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Baller, Jim

Jim Baller is the president of the Baller Stokes & Lide, PC, a national law firm based in Washington, DC.  The Firm specializes in community-driven communications matters of many kinds. His clients include national, state, and regional associations, local governments, public power utilities, and  other public and private entities in more than 35 states. He was a founder and president of the US Broadband Coalition, a broad consortium of more than 160 associations, consumer groups, communications service providers, and high technology companies that advocated the development of a national broadband strategy for the United States.  He was also the co-founder and is president of the 500-member Coalition for Local Internet Choice, which works to preserve and protect local decision-making in critical broadband infrastructure matters.  

The Fiber to the Home Council has called Jim "the nation's most experienced and knowledgeable attorney on public broadband matters," and MuniWireless has called him "the foremost legal expert on U.S. public broadband matters." In 2001, NATOA made him its Member of the Year. In 2006, MuniWireless awarded him its first "Esme Award," for "working tirelessly to protect the interests of municipalities, many times in the face of huge opposition." In 2007, NATOA named Jim its first "Community Broadband Visionary of the Year," for "almost single-handedly putting the issue of the need for a national broadband strategy to the forefront of public consciousness." Also in 2007, Washingtonian Magazine listed Jim as one of Washington's "Best Lawyers" (defined as the top one percent). In 2009, Ars Technica included Jim on its list of 25 Top Names in Tech Policy, and FiberToday named him its "Person of the Year." In 2012, he received the FTTH Council Chairman's Award "for his relentless promotion and pursuit of community broadband and of faster networks for everyone. His efforts have paved the way for the deployment of all-fiber networks across the country."  In 2016 and 2017, Super Lawyers included Jim in its Washington DC Super Lawyers list, and American Registry included him in its list of America’s Most Honored Professionals.  

Jim is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Cornell Law School. He is a member of the Bars of the Supreme Court of the United States; the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal for the Federal, District of Columbia, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Circuits; and the courts of the District of Columbia. He holds Martindale-Hubbell's highest AV rating.

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Bradner, Scott

Scott Bradner 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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Cherry, Barbara

Barbara A. Cherry is Professor, formerly in the Department of Telecommunications, and now in the Media School at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Her research is primarily focused on evaluation of deregulatory policies, governance structures, international comparative analysis of infrastructure industries, and framing of analyses from a complexity theory perspective.  Dr. Cherry’s research reflects an interdisciplinary academic background integrated with policymaking experience in the telecommunications industry and government, having held positions at the FCC, the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law at Michigan State University, Ameritech and AT&T.  Since 2008, Dr. Cherry has been a member of the Board of Directors of the International Telecommunications Society.  In 2017, she became a member of the Internal Board for the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, which focuses on the study of governance as it relates to a variety of research areas.  Dr. Cherry holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Northwestern University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.A. in Economics and Law from Harvard University while recipient of a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Economics, and a B.S. with Highest Honors in Economics from the University of Michigan. 

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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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Dunn, Alix

Alix Dunn is founder and Executive Director of The Engine Room, an international non-profit organization that helps activists, organizations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact in promoting equality, justice, human rights, good governance and accountability. Alix leads The Engine Room's organizational development, strategy, and fundraising.

Alix spent the better part of the past 6 years pouring everything into building up and recruiting the team at The Engine Room. Previously, she worked in the human rights community in Egypt from 2009 until 2013. She sits on the Advisory Council of Open Technology Fund, and the Technology Advisory Council of Amnesty International. She plays a mean game of chess.

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Farber, David J

David Farber was the Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy at the School of Computer Science (SCS)  Carnegie Mellon University with secondary appointments at the Heinz School and EPP prior to his retirement. He is now the Adjunct Professor of Internet Studies in SCS and Adjunct Professor in EPP. In addition he is a Visiting Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stevens Institute of Technology.

In 2003, he retired from the University of Pennsylvania where he holds the Alfred Fitler Moore Emeritus Professor of telecommunications with appointments in the Engineering School and the Wharton School. . His background includes positions at Bell Labs, the Rand Corporation, Xerox Data Systems, University of California at Irvine and the University of Delaware.

From 2000 to 2001, he served as Chief Technologist for the Federal Communications Commission. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center), ISC (Internet Systems Consortium) and the Stevens Institute of Technology.

Prior to his appointment to the FCC, he served on the U.S. Presidential Advisory Committee of Information Technology.

He was awarded the Sigcomm Award for life long contributions to communications and Philadelphia’s John Scott award for Contributions to Humanity as well as an Honorary Doctorate from Stevens and a Pioneer of the Internet Society Hall of Fame.

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Frischmann, Brett

Brett Frischmann is the new Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics at Villanova University. In this new role, Brett will promote cross-campus research, programming and collaboration; foster high-visibility academic pursuits at the national and international levels; have the ability to teach across the University; and position Villanova as a thought leader and innovator at the intersection of law, business and economics.

Brett is 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. Previously, he was the 2016-2017 Microsoft Visiting Professor of Information and Technology Policy, Princeton University, and a Professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City where he taught courses in intellectual property, Internet law, and technology policy. 

Brett has published 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, August 2017, 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, he joined the Loyola University, Chicago law faculty in 2002.  

His next book is Re-engineering Humanity (Cambridge Feb/Mar 2018), which he is co-authoring with RIT philosopher Evan Selinger. The book examines techno-social engineering of humans, various ‘creep’ phenomena (e.g., boilerplate, nudge, and surveillance creep), and modern techno-driven Taylorism.

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Gillmor, Dan

Dan Gillmor teaches 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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Gonick, Lev

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

Lev Gonick is Arizona State University's new Chief Information Officer. He will lead ASU's University Technology Office (UTO), which is responsible for providing technology services and support to ASU’s more than 72,000 on-campus students, 28,000 online students and 15,000 faculty and staff. 

Previously, Lev was CEO at DigitalC, charting the course to civic tech collaboration through technology leadership, data-driven solutions, and place-based activation. Digital C is a civic tech collaboration that partners with communities (mostly in Ohio) to design technology-driven programs and services to create smarter, more connected and more inclusive communities. 

Lev was a co-founder (in 2003) and CEO (2013-2015) of OneCommunity, the award-winning organization enabling innovation, collaboration and productivity through next generation broadband networks.

From 2001 to 2013, Lev was Chief Information Officer at Case Western Reserve University, where he and his colleagues were internationally recognized for technology innovations in community engagement, learning spaces, next generation network projects, and organizational development. Lev's innovations, including the Case Connection Zone, catalyzed national initiatives such as US Ignite, launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Planning, and Gig.U, an effort of more than two dozen research universities to drive a broadband upgrade for America.

Inside Business magazine named Lev to its Power 100 list in 2015, and Government Technology recognized Lev as one of the "Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers in Public-Sector Innovation" in 2011. That same year, Crain's Cleveland Business named Gonick one of its "10 Difference Makers" in Northeast Ohio, and Broadband Properties honored him with a Cornerstone Award for "using fiber to build an inclusive society and empower individuals." In 2010, he was honored as "Visionary of the Year" by the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors. Lev has been recognized by ComputerWorld as a Premier 100 IT leader and by CIO magazine with a CIO 100 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 investor advisory focusing on disruptive technology.  Her focus uniquely encompasses the entire technology stack from semiconductor fabrication to “Techonomic” behavior describing how new technology adoption impacts socioeconomics in a co-evolutionary manner.  This means keeping up with the latest in subjects ranging from interest rates, to EUV efficacy in 7nm semiconductor fabrication to trends in social media, retail and IoT.  The current focus encompasses how the end of Moore’s Law combined with high technology saturation is leading to a stagnation of the mobile Internet while giving rise to the machine learning clouds and IoT.  This architectural change, in turn is leading to a severe corporate restructuring among legacy vendors ranging from industrial manufacturers and retailers to (hopefully) soon banks and health care.  We note that Telcos are not immune.  The impending impacts of quantum computing and blockchain technology are next on the watch list.

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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Greer, Evan

Evan Greer is a transgender activist and musician based in Boston. She's the campaign director of Fight for the Future, the viral digital rights group known for organizing the largest online protests in history from the SOPA Blackout to the recent Internet-Wide day of action for Net Neutrality. Evan tours internationally as a speaker and performer and has collaborated with artists like Pete Seeger, Talib Kweli, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Billy Bragg, Amanda Palmer, Ted Leo, and Against Me. Evan writes regularly for The Guardian, TIME, Newsweek, and HuffPost, has been a guest on All Things Considered and Good Morning America, and is a regular commentator on issues of tech policy, LGBTQ rights, and civil liberties.

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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 the Executive Director of the Internet Society, NY Chapter, where she is in charge of programming and events. Her focus is on helping end users understand digital privacy and making sure that the Internet remains a beneficial resource for those who use it as well as those who build on top of it. As ED, Shuli has been working closely with leading technology companies on Digital Preservation and ensuring that the data we create today remains accessible to us in the future. 

Prior to ISOC, Shuli was a professional photographer specializing in large scale infrastructure. She has photographed cargo ships, oil rigs, coal mines, power plants, and contraband in Dubai. Her work has been published extensively in Fortune, The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and many others.

Shuli's work on the Internet was profiled in Fast Company in December 2014 here: https://www.fastcompany.com/3026171/invisible-networks-one-womans-fantastic-quest-to-photograph-the-living-internet

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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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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 is the inaugural Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub. Prior to her relocation to Hong Kong, she spent three years as a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, focused on privacy, identity, biometrics and data ethics, and 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. While a partner at Jayaram & Jayaram in India previously, 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 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, Malavika has an LL.M. from Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago. She taught India’s first course on information technology and law in 1997, and as Adjunct Faculty at Northwestern more recently: part of the Master of Science in Law program bridging STEM subjects and the law. She has been a Fellow with the Centre for Internet & Society, India, since 2009 where she helped start their privacy program. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and has had fellowships at the University of Sydney and the Institute for Technology & Society, Rio de Janeiro. She is on the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and the Executive Committee of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems.

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Jones, Matthew L.

Matthew L. Jones teaches at Columbia. Right now, he’s writing about the history of the data sciences, communications surveillance agencies and the places they meet. He recently published the first account of how hacking for snooping around became legit internationally (The spy who pwned me), the centrality of database infrastructure for understanding data mining, including Google’s pagerank, and a book, Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage (Chicago)

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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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Korn, Tamar

Tamar Korn is a vocalist who pays melodic homage to jazz, bluegrass and folk music from the 1920s and 1930s. She grew up in a conservative Jewish household and was classically trained on the piano. When she inherited her grandmother's collection of Ella Fitzgerald records at age 16, jazz came alive for her. In college she studied experimental theatre and expanded her vocal abilities. She moved to New York City in 1999 and played with The Cangelosi Cards, an early inspiration for New York City's traditional jazz revival. More recently she's started her own group, A Kornucopia. She also sings with The Brain Cloud, a western swing band, and she frequently tours with such groups as The Jim Kweskin Band, The Squirrel Nut Zippers and The Mark O'Connor Band. As you'll see, she doesn't just sing, she calls down the music and channels it. Her work has taken her to India, Canada, France, Lithuania, China, and, as frequently as possible, Woods Hole.

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Lichtman, Dennis

Originally from Boston, MA and currently living in New York City, Dennis Lichtman is a multi-instrumentalist (mainly clarinet, fiddle, and mandolin) who is deeply entrenched in early- to mid-1900’s American music, from traditional jazz and swing to bluegrass and western swing.

Since 2007, Dennis has been the clarinetist and bandleader of the famed Tuesday night traditional-jazz jam session at Mona's in downtown New York, which was profiled in the New York Times, and has been described by the Wall Street Journal as "ground zero for an emerging late-night scene of young swing and traditional jazz players.”

Lichtman will release two new albums in 2017: Queens Jazz – A Living Tradition, and The Brain Cloud: Live at Barbès.”  The former features nine original compositions inspired by the migration of jazz legends into the borough of Queens, NY in the 1920’s and 1930’s.  The latter documents a Monday night residency in Brooklyn, which Lichtman’s western swing sextet, The Brain Cloud, has held down for five years.

Lichtman has performed at Carnegie Hall, major festivals throughout the United States, and on stages in Europe, Brazil, and China.  He is on the faculty of the Welbourne Traditional Jazz Music Camp in Middleburg, VA, and has led college master classes and public school workshops through the Midori Foundation, Lincoln Center’s Meet The Artist Series, and Beijing’s Ping-Pong Productions.

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Livingood, Jason

Jason Livingood serves as Vice President of Technology Policy & Standards at Comcast. He helps serve as the public face of Comcast’s Internet services and network, both to governments and regulators, as well as to standards forums and other groups. As part of this role, he coordinates Comcast’s efforts to do things including (1) develop open standards such as at the IETF, (2) spur R&D such as via leading the Comcast Innovation Fund and engaging with universities around the world to conduct research of interest to Comcast, (3) apply research and standards to initiate new network and services’ concepts and (4) engage with governments, regulators and other external key stakeholders.

Jason joined Comcast in 1996 to help the company launch high-speed Internet services, and has also been instrumental in the creation and launch of Comcast’s business class Internet services, Xfinity Digital Voice, Xfinity Home, Xfinity WiFi. He has held a wide range of roles in the company, including in architecture, engineering, operations, software development, DevOps, and product management.

Jason has several patents and IETF RFCs in his field, and currently serves on the BITAG, the FCC’s CSRIC, and the board of the Open Connectivity Foundation. He has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, ICANN’s SSAC, and other industry groups. He holds a M.B.A., concentrating in Technology Management, as well as a B.S. 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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Mak, Cayden

Cayden Mak is Executive Director at 18MillionRising.org, an online hub for Asian American social movements. In their previous role as Chief Technology Officer, they were the driving force and product manager behind VoterVOX, a community-designed matching tool to help find personalized volunteer translation assistance for limited English proficient voters. 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 completed coursework towards a Master of Fine Arts, 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, and Youngist, a young people-powered movement media network. 

In their spare time, they try to stay up on critical theory, organize locally in Oakland, California to build community-designed affordable housing, and contributing to organizing the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, MI.

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McNichol, Dan

Dan McNichol is an author-journalist who has written books and articles on mega construction projects in the United States and around the world.

McNichol recently completed a year long national media tour in a 1949 Hudson that advocated for the rebuilding of the nation’s vital civic systems with the tag: “America’s infrastructure is as old, rusty and energy defunct as this original Detroit lead-sled.” McNichol’s 33 state, 12,000 mile circumnavigation of the United States culminated in a successful Texas ballot initiative that's estimated to be over a billion dollar annual addition to transportation spending in the Lone Star state. Texan voters approved the measure by over 80%. McNichol worked on the landslide with funding and support from the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) and the Texas Good Road’s Association.

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) named McNichol as one of nation’s outstanding journalists in 2014 and previously in 2003. He is the recipient of the Robert F. Boger Award for outstanding construction writing for his chronicling of the catastrophic I-35W bridge collapse. His writing and work have appeared in many publications including: The New York Times, USA Today, and Engineering News Record (ENR). He was honored with a PhD in Engineering and Technology for his publications and his contributions to the engineering and construction industries.

A former White House Appointee, he served the President of the United States on transportation and Infrastructure policies. Immediately following his service to The White House McNichol was a chief spokesperson for one of the nation’s largest civil projects known as The Big Dig.

McNichol is a frequent contributor to worldwide media outlets including: ABC World News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) network, China Central Television (CCTV), TV Tokyo, MSNBC and PBS’s The NewsHour, National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, History Channel and a frequent voice on National Public Radio (NPR).

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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 on a quest to deepen our understanding of trust: how society lost trust in the average human, how that’s affected our world and how we’re earning it back. He believes trust is the new differentiator, especially in today’s global trust implosion.

He’s building a platform for this quest on Patreon, which is like Kickstarter but for ongoing patronage (and yes, he’d love your support, even at $1/mo.). Several of you are already backing him, for which he thanks you profusely.

Long ago on a planet far, far away Jerry helped Esther Dyson write the newsletter Release 1.0 (now archived here) and run the conference PC Forum. In the middle of that period, two significant things happened: he realized he hated the word “consumer,” and he adopted a mind-mapping app called TheBrain. Now he curates the world’s largest published mind map.

In 2010 Jerry founded REX, the Relationship Economy Expedition, a cohort of corporate leaders working together to navigate the massive wave of change breaking over us now. He loves convening and facilitating and invented Jerry’s Weekend Retreat in 1996. In 1984, his inboard brain was blown by taking courses from Russ Ackoff at Penn.

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Miloshevic, Désirée

Désirée Zeljka Miloshevic is the Internet Public servant and works out of Europe for Afilias Plc, a global domain name registry.

She served as the Special Advisor to the United Nations Internet Governance Forum Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group Chair, MAG, 2006-2009, as Secretary of the Board for Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility from 2004-2007; Creative Commons UK 2004- 2006; the Irish ENUM Forum Policy Advisory Board 2005-2007 and ICANN EU Regional At-large Organisation (2006-2012).

She serves on the board of Internet Society (2004-2010); (2012-2019); Share Foundation (www.labs.rs) and Advisory Council of Open Rights Group UK. She chairs the board of Domen JV, a registry for .ME. She spent 2 years 2008 and 2012 at the Oxford Internet Institute researching Internet governance institutions processes and the topic of trust.

As of 2015 she runs descon.me – an annual multidisciplinary 48 hours hackathon unconference in Belgrade, which builds capacity and awareness of security issues around the Internet of (broken) Things, Personal data, robots and wearables.

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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Pepper, Robert

Robert Pepper leads Global Connectivity and Technology Policy at Facebook, joining the company in 2016. He was formerly Vice President for Global Technology Policy at Cisco. He is responsible for the international aspects of Facebook's advanced technology policy, working in areas such as broadband, IP enabled services, wireless, security and privacy and ICT development.

At Cisco, Pepper worked 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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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 was until recently the security architect for Etsy, Inc., and is available as a consultant while she's looking for a new permanent position. 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 Etsy, 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 O'Reilly Velocity, KiwiCon, CCC Congress, Hack in The Box, Transmediale, ToorCon, Knutepunk, HOPE, Arse Electronika, 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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Schwieger, Anne

Anne Schwieger works for the City of Boston Department of Innovation & Technology as Broadband and Digital Equity Advocate. In this role she supports the City in creating a comprehensive broadband policy framework that addresses existing and new broadband infrastructure and the ease with which Bostonians can use this infrastructure to harness the full power of internet connectivity to pursue educational, professional, health and wellness, and civic endeavors. Anne also serves on the City of Cambridge Broadband Task Force and is the producer of Cambridge Broadband Matters on Cambridge Community Television. She holds a Master in City Planning from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT and a BA in Biology and Society from Cornell University.

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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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Speranza, Dave

Dave Speranza is a freelance upright and electric bassist living in New York City. Originally from Portland, OR, Dave moved to New York in 2009 and has since performed all throughout the city, the country, and the world. Notable highlights include past performances and recording with gypsy guitar virtuoso Stephane Wrembel (including recording of "Bistro Fada," the theme to Woody Allen's Midnight In Paris, and current work with iconic guitar legend Jim Campilongo.

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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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Whitt, Richard S.

Richard (Rick) Whitt currently is Corporate Director for Strategic Initiatives at Google Inc. Rick is responsible for guiding the Google Access team’s approach to working with governmental bodies and international organizations to deploy communications infrastructure globally, particularly in emerging market countries.

Previously, Rick was vice president for global public policy and government relations with Motorola Mobility, a Google company (2012-2014). Prior to joining Motorola, Rick served as Google’s director and managing counsel for federal policy, overseeing strategic thinking on privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, Internet governance, free expression, and international trade (2012). In his first five years with Google, Rick headed up the public policy team on telecommunications issues (2007-2011). Among other achievements in that role, he led Google’s advocacy on open Internet, broadband deployment, and spectrum policy. Rick also guided the Company’s participation in the 700 MHz spectrum auction, involvement in TV White Spaces spectrum allocations, and launch of Google Fiber.

Prior to joining Google, Rick founded and headed NetsEdge Consulting, a public policy consulting firm that provided legal analysis, regulatory strategy, and advocacy counsel to Web companies (2006). From 1994 to 2006, Rick worked in the legal department at MCI Communications, where he most recently served as vice president for federal law and policy. Rick previously spent over five years as an associate attorney in the communications practices of two large Washington, D.C.-based law firms.

Rick is a 1988 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, and a 1984 graduate of James Madison University. He currently resides in Mountain View, California.

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Williams, Roy

Roy Williams, an American songwriter, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist, writes music with a curious ear and an open mind. From the classic pop tunes heard on the first cassette Roy owned—The Beatles “Live at the BBC in 1963”—to the incomparable instrumental canon of Django Reinhart, Roy’s influences eclipse genre categorization, a trait that is reflected in the adventurous spirit of his own original songs.

After growing up in Clark’s Green, Pennsylvania, in a musical house where Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield, and especially The Beatles were religion, Roy began playing gigs in nearby Scranton and soon moved to New York City to perform gypsy jazz with renowned guitarist Stephane Wrembel. Roy worked with Wrembel for four years and toured throughout Central America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he regularly plays out with his mentors and friends Jim Campilongo, Nick Driscoll, and Alex Hargreaves, and leads his own band.

Roy often performs on piano, mandolin, bass, and has known how to play a G chord on guitar since he can remember. He released his debut solo album, Throwing Punches, in February 2015, which features ten original compositions. Roy is currently at work on two upcoming albums: a compilation of instrumental songs by his group Roy Williams and the Human Hands (featuring Alex Hargreaves and Nick Driscoll), and a solo record of rock n roll tunes.

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Wizner, Ben

Ben Wizner is the director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. For nearly 15 years, he has worked at the intersection of civil liberties and national security, litigating numerous cases involving airport security policies, government watch lists, surveillance practices, targeted killing, and torture. He appears regularly in the global media, has testified before Congress, and is an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law. Since July of 2013, he has been the principal legal advisor to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Ben is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law and was a law clerk to the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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