Dr. Bernard Aboba is the senior program manager for Internetworking at Microsoft. In this position he leads the team designing virtual private network (VPN) remote access and routing technologies for the Windows platform. Prior to this assignment, Dr. Aboba lead the design of MSN's Internet services, including the worldwide buildout of the MSN TCP/IP network and the design of MSN's Internet services, including mail, news, and web servers. Dr. Aboba is the author of two books on the Internet, and more than a dozen Internet Drafts. He currently serves as editor for the IETF ROAMOPS working group and as also active in the M-Bone Deployment and RADIUS working groups. Dr. Aboba holds a PhD from Stanford University, an MBA from UC Berkeley, and a BA from Harvard.
Sessions:
Virtual Private Networks - Saturday - 11:15 am - Room: Imp A
Multicast Enabling Your Network - Saturday - 10:15 am - Room: Cont 4
Jim Ackerman is a Salt Lake City-based marketing consultant and copywriter. He has sold everything from books to cars to bank loans via direct marketing. He puts his own money on the line, with his own direct-response projects. He has documented differences in pull for one creative package over another of as much as 400 percent on his own projects. Ackerman is also a writer of direct-response TV commercials and infomercials, along with effective sales videos.
Sessions:
How to Get More Customers Who Will Pay You More Money - Saturday - 3:00 pm - Room: Fran B
Jay Adelson is the Operations Manager of the Digital Internet Exchange. Digital's Internet Exchange offers ISPs and their customers the combination of a mission-critical Class A data center with high speed switching trough a Digital GIGAswitch, a full range of of Internet services, and a choice of telecommunications carriers. Adelson is reponsible fro the facility's availability, planning analysis, network management, hardware optimization and integration, installation configuration, and administration of all hardware located within the facility. In addition, he manages the facility's Operation Center, through which customers receive their services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Sessions:
Exchange Points in Improving Quality of Services for ISPs - Saturday - 3:00 pm - Room: Pink 1
ISP Interconnection and Public Access Points - Friday - 3:00 pm - Room: Imp B
Rod had a conventional career in telecommunications, albeit with a heavy dose of international marketing, before being exposed to the Internet. Rod provided the early marketing drive for Border Network Technologies, the BorderWare firewall publisher, before their takeover by Secure Computing. Now hooked on the growth rates of Internet-related business, Rod is instigating partnerships in North America for NetPartners, and stimulating their International business.
Sessions:
URL Screening-A Business Opportunity from a Problem - Saturday - 1:30 pm - Room: Pink 2
Daniels & Associates has a specialized group to provide a full range of investment banking services to the Internet industry. Bob Allison provides corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions services within the Emerging Industries Group. He has been actively working with Internet services clients to arrange financing and execute acquisitions and divestitures. Allison was formerly a vice president in the investment banking division at Salomon Brothers, Inc. in New York where he provided capital-raising and strategic advisory services to commercial banks, insurers, finance companies, mortgage banks and government entities. He advised the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), a government agency, in the disposition of public and private securities. In this assignment, he managed bankruptcies and restructurings in the agency's $9 billion junk bond portfolio. Allison is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He also earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado.
Sessions:
Funding Growth-Financing and Capital Alternatives for ISPs - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Cont 6
Ulrich Altvater is the founder of the Altvater Gruppe and Airdata WIMAN Systems, Inc. Altvater received his BA in economics from the Fachhochschule in Heilbronn, Germany. Prior to founding the Altvater Gruppe, Altvater was employed by IBM Germany in Stuttgart in software development and planning. While at IBM, he developed an accounting system for /23, an integrated processing of data and text on the /370, and was responsible for the planning and installation of the first LAN based accounting control system at IBM Germany. He has been active throughout his career in all phases of telecommunications, commencing as a ham operator in his early teens. Altvater is responsible for the development of the WIMAN (Wireless Metropolitan Area Network) system. He holds several patents for wireless telecommunications that he is now contributing to Airdata. He is fluent in English and skilled in the programming languages of COBOL, Basic, Assembler, and the operating systems VM, VSE/SP, MVS, Novell, DOS, Windows and Oasis.
Sessions:
Wireless Internet - Friday - 1:30 pm - Room: Pink 2
Elan Amram has over 15 years of experience in computer sales, marketing and consulting. He has been a vice president of operations for Computer Wholesale, a wholesale and retail computer dealer and president of Spotlight Software, a distributor of software titles on CD ROM. Amram is President of DTC InterNet, an ISP in Wichita, Kansas. He is also the author of a widely circulated e-mail concerning per minute charges for Internet access which caused over 30,000 e-mail comments to the FCC.
Sessions:
RBOCs, FCC, and You - Friday - 3:00 pm - Room: Cont 5
Douglas Arellanes, 29, is an Californian designer who has lived in Prague, Czech Republic, for five years. He studied Book Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and before coming to Eastern Europe in 1992, worked as an informational graphics artist for the Los Angeles Times. While in Prague, he joined a startup newspaper, Prognosis, the pioneering English-language newspaper for Eastern and Central Europe. In 1994, he began volunteering at Econnect, a non-profit ISP serving other nonprofits in the region, first as a graphic designer, and then with the advent of the Web, as their online designer. In 1996, he co-founded (with Czech partner Vaclav Klinkera) Inicia s.r.o., a web design studio and small ISP.
Sessions:
Designing for Export - Saturday - 11:15 am - Room: Pink 2
Christopher Baldwin is ATM business manager for Cascade Communications Corp., a worldwide supplier of Multiservice Wide Area Network Switches. In this role, Mr. Baldwin is responsible for the development and marketing of Cascade's suite of ATM switch products spanning all product lines. Prior to joining Cascade, Mr. Baldwin was ATM product marketing manager for Chipcom Corp., where he was responsible for the company's ATM product development and marketing efforts, including joint ATM development efforts with IBM Corp. Prior to that, Mr. Baldwin was a design engineer for Digital Equipment Corp., where he supported the development of FDDI and ATM switch products industry standards. Mr. Baldwin has also held R&D positions at Polaroid Corp., concentrating in high-capacity fiber optic transmission systems for fiber to the home. Mr. Baldwin has a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Brown University, and a Master of Science degree from the Institute of Optics and the University of Rochester.
Sessions:
Success Factors for ATM in the WAN - Saturday - 3:00 pm - Room: Fran A
Colby is the founder of Europa a mid-size ISP in Portland OR that is deploying DSL technologies in the area. Colby will be discussing the efforts that Europa is making to break the bandwidth bottleneck.
Sessions:
Deploying DSL in 1997 Panel Discussion - Saturday - 4:30 pm - Room: Cont 6
Jim Barrick is president, CEO, chief technology officer, and founder of Keynote Systems. Jim spent eight years with Hewlett-Packard in both project management and engineering positions in software order fulfillment reengineering. He holds a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Masters in Engineering from Stanford University. He is the holder of a U.S. patent in tool design, and has authored papers and been a guest speaker on the topic of applying Internet technology to sales-lead generation, customer order fulfillment, and post-sale customer service.
Sessions:
Use Performance as Your Competitive Edge - Thursday - 1:30 pm - Room: Cont 4
Internet Measurement- How and Why - Friday - 1:30 pm - Room: Imp A
Alex Barrotti is one of the original founders of INEX and currently serves as the company's chief technology officer. Barrotti is an accomplished independent software developer with significant experience in the design and implementation of financial and accounting systems. Throughout his career, Barrotti has successfully developed and installed solutions for a variety of leading organizations, including Bell Mobility, SHL Systemhouse, the Canadian Federal Government, and Zorin Systems Corporation. Barrotti has achieved accreditation as a Microsoft Certified Professional and was a lecturer on various technical concepts including advanced database design at the University of Toronto.
Sessions:
Providing E-Commerce - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Pink 1
Phil Becker is the President of eSoft, Inc. and author of The Bread Board System BBS software package. He is also author of the book Introduction to PC Communications published by QUE, and founding partner of ONE, Inc. Phil's career in computer communications software and hardware goes back to his work on the Apollo moon mission and Viking Mars Lander.
Sessions:
Domain Name System- How it Works - Friday - 8:45 am - Room: Imp A
Connecting Small Business to the Internet - Friday - 1:30 pm - Room: Fran B
Curtis L. Benton is the President of WESTELL WorldWide Services, a company formed to provide both ADSL and supporting services to WESTELL's customers. Benton started his career with AT&T Long Lines as a Transmission engineer and progressed through various positions which included engineering, operations and regulatory. In 1989 he joined WESTELL, Inc. as its executive vice president and chief operating officer and now is the president of the WESTELL company charged with the provision of services. He holds a AAS degree in Electronic Technology from DeVry in Chicago, a BSEE degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia, Missouri and an MBA from Georgia State University in Atlanta.
Sessions:
ADSL Installation- The Real Deal - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Cont 5
Juan Bergelund is the president of Americas Exchange, located in Dallas, Texas, an Internet service and business provider. Juan co-founded Americas Exchange in 1995 and expanded the company to a full-service ISP. His innovative approach to the communication service industry results from more than five years of practical and real-world experience in the Internet and telecommunications business.
Sessions:
Internet Developments and Opportunities in Latin America - Saturday - 10:15 am - Room: Fran B
Bob Bevill has been an independent networking consultant for over eight years, with over 20 years in the industry, providing technical guidance to several companies, both small and large. Bevill's specialty is site/facilities management, network capacity planning, disaster contingency, virtual corporate alliances, revenue sharing, and telcommuting manpower resources.
Sessions:
It Takes a Network Village: Horizontal Outsourcing Technique - Saturday - 3:00 pm - Room: Gray 2
Building a Small ISP from Scratch Using Linux - Friday - 10:15 am - Room: Gray 2
As director of engineering at Shiva's Cupertino, California office, Shekar Bhide heads development of Shiva's acceleration technologies. In this role, he is responsible for creating innovative products to provide better performance to users of Shiva's remote access technologies. Prior to joining Shiva, Shekar held engineering positions at Airsoft and Hewlett Packard, in the networking division. Shekar holds a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Sessions:
Implementing HTTP Acceleration in the POP - Saturday - 1:30 pm - Room: Gray 1
Joan Blair is Digital's MCIS initiative manager. She works with Digital's product management and services organizations to provide the feature rich MCIS Internet products in reliable and highly available Digital configurations, backed by dozens of service engineers world wide. She has more than 20 years experience in the computer industry working with customers, value added resellers, and Internet technologists in both the public and private sector.
Sessions:
NT and the ISPs - Boom or Bust? - Friday - 1:30 pm - Room: Pink 1
Nicholas Bologna began his business career as a successful new business salesman and sales manager for IBM Corporation. After 13 years at IBM, Bologna joined the start-up management team at Stratus Computer, where he served as the company's first vice president of marketing. Mr. Bologna went on to become a senior executive on the management team that turned Sequoia Systems from a financially troubled start-up to a successful IPO in less than three years. Prior to his current position, Bologna worked as a venture capitalist and financial advisor to emerging high-technology companies. He was responsible, in June 1993, for a major funding of PSINet. Bologna is currently president and CEO of Dynaflo Systems, a supplier of Internet communications products to the ISP community.
Sessions:
Mining the Small to Mid Size Business Market Profitablility - Thursday - 1:30 pm - Room: Fran C
Sessions:
ISP Interconnection and Public Access Points - Friday - 3:00 pm - Room: Imp B
Eric is a Graduate of Santa Clara University School of Law where he received the High Technology Law Certificate. He graduated cum laude from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in computer information systems. Prior to attending law school he worked as a programmer and systems analyst. During law school he worked for Taligent, Inc. focusing on the various methods for protecting Taligent's intellectual property, gaining experience in copyright, trademark, and patent protection. Since admission to the bar in California, he has practiced primarily in the area of intellectual property and litigation with Davis & Schroeder.
Sessions:
Considerations in Designing a Web Site Development Agreement - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Cont 4
Bob Bownes is the Senior Internet Services Product Manager for Intermedia Communications. He is responsible for strategy and coordination of Internet and IP routed services at Intermedia. Previously a consultant and engineer with companies such as Sun Microsystems and Supercomputer Systems Incorporated, he has spent over 17 years in the UNIX and workstation market. Bob received a Bachelors of Computer Science from the State University of New York at Albany.
Sessions:
ISP Interconnection and Public Access Points - Friday - 3:00 pm - Room: Imp B
David Boyes is a practicing Internet backbone and interconnection engineer with Dimension Enterprises, a communications consulting firm in Herndon, VA. His background spans large systems and workstation system design, development and deployment, teaching at several public and private universities, industrial software engineering, and development of the Internet from early ARPAnet to current exchange point engineering worldwide. He is an active participant in international and industry standards groups and is currently researching performance evaluation and analysis for global and corporate internetworks.
Sessions:
Scaling Networks in the Rapidly Expanding Internet - Saturday - 8:45 am - Room: Fran D
Charles Brewer, the 38-year-old founder of MindSpring, is originally from Louisville, Kentucky. Charles is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College, with a BA in economics. He received his MBA from Stanford University. Brewer's experience includes employment with Wertheim & Company, an investment banking firm; he also served as vice president of Sanders & Company, a venture capital firm. From May 1989 to April 1993, Brewer was employed at AudioFAX, a fax technology company, first as the CFO and then as the CEO. Brewer is an outdoor enthusiast and avid kayaker.
Sessions:
History and Philosophy of MindSpring - Friday - 3:00 pm - Room: Imp A
National Backbone Panel 1 - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Imp A
Robert Bruce, director of Internet services, Volcano Internet Providers, a California-based ISP and subsidiary of Volcano Telephone Company (Pine Grove, CA). With a strong background in Internet marketing and small business management, Bruce has been involved with electronic communications since 1985.
Sessions:
Internet TV: The Growth Opportunity for ISPs - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Fran D
Cliff Bryant is the Director of Acquisitions for MindSpring Enterprises, Inc., a National ISP. Cliff has been with MindSpring Enterprises for two years and was formerly with Mobil Chemical Corporation. Cliff received his MBA from James Madison University
Sessions:
Buying or Selling an ISP - A Case Study - Thursday - 3:00 pm - Room: Cont 5
James Butler is a partner in Arnall Golden & Gregory, LLP. He represents a wide variety of business clients and has experience in all types of commercial litigation including contracts, partnerships, non-compete agreements and intellectual property issues. He also has experience in computer-related subjects, particularly online issues of privacy, copyright, trademark, obscenity, commerce and defamation, and presently represents Internet providers, information and content providers, and companies that provide services to Internet-related businesses. He is counsel to the Association of Online Professional for Internet issues, and is a member of the computer and intellectual property sections of the Georgia State Bar.
Sessions:
Keys to the Bank - Legal Liabilities and Network Security - Saturday - 1:30 pm - Room: Pink 1
Ms. Cady is the Public Policy spokesperson for NETCOM, an international commercial network service provider. She has presented before the FCC, The Joint/House Senate Judiciary Committee, the Federal Communications Bar Association, and represents NETCOM to the Interactive Services Association (ISA), the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) Association, and other policy and trade organizations. She is chair of ISA's Online Policy Committee. She was a CIX delegate to the 1996 WIPO Diplomatic Conference on Certain Copyright and Neighboring Rights Questions in Geneva. She chairs the California Internet Industry Alliance, a group formed to work with California legislators and regulatory agencies. At NETCOM she was instrumental in building NETCOM's web and gopher servers and she set up the technical support operation for NETCOM customers. She served as a member of the development team for NETCOM's NetCruiser Internet software. She is an experienced implementer of information systems serving the networked business, academic and research communities. She has served as manager of information services for both the NSFNET (a principal backbone of the Internet in the United States) and CICNet (the regional research and education network serving the Great Lakes' states). Ms. Cady also was product marketing manager for the Amdahl 5990 mainframe computing system. Preceding her association with Amdahl, Ms. Cady was Assistant Director, Computing Systems and Services, for the Research Libraries Group, Inc. Ms. Cady is the co-author of _Mastering the Internet_ from Sybex. She has written and presented widely on the value of using networks to aid in achieving communications goals. Her personal web pages can be found at http://www.manymedia.com/glee and at http://www.netcom.com/~glee
Sessions:
Update on Copyright - Friday - 10:15 am - Room: Gray 1
Ed Callan is the director of consumer and small business markets for Pacific Bell Internet Services (PBI). He is responsibile for all aspects of marketing targeted toward the consumer and the small/medium Business marketplaces. Formerly, Callan held the position of senior product manager in charge of the consumer dial-up Internet access service. As senior product manager he brought PBI's consumer service from beta test to launch and subsequently managed all aspects of the service, including product features and enhancements, pricing, promotional activities, and channels. Pacific Bell Internet Services is a wholly owned independent subsidiary of Pacific Bell. Ed Callan has been with PBI since the subsidiary was spun off in July 1995. Prior to coming to PBI, he was a senior consultant at Dataquest, doing management consulting for the online, Internet, and software industries. Ed Callan has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to the above-mentioned positions, he has spent several years as a software developer for start-up firms in the Silicon Valley.
Sessions:
RBOC Panel 1 - Thursday - 3:00 pm - Room: Imp B
RBOC Panel 2 - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Imp B
Robert Cannon is an attorney in Washington, D.C., practicing in the area of Internet Telecommunications. Cannon is a frequent writer and speaker on Internet legal issues. He is a contributing editor to the Cyberspace Law Authorities Reports and regularly contributes articles to publications of the Commercial Internet Exchange, the Internet Society, and the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA). His law review article "The Legislative History of Senator Exon's Communications Decency Act" was published this past year in the Federal Communications Law Journal. Cannon recently presented a paper entitled "The Internet at the FCC: Cybernauts vs. Ma Bell" at INET'97, the Internet Society's annual meeting which was held in Malaysia. Cannon is also the co-chair of the FCBA's On-line Telecommunications Committee and was the FCBA's web master from 1995 to 1997. He is a graduate of the American University Law School, has a Masters in Ethics from Yale University, and a Bachelors from Oberlin College.
Sessions:
Internet at the FCC - Friday - 10:15 am - Room: Cont 4
How ISPs Can Take Advantage of the FCC's $2.25 Billion Fund - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Pink 1
Stephen Catanzano, commercial products business manager for Aware's ADSL products, is responsible for the product definition and deployment of Aware's ADSL productss through carriers and ISPs worldwide.
Sessions:
Using ADSL to Provide Ultra High Speed Internet Access - Saturday - 3:00 pm - Room: Fran D
Mark Chahanovich is the vice president and founder of the TeraFarm line of business at StorageTek Corporation. Mark is also the founder of Teris Consulting Group, a division of StorageTek. Mark's career at StorageTek spans over 15 years and he has held key roles in the design and launch of StorageTek's first automated tape library and opening a major sales territory in the southern U.S. region.
Sessions:
Storage - Backbone of the Internet - Saturday - 10:15 am - Room: Pink 2
John Charters, vice president of Internet Services and Applications Development, directs strategic marketing and delivery of all U S WEST Communications Internet related services. His responsibilities include Intranet/Internet access, web services, security services, electronic commerce and EDI transaction services. John went to work for U S WEST Communications in July 1985, as a network engineer after receiving a BS in electrical engineering from Gonzaga University in Washington state. Charters spent a number of years in the engineering organizations of U S West, and then moved into sales and marketing, where he held numerous positions in both fields. Charters received his MBA from Gonzaga University in 1991 and transitioned into a staff role in the marketing organization focused on developing strategies supporting data networking integration for the newly created !NTERPRISE product development division of US West. Charters officially joined the !NTERPRISE organization in 1994 as a sales director, serving the western United States. In 1996, he was named executive director, for !NTERACT Services Development, the Internet services portfolio offered by US West, setting product and marketing strategy for the development of new Internet and Intranet services to be offered by US West's customers nationwide.
Sessions:
RBOC Panel 1 - Thursday - 3:00 pm - Room: Imp B
RBOC Panel 2 - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Imp B
April Chou is a product manager at Cisco Systems. She is responsible for defining strategies on dial access technologies, including VPDN.
Sessions:
Virtual Private Dialup Network - Saturday - 8:45 am - Room: Cont 5
Sessions:
ISPs and Internet Taxation - Thursday - 3:00 pm - Room: Cont 4
Update on Copyright - Friday - 10:15 am - Room: Gray 1
Alan Cohen is the director of marketing and strategy for IBM's Telecommunications and Media business unit. He is a member of the $5 billion business unit senior executive team with key responsibility for thought leadership, marketing and alliances. Cohen joined IBM in 1995 as director of electronic commerce for IBM's Internet division, where his responsibilities included business and services development, and strategy for electronic catalog services. In September, 1996, Cohen launched IBM World Distributor, a pioneer business-to-business Internet commerce service. Prior to IBM, Cohen was director of corporate strategy for US West in Denver, where he worked on the company's wireless strategy and partnerships and broadband efforts. Before US West, he was a management consultant with Coopers & Lybrand's information/ consulting practice. His clients included AT&T, NYNEX, Bellcore, RAM Mobile. Before Coopers & Lybrand, he was Congressional Research Fellow and International trade consultant in Washington, DC. Cohen holds a Bachelor's Degree in English from State University of New York, a Master's Degree in International Economics from American University School of International Service and an MBA from NYU's Stern School of Business. He has written often on international trade and business for the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post and other publications and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and on various broadcast media. Cohen, his wife Carol, and their two children reside in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Sessions:
Killer App - It's Under Your Nose - Thursday - 3:00 pm - Room: Cont 6
Sessions:
Peering - What Are the Rules, if Any? - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Fran A
Sessions:
Why You Need a Trade Association (Panel) - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Cont 4
Spam and a World of Pain for ISPs - Thursday - 1:30 pm - Room: Cont 6
ISPs and Internet Taxation - Thursday - 3:00 pm - Room: Cont 4
Ken Crocker is a program manager on the Windows Networking team at Microsoft. His primary product focus is Steelhead, an extensible routing platform built on Windows NT. Ken's responsibilities include overall project management and feature definition of Steelhead. Ken has previously held program management responsibilities for Windows NT 4.0 Remote Access and Microsoft's implementation of the Point-to-point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP). Prior to joining Microsoft, Ken was employed as a group leader at The MITRE Corporation, managing a team designing and prototyping mobile networking systems for the aviation industry. Ken holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia.
Sessions:
NT Routing - Friday - 8:45 am - Room: Fran C
Tracy Crowe joined QUALCOMM, Inc. as senior product marketing manager for the Eudora Division in February 1996. He is responsible for worldwide product definition, positioning and management of the Eudora Pro/ Light client and WorldMail server product lines. Crowe was instrumental in the determination of the advanced feature set of the award winning Eudora Pro 3.0 release, and in localizing the client product into five languages. He was also responsible for initial design, recruitment and management of the Eudora Developer's program. Crowe's experience includes serving in product development and marketing positions at Hewlett-Packard for over 10 years. During his tenure at Hewlett-Packard, Crowe provided technical marketing support for the company's computer systems and networking business units. Positions ranged from technical marketing to senior product manager for Hewlett-Packard's award-winning JetDirect network printing cards. Crowe also managed a team of technical consultants researching the issues of developing products for Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining QUALCOMM, Tracy served as marketing manager for network printing products at Emulex Corporation in Costa Mesa, California. A frequent speaker on the future of Internet e-mail, Crowe holds a degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Sessions:
Next Generation E-Mail Provides Exciting Marketing Apps - Saturday - 8:45 am - Room: Fran C
Prior to joining AimQuest Corporation in September, 1996, Culine spent five years at NCD Corporation, a publicly traded company, where he successfully held the positions of south european sales manager, V.P. of international sales, and V.P. of sales and marketing for NCD Software, a fully owned subsidiary of NCD Corporation. In these positions, he introduced and promoted Internet related software products, such as an Internet e-mail package, Internet browsers, and PC connectivity products. During his stay at NCD, his major achievements included over 100 percent revenue growth per year in each of the territories he controlled. Prior to joining NCD, Culine held various management positions in computer sales in Europe. Recent industry presentations include ISP '97-Amsterdam, Telecoms @ The Internet III-London and Internet Roaming '97-San Francisco.
Sessions:
Roaming Panel - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Fran A
As chief technical officer of BBN Corporation, John Curran is responsible for setting BBN Planet's strategic technology direction, including establishing the overall direction for products and services. He leads design activities for BBN Planet's network and service infrastructure with a particular emphasis on scaling, management and security issues.
Sessions:
Network Reliability - The Hidden Truth - Saturday - 10:15 am - Room: Imp A
National Backbone Panel 2 - Saturday - 8:45 am - Room: Cont 4
Bob Dalias is the director of software services for Remote Access Technologies focused on developing service provider solutions. Dalias has a strong history in virtual private networks having introduced them in the LAN switching space while at UB Networks. Prior to joining the vendor community, Dalias was the director of engineering at SIAC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the NY and American Stock Exchanges; his team pioneered the network for the NYSE trading floor. Dalias holds a BS in computer science from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY.
Sessions:
Understanding and Implementing Dial VPN Services - Friday - 11:15 am - Room: Gray 1
Robert Daunt is primarily involved in the practice of commercial law with an emphasis on computer technology licensing, copyrights, trademarks, and the organization and administration of small closely held businesses. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his law degree from the University of Toledo, where he was an editor of the law review. Daunt is the author of law review articles on the subjects of usury and software product warranties. He served as controller and general counsel for a mid-western manufacturer before joining the firm in 1981, and he has been a principal of the firm since 1984. Daunt has counseled many clients regarding web development agreements.
Sessions:
Considerations in Designing a Web Site Development Agreement - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Cont 4
As a product specialist at Shiva Corporation, Pete Davis is responsible for development of new products for the ISP sector. He also assists with product installations at customer sites and serves as an escalation point for systems engineers and technical account managers working directly with engineering and QA. Davis started his technical career at age 14 volunteering at WZLX, a local Boston radio station, where he helped establish their site on the Internet and maintain their electronic presence. Prior to working at Shiva, Davis was the senior systems and network engineer and one of first three employees at TIAC, an Internet service provider, where he worked for 3 1/2 years and eventually worked full time after finishing high school. Davis has been featured in Fortune, as well as many local high-tech publications. He is currently attending Boston University part time majoring in computer science.
Sessions:
Dial Access - Strategies for Setting up a New POP - Friday - 10:15 am - Room: Fran C
Sky Dayton felt compelled to create an Internet service provision company after being put off by the difficulty and expense of getting connected to the Internet. In March 1994, he created software which allowed an inexpensive, direct connection to the Internet from any location on the network with a state-of-the-art, multi-platform browser and dial-up capability of 28.8 Kbps to access the broad spectrum of information on the Web. EarthLink, currently adding over 20 percent per month to its subscriber base, is the largest privately held Internet service provider and the third largest of any in the United States. In 1995, Dayton was included on Micro Times' eighth annual "Micro Times 100" a list of "movers, shakers, good citizens and others who made a difference to the computer industry in 1994." He has also been acknowledged by the LA Business Journal as one of the top 100 "Who's Who in High Technology in Los Angeles County." Variety included Dayton in its list of "50 Players to Watch" in the entertainment industry.
Sessions:
ISPs - Beginning of the Internet Economy - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Cont 5
Paul Michael DeCicco practices law in San Diego, California. His practice includes computer and Internet law, intellectual property law, and general litigation. He has practiced with firms of Livens and DeCicco, P.C,, and DeCicco Kopelowitz & Quinn, and is licensed to practice law in California, Texas and Colorado. He received his law degree from University of San Diego. DeCicco has also worked as a systems analyst/programmer, senior financial analyst, senior marketing analyst, PC product planner and software contracts administrator for Xerox Corporation. DeCicco has also acted as a marketing consultant to Digital Equipment Corporation, and Centel Business System. He has designed, programmed, and published software for use with devices using the musical instrument digital interface (MIDI). Current projects include setting up an ISP business in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In addition to his law degree, Mr. DeCicco holds a BA in philosophy, and a Master's of Business Administration from Boston University (with honors) concentrating in finance and information systems. He has studied design at the Boston Architectural Center where he lectured in photography and aerial photograph. Paul is a licensed airplane pilot, PADI Certified Dive Master, and avid sailor.
Sessions:
What Every ISP Should Know about Intellectual Property Law - Saturday - 4:30 pm - Room: Fran A
Valuing the ISP - A Practical Approach - Saturday - 8:45 am - Room: Imp B
As a result of his deep interest in the Web, Robert Denny "retired" after 11 years as founder and chief executive officer of Alisa Systems, Inc., a technology integration company. Bob is the chief developer of O'Reilly & Associates' WebSite and WebSite Professional servers, award-winning web software products, and he lends his business experience to the sales and marketing process as well. His servers (both WebSite and its predecessor, Win httpd) have been used by more than 100,000 people worldwide. Bob's technical strengths are in system programming and UI design; his management strengths are in strategic directions in the technology market and business operations. Bob holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona, and two U.S. patents for processing techniques used in high frequency radio data modems. He currently serves as chairman of Alisa Systems.
Sessions:
Web Cryptography on the Web - Saturday - 11:15 am - Room: Fran C
As former senior vice president of Oracle Corporation's New Media division, Mr. Dibachi led the development of Oracle's multimedia database, tools, and networking products. Previously, he was vice president of marketing for Oracle's Tools division and senior director of product development in the Desktop Products division. Prior to joining Oracle, he served on the senior technical staff at Tandem Computers and as an engineer in the Nuclear Energy division at General Electric. Mr. Dibachi received bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering and computer science from San Jose State University.
Sessions:
Ann DiSilvestre is general manager of Info Avenue Internet Services, LLC located outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. Prior to this position, she was manager of Internet services at Hargray Telephone Company in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Originally from the Washington, DC area, Ann has over 15 years experience in computers and telecommunications.
Sessions:
Tech Support - Draw the Line to Save the Bottom Line? - Saturday - 4:30 pm - Room: Gray 2
Jim Dondero is senior manager, marketing for Nortel's Internet Solutions Group. Based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, he has responsibility for product marketing, marketing communications, sales promotion and channel marketing for the corporation's Rapport portfolio of Internet/Intranet access products. Additionally, he is an active member of a cross-divisional team tasked with developing and marketing Internet Thruway, Nortel's broad scale solution for relieving the voice network congestion due to the dramatic growth in dial-up data traffic. Previously, he served in the Global Marketing organization of Nortel's Magellan products group. His industry speaking credits include "Cultural Implications of the Global Internet" at the 1996 Internet Commerce Expo and "Emerging PSTN Bypass Technologies" at Telecom@The Internet III in 1997. Dondero holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia and a Master's of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sessions:
Remote Access Outsourcing - Friday - 10:15 am - Room: Pink 2
Barbara Dooley is executive director of the Commercial Internet eXchange Association, an international trade association of Internet service providers, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. Previously, she was the managing editor and publisher of the industry newsletter, CIXtra, and a strategic business consultant specializing in ISP interconnection for Dimension Enterprises, Herndon, Virginia. She worked in voice operations at Sprint International (now Global One). From 1986-1992, Ms. Dooley worked as an strategic and research consultant specializing in East European basic industries. She received her B.A. from Brown University, an M.A. in soviet studies from the University of Kansas, and will have a Master's in business in 1998.
Sessions:
Why You Need a Trade Association (Panel) - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Cont 4
Spam and a World of Pain for ISPs - Thursday - 1:30 pm - Room: Cont 6
ISPs and Internet Taxation - Thursday - 3:00 pm - Room: Cont 4
ISP Interconnection and Public Access Points - Friday - 3:00 pm - Room: Imp B
Eric Eden is a senior registration analyst with Network Solutions, Inc., the company that operates the InterNIC registration services for the .com, .org, .net, .edu, and .gov top level domains. Eden resolves complex customer issues; supports the InterNIC's processing center and call center, helping staff resolve technical issues with customers; and provides advanced registration services for Internet service providers and other customers who deal with large numbers of domain names.
Sessions:
Domain Registration Services - Tips and Tricks - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Cont 6
Michael Eggley is the Director of netINS, Inc., the Internet division of Iowa Network Services, Inc. located in Des Moines, IA. Mike has been with the firm over nine years and was one of its original employees. INS owns and operates a state-wide fiber-optic network throughout the state of Iowa serving over 300 rural and metro communities. netINS is the largest and oldest Internet provider in the state, providing dialup and high-speed access to the Internet both within and outside the state. Mr. Eggley is also the President of the Internet Providers Association of Iowa, an association dedicated to promoting the growth of the Internet and its positive role in business and the community.
Sessions:
ISPs and Internet Taxation - Thursday - 3:00 pm - Room: Cont 4
Rian is a hardware and software technologies consultant, who has worked closely with the industry on DSL technologies. He will be talking about the specific chipsets and core technologies used in vendors products.
Sessions:
Deploying DSL in 1997 Panel Discussion - Saturday - 4:30 pm - Room: Cont 6
Compaq's Internet Solution Division is chartered to develop and sell a range of x86-based products and services to the "Internet infrastructure." This division is developing technologies for electronic commerce and for providing value-added services over the Internet. Favaloro's responsibilities include defining the division's strategy and direction, and developing and managing key partnerships. Favaloro moved into this position after spending two and one half years as director of technology planning in Compaq's Corporate Development organization.
Sessions:
Hurdles on the Way to the Full Service Internet - Saturday - 3:00 pm - Room: Cont 4
Keynote - Thursday - 9:00 am - Room: Cont 4-5-6
Kevin Fink is the CTO at N2H2, Inc. He joined N2H2 at its inception and is the primary developer of the company's pioneering filtering proxy server software. He is responsible for development of products and services and directing technical support. Fink received his Master of Science degree in electrical engineering at the University of Washington. He has over 14 years experience with a wide variety of computer systems and programming languages. He served as a systems administrator, network and Internet consultant, and MIS Director prior to joining the company.
Sessions:
Providing Filtered Internet Access with ChoiceNet and Bess - Thursday - 3:00 pm - Room: Fran B
Fisher joins Concentric Network after a successful career at Pacific Bell. From September 1996 until he joined Concentric, Fisher was general manager and marketing vice president of Pacific Bell Internet Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Bell. From June 1995 to August 1996, he served as marketing vice president of Pacific Bell Internet Services. From 1989 to May 1995, Fisher held various data product marketing and data center operations positions at Pacific Bell, and was responsible for developing Pacific Bell's Internet strategy and launching the company's Internet Services subsidiary in late 1994. Prior to joining Pacific Bell, Fisher served as a Naval Officer for 7 years with responsibility for Navy Combat Information Systems. He has an M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an engineering degree from the U.S. Naval Academy.
Sessions:
Voice and Video and Evolution of Private Network Services - Friday - 1:30 pm - Room: Fran D
Sara Fitzgerald is a consultant, specializing in interactive media and related public policy issues. Her clients include The Direct Marketing Association, the oldest and largest national trade association serving the direct marketing industry. The DMA's 3,600 members include AT&T, America Online, CompuServe, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, MCI, Microsoft, Prodigy, Firefly, and a growing number of Internet-based businesses. Ms. Fitzgerald previously served as director of member services of the Interactive Services Association and director of Project OPEN, the Online Public Education Network. While at the ISA, she worked on the development of the DMA-ISA Joint Principles on Unsolicited E-Mail Marketing, released in June 1995. Prior to that, she spent five years in new media development with The Washington Post Co. and its Digital Ink subsidiary. In addition, she has worked as an editor and reporter for The Post, National Journal magazine, The Miami Herald and the Akron Beacon Journal. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
Sessions:
Spam and a World of Pain for ISPs - Thursday - 1:30 pm - Room: Cont 6
Dr. Paul A. Flaherty is a research engineer with Digital's Network Systems Laboratory. He received his Bachelor's degree in mathemeatics and electrical engineering, summa cum laude, from MarquetteUniversity, and his Master's and Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering from Stanford University. His work encompasses the broad field of electrical engineering, including radioscience, signal processing, computer architecture and communications, and spacecraft design. Formerly a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, he joined Digital in 1994. Dr. Flaherty was the founder of the Alta Vista web indexing project. His work at Digital has included several projects on the World Wide Web, and research into infra-red wireless networks.
Sessions:
AltaVista- Lessons of Running a Web Site that Really Scales! - Friday - 1:30 pm - Room: Gray 1
William Foster is International and Policy Editor for CIXtra, the newsletter of the Commercial Internet eXchange Association (CIX). He is also pursuing his Ph.D. in global information systems at the University of Arizona.
Sessions:
Update on Copyright - Friday - 10:15 am - Room: Gray 1
Les Fraim is director of security services at ANS Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online and one of the largest Internet service providers. ANS delivers a suite of managed network services to large and mid-sized businesses. Fraim came to ANS from Mitre Corporation where he held the position of department head of secured information technology. He was responsible for all aspects of the business operation in meeting customer requirements. Fraim's areas of focus at Mitre included, secure services, certification and accreditation support, architecture and standards development, evaluation of system vulnerabilities and fielding prototype products. Prior to Mitre Corp., Fraim was responsible for the development of trusted systems technology for the Honeywell government market. In late 1979, he was assigned the responsibility of completing a research project aimed at building a very secure general purpose mini-computer. This program was transitioned into the development of the only system to receive Class A1 rating from the National Computer Security Center (NCSC). The Secure Communication Processor (SCOMP) product received the first and only Class A1 product rating in December 1984. Fraim received his Master's Degree in technology of management from American University in Washington, DC and a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from California State Polytechnic College.
Sessions:
Securing Your Piece of the Internet - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Imp B
Outsourcing for Enterprise Internet Solutions - Saturday - 3:00 pm - Room: Fran C
Maurice France has over 30 years experience in the communications field with the U.S. Navy, TRW and now RadioConnect Corporation. His projects have included spacecraft networks, satellite communications, secure military communications, cable modems and currently, commercial wireless communications products. France holds a BEE from the Georgia Institute of Technology and patents on cable modems and wireless communications systems.
Sessions:
Cost Effective Wireless Service for ISPs - Saturday - 10:15 am - Room: Pink 1
Avi Freedman is the founder of Net Access, a Philidelphia-based ISP with more than 80 dedicated customers. He is also the cofounder of Net Access USA, a national provider specializing in connections for ISPs.
Sessions:
Routing - Friday - 8:45 am - Room: Imp B
Multihoming - Friday - 11:15 am - Room: Imp B
Peering - What Are the Rules, if Any? - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Fran A
Michael Gaddis is executive vice president and chief technical officer at SAVVIS Communications, responsible for overseeing the entire network operation, configuration and development. Gaddis has 20 years of professional experience in computers and communications, including 11 years working specifically with networking in development and operational roles. Before joining SAVVIS, Gaddis was director of software development for St. Louis Technical Center, where he implemented network control and signaling for the center's ATM products. Gaddis' previous positions include research posts in the Applied Research Laboratory, the Advanced Communications Systems Laboratory and the Department of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis. As a researcher at Washington University, he helped develop one of the first ATM switches, which is now a commercial product for Bay Networks.
Sessions:
Emerging High-End "Next Generation" Internet Services - Friday - 10:15 am - Room: Imp A
National Backbone Panel 2 - Saturday - 8:45 am - Room: Cont 4
Dr. Elon A. Ganor, the "Father of Internet Telephony," joined VocalTec in 1990 after nearly a decade working in international business and several years serving as a practicing physician. Prior to joining VocalTec, Ganor was founder and president of Virovahl SA, a Swiss-based biotechnology company which was the first to develop a synthetic peptides AIDS test. He also was senior vice president of La Cresta International, an international marketing company based in Switzerland that acquired a major stake in VocalTec Ltd. in 1990. Ganor holds a medical degree from Tel Aviv Medical School.
Sessions:
Communications Revolution and IP Telephony - Saturday - 1:30 pm - Room: Fran D
Bill Gassman is a software consultant with Digital Equipment Corporation's Internet engineering group. He has worked in the networking industry for 20 years, 17 with DIGITAL in New Hampshire. His background includes software engineering of IBM connectivity products, building and operating Digital's corporate data network, marketing and product management positions for networking and network management products, and technical support for Internet security and ISP products. Bill has a 1974 BSEE from Michigan Tech in Houghton, Michigan.
Sessions:
Approaches to Customer Management - Saturday - 11:15 am - Room: Fran B
As the director of technology marketing at Bay Networks, Bob Gaughan determines strategic requirements for the company's extensive line if internetworking products and services. Gaughan has over 20 years of experience in the data communications industry. Prior to joining Bay Networks in 1992, he was a systems marketing manager at Motorola Codex, in Mansfield, Massachusetts, for 11 years. Prior to that he spent six years as a marketing administrator at New England Telephone, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gaughan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York.
Sessions:
How to Market Differentiated Services - Friday - 3:00 pm - Room: Cont 4
Keynote - Thursday - 9:00 am - Room: Cont 4-5-6
Rudolph J. Geist is a telecommunications attorney with the Washington, D.C. based law firm of Wilkes, Artis, Hedrick & Lane specializing in and leading in the development of the emerging area of Internet law. Mr. Geist serves as counsel to the United States Internet Providers Association (USIPA) (www.usipa.org), a national organization representing the interests of independent ISPs in regard to complex legal, regulatory, legislative and policy issues on both the federal and state levels. Through his efforts on behalf of USIPA and individual ISPs, Mr. Geist attempts to isolate significant issues that affect ISPs within the overall telecommunications industry, educate ISPs about the issues, and fight to ensure that ISPs are fairly represented in the process. Mr. Geist is currently a contributing writer to both ISP Report, a financial newsletter specifically for ISPs, and Boardwatch, where he contributes a policy column. Mr. Geist received a self-designed Honors Interdisciplinary B.A. in communications law from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, where he achieved magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors. Mr. Geist received his law degree from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., where was a graduating member of its prestigious Institute for Communications Law Studies, and served as Lead Articles Editor of CommLaw Conspectus: Journal of Communications Law and Policy. Mr. Geist has also published articles in the area of communications regulatory policy and is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association.
Sessions:
How ISPs Can Take Advantage of the FCC's $2.25 Billion Fund - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Pink 1
Larry Gilbert serves as vice president of strategic development for CyberCash. Previously, Mr. Gilbert served as vice president and general manager of CyberCoin Services. In this role he had overall responsibility for the company's micro-payments line of business. Mr. Gilbert originally joined the company as its general counsel and corporate secretary, where he had responsibility for the company's legal affairs, maintaining relations with government agencies and coordinating the company's involvement in various trade and industry associations. Prior to joining CyberCash, Mr. Gilbert was engaged in private law practice, most recently in Honolulu, HI, Where he founded the firm of Gilbert, Jackson & Godbey and concentrated his practice serving the needs of business, commercial and technology clients, including acting as original counsel for VeriFone, Inc. Mr. Gilbert has also served on a consultative basis in assisting the executive and managerial functions of a number of entities, including serving as a director of a national specialty lines insurance carrier based in Richmond, VA. During his professional career, Mr. Gilbert served as president of the Hawaii State Bar Association in 1992 and as a judge of the District Court of the First Circuit, State of Hawaii. He served in 1993 as special counsel to the Hawaii Senate Special Investigating Committee on Procurement and the Employee's Retirement System. Mr. Gilbert received his Juris Doctor Degree from UCLA in 1977 and his B.A. from Pitzer College in 1973.
Sessions:
Flexible Internet Payment Services - Saturday - 11:15 am - Room: Gray 2
Greg Gilliom is the chief technical officer for Network General Corporation. During his five years with the company, Greg has influenced the testing, design, and development of the Sniffer product line, including the Sniffer Expert analysis code. Greg continues to write code for the Sniffer product line today. Before joining Network General, Greg spent 12 years working for Hewlett-Packard. During his time there, Greg worked in four different division on diverse areas such as power supply design, memory subsystem design, CPU design, IO processor subsystem design, microcode, operating systems, and networking software. During his last four years at HP, Greg was in the Information Network Division, which produced the networking software for HP's HP-UX and MPE computer systems. In general, Greg's interests seemed to draw him towards the self-test, diagnostic, and performance monitoring portions of the projects. His intense interest in monitoring and troubleshooting of networked systems made the move to Network General a perfect fit. Greg received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the Columbia campus of the University of Missouri in 1979.
Sessions:
Managing Router and Network Capacity - Friday - 11:15 am - Room: Fran B
Rose Ann Giordano is the vice president of the Internet Business Group at Digital Equipment Corporation, a group she founded in 1994. She is also the executive partner for the Digital Equipment Computer User's Society (DECUS). In her 18-year career at Digital, Giordano has been a product group manager for DEC's Technical Group and for the company's Large System Marketing Group, a vice president of Eastern State's Accounts, vice president of U.S. Marketing, and vice president of Software Frameworks. Prior to joining Digital, Giordano held technical, sales, marketing and management positions in Xerox's Data Systems division. Prior to that, she was a member of the technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Giordano received a BA in mathematics from Marywood College and an MBA from Stanford University.
Sessions:
Keynote - Thursday - 9:00 am - Room: Cont 4-5-6
Brett Glass is a computer and networking consultant, author, engineer, and Internet visionary based in Laramie, Wyoming. Best known in the computer industry for his weekly "Help Desk" column in InfoWorld, Glass is also founder, chairman, and chief system administrator of LARIAT (Laramie Internet Access and Telecommunications). With LARIAT, Glass pioneered the use of spread spectrum radio technology to create the first wireless community network and the only community network in the state of Wyoming. Brett also helped to develop the original standard and chipset for the IEEE 802.5 Token Ring, and has created code and documentation to many successful hardware and software products. As a member of the Wyoming State Telecommunications Council, Brett also advises state government on telecommunications issues.
Sessions:
Dial-In Policy Panel - Saturday - 4:30 pm - Room: Fran C
Creating "The Disk" Panel - Saturday - 8:45 am - Room: Gray 2
Dealing with Ma Bell Panel - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Gray 2
Prior to co-founding VitalSigns Software Inc. in 1996, Goetz served as vice president of network management for Bay Networks Inc. where he managed the company's network management business segment. Before his business management assignment, Goetz managed a bi-coastal team responsible for product planning, product management and business development for Bay's Optivity and SNMP Agent product line. Prior to SynOptics, Mr. Goetz held various product positions with AT&T and AT&T Bell Labs in the area of network management. Goetz graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering and holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Sessions:
Internet Measurement- How and Why - Friday - 1:30 pm - Room: Imp A
David is the core team leader of the FreeBSD project, a freely available, highly popular Operating System in wide use among ISPs.
Sessions:
Deploying DSL in 1997 Panel Discussion - Saturday - 4:30 pm - Room: Cont 6
Sessions:
Spam and a World of Pain for ISPs - Thursday - 1:30 pm - Room: Cont 6
After earning his MS in electrical engineering from Cornell University, Bruce Hahne went to Japan in the fall of 1993. After one year of grinding out C++ code for Mitsubishi Electric and continued frustration with the poor quality and low availability of Internet service in Japan, he escaped the clutches of corporate Japan in 1994 to help create Global OnLine Japan K.K., where he served as vice president of technology until 1996. He has recently organized the formation of, and seed investment for, Access Internet Solutions, Inc. and its sister corporation AIS Japan K.K., companies which will provide discount and value-added Internet fax and voice services to customers worldwide. He presently serves as president of Access Internet Solutions, Inc.
Sessions:
Internet in Japan - Lessons Learned from the Trenches - Thursday - 3:00 pm - Room: Fran D
Raouf Y. Halim is vice president and general manager of the Network Access Division of Rockwell Semiconductor Systems. The newly formed division includes telecommunications, wide area network, and local area network devices, as well as central-site modem products for Internet service providers. Halim has been employed by Rockwell Semiconductor Systems based in Newport Beach, California since 1991. He most recently held the position of vice president of VLSI Engineering where he was responsible for the development of device-sets for multimedia and wireless applications, including mixed-signal, RF, ASIC, microcontrollers, digital signal processors and gallium arsenide devices. His responsibilities included CAE design tools, as well as advanced process and package technology development. From 1985 to 1991, he was employed by Hayes Microcomputer Products in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was responsible for custom modem IC definition/implementation, including delta-sigma analog front-ends, switched-capacitor filters, and voice-band data converters. Halim obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in communications and electrophysics from the University of Alexandria in Egypt in 1982 and his MSEE from Georgia Tech in 1985.
Sessions:
Keynote - Thursday - 9:00 am - Room: Cont 4-5-6
Martin Hall is co-founder and chief technology officer for Stardust Technologies, Inc. Stardust Technologies was started to build the "WinSock Center of Excellence". Martin leads the technical direction of Stardust WinSock Labs. He also serves as the co-chair for the IP Multicast Initative, a group comprised of over 70 Internet vendors, satellite companies and ISPs. Martin is also a co-founder of Aventail Corporation. Martin was formerly vice president of Technology at JSB Corporation where he led the technical division and spearheaded development of their Virtual Socket Library.
Sessions:
IP Multicast and the ISP Landscape - Saturday - 8:45 am - Room: Pink 1
Richard Hart host CNET Central on the USA Network and Sci-Fi Channel each week. He is also co-executive Producer of The New Edge program and Director of Creative Affairs, responsible for content on all 5 CNET TV series. Before that he created The Next Step series of technology reports on The Discovery Channel. He holds degrees in Physics and is the only person to win both an Emmy for comedy and the Dupont-Columbia Journalism Award for Investigative Reporting.
Sessions:
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Wide Web) - Wednesday - 8:00 am - Room: Cont 5-6
As president and CEO of Planet Direct, Hawrysz oversees all strategic and operational functions of the company, and is responsible for ensuring the company's marketplace and financial success. His efforts are aimed at maximizing the true potential of Planet Direct and its offerings for subscribers of the network of 85 ISPs across the United States, content partners and advertisers. Most recently, Hawrysz was vice president of electronic commerce at AT&T's Universal Card Services (UCS) Corp., where he was responsible for developing AT&T's overall strategy and business development program for the emerging electronic payments and electronic commerce marketplace. Hawrysz played a vital role in USC's growth to its position as the second-largest credit card issuer in the U.S., with over 15 million customers and $2.5 billion in revenues, as well as winner of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award. Prior to AT&T, Hawrysz held senior posts over the last 20 years at Merrill Lynch, Dean Witter Reynolds and American Express. Hawrysz earned an economics degree from LaSalle University and an MBA from New York University.
Sessions:
ISPs - Content and Connection - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Pink 2
Adam is a senior instructor at Shiva Corporation. He joined Shiva's product support department in the fall of 1989, and transferred to the training department in the summer of 1994. Adam is responsible for developing and delivering training on Shiva's remote access servers and central site concentrators. Adam graduated from Bennington College with a BA in psychology and photography.
Sessions:
Jonathan Heiliger joined GlobalCenter as Chief Technology Officer in May 1997. Heiliger has played a strategic role in the architecture, commercialization and growth of the Internet since 1992 when he joined BAARNet. As a specialist in multi-protocol network architecture and broadband technologies, Heiliger's experience ranges from designing and managing the implementation of stock exchange networks to supporting the highest trafficked exchange points on the Internet. Prior to joining GlobalCenter, Heiliger was Vice President of Engineering & Operations at Internet Systems, Inc. and Website Network Architect for Netscape Communications. Heiliger also served as a senior technical advisor at MFS Communications, where he was responsible for research and development of cutting edge networking technology.
Sessions:
National Backbone Panel 2 - Saturday - 8:45 am - Room: Cont 4
Fred Held holds a Master's in systems engineering from University of Southern California, and is on the Board of Regents for Woodbury University for 10 years. He has held vice president positions with Mattel Toys in global marketing, CIO, and manufacturing. His career with Mattel spanned over 24 years. He is the visiting Professor in Graduate School of Business for several universities. Held co-founded HomeGate with Pierre Schwob in 1996.
Sessions:
Roaming Panel - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Fran A
Mike Heller is responsible for providing worldwide support to the telecom and service provider industry as Marketing Director for Cisco's Service Provider Line of Business. Prior to joining Cisco, he was with Tandem Computers' Telecommunications Division for nine years, in various Industry Marketing roles, working especially in the Asia Pacific and Latin America regions. Before Tandem he completed 24 years of service within the Telecom Service Providers industry, including positions with Bell Telephone Laboratories, AT&T in New York, Pacific Bell in California, and Pacific Telesis International in London. He has experience in practically every department of a telecom company from engineering to senior management roles. Mike has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, and graduate work in marketing and finance. His articles have been published in many leading telecom telecommunications industry publications, including Telephony Magazine, Americas Network, Convergence, Wireless World, and Telecommunications Magazine. He is also a frequent speaker at telecommunications industry forums around the world.
Sessions:
Internet - Key Business Tool for Improving Customer Service - Friday - 10:15 am - Room: Cont 5
Alex Henthorn is security project manager at Livingston Enterprises. Prior to Livingston, Henthorn worked for Fibronics USA as a network design engineer, and previously as a network design consultant specializing in remote access.
Sessions:
Virtual Private Networking - Friday - 3:00 pm - Room: Fran C
After attending Earlham College and Emory University School of Business Administration, and management positions with Mellon Bank, J. Patrick Herold founded multiple telecommunications service corporations: Federal TransTel, Inc. (FTT); Telecom Associates, Inc.; and Electric Resale Services, Inc. among others. Herold serves as chairman and CEO of FTT, "the 10th Hottest Small Business In America" (Dunn & Bradstreet/Entrepreneur, 10/95). FTT provides full service back office and billing services to resellers, Internet service providers, enhanced telephony service bureaus and electric utility marketers. FTT specializes in assisting companies as they meet the often conflicting challenges of product and industry consolidation leveraged by the efficiencies of outsourcing. Telecom Associates provides niche telecommunications service to Herold's strategic business partners and associates. Examples include: private 800 number service, enhanced e-mail service offerings, and favorably priced long-distance services. As a small closely held business, Telecom Associates focuses on delivering best of class specialty services within minutes of a service request. Speed and discretion are the business hallmarks. Electric Resale Services is a provider of energy wholesale consulting services to the burgeoning U.S. telecommunications reseller industry. Resellers of telecommunications service provide approximately 14 percent of the U.S. long-distance telecommunications services. The deregulation of the electric utility industry is creating strong demand among resellers for ERS services. ERS recently signed its first million dollar contract. Herold holds patents on a variety of information on demand technology, including, push technology and audio-on-demand. These technologies are currently being developed into operating business concerns. Two business models are being explored. Both are expected to enter operational phases in the fourth quarter of 1997. Often called on for speaking engagements. Herold's media credits include, Phone+ Magazine, Audiotex News, Telecommunications Reseller Opportunities Magazine, South Magazine and InfoText, in addition to newspapers, journals and reports. He has served on the board of several industry associations. He is an expert in service bureau billing technologies, the back office challenges facing the deregulation of monopolies and maintaining consumer billing equity in competitive markets. Underpinning these issues is Herold's keen understanding of large scale data processing systems. Herold is married to Janet H. Olsen, an engineer. Olsen oversees European sales and operations for EMS Technologies, Inc. Herold and Olsen reside in Atlanta, Georgia. Additional information is available at Herold's web site: http://www.herold.org.
Sessions:
Leveraging Your BackOffice - Saturday - 8:45 am - Room: Cont 6
As technical director for the ISP business unit, Dan Hession is responsible for all the technical functions of the ISP division, including field consulting, technical account management and systems engineering. Aditionally, he oversees engineeriing and product marketing functions for the division. Hession has held various sales and technical roles at Shiva, which have included derlivering a level of technical account management which has been described by his customers as "world class." Dan holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technlolgy.
Sessions:
Improving Dial-Access Performance and Reliability - Saturday - 11:15 am - Room: Pink 1
Doug Hickey has served as chairman and chief executive officer of GlobalCenter since July 1996. Hickey brings over twenty years of extensive telecommunications and Internet experience including introducing new technologies to the market while sharply increasing corporate revenues and shareholder value for several prominent companies. Prior to joining GlobalCenter, Hickey was president of Internet Services at MFS Communications, which recently acquired UUNET Technologies, the first commercial Internet service and the world's largest provider of Internet connectivity. Before joining MFS Communications, Hickey was general manager of North American sales and field operations at wireless pioneer Ardis, a Motorola company. Hickey led Ardis' marketing and sales organization, including its successful direct and indirect distribution channels. Hickey has also served as vice president of sales and marketing for Telenova, Inc. and Mark Controls.
Sessions:
Content Everywhere - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Imp A
Paul Hoffman is a director in the Internet Mail Consortium, the trade association for companies in the Internet mail industry. He is also news editor of MicroTimes, the largest regional computer magazine in the country, and author of 15 computer-related books including the best-seller "Netscape and the World Wide Web for Dummies."
Sessions:
Hot Mail Topics for ISPs - IMAP and Disconnected SMTP - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Fran B
Spam and a World of Pain for ISPs - Thursday - 1:30 pm - Room: Cont 6
Holstrom is CPA, CFE, CVA,and Partner at RGL Gallagher LLP. His professional practice focus is investigative auditing, forensic accounting and economic loss analysis, with an emphasis in business interruption, stock, and other commercial insurance claims. He is frequently engagedin litigation support assignments, investigative audits and the preparations of exhibits and schedules for presentation at trial.
Sessions:
Valuing the ISP - A Practical Approach - Saturday - 8:45 am - Room: Imp B
Sessions:
Peering - What Are the Rules, if Any? - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Fran A
Deb Howard: M.P.H., Partner at 2 COW HERD, a Venice, California-based full spectrum ISP, has been using the 'Net for over 20 years (very active for the past 13) dating back to mainframes and punch cards. A graduate of Brown University, Deb was an exchange student at Keio University (Tokyo, Japan) and Cambridge University in England. She received her Master's Degree from the UCLA School of Public Health where she completed additional doctoral coursework. While at UCLA she was a Chancellor's Fellow and a Distinguished Scholar. A native of Los Angeles, Deb has traveled extensively. She has lived in four countries and seventeen U.S. cities due to her father's career as U.S. Navy flight instructor and her own career which has included positions with the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, D.C. For the past twelve years she has again been based in Los Angeles. She speaks, reads and writes English, Spanish and Japanese.
Sessions:
Why You Need a Trade Association (Panel) - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Cont 4
Kim Hubbard is the manager of IP registration for the InterNIC. InterNIC is the Internet domain name and IP number registry provided by Network Solutions. Hubbard has worked for Network Solutions for over eight years and has spent six of those years in IP registration first at the DDN NIC Registry followed by InterNIC.
Sessions:
American Registry for Internet Numbers, The - Saturday - 1:30 pm - Room: Imp A
Jeff Huhn is a vice president with the Communications & Information Practice of Silicon Valley Bank. The practice focuses on the banking requirements of venture capital-backed and emerging growth companies within the telecommunications, networking, and online markets. Clients of the practice include NETCOM, Exodus Communications, GlobalCenter, and Best Internet. Jeff has been with Silicon Valley Bank for three years and has provided banking services to technology companies for six years. Jeff received his Bachelors degree in finance from Santa Clara University. Silicon Valley Bank is the largest independent bank headquartered in the Silicon Valley, with total assets of over $2 billion. Since its founding in 1983, Silicon Valley Bank has focused on what has traditionally been an under served market - emerging growth technology companies. Today, Silicon Valley Bank has approximately 1,500 clients in more than 30 states across the nation through offices in Northern and Southern California, the Pacific Northwest, the East Coast, Texas, Colorado, and Georgia. The Bank provides a full range of services, including short and long-term debt, cash management, international trade, factoring, asset-based finance, and executive banking services.
Sessions:
Funding Growth-Financing and Capital Alternatives for ISPs - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Cont 6
Doug Humphrey is the founder of DIGEX, Inc., a national Internet service provider headquartered in Beltsville, Maryland. Humphrey started DIGEX in his townhouse basement in Greenbelt in 1991, shepherding its growth over the years until its purchase by Intermedia Communications, Inc. in June 1997 for $150 million. At time of purchase, DIGEX had over 420 employees and annualized revenues of $50 million for the year. Today, Humphrey is working on new opportunities to upset people in the Internet business while making money and having a good time.
Sessions:
It's a Secret - Friday - 8:45 am - Room: Gray 1
National Backbone Panel 1 - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Imp A
Alex Huppenthal has held senior engineering and management roles for 10 years in the telecommunications development areas, focused on next generation networking technologies for the Telco networks. In the past 10 years he as worked in engineering and management roles on Internet related Network Management and Network Analysis systems and software. He is founder of Communication Systems Research Corp, a Portland, OR solutions company, co-founder of Aspen Internet Systems, Aspen Internet Exchange and Aspen Internet Systems. Recently, he has designed, and created four ISPs in the country, two are deploying DSL today. He is currently president and principle consultant at Communication Systems Research Corp, consulting to Internet service providers on DSL deployment.
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Deploying DSL in 1997 Panel Discussion - Saturday - 4:30 pm - Room: Cont 6
Chris Icide has over 12 years of experience in the fields of computers and networking. Icide is currently the senior engineer for Nap.Net, and is responsible for all engineering duties, including network architecture and design, peering, product design, and monitoring and performance designs. Prior to Nap.Net, Icide owned a small ISP, which he sold after 15 months in operation. Icide was previously employed by Commonwealth Edison, in Chicago,Illinois, as a nuclear engineer. Icide spent several years at Commonwealth Edison designing a Nuclear Reactor Core Monitoring System based on distributed processor technology. Icide has a bachelors degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Missouri - Rolla.
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National Backbone Panel 2 - Saturday - 8:45 am - Room: Cont 4
Philip Jackson have been associated with the computer industry since 1967. In 1977, Jackson founded Computer Solutions in San Antonio, which is now the oldest continuously operated computer store in the state. In 1980, Jackson was instrumental in the development of an early interactive video system which became an early predecessor to the videodisk-based POS system used by Apple Computer. He was also executive producer of the first nationwide television show about personal computers, The Personal Computer Show (on the cable network SPN and independent television stations) in 1984. Jackson has been a consultant in product design and distribution and now acts as the product development and marketing/sales manager at FIBRCOM.
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Naveen Jain, President, Infospace, a nationally acclaimed, fully integrated Internet directory service in Redmond, WA. In July, Jain was picked by The Red Herring Magazine as one of the Top 20 Entrepreneurs of 1997. He formed InfoSpace after working at Microsoft for seven years on products like MS-DOS, Windows NT, The Microsoft Network and Windows 95, for which he holds three patents.
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Internet TV: The Growth Opportunity for ISPs - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Fran D
Donald Janke is a co-founder of Internet Ventures, Inc. and has served as President since its inception. Prior to forming th company in 1995, Mr. Janke served as Manager for Cable Marketing for Prodigy Service Company, leading technical and market trials of high-speed on-line service via cable with Cox Communications and Viacom. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin with an MBA from the University of Southern California, Mr. Janke has extensive experience in the cable and Internet businesses. Internet Ventures, Inc. has grown from a consolidation of western Internet Service Providers to become an integrated communications business. The company targets exurban areas in the United States with populations of fewer than 500,000. In addition to its high-speed PeRKInet Internet-over-Cable service, the company offers traditional Internet service, local Internet content, systems integration and print publishing.
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Buying or Selling an ISP - A Case Study - Thursday - 3:00 pm - Room: Cont 5
In 1994, David Jemmett founded GoodNet, a Phoenix-based Internet service provider. In May 1996, GoodNet began deployment of a 45 Mbps Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switch-based national backbone and began selling dedicated access connections to Internet service providers and businesses nationwide. Prior to founding GoodNet, Jemmett was manager of software design and development for Business Communications Services for AT&T in Herndon, Virginia. In that capacity, Jemmett managed a staff of 22 programmers and directed the modification and creation of new systems for all facets of AT&T customer communications from sales and billing, to network support. Prior to that, Jemmett was employed by AT&T as an account executive for large PBX and digital telephone systems. Jemmett is an active member of the Internet community, participating as one of 40 members of the Internet Engineering Task Group. This group, a subcommittee of the Internet Engineering Task Force, is responsible for establishing the operating and architectural standards that will govern the Internet's growth. Jemmett also participates in the North American Network Operating Groups.
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Backbone Providers- The Future - Thursday - 1:30 pm - Room: Pink 1
National Backbone Panel 1 - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Imp A
Mr. Joffe is the original founder of Genuity, and has been involved in the computer industry for over 20 years, mainly in the area of data processing technology for marketers and advertisers. He is the founder and president of American Computer Group, a mainframe computer service bureau specializing in the processing of large amounts of marketing data related to name and address files. In May of 1994, Joffe expanded his company's services to include electronic marketing and established the first commercial computer bureau that provided technology and services for Internet-based marketing. At the same time he oversaw the establishment of the first full catalog on the Internet, Robert Redford's "Sundance Catalog." This division formed the basis of Genuity. Mr. Joffe holds a number of patents and trademarks in the area of data processing and is the inventor of HopscotchTM. He delivers frequent presentations on "The Future of the Internet," and, together with Mr. Ramleth, guides the strategic direction of the company.
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National Backbone Panel 1 - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Imp A
Russ Jones is the director of emerging technologies for Digital Equipment Corporation's Internet Business Group. He is currently responsible for market development for the Millicent microcommerce system. Jones is the co-author of Managing Internet Information Services which is available from O'Reilly & Associates. This book describes use of the Internet from a content provider point of view, and its second edition should be released in fall 1997. He holds a BS in computer science from Purdue University. He joined Digital in 1985, coming from a software engineering management position at McDonnell Douglas Corporation. In his spare time, Russ teaches web server design at the University of California.
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Microcommerce on the World Wide Web - Thursday - 1:30 pm - Room: Fran A
Eugene Kashpureff operates an alternative domain name registry without the blessing of IANA. AlterNic.net offers domain names with new TLDs such as .nic, .tour and .xxx, as well as the "real" virtual world. The renegade domain registry, went online in March 1996 promising to "treat you better and charge you less," and takes a hands-off policy on name disputes, advising name registrants that they are not granted any "legal rights" to their domain names. A self-described "webslinger and bitsmith," Kashpureff was a hardware support manager for AT&T Microsystems in the early 1980s. He ran a towing company that began with a software design project for Seattle Central Towing in 1985. He also ran a "wooden puzzle manufacturing and retail operation" for two years before entering the towing business full time. By January 1994, he owned his own towing company. Kashpureff naturally took to the Internet, establishing a home page for his company, creating online tow operator safety courses for the Washington Tow Truck Association and crafting the YelloWWWeb Pages. Having deserted one monopoly in his unconventional career, Kashpureff was not pleased with Network Solutions Inc.'s dominance of domain name registration services. Kashpureff launched an experimental DNS service and domain name registry, dubbed AlterNic. Over the weekend of July 19 and 20, Kashpureff sent messages around the network that effectively redirected people searching for the site of Network Solutions_the official InterNIC domain name registrar to Kashpureff's site. He posted a message of protest about the tactics used by Network Solutions and a button that would take the users directly to Network Solution's real home page.
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Another View of Domain Name Administration - Saturday - 4:30 pm - Room: Cont 5
Founded in 1990, The Kauffman Group is an enhanced facsimile technology consulting firm, focused on sales, marketing and communications benefits of fax. As managing partner, Maury Kauffman is a respected authority on fax. Kauffman has been published in over 30 magazines, is a contributing writer for Computer Telephony magazine and is the author of Computer Based Fax Processing. His second book: Internet and Computer Faxing will be published this summer. A sought-after speaker, Kauffman has addressed virtually every fax, voice and computer telephony industry conference on three continents. The Kauffman Group counts nearly two dozen of the world's most recognizable fax companies as clients.
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Fax Over IP: A Collision of Worlds - Thursday - 3:00 pm - Room: Gray 2
Dhruv Khanna is the founder of the Convergence Law Group and has been a practicing attorney for more than 10 years, specializing in telecommunications law, regulation and public policy as well as business transactions involving the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) and other telecommunications carriers, as well as intellectual property law. Between 1993 and 1996, he was the senior communications attorney at Intel Corporation. Khanna's communications law practice has included landline and wireless service issues and has involved local and long-distance service providers. His practice has included efforts to open telecommunications markets to competition, and to obtain certificates and interconnection arrangements for local exchange competitors. Khanna graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1983, and obtained his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1986. Prior to joining Intel in 1993, he was an associate at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. His published articles include: "The Public's Need for More Affordable Bandwidth: The Case for Immediate Regulatory Action" in the Spring 1996 edition of Oregon Law Review, which he co-authored with Bruce M. Aitken.
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Telcos vs. ISPs, Round 2 - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Gray 1
Kathryn Kleiman is an attorney with Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, P.L.C. in Rosslyn, Virginia, where she specializes in Internet and telecommunications law. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Kleiman managed worldwide data networks for Morgan Stanley & Co., and audited data and network security as a consultant with Price Waterhouse. Since joining FHH in 1993, Ms. Kleiman has built a practice representing Internet service providers and other Internet-based companies on issues including First Amendment, trademark and domain name protection. Kleiman also represents clients before the Federal Communications Commission, including wireless LAN manufacturers seeking radio spectrum and equipment authorizations. In 1996 Kleiman, together with Michael Doughney, founded the Association for The Creation and Propagation of Internet Policies, Inc. (A-TCPIP) and its working group The Domain Name Rights Coalition. Kleiman actively speaks and writes about Internet policy issues, and attends national and international meetings on the subject. Ms. Kleiman graduated cum laude from Boston University School of Law and cum laude from Harvard College.
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Internet Governance - What Is the Status? - Friday - 8:45 am - Room: Fran D
Rob is president of Berkeley Software Design, Inc., the commercial supplier of the high-performance BSD Internet and networking system software that is in use at over 3,000 of the world's approximate 4,500 current Internet service providers. Prior to joining Berkeley as president in 1991, Rob was a co-founder of CONVEX Computer Corporation, founded Sun Microsystems' Rocky Mountain Technology Center, and held a senior technical position with Prisma Technica. Rob holds a Ph.D. in software from the University of Illinois in addition to an MS in electrical engineering from Notre Dame and a BA (magna cum laude) from Southern Methodist University. He is also a widely acclaimed speaker and author.
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Future of the Internet - Thursday - 1:30 pm - Room: Imp A
David H. Kramer is an attorney with Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, one of the nation's leading law firms for high technology companies. He practices intellectual property litigation and counseling with emphasis on Internet related issues. Kramer has substantial experience assisting ISPs in addressing the novel legal issues they confront. He regularly counsels providers on privacy issues, First Amendment concerns and intellectual property matters. Kramer has represented Concentric Network Corporation and CompuServe in litigation against the nation's leading sender of unsolicited commercial e-mail, and has obtained two landmark injunctions which prohibit the sending of junk e-mail to his clients' subscribers. He has also testified before the Nevada legislature on junk e-mail measures and has assisted in drafting legislation at the state and federal levels. Kramer received his law degree, magna cum laude, in 1993 from Georgetown University Law Center and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Dartmouth College.
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Legal Solutions for Spam - Friday - 10:15 am - Room: Imp B
Ken Krechmer participates in ITU-T Study Group 16 (Multimedia communications), Study Group 15 (xDSL), Study Group 8 (facsimile and telematic services); also TIA TR-30 (data communications), TR-29 (facsimile), TR-45 (cellular), TR-41 (digital DCE) and ECMA T-1 committees. He is technical editor of Communications Standards Review and Communications Standards Summary the only technical journals reporting on standards work in TIA and ITU. Subscribers include major communications equipment suppliers and carriers world-wide. He was secretary of U.S. facsimile standards organization TR-29 between 1990-1995, a U.S. delegate to prior CCITT SG XVII (modem) and CCITT SG VIII (facsimile) meetings starting in 1987 (the CCITT designation changed to ITU after 1992). He has participated in formal communications standards development since the mid 1970s.
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Choosing a PCM Modem - Saturday - 3:00 pm - Room: Cont 5
Jeevan is the ISP marketing manager for Digital's Internet business, with responsibility for the Asia Pacific region. Jeevan has been with Digital for eight years during which he has held several sales and marketing positions in the UNIX/workstation area. Prior to his current job, he was the marketing manager for the UNIX and workstation business in Asia Region. Before coming to Singapore, he worked in marketing with a major PC manufacturer at their marketing centre in France, with worldwide responsibility. He started his career in product development with a large telecommunications company in London, UK, where he was a senior systems designer developing new telecommunication products such as ISDN systems and digital PBX. He holds a MSC degree in computation from the University of Oxford.
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ISP Business in the Asia/Pacific Region - Thursday - 3:00 pm - Room: Pink 1
Duane Kuroda is currently director of marketing for Arescom, Inc., a leading producer of Internet and remote access equipment. Prior to joining the company in late 1996, he was a senior industry analyst with Dataquest, the international market research firm headquartered in San Jose, CA. His sales management and marketing expertise also include key positions with Remedy, Lexcel and Pacific Bell. Kuroda received a Bachelor of Science degree from Harvey Mudd College and an M.S. from Stanford University.
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ISDN...The Performance Solution for 90% of Today's Business - Thursday - 3:00 pm - Room: Pink 2
Gene Kusekoski has been doing systems engineering work for Digital since 1981. He has been applying Internet technologies to customer projects since the birth of the World Wide Web. Gene has over 20 years of experience in various aspects of the publishing business, from newspaper editorial systems to today's leading Internet and Intranet web sites.
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New Business Opportunities with Internet Multimedia - Friday - 8:45 am - Room: Pink 1
Terry is a senior consultant for the Advanced Internetworking Services group at Bellcore. He provides consulting services to both Internet service providers (ISPs) and carriers who provide telecommunications services to ISPs. He has close to 10 years experience in the telecommunications industry with a focus on understanding the market and business issues of network-based business services. Specific examples include, LAN backup and recovery Services, network-based storage of business information, multimedia collaborative work, voice over Frame Relay and others. He has recently commenced working on the topic of IP service quality and communities of interest. Terry has a BA in psychology from Portland State University and a MA and Ph.D. in organizational behavior and quantitative methods from New York University.
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Corporate Outsourcing Services-ISP Opportunities/Challenges - Saturday - 4:30 pm - Room: Gray 1
Ray is a key programs development manager in the Business Development group at Rockwell Semiconductor Systems' Multimedia Communication Division in Newport Beach, California. Ray has been with Rockwell seven years, and has held prior positions in operations analysis, product management and product marketing. Prior to joining Rockwell, Ray worked as a strategic planning analyst for AMAX Inc. in New York, and for Ford Motor Company as a manufacturing engineer. Ray holds a Master's in Business Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelors of Science in electrical engineering from Villanova University. Rockwell is a leading developer, manufacturer and worldwide supplier of semiconductor technology. With more than three decades of pioneering product research, development and manufacturing, Rockwell has established a key strategic market position as a technology innovator in wireline and wireless communications technology. The company has developed its communications business into several key strategic areas delivering industry standard technologies that are built on accepted protocols and interfaces.
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ISP Industry Trends - Saturday - 11:15 am - Room: Gray 1
Richard Lancaster is a self taught, high-tech, sales & marketing, pseudo-techno-wonk. Before operating CobWeb full-time, Lancaster spent several years at Nextel, Corp. as the northwest director of marketing. Prior to that he was a national marketing manager and major account manager at Mosaix, Inc. providing technology services to the major bank card issuers nationwide. His 15 year career in high-tech sales and marketing also includes several years with Dun and Bradstreet in England and Australia, as well as three years in the credit card scoring industry in the City of London. The lion's share of his education comes from the International School of Hard Knocks -- having spent most of his life travelling and living abroad. Lancaster has lived in Singapore, Iran, Australia, Britain and the United states, and traveled to most points in between. His passions are the Web, high-tech start up's, soccer and his family!
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Current State of E-Commerce - Friday - 1:30 pm - Room: Gray 2
Larry Lang, is vice president of product management for Ipsilon Networks, Inc. He is resposible for working with customers, partners and engineering to define the Ipsilon family of premier IP switching products. Larry recently joined Ipsilon from Cisco Systems where he worked for over four years, ultimately as Director of Product Marketing. Some of the products that he and his team managed included the Light Stream series of ATM Switches, the Cisco 7500 series routers, the ATM Interface Processor and ATM workstation adapters. Larry was one of the founding four members of the ATM Forum where he served as working group chair and pursued ATM internetworking issues. Prior to joining Cisco, Larry was a member of the technical staff at Bellcore, working on SMDS, broadband ISDN and FDDI.
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Internet Serv. Levels & Rate-Based Pricing with IP Switching - Friday - 11:15 am - Room: Fran D
Robert Laughlin is president of DataXchange. He has over 25 years of experience in computers and data communications. His career began with IBM after graduating with honors in electrical engineering. While at IBM, Laughlin worked in the new product development labs. Since that time, Laughlin has started several successful companies in the computer and communications fields. He has personally designed numerous software and hardware projects. Laughlin also serves as chairman of the board of directors of a security manufacturer, and runs a 160-line BBS in his spare time.N
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Internet 101: Packets, Routers, LANs and WANs - Thursday - 3:00 pm - Room: Gray 1
Internet 201: Clients and Servers - Thursday - 4:30 pm - Room: Gray 1
National Backbone Panel 1 - Friday - 4:30 pm - Room: Imp A
Phillip J. Lawlor is president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of AGIS. He has served in these capacities since founding the company in June 1994. Prior to forming AGIS, Lawlor was president and chief executive officer of Apex Technologies, an OEM and systems integration firm in Dearborn, Michigan, which he founded in 1988. Apex is a leading technology company, specializing in high performance networked computing. While at Apex Technologies, Lawlor served as a consultant to several corporations, including AT&T, BASF, Chrysler, and General Motors. Apex continues its operation as a leading supplier of high performance network servers and workstations. Prior to forming Apex, Lawlor served as director of engineering services for National TechTeam, and was in charge of software development and hardware engineering. His teams performed major projects for Ford Motor Co., the University of Minnesota and other large concerns. Lawlor has served managerial capaci