Vint Cerf

The National Science Foundation supports fundamental science and engineering researches. It offers services to people in all scientific and engineering disciplines. The firm focuses on the promotion and progress of science to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare. The company was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

SBI Investment Korea Co.,Ltd. (Private Equity) is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by John Lee, Bernard Moon and Ho Min Kim. The firm is headquartered in Seoul.

World Summit Awards engages in awarding, selecting, and promoting local digital innovation to improve society. The private company is based in Salzburg, Austria. The Austrian company was founded in 2002 by Peter A. Bruck.

Avanex Corporation is a leading global provider of Intelligent Photonic Solutions(TM) to meet the needs of fiber optic communications networks for greater capacity, longer distance transmissions, improved connectivity, higher speeds and lower costs. These solutions enable or enhance optical wavelength multiplexing, dispersion compensation, switching and routing, transmission, amplification, and include network-managed subsystems. Avanex was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Fremont, California. Avanex also maintains facilities in Erwin Park, N.Y.; Nozay, France; and San Donato, Italy. The facilities also are home to Avanex's Centers of Excellence for specialized research and manufacturing.

MCI, Inc. provides telecommunication services. It serves thousands of businesses and government entities throughout the world and provides voice, data and Internet communication services for millions of customers. The company is located in Ashburn, VA

Nuance Communications develops voice interface software that corporations use to make their information and services accessible by phone. Nuance's software incorporates speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and voice authentication technologies that can add voice-based interfaces for stock quotes and trading, flight verification, and other applications. It also provides services such as development, maintenance, and training

Internet Society engages Internet issues including policy, governance, technology and development. It collaborates with a broad range of groups to promote the technologies that keep the Internet safe and secure, and advocate for policies that enable universal access. The firm also Operates as organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The company was founded by Vinton G. Cerf and Bob Kahn in 1992 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

The Internet Society of China provides internet services. The non-profit company is based in Beijing, China. The CEO of the Chinese company is Sheng Chen.

Measurement Lab is a collaborative effort led by researchers in partnership with companies and other institutions. The company is based in Portland, OR. Measurement Lab measures the internet, saves the data, and makes it universally accessible and useful. The company provides the largest collection of open internet performance data on the planet. M-Lab is dedicated to providing an ecosystem for the open, verifiable measurement of network performance. The data collected by M-Lab's measurement platform is made openly available, and all of the measurement tools hosted by M-Lab are open source. The company was founded in 2009 by Stephen Stuart, Vint G. Cerf, Larry Peterson, Meredith Whittaker, Sascha Meinrath, Derek Slater.