Bio - Dr. Michael L. Brodie
Raised in a small, rural Canadian town, today Dr. Michael Lawrence Brodie lives and works in the heart of our expanding Digital Universe, Chief Scientist of Verizon Network Technologies and Corporate Systems in Verizon, a global leader in delivering innovation in communications, information, and entertainment.
Dr. Brodie works on strategic Information Technology challenges and opportunities to deliver value to Verizon and Verizon's customers from emerging technologies and practices in large-scale, distributed systems considering business, economic, social, application, and technical aspects of Information Ecosystems.
Dr. Brodie holds a Doctor of Science (honoris causa) from the National University of Ireland, a PhD in Databases from the University of Toronto, and has authored over 160 books, chapters, and articles and has presented over 150 keynotes or invited lectures in over 30 countries.
Dr. Brodie's advisory and research roles include US National Academy of Sciences committees (US Healthcare Modernization, Counter-terrorism and Civil Liberties); Adjunct Professor, National University of Ireland, Galway; Scientific Advisory Board chair, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland; Advisory Committee member, The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, and School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland; Web Science Champion, Web Science Trust; and Fellow, Semantic Technology Institutes International, Austria.