The Information Society Project Lunch Speaker Series hosts:
Scott Edwards
Senior Standards Strategist
Corporate Interoperability and Standards Group
Microsoft
who will be presenting
"Innovation, Intellectual Property and Interoperability”
October 31, 2007, 12:10p - 1:30p
*Special Location*
Hall of Graduate Studies
320 York Street
Room 401
(Entrance at intersection of York and Wall Streets; enter door on the right; take elevator to 4th floor)
Box lunch and presentation to be followed by Q&A
Abstract:
Business models in the Information Technology (IT) sector are evolving, colliding and providing unprecedented levels of innovation. This business model "mash-up" is creating new opportunities to partner and compete in IT, which is giving customers more choice among innovative products, solutions and services.
This talk will cover a few key issues facing today's IT industry and its customers, including: (1) the transition of the IT industry (along with other industries) from a Closed Innovation model to an Open Innovation model; (2) the increasing importance of interoperability to customers (now ranking up there with security and reliability); (3) the reason for the recent focus on open standards by some vendors; and (4) issues for governments and policy makers to consider when considering policies to promote innovation and interoperability.
Bio:
Scott Edwards is a Senior Standards Strategist in Microsoft’s Law and Corporate Affairs department. He contributes to Microsoft’s Corporate Interoperability and Standards Group (CISG). CISG is responsible for facilitating, coordinating and overseeing the development and implementation of Microsoft’s corporate standards strategies. This group focuses specifically on Microsoft’s internal standards strategies related to business and product plans on a company-wide basis as well as external geo-political interoperability and standards policy issues in which Microsoft engages at the corporate level.
Before joining Microsoft, Scott did standards work, intellectual property advocacy and anti-piracy enforcement for five years in Washington, D.C. at the Software & Information Industry Association (formerly the Software Publishers Association) and then with Network Associates (now McAfee).
Michael Zimmer, PhD
Microsoft Resident Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
e: michael.zimmer@yale.edu
w: http://michaelzimmer.org