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Aguiar, Saul

Saul Aguiar is an independent senior software/systems engineer, and a domain expert in the fields of aircraft navigation and flight management systems. He holds an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and has authored/co-authored four trade books and numerous product review articles. A former telecommunications engineer, he is an unwavering supporter of Network Neutrality and is vehemently opposed to government lawlessness.

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Askin, Jonathan

Jonathan Askin is a professor at Brooklyn Law School, teaching technology, telecommunications, and entrepreneurial law and policy. He is the Founder of the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic, which represents Internet, new media, communications and other tech entrepreneurs, startups, innovators and organizations on business development, policy advocacy and law reform. He is also the “Innovation Catalyst” for the Brooklyn Law Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship. Jonathan is also a Visiting Professor at the University of London, Queen Mary School of Law, a Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School, and Founder and Advisor to iLINC, a network of legal support clinics for the European startup community. Jonathan also Chaired the Internet Governance Working Group for the Obama ’08 Presidential Campaign. He has served on the boards of many communications and Internet industry and consumer groups. Jonathan is an honors grad of both Harvard College and Rutgers Law School.

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Banks, David

David A. Banks is a Ph.D student studying the design and construction of public space and digital networks from an anarchist perspective at Rensalaer Polytechnic Institute. He is currently working in two field sites: North Central Troy, New York and Kumasi, Ghana. In Troy, David is working with community members, artists, and activists to build a mesh Wi-Fi network and a public performance art space made from found objects. In Kumasi, he is working with engineers, healthcare professionals, and city residents to build an open source condom vending machine network that can be built and maintained in Ghana. Other areas of interest include the mutual shaping of pop culture and engineering practices, self-organizing systems, and open access publishing. David is also a regular contributor to Cyborgology. His work has also been featured in The New Inquiry, Tikkun Magazine, The Daily Dot, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Before coming to RPI, David earned his B.A. in Urban Studies from New College of Florida. His Erdös Number is 4.

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Binney, William

Between 2001 and mid 2007, Mr. Binney was a consultant on analysis and analytic techniques to various agencies of the US government intelligence community – NSA, CIA, NRO and Customs and Border Protection in the Department of Homeland Security. From 1970 to 2001, Mr. Binney was a civilian employee of NSA. At NSA, Mr. Binney held numerous positions: Technical Director of the World Geopolitical and Military Analysis, Operations Directorate Analysis Skill field leader, member of the NSA Senior Technical Review Panel, Chair of the Technical Advisory Panel to the Foreign Relations Council, co-founder of the Sigint Automation Research Center, an agency representative to the National Technology Alliance Executive Board, and Technical Director of the Office of Russia as well as a leading analyst for warning for over 20 years. Over the years, Mr. Binney applied mathematical discipline to collection, analysis and reporting. In the process, he was able to structure analysis and transform it into a definable discipline, making it possible to code and automatically execute functions without human intervention from the point of collection to the end product. The successful automation of analysis formed the foundation for prototype developments in the SIGINT Automation Research Center; demonstrated how to handle massive amounts of data effectively and relate results to military and other customers; and, formed the basis for organizing an international coalition of countries to develop and share technology advances.

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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 member of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) as well as a trustee of the IETF Trust. .

Mr. Bradner is a Senior Technical Consultant in the Office of the Harvard University CTO. His job includes work in the area of identity management as well as exploring, developing and upgrading technology at Harvard, monitoring changing technology trends and exploring their potential for use at Harvard. He founded the Harvard Network Device Test Lab, is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, a weekly columnist for Network World, and does a bit of independent consulting on the side.

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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 entrepreneur. She is founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world; Buzzcar, a service that brings together car owners and drivers in a carsharing marketplace in France; and GoLoco, an online ridesharing community. She is also Executive Chairman of Veniam ‘Works, a vehicle mesh communications company based in Portugal.

She is on the Board of the World Resources Institute. She also served on the National Advisory Council for Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the US Department of Commerce, the Intelligent Transportations Systems Program Advisory Committee for the US Department of Transportation, the OECD’s International Transport Forum Advisory Board the Massachusetts Governor’s Transportation Transition Working Group, and Boston Mayor’s Wireless Task Force.

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

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Crocker, Andrew

Andrew Crocker is a legal fellow on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s civil liberties team. While in law school, Andrew worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, and the Center for Democracy and Technology. Andrew has a J.D. and an A.B. in history and literature from Harvard University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from New York University.

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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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Feld, Harold

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

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

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François, Camille

Camille François is a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and at the Yale Law School Information Society Project. Her work addresses the building of cyber-peace, the critique of cyberwar, along with related public policy issues in cybersecurity, surveillance, privacy and robotics. A Fulbright Fellow, she is also a visiting scholar at Columbia University's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, where she consulted for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on cybersecurity. Previously, Camille worked at Google managing cross-media market research and key privacy and policy trends. Camille holds a Master's degree in International Public Management from Sciences-Po Paris, and a Master's degree in International Security from the Columbia School of Public and International Affairs. Her work and opinions have been featured in media such as Scientific American, WIRED, The Guardian, the BBC. She is a volunteer Digital Advisor for Libraries Without Borders, working on digital literacy for refugees and she co-organizes the Drones and Aerial Robotics Conference (DARC). Camille is working from the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) in New York City.

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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 the Deputy CIO for Harvard University, responsible for the delivery of IT services to a large portion of the Harvard community. Ben is routinely involved in interesting explorations - e.g., LibraryCloud an open repository of Library information, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) project, edX an MIT/Harvard joint venture to explore new ways of teaching and learning in 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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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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Gonsalves, Sean

Sean’s entry into journalism was a bit unusual. Most start as reporters and, if they’re lucky, get a chance to write a column someday. He started the other way around. Sean first began writing an op-ed column for the Cape Cod Times in 1993, covering everything from politics to jazz.

It wasn’t until two years later, in 1995, that he was offered an entry level reporting position at the Times. Sean started writing obituaries and occasional short features. Then, he moved to the “night cops” beat, in which he was responsible for compiling the daily court report, as well as churning out police logs by night’s end.

In 1996, Sean was offered a contract with Universal Press Syndicate to syndicate the column he was writing. One of the youngest nationally syndicated columnists in the country at the time, Sean was just 24 years old when he signed with UPS. The column was picked up by 22 newspapers across the country, including the Oakland Tribune, Detroit Free-Press, Kansas City Star and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In Seattle, his weekly opinion offerings were one of the most popular columns in that paper for nearly a decade. Sean’s work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Washington Post and the International Herald-Tribune.

But, even as he was writing a nationally-syndicated column, traveling the country speaking at various forums, panel discussions and events, back home on Cape Cod Sean was reporting on everything from breaking news, municipal government, presidential vacations on Martha’s Vineyard, the Mashpee Wampanoag’s quest for federal recognition, and hundreds of other stories.

Sean’s reporting and column-writing has garnered numerous awards and even an honorary declaration by the Massachusetts state legislature, commemorating him for being a voice for the voiceless.

In 2008, Sean stopped working as a reporter and op-ed columnist to join the Cape Cod Times news desk as an assistant news editor. He supervised six reporters and was responsible for organizing and supervising the daily news budget and reporter assignments. In 2011, Sean became the Times sole news columnist, writing three popular local news columns a week.

Throughout his career, he’s done television commentary, appearing on WGBH’s “Greater Boston” and was also a frequent guest on New England Cable News, highlighting stories on Cape Cod of interest to NECN watchers in the Greater Boston area.

Sean has made numerous appearances on radio – as a guest on Michael Medved’s radio show (sitting in for Rush Limbaugh) and numerous times as a guest commentator on National Public Radio programs, most recently as a regular guest on WCAI’s “The Point with Mindy Todd.”

After nearly 20 years in journalism, Sean joined Regan Communications to help others better communicate with an often cynical and skeptical public.

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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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Khanna, Derek

Derek Khanna is a Yale Law Fellow with the Information Society Project, columnist, consultant and policy expert. He has experience working as a House and Senate Staffer. While working for the House Republican Study Committee he authored a report advocating for substantial changes to copyright policy: “Three Myths about Copyright Law.”

Since his work in Congress he has published for the Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Slate Magazine and other outlets. He spearheaded the national campaign on cellphone unlocking which has led to legislation that has passed the House in 2014. His work on copyright and patent reform was recently embraced by the YG Network in their outline for a future policy platform for the GOP and he recently published the cover story for the American Conservative Magazine, "GOP The Party of Innovation" on how the Republican Party needs to embrace technology.

Derek has spoken at the Consumer Electronics Show, South by Southwest, the Conservative Political Action Conference and as a speaker with the Federalist Society. He currently is a consultant working with several technology companies, political organizations and political candidates. For his work on innovation policy, he was named on Forbes' 30 under 30 list for law and policy and as a Global Leader of Tomorrow.

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Lebkowsky, Jon

Jon Lebkowsky is an activist, sometimes journalist, and blogger who writes about the future of the Internet, digital culture, media, and society. He’s been actively associated with various forward-looking projects and organizations, including FringeWare (CEO), Whole Earth, WorldChanging, Viridian Design Movement, Mondo 2000, bOING bOING, Factsheet Five, the WELL, the Austin Chronicle, EFF-Austin (President), Society of Participatory Medicine (cofounder and former board member), Extreme Democracy (co-editor), Wireless Future (project manager), Digital Convergence Initiative (former board member), Plutopia Productions (cofounder), Polycot Consulting (cofounder and CEO), Social Web Strategies (cofounder), Project VRM, and Reality Augmented Blog. He’s currently a web strategist and manager at Consumers Union and a member of the Polycot Associates web development cooperative.

There’s more info at Wikipedia.

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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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Maffei, Andy

Andrew Maffei has recently “graduated" from his role of Ocean Informatics Coordinator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Past roles at WHOI include Systems Programmer, Network Manager, High-speed, fiber-optic, underwater network design specialist, data-visualization visionary, semantic web practitioner, scientist-technologist relationship facilitator, ocean informatics evangelist. Andrew missed 2008 BigHook due to his 7 month yoga and meditation retreat / sabbatical in Rhinebeck NY.

In the spirit of BigHook, Andrew has backed-off on his hours at WHOI and is shifting his life towards pursuing the “big fish”. Although he sees human adaptation to climate change as the most immediate challenge to our species he has determined, for himself, that Human Beings need to experience a basic shift in consciousness to avoid creating deeper and deeper holes leading to our species’ premature extinction.

His current goal is to (re)find and develop consciousness-related technologies and approaches that science can employ to more effectively aid society in our “dig out". His current challenge: even though the direction he has zeroed in on has been known of, written about, and discussed for thousands of years, it’s really really hard to help others (even himself) to fully “grok” it. Some reasons for this are it espouses: we not who we think they are; psychological time is not real; and that almost all of the thoughts and beliefs we carry cause more harm than good.

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Marinho, Marcio (aka Frango do Cavaco)

A natural talent on the cavaquinho, Márcio Marinho studied with wizard Waldir Azevedo who, at first, tried to assimilate the clear sound and good taste to add to music and unmistakable way of displaying technical knowledge. His maturity has been forged by studies and contact with artists who are part of the musical landscape of Brazil. Among them are cavaquinho player Henrique Cazes, the mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda, 7-string guitarist Rogerio Caetano, as well as Carlos Malta, Dominguinhos, Humberto Araujo, Paulo Moura, Danilo Brito, Umbrella and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal. Márcio Marinho stands as a revelation because of the new concept, the new "face" that has been building for the cavaquinho. His way of playing shows the chemistry of ??jazz and choro with doses of virtuoso originality, opening horizons and transforming the cavaquinho to aninstrument without barriers that fits into any musical style. Marcio Marinho, 26 years old, is one of the biggest names of the cavaquinho in Brazil today.

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Meinrath, Sascha

Sascha Meinrath is Director of X-Lab, an innovative new venture focusing on
thought-provoking, bold tech policy interventions. Sascha founded the Open
Technology Institute and has been an unapologetic advocate for consumers and a
counterweight to the major telecom and wireless industry lobbies. 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 built 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, the Champaign-Urbana Wireless Network Foundation, and the
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Foundation. He currently serves on the
board of the Schools, Health, and Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition and a
trustee of the DC chapter of the Awesome Foundation. Sascha is also an Ashoka
Fellow.

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 governmental programs that spies on the global public’s 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 four 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, Désirée

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

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

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

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Moser, Friedrich

Friedrich Moser is a documentary film producer, director and cinematographer based in Vienna, Austria. Friedrich's films have been broadcast in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and several other European countries. His most recent feature documentary THE BRUSSELS BUSINESS (2012) - the first film delving into the world of lobbying in the EU capital Brussels - saw festival appearances, theatrical releases and special screenings across the EU.

Friedrich currently works on A GOOD AMERICAN, the story of former Technical Director of NSA Bill Binney and a surveillance program called ThinThread. ThinThread managed to pick up any electronic signal in the world, filter it for targets, render results in realtime and all of this without invading privacy and by sticking to the US constitution. It was withheld from implementation for 9 months and finally killed by NSA management (Michael Hayden, Bill Black, Maureen Baginski, Sam Visner) in late August 2001- 3 weeks prior to 9/11. In February 2002 Tom Drake finally got the allowance to test-run ThinThread against the largest NSA database collection. In the pre-9/11database he found terrorists, code-names, connections... NSA had the perfect tool to prevent 9/11 and did not use it. The reason: ThinThread was too cheap (!!! by the factor of at least 1.000) and too efficient.

Teaser 1: https://vimeo.com/89326257
PW: AGA

Teaser 2: https://vimeo.com/89326258
PW: AGA

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Neto, Henrique

Henrique Neto has been playing the guitar since he was thirteen. He dedicates his studies towards exploring the diverse world which makes up the music of Brazil. His repertoire includes his own work as well as those of other composers from different generations: His own interpretations, venturing form choro to classical pieces without drifting form its Brazilian roots, which directs his work.

His deep interest in music originated mainly from home, in particular from his father, Reco do Bandolim, the President of the Choro Club of Brasilia and the founder of the first School of Choro in the country.

Along with performing solos in prestigious shows in the Brazilian Capital City, Henrique has shared the stage with world famous musicians such as Hermeto Pascoal, Hamilton de Holanda, Paulo Moura, Danilo Caymmi, Sivuca, Armandinho Macedo, Sebastião Tapajós, Manassés, Guinga, Dominguinhos, Carlos Malta, Paulo Sérgio Santos among others.

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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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O'Brien, Alexa

Alexa O'Brien is a independent journalist. Her work has been published in The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Guardian UK, Salon, The Daily Beast, and featured on the BBC, PBS Frontline, On The Media, and Public Radio International. She was shortlisted for the 2013 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in the UK.

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Ortiz, Jorge

Jorge Ortiz, born (1956) and raised in Monterrey, Mexico. Studied Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from ITESM in Monterrey, and a B.S. Industrial Management at Purdue Krannert (1978) . Worked in financial and corporate planning for Grupo Alfa, and since 1982 has been involved in startups in the field interactive television, wireless communication, fiber based triple play, prepaid airtime distribution, among other business. Lately he has focused most of his time on plastic recycling, on renewable-diesel from biomass and municipal waste, and has developed and expertise on the emerging field of Hydrogen Sulfide effects on health and disease.

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Parsons, Rebecca

Rebecca has been in the software industry longer than she cares to admit. She's worked in technology and heavy manufacturing organizations, start-ups and big enterprises, government research, NGOs, academia and now software consulting. Rebecca is currently the CTO of ThoughtWorks, a global software consulting company that does custom software development across a range of industries and organizations. Thoughtworks employees (aka thoughtworkers) are committed to using technology to better humanity.

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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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Rice, Catharine

Catharine Rice is President of the SouthEast Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (SEATOA), a NATOA and VATOA Board Member, the Project Director for CLIC, and consultant for Broadband-Matters. For more than a decade, Catharine has been a cable and broadband consultant serving North Carolina communities in planning and deploying local broadband systems and closing the digital divide, focusing particularly on those communities in the Research Triangle area and surrounding rural counties. The earlier periods of this work included cable rate regulatory oversight and enforcing build-out and transfer of ownership requirements under local cable franchises. With the passage of NC’s cable deregulatory legislation, her focus turned to developing municipal solutions to the lack of private sector broadband deployments and competition, including working with the City of Wilson in the development and implementation of North Carolina’s first Gigabit, fiber-to-the home system. When the industry attempted to shut down that municipal system and others, Catharine organized a North Carolina grassroots movement with SEATOA and worked with NCLM to block industry-sponsored anti-municipal broadband legislation, a battle which lasted four years but, disappointingly, ended with the industry prevailing under new Republican leadership in 2011. During this same period, Catharine led numerous SEATOA efforts to guarantee PEG access funding (and actual payment) through revisions to the state’s Video Services Competition Act. Prior to her work in North Carolina, Ms. Rice served more than ten years as Vice President of the Washington, DC-based municipal-consulting firm, Institute for the Positive Use of Technology, (InPUT) .She holds a masters degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communications and served as NATOA’s Administrative Officer from 1984-1989.

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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 systems
operate and redesigning them to work, or at least fail, better. Her
work is transdisciplinary, using everything from electronics, software,
and paint to social rules and words as media with which to explore and
shape our interactions with the world. Her focuses include the seamless
integration of technology into the lived experience, the humanity of
objects and the built environment, and systemic resilience and conviviality.

Eleanor is Technical Director at the International Modern Media
Institute (IMMI), a member of the advisory boards at the Freedom of the
Press Foundation, Geeks Without Bounds (GWoB), the IFTF Governance
Futures Lab, and the Calyx Institute, is part of the Trike and
Briar/Bramble software projects, and works occasionally as a freelance
security architecture and strategy consultant to news organizations,
NGOs, and software teams like Mailpile and Commotion.

Prior to this, she was Principal Security Engineer at the Open Internet
Tools Project (OpenITP), directing the OpenITP Peer Review Board for
open source software and working on adversary modeling, and also had a
long career in the commercial security consulting space. She also
previously co-founded the Constitutional Analysis Support Team (CAST)
and the Seattle-based Public N3rd Area hacker space.

Eleanor is a regular speaker at conferences and universities including
the CCC Congress, Transmediale, ToorCon, Harvard, Yale, Knutepunk, and
Arse Elektronika. She is nomadic, living mostly in airports and
occasionally in New York, London, Stockholm, and Berlin. She can be
found at http://dymaxion.org and on Twitter as @dymaxion.

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Searls, Doc

Doc Searls is author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto (with fellow BigHooker David Weinberger, plus Chris Locke and Rick Levine).

Doc is also a fellow of the Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an alumnus fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. With CITS he studies the Internet as a form of infrastructure. With Berkman he leads ProjectVRM, a worldwide community fostering development of tools and services that make individuals both independent of silos yet better able to engage with them.

A lifelong journalist, Doc has been an editor of Linux Journal since 1996 and of his own blog since 1998. He also has published more than 50,000 photos, most of which are permissively licensed via Creative Commons to encourage use and re-use, which is why hundreds of them accompany Wikipedia articles, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Simons, Matthew

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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Stikker, Marleen

Marleen Stikker is president and co-founder of Waag Society, an institute for art, science and technology, which develops creative technology for social innovation. The foundation researches, develops concepts, pilots and prototypes and acts as an intermediate between the arts, science and the media. Waag Society cooperates with cultural, public and private parties..

Marleen Stikker is founder of De Digitale Stad (The Digital City) in 1994, the first virtual community introducing free public access to the internet. She is founder of Waag, a social enterprise that consists of Waag Society, a research Institute for creative technologies and social innovation and Waag Products, the incubator that launched successful companies like 7scenes, a mobile learning and gaming platform and Fairphone, the first fair smartphone in the world. Stikker is chair of PICNIC, the leading European event for the creative industries, an innovation platform hosted yearly in Amsterdam and member of the supervisory board of WPG Publishers, an independent publishing group.

Marleen Stikker strongly adheres to the Maker's Bill of Rights motto "If You Can't Open It, You Don't Own It". Waag Society is actively involved in the Open Design and Creative Commons movement and believes that society needs open technologies that meet societal challenges.

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Turner, Brough

Brough Turner [pronounced "Bruff"] is a communications industry engineer and entrepreneur. He is founder of netBlazr Inc., a startup working to change the landscape for broadband Internet access in 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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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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Yamazaki, Fumi

Fumi Yamazaki is a Program Manager at Civic Innovation & Crisis Response Teams at Google. Before moving to US in 2013, she initiated various projects in Japan including Hack For Japan, an initiative to use technology for Japan to recover from the M9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant disaster in Tohoku region in Japan. She was also involved in starting Tohoku Tech Dojo, an organization that teaches youngsters how to code to cultivate new industry and help the region recover from the disaster. Additionally, she worked with Fukko Hangout, working to help people in Tohoku to convey their message directly to the public using the Internet, and Project311, an initiative to analyze data after the Tohoku earthquake to learn and prepare for future natural disasters.

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.

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