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Michael T. JonesChief Technology Advocate
Google
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Greg GarrettManaging Director
U.S. Government Services
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Eric GertlerChief Executive Officer
Altruik, Inc
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Mark BamberEconomist, Advisory Partner
KPMG (Malta)
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Micho Schumann, M.Sc., CISA, CISSPSenior Manager
KPMG (Caymans)
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Tiago Piexoto
World Bank
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Alan RosenblattAssociate Director of Online Advocacy
Center for American Progress
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Sarah SchachtExecutive Director
Knowledge As Power & Open Gov West.
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Bill FrenchFounder
iPadCTO and iPhoneCTO
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Jaime E. PuenteDirector
Microsoft Research Connections
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Patrick HoseinPresident
Trinidad and Tobago Network Information Center
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Norm BondPresident
NormBond & Associates
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Chris DiBonaOpensource Manager
Google
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Jimmy MillsSales Department
IBM
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Howard ArmstrongManaging Consultant
Analysis Mason
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Corey Graham 2.0Director of Connections
Drenalin Productions
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Jeff QuippFounder and CEO
Search Engine People Inc
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Geoff SeyonExecutive Chairman
Medullan, Inc
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Joseph A. MohayRegional Digital Manager
Global Directories & Barbados Yellow Pages
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Jim WojnoSenior Sales Engineer
McAfee
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Dr. Delisle WorrellGovernor
Central Bank
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Prakash PersaudProfessor of Mechatronics
UTT
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John Howard CA CFAPresident
Summit International Bank Limited
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James Bynoe Senior Vice President
Cyber Security, Brown Consulting Services
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David GittensPresident
ISSA Barbados
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Atiba PhillipsChairman
InfoComm Technologies
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Dr. Pearson BroomeLecturer of Political Science
UWI
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Edward InceManaging Director
Prism Services
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Speaker Biography

Chris DiBona

Chris DiBona is the open source and public sector programs manager at Mountain View, Ca. based Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches. In the public sector space, he looks after Google Moderator, the polling locations API. Additionally, he is on the board of Our Good Works, a non-profit that looks after the volunteer matching website Allforgood.org. Mr. DiBona is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. He occasionally appears on the This Week in Tech and Cranky Geeks podcasts. He is a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and has a masters in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he serves on the advisory board of imeem, a San Francisco, Ca. based social networking firm. Before joining Google, Mr. DiBona was an editor and author for the website Slashdot.org . Additionally, he coedited the award-winning essay compilations "Open Sources" and "Open Sources 2.0" and writes for several publications. He was the host of Floss Weekly with Leo Laporte and made a number of appearances on TechTV's "The Screensavers"

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