Dan York is a passionate advocate for the open Internet focused on helping people understand the changes going on all around us within communication technology and practices.  Since the mid-1980's Dan has been working with online communication technologies and helping businesses and organizations understand how to use and participate in those new media. In the early 1990’s Dan was involved with helping nonprofit advocacy groups learn how to establish web sites and use email. He went on to co-found the nonprofit Linux Professional Institute that is today the leading provider of Linux certification exams. Dan currently serves the Internet Society as the Senior Content Strategist focused on the Deploy360 Programme - creating, curating and promoting online content that helps service providers, organizations and individuals more quickly deploy Internet technologies such as IPv6, DNSSEC and TLS.An author of multiple books on networking, security, VoIP, IPv6 and Linux, Dan is a dynamic and engaging speaker who frequently presents at industry conferences and events and has been blogging and writing online for over 15 years. Previously Dan worked for Voxeo Corporation heading up the company's communication through both traditional and new/social media. Prior to that, Dan served in the Office of the CTO for both Voxeo and before that Mitel focused on analyzing/evaluating emerging technology, participating in industry standards bodies and addressing VoIP security issues.A graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Dan speaks English and German and when not in front of the keyboard can usually be found engaging in outdoor activities or participating in the sport of curling, an addiction he picked up during 5 years of living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. More information about Dan can be found at http://danyork.me