Moderator: John Harrington

John Harrington is the Sector Leader for tech/networking research for OTR Global in San Francisco.

Mr. Harrington leads a team of reporters in Asia, Europe, India, South America and North America in producing extensive research that covers all layer7 communications and networking services and equipment up and down the OSI stack from the tier one long haul IP networking optical plane through to layer sever application servers hosted in data facilities. John is a multiple Emmy Award winning investigative journalist with a background in IP networking. He is a past member of the 1nService board of directors, where he served as the director for the identification of market development and business trends.
www.otrglobal.com

Panelist:
Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts, CEO, President, and Chairman Anagran

Larry is recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on packet switching and network architectures. He led the team that designed and developed ARPANET, the world's first major computer packet network, which evolved into the modern Internet. He founded the world's first packet data communications carrier, Telenet, which was sold to GTE in 1979 and subsequently became the data division of Sprint. After founding Telenet, Larry was a Founder and CEO of two ATM companies-NetExpress and ATM Systems. Most recently he was a Founder and CTO of Caspian Networks, the leader in high performance IP systems, where he designed and built IP Flow Routers. Dr. Roberts has been a recipient of numerous awards in the field of computer science and telecommunications. He and three others credited with founding the Internet were recipients of the National Academy of Engineering's 2001 Draper Award, engineering's highest honor. Larry holds B.S., M.S., and PhD. degrees from MIT. For more information on Dr. Roberts please visit www.packet.cc.

Panelist:

Dr. Paul Q. Judge is a noted scholar and successful entrepreneur.

Dr. Judge founded Purewire, a leading Web security company in 2007. In 2000, Dr. Judge joined the founding team of CipherTrust which became one of the fastest growing companies in North America reaching 300 employees and over 3000 customers in more than 50 countries including half of the Fortune 500. CipherTrust was acquired by Secure Computing for $273 million in 2006. From 2006-2007 Dr. Judge served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of publicly traded Secure Computing. During his tenure at CipherTrust and Secure Computing, Dr. Judge headed the technology strategy and spent time leading research, engineering, and product management. He is an inventor of over 20 patented and patent-pending computer security technologies. Prior to his tenure at CipherTrust, Dr. Judge worked with IBM and NASA. Dr. Judge has received numerous awards including being recognized by MIT's Technology Review Magazine as one of the top 100 young innovators in the world. Dr. Judge is a recognized authority on information security issues, having authored numerous papers that have been published in leading academic journals and presented at multiple industry and academic conferences. Dr. Judge has also been featured in hundreds of national media outlets including CNN, Forbes, Business Week, and Fox News. Dr. Judge holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Morehouse College, and received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Network Security from Georgia Tech.
www.purewire.com

Panelist:

David Callisch
As VP of Marketing, of Ruckus Wireless

David is responsible for all outbound communications and external marketing activities for Ruckus Wireless. With over 20 years of marketing experience, David has focused his efforts on computer networking industry and is a veritable fountain of information on this subject. His specialty is helping early-stage (Series A) networking startups identify market opportunities, establish defensible differentiation, and create a unique brand. At Alteon WebSystems, he helped define the market for “Web Switching” and guide the company through an IPO and acquisition by Nortel for $7.8 billion. Before Ruckus, he was the Director of Communications at Aruba Networks, helping launch and build the company before it’s inital public offering of $1.4 billion. Prior to Aruba, David served as Director of Communications at Allegro Networks, a failed supplier of carrier routing equipment. He also held marketing positions at a number of other successful local and wide-area networking concerns including StrataCom, SynOptics/Bay Networks, and BT North America.

www.ruckuswireless.com

Panelist: Peter Gianacopolous, President and CEO at Myrmidon Networks, Inc.

Peter Giannacopoulos is the founder, President and CEO of Myrmidon Networks. Since 1999, Myrmidon Networks has been providing security and disaster recovery expertise to enterprise accounts with extremely demanding requirements. Prior to founding Myrmidon Networks, Peter was Director of Architecture for McAfee.com, one of the most highly trafficked and attacked sites on the planet (supporting over 3 million unique daily visitors and withstanding well over 40,000 attacks per day). Before joining McAfee, Peter had over 14 years of IT and business consulting experience in the Fortune 500 at such firms as EG&G, Amdahl, Thermo Fisher, Citizens Bank, Manulife, Providian Bancorp and others. Headquartered in Massachusetts, Myrmidon Networks currently has 7 employees and continues to provide virtualization and security consulting for the midcap and enterprise markets. Peter also speaks throughout the United States on security and virtualization matters and writes for several industry publications. Full information can be found at www.myrmidon.net