Margaret Wasserman

Part of Internet Society, The Internet Engineering Task Force is a technical standards body that gathers a large international community of network designers, engineers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the internet architecture and the smooth operation of the internet. The company is based in Fremont, CA. The IETF seeks broad participation and its work takes place online, largely through email lists, reducing barriers to participation and maximizing contributions from around the world. More than 120 IETF working groups are organized by topic into areas such as routing, transport, and security.

Internet Society engages Internet issues including policy, governance, technology and development. It collaborates with a broad range of groups to promote the technologies that keep the Internet safe and secure, and advocate for policies that enable universal access. The firm also Operates as organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The company was founded by Vinton G. Cerf and Bob Kahn in 1992 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Wind River Systems, Inc. provides embedded and mobile software solutions. It offers operating systems, Wind River Helix Chassis, intelligent device platforms, network infrastructure, and Wind River Helix cloud. The company was founded by Jerry L. Fiddler in 1981 and is headquartered in Alameda, CA.

ThingMagic, Inc. develops radio frequency identification readers, sensors and other computing technologies. It offers embedded RFID readers, fixed RFID readers, integrated readers, ruggedized readers, USB plus and RFID readers, mercury APIs, RFID developer kits, RFID accessories, and technology products, as well as ThingMagic Mercury xPRESS Platform for developing application specific readers and embedded solutions using UHF RFID modules. The company was founded by Thomas H. Grant, Yael Maguire, Ravi Pappu, Matthew S. Reynolds, Bernd Schoner and Rehmi Post in 2000 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.