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.