The Internet:
The Next 40 years

Peter Cochrane

Co-Founder, Chairman & Director

Cochrane Associates

Peter Cochrane was Head of BT Research from 1993–99, in 1999 he was appointed Chief Technologist. At the end of November 2000 Peter retired from BT to join his own startup company, ConceptLabs – which he founded with a group out of Apple Computers in 1998 in Silicon Valley. In 2006 Peter moved on to form a new virtualized global operation (Cochrane Associates) to exploit the new business freedoms and opportunities afforded by the latest technologies. A graduate of Trent Polytechnic and Essex University, he was the Collier Chair for The Public Understanding of Science & Technology at The University of Bristol from 1999 to 2000. He is a Fellow of the IEE, IEEE, Royal Academy of Engineering, and a Member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He has published and lectured widely on technology and the implications of IT and was awarded an OBE in 1999 for his contribution to international communications, the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000 and The City & Guilds Prince Philip Medal in 2001. [Read more about Peter on the Cochrane Associates Global site]

Bill Thompson

New media pioneer Bill Thompson is a journalist, commentator and technology critic based in Cambridge. He has been working in, on and around the Internet since 1984. He currently writes a weekly column for the technology section of the BBC News site, and contributes to other publications, both on and off-line, including the Guardian, The Register and the New Statesman. He writes a monthly column for new ‘net users for BBC WebWise, and a technology column for Focus magazine. Thompson appears weekly on Digital Planet (formerly Go Digital) on the BBC World Service and occasionally on other BBC radio and television programmes. He is a visiting lecturer at City University where he teaches Online Journalism in the Journalism and Publishing department and is an external editor for openDemocracy.net. [Full biography on his site: the billblog]

Alan Patrick

Co-founder

Broadsight

Alan Patrick co-founded Broadsight after a career both consulting to, and working at, senior level for leading global multimedia companies such as the BBC, British Telecom (OpenWorld and Ignite), AOL Time Warner, ntl and UPC. He has worked in the US, Europe, South Africa and the Far East. Broadsight specialises in providing strategic and system design consultancy for clients working with cutting edge digital broadband media, much of it real time and video. Prior to setting up Broadsight, Alan held positions as VP Corporate Development for Globix Corporation in New York, Head of Internet Business Development at British Telecom, and consulted widely on multimedia to a number of major TV and cable companies in his consulting career at McKinsey and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He was involved in the design of broadband networks in the early days of their inception and has written several articles on the impact of lean operations on digital supply chains. [Read more at the Broadstuff blog]

Dan Gluckman

Multiplatform producer

BBC

Dan Gluckman is a multiplatform producer at the BBC. He is currently producing the online element for Digital Revolution, a four-part series about the Web, and the BBC’s first ‘open source’ documentary. Past credits include BAFTA-winning Coast Interactive, Mobisodes for Big Cat Diary and a Web pilot for user-generated local history content. In a past life he was a TV series producer of science drama documentaries.

Chair: Nico Macdonald

Principal

Spy

Nico Macdonald writes, researches, and consults on innovation, technology and society. HIs current research project is on the development of the Internet. [Profile on LinkedIn]