People
Who attends OVC? OVC participants run the gamut from academics and lawyers, to creative professionals and artists, to developers and entrepreneurs. Attendees have visited from over 30 countries, from across many disciplines.
2011 Speakers
Jillian York
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jonathan McIntosh
Rebellious Pixels
Cindy Gallop
Make Love, Not Porn
Gigi Sohn
Public Knowledge
Brewster Kahle/
Tracey Jaquith
Internet Archive
Marvin Ammori
New America
2011 Directory
The following is a list of professional attendees, session leaders, and guests of the Open Video Conference.
- Jan Gerber, 0×2620.org
- Ken Wiederhorn, 3rd Ward
- Musa Syeed, 30 Mosques
- Corbin Brook, #audio
- Cole Gillespie, #MozNewsLab
- Kabir Soorya, #MozNewsLab
- Celeste North, NuFlick
- Fabricio Zuardi, alpha.publicvideos.org
- Patricia Aufderheide, American University
- Eric Carlson, Apple
- Nancy McLaughlin, Archive of Our Own
- Amelia Ryan, Archive of Our Own
- David Carter, Arent Fox LLP
- Chris Lacinak, AudioVisual Preservation Solutions
- Dave Rice, AudioVisual Preservation Solutions
- Colin Winter, Babson College, WikiClips.TV
- Andrew Pinzler, BBC Worldwide
- Malaika Mose, Beyond the Box Office
- Willard Ling, Bitcoin Navigator
- Yifu Guo, Bitcoin Navigator
- Charlie Shem, BitInstant
- Warren Allen, BLIP
- Rick Waldron, Bocoup
- Elliott Siebers, Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic
- Philip Weiss, Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic
- Kaylan Sobel, Brooklyn Law School
- Julie Adler, Brooklyn Law School BLIP
- Jonathan Askin, Brooklyn Law School BLIP
- Julie Russo, Brown University
- Drew Stephan, C4 Tech and Design
- David Collado, Cardozo Law
- Dana Lutt, Career Transition For Dancers
- Jonah Bossewitch, CCNMTL, Columbia University
- Frank Moretti, CCNMTL, Columbia University
- Michael Cennamo, CCNMTL, Columbia University
- Stephanie Ogden, CCNMTL, Columbia University
- Paul Stengel, CCNMTL, Columbia University
- Rob Garfield, CCNMTL, Columbia University
- Steve Welsh, CCNMTL, Columbia University
- J. Skyler Fernandes, Centripetal Capital Partners
- Thomas Allen Harris, Chimpanzee Productions
- Ann Bennett, Chimpanzee Productions
- Ethan Hugg, Cisco Systems
- Andrew McLaughlin, Civic Commons
- Schuyler Duveen, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning
- Andrea Dixon, Columbia University
- Brian O’Hagan, Columbia University
- Abi Wright, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
- Nan Rubin, Community Media Services
- Carole Lazio, Contract Media Consultant
- Thomas Levine, Cornell University
- Jane Park, Creative Commons
- Michael McCarthy, Creative Contractor w/ Mozilla
- Graham Wheeler, Creative Contractor w/ Mozilla
- Charles Cliffe, CubicVR
- Hugh McGrory, Culture Shock Marketing
- Debra Anderson, Culture Shock Marketing
- Grit Matthias, CultureSofa
- Ken Devine, Devakis Foundation
- Liz Hodes, Digital Democracy
- Yasin Khan, Domestic Violence Crisis Center
- Jonathan Markow, DuraSpace
- Jason Daniels, Easton Community Access Television
- Richard Esguerra, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Jillian York, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Lea Rosen, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Shaun Clarke, Emerson College
- Simon Emmanuel Roux, Espaces temps Montréal
- Jennifer Wager, Essex County College
- Paul Ewen, Ewen Industries, Inc.
- Thomas Ficklin, Ficklin Media
- Beardsley Ruml, FinalsClub; Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement
- Per Thulin, Flattr
- Colin Clark, Fluid Project
- Jason Sigal, Free Music Archive @ WFMU-FM
- Chris Dorr, Future of Film Blog, Tribeca Film
- Dennis Stevens, Geisterschiff Media
- Luca Barbato, Gentoo
- Steven Swigart, Georgia State University Video Communications
- Sarah Fox, Georgia Tech
- Hadzi Adnan, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Anna Cavender, Google
- Aaron Colwell, Google
- Matt Frost, Google
- John Koleszar, Google
- Alex Kozak, Google
- Jasmine Langridge, Google
- Jan Linden, Google
- Silvia Pfeiffer, Google
- Jeffrey Posnick, Google
- Andrew Scherkus, Google
- Frank Galligan, Google
- Shawn van Every, Guardian Project
- Hans-Christoph Steiner, Guardian Project
- Andrew Senior, Guardian Project
- Harlo Holmes, Guardian Project
- Misha Ponizil, HackNY
- Mark Boas, Happyworm Ltd, jPlayer.org
- Peter Fontanes, Hispanics in Information Technology and Telecommunications
- Lea Shaver, Hofstra Law School
- Betty Yu, Hunter College
- Melissa Hacker, Hunter College Integrated Media Arts MFA Program
- Chloe Smolarski, Hunter College MFA
- Sandy Block, IBM
- Philippe Normand, Igalia
- Freddrick Logan, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Ashkan Soltani, Independent researcher
- Nicholas Bramble, Information Society Project at Yale Law School
- Jeff Howard, Interactive Telecommunications Program
- William New, Intellectual Property Watch
- Tracey Jaquith, Internet Archive
- Roger Macdonald, Internet Archive
- Amee Evans Godwin, ISKME
- Joseph Miller, Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies
- Luisa Dantas, JoLu Productions Inc.
- Zachary Ozer, JWPlayer, Longtail Video
- Pablo Schklowsky, JWPlayer, Longtail Video
- Perry Fetterman, Kaltura
- Zohar Babin, Kaltura
- Michal Tsur, Kaltura
- Leah Belsky, Kaltura
- Michael Dale, Kaltura
- Andrew Davis, Kaltura
- Linda Drabik, Kaltura
- Thomas Nixon, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden
- David Reisch, Korsakow
- Matt Soar, Korsakow
- Florian Thalhofer, Korsakow
- Gregory Fabre, Laboratoire NT2
- Edward Hall, LGHTSRC LLC, Bard College
- Cindy Gallop, Make Love, Not Porn
- Corey Innis, Make Love, Not Porn
- Oonie Chase, Make Love, Not Porn
- Michael Smith, Make Love, Not Porn
- Chris Poole, Make Love, Not Porn
- Joe Martis, Massachusetts Institute Technology
- Steve Pierce, Media Alliance
- Branda Miller, Media Alliance
- Joseph Bergen, metaLAB at Harvard
- Abram Stern, Metavid
- Forest Mars, MNN
- Becky Hurwitz, Mobile Active
- Amanda Antico-Majkowski, Mobile Internet Content Coalition (MICC)
- Chris Blizzard, Mozilla
- Ralph Giles, Mozilla
- Ben Moskowitz, Mozilla
- Anant Narayanan, Mozilla
- Bobby Richter, Mozilla
- Michael Verdi, Mozilla
- Mark Surman, Mozilla
- Brian Brennan, Mozilla
- Alex Fowler, Mozilla
- Timothy Terriberry, Mozilla/Xiph.Org
- Andrew Lee, Mt. Gox North America, Inc.
- Mike Knowlton, Murmur
- Hal Siegel, Murmur
- Robert Lazo, National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
- Alyce Myatt, National Endowment for the Arts
- Mary Smith, National Endowment for the Arts
- Laura Welsh, National Endowment for the Arts
- Bob Leonard, NBC Universal
- Mark Watson, Netflix
- Marvin Ammori, New America Foundation OTI
- Richard Matasar, New York Law School, Dean
- James Grimmelmann, New York Law School
- Molly Land, New York Law School
- Beth Noveck, New York Law School
- Richard Sherwin, , New York Law School
- Christopher Wong, New York Law School
- Ruth del Campo, New York Law School
- Jillian Raines, New York Law School
- Andrea Casillas, New York Law School / Peer To Patent
- Marine Boudeau, New York Public Radio
- Dr. Peter Morales, New York University
- Patrick Davison, New York University
- Michelle Forelle, New York University
- Mark Reilly, New York University
- Helen Nissenbaum, New York University
- Sarah Knuckey, New York University
- Adam Rokhsar, New York University
- Nadine Wolf, New York University
- Elad Schanin, New York University/CRC Media
- Angelique Mannella, Nokia
- Al Williams, Northampton Community Television
- Ernie Zahn, NPeaches
- Harry Wolff, NPeaches
- Katie Baxter, NYLS Students for Free Culture
- Dan Liss, NYU ITP
- Mehan Jayasuriya, NYU ITP
- Becky Kazansky, NYU ITP
- Matthew Epler, NYU ITP
- Greg Dorsainville, NYU School of Medicine, ITP
- Shawn Van Every, NYU/ITP and Guardian Project
- Paige MacGregor, NYU Steinhardt School
- Bruce Wagner, OnlyOneTV | global television network
- Pippin Lee, Open Journalism
- Kate Hudson, Open Journalism, York University
- Jacob Caggiano, Open Video Alliance
- Rich Jones, Open Watch
- Dave Malicke, Open.Michigan – University of Michigan
- Phil Hill, openstudy and iGOiq
- Philip Jägenstedt, Opera Software
- Francesca Coppa, Organization For Transformative Works
- Rena Chicklas, Pace University
- Jonathan Hill, Pace University Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems
- Nicholas Reville, Participatory Culture Foundation
- Anne Jonas, Participatory Culture Foundation
- Craig Zheng, Participatory Culture Foundation
- Dean Jansen, Participatory Culture Foundation
- Holmes Wilson, Participatory Culture Foundation
- Aleli Alcala, Participatory Culture Foundation
- Bradley Samuels, Partner, Situ Studio
- Jennifer Rodriguez, PBS
- Tami Mount, PBS Learning Media
- Vishal Kapoor, Pearson
- Philipp Schmidt, Peer 2 Peer University
- Micah Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum
- Jeff Fortin, Pitivi
- Elisa Kreisinger, Pop Culture Pirate
- Susan Chun, Project Audience
- Maha Atal, Public Business Media, Forbes Magazine
- Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge
- Katy Tasker, Public Knowledge
- Michael Weinberg, Public Knowledge
- Don Corr, Queens College, CUNY
- Karl Fogel, Question Copyright
- Camille Acey, Question Copyright
- Nina Paley, Question Copyright
- Brenna Farrell, Radiolab and WNYC Radio
- Jonathan McIntosh, Rebellious Pixels
- Carlos Manriquez, Red Hat
- Wes Leonard, Red Hat
- Patrick McKay, Regent University School of Law
- Mette Birk, Remix Theory and Praxis
- Daniel Sieradski, Repair the World
- Joanne Mcneil, Rhizome.org
- Tim Hwang, Robot, Robot & Hwang / Berkeley Law
- Dara Greenwald, RPI
- Bryce Renninger, Rutgers University
- Jason Schultz, Samuelson Clinic at Berkeley Law
- Jennifer Urban, Samuelson Clinic at Berkeley Law
- Jeff Davidson, Saylor.org
- Alana Harrington, Saylor.org
- Veronica Paredes, School of Cinematic Arts, USC
- Lucio Pileggi, Scuola Normale Superiore
- Perry Bard, School of Visual Arts/Pratt Institute
- Rick Gell , Second Line Digital LLC
- Michael Soupios, Seton Hall University
- Paco de Onís, Skylight Pictures
- Forrest Glick, Stanford University
- Elizabeth Stark, Stanford University
- David Clinch, Storyful
- Tom Stroll, Stroll Media Group
- Nina Huntemann, Suffolk University
- Tiina Knuutila, Sunlight Foundation
- Samara Smith, SUNY Old Westbury
- Liz Cole, Teach For America
- Elizabeth Cole, Teach For America
- Eric Mueller, TED Conferences, TED.com
- Ingrid Kopp, TFI New Media Fund
- Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldeggl, The Atlantic
- Bruce Wagner, The Bitcoin Show | OnlyOneTV
- Shakir Speller, The Bitcoin Show | OnlyOneTV
- Manny Mena, The Bitcoin Show | OnlyOneTV
- Edward Gel, The Bitcoin Show | OnlyOneTV
- Nicholas Merrill, The Calyx Institute
- Jason Sigal, The Free Music Archive @ WFMU 91.1-FM
- Mr. Doob, The Internet
- D.C. Vito, The LAMP
- Nancy Schwartzman, The Line Campaign
- Mark Harris, The Lost Children
- Eavvon O’Neal, The New School
- Peter Asarol, The New School
- Jason Spingarn-Koff, The New York Times
- Brian Chirls, Three Eyed Labs
- Claudine Boeglin, The Thomson Reuters Foundation
- Jennifer Bleyer, The Tillman Story
- Amir Bar-Lev, The Tillman Story
- Ian Small, Tokbox
- Juan Gonzalez, Tribal Mix
- Michael Gotalsky, TrueConf
- Arielle Bikard, TTR
- Benjamin Hubbard, UC Berkeley
- Andre Valentim Almeida, UnionDocs
- Christopher Allen, UnionDocs
- Ashish Kumar, United Nations
- Ana Gomes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Rodrigo Arias, Universidad Francisco Marroquín
- Oscar Lizarazo, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Nathanaël Lécaudé, Université de Montréal
- Anne Migner-Laurin, Université du Quebec a Montreal
- William Hanff, University of the District of Columbia
- Emiliano Bazan, UQAM
- Heather Ford, Ushahidi
- Blake Whitman, Vimeo
- Amanda Lyons, VISUALS for CHANGE
- Matt Burrows, Warner Bros.
- John Luther, WebM Project
- Serge Lachapelle, WebM Project
- Karen Cariani, WGBH Educational Foundation
- Peter Pinch, WGBH Interactive
- Courtney Michael, WGBH Media Library & Archives
- Michael Dale, Wikimedia / Kaltura
- Kat Walsh, Wikimedia Foundation
- Tanya O’Carroll, WITNESS
- Sam Gregory, WITNESS
- Yvonne Ng, WITNESS
- Grace Lile, WITNESS
- Raja Althaibani, WITNESS
- Jackie Zammuto, WITNESS
- Nathan Freitas, WITNESS / Guardian Project
- Brian Nunez, WITNESS / Guardian Project
- Lance Weiler, Workbook Project
- Janine Saunders, Workbook Project
- Monty Montgomery, The Xiph.Org Foundation
- Gregory Maxwell, The Xiph.Org Foundation
- Rebecca Wexler, Yale Law School Information Society
- Paul Lawrence, Yale University
- Nick Fox-Gieg, York University, Toronto
- Greg Schechter, YouTube
- Matt Ward, YouTube
- Richard Leider, YouTube
- Jon Dahl, Zencoder
- Steve Heffernan, Zencoder
- Ntili Lekhotsa, N/A
- Fred Guest, N/A
- Shmulik Kaufmann, N/A
- Karem Mahmoud, N/A
- Laure Parsons, N/A
- Jen Simmons, N/A
- Soheb Vahora, N/A
- Marc Covitz, N/A
- Kristin Smith, N/A
- Dominic Mauro, N/A
- Rachel Stevens, N/A
OVC Alumni
- Susan Crawford — Professor of law at Cardozo and former Obama advisor
- Tim Wu — Professor of law at Columbia Law School and chair of Free Press
- Damian Kulash — Lead singer and guitarist of rock band OK Go
- Michael Wesch — Cultural anthropologist, Professor at Kansas State University
- Barbara van Schewick — Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
- The Yes Men — Culture-jamming impostors
- Janine Gibson — Editor, guardian.co.uk
- Ethan Zuckerman — Co-founder Global Voices and Berkman fellow
- Jamie Wilkinson — Technologist, entrepreneur and internet researcher
- Amelia Andersdotter — Member European Parliament, Swedish Pirate Party
- Lance Weiler — Story architect, founder of Workbook Project
- Tommy Pallotta — Producer, Waking Life
- Gabriella Coleman — Free software anthropologist and NYU professor
- Adam Chodikoff — Senior producer, The Daily Show
- Vincent Moon — Guerilla filmmaker
- Jonathan McIntosh — Pop culture remixer
- Eirik Solheim — Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation digital strategist
- Brett Gaylor — Director Rip! A Remix Manifesto
- Jim Harper — Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute
- Bill Lederer — CEO, Kantar Video
- Gregory Bros. — Specialists of auto-tuning the news
- Corynne McSherry — Staff Attorney Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Tania Yuki — Senior Director, Cross Media/Video Products, comScore
- Pat Aufderheide — Director, Center for Social Media at American University
- Fred von Lohmann — Senior Copyright Counsel, Google
- Michael Petricone — SVP Government Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association
- Saskia Wilson-Brown — Writer and independent film strategist
- Tim Shey — Producer and co-founder of Next New Networks
- Anthony Falzone — Stanford Law School Fair Use Project
- Rosalie Barnes — Adviser to Burning Man Organization
- Jean-Baptiste Kempf — Developer and contributor, VLC Player
- MemeFactory — Observers of humorous trends in internet culture
- 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 (cumulative)
- Active Archives (Michael Murtaugh, Peter Westenberg)
- An Archive of Our Own ( Francesca Coppa, Amelia Ryan, and Nancy McLaughlin )
- 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)
- DuraSpace ( Jonathan Markow )
- Firefox ( Chris Blizzard, Chris Double)
- Free Music Archive ( Jason Sigal )
- Fluid Project (Colin Clark)
- Gnash ( Rob Savoye )
- GNOME ( John (J5) Palmieri )
- GStreamer ( Jan Schmidt, Edward Hervey, David Schleef )
- Firefogg ( Jan Gerber)
- Kaltura ( Shay David, Michael Dale )
- Korsakow ( Florian Thalhofer, Matt Soar, Dave Reisch )
- 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 )
- OpenGovernment (David Moore, Donny Shaw – Participatory Politics Foundation)
- 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)
- Popcorn.js (Bob Richter, Dave Humphrey, Cdot, boucoup)
- PiTiVi ( Edward Hervey )
- EngageMedia / Plumi (Andrew Lowenthal, Enrico Aditjondro )
- 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 )
- Universal Subtitles ( Adam Duston, Nicholas Reville, Dean Jansen)
- URIPlay
- uTagIt
- VideoJS HTML5 player (Steve Heffernan, Jon Dahl)
- VLC ( Jean-Baptiste Kempf )
- Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL) (CCNMTL – Michael Preston, Jonah Bossewitch, Brian O’Hagan)
- visionOntv (Richard Hering, Hamish Campbell)
- WebM (john Luther)
- 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!