Speaker Biographies
David Mitchell Smith is a vice president and Gartner Fellow in Gartner Research, where he specializes in the impact of catalytic technologies such as the Internet, Web technologies (such as the mobile Web and HTML5), cloud computing and consumer technologies. During his 17-plus years at Gartner, he has played a leadership role in several of the company's efforts in these areas, including the emergence of cloud computing and consumerization of IT. He has served as the lead Gartner analyst covering major vendors such as Microsoft, IBM, Sun and AOL. Mr. Smith is often quoted in publications such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and has frequently been a guest on CNBC. In 2002, Adweek's Technology Marketing magazine named him the most influential industry analyst.
Mr. Smith has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Smith was a service director for Unix and advanced operating environments at International Data Corp. (IDC), where he was the lead analyst for open systems and software architectures. Before IDC, he held various marketing and engineering positions at Digital Equipment Corp., including responsibility for the company's Unix competitive analysis program. Before Digital, Mr. Smith spent several years working as a programmer at a small time-sharing (cloud computing) operation in Boston, Massachusetts.
Professional Background:
International Data Corp., Service Director, 3 years
Digital Equipment Corp., Various Roles, 8 years
Manager of Programming Services, Mark Ops, 2 years
Industry Awards/Accolades
Boston University Teaching Fellowship
"Most Influential IT Analyst," Adweek's Technology Marketing magazine, 2002
Gartner Fellow
Education
B.S., Applied Mathematics, summa cum laude, Clark University
M.S., Computer Engineering, Boston University
Joseph P. Lawrence is Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross. Raised on a hillside farm in Kentucky, he received his philosophical education in Germany, where he wrote his first book,Schellings Philosophie des ewigen Anfangs (1989). Although his primary intellectual commitments are to teaching rather than scholarship, he has published several dozen articles on topics ranging from metaphysics to politics and literature. In addition to teaching at Holy Cross, he has taught four years in Europe and two years in Asia. In the aftermath of 9/11, he wrote an op-ed column for the Turkish newspaper Zaman, in which he addressed political and religious issues associated with the so-called “clash of civilizations.” His Socrates among Strangers will soon be published by Northwestern University Press, in a series sponsored by the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle. His most recent work is an extended essay on “Goethe’s Faust as Tragedy of Modernity.” Currently at work on a book entitledThe Harrowing of Hell, Lawrence is an enthusiastic spokesman for the liberal arts. While appreciative of any number of technological innovations, he is, however, an unashamed critic of the very idea of a technological civilization.
Shelton Waggener is the Senior Vice President with responsibility for NET+ Services Internet2. Shelton leads Internet2's pursuit of emerging cloud and advanced services above the network involving demand aggregation and brokering with campus and commercial providers, and distributed offerings among its members. Internet2 NET+ includes compute, storage, platform and software services, the integration of identity management and federation with key applications for the research and education community, deployment of collaboration infrastructure among members, including video, coordination and sharing tools, content management, and domain applications. He will also provide leadership for Internet2's InCommon federation, and middleware programs.
Prior to joining Internet2 Waggener served as Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer at the University of California, Berkeley beginning in 2005. He served as chair of the University of California CIO Leadership Council and was responsible for supporting multi campus solution designs across the 10 campus UC system. Prior to joining Berkeley, Waggener spent more than fifteen years in senior positions in the private sector at leading technology firms. Previously held positions include CIO of InterNetworking Systems, an $8B division of Lucent Technologies; Director of IT for Octel Communications; and Senior Director of IT Infrastructure for Sybase.
He is a founding member of the Kuali Student System initiative and founding chair for the Kuali Ready project, the leading business continuity and planning tool for higher education. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Kuali Foundation, a non-profit organization representing 18 Carnegie Class higher education institutions from around the world investing more than $70M in community source developed software for higher education.
Waggener serves on numerous boards, including several not-for-profit organizations supporting the collaboration and advancement of technology in public and private sectors as well as student scholarships. Waggener also sits on the technical advisory panels of several established Silicon Valley firms as well as serving as a resource to numerous information technology startup companies. For more about Waggener, see http://technology.berkeley.edu/cio/biography.html.
Listen to Shel explain how Internet2 NET+ Services are exploring and implementing innovative new models that will enable a new generation of research and education.
