Attend Keynotes

Wednesday, November 8 • 9:00 – 9:45am
David R. Huber, Ph.D., Founder, Corvis Corp.

Corvis Corporation is a privately held, all-optical networking company that is revolutionizing the way communications traffic is moved in the new Internet-driven economy by deploying the industryís first all-optical network providing integrated switching, transport and network management. Dr. Huber has served as a Director and Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive officer since June 1997. He has 18 years of experience in the development of optical communications systems. From 1992 through April 1997, Dr. Huber served first as Chief Technology Officer and later as Chief Scientist of Ciena Corporation, a company he founded in 1992. Ciena Corporation was the first company to provide volume commercial shipments of dense wave division multiplexing equipment. From 1989 through 1992, Dr. Huber managed the Lightwave Research and Development Program for General Instrument Corp. Prior to 1989, Dr. Huber held positions in optical communications development at Rockwell International Corp., Optelecom Inc. and ITT Industries Inc., formerly International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Dr. Huber holds 41 U.S. patents in optics technology and has numerous additional patents pending. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University and a B.S. in physics from Eastern Oregon State University.

Wednesday, November 8 • 10:00am -10:45am
David C. Peterschmidt Chairman, President & CEO, Inktomi Corporation

David C. Peterschmidt is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Inktomi Corporation. Mr. Peterschmidt has built Inktomi from a start-up to the world's leader in Internet infrastructure software with customers and partners that include America Online, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Sun Microsystems, British Telecommunications, among others. Prior to Inktomi, Mr. Peterschmidt was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Sybase Inc., where he directed the company's growth from US $104 million to nearly US $1 billion in annual sales over a five year period. Mr. Peterschmidt is a member of the Board of Directors of Special Olympics of Northern California, Campus Pipeline and Portal Software.

Thursday, November 9 • 9:00 – 9:45am
Howard Bubb, Vice President, Communications Products Group, Intel Corp.

A member of the Dialogic team since 1991, Howard Bubb's direction and leadership of Dialogic enabled the company to become a leader in the burgeoning CT industry, with more than one-thrid of CT platforms worldwide containing Dialogic products. Due to the company's leadership position in the CT industry, Intel acquired Dialogic in July 1999. With Intel, Bubb continues to be a driving force in the CT industry's evolution toward open systems and vendor independent standards. Bubb joined Dialogic from Lexar's (an international provider of telecommunications systems) Telenova subsidiary, where he was Senior Vice President and General Manager. As a founder of Lexar, he was instrumental in developing the first integrated voice/data PBX. He has also held top management positions at United Technologies, Memorex and Telex corporations. Bubb earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1976 from California Institute of Technology. He serves on the Board of Directors of the MultiMedia Telecommunications Association (MMTA), the American Electronics Association (AEA) and PairGain Technologies.

Thursday, November 9 • 10:00 – 10:45am
K.B. Chandrasekhar (ìChandraî), Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Jamcracker Inc.

In 1994, Chandra identified the potential of the Internet and founded Exodus Communications. The company went public in March of 1998 in one of the most successful IPOs of 1998, and in 1999 Chandra was honored as the Ernst & Young Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year. In 1992 Chandra founded Fouress Inc., a network software design and development firm with clients including Sun Microsystems, Adaptec, Toshiba and Lockheed. Within two years, Fouress was a highly profitable company with sales of $1 million per year. In 1990, Chandra moved to the United States as country manager for Rolta, India, Ltd., responsible for business development, marketing and software consulting services for software developers and end users. At Rolta, he generated major new accounts including Ford, DEC, ScanOptics and Borland. Chandra began his career in 1983 at Wipro, an Indian information technology company, as a customer support engineer. Over his seven years with the company, he advanced through various sales, marketing and support functions including building highly available networks for satellite applications and managing marketing for its European clients. Chandra was born and raised in Chennai, India and educated at Madras University.

Friday, November 10 • 9:00 – 9:45am
Brian Valentine, Senior Vice President, Windows Division, Microsoft Corp.

Brian Valentine is senior vice president of Microsoft's Windows Division, which includes the Windows 2000, Windows 9x and WinCE operating system teams. Valentine joined Microsoft in 1987 as an engineering manager in the LAN Manager group and then spent most of the next 12 years working on Microsoft Mail and Microsoft Exchange Server, eventually managing the Exchange and BackOffice family product units. He was put in charge of Windows 2000 in December 1998. Before joining Microsoft, Valentine was a software engineer at Intel Corp. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Eastern Washington University.

Friday, November 10 • 10:00 – 10:45am
JoAnn Patrick-Ezzell, Chairman and CEO, iAsiaWorks Inc.

In August 1999, JoAnn Patrick-Ezzell was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of iAsiaWorks Inc., the Asia-Pacific region's leading Internet data center (IDC) and managed services company. Before being recruited by iAsiaWorks (then AUNET), Patrick-Ezzell was president and CEO, AT&T Asia/Pacific. JoAnn has 25 years of experience in telecommunications and the Internet. She has an economics degree from Bucknell University and a master's degree from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where she was a Sloan Fellow, and serves on the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council.