Canadians Connected is a unique opportunity to hear from some of North America’s leading digital minds.
Jonathan Zittrain – Foremost Authority on the Future of the Internet
Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government, co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and Professor of Computer Science in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society and is on the board of advisors for Scientific American. Previously, he was Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum, which has named him a Young Global Leader.
His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education. His book, The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It, focuses on the future of the now-intertwined Internet and PC, and he has co-edited two studies of Internet filtering by national governments, including Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering.
Stewart Butterfield – Co-founder of Flickr, the popular photosharing website
Stewart Butterfield is the co-founder of Flickr, the popular photosharing website. Named by Time magazine as One of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, Butterfield is a founding father of participatory media. Alongside the giants of social media — Facebook, MySpace and YouTube — Flickr has produced a seismic shift in the way people use technology in their everyday lives. Newsweek calls it “a poster child on how a well-executed Net effort can make big changes in people’s habits.” His latest project is Glitch, a highly stylized social online game from his startup Tiny Speck.
Butterfield grew Flickr from a tiny Canadian operation to a worldwide phenomenon. As “The Eyes of the World,” Flickr boasts over 50 million users a month, and is the largest repository of publicly available photographs, with over 3 billion pictures, and over 2.5 million new photos uploaded every day. In 2005, Butterfield sold Flickr to Yahoo!, where he continued to work, before leaving in 2008 to pursue his next project – entering the growing world of massively multiplayer online gaming.
Butterfield is the co-founder of the gaming startup Tiny Speck, whose debut title is an ambitious massively multiplayer online game called Glitch. Glitch hopes to revolutionize online gaming the same way Flickr revolutionized online photo sharing. Butterfield has been nominated for the Chrysler Design Award, and has been named a Best Leader by Business Week, and one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT. He also founded the 5k Awards, a competition highlighting the best use of simple design solutions.
Not in Vancouver? The event will also be available live via interactive webcast!
- Start:
- Tue, September 20, 2011 2:00 PM
- End:
- Tue, September 20, 2011 4:00 PM
- Location:
- Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre (East), Canada Place Vancouver, 999 CANADA PLACE ST, Vancouver, BC V6C 3B5, Canada
- More info:
- http://www.cira.ca/news/events-page/canadians-connected-2011/
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