PostalVision 2020 organizers are pleased to announce that Ruth Goldway, Ron Stroman and David C. Williams of the United States Postal Service will participate in this year's PostalVision 2020 conference, June 12-13 in Washington, D.C. These USPS experts will join United States Postmaster General and CEO Patrick R. Donahoe, who will deliver the keynote address.
PostalVision 2020 is an annual conference designed to create a dialogue between postal regulators and digital innovators about the long-term future of the United States Postal Service. At the inaugural conference in 2011, over 150 stakeholders convened to discuss the challenges facing the USPS and the possible digital, regulatory and business solutions that could move the organization forward.
In addition to the above, the following postal industry experts are scheduled to speak:
· James Campbell Jr., independent legal consultant and author of numerous papers, books and testimony on domestic and international postal regulatory issues
· Gene Del Polito, President of the Association for Postal Commerce (PostCom)
· Fredric V. Rolando, President of the National Association of Letter Carriers
· Elmar Toime, Director, E Toime Consulting Ltd., and international postal industry expert
"PostalVision 2020 was designed to bring together a diverse group of postal, digital and private sector experts to consider how to disrupt the status quo," said John Callan, Managing Director of Ursa Major Associates LLC, the creator and producer of PostalVision 2020. "We have assembled our speaker lineup with the goal of creating a provocative dialogue to ignite the imagination about the purpose of the United States Postal Service and what it should be in 2020 and beyond."
Also taking part in the conference are several digital communications experts and private enterprise executives:
· V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, Founder & Chairman EchoMail Inc., MIT lecturer, visionary and authority on email technology and e-marketing methods
· Jeff Jarvis, author of Gutenberg the Geek, Public Parts and What Would Google Do?, blogger about media and news at Buzzmachine.com, and Associate Professor at City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism
· Matt Swain, Associate Director, Document Outsourcing for InfoTrends
· Phil Simon, author of The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business
· Marshall Van Alstyne, Associate Professor at Boston University and a Visiting Professor at MIT Center for Digital Business
· Larry Weber, social media marketing guru, author of Everywhere: Comprehensive Digital Business Strategy for the Social Media Era and Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business and Chairman of W2 Group
The conference will be held June 12-13, 2012 at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington D.C. For more information on PostalVision 2020, including details on registration and accommodations, please visit www.postalvision2020.com.
About PostalVision 2020
PostalVision 2020 is the creation of Ursa Major Associates, LLC , a leading strategy consultancy, providing thought leadership and strategic business development services to the global postal-parcel-logistics industry. Since 2001, the firm has served leading private sector corporations and entrepreneurial start-ups as well as public institutions engaged at all levels of service along the postal and parcel delivery value chain. Ursa Major Associates, LLC is headquartered in Essex, CT. For more information visit www.postalvision2020.com.
PostalVision 2020 is an annual conference designed to create a dialogue between postal regulators and digital innovators about the long-term future of the United States Postal Service. At the inaugural conference in 2011, over 150 stakeholders convened to discuss the challenges facing the USPS and the possible digital, regulatory and business solutions that could move the organization forward.
In addition to the above, the following postal industry experts are scheduled to speak:
· James Campbell Jr., independent legal consultant and author of numerous papers, books and testimony on domestic and international postal regulatory issues
· Gene Del Polito, President of the Association for Postal Commerce (PostCom)
· Fredric V. Rolando, President of the National Association of Letter Carriers
· Elmar Toime, Director, E Toime Consulting Ltd., and international postal industry expert
"PostalVision 2020 was designed to bring together a diverse group of postal, digital and private sector experts to consider how to disrupt the status quo," said John Callan, Managing Director of Ursa Major Associates LLC, the creator and producer of PostalVision 2020. "We have assembled our speaker lineup with the goal of creating a provocative dialogue to ignite the imagination about the purpose of the United States Postal Service and what it should be in 2020 and beyond."
Also taking part in the conference are several digital communications experts and private enterprise executives:
· V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, Founder & Chairman EchoMail Inc., MIT lecturer, visionary and authority on email technology and e-marketing methods
· Jeff Jarvis, author of Gutenberg the Geek, Public Parts and What Would Google Do?, blogger about media and news at Buzzmachine.com, and Associate Professor at City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism
· Matt Swain, Associate Director, Document Outsourcing for InfoTrends
· Phil Simon, author of The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business
· Marshall Van Alstyne, Associate Professor at Boston University and a Visiting Professor at MIT Center for Digital Business
· Larry Weber, social media marketing guru, author of Everywhere: Comprehensive Digital Business Strategy for the Social Media Era and Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business and Chairman of W2 Group
The conference will be held June 12-13, 2012 at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington D.C. For more information on PostalVision 2020, including details on registration and accommodations, please visit www.postalvision2020.com.
About PostalVision 2020
PostalVision 2020 is the creation of Ursa Major Associates, LLC , a leading strategy consultancy, providing thought leadership and strategic business development services to the global postal-parcel-logistics industry. Since 2001, the firm has served leading private sector corporations and entrepreneurial start-ups as well as public institutions engaged at all levels of service along the postal and parcel delivery value chain. Ursa Major Associates, LLC is headquartered in Essex, CT. For more information visit www.postalvision2020.com.
