Open Video Conference: October 1-2, 2010

Speakers

OVC speakers run the gamut from academics and lawyers, to creative professionals and artists, to developers and entrepreneurs.

2010 Highlighted Speakers and Presenters (surprises await)

Susan Crawford
Professor of law at Cardozo and former Obama advisor
@scrawford

Tim Wu
Professor of law at Columbia Law School and chair of Free Press
@superwuster

Damian Kulash
lead singer and guitarist of rock band OK Go
@okgo

Ethan Zuckerman
co-founder Global Voices and Berkman fellow
@ethanz

Gabriella Coleman
free software anthropologist and NYU professor
@biellacoleman

Vincent Moon
guerilla filmmaker
@vincentmoon

Jonathan McIntosh
pop culture remixer
@radicalbytes

Anita Ondine
transmedia storyteller and CEO of Seize the Media
@anitaondine

Corynne McSherry
Staff Attorney Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff

Tania Yuki
Senior Director, Cross Media/Video Products, comScore
@taniayuki

Pat Aufderheide
Director, Center for Social Media at American University
@paufder

Anthony Falzone
Stanford Law School Fair Use Project
@tonyfalzone

Rosalie Barnes
adviser to Burning Man Organization
@permissionisok

Jean-Baptiste Kempf
developer and contributor, VLC Player
@videolan

Michael Wesch
cultural anthropologist, Professor at Kansas State University
@mwesch

Barbara van Schewick
Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
@stanfordcis

Jamie Wilkinson
technologist, entrepreneur and internet researcher
@jamiew

Lance Weiler
story architect, founder of Workbook Project
@lancewiler

Amelia Andersdotter
Member European Parliament, Swedish Pirate Party
@teirdes

Eirik Solheim
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation digital strategist
@eirikso

Brett Gaylor
director Rip! A Remix Manifesto
@remixmanifesto

Jim Harper
Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute
@jim_harper

Bill Lederer
CEO, Kantar Video
@kantarvideo

Fred von Lohmann
Senior Copyright Counsel, Google
@fredvonlohmann

Michael Petricone
SVP Government Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association
@ceafeed

Saskia Wilson-Brown
writer and independent film strategist
@saskiawb

Tim Shey
producer and co-founder of Next New Networks
@moth

MemeFactory
observers of humorous trends in internet culture
@wwknsf

Last year’s Open Video Conference

View the full program for the 2009 Open Video Conference.

This document is a complete record of OVC 2009.

Highlighted Speakers & Presenters

These were some of the main stage speakers.

Free and Open Source Projects Represented

These were some of the open source projects present in workshops at OVC.

OVC alumni

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
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
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
Eclectic Method — Live Video Remix DJs
Nikhil Chandhok — Senior Product Manager, YouTube
Nina Paley — Creator/Director of Sita Sings the Blues
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
Mike Hudack — CEO of blip.tv
Peter Kaufman — Executive Director, Intelligent Television
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

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 )
MediaCore ( Stuart Bowness, Simple Station)
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!