The Internet Ecosystem Innovation Committee , an independent global committee that promotes Internet diversity and resilience through the formation of new global Internet nexus points, announced that Zaid Kahn from Microsoft has joined as a Board Member.
IEIC will host its second annual summit in Henrico Virginia on November 8th, 2022. Dr. Vint Cerf, “Father of the Internet will deliver the keynote followed by five panel discussions, a fireside chat and the ribbon cutting ceremony of DE-CIX Richmond Internet Exchange platform, world largest data center and carrier neutral Internet Exchange.
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The event will feature 35+ digital infrastructure luminary speakers from six continents representing all sub-sectors of Digital Infrastructure including—Data Centers, Subsea Cables, Terrestrial Fiber, Internet Exchange, CDN, and SDN. The event will be attended by hundreds of executives from industries such as Automobile, Finance, Academia, Banking, Healthcare, and Hospitality.
“IEIC is an independent global committee, and I am glad that it attracts like-minded people who are working on keeping the Internet open and stable,” said Vint Cerf, Chairman of the Board of IEIC. “I have worked with Zaid before in establishing the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of Internet Society (ISOC). Zaid is passionate about technology and the Internet, and I am delighted to welcome him to the board of IEIC.”
“What I like about the IEIC charter is the focus on hardening the infrastructure and the right group of experts that are currently on the board to steer a wider audience,” said Zaid Kahn, GM of Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering at Microsoft. “My past experience of Internet infrastructure development will be helpful for the IEIC cause and also many aspects of what I am working on now with advanced technologies at Microsoft. I care that we propel digital economies so that technology becomes much easier to attain as society grows over time,” “Attending the upcoming IEIC summit is extra special for me, as I have been on the board of DE-CIX, and to witness the continued global expansion of their platform, is an honor.”
“It is pioneers like Zaid who have made a difference in the stability and the innerworkings of the Internet,” said Vinay Nagpal, Executive Director and Founding Member of IEIC, and President, InterGlobix, LLC. “Generally we take it for granted that the Internet just works, but there is relentless work done behind the scenes to keep the Internet running. I welcome Zaid to the IEIC board and look forward to collaborating with him on Internet diversification and creating more interconnection hubs globally. The upcoming summit will be a great and unique opportunity not only for Henrico but for the entire Commonwealth of Virginia to learn about the economic impacts and benefits to local business of the rapidly evolving digital infrastructure. I encourage everyone to take advantage of this opportunity to meet with the Internet infrastructure luminaries from various parts of the world.”