“The mission of the Internet Society is to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.”

With these opportunities come new challenges. Will competing companies work together on critical standards or lock in customers using proprietary software? Will efforts to address Internet security vulnerabilities be successful?

Join us for an informal, wide-ranging discussion of where the Internet is headed. The Internet is forty years old but still evolving–at an accelerating pace. In the next ten years we will see even more growth and new applications than we’ve seen in the last forty. Entire industries will be transformed. The Internet of Things connecting hundreds of billions of devices and sensors, new mobile applications, cloud computing, and virtual worlds.

Discussion Leaders:

  • Leslie Daigle, Chief Internet Technology Officer, Internet Society
  • Eric Burger, Chief Technology Officer, Neustar
  • Steve Crocker, Internet pioneer and CEO, Shinkuro, Inc.

 
Moderator:

  • Michael R. Nelson, Visiting Professor, Internet Studies, CCT Georgetown University

Details, visit www.isoc-dc.org.

 This organization is the pivotal point of moderate.  They stress a non-agenda and wish only to be the forum for opposing groups to have a conversation to decide the future of the internet.