Wharton

Raffi Amit is the Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship and a Professor of Management at the Wharton School. Dr. Amit is the Academic Director of the Goergen Entrepreneurial Management Programs which encompasses all of Wharton’s entrepreneurial programs.  He has published extensively in leading academic journals and has served on the editorial boards of the major academic journals in management.   He also has extensive industry and consulting experience, including serving as Chairman of Creo Products, helping to form the Korean Global IT Fund, and serving on the board of Alvarion.  Dr. Amit received his Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Jonathan Aronson

USC

Professor Aronson's work focuses on international political economy with special attention to trade negotiations, trade in services, comparative regulation, international strategic alliances, and especially international telecommunications His most recent book, Managing the World Economy: The Consequences of Corporate Alliances (1993, co-authored with Peter Cowhey) considered how changes in the way the world economy works will force governments to find new ways to conduct their international economic relations after the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations. Case studies on the automobile, semiconductor, and telecommunications sectors were included in this volume. Professor Aronson is also studying how the globalization of telecommunications networks is influenced by intellectual property, standard setting, and competition policy issues and the implications of these changes for regulation, privacy and the digital divide.

Michael Arrington

TechCrunch

Michael Arrington is the founder of the Crunch Network and editor of TechCrunch, the leading blog covering new Internet products and companies. He also co-founded Edgeio, a online classified listing startup. Previously, he worked as a corporate lawyer at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini, worked in sales and business development at RealNames, co-founded Achex, which was sold to First Data Corp., and was COO at Razorgator.

Network Architect

Richard Bennett is a network architect, standards engineer, and inventor of Internet-oriented local area network protocols. As vice-chair the IEEE 802.3 1BASE5 task group, he devised the first standard for Ethernet over twisted pair wiring. He contributed the MPDU aggregation scheme to the IEEE 802.11n WiFi standard and the Distributed Reservation Protocol to the WiMedia Ultra-Wideband protocol. Mr. Bennett co-founded the Open Token Foundation, the trade association of manufacturers of network equipment that established one of the first network interoperability labs, and created one of the first political activist blogs. A graduate of the University of Texas, he testified at the FCC's historic field hearing on broadband management at the Harvard Law School in 2008.

Eric Bonabeau

Icosystem

Eric Bonabeau is one of the world's leading experts in complex systems and distributed adaptive problem solving. His book Swarm Intelligence has been a scientific bestseller for eight years and provided the inspiration for another bestseller, Michael Chrichton's Prey. Eric's commercial experience includes years of research and development in US and European telecommunications and software companies. He sits on the advisory board of a number of Fortune 500 corporations. Eric is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journals Advances in Complex Systems (World Scientific) and ACM Transactions on Adaptive and Autonomous Systems (ACM Press) and serves as a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals.

Kenneth Carter

wik-Consult GmbH

Kenneth Carter is currently Senior Consultant in wik-Consult GmbH’s newly formed NGN and Internet Economics Department. In advising both private- and public-sector clients, his work applies the principles and tools of Management Science to the process of regulation and rulemaking, bringing both strong legal analysis and a quantitative approach. Prior to joining wik, Mr. Carter was Senior Counsel for Business and Economics at the Federal Communications Commission, and the Deputy Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) at Columbia University. Mr. Carter holds an Executive MBA from Columbia Business School, a JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and a BA from Colgate University.

Tantek Celik

tantek.com

Tantek Çelik is the co-founder of microformats.org, and the former Chief Technologist of Technorati. Prior to Technorati, he was a veteran representative to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for Microsoft, where he also helped lead the development of the award-winning Internet Explorer for Macintosh. Tantek lives in San Francisco, and has Bachelor's and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, as well as a strong background in human interface and user centered design from his many years at Apple Computer.

Lili Cheng

Microsoft Research

Lili Cheng is the Group Manager of the Social Computing Group in Microsoft Research. Lili arrived in MSR back in 1995 as a member of the Virtual Worlds Group. She played a major role in the development of the Virtual Worlds Platform, lead the design and development of HutchWorld a shared space for cancer patients and their support network and she was a key member of the team that created Microsoft V-Chat. Before coming to Microsoft, she worked at Apple Computer in the Human Interface research group. Prior to Apple, Lili was at NYU where she designed the user interface for YORB, a program broadcast tri-weekly on Manhattan cable. Lili is also a registered architect and has worked for the architecture firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill designing urban, public spaces in both Tokyo and Los Angeles. She continues to participate in this field by guest lecturing at the Harvard Design School and working on projects with the MIT Architecture School.

Elizabeth Churchill

Yahoo! Research

Elizabeth Churchill is a research scientist interested in the design and use of technologies that support communication and connection. Her current work covers areas such as mediated collaboration, mobile connectivity, transmedia technologies, digital archive and memory, and the development of emplaced media spaces. She is currently a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research, working in the area of Media Experience Research. Until September of 2006, she worked at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and before that at FX Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL), where she was the leader of the Social Computing Research group.

Jeff Clavier

SofTech VC

Based in Palo Alto (CA), Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, a firm doing angel investments and providing consulting services to early stage consumer Internet startups. Jeff will typically get involved as an advisor, board member or part-time executive, focusing on business development, fund raising, and strategy matters. His current areas of interests include next generation search and discovery, social media and communities, and consumer infrastructure. These are also the primary topics covered in his blogs, Software Only (blog.softtechvc.com in English) and Sans Accent (sansaccent.softtechvc.com in French).

Eric Clemons

Wharton

Noshir Contractor

Northwestern University

Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the School of Engineering, School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, USA. He is the Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group. He is investigating factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in communities. His research program has been funded continuously for the past decade by major grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation with additional funding from NASA, NIH, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. He is the co-author with Peter Monge of the award winning book, Theories of Communication Networks (Oxford University Press).

Susan Crawford

University of Michigan

Susan Crawford is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, teaching internet law and communications law. Last term (fall 2007), she was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and starting on July 1, 2008 she will join the faculty at Michigan. She is a member of the board of directors of ICANN and is the founder of OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the internet that takes place each Sept. 22. Ms. Crawford received her B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington, D.C.) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy. Susan, a violist, also lives in New York City.

Pierre De Vries

Author and Researcher

Pierre de Vries studies decision making and planning in the face of the increasingly complex intangibles that make up our world. The concrete metaphors used by software developers and policy makers often do not represent the underlying complexity of their field very well, leading to errors and misjudgments. De Vries also works on communications policy issues, including spectrum allocation and Internet regulation. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Economic Policy Research Center at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a former Chief of Incubation and Senior Director of Advanced Technology and Policy at Microsoft Corporation.

Raissa D'Souza

UC Davis

Raissa D'Souza is an Associate Professor in the Center for Computational Science and Engineering, and the Mechanical Engineering Department at UC Davis, as well as an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She received a PhD in statistical physics from MIT in 1999, then was a postdoctoral researcher at Bell Laboratories and at Microsoft Research. She has been a short-term visiting scientist at Caltech, MSRI, IPAM, The Santa Fe Institute and ENS in Lyon France. Raissa's research focuses on self-organization and growth in both natural and engineered systems and her current work and publications span the fields of physics, computer science and applied math.

Esther Dyson

EDventure

Esther Dyson has long been one of the most influential thinkers and participants in the computing and Internet worlds. Her primary activity is investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. As a two-time weightless flyer, she is also active in the commercial space/airline start-up world. For more than 20 years Dyson wrote the newsletter Release 1.0 and ran PC Forum, the IT market’s leading executive conference. She sold them to CNET Networks in 2004, and left CNET at the end of 2006. Dyson was the founding chairman of ICANN (policy-setter for the DNS) from 1998-2000, and was also chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the 90s. In 1997, she wrote her (so far) only book, “Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age.”

Dave Elfving

SolutionSet

After graduating from the University of Iowa, Dave spent 5 years working as a web designer in both the public and private sectors. He began at a boutique design firm (which, like so many others, no longer exists) and went on to develop web sites and online applications for the Chicago Public Schools and The University of Chicago. He briefly left the working world to research web-based, collaborative technologies within the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently, he works as a User Experience Designer at SolutionSet, a San Francisco based web development firm.

Ian Ferrell

Microsoft

BJ Fogg

Stanford

BJ Fogg is a researcher, teacher, and innovator. His training is in experimental psychology, especially the psychology of using computers. Since 1993 he has been at Stanford University, investigating how computers can be designed to change attitudes and behaviors. He is the author of Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do.

Umair Haque

BubbleGeneration

Umair Haque studied neuroscience at McGill, did an MBA and econ/strategy research with Gary Hamel at London Business School in 2003, and began working towards a PhD in strategy and innovation at Oxford in 2004. Umair has spent time working in finance/economics, at a venture-backed startup, and as a strategy consultant. He now heads Bubblegeneration, a strategy lab which helps discover strategic innovation. He studies the economics of the future: the impact new technologies, management innovation, and shifting consumer preferences will have tomorrow on the industries and markets of today.

Eszther Hargittai

Northwestern University

Eszter Hargittai is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology, and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University where she heads the Web Use Project. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University where she was a Wilson Scholar. Her research focuses on the social and policy implications of information technologies with a particular interest in how IT may contribute to or alleviate social inequalities. In addition to her academic articles, her work has also been featured on CNNfn, the BBC's Web site and several national dailies. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Markle Foundation, the Dan David Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation, among others.

Shawndra Hill

Wharton

Shawndra Hill is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School. She researches the value to companies of mining data on how consumers interact with each other –- for example, in word-of-mouth or "buzz" marketing that the companies cannot directly control. Hill argues that firms who collect explicit data on these interaction networks can both reduce costs (for instance, by identifying a current customer as one who defaulted in the past) and generate more revenue than they can with traditional methods of targeting customers.

Karthik Hosanagar

Wharton

Kartik Hosanagar is an assistant professor of Information and Operations Management at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. Kartik's research delves into Internet media and Internet marketing, studying how information and collaboration technologies (recommender systems, sponsored search, social media) influence product and media choices of consumers. He also studies distributed media delivery infrastructure on the Internet including Content Delivery Networks and P2P networks. Kartik's research has received several awards including the William Cooper award for best thesis in Management Science and several grants including a $1.2M grant from the NSF to study the economics of next-generation Internet. Kartik is a cofounder of Yodle Inc and serves on the advisory boards of several other startups.

Bernardo Huberman

HP Labs

Bernardo Huberman is a Senior HP Fellow the Director of the Social Computing Lab at Hewlett Packard Laboratories. He is also a Consulting Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. For the past nine years his research has concentrated on the phenomenon of the Web, with an emphasis on the design of novel mechanisms for discovering implicit knowledge and improving the interaction between people and information. He is the author of the book "The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information", published by MIT Press.

Reed Hundt

McKinsey & Co.

Reed Hundt was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 1993 to 1997. Under Hundt, the FCC promoted greater choice for consumers, encouraged technological innovation, and established fair rules of competition. He was the first Chairman to make himself accessible to a wide audience by participating in open, online conversations with the public and was the first FCC Chairman to have a personal computer on his desk and to be connected to an electronic network. Hundt currently serves as a senior advisor on information industries to McKinsey & Company, a worldwide management consulting firm in Washington, D.C.

Bob Iannucci

Nokia

Joi Ito

Neoteny

Joichi Ito is a co-founder and board member of Digital Garage, and the CEO of Neoteny. He is the CEO of Creative Commons, a member of the board of Technorati, and the Chairman of Six Apart Japan. He is the board of a number of non-profit organizations including The Mozilla Foundation and WITNESS. He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. He has served on numerous committees and boards advising the government on IT, privacy and computer security related issues. He is currently a Doctor of Business Administration candidate at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University in Japan. He maintains a weblog (http://joi.ito.com/) where he regularly shares his thoughts with the online community. He is the Guild Custodian of the World of Warcraft guild, We Know.

Raph Koster

Metaplace

Raph Koster is the President of Metaplace. A professional game designer and frequent writer on issues of virtual world design, Raph was the lead designer on the seminal online world ULTIMA ONLINE, which first brought online worlds to the mass market. Until March 2006 he was Chief Creative Officer for Sony Online Entertainment, makers of EVERQUEST, where he previously led the design of STAR WARS GALAXIES. His essays and writings on online world design include widely reprinted and influential pieces, and he is the maintainer of the canonical history of virtual worlds at his popular website and blog.

Joe Kraus

Google

Joe Kraus is director of product management at Google. Among his projects there is OpenSocial, Google's effort to develop API standards for social networking platforms. Kraus is the founder of Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org. A long time entrepreneur, Kraus has been involved with early-stage technology development and starting companies for more than twelve years. In 2006, Kraus joined the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In addition to his non-profit focus, he has also spent many years as an angel investor, working with numerous early-stage technology companies.

Loic Le Meur

Seesmic

Loïc is a well-known serial French entrepreneur who created and sold 4 Internet startups, also blogger and vlogger. Loic's blog is #1 in France, read by more than 250 000 unique visitors per month, he made hundreds of video podcasts including the only podcast with President Nicolas Sarkozy). He also organizes every year one of Europe's largest web event, LeWeb3, that gathered 1300 participants from 37 Countries in 2006. Loic also joined President Sarkozy campaign team during the 2007 elections, advising on the Internet, gathered a network of 1000 bloggers for him and launched the Second Life Sarkozy Island. Loïc served as Executive VP of Six Apart EMEA from 2003 to 2007 and founded and served as CEO for several companies in France, including U-blog, a european blog service in 2003; RapidSite France, the first shared Web hosting company launched in 1997. Loïc is also a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

Gerald Lewis

Comcast

Mr. Lewis is currently Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer for Comcast Cable where he advises company management and the business units on intellectual property, technology, e-commerce, Internet, privacy, and security law matters. Prior to joining Comcast, Mr. Lewis served as Acting General Counsel for Half.com, and General Counsel for Infonautics. Before becoming a lawyer, Mr. Lewis worked in software product development as a senior technical writer and project team leader in California’s Silicon Valley. Mr. Lewis has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Temple University, and is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., and the Association of Corporate Counsel.

Charlene Li

Forrester Research

Charlene Li is one of the leading voices in the area of social computing and Web 2.0 through her research work in the last with nine years with the respected technology and market research company Forrester Research. She is one of Forrester Research’s most quoted analysts. Her new book coauthored with Josh Bernoff, Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies (Harvard Business School Press, May 2008), describes how people are using social technologies to get what they need – information, support, ideas, products, and bargaining power – from each other. More information is available at their widely read blog: http://www.forrester.com/groundswell.

Greg Luib

FTC

Greg Luib is Assistant Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, where he develops and implements competition and consumer protection policy. Greg is a member of the Commission’s Internet Access Task Force, having served as a principal drafter of the June 2007 FTC staff report, Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy. Prior to joining the FTC, Greg practiced law in the antitrust group at Jones Day in Washington, D.C. Greg received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia.

Jim Lussier

Norwest Venture Partners

Jim focuses on investments in software, services and consumer/internet companies. He is a member of the board of directors of CollabNet, DoubleFusion, G2 Switchworks, M-Factor and StarCite. Prior to joining NVP, Jim was Vice President and General Manager of the direct e-commerce solutions division of Beyond.com Corporation, a leading online software and services provider to businesses, government agencies and individuals. Prior to Beyond.com Corporation, Jim managed Accenture's (formerly Andersen Consulting) electronics and high technology strategy practice for North America and was a member of the firm's e-commerce core group. Jim has also held executive positions at Booz Allen & Hamilton and Metaphor Computer Systems, which became a subsidiary of IBM. Jim holds a bachelor of science in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

Colin Maclay

Berkman Center, Harvard Law School

Hugh MacLeod

GapingVoid

Doug Mack

Adobe

Fran Maier

TrustE

Fran Maier is the Executive Director and President of TRUSTe, the leading brand in online privacy. Ms. Maier brings 15+ years of experience building consumer brands and enhancing consumer trust. She is known for her expertise in online privacy, online marketing best practices, and marketing to women. As a co-founder of Match.com she established credibility, safety and trust in online dating, making Match.com the favorite dating site for single women. In executive marketing roles at Women.com and Kmart’s BlueLight.com subsidiary Ms. Maier has both established new start-up online brands and brought blue-chip offline brands onto the Internet. Ms. Maier holds a BA and MBA from Stanford University.

Kevin Marks

Google

Kevin Marks is author of the weblog Epeus Epigone and a software engineer at Google. He became principal engineer for Technorati after doing work for both Apple and the BBC. He is one of the founders of Microformats. In 2003, Marks was an early experimenter with and contributor to the technologies that became popular under the names podcasting and iPodder in 2004. He is also on the Advisory Council of the Open Rights Group, a UK-based Digital Rights campaigning organisation.

Andrea Matwyshyn

The Wharton School

Andrea M. Matwyshyn is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on innovation policy, specifically the legal, social, and business implications of information technology and data security. In addition to her appointment at Wharton, she is an Affiliate of the Centre for Economics & Policy in the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge.

Elliot Maxwell

Author and Consultant

Elliot E. Maxwell advises public and private sector clients on strategic issues involving the intersection of business, technology, and public policy in the Internet and E-commerce domains. He is a Fellow of the Communications Program at Johns Hopkins University, and Distinguished Research Fellow at the eBusiness Research Center of the Pennsylvania State University. He also advises EPCglobal, the entity implementing the Electronic Product Code version of radio frequency identification (RFID). From 1998 until 2001, Maxwell served as Special Advisor for the Digital Economy to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Previously, Maxwell worked for a number of years as a consultant and as Assistant Vice President for Corporate Strategy of Pacific Telesis Group, and served in several high-level positions at the Federal Communications.

Phil McKinney

HP

Philip McKinney is HP's Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Personal Systems Group. In this role, he overseas the long-range technical strategy and research and development for PSG. McKinney is recognized, through his numerous worldwide speaking engagements, seminars and workshops, as a leading authority on technology and innovation and its impact on business, industries, economies and society. Before joining HP, Phil was engaged in the day-to-day operational challenges as the Senior Vice President and founding CIO for Teligent, a global provider of fixed-wireless services. Phil McKinney blogs at http://www.philmckinney.com/blog.html, and podcasts at http://www.killerinnovations.com/blog/index.html.

David Morin

Facebook

Dave is a visionary entrepreneur, technologist, and businessman. Currently, he is the Senior Platform Manager at the internet’s leading social utility, Facebook. Previously, Dave held positions at Apple, including Manager, Creation & Collaboration and Worldwide Manager of Student Marketing. He also founded a design focused technology and internet software company called DM Design Studios. Dave has appeared in publications such as CNN, BusinessWeek, Money, Business 2.0, TechCrunch, CNET, Chicago Tribune, and VentureBeat. A passionate and well received speaker, Dave has delivered keynotes and participated in events worldwide. His focus on innovation, vision, and technology strategy has involved extensive interaction with the global market at large.

JP Rangaswami

BT

JP Rangaswami is the Managing Director, Service Design for BT Design -- BT Group’s IT design and delivery business. JP is responsible for group operations as well as enterprise management platforms and web technologies. JP joined BT from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein where he served as Global CIO demonstrating recognised market leadership in the use of innovative tools and techniques. In a software and services career spanning a quarter century, JP Rangaswami is a highly recognized leader in implementing business transformation through innovative technology practices. He has championed community-based open source development methods and practices along with innovative tools and techniques for enterprise collaboration. Innovate magazine awarded Rangaswami the title of European Innovator of the Year in 2005. The European Technology Forum named him CIO Innovator of the Year in 2004. In 2003, Waters Magazine voted Rangaswami CIO of the Year. The work Mr Rangaswami led on collaborative technologies at the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein is now the subject of several Harvard Business School case studies.

Chris Sacca

Investor

Christopher Sacca is a venture investor and company advisor focusing on consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology start-ups. Most recently, Chris was Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc. In that role, he headed up alternative access and related product development. Currently, Chris is an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School at Oxford University, and serves on the board of the Churchill Club. Chris was also recently recognized as a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Before joining Google, Chris held a number of executive roles Speedera Networks, and was an attorney with the Silicon Valley law firm of Fenwick & West. Chris lives in San Francisco and is an avid Pacifica surfer, San Mateo kitesurfer, and Lake Tahoe skier.

Axel Schmiegelow

Sevenload

Axel Schmiegelow is serial entrepreneur and CEO of Sevenload. He has been involved in marketing, media, the internet, and start-ups for the past 15 years. As CEO of denkwerk Group, hefounded the world’s first bookmarking and tagging startup, oneview, in 1999, in 16 countries and 10 languages. He is an active Board Member of the company shaping the future of travel commerce, itravel, and a Board member of the exciting local search and rating company, Qype.

Bruce Schneier

BT Counterpane

Bruce Schneier the Chief Technical Security Officer of BT Counterpane. An internationally renowned security technologist, he is referred to by "The Economist" as a "security guru." He is the author of eight books -- including the best sellers "Beyond Fear," "Secrets and Lies," and "Applied Cryptography" -- and hundreds of articles and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram, and blog "Schneier on Security," are read by over 250,000 people. He is a prolific writer and lecturer, a frequent guest on television and radio, has testified before Congress, and is regularly quoted in the press on issues surrounding security and privacy

Jonathan Schwartz

Sun Microsystems

Jonathan Schwartz is chief executive officer and president of Sun Microsystems. An inveterate communicator, Schwartz has led Sun's drive to engage the marketplace, and redefine corporate transparency. A leader behind many of Sun's open source and standard setting initiatives, Jonathan's been an outspoken advocate for the network as a utility with more than just value for the computing industry-- but as a tool for driving economic, social and political progress. He previously served as Sun's COO, executive vice president for software, Chief Strategy Officer, and held a variety of leadership positions across product and corporate development. He joined Sun in 1996 after the Company acquired Lighthouse Design, where he was CEO and co-founder. Prior to that, Schwartz was with McKinsey & Co. Schwartz received degrees in economics and mathematics from Wesleyan University. He blogs at blogs.sun.com/jonathan.

David Sifry

Technorati

Clay Shirky

NYU

Clay Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web. He is an adjunct professor in NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he teaches courses on the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology -- how our networks shape culture and vice-versa.

Joseph Smarr

Plaxo

Joseph Smarr is Chief Platform Architect, and was Plaxo's first employee. Joseph is the technical lead for Plaxo's developer platform, focusing on APIs, widgets and partnerships to Plaxo-enable external applications, services, and the social web. Previously, he was Plaxo's web architect and led the development of Plaxo Online. Joseph holds a Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Science from Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence.

Bill St. Arnaud

CANARIE

Bill St. Arnaud is Director of Network Projects for CANARIE Inc., an industry government consortium to promote and develop information highway technologies in Canada. At CANARIE Bill St. Arnaud has been responsible for the coordination and implementation of Canada's next generation Internet initiative called CA*net II. Previously Bill St. Arnaud was the President and founder of a network and software engineering firm called TSA ProForma Inc. TSA was a LAN/WAN software company that developed wide area network client/server systems for use primarily in the financial and information business fields in the Far East and the United States. Bill St. Arnaud is a frequent guest speaker at numerous conferences on the Internet and ATM networking and is a regular contributor to several networking magazines.

Bret Taylor

FriendFeed

Bret Taylor is the co-founder of FriendFeed. Previously, he was Group Product Manager responsible for Google’s developer products. Before working on Google’s developer efforts full time, Bret launched Google Maps, Google Local, and the Google Maps API. He joined Google in early 2003, initially working on Google’s web search infrastructure and ranking. Prior to Google, Bret worked as a software engineer at Reactivity, a startup incubator in Silicon Valley. Bret holds an MS and BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Douglas Thomas

USC

Douglas Thomas is Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Communication in 1992 and specializes in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies of Technology. He is author of Reading Nietzsche Rhetorically (Guilford Press, 1998), and Hacker Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). He has written extensively for The Online Journalism Review and for Wired News covering issues of hackers, online culture, privacy and security. An expert on cyberculture, his commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, New Scientist, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as on local and national radio programs, Los Angeles news programs, and CNN.

Joel Waldfogel

Wharton

Joel Waldfogel is Professor of Business and Public Policy at The Wharton School. Most of his recent work falls into two broad areas, intellectual property piracy and the effects of agglomeration on product availability. He recently published a book, The Tyranny of the Market: Why You Can’t Always Get What You Want.

Kevin Werbach

Wharton and Supernova Group

Supernova conference organizer Kevin Werbach is a leading expert on the business, policy, and social implications of emerging information and communications technologies. Werbach is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research explores the legal and business issues generated by the Internet and other technological phenomena. Werbach is also the founder of the Supernova Group, a technology analysis and consulting firm. He was formerly the Editor of Release 1.0, a renowned monthly technology report published by Esther Dyson. He served as Counsel for New Technology Policy at the Federal Communications Commission, where he helped develop the US Government’s Internet and e-commerce policies. He is frequently quoted by leading media outlets, has testified before the US Senate and Federal Communications Commission, and is the author of numerous academic and popular publications.

Susan Wu

Charles River Ventures

Stephan Zimmerman

McKinsey & Co.