Looking through the conference program (15 MB PDF) for the conference that starts Monday, I’m quite impressed by the list of speakers:
- Hal Abelson, Professor of Computer Science, MIT, and WWWC
- Ben Adida, PhD student at MIT
- Derrick Ashong, ASAFO Media, LLC
- Walter Bender, MIT Media Lab
- Derek Beres, Journalist
- Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington
- David Berlind, Executive Editor, ZDNet
- David Bollier, Public Knowledge
- Stefan Brands, CEO, Credentica
- Kim Cameron, Chief Architect of Identity, Microsoft
- Anne Carblanc, OECD
- John Henry Clippinger, Senior Fellow, Berkman Center
- Roger Dingledine, Tor Project
- Judith Donath, MIT Media Lab
- Esther Dyson, Editor at Large, CNet
- Johannes Ernst, CEO, NetMesh (that would be me)
- Philip Evans, Senior Vice President, Boston Consulting Group
- Glenn Fogel, Managing Director-Corporate Development and International, Priceline.com
- Urs Gasser, Associate Professor of Law, University of St. Gallen and Fellow, Berkman Center
- Michael Graves, Verisign
- Mark Greene, IBM
- Louise Guay, CEO, My Virtual Model
- Marvin Hall, Jamaican Educator
- Dick Hardt, CEO, Sxip
- Robin Harper, Vice President of Community Development and Support, Linden Lab
- Lewis Hyde, Fellow, Berkman Center
- Jair, Imaginify Community Network
- Michael B. Jones, Microsoft
- David Kirkpatrick, Editor, Fortune
- Karim Lakhani, Professor, Harvard Business School
- Jamie Lewis, President, Burton Group
- Kevin McCabe, Professor of Economics, George Mason University
- William McGeveran, Fellow, Berkman Center
- Anthony Nadalin, Chief Security Architect, IBM
- Nataraj Nagaratnam, Chief Architect for Identity Management, IBM
- Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, Slam Poet
- Dale Olds, Novell
- Jon Ramer, Executive Director, The Interra Project
- Drummond Reed, CTO, Cordance
- Martin Rosvall, Post Doctorate, Theoretical Biology, University of Washington
- Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, EPIC
- Ira Rubinstein, Associate General Counsel, Microsoft
- Mary Rundle, Fellow, Berkman Center
- Doc Searls, Editor, Linux Journal
- Jake Shapiro, Executive Director, PRX, and Fellow, Berkman Center
- Jean-Francois St. Arnaud, My Virtual Model
- Greg Steltenpohl, Founder, Odwalla Juices, Adina Juices and Interra
- Hugh Stevenson, FTC and Harvard Law School
- Roger Sullivan, Vice President of Business Development, Oracle
- John Sviokla, DiamondCluster
- Kim Taipale, Center for Advanced Studies in Science & Technology Policy
- Paul Trevithick, CEO, Parity, Co-creator: Higgins, IdentityGang, SocialPhysics
- Christine Varney, Managing Partner, Hogan and Hartson
- Jeremy Warren, US Department of Justice
- Bill Washburn, Opinity
- Larry Weber, W2 Group
- Danny Weitzner, WWWC
- Philip Windley, Professor of Computer Science, Brigham Young University
- Jonathan Zittrain, Chair of Internet Governance and Regulation, Oxford University, co-founder, Berkman Center, and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
Many are friends, and I’m looking forward to making more!