Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson has been chairman of EDventure Holdings, based in New York City, USA, since 1983. She is the editor of its monthly computer-industry newsletter, Release 1.0, and leader of its two annual conferences, PC Forum (US) and EDventure's High-Tech Forum in Europe. (The next one will be in Berlin, November 7 to 9.) She is also the author of Release 2.1: A design for living in the digital age, published in 1998. She is active as an investor in and sits on the boards of a number of companies, including CV-Online, based in Tallinn, and a variety of others in Russia, Sweden and other countries. From 1998-2000, she was founding chairman of ICANN, the nonprofit, private- sector agency that manages the Internet's domain-name system.