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Benkler, Yochai

Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Since the 1990s he has played a role in characterizing the role of information commons and decentralized collaboration to innovation, information production, and freedom in the networked economy and society. His books include The Wealth of Networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom (Yale University Press 2006), which won academic awards from the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Association, and the McGannon award for social and ethical relevance in communications. In 2012 he received a lifetime achievement award from Oxford University "in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to the study and public understanding of the Internet and information goods." His work is socially engaged, winning him the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award in 2011, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for 2007, and the Public Knowledge IP3 Award in 2006. It is also anchored in the realities of markets, and was cited as "perhaps the best work yet about the fast moving, enthusiast-driven Internet" by the Financial Times and named best business book about the future in 2006 by Strategy and Business. Benkler has advised governments and international organizations on innovation policy and telecommunications, and serves on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofits engaged in working towards an open society. His work can be freely access at benkler.org.

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Bradner, Scott

Scott Bradner was 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 was theVP for Standards from 1995 to 2003 and Secretary
to the Board of Trustees from 2003 to 2016. Scott was also a member of the IETF Administrative
Support Activity (IASA) as well as a trustee of the IETF Trust from 2012 to 2016.

Mr. Bradner retired from Harvard University in 2016 after 50 years working in computers,
networking, security and identity management. He still does some patent related consulting.

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Cagle, Susie

Susie Cagle is a Columbia-trained journalist and self-taught illustrator covering economics, labor, and technology. She writes and draws regularly for the Guardian, ProPublica, New York Times, Forbes, and others. She's cartooned the Silk Road trial, federal narco-terror stings, the California housing crisis, and numerous problems with "the sharing economy." Along with editor Manjula Martin, she developed Who Pays Writers, a crowdsourced directory of pay rates and contract terms for freelance journalists at a time of great industry disruption and uncertainty. Susie is a 2016 John S. Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford, and she is currently working on an illustrated book about boom and bust economics in California.

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Copenhaver, Karen

Karen Copenhaver is listed in The International Who's Who of Internet & e-Commerce Lawyers, Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America and among the top 50 women Massachusetts Super Lawyers.  Ms. Copenhaver was named a 2013 “Top Woman of Law” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.  She was also named the 2016 Boston “Lawyer of the Year” for Information Technology Law by Best Lawyers, a designation she also received in 2013 for Copyright Law and in 2014 and 2012 for Information Technology Law, and has been named in The Legal 500 for technology transactions.  Ms. Copenhaver is only the 5th lawyer ever to receive Mass High Tech's prestigious “Mass High Tech All-Stars Award,” which honors the thought leaders and innovators throughout the New England technology sector.  She has been chosen by Intellectual Asset Management magazine as one of the world’s top IP strategists in their feature “IAM 250 — A Guide to the World’s Leading IP Strategists.”  She has also been named a top patent and technology licensing practitioner in IAM Licensing 250 and a world’s leading patent practitioner in IAM Patent 1000.  She has been recognized by Managing Intellectual Propertyas an “IP Star” and among the “Top 250 Women in IP” nationwide.

Ms. Copenhaver is also director of intellectual property strategy for the Linux Foundation.

Her practice focusses on business and technology transactions such as technology transfer and licensing of intellectual property, particularly in the areas of patent licensing and software licensing and open source business models.

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Crocker, Steve

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

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Doctorow, Cory

Cory Doctorow (at craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of the YA graphic novel IN REAL LIFE, the nonfiction business book INFORMATION DOESN'T WANT TO BE FREE and young adult novels like HOMELAND, PIRATE CINEMA and LITTLE BROTHER, and novels for adults like RAPTURE OF THE NERDS and MAKERS. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.

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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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Frischmann, Brett

Brett Frischmann is the 2016-2017 Microsoft Visiting Professor of Information and Technology Policy, Princeton University, and a Professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City, an affiliated scholar of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, and a trustee for the Nexa Center for Internet & Society, Politecnico di Torino. He teaches courses in intellectual property, Internet law, and technology policy. Frischmann has published important books on the relationships between infrastructural resources, governance, commons, and spillovers, including Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources (Oxford University Press, 2012), Governing Knowledge Commons (Oxford University Press, 2014, with Michael Madison and Katherine Strandburg), and Governing Medical Research Commons (Cambridge University Press, Winter 2016, with Michael Madison and Katherine Strandburg). Frischmann received his BA in Astrophysics from Columbia University, an MS in Earth Resources Engineering from Columbia University, and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center. After clerking for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practicing at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC, I joined the Loyola University, Chicago law faculty in 2002.

At Princeton, Frischmann will work on his next book, Being Human in the 21st Century: How Social and Technological Tools are Reshaping Humanity (Cambridge 2017), which he is co-authoring with RIT philosopher Evan Selinger. He will examine techno-social engineering of humans, various ‘creep’ phenomena (e.g., boilerplate, nudge, and surveillance creep), and modern techno-driven Taylorism, and he will develop a series of human-focused Turing tests to identify and evaluate when humans behave like machines.

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Gillmor, Dan

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

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

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Goldstone, Heather

Heather Goldstone is science correspondent for WCAI and WGBH Radio, and host of Living Lab, a weekly radio interview show about science and culture. She holds a Ph.D. in ocean science from M.I.T. and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her reporting about scientific and environmental issues on Cape Cod has appeared on NPR, PBS News Hour, The Takeaway, and PRI’s The World. She also hosted an NPR-sponsored blog, Climatide, exploring the impacts of climate change on coastal communities. She has twice been part of reporting teams that have won regional Edward R. Murrow awards. In 2014, she was recognized for the breadth of her reporting with WGBH’s Margret and Hans Rey/Curious George Producer award.

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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, an institutional investment advisory service focusing on disruptive technology changes. After 17 years of publication, as well as predicting the dot.com bubble, bust and the subsequent rise of cloud computing HTO is one of the oldest independent services on Wall Street. However, as cloud computing architectures increasingly commoditize the underlying infrastructure, including data transport, the focus of HTO has increasingly moved up the stack to more Techonomic observations. In this vein I observe how the co-evolution of technology and socio-economics increasingly influence one another. My current focus is on the rise of the Millennial generation, the first true digital natives, and how their deep mobile use and dependence on cloud services is impacting both behavioral norms as well as overall economics, starting with shopping and advertising but extending into the sharing economy. The current re-writing of economic behavior that started in retail and is currently extending into media and transport can be expected to ultimately subsume every aspect of our lives, but personal and business. In the mean time more staid industries and institutions ranging from health care to government and education are likely to be redefined.

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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Greco, Nicola

Nicola Greco is a Ph.D. student in the Decentralized Information Group at MIT. He writes and advances research on ways to re-decentralize the web, focusing on technical, political, and social aspects of decentralized systems both at MIT and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

He started writing code when he was very young. He was 14 when he started the petition “Linux in Italian Schools”, converting schools to use Open Source Software; 16, when he started the BuddyPress’ developers community - an open source platform for federated social networks; 17, when he made one of the first unofficial Twitter buttons (two years before they came out); 18, he wrote software for Social Network analysis used by Telecom Italia that awarded him two research grants. The latter was key for his exposure; all of a sudden he was traveling around Europe, gave a TEDx and appeared Italian Wired Top 10 under 25. He left his undergraduate college one year before graduation to join MIT.

He is now 22 and determined to work on re-decentralizing the Web - probably influenced by working at Mozilla and as a reaction to writing software for tracking people on social media.

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Greer, Evan

Evan Greer is campaign manager of Fight for the Future, an organization dedicated to expanding the Internet's transformative power for good. Its goal is to build a grassroots movement to ensure that everyone can access the Internet’s many resources affordably, free of interference or censorship and with full privacy. It's vision: a world where everyone can enjoy the basic freedom to express, create and connect online.

In addition, Evan is a radical genderqueer singer/songwriter. (S)he writes and performs high-energy acoustic songs that inspire hope, build community, and incite resistance! At 25 years old, Evan tours internationally as a musician and facilitates interactive workshops to support movements for justice and liberation. Wielding an arsenal of fiercely radical songs that vary in style from pop-punk poetry to foot-stompin’ bluegrass singalongs, Evan has been honored to collaborate, tour, and share stages with artists as musically diverse as Pete Seeger, Immortal Technique, Billy Bragg, Holly Near, and Chumbawamba. Evan's lyrics, stories, and analysis offer a challenging and empowering alternative to traditional discussions around social and environmental justice.

See more at: http://www.evangreer.org/bio/#sthash.dbkvcYEG.dpuf

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Grossman, Nick

Nick is a General Manager at Union Square Ventures, where he invests in new web & mobile platforms, works with USV portfolio companies, and leads USV’s efforts on public policy and regulatory issues that impact open innovation the health of the web.

Previously, he led an incubator for technology & media businesses at OpenPlans, which, among other things, pioneered the open311 web standard, founded the largest open source project in the public transit space, and built NYC’s real-time bus data platform.

Nick has present & past academic affiliations at the Berkman Center for Internet Society at Harvard Law School and at the MIT Media Lab, and is on the advisory boards of the Data & Society Institute, the Data-Smart City Solutions initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the Tumml urban ventures accelerator, Living Cities, and Code for America. He has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University and learned everything he knows about technology from people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two kids.

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Hallak, Shuli

Shuli Hallak is currently the EVP of ISOC-NY as well as a programmer, photographer and writer. For over a decade, she has photographed large scale infrastructure such as cargo shipping, coal mining, fracking, oil refineries, solar, geothermal and coal power plants, railroads, steel mills and highway construction. Recently, Shuli has been photographing the physical infrastructure of the Internet.

Her work has been published extensively in Fortune, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Businessweek, The Guardian, Slate, Orion, New Geographies, and many more.

While working on photographing the Internet, Shuli learned how to code in order to build out useful interactive visuals, such as an interface to the FCC database.

She recently joined ISOC-NY as VP where she has been programming events on user privacy. Shuli is partnering with Civic Hall to organize a Digital Privacy Summit scheduled for late Fall, targeting start ups that want to use a privacy centered business model rather than a data centered one.

Shuli received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and a BA in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis.

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Harihareswara, Sumana

Sumana is the founder of Changeset Consulting, providing project management services to open source software projects. Since 2007 she has been contributing to and leading open source software communities.

More generally, she's a programmer, technology executive and open source expert who practices and teaches technical and people skills. She's on LinkedIn.

She often gives public talks, including keynote addresses at conferences.

She lives in New York, New York in the United States of America. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science at the University of California at Berkeley and a master's in technology management at Columbia University, and participated in the Fall 2013 and Fall 2014 batches of the Recurse Center (formerly Hacker School). I have worked at Salon.com, Fog Creek Software, Behavior, Collabora, the GNOME Foundation, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

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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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Hunt, Phoebe

Like all troubadours, singer-songwriter Phoebe Hunt is a rambler.  Recent years have seen the Texas native relocate from Austin to Nashville to her current residence in Brooklyn. This wanderlust is evident in the variety of projects she is a part of, moving in and out of multiple styles and genres of music with an effortless grace.

You may find her performing completely solo, with her violin and her voice, drawing you into her memorizing vortex, or surrounded by a group of young musicians from all around the world as a part of The One Village Music Project, playing songs written and recorded at a program that Phoebe initiated out of her desire to play her role in healing the world with music.

Having collaborated and toured with such inspiring artists as Ben Sollee, Shakey Graves, The Belleville Outfit, and The Hudsons, Hunt is never one to turn down the opportunity to create a new sound or be a part of a musical experiment, but it is as a band leader that she truly shines. In her musical project, "Phoebe Hunt Sings the New American Songbook", Phoebe presents a unique show nodding to the jazz and swing roots from where she came, by singing her renditions of the classics. Featuring an all star band of unique talents (Nathaniel Smith: Cello, Dennis Ludiker: Violin, Dominick Leslie: Mandolin, Danny Levin: Piano, Nick Falk: Percussion, Andrew Pressman: Bass), this captivating performance also features Hunt’s original material infused with the nuances of the art form. 

Recenly, she has returned from a journey to India, wherin she and a group of her peers studied Indian Classical Music with master violinist Kala Ramnath.  She has returned to the states with a vigor for creation, and is currenlty recording her debut full length solo album, Shanti's Shadow.  To support this creation, Phoebe is reaching out to her network of peers, friends, family and fans alike as she independently releases the essence from her soul.

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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), to publish isen.blog, and to produce conferences such as F2C: Freedom To Connect.

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Jayaram, Malavika

Malavika Jayaram is inaugural Executive Director or Digital Asia Hub, an independent, non-profit Internet and society research think tank based in Hong Kong.

Malavika works broadly in the areas of privacy, identity, free expression and internet policy in India. A practicing lawyer specializing in technology law, she has a particular interest in new media and the arts, and has advised start-ups, innovators, scientists, educational institutions and artists. A Fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, she follows legislative and policy developments in the privacy and internet governance domains. For the last few years, she has been looking at he evolution of big data and e-governance projects in India – particularly the world’s largest biometric ID project – and their implications for identity, freedom, choice and informational self-determination. As a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, she will explore the business case for protecting privacy and free expression in India, in the context of big data projects and threats to internet freedom.

Previously, Malavika spent eight years in London with the global law firm Allen & Overy in the Communications, Media & Technology group, and as Vice President and Technology Counsel at Citigroup. She was one of 10 Indian lawyers selected for The International Who's Who of Internet e-Commerce & Data Protection Lawyers directory for 2012 and 2013. In August 2013, she was voted one of India’s leading lawyers - one of only 8 women to be featured in the “40 under 45” survey conducted by Law Business Research, London.

A graduate of the National Law School of India, she has an LL.M. from Northwestern University, Chicago, and is working towards a PhD in law. She is on the advisory board of the Indian Journal of Law & Technology and is the author of the India chapter for the Data Protection & Privacy volume in the Getting the Deal Done series. During 2012-2013, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, within the Center for Global Communication Studies. A former dancer, she also has a fetish for modernist furniture, a serious used bookstore habit and a chronic travel bug.

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Jones, Matthew L.

Matthew L. Jones is James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization in the Department of History at Columbia University. He specializes in the history of science and technology, with a focus on recent information technologies. He is researching Data Mining: The Critique of Artificial Reason, 1963-2005, a historical and ethnographic account of “big data,” its relation to statistics and machine learning, and its growth as a fundamental new form of technical expertise in business and scientific research. He is finishing a philosophical, technical and labor history of calculating machines from Pascal to Babbage. His publications include: “Improvement for Profit: Calculating Machines and the Prehistory of Intellectual Property,” in Mario Biagioli and Jessica Riskin, eds., Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present (Palgrave-MacMillan, forthcoming); The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2006); "Descartes's Geometry as Spiritual Exercise," Critical Inquiry, 28 (2001).

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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

Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy is the CEO and majority owner of OSIsoft. He is also the founder of Lit San Leandro, a project begun in 2011 that allows installation of a fiber optic loop through several areas of the City using existing conduit. Lit San Leandro offers an opportunity to revolutionize San Leandro's infrastructure, positioning the City to be a major player in the high-tech and clean-tech economies.

On March 2, 2012, Lit San Leandro went live, with the first piece of fiber being activated, connecting its first building to the fiber optic network.  The infrastructure for the complete loop is on schedule to be completed by Summer 2012.

Pat's other venture, OSIsoft, has grown from a small software startup in 1980 to a highly profitable global corporation. Prior to founding OSIsoft, Dr. Kennedy worked as a research engineer for Shell Development Company and as an applications consultant for Taylor Instrument Company.

Dr. Kennedy attended the University of Kansas where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. A registered professional engineer in control systems engineering, he holds a patent on a catalytic reformer control system. He co-authored a chapter of the book "Planning, Scheduling and Control Integration in the Process Industries," C. Edward Bodington, ed. (McGraw-Hill Co., 1995), and is the author of numerous papers.

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Leslie, Dominick

Colorado native Dominick Leslie has been around live music all his life, having attended his first bluegrass festival when he was just five months old. Growing up he was surrounded by music, listening to and jamming with his dad’s bluegrass band, and thanks to his Dad’s influence, he has been playing instruments since he was old enough to hold one. At the age of four, Dominick acquired a ukulele tuned like the bottom four strings of a guitar, igniting a deep passion for music that still burns brightly. Dominick’s abilities progressed rapidly on guitar, fiddle and mandolin, but eventually the mandolin became his obsession and demanded his total focus.

By the time he was 12, Dominick was writing his own music and practicing every day. At 15, he recorded his first solo CD, “Signs of Courage”, receiving rave reviews from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine, among others. Dominick’s technique and emotive style were far more advanced than his young age would suggest. In 2004, Dominick became the youngest contestant ever to win the Rockygrass mandolin contest. He also placed first in the Merlefest mandolin contest, and second in the Walnut Valley International Mandolin Contest.

Dominick was featured in Mike Marshall’s Young American Mandolin Ensemble. In October 2007, this elite group of seven young musicians was invited to perform with Mike at the Mandolines de Lunel festival in France.

Dominick has also had the unique opportunity to study with mandolin virtuosos David Grisman, Mike Marshall, Chris Thile, Don Stiernberg, Andy Statman, Mike Compton, and Hamilton de Holanda at the Mandolin Symposium. Over the years his bluegrass roots have evolved into interests in Jazz, Classical and other World music. These musical directions led him to enroll in the Berklee College of Music in 2008.

Dominick has been involved with many projects over the years including The Brotet, The Deadly Gentlemen, The Grant Gordy Quartet, Noam Pikelny & Friends and a few other spontaneous acoustic groups. Whether writing a new piece, learning a tune, or performing with his confreres, Dominick will always share his love of music with others.

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Livingood, Jason

Jason Livingood serves as Vice President of Internet Services at Comcast Cable, where he where he is responsible for Comcast's residential and commercial Internet Services architecture, engineering, and operations, as part of Comcast's technology+product team. This includes responsibility for Xfinity Internet, Xfinity Connect email, messaging and voice anti-abuse, IP voicemail, Internet quality of experience and performance measurement, company-wide DNS, congestion management systems, network management techniques, and Open Internet compliance. He also serves in a technical role for Comcast in Internet open standards, technology policy, and government affairs, and works closely with NBCUniversal on selected joint technical projects.

Jason joined Comcast in 1996 to help the company launch high-speed Internet services, and has also been instrumental in the creation and initial launch of Comcast’s business class Internet services, Xfinity Digital Voice service, Xfinity Home, and Xfinity WiFi.

He also served on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society (until this July), has several patents and patents pending in his field, is an active Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) participant that has written several RFCs, has recently served on a working group of the FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC), and has served as a member of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He holds a M.B.A., concentrating in Technology Management, as well as a B.S., Magna Cum Laude, from Drexel University.

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Lynch, Lucy

Lucy Lynch is Assistant Director for International Partnerships of NSRC, The Network Startup Resource Center, an organization that works directly with the indigenous network engineers and operators around the world who develop and maintain the Internet infrastructure in their countries and regions by providing technical information, engineering assistance, training, donations of networking books, equipment and other resources. The end goal of NSRC's work is to make it easier for local scientists, engineers and educators to collaborate via the Internet with their international colleagues by helping to connect communities of interest. 

Lucy was Director of Trust and Identity Initiatives for the Internet Society (2006-2014), Her assignment with ISOC was to examine some of the major issues affecting trust in the Internet and to develop projects and partnerships to help address those problems. Topics of particular interest included: federated identity, end user privacy and security, and technical mechanisms for enabling network trust.

Prior to joining the Internet Society, she worked at the University of Oregon as a member of the Academic Computing and Network Applications Group. Her assignments with the University included work with the Network Startup Resource Center (including acting as project Co-PI), the Oregon RouteViews Project, and the UO Multicast Team. In addition, she has been an active participant in both the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), she is currently serving as a member of the IAB privacy and Security Program, and has served as Chair of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) from 2003 to 2006.

Lucy was an undergraduate at the University of Oregon Honors College in the same class as David I.

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Lynn, Barry

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

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Maaia, Levi

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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Mak, Cayden

Cayden Mak is CTO at 18 Million Rising. Cayden builds technology and designs beautiful things to help build movement both online and off. Their work has long occupied the intersection of social justice and technology, whether it’s mapping responses to the Zimmerman verdict or punking the Gap for their international labor abuses. They are part of Changelab's core RaceLab, and their writing can be found in Civicist, The Grassroots Fundraising Journal, and other publications that concern themselves with people power and the internet.

Prior to 18MR.org, they taught intro media studies courses, organized marginalized academic labor, and contested corporate power at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. While in graduate school, they co-founded New York Students Rising, a network of student organizers working for justice and equity in public higher education in New York State. They also helped found Youngist, a young people-powered movement media network.

In their spare time, they try to stay up on critical theory, hang with their cats, and organize locally in Oakland, California to build community-designed affordable housing.

They’re particularly interested in understanding how technology shapes our collective political imagination, both online and off, the subject of their forthcoming MFA thesis from UB.

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Meijer, Roelof

Roelof Meijer is CEO of SIDN, the registry for .nl, The Netherlands' Country Code Top Level Domain. He joined SIDN in 2005, when he was tasked to professionalize SIDN and enhance its national and international position. Under his guidance, SIDN developed into one of the worlds largest, safest and most successful ccTLD¹s, with over 5,6 million domains registered, a turnover over EUR 20 million and 85 staff.

Meijer has extensive international experience in C level management, professionalization, strategic change and corporate restructuring. He serves on several boards, among which the board of the Netherlands Industry Body for the Digital Infrastructure Sector (DINL) and the board of the global Domain Name Association (DNA).

Previously, Meijer was Managing Director at PTC+, an international training organization operating training facilities and employing over 400 staff in The Netherlands. He joined PTC+ in 1996 as Director of one of its facilities and was later appointed as Managing Director of the group.

Before joining PTC+, Meijer lived and worked as engineer, project coordinator, technical consultant and government advisor on the African continent. He was employed by engineering company IMAG and later the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Zambia and Burkina Faso respectively.

Meijer holds a cum laude Masters degree in Engineering of Wageningen University. In his spare time he rides his Yamaha FJR1300 or, with his wife sails their SunFast37 off-shore.

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Michalski, Jerry

Jerry Michalski is the convener of REX, the Relationship Economy Expedition, a cohort of corporate leaders working together to navigate the massive wave of change breaking over us now.

The convening skills come from years of designing, hosting and facilitating events. Some were highly structured, like PC Forum ;and the Ten Year Forecast that IFTF creates every year, but most were much more loosely structured, building on Open Space, Scott Peck’s community-building ideas and Quaker Meeting. He’s also run a podcast since 2004.

The spaces Jerry creates for conversations are safe yet deep.

Jerry’s big-picture view was shaped through a dozen years as a technology industry analyst, after a few years with real corporate jobs at Mobil Oil and Price Waterhouse (before each was merged and renamed), but all strongly shaped by a dip into the brisk and fast-moving waters of systems thinking with Russ Ackoff at the Wharton School.

Stepping out of the technology bubble in 1998 to consult, Jerry began to see larger shifts at work. Combining his dislike of the word “consumer” with insights gleaned from disciplines ranging from media to education and government, Jerry realized in the early 2000s that we – all of us – are exiting the consumer mass-market economy and entering the Relationship Economy.

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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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Mohan, Ram

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

Before joining Afilias in September 2001, Ram held various leadership positions at Infonautics Corp., a pioneering online database and content distribution company. Ram is the founder of the award-winning CompanySleuth product, and helped architect Electric Library, a widely used reference database, and Encyclopedia.com. Ram is also founder of the technology behind TurnTide, an anti-spam company acquired by Symantec.

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

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Noss, Elliot

Elliot 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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Odlyzko, Andrew

Andrew Odlyzko is a Professor in the School of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota. He is engaged in a variety of projects, from mathematics to security and Internet traffic monitoring. His main task currently is to write a book that compares the Internet bubble to the British Railway Mania of the 1840s, and explores the implications for future of technology diffusion.

Between 2001 and 2008, he also was at various times the founding director of the interdisciplinary Digital Technology Center, Interim Director of the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, Assistant Vice President for Research, and held an ADC Professorship, all at the University of Minnesota. Before moving to Minneapolis in 2001, he devoted 26 years to research and research management at Bell Telephone Laboratories, AT&T Bell Labs, and AT&T Labs, as that organization evolved and changed its name.

He has written over 150 technical papers in computational complexity, cryptography, number theory, combinatorics, coding theory, analysis, probability theory, and related fields, and has three patents. He has an honorary doctorate from Univ. Marne la Vallee and serves on editorial boards of over 20 technical journals, as well as on several advisory and supervisory bodies.

He has managed projects in diverse areas, such as security, formal verification methods, parallel and distributed computation, and auction technology. In recent years he has also been working on electronic publishing, electronic commerce, and economics of data networks, and is the author of such widely cited papers as "Tragic loss or good riddance: The impending demise of traditional scholarly journals," "The bumpy road of electronic commerce," "Paris Metro Pricing for the Internet," "Content is not king," and "The history of communications and its implications for the Internet." He may be known best for an early debunking of the myth of Internet traffic doubling every three or four months and for demonstrating that connectivity has traditionally mattered much more for society than content.

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Pepper, Robert

Today Robert Pepper is at Aspen Institute as a ???. Formerly Robert Pepper led Cisco's Global Technology Policy team working with governments and business leaders 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 B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Rantanen, Matthew

Matthew R. Rantanen is the Director of Technology for the Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association (SCTCA) and Director of the Tribal Digital Village (TDV) Initiative that was started back in 2001 designing and deploying wireless networking to support the tribal communities of Southern California. Matthew, of Cree Indian, Finnish, and Norwegian decent, has been described as a "cyber warrior for community networking" and is considered an expert on community wireless networking. He is an advocate for net-neutrality, broadband for everyone, and opening more unlicensed spectrum for public consumption, always looking out for the unserved and under-served. Matthew helps the member tribes of SCTCA with technology development and strategy, from radio station applications to tribal administration computer purchases and solutions.

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

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

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

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

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

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Reed, David P.

David P. Reed is currently Chief Scientist at TidalScale, Inc. His 40 years of research and development activities have focused on designs for societal-scale computer and communications systems that manage, communicate, and manipulate information shared among people. Dr. Reed co-developed both the Internet design principle known as the "end-to-end argument" and Reed's Law, which describes the economics of group formation in networks. Prior to TidalScale, he was a Sr. VP at SAP Research exploring "big data" systems. At the MIT Media Lab, David led work on viral communications, exploring adaptive, scalable, evolving radio network architectures. David was also an HP Fellow at HP Labs. In 2005, he received the IP3 Award for his seminal work on Internet architecture. David has served on the Federal Communication Commission's Technological Advisory Council and other groups, advising the U.S. government on issues related to future communications technologies. He has consulted widely in the computer industry, has served as a senior research scientist at Interval Research Corporation, and was the vice president and chief scientist for Lotus Development Corporation. David was also the vice president of research and development and the chief scientist at Software Arts. He began his career as a professor of computer science and engineering at MIT.

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Saitta, Eleanor

Eleanor Saitta is a hacker, designer, artist, writer, and barbarian. She makes a living and a vocation of understanding how complex systems and stories 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 integration of technology into the lived experience, the humanity of objects and the built environment, and systemic resilience and conviviality.

Eleanor is the Security Architect for Etsy.com. She is also a member of the advisory boards of the International Modern Media Institute, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Geeks Without Bounds (GWoB), the IFTF Governance Futures Lab, and the Calyx Institute, and is part of the Trike and Briar/Bramble software projects.

Prior to this, she provided security architecture and strategy consulting to high-risk, specifically-targeted news organizations, NGOs, and software teams like Mailpile and Commotion. As Principal Security Engineer at the Open Internet Tools Project (OpenITP), she directed the OpenITP Peer Review Board for open source software and worked on adversary modeling. She has also had a long career in the commercial security consulting space and co-founded the Constitutional Analysis Support Team (CAST) and the Seattle-based Public N3rd Area hackerspace.

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

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Schneier, Bruce

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by the Economist. He is the author of 14 books -- including the New York Times best-seller Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and blog "Schneier on Security" are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project, and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org. He is also a special advisor to IBM Security and the Chief Technology Officer of Resilient: an IBM Company.

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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).

He is currently at work on a book titled The Biggest Boycott: People vs. Advertising. Some of it will leverage what he has already written in his Adblock War Series <http://j.mp/adbwars>. It has two subjects: 1) ad blocking and tracking protection, now comprising a boycott by about half a billion people worldwide; and 2) what will happen as individuals continue to assert both independence from companies spying on them and leadership toward a world where personal privacy is both respected and to the advantage of all concerned.

In the book Doc will argue that ad blocking and tracking protection comprise the largest-ever expression of agency and independence by individuals on the Internet, but only the first step toward more functional markets and social movements, both built on increased agency and independence for individuals. His case is based on actual work already going on, especially in regions with strong privacy laws, such as Europe and Australia. This should all be relevant to this year’s focus at BigHook.

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-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. With CITS he studies the Internet as a form of infrastructure, and continues work toward The Giant Zero, a planned book he vetted at BigHook 2015.

Doc also continues to lead ProjectVRM, which he started at Berkman in 2006 and is now a worldwide community fostering development of tools and services that make individuals both independent of silos yet better able to engage with them. Ad blocking and tracking protection are two examples of that work.

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 65,000 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. While at BigHook, Doc shoots a lot. All those photos go to David.

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Seltzer, Wendy

Wendy Seltzer is Strategy Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), improving the Web's security, availability, and interoperability through standards. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded the Lumen Project (formerly Chilling Effects Clearinghouse), helping to measure the impact of legal takedown demands on the Internet. She seeks to improve technology policy in support of user-driven innovation and secure communication.

Wendy has been a Fellow with Yale Law School's Information Society Project, Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy and the University of Colorado's Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. She has taught Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Antitrust, Copyright, and Information Privacy at American University Washington College of Law, Northeastern Law School, and Brooklyn Law School and was a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute, teaching a course at the Said Business School. Previously, she was a staff attorney with Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and First Amendment issues, and a litigator with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel. She serves on the Advisory Board of Simply Secure; served on the founding boards of the Tor Project and the Open Source Hardware Association, and on the boards of ICANN and the World Wide Web Foundation.

Wendy speaks and writes on copyright, trademark, patent, open source, privacy, web security, and the public interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School, and occasionally takes a break from legal code to program.

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Smith, Steve

Steve Smith is the founder of Ampersand, a leader in the use of cloud-based infrastructure to provide communication enablement APIs for enterprise contact centers. Ampersand delivers highly-scalable, secure and reliable call origination/termination, conferencing, IVR, and call recording services for customers including Ontario Systems, the market share leader in accounts receivable management and healthcare revenue cycle management software and solutions. Previously, Steve was CTO of Lavalife, where he architected and managed a hosted VoIP IVR product for 600,000 paying subscribers generating 50 million MOU/month, a web product with 6 million active subscribers, and a mobile platform. Steve also serves as a Managing Director for Boston investment bank Dunn Rush & Co, where he advises on transactions of privately-held mid-market technology companies.

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Traynor, James

James created his first web page in 1995, and later earned his BA in Social Science from New College at University of Alabama. In 2002 he joined Free Speech Media LLC (a Voqal company) to manage online ventures, coordinate Free Speech TV’s first on-air pledge drive, and facilitate deployment of the FSTV satellite affiliate network to over a hundred US public-access channels. A Voqal Director since 2009, James performs web development and consulting in Memphis, with dreams of unlimited bandwidth for all.

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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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Vasile, James

James Vasile has fifteen years experience as a user, developer, advocate and advisor in the free and open source software world. His expertise is in software licensing and community-building, as well as non-profit and small business startup. He focuses on free software and open source production, although his work and interests often take him far beyond the world of software. Much of what James does involves teaching people how to build successful businesses around free software and ensuring licensing alignment in multisource FOSS stacks.

In addition to his work with OTS, James is the founding Director of the Open Internet Tools Project. He is also a founding member of the board of Overview Services, which makes open source software that powers Pulitzer-winning data journalism.

Previously, James was a Senior Fellow at the Software Freedom Law Center, where he advised and supported a wide range of free software efforts.

A former Director of the FreedomBox Foundation, James remains active in several technology development efforts. His FreedomBox work has been recognized by an Innovation Award at Contact Summit 2011 as well as an Ashoka ChangeMaker's award for Citizen's Media.

James frequently speaks and writes about technology trends and free software. His FreedomBox talk at Elevate Festival, for example, has been received well, and his writing on FOSS project managementand work on extension licensing and derivative workshave been widely read.

James was a founding board member of Open Source Matters, the non-profit that supports Joomla. He began his career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. You can learn more about him from his LinkedIn profile.

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Wagter, Herman

Herman Wagter is currently program manager at Connekt, a foundation aimed at developing smart infrastructure (mobility, connectivity) in public-private partnerships. He is member of the investment committee of the regional development company for NoordBrabant, a province of the Netherlands, specialised in FttH investments.He was the fiber evangelist for GNA (Citynet Amsterdam) and analyst at Diffraction Analysis. He has been involved in Citynet from its inception, as the Program Manager. He has worked as an independent entrepreneur since 2001 on complex transitions. His work ranges from FttH (architecture, regulatory aspects, advanced services business models), to sustainable mobility.

He holds a MSc. Degree and has 30 years of experience in various senior management positions in international companies, ranging from high-tech to services. He has an passion for investigating the drivers of the change we are experiencing, and how to start and influence movements that bring change: small and bigger. On the latter subject he is writing a book together with Jean Russel, BH attendee.

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Weinberger, David

David Weinberger writes about the effect of the Internet on our ideas. He has a Ph.D. from University of Toronto, and is a senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. For almost five years he co-directed Harvard's Library Innovation Lab.

He is the co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto (updated, with Doc Searls, here), and the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Everything Is Miscellaneous, and Too Big to Know. David has written many times for Harvard Business Review and Wired, and his work has appeared in journals as diverse as Scientific American, TheAtlantic.com, Science, The Chronicle of Higher Ed, Salon, Smithsonian, USA Today, and TV Guide. He has been a frequent NPR commentator, is a columnist for several journals and sites, has been an advisor to presidential campaigns, was a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. State Department 2009-2011, and was a journalism fellow at the Harvard Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy in 2015 where he wrote about the rise of news media open platforms.

David is currently working on a book about an epochal change in our paradigm of how the future works. He blogs at Joho the Blog and tweets as @dweinberger.

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