public policy participants

Sessions Participants

Yochai Benkler
Yochai Benkler a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His research focuses on the effects of laws that regulate information production and exchange on the distribution of control over information flows, knowledge, and culture in the digital environment. His particular focus has been on the neglected role of commons-based approaches towards management of resources in the digitally networked environment. He has written about the economics and political theory of rules governing telecommunications infrastructure, with a special emphasis on wireless communications, rules governing private control over information, in particular intellectual property, and of relevant aspects of U.S. constitutional law.

Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, a position he took in 2001. Since then he has led the magazine to four National Magazine Award nominations, winning the prestigious top prize for General Excellence in 2005. Previously, he was at ~The Economist, where he served as U.S. Business Editor, Asia Business Editor (based in Hong Kong); and Technology Editor. He started The Economist’s Internet coverage in 1994 and directed its initial web strategy. Mr. Anderson's media career began at the two premier science journals, Nature and Science~, where he served in several editorial capacities. Prior to that he worked as a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s meson physics facility and served as research assistant to the Chief Scientist of the Department of Transportation.

Read his blog at The Long Tail.

Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc, thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics. Tim is an activist for open source and open standards, and an opponent of software patents and other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long term vision for his company is to help change the world by capturing and transmitting the knowledge of innovators. For everything Tim, see tim.oreilly.com.

Joshua Schacter
Joshua Schachter started del.icio.us as a hobby in 2003 and ignited the whole tagging phenomenon. He began to work on it full-time with the founding of del.icio.us inc in March, 2005. Before that, Joshua worked in financial services in NYC for ten years, including most recently with Morgan Stanley. Joshua has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Martin Nisenholtz
Named senior vice president, digital operations for The New York Times Company in February 2005. He is responsible for the strategy development, operations and management of The New York Times Company's digital properties, including About.com, whose acquisition was announced in February 2005. Mr. Nisenholtz was chief executive officer of New York Times Digital from 1999 to 2005. Previously, he was president of The New York Times Electronic Media Company from 1995 to 1999. In that role, he was the founding leader at nytimes.com.

Prior to joining the Times Company, Mr. Nisenholtz was director of content strategy for Ameritech Corporation, where he was responsible for guiding development of new video programming opportunities and interactive information and advertising services.

Seth Godin

Godin is author of six books that have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. Permission Marketing was an Amazon.com Top 100 bestseller for a year, a Fortune Best Business Book and it spent four months on the Business Week bestseller list. It also appeared on the New York Times business book bestseller list.

Seth was founder and CEO of Yoyodyne, the industry's leading interactive direct marketing company, which Yahoo! acquired in late 1998. He holds an MBA from Stanford, and was called "the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age" by Business Week. Read Seth's Blog.

Tom Cohen
Tom has for the past 20 years advised a variety of companies in the traditional and new media worlds, on financial and strategic matters. His media company clients have included large media companies such as Time Life, Time Inc., The New York Times, “NBC”, Martha Stewart Living and Rolling Stone Magazine. In addition, Tom has been particularly active in the internet arena, working with companies such as Yoyodyne, E-Exchange, and Medcast on growth strategies, capital structuring and ultimately their exit strategies. Tom has also served as a Special Venture Partner with Flatiron Partners, a leading internet focused venture capital fund. Prior to his work in New Media and the Internet, Tom spent four years acting as Chief Executive Officer of the New York based brokerage firm of Herzfeld and Stern. Tom received a BA from Williams College and an MBA from Columbia University. Tom lives in New York with his wife and daughter.

Om Malik
Om Malik writes for Business 2.0 magazine and for GigaOm, his weblog on broadband and the telecom industry. He is the author of Broadbandits, a book about telecom executives who should have been fired long before they spent or pocketed a large amount of venture capital and misplaced pension fund investments. Om has covered technology and telecom for more than a decade in publications such as Forbes, Red Herring, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and the MIT Technology Review. In 1999, Om briefly tried his hand as a venture capitalist at H &Q Asia Pacific before realizing he was too nice a guy to be a VC, and summarily firing himself to return to reporting on entrepreneurs and technology. Om lives in San Francisco, but still pines for his old Battery Park apartment in New York City.

Jeff Jarvis
Jeff former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the NY Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He was until recently president & creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Now he is working as editor of a new news startup, still in stealth. He is working with The New York Times Company at About.com on content development and strategy and consulting for Advance and Fairchild. In 2006, he will become associate professor and director of the new media program the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism. He is a columnist for Media Guardian. He says he is at work on a book. Jeff's blog is called Buzzmachine.

Bob Young
Robert F. (Bob) Young, CEO of Lulu.com and a successful technology entrepreneur, is also the owner of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, a Canadian Football League team. As co-founder and former Chairman of Red Hat (1993-2000), Bob Young was responsible for the early success of the company. A true open source visionary, Bob's success in developing Red Hat into a household name have won him prestigious honours, including having been named one of Business Week Magazine's "Top Entrepreneurs" in 1999.

Before founding Red Hat in 1993, Bob spent 20 years at the helm of two computer-leasing companies he founded. In 1999 Bob founded The Center for the Public Domain, a non-profit foundation that supports the growth of a healthy and robust public domain of knowledge and the arts.

Dick Costolo
Costolo is cofounder/CEO of FeedBurner and has over 20 years experience managing and developing software for the enterprise and consumer markets. Previously, he cofounded and was CEO of Spyonit.com, which was acquired by 724 Solutions in September 2000. Dick spent a number of years performing with Chicago's Annoyance Theater and has performed at the celebrated Edinburgh Fringe and Montreal Comedy Festivals.

Bruce Spector
Bruce is the founder and CEO of ATTAP. Prior to the founding ATTAP, Bruce founded Webcal, which was acquired by Yahoo. Bruce Joined Yahoo! as Chief of Yahoo! Broadband.

Seth Goldstein
Seth is the founder of Root Markets. Prior to that, Seth was the co-Founder and Chairman of Majestic Research, was
Entrepreneur in Residence at Flatiron Partners, where he built and managed a $75mm portfolio of technology startups in the pervasive computing arean. Before this, he was founder and CEO of SiteSpecific, an early Internet marketing firm that was acquired by CKS. Seth was recognized by Red Herring as one of the top entrepreneurs of 1997. Seth is a leading force behind attentiontrust.org. Seth's blog is called Transparent Bundles.

Marc Pincus
Chairman, Co-Founder and former CEO of Tribe Networks. Tribe's mission is to enable individuals and communities to connect and transact. Tribe has partnered with major local newspapers is backed by The Washington Post, and Knight Ridder Digital in addition to Mayfield Venture Capital.Founded SupportSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPRT) in August 1997 along with Cadir Lee and Scott Dale to address the most fundamental problem in Windows computing, namely keeping desktop systems up and running.

Scott Heiferman
Scott Heiferman is trying to revitalize local community as CEO of Meetup.com. He co-founded Meetup.com (where 3 million people have signed up for local community Meetups), Fotolog.net (where 2 million Fotologgers have posted 60 million photos viewed 500 million times monthly), and i-traffic (the first ad agency dedicated to online media). Scott was "Online Marketing Frontiersman" at Sony in 1995 and graduated from The University of Iowa. He was named M.I.T. Technology Review's "Innovator of the Year" in 2004, and received The National Conference on Citizenship's "Jane Addams Award" in 2005.

Joshua Stylman
Joshua calls on more than a decade of experience in new media companies. He is currently managing partner at Reprise Media, a leading provider of search marketing services. Prior to founding Reprise Media, Joshua was vice president of Business Development at Ask Jeeves, where he lead the move away from traditional banner ads and toward a more integrated advertising approach. Before Ask Jeeves, Stylman was co-founder and President of Rotomedia, Inc., a boutique consulting and advertising firm for web marketers and publishers, which was acquired by Ask Jeeves in April 1999. Joshua was recently named a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Joshua's hard work and dedication helped Reprise Media achieve a #30 ranking in Entrepreneur Magazine's 'Hot 100 Fastest Growing New Businesses in America.'

Matt Blumberg
Matt is Chairman & CEO of Return Path, an email marketing services company that engages in a broad spectrum of activities, including delivery assurance and whitelisting, to list rental and lead generation, to online market research, to email change of address. Prior to founding Return Path in 1999, Matt was General Manager of the Internet division of MovieFone, Inc. from inception to the company's $600 million sale to AOL five years later, as well as Vice President, Marketing and Product Management for the company as a whole. Matt has served as an associate with General Atlantic Partners, a private equity investment firm, and as a consultant with Mercer Management Consulting. He graduated from Princeton University.

Matt's blog is called Only Once.

Heather Green
Heather is a department editor for Business Week, writes and edits stories about digital media, the wireless Internet, and consumer gizmos. She joined the magazine in November 1997 and is based in New York. Prior to Business Week, Green worked for three years at Bloomberg News, where she established the Internet beat. Before getting a real job, she lived in Paris, earning a graduate degree at Sciences Po. Heather is the co-author of Blogspotting.

Tom Evslin
Tom Evslin was cofounder (with wife Mary), Chairman and CEO of ITXC Corp. The NASDAQ-listed company grew from startup in 1997 to the world’s leading provider of wholesale VoIP and one of largest carriers of international voice minutes of any kind by 2004 when it was acquired by Teleglobe.

Evslin conceived, launched, and ran AT&T’s first ISP, AT&T WorldNet Service. WorldNet popularized all-you-can-eat flatrate monthly pricing for Internet access and forced the rest of the industry, including AOL and MSN, to follow suit. Evslin has been blamed and praised for this ever since. He is unrepentant.

At Microsoft, Evslin was responsible for the server products now in Microsoft BackOffice including Microsoft Exchange and for Exchange’s predecessor Microsoft Mail. Evslin was the General Manager for Connectivity Products (email) at Microsoft responsible for overcoming the lead Lotus then had with cc:mail and Lotus Notes.

Tom's blog is called Fractals of Change and he is in the process of relasing his first "blook" called Hackoff.com.

Author of the Bubblegeneration blog.

Studied neuroscience at McGill and did an MBA and econ/strategy research at London Business School.Has worked as a strategy consultant for startup companies.

Clay Shirky
Mr. 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. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation, and the BBC.

In addition to his consulting work, Mr. Shirky 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. His current course, Social Weather, examines the cues we use to understand group dynamics in online spaces and the possible ways of improving user interaction by redesigning our social software to better reflect the emergent properties of groups. Clay's writings can be found at Shirky.com.

Peter Hershberg
Reprise Media managing partner Peter Hershberg has spent over ten years in the interactive industry and developed of one of the earliest forms of what is widely known today as "paid inclusion". Prior to founding Reprise Media, a full-service search engine marketing firm, in 2003, Peter served as vice president of Strategic Development at Ask Jeeves. Peter was also co-founder and CEO of Rotomedia, Inc., a boutique consulting and advertising firm for web marketers and publishers, which was acquired by Ask Jeeves in April 1999.

Peter was recently named a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and his leadership was instrumental in Reprise Media being named #30 on Entrepreneur Magazine's list of the 'Hot 100 Fastest Growing New Businesses in America.'

Joel Spolsky
CEO, Founder of Fog Creek Software and author of the popular Joel on Software blog.He has previous experience with Juno, Viacom, and was a Program Manager for Microsoft Excel in the early 1990’s.He is a graduate of Yale University and an avid cyclist.

Read Joel on Software and is the author of the most linked to blog post on venture capital (according to Google).

Josh Kopelman
Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation – an Internet information company. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

Josh founded Half.com in July of 1999, and led it to become one of the largest sellers of used books, movies and music in the world. Half.com was acquired by eBay in July 2000 -- and Josh remained with eBay for three years, running the Half.com business unit and growing eBay’s Media marketplace to almost half a billion dollars in annual gross merchandise sales.In early 2004 Josh helped to found TurnTide, an anti-spam company that created the world's first anti-spam router. TurnTide was acquired by Symantec just six months later.

In addition to being an active angel investor, Josh is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Comcast Interactive Capital - a $350 million venture capital fund affiliated with Comcast Corporation.

Matt Turck
Matt was the co-founder, President & COO of TripleHop Technologies?, an enterprise search software company acquired by Oracle in June 2005.

Matt is currently working on Word of Blog, a sell-side advertising service that lets bloggers pick and choose the banners appearing on their sites, and enables organizations (with an initial focus on nonprofits and grassroot movements) to gain additional visibility on the blogosphere through word of mouth (or blog).

Matt holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Yale Law School. He received his undergraduate degree in economics and finance from Sciences-Po IEP in Paris, France.

Rony Kahan
Rony co-founded Indeed with partner Paul Forster.Indeed is a search engine for jobs that gives job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities from hundreds of websites including all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages

Paul and Rony previously founded and managed Jobsinthemoney, the leading jobsite dedicated to finance professionals.

Rony attended INSEAD business school together in Fontainebleau, France.Rony has worked in technology consulting, operations and consumer product marketing for various firms including Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and several technology start-ups.Rony holds a B.Sc. in Economics and Finance with Honors from Texas A&M University.

Howard Morgan
Howard Lee Morgan is President of Arca Group Inc., a consulting and venture capital investment management firm specializing in the area of computer and communications technologies, and a Director of Idealab, where was a founding investor in 1996. He has more than 25 years of experience with more than thirty high-tech entrepreneurial ventures.

Howard was Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Computer Science at the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 through 1985. During his academic career he served as an editor of Communications of the ACM, Management Science, Transactions on Office Information Systems and Transactions on Database Systems. His research on user interface technology, and on optimization of computer networks led to his bringing the ARPAnet to Philadelphia in 1974. As a result of this early participation in the internet, he advised many corporate and government agencies on the uses of electronic and voice mail, implementing it throughout the Wharton School in the mid 1970s.

Michael Parekh
A Wall Street wonk for over 20 years, former partner at Goldman Sachs, and founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994, Michael has been living online since the early days of CompuServe in the 80s and AOL in the 90s.

Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, eBay amongst many other pioneering companies, while being an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for several years. His focus spanned Internet sectors from software, access, infrastructure, and wireless to online commerce and content companies worldwide.

He got his MBA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982, and BSc at Auburn University in 1980. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co. in 1982.

A native of India, Michael, aka Mukesh, grew up in the middle east., coming to the US in 1977 for college. Read Michael Parekh on IT.

Dave Morgan
Dave Morgan, CEO, founded TACODA in April 2001 to develop innovative technologies for target marketing. Prior to TACODA, Mr. Morgan founded and was the Chairman/CEO of Real Media, Inc., a company which he led from 1995 to 2001. Under his leadership, the company became a $54 million global marketing technology and service company with more than 500 employees in 19 countries. A lawyer by training, Mr. Morgan served as General Counsel and Director of New Media Ventures for the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association from 1991 to 1995, where he helped launch more than a dozen new media businesses.

Actively involved in industry trade groups, Mr. Morgan currently serves as chairman of the Associates. Board of the Interactive Advertising Board (IAB). Mr. Morgan holds a B.A. in Political Science from Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law.

Susan Crawford
Susan Crawford is a Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School in New York. Her research focuses on the changing regulatory environment for the Internet, and the cultural shifts and effects on innovation that these changes will produce. Susan's blog will tell you all about Susan.

Scott Kurnit
Scott is currently an investor and strategic advisor to technology and media companies. As Founder, Chairman and CEO of About, Inc. he grew the company to a public market value exceeding $1.5 billion. Scott has been involved in many firsts, including four patents. He led the team that put the first web browser into an online service, started the first Pay Per View cable network, and co-led the team that implemented the first use of national caller ID. He was president of Showtime Event Television when it generated the largest one-night gross in the entertainment business, and aired the first rock concert from the former Soviet Union. Scott has worked at the highest levels of Warner, Viacom, News Corp., PBS, IBM, MCI, and Sears. He has been inducted into the American Advertising Federation's Hall of Achievement and won the prestigious Vanguard Award from the National Cable Television Association. He currently sits on the Boards of Brightcove, Dotomi, Goodmail Systems and advises Black Arrow,Critical Mention, Digital RailRoad, Found Value, Verid and Wink. He is also a trustee of the Mianus River Gorge Preserve, the founding land project of the Nature Conservancy and the first National Natural History Landmark.

Peter Semmelhack
Peter is the company's founder and leads the Antenna product strategy and management team, combining vertical market expertise, technical know-how, creative vision and entrepreneurial experience. Peter is a frequent speaker at IT and Field Service conferences and tradeshows and has written numerous articles for industry publications. In September 2002 Peter was featured as an industry "Thought" Leader by Field Force Automation magazine.

Prior to founding Antenna Software, Peter founded the digital media production company, Antenna Tool & Die Co., where he led large-scale design and programming projects including Web sites, television commercials and CD-ROMs for ABC Television, Time Warner, IBM, MCI, and General Mills. Most notably, Peter created and designed Microsoft's fall 1996 television ad campaign "Where do you want to go today?" in conjunction with Wieden & Kennedy. Peter has a BA in economics from Brown University.

Paul Graham
Wrote two books about Lisp and one about programming and design, and is now writing another about startups; co-founded Viaweb (later Yahoo! Store), the first ASP; stumbled upon the algorithm that inspired the current generation of spam filters; co-founded Y Combinator, a new type of seed funding firm that has funded 26 companies to date; started the Spam Conference and Startup School; and regularly publishes essays on his site. He has a PhD in CS from Harvard and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia in Florence.

Additonal Participants

JOHN BUTTRICK
SHANA FISHER
MICHAEL FRUMIN
MARY HODDER
CYRIL HOURI
NANCY PERETSMAN
JONAH PERETTI
RIKKI TAHTA

Brad Burnham
Fred Wilson
Charlie O'Donnell