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Hugh Davies
Hugh is the inventor of the Passfaces user authentication
system and founder of Visage Developments Limited. Hugh was
presented with a Smart award for the early development of
Passfaces by the UK government. He additionally received the
British Computer Society Technical Innovation prize. Today,
Hugh's main interest is WW II Intelligence on which he gives
public talks and is a guide at Bletchley Park the world
famous WW II Code Breaking Center. His talks can be found
here:
http://www.screengold.co.uk/Talks.htm ,
http://bcswiki.walmsleys.com/BletchleyVisit
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Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson has devoted her life to discovering the
inevitable and promoting the possible. As an active investor
and commentator, she focuses on emerging technologies and
business models, emerging markets and emerging companies.
Dyson was chairman of EDventure Holdings (www.edventure.com),
which she sold in early 2004 to CNET Networks. CNET
still publishes the influential monthly technology-industry
newsletter, Release 1.0, and sponsors two of the industry's
premier annual conferences, PC (Platforms for Communication)
Forum in the US and EDventure's High-Tech Forum in Europe.
Ms. Dyson recently finished a two-year-term as founding
chairman of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers, the international agency charged with
setting policy for the Internet's core infrastructure.
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Dr. Taher Elgamal
Dr. Elgamal is a leading expert
in computer, network and information security. He currently
serves as the Chairman and CEO of Ektasis, Inc. – a
second-generation Internet company. Previously, he served as
founder, CEO and Chairman of Securify, Inc. and the Chief
Scientist at Netscape, Inc.
Also, recognized in the
industry as the "inventor of SSL," Dr. Elgamal led the SSL
efforts at Netscape and throughout the industry. He also
wrote the SSL patent and promoted SSL as the Internet
Security standard within standard committees and the
industry.
Dr. Elgamal invented several
industry and government standards in data security and
digital signatures area, including the DSS government
standard for digital signatures. Several thousand
publications have been written in the space referred to as
"the ElGamal Cryptography." He developed the basic work that
has been adopted by about ten companies for commercial
products and for several IEEE and ISO standards. This work
has also been adapted for the DSS government standard for
digital signatures and is the basis for the Elliptic Curve
encryption methods recently introduced in the industry.
Dr. Elgamal has public company
board experience with RSA Security, hi/fn, Phoenix
Technology and Tumbleweed. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in
Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in
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Patrice Peyret
Patrice is currently VP, Corporate Strategy with Mobile365,
the global leader in the delivery, billing, and settlement
of mobile messaging services. Formerly, he was CEO of
Mobileway Inc. (which merged with Inphomatch in 2004 to form
Mobile365) whom he joined from Sun Microsystems, where he
served as Head of Java engineering in the Consumer &
Embedded division. Prior to this, Patrice was founder and
CEO of Integrity Arts, a software start-up acquired by Sun
in 1997. He has also held senior management positions at Gemplus, the world's largest smart card vendor, and at
Thomson Consumer Electronics (now Thomson Multimedia)
Laboratories. Patrice earned his PhD from Ecole Centrale in
Lyon, France, and is on the board and advisory board of
several Silicon Valley companies. |
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Dr. Peter Tippett
Peter Tippett has led the
computer security industry for more than 15 years, both as a
vendor of security products and as a key strategist. Dr.
Tippett is the author of one of the most widely accepted
theories on the worldwide growth of microcomputer viruses.
In addition, he was one of the world's leading experts on
the "I LOVE YOU" virus that broke in May 2000 and provided
key information to the Department of Justice about David
Smith, the writer of the Melissa Virus.
Dr. Tippett advised the Joint
Chiefs of Staff on cyber warfare during Desert Storm. He has
been featured on national television and quoted in numerous
business and industry publications. Prior to joining
Cybertrust, Dr. Tippett was director of security and
enterprise products at the Peter Norton Group of Symantec
Corporation. He was president and founder of Certus
International Corporation, a publisher and developer of
leading PC anti-virus, security and enterprise management
software, before its merger with Symantec in 1992.
He is the recipient of
the 1998 Entrepreneur of the Year Award presented by Ernst &
Young. Dr. Tippett also serves on the Computer Ethics
Institute Board of Directors and is chairman of the Alliance
for Internet Security. Dr. Tippett is a trained scientist
with both a Ph.D. and MD from Case Western Reserve
University and studied at the Rockefeller University under
Drs. R.B. Merrifield (Nobel Prize, 1980) and S. Moore (Nobel
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