Judy Shapiro

My passion is around linking the wonders of Internet technology with the needs to create trust in our varied digital societies.

I love any big city. Only in a big city can you find a vibrancy that fuels the soul and a romance that inspires the heart.

The Internet is racing towards being the dominant way we connect, communicate and conduct our lives. But all the talk about the next gen web is around technology not the human element. The name itself, Web 3.0 betrays its technological orientation. My passion is to change the direction and conversations about Web 3.0 from a largely sterile technology evolution to one about creating the Trusted Web. Trust is the underpinning of any functioning society and this concept is largely being ignored in the current Web 3.0 architecture. Technology must serve humanity -- not the other way around. That's what I want to do for me and for all our children for whom the Internet will be as vital as air.

As a marketing pro, I had the great good fortune to be at the epicenter of every major technology trend over 20 years. I was at AT&T when telecom was high tech. I was part of Lucent when the Internet was quite literally being crafted from fibers and hardware. I became marketing head for the many Bell Labs technology ventures that were being spun out right and left. And then I moved onto software — just when everyone needed software to run all the stuff. I worked at Computer Associates and Comodo, a highly innovative Internet security and authentication company. I moved into the social media world as SVP at Paltalk, the largest collection of video based communities with over 4mm members. I am now going to work with a new venture, CloudLinux as this technology wave makes it way across the technology landscape. My blog focuses on how to work with newer social media and digital marketing technologies (http://wordpress.wordpress.com)