Secretary Norman Y. Mineta is Vice Chairman of Hill & Knowlton based in its Washington, DC office. Mineta provides counsel and strategic advice to Hill & Knowlton clients on a wide range of business and political issues.

Mineta is well known for his work in the areas of transportation – including aviation, surface transportation, and infrastructure – and national security. He is recognized for his accomplishments in economic development, science and technology policy, foreign and domestic trade, budgetary issues and civil rights.

Mineta’s career in public service has been both distinguished and unique. He brings a wealth of experience and insight to Hill & Knowlton and its clients, as well as the perspective of having served in Congress for over twenty years and the Cabinet of both Republican and Democratic presidents.

For almost thirty years, Mineta represented San Jose, California – the heart of Silicon Valley – first on the City Council, then as Mayor, and then from 1975 to 1995 as a Member of Congress. Throughout that time, Mineta was an advocate of the burgeoning technology industry. He worked to encourage new industries and spur job growth, and he supported the development of the infrastructure to accommodate the industry and its tremendous growth.

Mineta served as the Chairman of the House Transportation and Public Works Committee from 1992 to 1994, after having chaired the Subcommittee on Aviation and the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation. He was the primary author of the groundbreaking Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991.

In 2000, Mineta was appointed by President Bill Clinton as the United States Secretary of Commerce. At the Department of Commerce, Mineta was known for his work on technology issues, for achieving international cooperation and intergovernmental coordination on complex fisheries issues, and streamlining the patent and trademark process.

Mineta was appointed Secretary of Transportation by President George W. Bush in 2001, where he served until he joined Hill & Knowlton in July 2006. Following the horrific terrorist acts of September 11, 2001, Mineta guided the creation of the Transportation Security Administration, the largest mobilization of a new federal agency since World War II.

Mineta was also a Vice President of Lockheed Martin where he oversaw the first successful implementation of the EZ-Pass system in New York State.

Globally recognized for his leadership, Mineta has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom – our nation’s highest civilian honor – and the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy, which is awarded for significant public service of enduring value to aviation in the United States. He is also the recipient of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun.

He was the co-founder of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and Chair of the National Civil Aviation Review Commission. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.

Secretary Mineta is married to Danealia (Deni) Mineta and has two sons, David K. Mineta and Stuart S. Mineta, and two step-sons, Robert M. Brantner and Mark Brantner.

Sergio Antocicco, Italian, born in Naples in 1943, was elected Chairman of INTUG (International Telecommunication Users Groups) in May 2007, adding this title to his concurrent position of President of ANUIT, the Italian Users Association for the ICT sector.

He is also President of ENSA - European New Society Association, based in Paris and President of Istedil SpA, a Company providing testing and control services for materials and tools used in the building industry, based in Rome.

For 21 years he was Professor of Information Systems Organization - Faculty of Economics at LUISS University in Rome.

From 1989 to 1999 he was Vice President of the Commission on Information and Telecommunication Policies at ICC, Paris.

He was also (1978-2000) CIO of Confindustria, the Organization representing some 130.000 private industrial companies in Italy.

He was appointed by the Italian Government as Director of the Italian Control Room for the Y2K roll-over.

He is the Expert for telecommunication issues of IlSole24ore, the main Italian economic newspaper and a regular speaker in radio and TV emissions.

Allen Brown is President and CEO of The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium that works towards enabling access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability. For more than ten years, Mr. Brown has been responsible for driving the organization’s strategic plan and day-to-day operations. In addition, he was instrumental in the creation of The Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects (AOGEA), which was formed to increase job opportunities for all of its members and elevate their market value by advancing professional excellence.

Prior to joining The Open Group, Mr. Brown managed a consulting firm in London, which he founded in 1987. He enjoyed a mix of financial management and general management assignments, which included advising venture capitalists on investment decisions, and consulting on IT systems design and implementation. Mr. Brown has been a speaker and panelist at numerous industry events - most recently at Gartner’s Enterprise Architecture Summit, SAP TechEd ’07, BTELL Enterprise Architecture Conference, Enterprise Architecture 2007 Conference, the FTP Enterprise Architecture Summit, and the Ziff Davis CIO Summit. He has contributed guest columns on the topic of enterprise architecture to Architecture & Governance, CIO Update, CNET, DM Review and Sandhill.com. Mr. Brown holds an MBA from London Business School.

Ambassador Juan Carlos Capuñay is the 16th Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat for the 2008 APEC Year hosted by Peru.

Born in 1948, Ambassador Capuñay has served as a diplomat in the Peruvian Foreign Service since 1972 in a number of positions around the Asia-Pacific including postings to China, Singapore, Japan and the United Nations. Until his appointment as Deputy Executive Director Ambassador Capuñay was Peru's Senior Official to APEC for four years.

Ambassador Capuñay is an economic graduate from the National University of San Marcos and has received official decorations from Japan, Korea and Chile.

His professional career is as follows:

2008	Ambassador, Executive Director, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat
2007	Ambassador, Deputy Executive Director, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat
2003-2007	Ambassador, Director General of APEC Division, Senior Official of Peru in APEC Under Secretariat for Asia and Pacific Basin Affairs
1998-2003	Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary of Peru to Singapore, and concurrent Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary of Peru to Brunei
1997-1998	Minister, Charge D'Affaires of Peru to Singapore
1994-1997	Minister of the Embassy of Peru to The People's Republic of China
1991-1994	Minister of the Embassy of Peru to Japan and Alternate Representative to The International Organization for Tropical Woods
1986-1991	Minister Counselor, Alternate Representative of Peru to The Organization of American States
1983-1986	Counselor of the Permanent Mission of Peru to The Organization of American States
1982-1983	First Secretary of the Permanent Mission of Peru to The Organization of American States
1979-1982	First Secretary of the Permanent Mission of Peru to The United Nations
1976-1979	Second Secretary of the Permanent Mission of Peru to The United Nations
1976	Second Secretary of the Embassy of Peru to Japan
1973-1976	Third Secretary of the Embassy of Peru to Japan
1972	Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru

Guillermo Diaz, Jr. is the Vice President of Customer Commerce, Services & Solutions IT where he oversees a global team responsible for the IT contribution to Cisco’s Commerce Transformation - an initiative to provide a seamless customer experience.

A member of the Cisco IT Senior Leadership Team, Guillermo reports directly to Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Rebecca Jacoby.

In addition to its Commerce Transformation contribution, the Customer Commerce, Services & Solutions IT team delivers business value through the architecture, development and support of technical, advanced, and finance IT services.

Since joining the company in 2000, Guillermo has helped develop Cisco’s world-class IT infrastructure by leading initiatives to build and manage significant business application environments such as Enterprise Management Systems, Database Foundation, Cisco.com, and Cisco Employee Connection (Cisco’s Intranet). His work was recognized in 2007 as a recipient of the CIO Magazine Ones to Watch award.

Guillermo is an Executive Sponsor of Conexión - Cisco’s Hispanic and Latino Employee Network. He has also held senior IT leadership positions within some of Silicon Valley’s most respected organizations including Director of Global Network Services (Silicon Graphics), Managing Director of IT (Intelligent Electronics), and Manager of Telecommunications (Alza Corporation).

He began his career as a Telecommunications Specialist / Manager with the United States Navy where a military scholarship led to his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Regis University, Colorado) and post-graduate studies at the University of Denver.

Guillermo’s family, including his wife and four children, are based out of the San Francisco Bay Area - the perfect location to indulge his other passion for golf.

Ken Juster joined salesforce.com in January 2005 as executive vice president of law, policy, and corporate strategy. His duties include overseeing legal matters, corporate development, global public policy and strategy, human resources, risk management, internal audit, worldwide real estate and facilities, and procurement. He is a member of the Company's executive committee and reports directly to salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff.

Juster has over 27 years of experience in government, law, business, and international affairs. He currently serves on the President’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. He previously served as U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce from 2001-2005, in charge of the Bureau of Industry and Security. In that capacity, Juster oversaw issues at the intersection of business and national security, including strategic trade controls, imports and foreign investments that affect U.S. security, enforcement of antiboycott laws, and industry compliance with international arms control agreements. He also founded and served as the U.S. Chair of the U.S.-India High Technology Cooperation Group, and was one of the key architects of the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership initiative between the United States and India. In addition, he was responsible for negotiating and signing the End-Use Visit Understanding between the United States and China that facilitated increased exports of U.S. high technology to China. Upon completion of his term at the Commerce Department, Juster received the Secretary of Commerce's William C. Redfield Award and Medal, the Commerce Department's highest honor.

Juster also served as the Counselor (Acting) of the U.S. Department of State from 1992-1993, and as the Deputy and Senior Adviser to Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger from 1989-1992. He was one of the key U.S. government officials involved in establishing and managing U.S. assistance programs to Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He also was actively involved in policy matters relating to China, Japan, Latin America, Israel, and the Persian Gulf. Upon completion of his tenure at the State Department, Juster received the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award and Medal, the State Department's highest honor.

From 1981-1989 and 1993-2001, Juster practiced law at the firm of Arnold & Porter, where he became a senior partner and his work involved international arbitration and litigation, corporate counseling, regulatory matters, and international trade and transactions. Juster also served as a law clerk in 1980-1981 to Judge James L. Oakes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and worked at the National Security Council in 1978.

Among the awards that Juster has received are the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit in 2006 from the President of the Federal Republic of Germany (for contributions to U.S.-German relations); the Vasco Núñez de Balboa en el Grado de Gran Cruz Decoration and Medal in 2004 from the President of Panama (for contributions to U.S.-Panama relations); the 2004 Blackwill Award from the U.S.-India Business Council (for contributions to U.S.-India relations); and the 2002 and 2004 Friendship Awards from the U.S.-Panama Business Council (for contributions to U.S.-Panama relations). Juster also has published extensively on international economic and legal issues, including Making Economic Policy: An Assessment of the National Economic Council (Brookings Institution, 1997) and "The Myth of Iraqgate" in Foreign Policy magazine (Spring 1994).

Juster holds a law degree from the Harvard Law School, a Master's degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in government (Phi Beta Kappa) from Harvard College. He is a graduate of Scarsdale High School, where he was named in 2007 as one of its Distinguished Alumni. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was a Visiting Fellow in 1993. He is a former AFS Exchange Student to Thailand (1971).

Date of Birth:	May 2, 1961
Education:	March 1985, University of Tokyo, Degree in Law May 1992, Yale University, Master’s Degree

Professional Experience:

September 2007	Director, Information Policy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau
July 2007	Director, Information and Communication Electronics Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau
September 2005	Director, Information Service Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau
February 2005	Counsellor, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau
July 2002	JETRO NY Center
June 2001	Director for Policy Planning, Policy Evaluation and Public Relations Division, Minister’s Secretariat
January 2001	Director for Policy Planning, Budget and Accounting Division, Minister’s Secretariat
June 1999	Deputy Director, Budget and Accounting Division, Minister’s Secretariat
June 1998	Deputy Director, Commerce Policy Division, Industrial Policy Bureau
February 1996	Deputy Director, Textile Products Division, Consumer Goods and Service Industries Bureau
May 1994	Deputy Director, Industrial Electronics Division, Machinery and Information Industries Bureau
May 1992	Deputy Director, Promotion Division, Planning Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency
April 1985	Joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry

I am willing to give total support Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce (GBDe) that I am in, with the experience and capability that I have, in order to achieve its goals and create mutual benefits.

I will give a talk about general and gentle introduction to Home IT Revolution by open overlay network to build real ubiquitous network services by connecting devices in a home and devices outside of a home (i.e., the internet and mobile).

Formal Education
1987-1992	Graduate School (PhD Program), Keio University (dropped before completion)
1985-1987	Graduate School (MS) Keio University
1980-1985	Keio University, (Majoring mathematics and computer science)
Work Experience
2007–Present	Invited Researcher, International Medical Information Center
2007-Present	Lecturer, Global Media Studies, Komazawa University
2005-Present	Professor, Cross-Cultural Comm. of Business, Shukutoku University
2000-Present	Research Associate Professor, Graduate School of Media & Governance, Keio University
1987-1999	Lecturer, Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University
1996–2000	Associate Professor, Cross-cultural Comm. of Business, Shukutoku University
1992–1996	Software Research Associate Inc., Tokyo (Designed and implemented several large scale network, prototyping industrial software)
1990–1992	Research Assistant, Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University
1987–1999	IBM Student Research Fellow
Public & Social Activities
2007–2008	Co-leaders, Healthy Living Project, Information Grand Voyage Project, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
2006–2006	Co-leaders, Mobile Multi-Use Preliminary Investigation Project, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
2006–Present	Commit of government-subsidized telecommunication, projects, Ministry of internal affairs and communication
2004–Present	Vice-chairman, P2P Universal Computing Consortium (PUCC), Tokyo
2004–Present	Chairman, PUCC Imaging Protocol Working Group
2002–2005	Device Independence Activity Lead, Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
2000–2002	Mobile Web Activity Lead and its interests Group chair, CC/PP Working Group Chair, W3C
Organizing Int. Conference/workshop (from 2000)
2008	IEEE CCNC 2008 Technical Program Committee
2006	CCITT 2007 Technical Program Committee
2005	W3C Workshop on Ubiquitous Web, Program Committee
2005	IEEE MPP2006, MP2P2006, Program Committee
2004–2005	WWW2005 Workshop on Social Web Content filtering and Semantic Web, Workshop organizer and the Chair
2004	W3C Workshop on metadata for content adaptation, Program Committee
2004	WWW2004 Workshop on Content Labeling -Technical and Socio-Cultural Challenges and Solutions, Workshop Organizer and the Chair
2002	W3C Delivery Context Workshop, Program Committee
2002	W3C Workshop on　Device Independent Authoring Techniques, Program Committee
2000	W3C Workshop on Web Device Independent Authoring, Program Committee
PUCC Related Major Public Speaking and Demonstration (non-academic)
2008	CES 2008: PUCC/JETRO Showcase
2007-2008	CES 2008 Unveiled in NY and LAS
2007 CEATEC 2007	information Grand Voyage Project Showcase
2006 CEATEC 2006	Mobile Multi-use Project Showcase
2006 CEATEC 2006	Organizer of the PUCC Panel Session and its Chairman
2005–Present	Regularly organize PUCC workshops/conference to general audience and chair them twice a year
2005	Co-chairs, APTN, PUCC seminar, IISS, London, U.K.
2005	Co-chairs, PUCC workshop in HIIT, Helsinki, Finland and gave keynote talks about mobile and device independence Web at several business shows, workshop and open house events.

Standardization Activates
I have been studying computer network and markup language (i.e., markup language). From 2000, I joined Word Wide Web Consortium and was responsible to lead non-PC Web access technologies. During W3C, I organized several workshops and conferences, and served as the chairman and a program committee member. From 2004, I have been leading PUCC as a vice-chairman and an imaging working group. I gave many high tech talks in many countries and organizations.

List of Recent PUCC Related Publication
Path Based Effective RDF Query languages with extension for CC/PP and UAProf, the workshop on CoMaRea、T. Matsuyama, Kitagawa, et al, 2004

Overcoming the Tyranny of the Majority in Social Information Filtering Systems, ICWS2004、K., Kitagawa, et al. 2004,

The framework for descriptions and reasoning for adaptive service behavior and structure, IWCTS2005、K. Kitagawa, et al., 2005

An Exploration of Composite Service Execution over P2P Network, CCCT05、K. Kitagawa, et al., 2005

Model and Syntax to Describe Device Capabilities for Service Composition、CCCT05、K. Kitagawa et al, 2005

"The framework for descriptions and reasoning for adaptive service behavior and structure," K. Kitagawa, et. al., IWCTS 2005, 2005

"An Explanation of composite service execution over P2P network", K. Kitagawa, et. al., CCCT 05, 2005 "Model and syntax to describe device capabilities for service composition,", K.Kitagawa, R.Kamimura, CCCT05 2005.,

"Design and implementation of ad hoc printing service over P2P network platform,", K.Kitaawa, et. al., IEEE CCNC 2007, 2007

Recent Standardization Related Publications outside PUCC
W3C NOTE, "Ubiquitous Web Metadata Framework: Use cases and Requirements", K. Kitagawa, N., Ishikawa, et, al 2008, (to appear)

W3C Working Draft, "Ubiquitous Web Metadata framework: Structure and vocabularies", K. Kitagawa, N. Ishikawa, et al., 2008 (to appear)

Mr. Klurfeld is the Regional Director of the Western Region of the Federal Trade Commission, an independent law enforcement agency. The FTC is charged by Congress with protecting American consumers from Aunfair methods of competition and Aunfair and deceptive acts and practices in the marketplace. Through its consumer protection mandate, the Commission seeks to safeguard the public from fraud and deception. He is a 1969 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, and a 1972 graduate of Berkeleys Boalt Hall School of Law.

Mr. Klurfeld commenced his professional career at the Federal Trade Commission. As a staff attorney, he specialized in investigating and litigating complex antitrust and consumer protection cases. These matters included challenges to anticompetitive mergers, price-fixing, and other restraints of trade; and prosecutions of telemarketing fraud and deceptive advertising. In 1990, Mr. Klurfeld was appointed as Regional Director of the Western Region, which embraces California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, Colorado and Utah.

Robin R. Layton is the Director of the Commerce Department’s Office of Technology and Electronic Commerce (OTEC).

Part of the Manufacturing and Services bureau of the International Trade Administration, OTEC has three teams. The Electronic Commerce team provides general trade and policy analysis and research to promote a favorable global policy environment for electronic commerce growth while the Information Technology and Telecommunications teams actively support U.S. ICT firms' efforts to expand their business opportunities overseas.

In addition to managing OTEC, Ms. Layton leads the U.S. delegation to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) negotiations on establishing a regional agreement for cross border data flows. Ms. Layton also manages the Department’s international Radio Frequency Identification (RIFD) international policy program, including intra-USG policy coordination and the U.S.-EU RFID Transatlantic Lighthouse project. She has also been very active in the U.S.-Canadian-Mexican Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) work on information and communications technologies. Additionally, she served as a vice-Chair of the OECD Working Party on Information Security and Privacy in 2006-07.

Prior to joining OTEC in June, 2006, Ms. Layton served as the Associate Administrator for the Office of International Affairs (OIA) of the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) from 2002-2006, and as a Senior Telecommunications Policy Advisor from 2000-2002. From July 1999 to November, 2000, Ms. Layton was Associate Chief of the FCC’s International Bureau, in charge of general management and strategic policy planning.

Prior to her 1999-2000 stint at the Commission, Ms. Layton had been with Commerce for 19 years serving in various capacities with the International Trade Administration (ITA). From 1996-1999, she was the Director of ITA’s Office of Telecommunications. She also was posted twice to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France, initially on transfer to its Trade Directorate (1983-86) and subsequently as Commercial Advisor for the U.S. Mission to the OECD (1990-95). Her earlier Washington-based work with the Department focused on WTO - GATT trade negotiations.

Ms. Layton holds a B.A. degree from Furman University and a M.A. degree from the John’s Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She is married to David Layton and has two daughters.

Dr. Lung-Sing Liang, President of Chunghwa Telecom Labs (CHT-TL), received his B.S. degree in Communication Engineering and M.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from the National Chiao-Tung University in 1975 and 1978 respectively. He got his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from National Taiwan University. In 2008 he further received master degree in Financial and Economic Law from Chung Yuan Christian University.

Dr. Liang started working in 1979 at the Telecommunication Laboratories, Ministry of Transportation and Communications, serving different positions such as assistant researcher, associate researcher, researcher, and managing director, etc. In 1998, Telecommunication Laboratories was corporatized and renamed as Chunghwa Telecommunication Laboratories. Due to his outstanding achievements, Dr. Liang was promoted to the Vice President of CHT-TL in 1996, mainly responsible for the research of telecommunication technology, and was promoted as the President of CHT-TL in October 2000.

Dr. Liang’s wide research interest covers the technologies of Broadband ATM switch, access protocols for VSAT system, Operation Support Systems, Call Center/Customer Care, Billing System, NGI protocols, QoS, and Ipv6.

Dr. Liang has always been actively participating in global and domestic telecom activities: being the secretary of Pacific Rim Frame Relay, ATM, SMDS Interest Group (PRFASIG), the chairperson of ATM SG in AOW since 1996, and the vice chairman of IEEE Globecom 2002 Taipei. Since 2006 he has been contributing in GBDe (Global Business Dialogue in e-commerce) as a chief Sherpa of Chunghwa Telecom. In the recent years he has been the convener of Network sub-program in National Science and Technology Program for Telecommunications of Taiwan, the convener of the Promotion Committee of Cross-Strait EE Development in the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, and the convener of RSU SIG in Telematics Promotion Forum of Ministry of Economic Affairs. He serves as a member of review board for projects funding by Department of Industrial Technology, Ministry of Economic Affairs Taiwan.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Student, Development Studies, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan, 2007-

LLM, Political Science, National Chengchi University(NCCU) , Taiwan, 1985

BS, Public Administration, National Chengchi University(NCCU) , Taiwan, 1981

CURRENT POSITIONS

Advisory Planner, Planning and Evaluation Office, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan

EXPERIENCE

Deputy Director, National Information & Communications Initiative Committee, The Executive Yuan (The Cabinet), Taiwan, 2004-2008

Deputy General Director, Project Resource Division, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan, 2005-2008

Government Advisor, Tainan County, Taiwan, 2004-2005

Commissioner, 2004 Taiwan Flower Expo Planning Committee, Taiwan, 2004

Committee Advisor, Taiwan Flower Expo Work Team at ChangHua County, Taiwan, 2003-2004

Sr. Manager, Information Security Service Center, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan, 2001-2002

Manager, Sr. Manager, IT Promotion Division, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan, 1987-2000

RESEARCH INTERESTS / PROJECTS

Post-Industrial Society

Information Society Index

National ICT Policy

EXPO Planning & Management

Fran Maier is the CEO of TRUSTe, the leading brand in online privacy. Ms. Maier brings 15+ years of experience building consumer brands and enhancing consumer trust. She is known for her expertise in online privacy, online marketing best practices, and marketing to women. As a co-founder of Match.com she established credibility, safety and trust in online dating, making Match.com the favorite dating site for single women. Ms. Maier speaks widely on the issues of privacy, security, and trust, has appeared before the Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Commerce, and has testified before the United States House of Representative’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection. Ms. Maier holds a BA and MBA from Stanford University.

Claus is currently Chief Scientist at Hitachi Data Systems. Claus joined Hitachi Data Systems in 1998 and is currently responsible for new technology research for storage applications, storage virtualization, and Data Life Cycle Management. During his tenure with Hitachi Data Systems, Claus designed and patented the technology for NanoCopy Asynchronous Point-in-Time Replications and other related products, and continues to work with Hitachi Data Systems’business partners and other vendors on developing complementary architectures for storage solutions.

Prior to joining Hitachi Data Systems, Claus was with IBM where he was one of the Chief Architects for IBM’s storage replication and disaster recovery products, a position he held for 15 years. Between Hitachi Data Systems and IBM, Claus holds 15 patents for storage subsystem architectures (with an additional two pending), and is on the Technical Advisory Board for a Silicon Valley company. Claus also co-authored a book on disaster recovery called "The Resilient Enterprise" and has contributed numerous articles on storage availability and data center resiliency.

Most recently Claus has worked on defining the requirements for Hitachi Data System’s TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform and Network Storage Controller.

Born in 1967, in Aichi prefecture Married with 2 children
He has been a government official, mostly in the ICT fields.
2007.12-	Director, Multilateral Affairs Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs & Communications
2005.8-	Director, Postal Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs & Communications
2002-2005	First secretary, Japanese Mission to the European Union
2001	The MPT has merged with the Ministry of Home Affairs, and become MIC: Ministry of Internal Affairs & Communications.
1992-1993	Studied at University of Southern California, Annenberg School
1990-	Entered the Japanese Government (the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications: MPT)

Justin Somaini is chief information security officer at Symantec, responsible for managing all aspects of Symantec’s information security strategy. Somaini plays a strategic role in protecting Symantec’s IT resources and information assets and drives all internal security initiatives. Reporting to Symantec’s CIO, Somaini has responsibility for Symantec’s IT information security risk management, threat response, governance, and privacy functions.

Somaini has more than 12 years of information security and corporate audit experience with large organizations. Prior to joining Symantec, Justin was director of information security at VeriSign Inc., where he led all aspects of information security.

Previously, Somaini was director of information security services for Charles Schwab Inc. Somaini also spent several years with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he developed their attack and penetration leadership and audit practice.

Indrani is currently the Head of Consumers International- Kuala Lumpur Office, in charge of Asia Pacific and Middle East Region. She obtained her degree in Law from University of London, UK in 1994 and Master in E-marketing from Dublin Metropolitan University, Ireland in 2007. She has vast experience in development and social sectors including gender empowerment, human rights and a specific focus on consumer protection and consumer rights.

Since 2006, she’s been an Executive Board member of the Transparency International – Malaysia that focuses on integrity, transparency and governance issues. She was also nominated to sit on the Consumer Bureau of the World Bank’s International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) which concluded after three years in April 2008. She was called in as a civil society expert to assist in the preparation for its first Regional Human Development Report on International Trade and Human Poverty in 2004 by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), regional center in Colombo. In addition, she is the outgoing Executive Director of the Southeast Asian Council for Food Security and Fair Trade (SEACON), a regional network that advocates on issues related to agriculture, trade and food security.

In year 2004, she received the prestigious National Malaysian Consumer Award from the Most Honorable Prime Minister for her contribution. She is also a Member of Institute of Public Relations. Malaysia (IPRM) and is an accredited Public Relations Practitione.

Since 2000, she has co-authored and edited publications such as articles; papers including books related to consumer rights, agriculture and human rights issues and has participated and/or presented papers in over 80 national, regional and international conferences and workshops. She has organized national and regional conferences under various thematic social and development areas.

Current and recent responsibilities: Head of the Information Economy Group and programme director for OECD information technology, digital content, e-business and industry programmes covering: E-business, information economy, intangibles and intellectual capital, new technologies, industrial performance, manufacturing flexibility, work organisation, industry globalisation. Most recent policy programmes on: electronic business, information economy, intangibles, firm organisation and employment, new growth industries, strategic business services and ICTs and the environment.

Publications: Author of numerous OECD publications and articles. Presented papers at many international conferences on the information economy, technology strategies, sector developments and government policies. Books on information technology, digital content industries, business services, environment industry, globalisation, advanced manufacturing technology, diffusion of microelectronics, technology and investment, modernising manufacturing, high tech industries and work organisation.

Kul Wadhwa is Head of Business Development for the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free content worldwide. The Wikimedia Foundation's projects include Wikipedia, one of the top-five most visited websites in the world.

Kul develops and executes business development strategies to distribute Wikipedia's popular content to more people, in more ways, around the world. Currently, Kul is exploring business relationships to better distribute Wikipedia content via mobile devices as well as through other channels. Kul was previously the business and partnerships manager at Stanford University. He has more than a decade of management and business development experience, including senior roles at CyberTrust Japan, B.U.G. Inc. and Pangea2, where he worked on deals throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. As founder of Cybertrust Japan, a leader of digital certificate encryption, Kul secured backing from NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile company in Japan. Kul has also conducted economic research with the nonprofit global policy think tank, RAND Corporation.

Kul frequently speaks about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, with a focus on new ways to extend the foundation's mission and ensure sustainability.

Yutaka Yasunaga was born in 1952 in Yokohama, Japan, and joined NYK Line in 1975, right after his graduation from the University of Tokyo.

During his career at NYK Line, he was twice stationed in the United States. Those nine years saw him involved in the development of inland transportation networks in the United States, regional computer systems in North America and Asia, global e-commerce systems, and other such far-reaching projects.

In 2002, he was nominated as a director and CIO of NYK Line. In that five-year tenure, he accomplished a total reconstruction of the corporate accounting system and spearheaded a project to renovate the entire operating system.

In April 2007, he assumed his current position at NYK Line and at the same time became president of Monohakobi Technology Institute (MTI) – monohakobi means the transportation (hakobi) of goods (mono). MTI, which is 100% owned by NYK, is in charge of R&D activities for maritime and logistics technology, and in charge of human resources training for NYK Group companies. MTI’s recent focus includes developing new business models that utilize RFID technology and creating fuel-saving technology for ocean going vessels to reduce (or totally eliminate) greenhouse gas emissions.

On top of the above, Mr. Yasunaga became president of SAP Japan User Group (JSUG), in which responsibility he leads activities to request improvements in the users’ service level and to reflect their voices in the development cycles of their new products.

Mr. Masaki Yoshikawa assumed his current position of Managing Director of Credit Card Business Division of NTT DOCOMO, the largest mobile telecommunications operator in Japan, in July 2008.

Mr. Yoshikawa was born in 1953 in Tokyo, Japan and attended University of Tokyo. After the graduation from the university with a bachelor in Economics, he joined the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB) in 1977. In June 1983, he received a Master of Business Administration from University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. From 1977 to 1999, he had engaged in various banking activities for the LTCB for over 20 years.

With wide experience of banking businesses, Mr. Yoshikawa joined NTT DOCOMO in April 1999. He was appointed as the first President & CEO of NTT DOCOMO USA in February 2000. In July 2002, he became Executive Director of Global Business Department, and then became Managing Director of Global Coordination Department in 2003. He served as President & CEO of NTT DOCOMO USA again from October 2006 until June 2008.

Mr. Yoshikawa is married and has a son and a daughter.

Personal Information
Date of Birth: February 1, 1942
Family: Married to Margaret Yuan with two children, Billy and Alice

Current Position
Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (August 2008 to Present)

Experience

2004-2008	Representative, KMT-PFP Representative Office, U.S.A.
2003	Vice Chairman, NGO Affairs Committee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, R.O.C.
1998-2003	Director General, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles, U.S.A.
1996-1998	Ambassador of the Republic of China to Panama
1994-1996	Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Canada
1991-1994	Director General, Department of North American Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, R.O.C.
1979-1991	Deputy Director & Director, Congressional Liaison Division, Coordination Council for North American Affairs, Office in the U.S.A.
1974-1979	Assistant & Acting Naval Attaché, Embassy of the Republic of China in the U.S.A.
Education
1978	U.S. National Security Management Certificate, U.S. National Defense University, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
1977	M.A. in Business and Public Administration, Southeastern University, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
1972	PBA Program Certificate, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
1963	B.A. Chinese Navy Academy, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Honors
Order Vasco Núñez de Balboa en el Grado de Cruz (1998) Foreign Service Medal (1986 & 1994) Scholarship Medal (1974)

Radu POPESCU-ZELETIN is professor at the Technical University Berlin and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS), Berlin. Prof. Popescu-Zeletin graduated at the Polytechnical Institute Bucharest, Romania, got his PH.D. from the University of Bremen, and his habilitation from the Technical University Berlin. He published many papers and books on network technologies, distributed computing systems and applications. He was active in standardization committees (DIN, ISO, WWRF) and had contributed to the development of telecommunication standards. His chair for “Open Communication Systems” at the TU Berlin is highly involved in the development of technologies for “I-centric communication” and “Autonomic Communication” as main constituents of the Future Internet.

He is founder of several telecommunication companies: IKV++ Technologies AG, IVISTAR AG, Testing Technologies IST GmbH, TwonkyVision GmbH, ICAM GmbH , IPTELORG GmbH

Prof. Popescu-Zeletin is member of the Microsoft Interoperability Executive Customer Council, founder of the ISPRAT e.V. (Interdisciplinary Studies on Policy, Law, Administration and Technology e.V.) and of the Wireless World Research Forum. As member of the Motorola Visionary Board (2004-2006) he contributed to new developments in mobile communications He was chairman of the scientific council of DeTeCon International and member of the advisory boards of several telecommunication companies.

He is Senior Member of IEEE, Doctor honoris causa of the Polytechnical Institute Bucharest, Romania and Professor honoris causa of the Catholic University of Campinas, Brasil. He is member of the Romanian Academy as well as bearer of the Public Service Medal of the Republic of Romania.