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Baller, Jim

Jim Baller is a Senior Principal of the Baller Herbst Law Group, a national law firm based in Washington, DC, and Minneapolis, MN. The Firm specializes in representing local governments and public power utilities in communications matters of all kinds.  His clients include the American Public Power Association (APPA), the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA), regional and state utility associations and municipal leagues, numerous other public and private entities in more than 35 states. He was also a founder and president of the US Broadband Coalition, a broad consortium of associations, consumer groups, and high technology companies that advocated the development of a national broadband strategy for the United States.
The Fiber to the Home Council has called Jim "the nation's most experienced and knowledgeable attorney on public broadband matters," and MuniWireless has called him "the foremost legal expert on U.S. public broadband matters." In 2001, NATOA made him its Member of the Year. In 2006, MuniWireless awarded him its first “Esme Award,” for “working tirelessly to protect the interests of municipalities, many times in the face of huge opposition.” In 2007, NATOA named Jim its first "Community Broadband Visionary of the Year," for "almost single-handedly putting the issue of the need for a national broadband strategy to the forefront of public consciousness." Also in 2007, Washingtonian Magazine listed Jim as one of Washington's "Best Lawyers" (defined as the top one percent).  In 2009, Ars Technica included Jim on its list of 25 Top Names in Tech Policy, and FiberToday named him its “Person of the Year.”
Jim is a graduate of Dartmouth College ('69) and Cornell Law School ('72). He is a member of the Bars of the Supreme Court of the United States; the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal for the Federal, District of Columbia, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Circuits; and the courts of the District of Columbia. He holds Martindale-Hubbell's highest AV rating; is a member of the Board of Directors of FirstMile; and is recognized in Who's Who in America.

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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 a Senior Technical Consult in the Harvard University Office of the CTO. He provides technical advice and guidance on issues relating to the Harvard data networks and new technologies to Harvard's CTO. 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 and expert witness work on the side.

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Brunner, Helen

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Cassel, Ron

Ron Cassel is the Chief Executive Officer of Millennium Communications Group, and one of its founding members. While he was originally brought into the company for his expertise in advanced communications systems, Ron’s dedication to providing value added services has propelled him to the forefront of our company.

Ron’s knowledge of advanced telecommunications systems began with his first job as a technician for a fledgling cable television company in New Jersey. In his fifteen plus years working at the company, Ron excelled in every aspect of the telecommunications engineering field, rising to the position of chief engineer before leaving to start Millennium Communications Group in 1995.

Ron built his first fiber optic network in 1984 and in 1989 worked with scientists from Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey to perfect the first amplitude modulated fiber optic system, the very essence of today’s advanced fiber based broadband networks. He was part of a team that in 1991 built a prototype FTTH network connecting the Bell Labs research facility with several of the scientist’s homes in the surrounding community. His experience includes broadband RF distribution systems, microwave transmission systems, SONET, Ethernet, and FTTX networking technologies.

His business travels have taken him as far as Australia, where he provided technical support in the local phone company’s efforts deploying its first Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) system.

Recruiting experts in their respective fields, Ron has assembled a disciplined staff of professionals with core competencies in all areas of advanced fiber based communications systems. Whether it’s a private fiber network supporting Homeland Security initiatives, or designing and building cost effective rural FTTH networks, Ron and his team have positioned Millennium as a leader in fiber based technology services.

Today, Ron oversees all aspects of running a successful corporation including looking for new opportunities to expand our service offerings. While his position may have reshaped his role at Millennium, he is never far from the technologies at the heart of our success.

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Cerf, Vint

Vinton Cerf is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet," sharing this title with American computer scientist Bob Kahn. His contributions have been acknowledged and lauded with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

In the early days, Cerf was a program manager for DARPA, funding various groups to develop TCP/IP technology. When the Internet began to transition to a commercial opportunity during the late 1980s, Cerf moved to MCI where he was instrumental in the development of the first commercial email system connected to the Internet.

Vinton Cerf was instrumental in the funding and formation of ICANN from the start. Cerf waited in the wings for a year before he stepped forward to join the ICANN Board, which he chaired for part of his tenure. Also, Cerf was elected as the president of the ACM in 2012.

Importantly for BigHook, Cerf went to Van Nuys High School with Jon Postel and Steve Crocker. All three were instrumental in the creation of the Internet as we know it.

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Chase, Robin

Robin Chase is a transportation innovator. She is founder and CEO of Buzzcar, a service that brings together car owners and drivers in a carsharing marketplace. Buzzcar.com empowers individuals to take control of their mobility, without looking to governments or big businesses for solutions. Robin is also co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world, and GoLoco, an online ridesharing community.

She is on the Board of the World Resources Institute, the National Advisory Council for Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the US Department of Commerce, and the OECD’s International Transport Forum Advisory Board. She also served on the Intelligent Transportations Systems Program Advisory Committee for the US Department of Transportation, th 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 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, and was a Harvard University Loeb Fellow.

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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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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 the (Visiting) Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard’s Kennedy School, a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, a co-director of the Berkman Center, and a contributor to Bloomberg View and Wired. She served as Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (2009) and co-led the FCC transition team between the Bush and Obama administrations. She is a member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology and Innovation.

Ms. Crawford was formerly a professor at the University of Michigan Law School (2008-2010).  As an academic, she teaches Internet law and communications law. In 2012, Yale University Press will publish her book, “Captive Audience: Telecom Monopolies in the New Gilded Age.” 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); one of Prospect Magazine’s Top Ten Brains of the Digital Future (2011). She is a member of the boards of Public Knowledge and TPRC.

Ms. Crawford received her B.A. 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 (now WilmerHale) (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 and Cambridge, MA.

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Crocker, Andrew

Andrew Crocker is a JD candidate (2013) at Harvard Law School. As a law student, he has worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and as an editor for the Journal of Law and Technology. He done legal work at the Center for Democracy & Technology and the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project. Andrew has an AB in history and literature and an MFA in creative writing.

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Crocker, Steve

Steve 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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Denton, Timothy

As of January 1st, 2009, I took up a position as a member of the Board of Trustees of ARIN, the American Registry of Internet Numbers, subsequent to an election of ARIN members, for a three year term. I was re-elected to the Board of Trustees in 2011. I was elected Chairman by the Board of Trustees in 2010.

As of August 1, 2008, I took up a five year term as Commissioner within the CRTC, the Canadian federal telecommunications and broadcasting regulator.

I have posted my concurring opinion in new media, the term for the question whether the Broadcasting Act should be applied to the Internet in Canada. See also my more recent dissent in part on high-speed access (August 2010).

A lot of my work in 2004 and 2005 on ENUM is found on www.enumorg.ca

Some essays and work from my LLM degree program (2006-2007) have been posted here.

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Ferreira, Eduardo

Eduardo is the pandeiro player for the band Choro das 3, and is the father of the three young ladies in the band.

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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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Frischmann, Brett

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Gallagher, Dan

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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. I co-run public Future of Voice and Telco-OTT workshops, and am working on two emerging areas: 'hypervoice' (the equivalent of hypertext), and new business-to-consumer interaction methods to support Communications Enabled Business Processes.

In parallel I am working with a team of British applied mathematicians on new ways of monitoring and managing flow in multiplexed systems, most notably packet flow on the Internet.

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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Gonick, Lev

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

Lev Gonick is vice president for information technology services and chief information officer at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is also the founder and now Board Chair Emeritus of OneCleveland now known as OneCommunity, the award winning project to create a connected community throughout Northeast Ohio through ultra broadband wired and wireless network connectivity. In 2010 Gonick and his colleagues at Case Western Reserve launched the nation's first gigabit fiber to the home research program called the Case Connection Zone.

In 2011 Government Technology awarded Lev one of their "Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers in Public-Sector Innovation." In the same year Crain's Business Cleveland named Gonick one its "10 Difference Makers" in Northeast Ohio and Broadband Properties honored him with their Cornerstone Award for "using fiber to build an inclusive society and empower individuals." In 2010 he received recognition as "Visionary of the Year" from NATOA. In 2006, Lev was recognized by ComputerWorld as a Premier 100 IT leader and honored in the same year by CIO magazine with a CIO 100 Award. In 2007, he and Case Western Reserve were recognized with a ComputerWorld Laureate for leveraging technology to address community priorities.

Lev currently serves on the Boards of Moodlerooms and Monarch Teaching Technologies, (educational software developers for persons with autism). He is also an active member of the Cisco Corporation Higher Education Executive Exchange. Finally, he serves on numerous community Boards including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland and the Bellefaire JCB for Children.

Lev has served as co-chair of the CIO Executive Council's higher education committee, as president of the board of the New Media Consortium, and on the board of the National LambdaRail (NLR), the nation's next generation advanced networking research effort.

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Googin, Roxane

Roxane writes the High Technology Observer, a broad spectrum Techonomic
analysis of stocks directed at improving the asset allocations of portfolio
managers. At 15 years of age, HTO is one of the most established
independent analysis services on Wall Street. The core focus of HTO is on
the impact of disruptive technology change both on specific equities, as
well as on the economy as a whole. The current focus of HTO is on how the
emergence of cloud computing is changing the vendor landscape. In addition,
a longer term focus is on the collective impact all cloud investments are
having on the broader economy, including impacts on sovereign debt
restructuring, labor and employment and overall economic growth. This
combined view is important because without structural change the economy is
unlikely to grow, making equities in general represent a poor investment
relative to bonds, while in the face of progressive change the exact
opposite is true. Our general thesis is that both the economy and IT are at
a generational crossroads, whereby old structures are in terminal decline
and are being replaced with new economic and technological (hence the
"Techonomic" term) structures that will sustain a viable lifestyle looking
forward that includes economic growth despite high unemployment. Given the
relative sizes of the bond and equities markets, even a small amount of
economic growth would result in the movement of enough assets from bonds to
equities to result in robust returns. Thus, equities in general, and our
selected cloud vendors in particular, would represent attractive long term
investments. Conversely, given the current over-investment in bonds, any
growth-based movement to riskier assets would result in a long-term loss in
principal that would be difficult to recoup in this very low interest rate
environment.

Roxane has a BS-EE from the University of Tennessee and an MBA from the
University of Virginia. She currently lives in Park City, Utah.

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Gritton, Charles W. K.

Chuck Gritton is CTO of Hillcrest Labs. He responsible for all of Hillcrest Labs' technology development, including strategy, product architectures and research. His distinguished career includes more than 20 years of experience in signal processing, image processing, networking and videoconferencing in the telecommunications, wireless, cable, consumer electronics and personal computer markets. He has held senior management positions at some of the world's largest communications companies as well as emerging companies. Prior to joining Hillcrest, Chuck was CTO of Tellabs, Inc., following the acquisition of Coherent Communications, where he was CTO and vice president of engineering. Previously, Chuck was co-founder, president and CTO of Broadsword Technologies. He has held engineering management positions at AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Network Systems. Chuck also spent ten years as head of one of the International Telecommunication Union's DSP working groups and has been an active standards participant throughout his career.

Chuck has designed or managed the creation of many signal processing ASICs, leading to the deployment of millions of devices. Chuck has also designed or managed the creation of numerous DSP-based communications systems including a video conferencing system that was deployed in the space shuttle.

Chuck holds dozens of domestic and foreign patents. He currently serves as an advisor for Colibria, a presence management company, and is a member of CTAM, SCTE, and IDIA. Chuck earned a bachelor's in electrical engineering with highest Distinction, a master's in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia.

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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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Holman, Pablos

Pablos is a futurist, inventor, and notorious hacker with a unique view into breaking and building new technologies.

Pablos is consulting worldwide on invention and design projects that assimilate new technologies - making wild ideas a bit more practical and vice versa. He helped create the world's smallest PC; 3D printers at Makerbot; spaceships with Jeff Bezos; artificial intelligence agent systems; and the Hackerbot, a Wi-Fi seeking robot.

Currently, Pablos is working for Nathan Myhrvold at the Intellectual Ventures Laboratory where a wide variety of futuristic invention projects are under way including a fission reactor powered by nuclear waste; a machine to suppress hurricanes; a system to reverse global warming; and a device that can shoot mosquitoes out of the sky with lasers to help eradicate malaria.

Pablos is a respected and dynamic speaker. He has informed and entertained audiences at world-renowned technology summits including United Nations, the World Economic Forum at Davos, The CIA, TEDx and DEFCON on invention, innovation, cyber security and the future of technology.

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Hoskins, Hartley

Hartley Hoskins is Network Group Leader, Computer and Information Services, at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research interests include design of seismic sources and receivers; seismic field programs and analysis; applications programming; industrial liaison; technology transfer; communications engineering.

He built the Woods Hole fiber ring for WHOI.

His specialty is getting things done.

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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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Jasper, Dane

Dane Jasper is the co-founder of Sonic.net, the largest independent Internet provider in Northern California. Sonic.net is a full-service Internet provider, dedicated to delivering fast, reliable and inexpensive connectivity while providing award-winning technical support. Based out of Santa Rosa, California, we were one of the first ISPs to bring DSL access to the wine country, and continue to lead the way in making new access and hosting solutions available to the public.

Sonic.net has been recognized by the EFF for promoting Internet freedom. It recently announced that it deletes all user logs after two weeks (in contrast with larger, better known ISPs that keep user logs for years). In addition, Sonic.net fought a secret U.S. Government order to turn over information from the account of Jacob Applebaum regarding Wikileaks.

Dane is also the past president of the California ISP association, a trade group of independent Internet providers in the state.

Kahle, Brewster

Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian and Founder of the Internet Archive, has been working to provide universal access to all knowledge for more than twenty-five years.

Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989 Kahle invented the Internet's first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) system and in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995. In 1996, Kahle founded the Internet Archive which may be the largest digital library. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet which helps catalog the Web in April 1996, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999.

Kahle earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with W. Daniel Hillis and Marvin Minsky. In 1983, Kahle helped start Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker, serving there as a lead engineer for six years. He serves on the boards of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, the European Archive, the Television Archive, and the Internet Archive.

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Kennedy, Pat

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Lauder, Gary

Gary Lauder is the Managing Partner of Lauder Partners LLC, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm investing primarily in information technologies. He has been a venture capitalist since 1985, investing in over 75 private companies. He is also Chairman of ActiveVideo Networks, a developer of interactive television technology for cable, IPTV and other forms of internet delivery. Other directorships: Promptu, MediaFriends and ShotSpotter. Investments are primarily in television/IPTV technology and WWW arenas. In the 1980's, he worked at the venture firms of Aetna, Jacobs & Ramo Technology Ventures, as well as Wolfensohn Associates. He holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania; a BS in Economics from the Wharton School; and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the co-creator of the Aspen Institute's Socrates Society with Laura, his wife. He is a member of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute's Henry Crown Fellowship Program. He has had a working cable modem (usually) in his home since 1994. He is co-inventor of 12 patents, has spoken at over 100 industry forums, and, since 1992, has published several articles about the future of the cable industry...that he still stands by.

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Maffei, Andy

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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Mason, Hilary

Hi, I’m Hilary.

Simply: I make beautiful things with data.

I’m the Chief Scientist at bitly, co-founder of HackNY, creator of dataists, and member of NYCResistor.

More:

I believe technology should give us superpowers.

I’m the Chief Scientist at bitly, where we study attention on the internet in realtime, doing a mix of research, exploration, and engineering.

I co-founded HackNY, a non-profit that helps talented engineering students find their way into the startup community of creative technologists in New York City.

I’m an enthusiastic member of the larger conspiracy to evolve the emerging discipline of data science.

I’m a native New Yorker and I love this city and the technology community here.

I am an advisor to a few organizations that I adore, including knod.es, collective[i], and DataKind. I’m a mentor to Betaspring, the Providence, Rhode Island-based startup accelerator, and TechStars New York.

I’m a member of Mayor Bloomberg’s Technology and Innovation Advisory Council, which has been a fascinating way to learn how government and industry can work together.

I’ve received a few honors this year, like the TechFellows Engineering Leadership award, and was on the Forbes 40 under 40 Ones to Watch list and Crain’s New York 40 under Forty list. I’ve also been in Glamour, Fast Company, Scientific American, and more, which has made my mother very happy.

I like to give talks, and have spoken about how to replace yourself with a very small shell script, on e-mail hacking, machine learning: a love story, and more.

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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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Meyer Ferreira, Corina

Corina plays flute in the band Choro das 3.

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Meyer Ferreira, Elisa

Elisa plays mandolin (bandolim in Portuguese), clarinet, banjo and piano in the band Choro das 3.

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Meyer Ferreira, Lia

Lia plays 7-string guitar in the band Choro das 3.

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Michalski, Jerry

Jerry Michalski (ma-call-ski) is the founder of REX, the Relationship Economy eXpedition , a private, collaborative inquiry into the next economy. More broadly, he is an optimist, pattern finder, lateral thinker, Gladwellian connector , facilitator and explorer of the interactions between technology, society and business.

He's one of the few people you'll meet who can claim to publish his brain online .

From 1987 to 1998, Jerry was a technology analyst, first at New Science Associates, then as Managing Editor of Esther Dyson's monthly tech newsletter Release 1.0 (he also co-hosted her annual conference, PC Forum). He was fortunate to be on duty when the Internet showed up.

Jerry works often with Institute for the Future (IFTF), advises multiple startups, consults with corporations and loves public speaking. He earned an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA in Economics (mostly econometrics) from UC Irvine. Raised in Peru and Argentina, he speaks fluent Spanish and German -- and pretty passable 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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Mohan, Ram

Ram Mohan is Executive Vice President, & Chief Technology Officer of Afilias Limited. Ram oversees key strategic, management and technology choices for the company's business, which includes fifteen generic top-level domains (gTLDs) including .INFO and .ORG. Ram has led the strategic growth of the company in registry services and security as well as new product sectors such as Managed DNS, RFID/Auto-ID, and Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).

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 is also founder of the technology behind TurnTide, an anti-spam company acquired by Symantec.

Ram serves on the Board of Directors of ICANN, and has authored numerous global internet-industry standards and is a co-founder of the Arabic Script IDN Working Group.

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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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Odlyzko, Andrew M

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.

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

Pepper leads Cisco’s Global Technology Policy team working with governments 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 BA. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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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.

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 FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in 2011.

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 Colllege, Community Wireless Summit(s), City WLAN Conference (Lahti, Finland), the AirJaldi Summit (Dharamshala, India), and the International Community Wireless Summit, Vienna Austria, 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 conference. Matthew got his undergraduate degree at Washington State University.

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Rasiej, Andrew

Andrew Rasiej is a professional doer, futurist, social entrepreneur, and Founder of Personal Democracy Media, which produces Personal Democracy Forum and other events about how the intersection of technology, politics, and civil society is empowering new levels of citizen engagement. Among its offerings are TechPresident an award winning blog and Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference held in New York City in June. He is also the Founder a not for profit organization called MOUSE.org focused on 21st century public education, Co-Founder of Mideastwire.com, which translates Arabic and Farsi news and opinion pieces into English, and serves as Senior Technology Advisor to the Sunlight Foundation a Washington DC focused on using technology to help make government more transparent. Andrew is the Chairman of the NY Tech Meetup, a 24,000-member organization of technologists, venture funders, marketers, representing start up and more mature companies working in the technology industry in New York City which is currently experiencing a renaissance. Andrew coined such terms as: We-Government, Voter-Generated Content, and Videracy, to help describe the expanding digitally connected world we all now live in. In 2005 Andrew ran a highly visible if not ultimately successful campaign for NYC Public Advocate on a technology driven platform to redesign the the office as a network, bring low cost broadband to underserved communities, and open up access to city controlled public data.

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Reed, David P.

David Reed is currently Senior Vice President, Special Projects at SAP. His research focuses on designs for societal-scale systems that manage, communicate, and manipulate information shared among people. Dr. Reed co-developed both the Internet design principle known as the "end-to-end argument" and Reed's Law, which describes the economics of group formation in networks. At the MIT Media Lab, David led work on viral communications, exploring adaptive, scalable, evolving radio network architectures. David was also an HP Fellow at HP Labs. In 2005, he received the IP3 Award for his seminal work on Internet architecture. David has served on the Federal Communication Commission's Technological Advisory Council and other groups, advising the U.S. government on issues related to future communications technologies. He has consulted widely in the computer industry, has served as a senior research scientist at Interval Research Corporation, and was the vice president and chief scientist for Lotus Development Corporation. David was also the vice president of research and development and the chief scientist at Software Arts.

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Schneier, Bruce

Bruce Schneier is the Chief Security Technology Officer of BT. He is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a "security guru," he is best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and commentator. When people want to know how security really works, they turn to Schneier.

His first bestseller, Applied Cryptography, explained how the arcane science of secret codes actually works, and was described by Wired as "the book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published." His book on computer and network security, Secrets and Lies, was called by Fortune "[a] jewel box of little surprises you can actually use." Beyond Fear tackles the problems of security from the small to the large: personal safety, crime, corporate security, national security. Schneier on Security, offers insight into everything from the risk of identity theft (vastly overrated) to the long-range security threat of unchecked presidential power. His latest book, Liars and Outliers, explains how societies use security to enable the trust that they need to survive.

Regularly quoted in the media -- and subject of an Internet meme -- he has testified on security before the United States Congress on several occasions and has written articles and op eds for many major publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, Wired, Nature, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post.

Schneier also publishes a free monthly newsletter, Crypto-Gram, and a blog, Schneier on Security, with a combined 250,000 readers. In more than ten years of regular publication, Crypto-Gram has become one of the most widely read forums for free-wheeling discussions, pointed critiques, and serious debate about security. As head curmudgeon at the table, Schneier explains, debunks, and draws lessons from security stories that make the news.

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Searls, Doc

Doc Searls a fellow with Center for Information Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an alumnus fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard University. At Berkman he continues to lead ProjectVRM, which has the immodest ambition of liberating customers from entrapment in vendor silos and of 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, which should lead to a new book after he finishes the one he's currently writing for Harvard Business Press, titled The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, due out next April.

Doc is also Senior Editor of Linux Journal, and co-authored The Cluetrain Manifesto with fellow Bighooker David Weinberger, plus Chris Locke and Rick Levine.

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Seemel, Gwenn

Gwenn Liberty Seemel is named after the Liberty Bell, a cracked ding-dong with a venerable history.

Born in Saudi Arabia in 1981, Seemel has lived most of her life in France and the US. In Brittany, she attended the same grammar school her mother did growing up, and she also learned to play a mean game of boule bretonne for an eight year old. Eventually, her family settled in the US, in Oregon, and, these past few years, she has stayed on, graduating summa cum laude from Willamette University in 2003.

Seemel is a full-time artist who has sold her soul to the genre of portraiture. Her work comes in two varieties: the individual portrait and the portrait in a series. She paints likenesses of individuals for commission but also portraits of groups of people for the purpose of exploring a particular issue.

Seemel writes and creates videos in English and in French for her award-winning blog about her work, portraiture, and all of art-kind. She is the recipient of grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Oregon Arts Commission, the Celebration Foundation, the Haven Foundation, Change Inc, and Artists' Fellowship Inc. Her work has been written about by the esteemed portraiture scholar Dr. Richard Brilliant and it is also in the collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.

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Sridhar, Aparna

Aparna Sridhar serves as Telecom Policy Counsel for Google, Inc. in Washington, DC. At Google, she represents the company on telecommunications and media policy matters in Congress and before the FCC and other administrative agencies. She previously served in a similar role at Free Press, a national nonprofit nonpartisan organization dedicated to media reform. Aparna received her J.D. from Stanford Law School and her A.B. from Harvard University. She also clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown, who sits on the United States Court Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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Turner, Brough

Brough Turner [pronounced "Bruff"] is a communications industry engineer and entrepreneur. He is currently founder of netBlazr Inc., 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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Wagter, Herman

Herman Wagter is currently Senior Analyst at Diffraction Analysis. He was recently the fiber evangelist for 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.

Business (Diffraction Analysis) Website www.diffractionanalysis.com.

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Webb, Monica

Monica is Chair of the Executive Committee, Spokesperson, and Chair of the Marketing Committee of Wired West, a cooperative of municipalities in Western Massachusetts to plan, build and operate a regional community-owned, universal, fiber-to-the-home network.

Monica spent most of her career working in the financial services industry in Toronto, progressing through leadership roles in marketing and management, and eventually joining the senior management team of a financial technology subsidiary of a major financial firm. She was renowned for bringing strategic focus, organizational competence and innovation to her work. Much of her tenure was spent at Trimark, then Canada’s largest mutual fund company and most respected financial brand. The only two national marketing programs developed during her tenure that are still used today, 11 years later, were ones she led from their inception.

Monica brings expertise in marketing communications, including emerging media; event and project management; and business analysis to the WiredWest efforts. She also brings community organizing experience. Since moving to the Berkshires, Webb has operated a marketing consulting agency, built a green home and farm, and worked on civic issues of the environment, local affordable housing, and rural broadband equity in Western Massachusetts. She has served on a number of non-profit and town boards, including as Chair of the Town of Monterey’s former broadband committee, and Chair of the Southern Berkshire Technology Committee, a regional 11-town broadband consortium involved in the early efforts that led to WiredWest. At home, her best option is satellite internet, and as a result, she shares the frustration of those without high-speed internet access.

Monica has a B.A. in English from the University of Western Ontario. Monica lives in the town of Monterey.

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Whitt, Richard

Richard S. Whitt has just taken a job as Global Head for Public Policy and Government Relations at Motorola Mobility LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google Inc.  In that capacity Rick oversees all aspects of MMI’s interactions with government policymakers around the world.
Rick moves over to MMI after spending five and a half years with Google, covering a variety of public policy issues in its D.C. office.  In his most recent stint he served as director and managing counsel for federal policy, overseeing strategic thinking on privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, Internet governance, free expression, international trade, and telecom and media issues.  From January 2007 to December 2011, Rick was Google’s chief telecom and media counsel, developing and implementing strategy and advocacy on all wireline, wireless, and media matters before the Federal Communications Commission, other Federal agencies, the U.S. Congress, and international bodies.  Prior to joining Google in 2007, Rick founded and headed NetsEdge Consulting, a public policy consulting firm that provided legal analysis, regulatory strategy, and advocacy counsel to Google and other Web companies.
From 1994 to 2006, Rick worked in the legal department at MCI Communications, where he most recently 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 large Washington, D.C.-based law firms.

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Wilder, Isaac

Isaac Wilder is co-founder and Executive Director of the Free Network Foundation. He studied Computer Science and Philosophy until 2011, when he left school to pursue free network advocacy full-time. He is now responsible for the day-to-day operations of the foundation, as well as long-term strategic vision and public advocacy. In addition to writing and speaking on issues of network freedom, Isaac designs, engineers, builds and deploys tools for more democratic networks. He is currently based in Kansas City.

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Yamazaki, Fumi

Fumi is the Japan Country Lead for Developer Relations Team at Google. She started her career working at NTT—the largest telecom in Japan for 7 years and moved to Interscope—a marketing research company, then joined Digital Garage which Joichi Ito cofounded where she worked on localizing blog search engine Technorati to Technorati Japan, helped Creative Commons Japan and iCommons, invested as VC and helped startups and organized conferences such as New Context Conference and iCommons Summit. She joined Google after freelancing as a traveler, researcher, consultant and a journalist. She is currently a fellow of Creative Commons Japan, and fellow at International University of Japan, Center for Global Communications. Her personal projects includes Hack For Japan (an initiative to use IT for Japan to recover from 311 disaster) and social media team for TEDxTokyo.

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