John Gallant
President and Editorial Director
Network World

Gallant is president and editorial director of Network World Inc., and sets the strategy for the newsweekly, which serves over 170,000 readers in corporate network IT. Gallant also guides the content and business development for Network World online (www.networkworld.com), as well as Network World's seminars and events programs. Gallant is highly visible in the marketplace and frequently speaks at industry conferences. He has been named by Technology Marketing magazine as one of the most influential people in computer journalism, and was cited as one of the "most visionary editors-in-chief" by Press Access. Gallant is executive producer for VORTEX, an invitation-only executive conference for the enterprise IT industry, and was cited as Best Conference Host by Conferenza for his Vortex work. Gallant's 20 years of expertise in covering the technology industry has been tapped by top-tier television media outlets, including CNN, CNNfn, CNBC, NPR and Bloomberg. He often hosts roundtable discussions on technology and other topics for a wide variety of organizations, including leading vendors, IT buyers and industry associations. Gallant also serves on the executive committee of the Boston College Technology Council.

Paul Desmond
Events Editor
Network World

Paul Desmond, Events Editor, Network World Paul Desmond has been involved in the trade press since 1988. He is currently president of PDEdit, an IT publishing and consulting firm he founded in 2002. He began his IT publishing career at the industry news weekly Network World, where during his 11 years he served as news editor and features editor. Under his leadership, Network World’s features department took home a number of editorial excellence awards, including a 1996 Neal Certificate of Merit Award from the Business Press Association and two 1998 awards from the American Society of Business Press Editors. He has also served as editor of Redmond magazine and was the founding editor-in-chief of Redmond Channel Partner magazine, which earned a Neal Award for Best Startup publication of 2005.

Andreas Antonopoulos
SVP & Founding Partner
Nemertes Research

Andreas M. Antonopoulos (CISSP, MSc CS) is a Sr. Vice President & Founding Partner with Nemertes Research. He develops and manages research projects, conducts strategic seminars and advises key clients. For 14 years, Mr. Antonopoulos has advised many businesses on how to harness new processes to leverage rapid developments in telecommunications. He is a noted expert in computer security and has led large teams on multi-million-dollar projects for Fortune 100 companies, designing large and complex secure networks.

Before joining Nemertes, Mr. Antonopoulos was the Security Practice Director at ThruPoint Inc, where was responsible for a global team of security consultants who deliver solutions to multinational clients.

John Burke
Sr. Vice President and Founding Partner
Nemertes Research

As an analyst, John draws on his experiences as a practitioner and director of IT to better understand the needs of IT executives and the challenges facing them. Prior to joining Nemertes, he held positions as a network/systems architect, systems/database administrator, network specialist, programmer and report writer. Throughout his career as an IT practitioner, John's IT management experience includes directing staffs ranging in size from 3 to over 30 in desktop support, voice and data networking, administrative applications support, and central systems management.

Johna Till Johnson
President & Sr. Founding Partner
Nemertes Research

Nemertes Research founder and president Johna Till Johnson has spent nearly 20 years working closely with IT professionals. She sets the strategic research direction for Nemertes and designs and develops reports. Her background includes expertise in business, engineering, research, consulting, and particle physics. She is a member of the IEEE and the ACM, and has participated in the Internet Engineering Task Force. She is widely published and sought after as a speaker and conference chair.

Craig Mathias
Principal
The Farpoint Group

Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, an advisory firm specializing in wireless networking and mobile computing. Founded in 1991, Farpoint Group works with technology developers, manufacturers, carriers and operators, end users, and the financial community. Craig is an internationally-known industry and technology analyst, and serves on the Advisory Boards of four industry conferences. He is the author of numerous articles on mobile and wireless topics, and a columnist for Computerworld.com, unstrung.com, and SearchMobileComputing.com.

Jim Metzler
President
Ashton Metzler & Associates

Dr. Jim Metzler is widely recognized as an authority on both network technology and its business applications. Over the course of his 28 years in IT, Jim has assisted vendors refine their product and service strategies, and helped enterprises evolve their network infrastructure.

Jim has worked in many positions in the IT industry. This includes serving as a compiler writer for a branch of the US intelligence community; creating software tools to design customer networks for a major IXC; serving as an Engineering Manager for high speed data services for a major Telco; managing networks at two Fortune 500 companies; directing and performing market research at a major industry analyst firm; and running a consulting organization.

Joel Snyder
Senior Partner
Opus One

Joel Snyder is an internationally known expert in the area of telecommunications and networks, with an emphasis on security. He is currently a Senior Partner at Opus One, a consulting firm, in Tucson, Arizona.

As a consultant with over two decades of experience, Snyder has designed and implemented information systems for clients as small as a two-person brokerage house and as large as NASA; written firewalls and network software; built network systems for clients on six continents; assisted software and hardware vendors in design, review, architecture, development, and testing of products; and served on ANSI, IEEE, ISO, and CCITT working groups developing telecommunications standards.

Snyder has also held full-time positions with CompuServe, Inc. (at their Research and Development Center) and with the University of Arizona (in the College of Business).

Snyder’s clients include organizations throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, including Apple, AT&T, Cisco, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Daimler-Benz, Fidelity Investments, Hoffman-La Roche, Juniper, Honeywell, MCI, Motorola, Nokia, Schlumberger, State of California, the Swiss Stock Exchange, Thomson Financial, the UN, Visa, Xerox, the White House, and World Bank.

Snyder has written hundreds of articles, has been published in over a dozen different journals and industry magazines in the US, UK, Russia, Germany, Australia, Portugal, Denmark, Japan, Spain, Italy, and France. His product testing work in network and telecommunications products is well known and respected in the field, and his published reviews have received several awards for editorial excellence.

Dr. Snyder has also written three books and edited two journals.