Monday, December 15, 2008

Keynote speaker suggestions?

CFP's keynotes are quite varied, including

- politicians who's been fighting the good fight for civil liberties, for example Patrick Leahy in 2006
- significant policy addresses, for example Konstantinos Karachalios of the European Patent Office in 2008
- "big picture" thinkers, for example Clay Shirky's closing keynote from 2008 (video here, notes here)
- wry observers focused on the future, for example Bruce Sterling in 2002

Who to invite this year? Suggestions welcome!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

For a policy address, invite President Obama to lay out his vision for Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in America and the world. A The timing is perfect: just after the "first 100 days" of the new administration and Congress, with six months before the sunset of sections 206 and 215 of the PATRIOT Act. Civil liberties are high on the list of what people want to hear about from Obama. And as a constitutional lawyer, Obama's uniquely qualified for CFP.

Anonymous said...

I'd like to have - again - a wrap-up speaker who attends the conference and pulls the various strands together. I thought Clay Shirky did a good speech last year, but he *hadn't* been around the conference and basically talked about his new book.

Charlie Stross was interested last year but couldn't do the dates. I'd be happy to try him again - and I know he'd love to do it if he can make it work.

wg