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Director of Policy, EU
Facebook

Richard Allan joined Facebook in June 2009 to lead the company’s public policy work in Europe. Prior to joining Facebook, Richard was European Government Affairs Director for Cisco from September 2005.

Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer, AT&T

Dorothy Attwood is Senior Vice President – Public Policy and the Chief Privacy Officer for AT&T Services, Inc.  Attwood leads the development and implementation of AT&T’s strategic international, federal and state public policy initiatives across all AT&T lines of business – including wireless, Internet, video and wireline services – in the increasingly fast-paced, converging and dynamic communications marketplace.  As Chief Privacy Officer, Attwood has oversight responsibility for the development and implementation of enterprise-wide policies governing the privacy of customer information.

Chief Executive Officer
Family Online Safety Institute

For the past 30 years, Stephen Balkam has had a wide range of leadership roles in the nonprofit sector in the both the US and UK.  He is currently the Founder and CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), an international, nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, DC.  FOSI’s mission is to make the online world safer for kids and their families.  FOSI convenes the top thinkers and practitioners in government, industry and the nonprofit sectors to collaborate and innovate and to create a “culture of responsibility” in the online world.

Legal Counsel
Le Forum des droits sur l’internet

Laure Baëté has a Masters in computer law and communication. For the past five years, she has been working as the Legal Counsel at “Le Forum des droits sur l’internet”, a non profit multi-stakeholder body, supported by the French government, specialising in internet legal and societal issues. 

Laure Baëté deals on a day-to-day basis with e-business topics. She is in charge of a working group focused on behavior advertising. This working group will publish in late 2009 its recommendations as a result of a research started in December 2008. The main objective is to regulate e-advertising through good practices.

Corporate Responsibility Manager 
Telefonica

María José Cantarino joined Telefonica in 1997, developing her career in areas directly related and focused on the international projection and expansion of Telefonica. In 2005, she joined Telefonica Móviles España, where she was in charge of projects directly designed to reduce the digital divide in least favoured groups such as battered women and immigration and to promote the safer use of ICTs among children and younger users. Since 2008, she is Corporate Responsibility Manager at Telefonica, S.A., with special focus on new technologies and youth’s online behaviour, experiences and rights of young users.

Save the Children Denmark

Dieter Carstensen from Save the Children Denmark has been involved in international projects, focussing on online child protection, since 2001. He is the Chairman of the European NGO Alliance on Child Safety Online (eNACSO), financed by the European Commission’s Safer Internet Plus Programme. Dieter is a current member of the EU Social Networking Task Force, as well as member of the International Advisory Panel of the European Commission’s research project, EU KIDs Online II. Furthermore is he part of the International Save the Children Alliance's European working group on child protection.

Director of Marketing Communications
Blue Coat Systems

Laurie Coffin, Director of Marketing Communications for Blue Coat Systems, focuses on brand and awareness for Blue Coat. Blue Coat believes children's safety on the Internet is a worldwide social issue that takes local community action and parental involvement. For our part, we make K9 Web Protection free to all parents.

Head of Sales & Business Development
StreamShield

Mark heads up Sales and business development at StreamShield. He has worked in a wide variety of roles in the telecoms and media industry over his 25 year career. He has extensive knowledge of new network deployments in cable and cellular systems and was actively involved in the UK broadband unbundling process.

Public Policy Manager
Google France

Olivier is Public Policy Manager with Google France. Prior to joining Google, Olivier was Government Affairs Manager with Cisco based in France. Before that, Olivier served 6 years in the French Administration. He spent 2 years in the Silicon Valley running the French Trade Department office in Palo Alto, where he assisted a number of high tech companies to set up operations and start their business in the US. Previously, Olivier worked for the French telecom regulator (ARCEP).

Olivier holds a MS in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and a MS in Telecommunications from ENST/Eurecom in Sophia-Antipolis.

Vice President, Government Relations
News Corporation

As Vice President, Government Relations at News Corporation, David Fares is responsible for coordinating News Corporations’ positions on international media, intellectual property and e-commerce policy and regulatory issues and advocating those positions to the U.S. and foreign governments and international organizations.  

Policy and Communications Manager
Childnet International

Lucinda joined Childnet in October 2007 taking responsibility for Communications and the formulation of Childnet's policy responses as well as contributing to the production and publication of various key resources.

Solutions Architect
Trend Micro

As spokesman for Trend Micro, Rik is recognised as an industry thought leader and analyst and is regularly quoted by the national press on issues surrounding Information Security, Cybercrime and technology futures. With over fifteen years experience in the IT Industry with companies such as EDS, McAfee and Xerox Rik’s broad experience enables him to have a clear insight into the challenges and issues facings businesses today.

Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer
France Telecom–Orange Group

Marc Fossier is the Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer for the France Telecom–Orange Group. He was appointed to this newly created executive position on March 2nd, 2009.Previously, Marc Fossier has worked over 20 years for France Telecom and has held various positions. He joined France Telecom in 1988 as Head of the Industry Division at the Directorate of Industrial Procurement and International Affairs of France Telecom and later became Chief of staff of the Chairman and General Manager of France Telecom and Director of the Public Payphone-Card Division.

Product Manager
Profil Technology

Antoine Gilles is Product Manager at Profil Technology. This division of Editions Profil is dedicated to publishing state of the art Internet filtering and security solutions for families, businesses and ISPs. The software “Parental Filter” has now received for the 3rd time the 1st grade in the filtering software tests set by Filtra.org .

Chief Editor
Boodoo.ru

Ilya Golenopolsky graduated from Moscow State Teachers' Training College in 1985 and worked in Moscow State University, the Academy of National Economy, Moscow International University, and Moscow International Baccalaureate schools. For several years Ilya has been conducting inservice trainings at different IB schools, both in CIS and Europe. He has also authored an online course for Teleschool, the biggest online school in Russia. Video courses he has made have been broadcasted by Russia’s NTV + other channels. At the moment Ilya works as the Chief Editor for Russian social networking site, Boodoo.ru.

Ambassador & Partner, WileyRein

Ambassador Gross is one of the world's foremost experts on international telecommunications, having addressed the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and led more U.S. delegations to major international telecommunication conferences than anyone in modern history.  Drawing on his more than 25 years of experience as a global policy maker and corporate executive, he assists U.S. companies seeking to enter or expand international businesses, as well as non-U.S. companies and organizations seeking to invest in, monitor and understand the U.S. market.  

Partner in the Communications, E-Commerce and Privacy practice of DLA Piper

Mr. Halpert counsels technology and content companies on a broad range of legal issues concerning new technologies, including intellectual property protection, content regulation and First Amendment law, privacy, cyber-security, government surveillance, Internet gambling, Internet jurisdiction, telecommunications regulation, on-line contract formation, and spam. His counseling practice includes advising a wide range of companies regarding privacy and computer security issues, and advising copyright owners, ISPs, and equipment manufacturers regarding anti-piracy, infringement, and copy protection technology strategies.

Commissioner, Board Member, and Head of Telecommunications Technologies Unit. Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Lebanon 

Dr. Hoballah is currently Commissioner, Board Member, and Head of the Telecommunications Technologies Unit at  the Lebanese Telecommunications Regulatory Authority responsible for telecommunications technologies including new technologies, spectrum management, planning and monitoring, standards, type approval, quality of service, and , Dr. Hoballah is also Vice Chairman of the Arab Spectrum Management Group (ASMG). 

Head of Content Policy 
GSMA & Chair, FOSI

Natasha Jackson, Head of Content Policy at the GSMA, is responsible for public policy and regulatory issues arising from mobile content services. Natasha leads the GSMA's work on promoting responsible self-regulatory approaches to mobile content services. She was responsible for the development of a global code of practice on mobile spam and has recently developed educational toolkits for mobile operators outlining issues and good practice in the areas of age-sensitive commercial content and child protection. She also leads the GSMA's global mobile initiative against child sexual abuse content (child pornography).

Director of Product Marketing
Flash Networks

On Kalich is Director of Product Marketing at Flash Networks, a leading provider of mobile Internet quality-of-experience solutions. On joined Flash Networks in  2003, holding various positions in product management and marketing before assuming his current position three years ago. On brings with him over 10 years of  both commercial and technical experience in the mobile telecommunication business.

Director of CARU & VP of the CBBB

Wayne J. Keeley is the Director of CARU and a Vice President of the Council of Better Business Bureaus. Mr. Keeley joined CARU from the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, where he served as the Assistant Director for Development. During his tenure at NAD, Mr. Keeley authored more than 100 decisions. Before joining NAD in 2000, Mr. Keeley served as general counsel for two independent video and film-production studios.

Senior Manager, Public Affairs
Deutsche Telekom AG, Group Headquarters

Lars Kindervater joined in August 2008 Deutsche Telekom Group Headquarters' Public & Regulatory Affairs department where he works on public and regulatory issues in a national and international context. He coordinates Deutsche Telekom's consumer-related topics such as universal service, health & EMF, consumer rights and child safety..

Subdirector Atencion via Internet
TELMEX

Ricardo Kuri, joined TELMEX in 1999. He is responsible for the overall online business, including Corporate Websites (Mexico and Latin American), Telmex's Online Store, Escuderia Telmex and Pandilla Telmex Websites. TELMEX online unit has grown from less than 1 million unique users to more than 10 million users per month.

SVP, General Counsel and Head of Public Affairs
Dailymotion

Giuseppe de Martino is since 2007 SVP, General Counsel and Head of Public Affairs at Dailymotion, the world largest independent videos sharing site. Giuseppe is simultaneously President of ASIC (French trade association of the Internet Community Services). He has spent more than 8 years at AOL France as General Counsel and Head of Public Affairs and was President of AFA (French trade association of the Internet Acces and Service Providers).   Prior to joining AOL, Giuseppe served notably as Deputy General Counsel for the pan-European TV channel ARTE.

Executive Director, Internet & Technology Policy
Verizon

An attorney and engineer, Mr. McKeehan is currently Executive Director, Internet & Technology Policy, for Verizon, where he is responsible for developing policy strategies for next-generation network and service platforms, including fiber to the premises (FTTP).  Previously, Mr. McKeehan was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Verizon Technology Organization, responsible for developing platform and service requirements for a variety of narrow- and wide-band communications initiatives. He holds multiple U.S. patents on call forwarding services using advanced intelligent networking technology.

Internet Safety Advocate
Symantec Corporation

Marian Merritt provides consumer-friendly insights into technology issues impacting families as Symantec's Internet Safety Advocate. In this role, Marian is the official spokesperson for Symantec's "Norton Connected and Protected Family Safety Initiative," which is dedicated to raising awareness of Internet safety. As part of this initiative, Symantec has partnered with Miss America 2007 Lauren Nelson, whose personal platform is protecting children online.

Director, Europe
Family Online Safety Institute

For the past 25 years, David Miles has had a wide range of leadership roles in the technology and telecommunications sector. He is currently the European Director of the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), an international, non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, DC.  FOSI’s mission is to make the online world safer for kids and their families.  FOSI convenes the top thinkers and practitioners in government, industry and the non-profit sectors to collaborate and innovate and to create a “culture of responsibility” in the online world.

Global Head of Content Standards
Vodafone

Responsible for ensuring Vodafone’s standards and policies for the protection of Vodafone customers with particular emphasis on young users in accessing new digital services both online and mobile; and delivering customer education and media literacy initiatives. In 2009 Annie was awarded the UK OBE civil honour for services to children and young people due to work as part of the Home Secretary’s Internet Child Protection Task force.

Vice President AOL, Chief Security Officer
Bebo

Rachel is passionate about the potential to harness social networking services to facilitate social innovation, increase positive social capital, deliver support services, democratise information exchange and to educate. She is chair of the EU Safer Social Networking taskforce which developed a set of best practice standards (Safer Social Networking Principles) for the online industry, these were launched in February 2009.

Assistant Vice President, Public Policy
AT&T

Brent Olson serves as Assistant Vice President-Public Policy at AT&T, a premier communications company in the U.S and around the globe.  Mr. Olson's responsibilities include helping to develop and coordinate at the federal and state levels AT&T's public policy positions on a number of issues covering emerging services and technologies.  These include broadband, IP-based services, and video technology services with a particular focus on internet-related policy issues, such as net neutrality and online safety.