Conference Program

DAVID LASSNER
President and Board of Governors Chair, Pacific Telecommunications Council and Chief Information Officer, University of Hawaii

DAVID LASSNER serves as the first Chief Information Officer for the University of Hawaii system, which is comprised of 10 campuses and 5 education centers on 6 islands. In that capacity he is responsible for voice, data and video services, management information systems, academic computing support and distributed learning technologies. David is also a member of the University's Graduate Faculty and has taught online and in person, in Computer Science, Business, Communication and Education.

David plays an active leadership role in a number of national and international ICT organizations. He is Chair of the Internet2 Applications Strategy Council, a member of the Board of Directors for Internet2 and an active leader in the Asia-Pacific high-speed
networking research & education networking community. David was a founding Steering Committee and past-Chair of the Executive Board of WICHE's Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications. He is active in EDUCAUSE, has led various education programs for the Internet Society, and serves on the Board of Directors of Hawaii's High Technology Development Corporation where he chairs the Federal Programs committee. David is also the Principal Investigator for the University of Hawaii's 10-year, $181 million dollar contract to operate and manage the Maui High Performance Computing Center.

David earned his A.B. summa cum laude in Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also earned an M.S. in Computer Science as a University Fellow. He spent a year as a Research Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu and earned a Ph.D. as a member of the first class of the University of Hawaii¡s interdisciplinary program in Communication and Information Sciences.