BigHook2004 Participants 27 August 2004  

Berry, Scott J.

Scott Berry has nearly 25 years of diverse experience in companies of all sizes.  His recent preference for skunkworks startups resulted from early-career swimming lessons in sinking bureaucracies.  He has made executive-level contributions in strategy, product management, and marketing to several startups in recent years, including his current position as co-founder and vice-president of tedCities, LLC, which is using a utility-based fixed-wireless model to bridge consumers, technology, and content. 

As an early employee of Metromedia Fiber, Scott helped grow it into a $12B footnote on Jack Grubman’s resume before the NASDAQ soufflé fell.  Previously, he held leadership positions with Tyco and AT&T in the submarine cable industry, and spent the early part of his career as a technical manager at Bell Laboratories.  Scott earned engineering degrees from both Brown and Stanford, and has had executive MBA training with Wharton and Thunderbird.

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Borthwick, John

SVP TW Alliances and Technology Strategy, 2003- Present

Lead technology strategy for Time Warner with divisional CTO's.  Manage key technology alliances for Time Warner - including Microsoft, HP, Sony and Intel.  Coordinate technology related work with legal, patent and policy groups.

Background:

April 2003 - Present: TW Alliance and Technology Strategy

2001 - April 2003: AOL, Technology Strategy, Business Strategy, policy and trial witness 1998 - 2001: AOL, New Product Development

1997 - 1998: AOL, Product lead for Digital Cities

1994 - 1997: CEO, Founder WP Studio/Total NY

1992 - 1994: Completed graduate studies

1987 - 1992: Oliver, Wyman and Company, management consultancy 1984 - 1987: Completed under-graduate studies

Education:

MBA Wharton, 1994

BA Wesleyan University, 1987

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boyd, danah michele

As a Ph.D student in Information Management and Systems at the University of California , Berkeley , danah boyd focuses on how people negotiate their presentation of self in mediated social contexts to an unknown audience. To understand this, danah develops social visualizations, collects ethnographic data and builds on theoretical foundations from the social sciences and humanities. Most recently, danah has been studying the social behavior exhibited on Friendster, blogs and journals.

Before attending Berkeley , danah studied computer science at Brown University and sociable media at the MIT Media Lab. Her Master's thesis from MIT is entitled "Faceted Id/entity: Managing Representation in a Digital World." She also worked as an ethnographer for Intel and spent five years creating and managing an online community for V-Day, a non-profit working to end violence against women and girls worldwide.

For more information, visit danah's website at http://www.danah.org/ or her blog at http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/

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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 Harvard High-Speed Data Network (HSDN), the Longwood Medical Area network (LMAnet) and NEARNet. He was founding chair of the technical committees of LMAnet, NEARNet and 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 still 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 University Technology Security Officer in the Harvard Office of the Provost.  He tries to help the University community deal with privacy and security issues. He also provides technical advice and guidance on issues relating to the Harvard data networks and new technologies to Harvard's CIO. He founded the Harvard Network Device Test Lab, is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, a weekly columnist for Network World, and does a bit of independent consulting on the side.

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Burstein, David

I write DSL Prime, the industry news, and try to understand what's going on in this business.  With Jennie Bourne, am now extending my work to the future of television. Strongly believe in freedom and service on the political side, and what is often its technical corollary end to end and openness on the tech side. Occasionally, I get to step back and take the long view and definitely remain on the left. I have twenty years before that in miscellaneous computer work, but no corporate experience.

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Campbell, Richard

Consulting engineer in audio, acoustics and related control systems. Multitrack location recording and surround sound mastering.  I also teach acoustics and audio engineering in the ECE Department at WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

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Clark, Judi

Judi is a freshly-minted attorney. Before and during law school, she was President of ManyMedia, a Graphics Communication and Information Services Consultancy. She has been actively involved in technology for over 20 years. During that time, she has written several whitepapers on networking and telecom policy, taught at the University of California , Santa Cruz 's corporate training department, was treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), and served on the Steering Committee for several annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CPF) conferences

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Comstedt, Anders

Anders Comstedt is Senior Advisor and Board member of Labs2. He is advisor and consultant in telecom issues, in particular related to deregulation, alternative networks and business development. He has managed cross border sub-marine cables in Europé to projects in developing countries. Previously CEO of AB Stokab, a telecom network infrastructure provider in Stockholm , Sweden . As a former chairman of the company handling domain names in the .se domain, he has been involved in the Swedish Internet development. Prior to that he has had several executive positions in the telecoms industry. This includes subsidiaries of both Telia, and the Ericsson group, where he worked with networks and fibre optics. He has also been an advisor in business development. Born 1950 he has an MSEE from Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden .

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Craven, Joe

Joe Craven wears many hats and plays many things; string instruments fashioned out of hospital bed pans and roasting pots, fiddles, mandolins, tenor guitars, saz, cuatro and a world of percussion instruments including animal bones, latex squeeze toys, waste cans, martini shakers and himself. His stage setup often resembles a yard sale and Joe’s unusual approach to music making is the stuff of local and national acclaim. But there’s more to Craven than meets the ear. Visual artist, former museologist (museum science), educator, storyteller, festival emcee, loving father, chili pepper and garlic fanatic, Joe is an advocate of “demystifying” art through music making as a daily ritual.

Since 1989, Joe Craven has been the highly respected multi-instrumentalist with the David Grisman Quintet...yeah, Joe¹s the guy with the Ralph Stanley autographed bongos and fiddle. From Jerry Garcia to Stéphane Grapelli, Ramblin' Jack Elliott to beat poet Ken Nordine, the Persuasions to Psychograss, Craven has been deemed by Grisman, the world's most versatile sideman.  Versatile sideman sure, but utterly unique frontman?  You bet.

His wildly varied recordings CAMPTOWN , MO ’ JOE and DJANGO LATINO have received rave reviews nationwide.  By combining his love for traditional American folk, blues, jazz, and country music, his equal passion for world music's unique melodies and rhythms, and an artist's playful sense that anything can be a musical instrument if you just look at it right, Craven successfully creates a musically challenging yet thoroughly delightful mix.

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Crawford, Susan

Susan Crawford is Assistant Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School , teaching cyberlaw and intellectual property law.  She is also a Policy Fellow with the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington , D.C, a Fellow with The Information Society Project at Yale Law School , and is active with the Internet Policy Project of the Aspen Institute.  Ms. Crawford received her B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and J.D. from Yale University .  She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering ( Washington , D.C. ) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy.

Susan ’s practice was focused on Internet law and policy issues, including governance, privacy, intellectual property, advertising, and defamation.  She represented major online companies, startups, and joint ventures, and worked particularly closely with companies doing business in the domain name world.  From 1996-1998, she taught copyright as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown Law Center , and she has spoken and written frequently about online legal issues.

Susan writes about digital copyright issues and internet governance.  Her article, The Biology of the Broadcast Flag was published in the Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal in late 2003.  Upcoming pieces will be about online identity (Who's In Charge of Who I Am, to be published in an NYU Press book), FCC jurisdiction (Nice Work If You Can Get It: The FCC In The Digital Age, to be published in law review form), and other digital policy issues. She has also published many online essays about ICANN (most co-authored with David R. Johnson), and maintains a website and blog at www.scrawford.net.

Susan is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Innovation Network (http://www.innonet.org), a member of the Board of Directors of Greenwood Music Camp, and a member of the advisory boards of SquareTrade, Renovation in Music Education, Voxiva, and other groups.  Susan , a violist, lives in New York City .

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Doctorow, Cory

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a member-supported nonprofit group that works to uphold civil liberties values in technology law, policy and standards. He represents EFF's interests at various standards bodies and consortia, and at the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization. Doctorow is also a prolific writer who appears on the mastheads at Wired, Make and Popular Science Magazines, and whose science fiction novels have won the Campbell and Locus Awards and been nominated for the Nebula Award. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net). Born in Toronto , Canada , he now lives in London , England .

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Elin, Greg

Greg Elin is a research developer specializing in databases and interactive technologies. Since the early 1990's, he has helped large and small organizations articulate requirements and prototype new technologies. His experience in New York 's technology community ranges from NYNEX to dot.coms to non-profits. Since 1998, he has specialized in database and technology services. Mr. Elin has extensive experience working with institutional and distributed data.  He holds a Masters degree from the NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program and is currently possessed by the idea of intimate computing and developing a new kind of digital photo album.

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Forster, James

Since earning a B.S. degree in computer engineering from Rutgers University in 1976, I have worked in the computer industry, specializing in communication, networks and operating systems. After working for two Silicon Valley startups (Synapse Computers and Plexus Computers) that between them went through more than $50 million before failing I learned something about how startups should NOT be run.  I joined a different sort of company with two dozen employees, Cisco, in 1988.  I wrote Cisco's first OSI implementation in 1989 (at that time OSI was The Next Big Thing) and subsequently managed engineering development in various areas of router software, including routing protocols, network management, wide-area networking such as X.25, Frame Relay and ISDN.  Since 1993 I have helped determine strategy for new technologies such as ATM (at that time ATM was The Next Big Thing).  For three years I worked on the system architecture for Cisco's Cable Router program, which happily helped the cable companies beat the RBOCs in the US Broadband market.  I spent a year in the Content Networking group trying to understand the relationship between content and network infrastructure.  I'm quite interested in wireless networking but my day job these days is designing digital video networks for cable companies. I am an author of RFC-1613, X.25 Over TCP, and a Cisco Systems Distinguished Engineer.

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Fox, Dawn

Dawn is the Assistant to BigHook2004. Most recently she worked for the financial services company, American Skandia in Shelton CT where she developed the business processes and managed a team of analysts to create databases used for sales reporting and sales force compensation.  She became a subject matter expert on all the mutual fund products and was selected to design a web-based cross-product reporting system.  Prior to Skandia, Dawn used her Project Management skills in the high end residential interior design industry in Greenwich, CT.  Dawn is currently exploring where she can apply her passion for quality and creative-problem solving skills in an entrepreneurial environment. 

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Freeburg, Thomas A.

Tom recently 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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Frosst, Douglas

Douglas Frosst, Strategic Marketing Manager in Cisco's Thought Leadership group, is responsible for developing and delivering research, analysis and insight of interest to Cisco customers and partners, focusing specifically on Service Providers and economic issues of networks.  Douglas has held several additional Cisco roles.  As Product Line Manager, his initiatives led Cisco to #1 in access server market share.  His exploration of telephony services assisted with several acquisitions and post-closing integrations.  And he has been a contributor to Cisco's Service Provider marketing and strategy. Before joining Cisco, Douglas did marketing and product management at Gandalf Technologies and Eicon Technology.

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Geddes, Martin

Martin has spent the last three years working on a number of technology, product and business strategy projects for Sprint. The original reason for going to Kansas City (and there has to be a damn good one) was to define an application platform that would help Sprint escape the gaping maws of the Paradox Of The Best Network. Sadly the project was cancelled, the business unit dissolved, and the vision lost. Due to an administrative oversight Sprint forgot to include him in the 20,000 who enjoyed the subsequent benefits of headcount reduction, yet didn't actually assign him any real work. This void left him with too much time on his hands to think about stupidity and networks. The Devil always finds work for idle hands, and the result was the creation of Telepocalypse, a practitioner's view from the front line of telecom.

Prior to Sprint he lived and breathed the stupid network as an IT consultant at Oracle. Lingering on the resume are also various half-forgotten skills at programming and building big hairy IT systems for banks. Martin is also in possession of a certificate implausibly claiming he holds a degree in Mathematics and Computation from Oxford University .

Outside of work, he travels, hikes, cleans up after babies, and dreams up patentable ideas in the shower.

Martin is currently a refugee fleeing the benighted shores of telcoland, and is wondering what to do next.

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Googin, Roxane I.

Roxane operates a private investment strategy consultancy for high tech money managers.  Because her clients manage large sums, her interest is in longer-term, sector-scale transitions, as opposed to trading ideas.  In keeping with this longer-term outlook, her concerns of the past few years remain largely in place, although progress has been made since the 2000 bubble.  The overall concern is how valuations are impacted by the move from isolated islands of automation and functionality, as in separate client-server departmental-level business applications separated by narrowband voice-centric communications, to a unified end-to-end IP-based architecture that houses object-oriented, Web services based applications along with multimedia and VoIP as an upper layer.  As this consolidation takes place, entire industries as we know them will become features.  The term service provider is going to change.  Will they be Layer One commodity vendors, or Layer One through X (name it, Layer 3 (with MPLS and QoS), Layer 5 (Session level voice) or Layer 7 (offering entire applications in an ASP model)?  What are the long-term economics of bundling?  Does it just delay the inevitable price collapse?  Does owning transport as well as services give rise to a new class of monopolist that kills innovation like Microsoft did on the desktop?  Does separating the layers force public subsidies of a profitless essential service?  What services should move to the stupid network?  Should security go there, or does that become censorship?  How do me manage digital rights in this type of environment: does the pendulum swing to the users or the originators?

On a broader scale, the growth of the Internet and is associated information transfer is having a larger impact on the economy and society.  For instance, economics is the study of scarcity and allocation.  In a high-tech world where all the costs are borne up front, with practically infinite scalability after that, the economic feedback loop gets broken. For example, Intel has to spend $2B to build a fab these days.  That plant will take two years to ramp, then cost the same $1B/yr to run whether it makes a zillion chips per quarter or none.  The same goes for a big IP or optical network.  The same goes for software, especially open source.  What happens to pricing and capital allocation when the economic feedback loop is broken in this manner?  Is this a good or bad thing?

Finally, the Internet shrinks the world.  We are outsourcing manufacturing to China and software development to India .  What is the appropriate stance for us to take regarding our future?  Does this trend signal the end of U.S. economic world dominance?  Is there anything we can or should do?  While admittedly scary, is this trend good or bad?  What does the world look like in five years if we do nothing to alter this trend or do something to alter it?

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Gritton, Charles W. K.

I am the CTO of Hilllcrest Communications, a new startup working in the overlapping areas of media and telecommunications. My prior work history includes a stint as President and CTO of Broadsword Technologies, as the CTO for the NTG division at Tellabs, a Director of Portfolio Planning and Management for Tellabs corporate, an engineering manager at Bell Labs, now Lucent, and CTO/VP of Engineering at Coherent Communications (acquired by Tellabs).  I'm dedicated to what might be called the 'idiot savant' network as opposed to a walled-garden smart network or the transport-only stupid network and the products I've been involved with demonstrate that.

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Hassinger, Sebastian

Sebastian is currently the senior strategist for the Pervasive Computing initiative at IBM. He previously was strategist for the CTO of Tivoli and Tivoli 's Internet and Pervasive Management business units in the late 90's. At Apple he created one of the first corporate customer support sites using a stolen Sparcstation 10 and a pirated Sprint T1 (better to ask forgiveness...). He has written 6 technical books, opinion columns in Web Informant magazine, and holds several patents. He now splits his time 51percent in Westchester county, 51percent in Nova Scotia and whatever remains pursing an MBA at Columbia University .

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Hendricks, Dewayne L.

Dewayne Hendricks is CEO, of Dandin Group, Inc., a Fremont , California based company which does research and product development in the area of broadband wired and wireless data devices and services.  He is also a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Technological Advisory Council (TAC http://www.fcc.gov/oet/tac). 

Prior to that he was General Manager, Wireless Business Unit, for Com21, Inc.  Before Com21, he was Co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation Wireless Field Tests for Education project.  He was formerly the CEO and co-founder of Tetherless Access Ltd., which was one of the first companies to develop and deploy Part 15 unlicensed wireless metropolitan area data networks which used the TCP/IP protocols.  He has participated in the installation of these networks in other parts of the world such as Kenya , Tonga , Mexico , Canada and Mongolia . 

He has been involved with radio since his teens when he received his amateur radio operator's license.  He holds official positions for several non-profit national amateur radio organizations and is a director of the Wireless Communications Alliance, an industry group which represents manufacturers in the unlicensed radio industry.  Back in 1986 he ported the popular KA9Q Internet Protcol package to the Macintosh, which allows the Macintosh to be used in packet radio networks.  Today, thousands of amateur radio operators worldwide use NET/Mac to participate in the global packet radio Internet which has been developed and deployed by the amateur radio service.  More information on Dewayne is available at http://www.dandin.com and you can email him at dewayne@dandin.com.

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Isenberg, David S.

David S. Isenberg spent 12 years at AT&T Bell Labs until his 1997 essay, The Rise of the Stupid Network, was received with acclaim everywhere in the global telecommunications community with one exception -- at AT&T itself! So Isenberg left AT&T in 1998 to found isen.com, LLC (an independent telecom analysis firm based in Cos Cob, Connecticut ) and to publish The SMART Letter, an open-minded commentary on the communications revolution and its enemies.

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Jackall, Robert

Robert Jackall is Class of 1956 Professor of Sociology & Social Thought at Williams College , where he has taught for the last 28 years. He is the author of Moral Mazes: the World of Corporate Managers ( Oxford : 1988), Wild Cowboys: Urban Marauders & the Forces of Order (Harvard: 1997); Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy (with Janice M. Hirota) ( Chicago : 200); and the forthcoming Street Stories: the World of Police Detectives (Harvard: 2005). He is currently engaged in a field project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities called: The Demonics of Terror & Bureaucracy.

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Jackson, Donald

Don Jackson is Vice President of Advanced Telephony at Tellme Networks, where he works on enhancing the functionality and features of Tellme's connections to phone and data networks.  His responsibilities include the SIP version of the Tellme platform, and the development of communication applications for carriers and service providers.

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Johnston, Stephen

Stephen Johnston is a business development manager at Nokia Corporation.  Stephen joined Nokia in November 2003 as part of Insight & Foresight, a unit within Nokia's corporate strategy organization that analyzes future trends and disruptions affecting the converging digital industry, and concretizes their implications to Nokia. His recent projects have focused on peer-to-peer and Internet-related issues, social software, digital content and global macroeconomic and societal trends.

Before Nokia he worked on international trade and public policy issues for the European Commission, the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (http://www.tabd.com) and the Global Business Dialogue on eCommerce (http://www.gbde.org), and on Internet-related growth strategies for Bertelsmann AG and Siebel Systems Inc.

Stephen studied economics at the University of Cambridge and business at Harvard. He currently lives in Helsinki , Finland , maintains a rudimentary blog at http://sdbj.typepad.com, and sails whenever he can.

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Kamman, W. Stephen

Steve Kamman is an Executive Director covering Networking Equipment and Internet Infrastructure.  Previously, he was part of the large cap Telecom Services research team.  Before joining CIBC, Steve was in Corporate Development at MCI Telecommunications Corp. where he worked on acquisitions and new ventures with a focus on new data technologies. Steve also managed wireless strategy and spectrum auctions at Avantel, an MCI Joint Venture in Mexico .  Prior to MCI, Steve worked in the Telecom and Technology practice of Andersen Consulting's strategy consulting arm in New York and Melbourne , Australia .  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA Cum Laude in both Economics and History from Yale University .

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Kleiner, Art

Art Kleiner is a writer, educator, scenario planner and management/editorial consultant. He is the author of Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege and Success (Doubleday, 2003), praised by the Financial Times for its entertainment, erudition and lucidity. His previous book, The Age of Heretics (Doubleday/Nicholas Brealey, 1996), was a runner-up for the Edgar G. Booz award for most innovative management book. He teaches courses on writing for new media and scenario planning to graduate-level new media students at New York University 's Interactive Telecommunications Program. His website is http://www.artkleiner.com. He is editorial director of the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook project, columnist (on culture and change) for Strategy & Business, and director of research and publications for the Dialogos consulting firm in Cambridge , MA . At MIT's Center for Organizational Learning, Kleiner co-developed (with MIT researcher George Roth) a pioneering form of organizational storytelling, the learning history. He lives outside New York City .

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Lebkowsky, Jon

As CEO of Polycot Consulting, Jon Lebkowsky focuses on the architecture of web solutions and systems as environments for various forms of constructive social interaction. He's worked as a project manager, technology director, online community developer, and social entrepreneur. He's also known for his writing (mostly about culture and technology) and his involvement in various highly visible Internet projects over the last fifteen years. He was cofounder and CEO of one of one of the first virtual corporations, FringeWare, Inc. He's hosted several conferences on the WELL, worked as a writer and host at Howard Rheingold's Electric Minds, and moderated chat events at HotWired. In 1997 he joined Whole Foods Market to help coordinate the development of their Internet, intranet, and e-commerce initiatives over the next three years. He's written for publications such as Wired Magazine, Mondo 2000, 21C, Whole Earth Review, Fringe Ware Review, and the Austin Chronicle. His popular weblog is at weblogsky.com.

Jon is also President of EFF-Austin, a member of the Austin Free-Net Board of Directors and the steering committee for the Austin Clean Energy Initiative, and member of the steering committee for the annual South by Southwest Interactive conference. He just completed a research project on the economic impact of wireless telecommunications (Called Wireless Future) for IC², an Austin think tank associated with the University of Texas , and is currently editing a book on social technology and activism for O'Reilly Books.

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Lucky, Robert W.

Corporate Vice President, Applied Research, Telcordia; formerly with Bell Labs.

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Maffei, Andrew

Andrew Maffei is a communications specialist who has worked at Woods Hole for the past nineteen years, helping innovative oceanographers and engineers to use networks of all sorts to do their research.  His most recent work, NEPTUNE, is a collaborative project aimed at installing a multi-Gigabit Ethernet backbone around a tectonic plate, in 2500 meters of water off the west coast of the US and Canada.  This is being done to enable the long-term (30 year), multi-disciplinary study of a single chunk of ocean. He also runs a project called SeaNet that sporadically connects oceanographic research vessels to the Internet.

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Mardle, Earl

One Line Bio: In a Networked World, There Really Is No-one In Charge.

Earl Mardle is an independent consultant who has been described by one client as a “Global Thinker” with a strong focus on the ethical issues raised by Globalisation.
From a background of over 20 years as a current affairs broadcaster he moved to Community Access Radio and in 1996 founded and then managed the 2020 Communications Trust for the City of Wellington NZ.
Most of his work in the last decade has been focused on providing access to information technologies to underserved or specifically excluded communities. Since 2000 he has taught eCommerce at a variety of educational institutions in Sydney Australia and is the Information Manager for the Technology Empowerment Network, a global network of entrepreneurs whose technology, business and human resources are applied to Public Good projects around the world.
As an Education Category Juror and Co-ordinator for the Global Bangemann Challenge and Stockholm Challenge, and editor of 4 Challenge Finalists publications he is extremely well informed on the wide diversity of applications for ICT in contexts from the largest cities to the smallest off-grid villages. He has also been invited to the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Global Education Academy Awards of Education Founding Deans.

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Meskill, Judith

Principal & Founder, Meskill.net.  Using her broad facilitation, communication and management capabilities, Judith Meskill advises a wide range of clients in the Fortune 500, not-for-profit, high-tech and small & medium business sectors. As founder and principal of Meskill.net, a communications consultancy, she helps executives and their businesses connect through a combination of online and offline strategies.

Judith is a strategic advisor for business leaders, online training organizations, and a variety of virtual teams and communities. She is constantly investigating "what works and what doesn't work" in the evolving world of online social and knowledge networking practices and tools. As a workshop leader and coach she guides teams in the creation of Internet based business and learning systems.

Judith writes and maintains two weblogs on the topics of online collaboration, knowledge networking, and social media: Judith Meskill's knowledge notes..., and The Social Software Weblog. She will also appear in two upcoming books: The Power of Many: How the Living Web Is Transforming Politics, Business, and Everyday Life, by Christian Crumlish, and Stars of the New Order: What They're Telling Business Leaders, by Jerry Ash.

Judith brings both depth and breadth of experience to her engagements—from co-founding an Internet start-up company to playing a number of primary decision-maker roles in business marketing, public relations, information technology, project management, and Internet services. She frequently delivers presentations on the integration of social networking and personal knowledge management strategies into effective business practices.

Judith is a respected industry spokesperson. A few of Judith's past international speaker venues include—iDate, Internet World, KMWorld, Seybold San Francisco, and SUPERNOVA. She is quoted often in the major media, including the BBC Radio, the Guardian Unlimited, CIO Magazine, Computerworld, Telephony, Global Telephony, Software Magazine, USA TODAY, and Wired News.

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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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Norman, Richard

Richard Norman is Founder and CTO of Hyperchip. He has over 30 years of experience in the architecture of everything from user interface software and routing systems to ASICs and semiconductor architectures.  As CTO of Hyperchip, Richard led the development of the first scaled routing protocols and carrier-grade IP QoS.  Previously Richard had received the IBM technology division's highest award for innovation and had lead the development of the most popular strategy game at the U.S. national game players' convention.  A dynamic and accomplished speaker, Richard has presented or chaired sessions at over 25 conferences.  

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Noss, Elliot

Elliot Noss has been a leader in the Internet industry for nearly ten years and has been a driver in the evolution of Tucows Inc. for the last seven. Trained as a lawyer, he joined Tucows in 1997 as Vice President, Corporate Services. He was subsequently appointed president and CEO of Tucows Inc. in May 1999.

During his tenure, Tucows has grown to become a leading destination for Internet software and application downloads. In 2000, the company created the wholesale domain name registration market with the launch of the OpenSRS (shared registration services) platform. In August 2001, he helped orchestrate Tucows' merger with Infonautics, Inc., under the Tucows name. Since then, Mr. Noss has rapidly expanded Tucows wholesale services to offer digital certificates, DNS, and email services to a growing international Reseller channel.

He champions areas of vital interest to the Internet community including; privacy, ICANN reform and registrar matters, the implications of emerging technologies, and the emergence of small and medium-sized ISPs and web hosting companies as the unrecognized backbone of the Internet economy.

Mr. Noss chairs the University of Toronto 's Department of Computer Science Advisory Board and is a distinguished graduate of the University of Toronto where he earned a BA. He also earned an MBA and LLB from the University of Western Ontario .

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Odlyzko, Andrew

Andrew Odlyzko is Director of the interdisciplinary Digital Technology Center and an Assistant Vice President for Research at the University of Minnesota.  Prior to assuming that position in 2001, he devoted 26 years to research and research management at Bell Telephone Laboratories, AT&T Bell Labs, and AT&T Labs, as that organization evolved and changed its name.  He has written over 150 technical papers in computational complexity, cryptography, number theory, combinatorics, coding theory, analysis, probability theory, and related fields, and has three patents. The projects he has managed have been in diverse areas, such as security, formal verification methods, parallel and distributed computation, and auction technology.  In recent years he has also been working on electronic publishing, electronic commerce, and economics of data networks, and is the author of such widely cited papers as Tragic loss or good riddance: The impending demise of traditional scholarly journals, The bumpy road of electronic commerce, Paris Metro Pricing for the Internet, Content is not king, and The history of communications and its implications for the Internet.  He has an honorary doctorate from Univ. Marne la Vallee and serves on editorial boards of over 20 technical journals, as well as on several advisory and supervisory bodies.  His email address is odlyzko@umn.edu, and all his recent papers as well as further information can be found on his home page at http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko.

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Ortiz, Jorge

Jorge Ortiz is an entrepreneur involved in several startups:

- Interfibra.net Building FTTH communities in Mexican cities.

- RadioBus, MP3 based mass media for public transportation buses.

- Vozlibre.org, (in planning) Web based citizen media

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Paynter, Frank

Frank Paynter is the Founder and President of Sandhill Technologies, LLC, a small consulting firm.  Since opening for business in 1997, Sandhill has offered Frank as a consultant and project manager to a limited number of clients, including university, government, telco, non-profit, and financial institution executive management.  Frank's focus is on appraisal of large organizations' current conditions and planning and executing change in their internal networked communications and information technology services.

Frank is working on his first book, a compilation of interviews with bloggers that he has posted on his own weblog over the last three years. It's more a social and literary effort than a technical one and reflects his interest in people, writing, and the decades long growth of the use of computing technology in personal relationships.

Frank's BA (English and Economics) and MBA are from the University of Wisconsin - Madison .  His time-on-planet is a large enough number that the length of his bio could get really ridiculous.

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Pepper, Robert

Robert Pepper is Chief, Policy Development at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Formerly he was Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy (OPP). Under Pepper's leadership, OPP is responsible for policy questions that cut across traditional industry and institutional boundaries, especially those arising from the development of new technologies. At OPP, Pepper's responsibilities have included leading teams implementing provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; assessing the deployment of broadband technologies; assessing the development of the Internet and electronic commerce; developing the framework for digital television; designing and implementing the first spectrum auctions in the United States; developing more market-based spectrum policies; assessing competition in the video marketplace; and assessing the impact of the development of the Internet on traditional communications policy structures.  Before joining the FCC, Pepper was Director of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies. He also has been Director of Domestic Policies and Acting Associate Administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and developed a program on communications, computers, and information at the National Science Foundation.  He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also received his doctorate.

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Prytula, Richard

Richard Prytula is President and Founding Managing Partner of TechnoCap Inc. TechnoCap Inc. is a Canadian venture capital company with over $200 million of committed capital. TechnoCap’s investors include Bombardier Trust Canada, The Boeing Company, Bombardier Trust United Kingdom, Desjardins Pension Fund, the Solidarity Fund QFL Quebec, CDP Capital – Technology Ventures, the National Bank of Canada and TechnoAnge Inc.

TechnoCap invests in technology companies and is in the business of building technology companies.  Mr. Prytula is a member of the Board of Directors of various technology companies.

Prior to TechnoCap, Mr. Prytula was chairman, president & CEO of the LNS Group, a defence, aerospace and manufacturing group.  Mr. Prytula holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and an M.B.A. from the University of Western Ontario.

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Reed, David P.

Dr. Reed is, by inclination, a designer of large-scale systems structures and concepts - algorithms, protocols, architectures, business models, and processes.  His career includes 15 years as a student and professor of computer science and engineering at MIT, 10 years leading advanced commercial personal computer software innovation as V.P. R&D/chief scientist at Software Arts and Lotus Development Corp., 4 years as a senior scientist at Interval Research Corp., and 4 years as an independent technology strategy advisor and consultant to industry in areas related to computing and communications infrastructure and applications.  He is known for key early contributions to the architecture of the Internet in the '70's.  He has made major contributions to the design, implementation, and technology strategy of a variety of very successful commercial software and systems products.

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Ruell, Hartwig

Hartwig (nick name: Gandalf) studied physics at Munich University and got his PhD from Hamburg University. He worked in Siemens' corp.research in the 70s in advanced optics and artificial intelligence a swell as in pattern recognition. In the early 80s he joined Siemens' headquarters to work in corp.strategy. Then his hair became gray and thin as he spent 8 years in the semiconductor business. In 92 he joined Siemens' communications group to head strategy and M&A.

Since 2001, Gandalf is the senior adviser to Thomas Ganswindt, chairman of Siemens Communications.

Hobbies: designing and launching rocket powered airplanes, classical music, Chinese medicine, reading.

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Shirky, Clay

Prior to starting his own consulting practice, Mr. Shirky was Partner for Technology and Product Strategy at The Accelerator Group, an investment firm, and Professor of New Media at Hunter College, where he taught in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. Mr Shirky was the CTO of Site Specific, an NYC-based web design firm, and following its acquisition by CKS, worked as a writer, programmer, and consultant with CKS Group, News Corp, Barnes and Noble, iVillage, Ziff-Davis, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Eisnor Interactive and others. Before there was a Web, he wrote and edited books for Ziff-Davis Press, authoring a book on e-mail and another on network culture, and editing the first book written on HTML. Before that he was a director and lighting designer of avant-garde theater in New York City , working with the Wooster Group and directing his own company, Hard Place theater, which produced and performed non-fiction theater, pieces created in rehearsal from collages of found sources.

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Stansberry, Porter

Porter is the editor of Porter Stanberry's Investment Advisory, a monthly financial newsletter newsletter, and the founder of Pirate Investor, an independent financial publishing company.

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Stout, Theodore

Ted Stout is the co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of tedCities, a bypass local loop business providing fat pipe first mile solutions for technology and entertainment delivery.  He has over 33 years of international experience leading technological and economic innovation, building his broadly recognized strategic acumen on a foundation of operations management.  Ted's process breakthroughs are still in daily use at major corporations ranging from General Electric, Nortel Networks, United Technologies and Sun Microsystems. He has invented fourteen ground breaking sustainable business and technology platforms which have significantly increased operational productivity and created new markets, including the first (1973) global unified resource planning and delivery computing systems, integrating assets and sourcing management with CADD/CAM.

Ted brings superior skills in business development strategy, project and construction management, optimization and yield analytics, sourcing and supplier alliance management, security risk assessment, technology migration, product positioning, tactical implementation, and communications and public relations.  The focus of his work has included economic development, global supply chain and alliance development, logistics, trust and security, sourcing, and Infra-Services.  He is the founder of five design and technology companies, including the ROI Institute and tedCities.

Building on his deep operations experience, Ted invented the Corporate Infrastructure & ResourcesT (1989), Virtual Logistics NetworkT (1998) and Logistics Cities ServicesT business process models and their supporting technological frameworks, and is an advisor to numerous corporations, professional associations and regional economic development agencies.

Prior to founding ROI Institute in 1981, Ted directed GE Lamp's $2.4 billion global real estate and operating asset portfolio and capital development programs in excess of $390MM annually, managed a worldwide distribution and supply chain infrastructure, built over 14 million square feet of research, manufacturing, office and distribution facilities in the United States, Europe, Asia and Russia, directed global security and readiness activities, and managed a 28 million square foot real estate and asset base.

Mr. Stout is an active writer and lectures extensively on Corporate Infrastructure Management and new Business Ecosystems, the Canalization of Supply Chains, Building Real-Time Companies, Real-Time Logistics, and human performance in the office of the 21st Century.

Ted is the founder of Operation Save our Schools for Mankind public/private partnership, has won numerous awards for his furniture and architectural interior designs, and designed and built two homes.  Ted's family background is in architecture & urban planning, commercial construction and project management.  He was first introduced to computers at the tender age of 5 by his uncle, who worked on the Air Force's Strategic Air Command computer. Ted has been unduly affected ever since.

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Swartz, Aaron

Aaron Swartz is a teenage writer, coder, and hacker. He was a finalist for the ArsDigita Prize for excellence in building non-commercial web sites at the age of 13. At 14 he co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification, now used by thousands of sites to notify their readers of updates. He's a member of the W3C's RDF Core Working Group which is developing the format for the Semantic Web and Metadata Advisor to the Creative Commons. He's also the author of rss2email, xmltramp, HTML diff, and html2text.

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Vardi, Yossi

Dr Yossi Vardi is one of Israel 's early entrepreneurs, who, for 35 years, co-founded or invested in over 40 high-tech companies, number of them eventually went public. He was the founding investor and chairman of Mirabilis Ltd., the creator of ICQ, first general instant messaging on the internet and one of the most successful Internet startups of all times, with over 150 million registered users. The company was acquired by AOL, to whom Dr Vardi continues to serve as an advisor. Among his other numerous internet start-ups is Speedbit with 90 million downloads.

Dr. Vardi has had an extensive government career, serving, among other duties, as the Director General of the Ministry of Development and the Ministry of Energy, the chairman of the Israeli National Oil Company, and the chairman of the state's largest natural resources company - Israel Chemicals. He also served on the boards of numerous major state and private corporations boards including the Advisory Board of the Central Bank of Israel , the national Electric Company, Bezeq - Israel 's national telecom company, Scitex , Israel Refineries, and many others.

Dr Vardi participated in the peace negotiations with Jordan , Egypt , Syria , and the Palestinian Authority. He is the Honorary Chairman of the Board of the Jerusalem Foundation and a board member of numerous other organizations. A graduate of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, he earned his D.Sc with an award-winning thesis. Dr Vardi was awarded the Israel Hi Tech award for life achievements.

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Weinberger, David

The Wall Street Journal called him a “marketing guru.” He’s the co-author of the The Cluetrain Manifesto, the bestseller that cut through the hype and told business what the Web was really about.  His latest book, Small Pieces Loosely Joined has been published to rave reviews hailing it as the first book to put the Internet in it's deepest context. He’s a frequent commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. He’s written for the “Fortune 500” of business and tech journals, including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Miami Herald, The Boston Globe  and Wired. Journalists from The New York Times, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, InformationWeek and many more turn to him for insight. He is a columnist for Darwin Magazine  and Knowledge Management World, and writes an influential business technology newsletter and a daily “weblog.”

He was a philosophy professor for six years, a comedy writer for Woody Allen for seven years, a humor columnist for Oregon’s major daily newspaper, a dot-com entrepreneur before most people knew what a home page was, and  a strategic marketing consultant to household-name multinationals and the most innovative startups. He's got a Ph.D. in philosophy and has been appointed a Fellow at Harvard's prestigious Berkman Institute for Internet & Society.  He is also one of the most entertaining and acclaimed presenters around.

Dr. David Weinberger turns this remarkable range of experience and knowledge to the most important question facing every business today: How is technology changing the way my employees, partners and customers are putting themselves together, and how is that changing the basics of my business?  The answer will surprise you.

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Zuckerman, Ethan

My main affiliation is with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Berkman is a remarkable institution - it's sometimes described as a "do-tank", a think tank for folks who effect change as well as study phenomena. A number of my favorite people in the world of technology and international development hang their hats there and, as a result, it's a great place to explore activist and research ideas. I'm working on a number of projects there at the moment:

* Research on the Global Attention Gap - the tendecy of major media outlets to report more thoroughly on rich nations than on poor ones. My current project - Global Attention Profiles - gives graphical portraits of where different media sources are focusing their attention and demonstrates correlations between these distributions and economic and population statistics. I'm currently trying to determine, statistically, the differences between media attention in new media like blogs and traditional media.
* Blogging in the Developing World - I'm interested in helping people around the world build weblogs and contribute to the global dialogue taking place between webloggers. One project in this area is BlogAfrica, a project to help Africans learn about weblogs and to aggregate content from African weblogs. I'm also looking into anonymous blogservers for use by people in the human rights community, allowing human rights workers to blog about situations in their countries without compromising their security. I recently wrote about these issues in an essay titled "Making Room for the Third World in the Second Superpower", a reaction to an essay by my good friend Jim Moore called "The Second Superpower Rears Its Beautiful Head".
* Digital Democracy - Last fall, I helped lead a class at Harvard Law School called "Digital Democracy". I'm co-leading it again this fall, under the tutelage of Charlie Nesson. The class will attempt to address the question "What happens to goverment in a digital age?" from a number of perspectives. I plan to focus my teaching on the potentials and pitfals of eGovernment in developing nations and on "semantic democracy" - the ability of various different people to have their stories told in a digital age.

Geekcorps
Geekcorps was my main project until quite recently. It's an international non-profit organization that transfers tech skills from geeks in developed nations to geeks in emerging nations, especially entrepreneurial geeks who are building small businesses. In other words, it's a Peace Corps for geeks. I co-founded the organization in early 2000 with a number of friends who were interested in bridging the gaps between the geek world and the international development world. I've had the pleasure of leading teams of extremely cool people in North Adams, MA, USA; Osu, Accra, Ghana; Dakar, Senegal and Bamako, Mali. I stepped down from the organization in April, 2004.

Geekcorps succeeded several orders of magnitude beyond any reasonable expectation, yielding not only some great e-development success stories, but a cool ad for whiskey and occasional friendly words in the press. In August 2001, Geekcorps joined forces with the International Executive Service Corps, resulting in an organization the BBC refers to as "Geeks and Geezers". IESC now manages Geekcorps from its DC office.

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