Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Program Preview:
Future of the Internet

As it has been DACS pleasure for many years, DACS welcomes the return of John Patrick at our December 2008 General Meeting.  John will bring us a leading edge look at the Internet.  John will help us sort out the fads from the more fundamental shifts in content and lifestyle made possible by the ubiquitous Web.

John Patrick is President of Attitude LLC and former vice president of Internet technology at IBM, where he worked for thirty-eight years. During his IBM career John helped start IBM's leasing business at IBM Credit Corporation, and was senior marketing executive for the launch of the IBM ThinkPad brand.  Starting in the early 1990s, John dedicated his time to fostering Internet technologies. One of the leading Internet visionaries, John is quoted frequently in the global media and speaks at dozens of conferences around the world. Business 2.0 named him as one of the industry's most intriguing minds, Industry Week named him one of the top 30 people who drive innovation and provide the initial spark to economic growth, and Network World called him one of the 25 most powerful people in networking.

John was a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in 1994, a founding member and past chairman of the Global Internet Project, a member of the Internet Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.  He is a member of the Engineering Advisory Board at Lehigh University.  John has been a business and technology advisor to numerous companies.  He is a member of the board of directors of Jupitermedia Corporation, Knovel Corporation and Danbury Health Systems, Inc.  His book, Net Attitude, paints a vivid picture of the future of the Internet and the attitudes needed to capitalize on it.

DACS meetings are held at the Danbury Hospital auditorium. (Click here for directions.) The modified agenda for this meeting will be as follows:

6:30 p.m. : Registration Opens
6:45 p.m. – 7:10 p.m.: Membership “Sound Off”
7:10 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.: Special Announcements for Members and Guests
7:15 p.m. – 7:40 p.m.: Ask DACS
7:40 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.: Break
8:00 p.m. – 9:15 p.m.: “Future of the Internet” by John Patrick
9:15 p.m. – 9:25 p.m.: Elections
9:25 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.: Final Announcements and Prizes

As a reminder, our General Meetings are free and open to the public so invite anyone you know who would be interested in this topic.

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