Bruno Giussani, Guest Blogger
Bruno was producer of the first TEDGLOBAL conference, held July 2005 in Oxford, UK.
When he's not blogging for TED, Bruno is a writer, conference host and new-media thinker. For three years, he was Director of Internet Strategy at the World Economic Forum, and he now produces the Forum des 100 conference (Lausanne) and advises several others, including LIFT (Geneva), CrossMediaWeek (Amsterdam) and DLD (Munich).
Bruno co-developed and launched the first Swiss online news site in September 1995. He was the European Internet columnist for The New York Times for four years, and founder of the Industry Standard's European edition. He co-founded two software companies, Tinet and Tinext, and was the Director of Innovation of 3G Mobile, a Swiss wireless company. He was also Executive Producer of the Global Internet Summit (Barcelona, May 2000).
He's the author of several books (in several languages), including Roam. Making Sense of the Wireless Internet (2001) and "Storia di @", a 10-part examination of the cultural ramifications of the Internet. He now writes the EuroScan column for BusinessWeek and occasional pieces for Time, the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal Europe, L'Hebdo, Weltwoche, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, The Huffington Post, and the Sunday paper Il Caffé. His blog, LunchOverIP, recently won Switzerland's Golden Mouse award.
Bruno graduated from the University of Geneva. He was a 2004 Knight Fellow at Stanford University and remains an Affiliated Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. He lives in Switzerland.
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