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Dr. Anne Layne-Farrar

Director, LECG

Dr. Anne Layne-Farrar is a director with LECG consulting in its Chicago office. She specializes in antitrust matters where the core issues are at the intersection of intellectual property economics and competition policy. She advises clients on competition, regulation, policy, and intellectual property issues across a range of industries with

Ajit Jaokar

Founder, Futuretext

Ajit Jaokar is the founder of the London-based publishing and research company Futuretext, focused on emerging Web and mobile technologies. His thinking is widely followed in the industry and his blog, Open Gardens, was recently rated a top 20 wireless blog worldwide. He is best

Allen Dixon

Managing Director, International Intellectual Property & Technology Consulting (IIPTC), London

Allen Dixon is a leading lawyer and international specialist in the intellectual property and information technology field, who has advised high techno logy and traditional content companies and industries in various capacities for more than 20 years. His experience has included senior legal posi

Dr. Knut Blind

TU Berlin, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, and Chair for Standardisation at the Rotterdam School of Management

Dr. Knut Blind studied economics, political science and psychology at Freiburg University. In the course of his studies he spent one year at Brock University (Canada), where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts. Finally, he took his Diploma in Economics and l

Mattias Ganslandt

Associate Professor, University of Lund

Mattias Ganslandt (Ph.D., Lund University, Sweden) is the director of the Center for European Law and Economics (CELEC) in Brussels. He is also an associate professor of economics at the School of Economics and Management (EHL), Lund Universityand has been affiliated with SNS - Center for Business and Policy Studies since 2001. Dr. Ganslandt served

Oliver Bell

Regional Technology Officer, Microsoft

Oliver has spent over twenty years in the ICT industry. As a software developer in the early stages of his career he built a wide array of applications from medical imaging systems through to mainframe data distribution management tools, later moving onto systems and process design projects within the public sector.rnrnFor a number of years Oliver has m

Dr. Timothy Simcoe

Assistant Professor, Rotman School of Management

Dr. Timothy S. Simcoe is assistant professor of strategic management at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. His research focuses on the political economy of voluntary standard setting and the impact o

Dr. Anne Layne-Farrar

Ajit Jaokar

Allen Dixon

Dr. Knut Blind

Mattias Ganslandt

Oliver Bell

Dr. Timothy Simcoe

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