Speakers
 

Ben Davis is a strategic development director in media and entertainment at Razorfish.com. He joined Razorfish last year after serving as manager of electronic publications and manager of communications for the J. Paul Getty Trust. Davis' work in interactive media for museums includes projects with the MIT Museum, the Musee de Orsay, the Getty Center, the Getty Information Institute, and most recently with the L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art for Razorfish.

Kevin L. De Vorsey is systems analyst and network administrator in the anthropology division of the American Museum of Natural History where he oversees the digital imaging program that has produced over 110,000 images of objects and 10,000 document scans. De Vorsey previously worked at the National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institution and holds a B.A. from the University of Georgia

Nina Gregorev is a database administrator and software developer in the anthropology division of the American Museum of Natural History where she is responsible for designing, developing, programming and maintaining the Collections Management Information System. Gregorev earned her master's in computer science at the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics.

Lori Gross is director of the MIT-based Museum Loan Network, the first national collection-sharing program, established in 1995. Prior to joining the MLN, she worked in Madrid as director for the 8th Congress of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums. Gross also served as head of the museum services division at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.

Peter Walsh is chairman of the Massachusetts Art Commission and consultant to Dartmouth College, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Art Museum Image Consortium. He has previously held senior positions at the Harvard Museums of Natural History, the Harvard University Art Museums, and the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College. Trained as an art historian at Oberlin College and Harvard, he serves as chair of the Committee on Intellectual Property of the College Art Association and speaks and writes frequently on issues of museums, art, and the cultural implications of new media.