Don Bowman
After serving as vice president of consulting systems engineering and led Sandvine's development engineers and technical service consultants, Don is now responsible for leading Sandvine’s technical vision, including the strategic development, direction and future growth of Sandvine’s products and solutions. In 2007, Don and his fellow co-founders were honored with the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the technology category for their success and dedication to their work at Sandvine. Prior to Sandvine, this leader in the technology community was director of firmware and manager of software engineering for PixStream as well as manager of Software Engineering for Cisco Systems in the Video Networking Business Unit.
Chris Lewis
Chris Lewis has specialized in research of spam, virus/malware and computer security for over 20 years, and is a Senior Technical Advisor to the Mail Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG). He was previously a member of the Canadian Federal Anti-Spam Task Force.
Danny O'Brien
Danny O'Brien is the International Outreach Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a global non-profit advocacy and legal organization dedicated to preserving human rights in the context of today's digital age. He is a founder of the Open Rights Group, which documented and campaign against privacy invasions in the United Kingdom. His work in the UK Internet industry includes the launch of the major British ISP Virgin.Net (later Virgin Media) and starting open government projects such as Fax Your MP.
Lewis, Ledeen and Abelson
Hal Abelson is professor of computer science and engineering at MIT. Together with Ken Ledeen of Nevo Technologies and Harry Lewis of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, they are the authors of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion (bitsbook.com).
Ralf Bendrath
Ralf Bendrath is a German political scientist and works at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He hacked the Commodore C-64 in the eighties, studied security policy and information warfare in the nineties, and has been researching various aspects of internet privacy since then. His current research project is examining the various factors that influence DPI use or non-use. He is also a “hard bloggin’ scientist” at bendrath.blogspot.com.
Roger Clarke
Roger Clarke is Principal of Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Canberra. He is also a Visiting Professor in the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre at the University of N.S.W., a Visiting Professor in the E-Commerce Programme at the University of Hong Kong, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Australian National University.
Richard Clayton
Richard Clayton is Treasurer of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) and a Visiting Industrial Fellow at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. His technical analysis of the mechanics of the Phorm system can be found at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/080518-phorm.pdf. FIPR's detailed legal analysis of the Phorm system, written by Nicholas Bohm, can be found at http://www.fipr.org/080423phormlegal.pdf.
Susan P. Crawford
Susan Crawford joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School on July 1, 2008. She teaches internet law and communications law. Last year she was a visiting professor at Michigan and at Yale Law School (spring 2008). She is a member of the board of directors of ICANN and is the founder of OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the internet that takes place each Sept. 22. Ms. Crawford received her B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and J.D. from Yale University.
Ronald Deibert
Ron Deibert is associate professor of political science and director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. He is the co-founder and director of the OpenNet Initiative and Information Warfare Monitor projects.
Brooks Dobbs
Brooks Dobbs is the Chief Privacy Officer of Phorm. Prior to joining Phorm, he spent 9 years at DoubleClick where he most recently served as the Vice President of Data Protection and Government Relations. He is an author of the W3C’s Platform for Privacy Preferences, P3P, and the former chairman of the Network Advertising Initiative, the industry’s leading self regulatory body.
Bert Jaap-Koops
Prof.dr. Bert-Jaap Koops is professor of regulation & technology at TILT, the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society of Tilburg University, the Netherlands. His main research interests are criminal law and technology, investigation powers, privacy, cybercrime, identity-related crime, DNA forensics, and cryptography. He is also interested in information security, identity, digital constitutional rights, 'code as law', and human enhancement. He currently co-ordinates a research program on law, technology, and shifting power relations.
Danielle Keats Citron
Danielle Citron is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Law. Her work focuses on information privacy law, cyberspace law, and administrative law, with an emphasis on legal issues surrounding the government’s reliance on information technologies. Professor Citron’s recent articles appear in the Boston University Law Review, Southern California Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, University of Chicago Legal Forum, and Washington University Law Review. She was voted the “Teacher of the Year” by the University of Maryland law school students in 2005. Before teaching, Professor Citron worked as a litigation associate at Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, where she served as a MFY Legal Services fellow. She also spent two years as a law clerk for the Honorable Mary Johnson Lowe of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She received her B.A. cum laude from Duke University and obtained her law degree from Fordham Law School where she graduated Order of the Coif.
Stéphane Leman-Langlois
Stéphane Leman-Langlois is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Montreal's School of Criminology. He has written about the social impacts of various technologies, especially biometrics, video surveillance and internet security. He is a member of the International Centre for Comparative Criminology (ICCC) and has worked on crimes against humanity, policing, technologies, terrorism and cybercrime. His concerns include the social construction of (in)security and the symbolic aspects of technology in the production of security and insecurity.