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Alden, Howard

Born in Newport Beach, California, in 1958, Howard began playing the guitar at age ten, inspired by recordings of Armstrong, Basie and Goodman, as well as those by guitarists Barney Kessel, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt and George Van Eps. Soon he was working professionally around Los Angeles playing in groups ranging from traditional to mainstream to modern jazz. In 1979, Alden went east, for a summer in Atlantic City with Red Norvo, and continued to perform with him frequently for several years.

Upon moving to New York City in 1982, Alden's skills, both as soloist and accompanist, were quickly recognized and sought-out for appearances and recordings with such artists as Joe Bushkin, Ruby Braff, Joe Williams, Warren Vache` and Woody Herman.

Howard can be heard on the soundtrack to the 1999 Woody Allen movie "Sweet and Lowdown", starring Sean Penn, who was also nominated for an Academy Award for his role as a legendary jazz guitarist in the '30s. Howard not only played all the guitar solos, but also coached Mr. Penn on playing the guitar for his role in the film.

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Baller, Jim

Jim Baller is the president 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, the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors, 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 more than 160 associations, consumer groups, communications service providers, 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 Technicaincluded Jim on its list of 25 Top Names in Tech Policy, and FiberToday named him its “Person of the Year.” In 2012, he received the FTTH Council Chairman’s Award “for his relentless promotion and pursuit of community broadband and of faster networks for everyone. His efforts have paved the way for the deployment of all-fiber networks across the country.”

Jim is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Cornell Law School. 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.
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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

Helen Brunner is Director of the Media Democracy Fund, a donor collaborative of twelve foundations that grew out of research conducted by the Ford Foundation, the Phoebe Haas Charitable Trust, and the Albert A. List Foundation on how to increase philanthropic investment in media policy. She previously served as program consultant to Albert A. List Foundation’s Freedom of Expression, Arts and Telecommunications Policy and Advocacy Programs from 1996-2004. In her capacity as Director of Foundation Services for Art Resources International, she has also advised Ford, Pew, Andy Warhol, Leeway, Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media, and other foundations and affinity groups in the areas of communications policy, First Amendment rights, and the arts. She was Executive Director of the National Association of Artists Organizations from 1993-95, founded Art Resources International in 1985, was Director of Programs at the Washington Project for the Arts from 1982-85, and served as coordinator of the Visual Studies Workshop Research Center in Rochester, NY from 1975-82. She has served on numerous boards of directors, including the Progressive Technology Project, the National Association of Artists Organizations and the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression.

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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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Cagle, Susie

Susie Cagle has been tear-gassed, arrested, and nearly run over by police motorcycles — all for comics journalism. She has drawn and written reportage about crisis pregnancy centers, ecological disasters, failed cities, anarchist riots, media ethics, and local surveillance for the Atlantic, the Guardian, the Nation, Al Jazeera America, the Boston Review, the American Prospect, Truthout, the Free Press Journalists Against Journalism project, and many others. Her work has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, BoingBoing, and others, and she’s received honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the International Women’s Media Foundation.

Susie has a masters from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, which still doesn't offer a cartooning class. She is currently working on the IWMF-supported Oakland Projects, a nonprofit multimedia venture aimed at pairing data reporting and narratives to tell longform solutions-oriented investigative stories from one of the country's most troubled "news deserts."

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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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Cohen, Anat

Clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen has won hearts and minds the world over with her expressive virtuosity and delightful stage presence. Reviewing Anat’s 2008 headlining set with her quartet at the North See Jazz Festival, DownBeat said: “Cohen not only proved to be a woodwind revelation of dark tones and delicious lyricism, but also a dynamic bandleader who danced and shouted out encouragement to her group – whooping it up when pianist Jason Lindner followed her clarinet trills on a Latin-flavored number."

Anat has been voted Clarinetist of the Year six years in a row by the Jazz Journalists Association, as well as 2012’s Multi-Reeds Player of the Year. That’s not to mention her topping of critics and readers polls in DownBeat magazine several years running. Anat has toured the world with her quartet, headlining at the Newport, Umbria, SF Jazz and North Sea jazz festivals as well as at such hallowed clubs as New York’s Village Vanguard.

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Crandall, Steve

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

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Crocker, Steve

Steve Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., a start up company focused on dynamic sharing of information across the Internet. He is also currently chair of the ICANN board of directors. Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, while he was a graduate student at UCLA, he was part of the team that developed the protocols for the Arpanet and laid the foundation for today's Internet. He organized the Network Working Group, which was the forerunner of the modern Internet Engineering Task Force and initiated the Request for Comment (RFC) series of notes through which protocol designs are documented and shared. He remained active in the Internet standards work through the IETF and IAB. For this work, Dr. Crocker was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet Award. Dr. Crocker experience includes research management at DARPA, USC/ISI and The Aerospace Corporation, vice president of Trusted Information Systems, and co-founder of CyberCash, Inc. and Longitude Systems, Inc. Dr. Crocker earned his BA in math and PhD in computer science at UCLA, and he studied artificial intelligence at MIT.

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el-Imam, Nadia

Nadia EL-Imam is a a social entrepreneur born in Sweden, raised in Europe and Asia, now living & working in Stockholm & Brussels.

She says, "I'm a proud founder of Edgeryders, an open consultancy harnessing collective intelligence into authoritative and authentic advice."

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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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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Gaucherin, Benoit

Benoit Gaucherin is Chief Information & Technology Officer for Harvard Law School. Ben is also a member of the University's CTO Office and serves as senior adviser to University initiatives, such as HarvardX/edX - a joint venture between MIT and Harvard to transform higher-education. Finally, Ben focuses some of his time and energy towards teaching about the marvels and perils of the cyber world.

Prior to Harvard, Ben has been fortunate to find himself in the forefront of many business transformations involving technology - much of it while he was at Sapient Corporation where he held a variety of technology leadership roles. Sapient is a global consulting firm that, among other things, delivers complex technology solutions across many industries including: financial services, energy services, manufacturing, telecommunications, federal government, retail and higher-education. Ben has served as adviser to large technology product companies, and as expert witness in global technology litigation cases. Ben's professional experience also includes MIT, the HayGroup, the French Air Force, and other organizations that leveraged technology to change their business.

Ben is originally from France and holds a Maitrise de Mathematiques et Informatique (Mathematics and Computer Science) from the University of Caen, France.

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Gillmor, Dan

Dan Gillmor teaches digital media entrepreneurship and digital media literacy at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is author of two books -- "Mediactive" and "We the Media" -- and is working on a new book and web project, tentatively entitled "Permission Taken," about the increasing control that companies and governments are exerting over the way we use technology and communicate, and how we can take back some of that control. Dan has co-founded, invested in and advised a number of digital media companies, and serves on several non-profit boards.

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

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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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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 16 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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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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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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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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Levy, Josh

Josh Levy is Internet campaign director at Free Press. He has worked for many years as campaign strategist and writer at the crossroads of technology, politics and activism.

He currently leads Free Press’ work to secure an open Internet, strong protections for mobile phone users, public use of the public airwaves and universal access to high-speed Internet. In June 2012 he led the drafting of the Declaration of Internet Freedom and its five principles that defined the fight for a free and open Internet. The Declaration was signed by more than 2,000 organizations and companies and translated into more than 70 languages.

In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA's sweeping surveillance programs, Josh helped to found the StopWatching.Us coalition, a group of more than one hundred organizations calling for NSA accountability and the reform of laws that violate our constitutional right to privacy.

Before joining Free Press, Josh was the managing editor of Change.org, where he help to launch more than a dozen issue-based blogs. He was also the associate editor at Personal Democracy Forum, where he helped to launch the award-winning techPresident site.

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Lucky, Bob

Robert Lucky is an engineer known worldwide for his writing and speaking about technology and society. He has led premier research laboratories in telecommunications over the last several decades, first at Bell Labs and then at Telcordia Technologies, where he was corporate vice president, applied research. In October, 2002 he retired from this position. Now he devotes much of his time to professional activities, including advisory boards, studies, and consulting.

Early in his career he invented the adaptive equalizer, the key enabler for all high speed modems today. He co-authored a textbook on data communications that was the most cited reference in the field over the period of a decade. He is the author of many technical papers and of several books, including Silicon Dreams and Lucky Strikes Again. He has been the editor of a series of books in communications and of several technical journals. However, most engineers know him best because of the monthly columns he has written for Spectrum Magazine over the last twenty years offering philosophical and sometimes humorous observations on engineering, life, and technology.

Dr. Lucky has been a frequent speaker at technical, business, academic, and social occasions. He often gives plenary and keynote addresses to conferences, and has been an invited speaker at more than one hundred different universities. He has also appeared a number of times on network television, including two sessions with Bill Moyers on his "World of Ideas" public television show.

He has been active throughout his career in professional, academic, and government roles. He has been on the advisory boards of about a dozen universities, has chaired the Scientific Advisory Board of the U.S. Air Force, the Technical Advisory Board of the Federal Communications Commission, and the visiting board of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He has been president of the Communications Society of the engineering institute (IEEE) and executive vice president of the IEEE.

He received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1961. He has since been honored with four honorary doctorates, and has received a number of major awards, including the prestigious Marconi Prize in 1987 for inventing the automatically adaptive equalizer, which brought important technological benefits to mankind through digital communications, and the IEEE Edison Medal. He has been elected a fellow of the IEEE and to membership in the National Academy of Engineering, and to both the American and European Academies of Arts and Sciences.

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Lynn, Barry C.

Barry C. Lynn studies the effects of consolidation on political and economic systems. His writings on the growing fragility of complex industrial systems have attracted wide attention across Asia and Europe, as well as in the White House and Treasury Department. Lynn directs the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative at the New America Foundation, where he is also a senior fellow. He is author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction (Wiley 2010) and End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation (Doubleday 2005). His articles have appeared in Harper’s, the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, and The National Interest, and many others. Prior to joining New America, Lynn was executive editor of Global Business Magazine for seven years, and worked as a correspondent in Peru, Venezuela, and the Caribbean for the Associated Press and Agence France Presse.

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Maaia, Levi C.

Levi C. Maaia is president of Full Channel Labs and a graduate research fellow at the Center for Education Research on Literacy & Inquiry in Networking Communities (LINC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

His research research focuses on digital literacies in teaching and learning and ways in which technology-enabled learning programs can be adapted across a variety applications. As the teacher and curriculum developer of the digital media and STEAM Lab courses at Anacapa School, he also works directly with middle school and high school students as he researches innovations in new media and STEM education.

In 2004, Levi joined Full Channel, a family-owned broadband provider in Bristol County, R.I. Under his leadership, Full Channel successfully turned around a declining subscriber base while making its first forays into digital and high-definition television, IP telephony and renewable energy solutions. In 2008, he developed and launched Full Channel's renewable wind energy initiative GreenLink through a partnership forged with sustainable energy provider People's Power & Light. As a result, cable industry trade publication CableFAX honored Full Channel with its 2009 Top Ops Community Service Award. In 2012, Levi formed Full Channel Labs, an online innovation and technology partner, which develops and supports advances in networking and new media.

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McDonald, Aleecia

Aleecia M. McDonald is the Director of Privacy at Stanford’s Center for Internet & Society. Her research focuses on the public policy issues of Internet privacy, and includes user expectations for Do Not Track, behavioral economics and mental models of privacy, and the efficacy of industry self regulation. She co-chaired, and remains active in, the WC3’s Tracking Protection Working Group, an ongoing effort to establish international standards for a Do Not Track mechanism that users can enable to request enhanced privacy online. This effort brings together over 100 international stakeholders from industry, academia, civil society, privacy advocates, and regulators to reach an open, consensus-based multi-party agreement that will establish a baseline for what sites must do when they comply with an incoming request for user privacy. Aleecia’s decade of experience working in software startups adds a practical focus to her academic work, and she was a Senior Privacy Researcher for Mozilla (part-time, 2011-12,) while working for CIS as a Resident Fellow (part-time, 2011-12.) She holds a PhD in Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon where she studied online privacy as a member of the Cylab Usable Privacy and Security (CUPS) research laboratory. Her findings have been featured in media outlets such as the Washington Post, Ars Technica, Free Press' Media Minute. She has presented findings in testimony to the California Assembly, and contributed to testimony before the United States Senate and the Federal Trade Commission.

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Meinrath, Sascha

Sascha Meinrath is vice president of the New America Foundation and director of
the Open Technology Institute (OTI), where he leads efforts to advance policy
and regulatory reforms that protect an open and free Internet, safe
communications, and promote competition in mobile and wireline
telecommunications. An unapologetic advocate for consumers and a counterweight
to the major telecom and wireless industry lobbyists in Washington, Sascha was
named to the “TIME Tech 40” in 2013 as one of the most influential figures in
technology, and was also named to the “Top 100” in Newsweek's Digital Power
Index in 2012. Sascha has also been described as a "community Internet pioneer"
and an "entrepreneurial visionary."

Sascha founded the Open Technology Institute to serve as an innovative tech-tank
that promotes public policy solutions while also serving as a center of
innovation that develops technological advancements in collaboration with
universities and experts around the world. Sascha has grown OTI into a leader in
‘mesh’ wireless research and development, launching the Commotion Wireless
Project, which strengthens communities by providing tools to build their own
local communications infrastructures. Meinrath also joined Vint Cerf, one of the
fathers of the Internet, to create Measurement Lab (M-Lab) –- a platform for
researchers around the world to deploy Internet measurement tools and empower
the public with useful information about their broadband connections. He
coordinates the Open Source Wireless Coalition, dedicated to the development of
open source, interoperable, low-cost wireless technologies, and hosts the annual
International Summit for Community Wireless Networks (IS4CWN).

Sascha has previously worked with Free Press, the Cooperative Association for
Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), the Acorn Active Media Foundation, the Ethos
Group, and co-founded the Champaign-Urbana Wireless Network (CUWiN) Foundation,
and the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Foundation.

In recognition of his impact as a telecommunications policy expert, he was named
in 2009 as one of Ars Technica's Tech Policy "People to Watch" and is also the
2009 recipient of the Public Knowledge IP3 Award for excellence in public
interest advocacy. Sascha has been a leading voice calling for accountability
over the government’s leaked program that spies on Americans’ phone records and
online activities, and is advancing the policy debate over how Congress and the
White House should regulate the cybersecurity-industrial complex.

Sascha’s work is a testament to his lifelong commitment to reducing poverty,
racial inequality, and injustice, values he embraced while growing up in a rough
inner-city school in New Haven, Connecticut. A son of an immigrant from Brazil,
Sascha has a three year-old daughter who is both a pre-schooler and budding
Internet freedom fighter.

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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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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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Newitz, Annalee

Annalee Newitz writes about science, pop culture, and the future. She’s the editor in chief of io9, a publication that covers science and science fiction, and has over 5 million readers every month. She’s the author of Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday).

She’s also published in Wired, The Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, 2600, New Scientist, Technology Review, Popular Science, Discover and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She’s co-editor of the essay collection She’s Such A Geek (Seal Press), and author of Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture (Duke University Press). Formerly, she was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley. She was the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, and has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley.

Here are a few more salient facts about Annalee:

• She is obsessed with kaiju, or giant monsters.
• Her favorite food is spicy noodles, of any kind.
• She falls in love with cities on a regular basis, and her most recent urban crushes include San Francisco, Tokyo, Seattle, Amsterdam, Budapest, Wellington, Oxford, and Saskatoon.
• She has been wearing ties since she was in high school.

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Noss, Elliot

"Elliot is CEO of Tucows. Tucows challenged how software was distributed in the 1990s and how domain names were offered and managed in the 2000s and is challenging how mobile phone service is provided today.

For nearly twenty years, Elliot has loved and championed the Internet as the greatest agent of positive change the world has ever seen. Through his role at Tucows, his involvement in ICANN and his personal efforts, he has lobbied, agitated and educated to promote this vision and protect an Open Internet around the world.

Elliot has been sitting in the same chair at Tucows for over fifteen years and finds every year more exciting than the previous!"

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Penny, Laurie

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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 and solutions.

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

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

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

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

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

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Reed, David P.

David P. Reed is currently Chief Scientist at TidalScale, Inc. His 40 years of research and development activities have focused on designs for societal-scale computer and communications 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. Prior to TidalScale, he was a Sr. VP at SAP Research exploring "big data" systems. 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. He began his career as a professor of computer science and engineering at MIT.

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Roodink, Carlien

Carlien Roodink is member of the City Council of Amsterdam for D66, the
Dutch liberal democratic party. Besides her political activities Carlien
works for the Amsterdam Economic Board. The Board promotes innovation and
new business in the Amsterdam Region.

Carlien is involved in several initiatives in the field of Open Data,
Co-Creation, Crowd Sourcing and Community Currencies. She published her
first book about these subjects in 2013. She is a member of the Board of
the Open State Foundation, aka Hack De Overheid, a grassroots organisation
that is the driving force in the open data movement in the Netherlands. She
is also a member of the Advisory Council of WeHelpen. WeHelpen is the
leading national organisation initiated by banks, pension and health
insurers in the Netherlands that is offering an online marketplace featuring
smart functions for finding, connecting and organising care and assistance.
WeHelpen has its own community currency.

Carlien has a background in the financial sector and has worked for several
commercial financial institutions and the Dutch Central Bank.

www.carlienroodink.nl
www.openstatefoundation.eu
www.wehelpen.nl

Twitter and other social media: @carlienroodink

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Saitta, Eleanor

Eleanor Saitta is a hacker, designer, artist, writer, and barbarian. She
makes a living and a vocation of understanding how complex, transdisciplinary
systems operate and redesigning them to work, or at least fail, better. Among
other things, Eleanor is a co-founder of the Trike project
(http://octotrike.org) and the Constitutional Analysis Support Team
(http://const.is), Technical Director at the International Modern Media
Institute (http://immi.is), Principal Security Engineer at the Open Internet
Tools Project (http://openitp.org), a member of the advisory board at Geeks
Without Bounds (http://gwob.org), a contributor to the Briar project
(http://briar.sf.net), and a Senior Security Associate with Stach & Liu
(http://stachliu.com). She is nomadic and lives mostly in airports and
occasionally in New York, London, and Stockholm. She can be found at
http://dymaxion.org and on Twitter as @dymaxion.

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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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Seltzer, Wendy

Wendy Seltzer is Policy Counsel to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
and a Fellow with Yale Law School's Information Society Project,
researching openness in intellectual property, innovation, privacy, 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; the World Wide Web Foundation, U.S.,
dedicated to advancing the web and empowering people by improving Web
science, standards, and generative accessibility of Web; and the The
Open Source Hardware Association. She seeks to improve technology policy
in support of user-driven innovation and communication.

Wendy has been a Fellow with Princeton University's Center for
Information Technology Policy and the University of Colorado's Silicon
Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship in Boulder.
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,
privacy and the public interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard
College and J.D. from Harvard Law School, and occasionally takes a break
from legal code to program (Perl and MythTV).

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Simons, Matt

Matt Simons is the Global Director of Social & Economic Justice for ThoughtWorks. In this newly-created role he works to integrate social justice into ThoughtWorks' business strategy and operations on an equal basis with financial performance and product excellence. This means everything from driving strategic shifts in the customer portfolio (towards more mission-influenced organizations) to helping build social and political awareness among employees to determining ways ThoughtWorks can participate or influence social and political movements. Prior to this rather unique role, Matt spent fifteen years in various roles in Software Delivery and Consulting in the UK, US and India. He is based in Chicago.

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Smith, Stephen

Steve's company, Ampersand, develops VoIP software for the call center industry and performs a variety of professional services related to IP communications and VoIP. Steve founded Ampersand in 1992. In addition to for-profit activities, Ampersand is the author of Voiceglue, an open-source VXML engine that works in conjunction with Asterisk and Freeswitch to provide a 100% open source IVR. Steve also serves as the Managing Director at Boston-based investment bank Dunn, Rush, and Co., where he is responsible for mergers and acquisitions in Technology, Media, and Telecommunications.
For 7 years Steve was CTO and Chief Scientist at Lavalife, 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.

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Sprenger, Peter

Peter Sprenger studied Communication Sciences in Nijmegen. After several years as a consultant (including Rabobank Netherlands) to have worked, he began in 1999 determined that in 2007 merged with Ricoh. He held various marketing positions, from 2007 as a member of the Board of Directors in its portfolio including 'corporate strategy'. The question "how can organizations adapt to changing circumstances?" Runs like a thread through his career and professional development.

His affinity with this question led him further to schools such as the Erasmus University Rotterdam, IBO and Harvard Business School. His experience and familiarity with various sectors contribute to the fact that he never loses sight of the usefulness and relevance of technological change. Conceptual thinking is crucial, but it must lead to a promising new strategy. Peter feels like a fish in water between executives and understand their thinking and responsibilities. It's never him off short-term successes, but for some fundamental undercurrent of opportunities and threats in it. In 2012 he opted for self-employment and was one of the founders of Techonomy.

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Sridhar, Aparna

Aparna Sridhar serves as Policy Counsel for Google Inc. in Washington, DC. At Google, she represents the company on communications policy and Internet governance matters in international fora, 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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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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Vasile, James

James Vasile directs the Open Internet Tools Project, which supports
development of anti-censorship and anti-surveillance tools. He is a
partner at Open Tech Strategies, which advises organizations and
businesses as they navigate the open-source world. He is also a Senior
Fellow at the Software Freedom Law Center, where he acts as a
strategic advisor on a range of free software efforts.

James has helped boot up a number of free software organizations,
including the FreedomBox Foundation, Open Source Matters, and the
Software Freedom Conservancy. His FreedomBox work has been recognized by
an Innovation Award at Contact Summit 2011, as well as an Ashoka
ChangeMaker’s award for Citizen’s Media.

You can learn more about James at http://jamesvasile.com. He tweets
as @jamesvasile and blogs at http://hackervisions.org.

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Whitt, Richard

Richard S. Whitt is Corporate Vice President and Global Head of Public Policy and Government Relations with Motorola Mobility, a Google Inc. company.

Since moving to Motorola in May 2012, Rick has overseen all of Motorola’s public policy thinking and interactions with government policymakers around the world. Previously, he spent five and a half years with Google's public policy team based in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible primarily for telecom and media policy issues. Among other achievements he led Google’s advocacy on open Internet, broadband deployment, and spectrum policy, and helped guide the Company’s efforts regarding the 700 MHz spectrum auction, TV White Spaces, and Google Fiber. Most recently Rick had served as Google’s director and managing counsel for federal policy, overseeing strategic thinking on privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, Internet governance, free expression, and international trade.

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 Web companies. From 1994 to 2006, Rick worked in the legal department at MCI Communications, where 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 large Washington, 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. He is a resident of Washington, D.C. with his wife Cathy and three well-maintained felines.

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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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Zita, Ken

Ken Zita is president of Network Dynamics Associates, a strategy consultancy. Ken has worked in over 50 countries worldwide. He is relatively new to Africa, has grown tolerant of the Middle East and must have lived a previous life in Asia. He is a pioneer in China’s telecom awakening and is especially proud of having written Afghanistan’s telecom policy. He recently led a study for Palestine to modernize public institutions in anticipation of the two-state solution, an incredible project that remains mired in the futility of Washington politics. Last year Ken was in Libya trying to figure out that mess before swearing off government contracting forever. One of his pet topics remains “State-Building in the Digital Era.” He has worked for AT&T, directed broadband Internet strategy for a cable operator in Europe, and raised $33m to create a carrier-class managed services venture. For years he chaired PTC, the longest-running telecom strategy conference in Asia. He graduated magna cum laude from the Science in Society Program at Wesleyan University where he interned for R. Buckminster Fuller’s World Game. He is currently working on 4G in Bangladesh, utility-scale solar farms in Japan and elsewhere, a new emerging markets trade finance bank and some others.

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