and implementing local to global community engagement strategies. Nathan's career spans 10 years of nonprofit administration, advocacy, community organizing, outreach and recruitment, field operations, and social research. Nathan works with a wide range of innovative organizations and individuals who share a vision of a 21st century communications system that facilitates vibrant democratic participation, equitable access, and the fullest development of human creative potential.

Previously, Nathan served as the Executive Director of OneWebDay and earlier as Program and Outreach Manager at the Media and Democracy Coalition. He has run field campaigns, trained and managed field staff, and managed budgets and reporting databases with FieldWorks, MoveOn, Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.and the Fund for Public Interest Research. He also provided strategic consultation at Microsoft and for Greenpeace International, guiding them towards strategies that leveraged social networks and social media to achieve organizational goals. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the National Alliance for Media Art and Culture (aka NAMAC).

Nathan earned a master's degree in Media and Communication Regulation and Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science in December 2006, submitting original research on Social Interaction on Wikipedia.org: A Social Network Analysis of Article Talk Pages for his dissertation. In 2004, he earned a bachelor's degree from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

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Joshi, Anjali

Anjali is Director of Product Management at Google, where she leads groups focused on real-time services such as Finance and News as well as the software, network and computing infrastructure. The Fiber For Communities program reports to her. Before her sabbatical, she was President of Reliance Broadband, USA, a subsidiary of Reliance India, where she was responsible for defining voice, data, and video services for deployment in India. Prior to that, Anjali was Executive Vice-President of Engineering at Covad Communications, the first DSL Competitive Carrier in the US and helped the company grow from a start-up to a public company. Anjali spent several years at Bell Labs working in the areas of voice and high speed data communications. Anjali was an invited member of the FCC Network Reliability and Interoperability Council and an advisor to the Technical Staff at the FCC. Anjali received her BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur and a Masters in Engineering Management from Stanford University.

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Kamman, W. Stephen

Steve Kamman is an Analyst covering Networking and Telecom Equipment at Fidelity Investments in Boston, MA. 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. In the 90's, 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 in both the History and Economics majors from Yale University. He is deeply indifferent to both the Red Sox and the Yankees.

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Lynch, Richard

Richard J. Lynch is executive vice president and chief technology officer for Verizon Communications. In this role he is responsible for technology direction and network planning for all the Verizon business units.

Prior to assuming his current position in July 2007, Lynch had been the executive vice president and chief technical officer for Verizon Wireless since its formation in 2000, and before that, had held the same position at Bell Atlantic Mobile since 1990. In those positions he was responsible for network technology selection and planning as well as network operations. Under Lynch, the Verizon Wireless network attained the distinction of quality and reliability which has formed the basis for the very well known "Can you hear me now?" advertising campaign.

Lynch has been at the forefront of wireless data solutions, starting with Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) in 1995 when he led Bell Atlantic Mobile's build of one of the largest CDPD networks in the country. In 2004, Lynch again led the industry with the decision to widely deploy EV-DO, in the first true wireless broadband service widely provided to the public in the US. Lynch was also responsible for the decision to deploy CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), which still remains the basis for the Verizon Wireless high-quality voice network. Building on these and other key technology decisions, Lynch has supported the introduction of key innovative products and services into the marketplace.

Lynch is a Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has served on the executive board of the CDMA Development Group (CDG) and as a member of the Federal Communications Commission Technical Advisory Committee. For his leadership in the early years of wireless data, Lynch was honored with the President's Award by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA). He has earned patents for advances in the area of wireless technology. He is a frequent guest lecturer in academia and industry on technology and its business implications.

Lynch began his career in 1972 with New England Telephone and has held a variety of positions in planning, operations, and engineering there and in Bell of Pennsylvania.

Lynch is a graduate of Lowell Technological Institute (now University of Massachusetts) where he received bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering. He has also completed post graduate work at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University.

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Maffei, Andrew

Andrew Maffei currently plays the role of Ocean Informatics Coordinator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In the past Andrew has held several positions at WHOI including Systems Programmer, Network Manager, High-speed, fiber-optic, underwater network design specialist, data-visualization visionary, etc. He missed Bighook 2008 because he was on sabbatical at a yoga and meditation retreat center in Rhinebeck NY for 7 months.

Andrew currently leads a team at WHOI, including colleagues at the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensellear Polytechnic Institute, aimed at identifying and employing effective methodologies for ocean scientists and computer scientists to free up, effectively employ and make accessible widely heterogeogeneous oceanographic data types – with the hope of better understanding of how the oceans work. Current technology candidates for this work include ontology development, RDF, virtual organizations/observatories, semantic web, effective group facilitation, talking to people's beer, wine and/or good food and music. Years of attending Bighook have played a pivotal role in his research directions.

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McLaughlin, Andrew

Andrew McLaughlin is Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer, focusing on Internet policy, open government, cybersecurity, online privacy and free speech, research and innovation, spectrum policy, and building open technology platforms in health care, energy, and education.

From November 2008 to January 2009, Andrew served as a member of the Obama/Biden presidential transition team in Washington. From 2004-2009, he was Director of Global Public Policy for Google, based in San Francisco.

From 1998-2005, Andrew was a Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. From 1999-2002, Andrew worked to launch and manage ICANN, the Internet's technical coordinating organization, serving as Vice President, Chief Policy Officer, and Chief Financial Officer.

From 2002-2003, Andrew taught at Harvard Law School while working on Internet and telecom law reform projects in a number of developing countries, including Ghana, Mongolia, Kenya, Afghanistan, and South Africa. He was a co-founder of CIPESA, a technology policy think-tank and advocacy center based at Makerere University in Uganda. At Google, Andrew was co-leader of Google's Africa strategy, and a member of the Board of Directors of Bridges.org, an international non-profit organization based in Cape Town.

Andrew's undergraduate degree is from Yale University, and his law degree is from Harvard Law School.

After clerking on the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Andrew started his legal career at Jenner & Block in Washington DC, where he focused on appellate litigation and constitutional law. He was a member of the legal team that challenged the U.S. government's first Internet censorship law, which produced the Supreme Court's landmark 1997 Internet free speech ruling. From 1997-98, Andrew served as counsel to the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee.

In 2000, Time Magazine named Andrew one of its Digital Dozen. In 2001, he was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. He has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the Young Leaders Forum of the National Committee on US-China Relations.

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Meinrath, Sascha

Sascha is the Director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative. Sascha has been described as a "community Internet pioneer" and an "entrepreneurial visionary" and is a well-known expert on community wireless networks, municipal broadband, and telecommunications policy. In 2009 he was named one of Ars Technica's Tech Policy "People to Watch" and is the recipient of the 2009 Public Knowledge IP3 Award for excellence in public interest advocacy. Sascha is a co-founder of Measurement Lab, a distributed server platform for researchers around the world to deploy Internet measurement tools, advance network research, and empower the public with useful information about their broadband connections. He also coordinates the Open Source Wireless Coalition, a global partnership of open source wireless integrators, researchers, implementors and companies dedicated to the development of open source, interoperable, low-cost wireless technologies. He is a regular contributor to Government Technology's Digital Communities, the online portal and comprehensive information resource for the public sector. Sascha has worked with Free Press, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), the Acorn Active Media Foundation, the Ethos Group, and the CUWiN Foundation. Sascha serves on the Leadership Committee of the CompTIA Education Foundation as well as the Advisory Councils for both the Knight Center of Digital Excellence and the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. He blogs regularly at www.saschameinrath.com.

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Michalski, Jerry

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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Miller, Gardner

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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Miloshevic, Desiree

Désirée 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.

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 Telecommunications as Commons Initiative.  He has worked as a server administrator, web geek, and in automated software quality assurance. He earned a Master's degree in Public Policy from the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Macalester College.

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

In the Minneapolis office, Christopher tries not to distract his colleague John Farrell more than 5 times per day.  He is also a sports photographer and rock climbing enthusiast.  While on rock-climbing trips, Chris is known to stop by nearby community broadband networks for a tour.

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Noss, Elliot

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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Nulty, Leslie

Leslie owns and manages Focal Point Advisory Services, providing strategic, M&A and fiscal management services to small businesses throughout Vermont. She also currently serves as Project Coordinator for East Central Vermont Community Fiber Network, a consortium of 23 Vermont towns developing a universal fiber-to-the-home/premise network for their communities. Leslie also serves as Treasurer, Executive Committee and Board member of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, a 1500 member business organization, the largest of its kind in the U.S. From 1999-2004 Leslie was General Manager of an upscale, $10 million, 100 employee, natural food store in Montpelier. From 1994-1998 she served as Controller for Central European Telecom Investments, a Budapest, Hungary-based venture capital fund developing start-up telecom companies throughout Central Europe. Prior to that she served as Chief Economist and financial analyst for several large labor unions. Leslie has an M.Sc. in Economics from Cambridge University, England.

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Nulty, Tim

Tim is CEO of East Central Vermont Community Fiber Network, a consortium of 23 Vermont towns developing a universal fiber-to-the-home/premise network for their communities. Formerly he was the developer and then General Manager of Burlington Telecom, a Burlington, Vermont city-wide fiber-to-the-premise network providing Cable TV, telephone and high-speed internet to city residents and businesses. BTís network is open access, providing wholesale transport on a non-discriminatory basis to any service provider. As of August 1, 2008, BT had 4000 customers and is expected to be profitable by the end of the year. Tim holds a Ph.D in Economics from Cambrige University and has held numerous telecom operating and policy positions at the World Bank, U.S. House of Representatives Commerce Committee and U.S. Senate Commerce Committee.

Much more here.

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Ortiz, Jorge

Jorge Ortiz is an entrepreneur involved in several startups:

• Interfibra.net Building FTTH communities in Mexican cities.
• RadioBus, MP3 based mass media for public transportation buses.
• Vozlibre.org, (in planning) Web based citizen media.

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Parrott, Nicki

Born in Newcastle, Australia, Nicki Parrott started her musical training with the piano at the age of four, and soon after took up the flute as well. She continued to play flute and piano throughout her school years, but switched to double bass at the age of 15 because her sister Lisa, who plays alto sax, wanted a bassist for her group. After completing high school, Nicki moved to Sydney to study jazz at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music and shortly after began to play with well-known Australian musicians.

Nicki Parrott came to New York in May 1994 on an Arts Council grant from Australia to study with the internationally acclaimed bassist, Rufus Reid. Since June 2000, Nicki has played on Monday nights at the Iridium Jazz Club with the legendary guitarist and inventor, Les Paul. Nicki and her sister, Lisa Parrott headlined at the prestigious Tribute to Mary Lou Williams festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in May 2002, which was broadcast on National Public Radio. She is also the resident bassist with the Kitchen House Blend which premieres and performs new music by New York composers. Since coming to New York she has performed with such notable musicians as Clark Terry, Skitch Henderson, Bucky Pizzarelli, John Pizzarelli, José Feliciano and David Krakauer. Nicki has also performed in several Broadway shows such as Avenue Q, Imaginary Friends, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Summer of '42 and Jekyll and Hyde.

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Pepper, Robert

Robert Pepper (he prefers to be called "Pepper") is Vice President, Global Technology Policy, Cisco Systems Inc.

Robert 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 and ICT development including working with governments across the globe on developing national digital and broadband strategies. 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 boundaries and led teams implementing telecommunications legislation, planning for the transition to digital television, designing and implementing the first U.S. spectrum auctions, and developing policies promoting the development of the Internet. Before joining the FCC, he was 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) and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), 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 and the UK's Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board. Pepper received his BA. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Peshoff, Mark

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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Rangaswami, J.P.

JP is Managing Director for BT Design. BT Design 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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Reed, David P.

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 7 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. In recent years, he has contributed to several areas of public technology policy issues, including opening up the wireless spectrum, opening up the debate about Deep Packet Inspection and modification by Internet "carriers", and preserving the openness of the Internet worldwide. After 7 years splitting his time between the MIT Media Lab as a professor and HP Labs as an HP Fellow, Reed recently joined SAP AG, where he is a Senior Vice President in the Chief Scientist Group.

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Russell, Jean

An international speaker, Jean Russell is dedicated to shifting our collective awareness to thrivability (where we contribute meaningfully, creatively, and consistently to a deep cultivation of natural, financial, and social systems). Jean synthesizes 20 years of work and study in communication, cultural transformation, personal and organizational development, complexity science, and creativity. More importantly, she weaves a wide network of visionaries, thought leaders, change agents, and entrepreneurs co-creating thrivability today. Founder of Thrivable, Inc., Jean recently curated an ebook with over 70 collaborators reflecting on elements of thrivability read by 10,000 online viewers in the first six months of release.

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Searls, Doc

Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, and a fellow with both the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and the Center for Information Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

At the Berkman Center, Doc leads ProjectVRM, which has the immodest ambition of liberating customers from entrapment in vendor silos and improving markets by creating a productive balance of power in relationships between supply and demand. At CITS his work centers around study of the Internet as a new form of infrastructure, and the creation of an Internet Infrastructure Institute.

Doc also has a consulting practice with The Searls Group, which has worked with Hitachi, Sun, Apple, Nortel, Borland, BT, Motorola and other leading companies, in addition to many start-ups. He also serves on the board of directors for PlanetEye, and on the advisory boards of Jabber, Inc., Ping Identity Corp., SocialText, SpikeSource, Krugle, B5 Media and Technorati.

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Seltzer, Wendy

Wendy Seltzer is a Fellow with Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, researching "openness" in intellectual property, innovation, and free expression online. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Tor Project, promoting privacy and anonymity research, education, and technology.

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 joint course with the Said Business School, Media Strategies for a Networked World. Previously, she was a staff attorney with online civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and First Amendment issues, and a litigator with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel.

Wendy speaks and writes on copyright, trademark, patent, open source, and the public interest online, seeking to improve technology policy in support of user-driven innovation. 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 (Perl and MythTV).

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Skinski, Kathleen

Kathleen Skinski is Vice President of Time Warner Cable's Road Runner High Speed Service. In addition to overseeing day-to-day operations for the Road Runner service, Kathleen is responsible for setting the vision, strategy, acquisition and deployment of new technologies and services that will enhance both broadband performance and the customer experience.

She is a member of the Time Warner Cable's "Green Team" which focuses on developing best practices that positively impact the environment both on a corporate and division level.

Kathleen is a charter member of Open Park, a non-profit organization in Washington, DC that advocates free wireless access to the public on the National Mall.

Prior to joining Time Warner, Kathleen held several positions with the ABC Television Network. She managed operations and special events for globally televised broadcasts, including presidential inaugurations, Super Bowl XXXIV, and the initial broadcast launch of HDTV Monday Night Football.

Kathleen began her career as a telecommunications manager with the U.S. Senate. Her planning and implementation of live Senate broadcasts utilized innovative technologies which have become standard in cable television.

Kathleen is the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Touchstones of Leadership Catalyst Award given by Women in Cable Telecommunications.

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Smith, Steve

Steve's company, Ampersand, performs a variety of professional services related to IP communications and VoIP. Steve founded Ampersand with his wife Marilyn Cugini in 1992, and has advised clients such as Intel, GE, Lavalife, Dialogic, as well as the US government. Current projects include a software-based conference bridge and several large call center VoIP implementations – "it's all about the packets". For 7 years Steve was CTO and Chief Scientist at Lavalife prior to their acquisition in 2005, directing the technical efforts of a 100-person department for voice, web, and mobile products. He successfully migrated the company to an all-IP architecture, moving 1 billion annual minutes off the PSTN to IP, and won the Canadian industry's CIPA award for the project. Additionally, Steve and his team at Ampersand are the authors of Voiceglue, an open-source VXML engine that works in conjunction with Asterisk to provide a 100% open source IVR.

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Sportielo, Rossano

Rossano Sportiello was born in Vigevano, Italy on 1 June 1974 and started performing professionally at the age of 16 at venues in the Milan area. In 2000, Rossano met legendary jazz pianist and educator, Barry Harris, who became a mentor and good friend. Mr. Harris has touted Rossano as "the best stride piano player" he has ever heard. Following his marriage to American writer, Lala Moore, in 2007, Rossano established himself in New York City. Rossano has performed with the world's finest jazz luminaries, such as Bucky Pizzarelli, Howard Alden, Houston Person, Bill Charlap, Dick Hyman and many others. Rossano says that his goal is, "To play jazz and make it understandable to everybody. Most of all, I want to see people smiling and having fun!"

Rossano has recorded four solo piano CDs including "In the Dark" (2004, Sackville); "Piano On My Mind" (2005, Jazz Connaisseur), which won the "Prix Du Jazz Classique de l'Académie du Jazz de France"; "Heart and Soul" (2006, Arbors Records), selected by the French magazine Jazz Classique among the top 10 of the year; and most recently, "It Amazes Me" (2009, Sackville). Rossano has also recorded two duet CDs with bassist/singer Nicki Parrott on Arbors Records, "Do It Again" (2009) and "People Will Say We're In Love" (2007), which was selected by The New Yorker magazine as one of the top 10 jazz CDs of 2007.

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St. Arnaud, Bill

Bill St. Arnaud was the former Chief Research Officer for CANARIE Inc., Canada's Advanced Internet Development Organization. At CANARIE Bill St. Arnaud was responsible for the coordination and implementation of Canada's next generation optical Internet initiative called CA*net 4. He was also instrumental in developing Canada's cyber-infrastructure strategy linking together advanced networks, high performance computing and instrumentation to enable a new generation of eScience. He was the principal architect of the User Controlled LightPath technology applying Service Oriented Architecture to allow users to create their own Internet network and cyber-infrastructure solutions.

Currently he is involved with a Green IT broadband and cyber-infrastructure initiative to build a "zero-carbon" next generation Internet and to work with clients to identify new business opportunities in a future low carbon economy. These projects are intended to help reduce global warming by reducing CO2 emissions at universities, businesses and society in general through the use of ICT and networks. He is working with various R&E networks and industry partners around the world to develop new Green IT revenue strategies and to explore how these networks can become the linchpin of building a low carbon economy. In pursuit of these objectives he was successful in developing several research partnerships in green cyber-infrastructure and networking between Canadian and Californian universities under the CCSIP program. As well he is working closely with several international R&E networks and industry participants to explore the development of a next generation wireless "5G" network that will provide a national, if not international low cost, green cell phone service for students and faculty that will be seamlessly integrated with today's R&E backbone networks.

Previously Bill St. Arnaud was the President and founder of a Toronto based network and software engineering firm called TSA ProForma Inc. TSA was a LAN/WAN software company that developed wide area network client/server systems for use primarily in the financial and information business fields in the Far East and the United States.

Bill St. Arnaud is a past and present member of various committees and boards including the Board of Trustees for ISOC, NomComm committee for ICANN, the UKlight Steering Committee, the GLORIAD policy committee, Neptune Canada DMAS Committee, Globecomm Fellow and the GLIF policy committee amongst others. He has also participated in many NSF, CFI, EC and NSERC project review and strategic planning committees.

In 2002 he was featured by TIME Magazine Canada as the engineer who is wiring together advanced Canadian science. In 2005 he won the World Technology Summit award for Communications. He June 2010 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Athabasca in June 2010 in recognition of his contribution to the advancement of research and education networking in Canada and his leadership in promoting Green ICT for a low carbon economy. He is also the recipient of the ORION Leadership Award for 2010. Bill St. Arnaud is a frequent guest speaker at numerous conferences on the Internet and research and education networking. He is a graduate of Carleton University School of Engineering.

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Turner, Brough

Brough Turner [pronounced "Bruff"] is a communications industry engineer and entrepreneur. He is currently founder of BigBroadband.Net, a startup working to change the landscape for broadband Internet access in the US 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. He writes and is quoted widely on telecommunications topics in trade and general business publications and he is a frequent speaker at telecom industry events around the world. Since 2001, Brough has focused on the wireless infrastructure and mobile applications. His 3G and 4G tutorials are widely popular (Google '3G Tutorial' for more info). Brough blogs at http://blogs.broughturner.com on the technology, economic and social issues of communications at the intersection of telecom, mobility and the Internet.

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Vaidhyanathan, Siva

Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar, and is currently an associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia. From 1999 through the summer of 2007 he worked in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. Vaidhyanathan is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues in various periodicals including The Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, and Salon.com, and he maintains a blog, www.googlizationofeverything.com. He is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio and to MSNBC.COM and has appeared in a segment of "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart. Vaidhyanathan is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for the Future of the Book.

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Wagter, Herman

Herman Wagter is the Fiber Evangelist of GNA (Citynet Amsterdam). He has been involved in Citynet from its inception, as the Program Manager. He has worked as an independent entrepreneur since 2001 on complex transitions. His work ranges from FttH (architecture, regulatory aspects, advanced services business models), to sustainable mobility.

He holds a MSc. Degree and has 30 years of experience in various senior management positions in international companies, ranging from high-tech to services. He has an passion for investigating the drivers of the change we are experiencing (the end of cheap oil, hyperconnectivity, lean thinking) and writing about them in his blog www.dadamotive.com.

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Weinberger, David

David Weinberger is a senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. State Department, and is a senior consultant to the Harvard Law Library. He is co-author of the bestseller The Cluetrain Manifesto, and the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined and Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. His work has appeared in Wired, the NY Times, Harvard Business Review, and many others. He is a former philosophy professor, an NPR commentator, technology columnist, and a tech marketing consultant. He has a Ph.D in philosophy and lives in Boston.

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Whitt, Richard

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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