Speakers
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Keynote
Kathryn C. Brown
Senior Vice President
Public Policy Development & Corporate Responsibility
Verizon
Kathryn C. Brown is senior vice president - Public Policy Development and Corporate Responsibility. She has been with the company since June 2002. She is responsible for Verizon's corporate responsibility initiatives, policy development and issues management, public policy messaging, strategic alliances and the Verizon Foundation.
Before joining Verizon, Ms. Brown was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and a member of the firm's Communications and Electronic Commerce practice, where she focused on the legal and regulatory challenges for communications companies in the converging telecommunications market.
Keynote
Dorothy Attwood
Senior Vice President-Regulatory Planning & Policy
and Chief Privacy Officer
AT&T, Inc.
Dorothy Attwood, Senior Vice President-Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer for AT&T, Inc., is responsible for developing and coordinating the company's regulatory policy at both the state and federal levels. As Chief Privacy Officer, Attwood has broad enterprise-wide oversight of all activities related to the development and implementation of policies governing the privacy of customer information.
Keynote
Seenu Bandad
Vice President, Product Solutions
Alcatel-Lucent
Seenu Banda is responsible for Enterprise Access Solutions at Alcatel-Lucent. Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent, Seenu was the CEO of NetDevices, a company he founded. Before founding NetDevices, Seenu was senior director of marketing for the mid-range router family at Cisco Systems, where he managed multiple product lines, spanning across multiple market segments from enterprise, service provider, and broadband aggregation to security solutions. Prior to joining Cisco, Seenu worked at Intel Corporation for six years in strategic and product marketing roles. Seenu holds an MBA, a Masters in computer science, and BS in computer engineering.

Daniel G. Bauer
Program Project Director
Insight Research Corporation
Daniel Bauer joined Insight Research Corporation www.insight-corp.com as Program Project Director in 2006. Prior to Insight Research Corporation he was Director, Global Business Development for Quantum Wireless, Inc. (wholly-owned subsidiary of the Quantum Group) appointed to that position in 1998. Throughout his 25-year career in the Global Information Communications and Technology Industry Daniel has received awards and been featured in Who's Who in Industry and Finance, Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, America's Names and Faces, Who's Who of Emerging Global Leaders, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal. He has held various executive positions within the operations, finance and marketing disciplines at Fortune 500 companies such as Macmillan, CBS and AT&T. Daniel, formerly acting-COO of AT&T Sourcebook, was part of the founding team responsible for the successful growth of the $300Million peripheral equipment and services fulfillment division. Daniel spent five years with Quantum Group outside of North America in China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Honduras, Eritrea and Argentina. During that period, Quantum Wireless was successful in establishing joint ventures with various telecommunications carriers and equipment providers as well as electric utilities in financing, building, owning and operating wireless and alternative energy companies. Since 1996, Mr. Bauer had been part of a team that saw Quantum Group successfully manage and grow over a dozen companies operating in the Green Utility and Communications Media and Entertainment Industry sectors.
Edna Conway
Senior Director
Advanced Compliance & Social Responsibility
Global Supply Chain Management
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Edna M. Conway is Senior Director, Advanced Compliance & Social Responsibility for Cisco's Global Supply Chain Management organization. She and her team are responsible for assuring product compliance (environmental, tax, duties, customs, etc.), supplier diversity, supplier social responsibility (e.g., labor, health and safety, environmental sustainability), and contracts management across Cisco's supply chain. In addition, Conway drives the Green Supply Chain initiative for Cisco and serves as the Supply Chain Strategist for Cisco's EcoBoard, the cross-functional council setting Cisco's long-term green vision and strategy. Conway pursued her undergraduate training in Bio-Medical Engineering and Medieval & Renaissance Literature at Columbia University and earned her law degree at the University of Virginia.
Matt Heinz
Senior Director of Marketing
Verdiem Corp.
Matt Heinz serves as the senior director of marketing for Verdiem, where he is responsible for building the company's market share and brand with Global 2000 enterprise businesses and public-sector organizations. Verdiem is the world's leading provider of PC power management software. Heinz has more than 10 years of consumer and business-to-business marketing experience with technology, real estate, and retail products. Previously, he spent five years at HouseValues responsible for managing the company's strategic marketing direction and brand development initiatives. He also spent three years at Microsoft where he was responsible for driving marketing and business development efforts for MSN.
Bob Larribeau
Principal Analyst and Cofounder
TelecomView
Bob Larribeau, Principal Analyst and cofounder of TelecomView, has been an analyst and consultant in the telecommunications and content delivery markets since 1992. He as focused on broadband technologies such as IPTV, broadband wireless, 3G, DSL, and fiber to the home as well as switching and routing.

Frank Neil
Cofounder, Partner & Senior Vice President
Lexicon Digital Communications
rank H. Nein: Cofounder, Partner & Senior Vice President of Lexicon Digital Communications, LLC. an Entertainment & New Digital Media Company @ www.LexiconDigital.tv (Business Development & Marketing Communications) via Founder & CEO, Mr. David Caruso of (CBS/CSI Miami) & Mr. Nils B. Lahr, former (iBEAM Broadcasting Founder/CTO & Senior Microsoft Engineer/Chief Architect)... Frank also maintains his professional media accreditation & status through OrionsWave, LLC. as a (Sr. Digital Media & Industry/Market Research Analyst) with over 15 years of experience, example: (CNNfn.com NYC Sr. R&D Consultant/Analyst 94-96) for its IT/IS interactive LOB as liaison to the first Live/VOD online financial streaming media solutions/services, web portal & broadcasting network. Frank is currently involved with the next generation interactive video, digital media & cross platform solutions space, (DCDN's), IPTV, H.323/H.264, broadcasting, Streaming Media & Video/Web Conferencing as well as related Mobile Media devices, applications and solutions, etc.

Michael K Patterson
Senior Thermal Architect
Digital Enterprise Group
Intel Corporation
Michael K Patterson is a senior thermal architect working in the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR, where he is responsible for pathfinding for power and thermal solutions for Intel's next-generation server, client, storage, and communications products. The work covers silicon level activity, through platform and rack level solutions, and on up to interface with Data Center power and cooling technologies. He did his undergraduate work at Purdue University, received his MS degree in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and was awarded his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Vermont. His current technical interests include advanced closed-loop cooling systems, server power and thermal management technologies, server/datacenter interaction, and high density data center concepts. He has been with Intel for 14 years. He is a registered Professional Engineer. He is also a member of ASHRAE and ASME.
Laddie Suk
Global Partner, Innovation and Transformation Solutions
BusinessEdge Soultions
Laddie Suk is a Global Partner for Innovation and Transformation Solutions at BusinessEdge Solutions, an EMC consulting practice. Mr. Suk leads a practice that assists global Communications and Media clients to leverage the ever-increasing pace of technology change for their businesses. He will be working to orchestrate BusinessEdge and EMC services and products for Communications and Media clients. Mr. Suk is a seasoned industry veteran with deep experience in communications service providers as well as professional services firms. As a former Verizon Network CIO and Network Executive at AT&T and Bell Labs, he has extensive hands-on experience in managing telecom service provider environments.
Andrew Sweatman
General Manager
WSP Environmental Pty Ltd
Bio coming soon...
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