2009 Speakers
View the full program for the 2009 Open Video Conference.
Highlighted Speakers & Presenters:
- Clay Shirky — Professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program
- Xeni Jardin — Co-editor of Boing Boing
- Yochai Benkler — Professor at Harvard’s Berkman Center
- Amy Goodman — Host and executive producer of Democracy Now!
- Lizz Winstead — Co-creator of The Daily Show and Shoot the Messenger
- Corynne McSherry — Attorney at EFF
- Jon Lech Johansen, aka DVD Jon — Founder of doubleTwist
- Jason Wishnow — Video Director of the TED Conference
- Ronaldo Lemos — Director of Center for Technology and Society at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School, Brazil
- Ted Hope — Film Producer (of nearly sixty features including 21 Grams and most recently Adventureland)
- Nonso Christian Ugbode — Writer, Producer, with the Mobile Journalism Collective
- Jonathan Zittrain — Co-Director of Harvard’s Berkman Center
- Anthony Falzone — Executive Director of the Fair Use Project at Stanford Law School
- Christopher Blizzard — Director of Evangelism at Mozilla Corporation
- Josh Silver — Executive Director of Free Press
- Matt Mason — Author of the Pirate’s Dilemma
- Lauren Cornell — Executive Director of Rhizome and Adjunct Curator at the New Museum
- Avner Ronen — CEO at Boxee
- Ross Harley — Head of School of Media Arts, University of New South Wales (Sydney)
- Eclectic Method — Live Video Remix DJs
- Nikhil Chandhok — Senior Product Manager, YouTube
- Nina Paley — Creator/Director of Sita Sings the Blues
- Sam Gregory — Program Director of WITNESS
- Jonathan McIntosh — Video Remixer and Activist
- Jamie King — Director of Steal this Film I and II
- Melinda Lee — Chief Content Officer of Uncensored Interview
- Eyebeam — Kenseth Armstead, Jon Cohrs, and Jeff Crouse
- Lance Weiler — Filmmaker and Co-founder of WorkBook Project
- Mark Surman — Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation
- Mike Hudack — CEO of blip.tv
- Eirik Solheim — Project Manager at NRK (Norway’s Public Broadcaster)
- Peter Kaufman — Executive Director, Intelligent Television
- Gabriella Coleman — Professor, Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU
- Jack Brighton — Director of New Media & Innovation, WILL Public Media
- Ryanne Hodson & Jay Dedman — RyanIsHungry.com, Video Activists
- Mark Tribe — Artist and Professor at Brown University
- Neil Sieling — Media Fellow at American U’s Center for Social Media
- Jennifer Taylor — Director of Product Management, Flash Creation and Distribution, Adobe Systems
- Tracey Jaquith — Web Engineer for Archive.org
- Henrik Moltke — Director of Good Copy Bad Copy
- Brett Gaylor — Director of RiP: A Remix Manifesto
Open Source Software Projects (w/ representatives attending)
- An Archive of Our Own ( Francesca Coppa )
- Boxee ( Avner Ronen)
- Blender ( Fateh Slavitsky, Bassam Kurdali )
- Cinelerra ( Scott Frase , Raffaella Tranitello)
- CitizenShift (Reisa Levine)
- Deptford.TV Toolkit (Adnan Hadzi, Lisa Haskel)
- Dirac (David Schleef)
- Firefox ( Chris Blizzard, Chris Double)
- Gnash ( Rob Savoye )
- GNOME ( John (J5) Palmieri )
- GStreamer ( Jan Schmidt, Edward Hervey, David Schleef )
- Firefogg ( Jan Gerber)
- Kaltura ( Shay David, Michael Dale )
- LimeCast/Tracker ( Kevin Faaborg, Michael Nutt, Justin Camerer & Tieg Zaharia )
- LiVES ( VJ pixel )
- Lumiera ( Tom Judge, Raffaella Tranitello )
- Mediawiki ( Erik Moeller )
- Metavid ( Aphid Stern, Michael Dale)
- Miro ( Ben Dean-Kawamura, Nicholas Reville, Dean Jansen)
- Neuros OSD ( Joe Born )
- Opencast ( Adam Hochman, Ben Hubbard )
- Open Emu (Dan Winckler
- Open Media Project ( Brian Hiatt, John Montgomery, Kevin Reynen, Tony Shawcross )
- P2P Next ( Riccardo Petrocco, Johan Pouwelse, Diego Rabaioli )
- Pad.ma (Sanjay Bhangar, Jan Gerber)
- PiTiVi ( Edward Hervey )
- EngageMedia / Plumi (Andrew Lowenthal, Andy Nicholson)
- Red Hat ( Colby Hoke )
- Show in a Box ( Jay Dedman, Ryanne Hodson, Michael Verdi )
- TikiWiki (Nelson Ko)
- Xiph Foundation (Christopher Montgomery, Timothy Terriberry, Silvia Pfeiffer, Jan Gerber )
- URIPlay
- uTagIt
- VLC ( Jean-Baptiste Kempf )
- Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL) (CCNMTL – Michael Preston, Jonah Bossewitch, Brian O’Hagan)
- visionOntv (Richard Hering, Hamish Campbell)
- If there’s a representative coming from a FOSS project that should be listed here, let us know [conference@openvideoalliance.org] and we’ll add it!
