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Open Video Conference 2010 will take place October 1-2 in New York City. It’s our distinct pleasure to announce that Susan Crawford, professor of law at University of Michigan and former advisor to the Obama administration, is joining the slate of speakers for OVC2010.

Susan is the founder of OneWebDay and served on the board of directors of ICANN from 2005-2008. As an academic, she teaches internet law and communications law at University of Michigan Law School. In 2008, she co-led the FCC Agency Review team for the Obama-Biden transition, and served as Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. She rejoined the Michigan faculty in January 2010. Susan, a violist, also lives in New York City.

Like many other leading thinkers in technology policy, Susan is watching the future of online video very closely. Join us in New York this fall to explore how the medium is developing, and how it will affect the future of the web.

This year’s Open Video Conference will take place October 1-2 in New York City. We’re happy to report that Tim Wu, net scholar and chair of the media reform group Free Press, will be giving a keynote address.

Tim is the co-author of Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World and the author of the forthcoming book The Master Switch: The Invisible Wars for the Information Empire. He is also known for popularizing the concept of net neutrality in the seminal paper Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination, in which he explored neutrality between applications, neutrality between data and Quality of Service-sensitive traffic, and proposed some legislation to potentially deal with these issues.

Tim is a professor of copyright and communications at Columbia Law School and writes for Slate magazine, and is a contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times, Washington Post Weekend, and Forbes.