The topic was innovation, and featured speakers such as John Kao, the consultant and author, and Judy Estrin, scientist, entrepreneur, former CTO of Cisco and current board member at Disney and FedEx.

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Rather, the collective ingenuity of people such as Andy Bechtolsheim (co-founder of Sun Microsystems and subsequently Granite Systems) and Judy Estrin (a serial entrepreneur in the packet-switching business) was crucial to drive the technology through the standards bodies.

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