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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Friends,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A very special event, the Marconi Society Symposium, is taking place tomorrow in London at the Royal Society. I will be onsite to livestream the event to you! Of all the events we cover, this is one of the most interesting and insightful. You can tune-in tomorrow at 8:45am BST (3:45am EDT) at <a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/Marconi2015https:/livestream.com/internetsociety/Marconi2015">https://livestream.com/internetsociety/Marconi2015https://livestream.com/internetsociety/Marconi2015</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This year, the event honors Peter Kirstein, often referred to as “the father of the European Internet”, whose tireless advocacy and pioneering technical contributions helped bring the Internet not only to Europe but to India and Asia. Among the speakers will be such luminaries as Prof. Dame Wendy Hall, Managing Director of the Web Science Trust; Cambridge Professor Ross Anderson, an international expert in cyber security; Robert Kahn, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol and Chairman/CEO of CNRI; Thibaut Kleiner, Director IoT-CEC; Prof. Jun Murai, an expert in global computer networking at Japan’s Keio University and President of the WIDE Internet project; and Vint Cerf, co-inventor of TCP/IP protocol and vice president of Google. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The program also features Chris Greer, Director of the NIST Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Program Office and National Coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperability, Rob Van Kranenburg, Founder of the IoT Council; Qualcomm EVP Matt Grob, Steve Hratko of Ruckus Wireless; Jane Holl Lute, President and CEO of the Council on CyberSecurity; Prof. Luis Munoz of the University of Cantabria; Andy Reid, Chief Network Services Architect at British Telecom, and Prof. Antonio Skarmeta, University of Murcia. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Presented in four sessions, the program explores future network approaches and interoperability issues, IoT infrastructure requirements, digital objects, big data, security and privacy, and discusses large-scale pilots taking place.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Don’t miss this very special event!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Paul Brigner<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regional Bureau Director, North America<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Internet Society<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>202-730-9733<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>