2003 Plenary

Mr. Kalkhoven is a regular keynote speaker at technology conferences and was noted in the May 2000 Worth magazine as one of America's Top 50 CEOs.

Prior to joining Uniphase, Mr. Kalkhoven held executive positions at a variety of software companies. He served as President and CEO of Demax Software and as President and CEO of AIDA Corporation. Previously, he was Vice President of Marketing for the European division of Comshare Corporation and Group Vice President for the U.S. Company.

Mr. Kalkhoven retired from JDS Uniphase in May 2000 and co-founded the venture firm in August 2000. Mr. Kalkhoven currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Optium Corporation and is a board member of AMCC.

Presentation: Survivor Optics

Sean Maloney is an Executive Vice President and General Manager, Intel Communications Group. He has been with Intel since 1982.

Prior to this position Sean was Executive Vice President of Intel Corporation and Director of the Sales and Marketing Group.

Maloney began his Intel career in its European headquarters where he spent nine years, first as Intel UK's Manager of Applications Engineering, then as Country Manager of Intel UK, and Director of Marketing for Intel Europe. Most recently, Maloney was General Manager of Intel's Asia Pacific Operations.

From 1992 to 1995, Maloney served as Technical Assistant to the Chairman and Chief Executive of Intel, Dr. Andrew S. Grove. In 1995, Maloney moved to Hong Kong to manage Intel's sales and marketing activities in Asia Pacific. He was promoted to Senior Vice President in January 1999, and Executive Vice President in January 2001.

Sean is a member of the Board of the US/China Business Council.

Presentation: Seeing the Light through Standards
Maloney will discuss the opportunities created by innovating around standards as applied to the optical industry. In his speech, Maloney will cover the effect that the implementation of standards has had on different industries and demonstrate how using standard building blocks can increase efficiencies allowing companies to concentrate on their true core competencies. He will discuss how the optical industry, by creating standards can deliver innovative products quicker to market and meet the needs of a cost-sensitive environment.

Eduardo Gelbstein is a Senior Special Fellow of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research and a contributor to the United Nations Information and Telecommunications (ICT) Task Force and to the preparatory work for the World Summit on the Information Society that will take place in Geneva, Switzerland on 10-12 December 2003.

In early 2002, he retired as Director of the United Nations International Computing Centre, a service organization with operations in Geneva, New York and Rome providing ICT services to 28 entities in the U.N. system.

Prior to joining the United Nations in 1993, he was ICT Strategy Manager for the largest Business Unit of the British Railways, prior to their privatization. He had joined British Rail in 1969 and during this period was responsible for several major ICT projects in Great Britain and in Europe, notably the HERMES network, a private data network linking the infrastructures of 11 European railroads.

In addition to his work with the United Nations, he lectures on the management of Business Systems and ICT at several European Universities and has co-authored a book entitled "Information Insecurity" which was published last September by the U.N. ICT Task Force. Over the years he has written numerous articles and conference papers on these and related topics.

Presentation: Connectivity for a better world
Writing emerged about 5,000 years ago. Other than optical flags and telegraphs operating over short distances, information moved at the speed with which it could be physically transported until 1843 when Samuel Morse demonstrated his telegraph. By 1865 the telegraph had become an international phenomenon and an international
organization was created to deal with its global spread: the International Telegraph Union (ITU). Its present name replaces the word "telegraph" by "telecommunications".

Since then, it took the world 100 years to connect 1 billion telephones. The Internet acquired 600 million subscribers in just 7 years. Their distribution however is not even: New York City has more telephone lines than the whole of rural Asia and London has more Internet subscribers than the whole of Africa. This uneven distribution is called The Digital Divide.

Lack of connectivity is one of the factors defining the Digital Divide. Economic, social and cultural issues are just as important. The complexity of this matter should be no excuse to ignore it. Nations remaining outside the Information Age will be unable to participate in the 21st Century economy and will thus face long-term poverty and potential instability. This has become an ethical as well as technical issue.

There is ample evidence that information and communications technologies play a major enabling role in sustainable development and many countries have moved from being producers of commodity products to become major exporters of hi-tech products and services. This evidence should help defining all actions to deal with the digital divide as opportunities, rather than problems.