It's a Smart World: How Networks Are Innovating Business, Government and Society
Anthony "Tony" Melone, Verizon
in conversation with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, The Economist
NExTWORK is a one-day, interdisciplinary conference that will feature world-renowned business leaders, technologists, and thinkers exploring the promise and peril of the network's future, as well as the most pressing digital issues and opportunities today.
Bio
Anthony Melone
Anthony Melone is executive vice president and chief technology officer for Verizon Communications, with leadership responsibility for the company's technology roadmap, including product innovation and platform architecture and integrity. Before assuming his current role in late 2010, he was senior vice president and CTO of Verizon Wireless, where he led the transition from 3G to 4G LTE services. Before that, he served as vice president of network operations for Verizon Wireless, managing daily operations as well as quality assurance, implementation of new products and services, and regulatory compliance.
During his tenure, Verizon launched the nation's first wireless broadband wide-area network and implemented such innovative services as V CAST music downloads, IP-based Push-to-Talk, and VZ Navigator for cell phones. In recognition of his many achievements in a career spanning nearly three decades in telecommunications, Melone received the 2010 Villanova University J. Stanley Morehouse Award for outstanding leadership in the engineering profession.
Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
Vijay Vaitheeswaran is an award-winning correspondent for The Economist. In his two decades on staff, he has covered development issues, energy and environment, health care, and innovation. He is an expert advisor to the World Economic Forum/Davos and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also teaches at NYU's Stern Business School. Mr. Vaitheeswaran has addressed groups ranging from the U.S. National Governors' Association and the U.N. General Assembly to the TED, AAAS and Aspen Ideas conferences. His most recent special reports for The Economist were on innovation and on technology in health care. His latest book, ZOOM, was named a Book of the Year by the Financial Times. Mr. Vaitheeswaran is also the author of Power to the People, a book on the future of energy.
Weekly magazine of news and opinion, founded in 1843 and published in London, generally regarded as one of the world's preeminent journals of its kind. It gives thorough and wide-ranging coverage of general news and particularly of international political developments that bear on the world's economy. In accord with the views promoted by its founders and conveyed by legendary Economist editor Walter Bagehot, the publication maintains the position that free markets typically provide the best method of running economies and governments. North America accounts for about half of its total readership.
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