Our new trade show Web Video Summit is percolating nicely. Some of the speakers and their backgrounds follow:

Hossein Eslambolchi ran the largest network in the world as CTO of AT&T and now is CEO of a video startup called Divvio. Brian Conley whose "Alive in Baghdad" was voted "Best Vlog 2006" will be with us. Others include Dan Gillmor of "We the People" and Greg Brannan of CNET who produces excellent video reporting on professional technology.

We are also covering how video creators need to learn how to optimize for search engines. Speaker Tim Tuttle, VP of Search for AOL will be on an exciting panel including Mike Gordon of Limelight, Ian Blaine of Platform/Comcast, CTO Tom Hammer of Akimbo and Chief Strategy Officer Phil Kaplan of Vitalstream.

Over the next few weeks I will report on other aspects of the seminar program. However I want to mention that we have a "launch session" for new companies which will have reviews by senior venture capitalists and Stanford University Professor John Cioffi explaining how broadband networks will soon reach 100 megabit to homes.