Helga Tabuchi has been Assistant Legal Officer in the Copyright Law Division at WIPO since April 2001. She was Associate Officer first in the Development Cooperation (Copyright Law) Division, and then in the Cooperation for Development Bureau for Asia and the Pacific at WIPO between 1997 and 2001.

Prior to her appointment to WIPO, she worked in the International Copyright Office of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Government of Japan. She obtained her Bachelor of Law and Political Science at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, and joined the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture in 1995.

John Daly comes from a background of engineering at Cambridge University in the early 1950's, which led to employment in West Africa with a prominent civil engineering consulting firm and then as a government Administrative Officer and Magistrate and later as a General Manager for the government Development Corporation.

In the 1965, John was headhunted by ITT - now ALCATEL - for whom he was a General Manager in Nigeria and Zambia. In the 70's John was CEO of a major Telecoms Sales and Service company in Saudi Arabia where he first became involved in electronic messaging technologies.

Since 1984 John has based himself in Hong Kong as an Independent Consultant and has continued his involvement in the development of Electronic Messaging, Electronic Commerce, EDI and the related Security systems. For nearly ten years Mr. Daly was very closely connected as a Consultant and a Senior Management Executive with Hong Kong's major Electronic Commerce developer and provider, Tradelink Electronic Services Limited.

Mr. Daly has held Consultant positions in Asia Pacific for a number of prestigious international companies. In 1998, he accepted appointment as Senior Consultant Asia Pacific for the San Francisco based Critical Path, Inc., and has also recently worked as an Independent Consultant for the Message Broker section of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.

Mr. Daly is now regularly requested to give informative Presentations and Advice to Corporations and Governments throughout Asia Pacific (and as far as South America) on E-Government, E-Business, EDI, Directory and Security related issues.

John is an ex-Vice-Chairman of the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation and has sat on several Hong Kong IT related committees, including the Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee and as a member of an Advisory Group to the Legislative Council Information Policy Panel. He is a Hong Kong China private sector delegate to the APEC Telecommunications and Information Working Group (the "TEL") and is an active member of the APEC TEL e-Security Task Group.

ECPAT is a network of organizations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution, child pornography and trafficking of children for sexual purposes. Mr. Bryneson works with child protection at the International Secretariat where he implements their Legal Reform and Law Enforcement Programme.

Steve is Chair of the APEC eSecurity Task Group. The Task Group is working on the security of critical information infrastructures and issues relating to the use of electronic authentication. It also oversights the work of the PKI Interoperability Expert Group. He has represented Australia at various committees of the OECD, APEC and the United Nations dealing with IT security and electronic commerce issues. He represents the Australian Internet Industry Association on a number of committees of the Standards Association of Australia dealing with IT security and electronic commerce issues.