Marconi Society Symposium

2018 MARCONI SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM

Honoring Prof. Tom Leighton

“Restoring Trust on the Internet”

Oct. 2, 2018, Villa Griffone, Pontecchio Marconi

9:00 – 9:10 a.m. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS by Marconi Chair Vinton Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google; Giovanni Corazza, Professor, University of Bologna and CEO, Cineca; and Gabriele Falciasecca, Chairman, Guglielmo Marconi Foundation

9:10 – 10:10 a.m. INTRODUCTORY KEYNOTE by Tom Leighton, Co-founder and CEO, Akamai Technologies: “The Role of CDNs in Restoring Trust on the Internet”

ABSTRACT: The Internet is the invention of our generation and compares well with the advent of television, radio, and even the printing press when measured in terms of its impact on the way we live. And this is just the beginning—we probably can’t even imagine what amazing applications are yet to be invented as billions of people, hundreds of billions of devices, and countless exabytes of data become intelligently connected as part of the Internet of Things. But the future of the Internet, along with all the good that it has enabled, is now threatened by multiple powerful entities that would exploit it to do harm. In this talk, we will briefly review the development of CDN technology and the role it can play in reestablishing trust in the connected world that we all rely on.

10:10 – 10:50 a.m. CONVERSATION: Social Networks Have Been Weaponized. What Could We See Next and What Are the Solutions?

Vinton Cerf

Maria Farrell, Writer, technology, politics and policy at The Guardian, Slate, The Internet Society; teaches geo-politics and public policy at Oxford University

Sarah Roberts, Assistant Professor of Information Studies, UCLA

10:50 – 11:20 a.m. BREAK

11:20 a.m. – Noon PANEL: What Does Privacy Mean In the Age of Tracking, Eavesdropping, Recording and IOT? Should You Care?

Moderated by Giovanni Corazza

Panelists: Ade Adewunmi, Consultant, TeraData, Michelle Dennedy, CPO, Cisco

Stefano Pileri, CEO, ItalTel

Noon – 12:40 p.m. PANEL: Mitigating Cyber-Threats to Financial Systems, Infrastructure and the Military.

Moderated by Whitfield Diffie, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

Panelists: Jay Coley, Senior Director at Akamai Technologies

Giovanni Guidotti, Chief Technical Officer, Security & Information Division, Leonardo

Martin E. Hellman, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

12:40 – 1:10 p.m. WRAP-UP Q/A: Moderated by Vinton Cerf

Speaker Profiles

David Sarnoff

Marconi was the creator of the present day civilization of the radio. All of those who, with spirit of initiative and perseverance, have brought us to the present stage of development have built on the foundations laid by Marconi. Everyone considered him the tutelary genius of their work.