PostalVision 2020 Confirms Participation of comScore Chief Marketing Officer in April Conference

March 8, 2013 - PRLog -- March 8, 2013, Essex, Conn. – PostalVision 2020 is pleased to announce that Randy S. Miskanic, USPS VP of Secure Digital Solutions and Linda Abraham, Co-Founder, CMO, and EVP Global Development at comScore (http://www.comscore.com/) will be speaking at this year’s conference. Continuing PostalVision 2020’s legacy of bringing together leading digital, regulatory and postal experts to discuss a viable future for the United States Postal Service, Miskanic  and Abraham will join several notable speakers (http://www.postalvision2020.com/2013/01/31/senator-tom-carper-robert-g-taub-and-david-walker-confirm-participation-in-postalvision-2020/), including Senator Tom Carper (http://www.carper.senate.gov/public/) (D-DE), Vint Cerf (http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/cerf.htm) and Hon. David M. Walker (http://keepingamericagreat.org/) at this year’s event, being held April 23-24 at the L’Enfant Plaza Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C.

As in past years, the conference will plan to bring in a broad range of distinguished panelists to address the conference theme:  Positioning America for the New Millennium. This focus will enable experts to explore possible technology solutions to supplement or replace the current mail delivery system in the United States. Additionally, panels will encourage a robust conversation on the priorities and responsibilities of both postal institutions and the government as the country moves into the digital future. The full agenda, including information about specific panels and speakers, is available on the conference website at www.postalvision2020.com/agenda-april-2013/.  

“Our conference could not come at a better time for the postal service or the many people and companies it serves. Fresh off the heels of yet another announcement that the USPS will need to cut back on service to recoup costs, we’re at a precipice of action regarding the future of this national institution,” said John Callan, Managing Director of Ursa Major Associates and PostalVision 2020 conference founder. “It is more important now than ever for our nation’s postal industry leaders to come together to help solve many of the financial and structural challenges currently facing the postal service. We’ve put together a program of thought-leaders who have the expertise and talent to do just that.”

Also joining the conference for the first time this year will be Drew Bartkiewicz, Co-founder and CEO of lettrs (https://lettrs.com/); Scott Burns, CEO and Founder of GovDelivery (http://www.govdelivery.com/);  Alex Howard, Government 2.0 Washington Correspondent for O'Reilly Media; (http://radar.oreilly.com/alexh)  and Sascha Meinrath, Vice President of the New America  Foundation and Director of the Open Technology Institute (http://oti.newamerica.net/); who will discuss the issues facing the postal service and possible resolutions from technological and institutional perspectives.  Experts Liam Church, President and CEO of Escher Group (http://www.eschergroup.com/) ; Jonathan Grubin, Entrepreneur and founder of SoPost (https://sopost.com/);  and Robert Reisner, President, Transformation Strategy, Inc (http://transformationstrategy.com/about/);  will bring a global view of postal and delivery systems to the two day conference.

Several professors at leading universities, including Hon. A. Lee Fritschler, Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University; Richard John, Professor, Columbia University School of Journalism; and Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School; will share academic points of view on the current and historical postal ecosystem.

In addition to announcing these new speakers, PostalVision 2020 is pleased  to share that several speakers from past conferences have confirmed they  will return in 2013, including V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai of MIT and the International Center for Integrative Systems (http://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/232/ayyudarai.html),  Fred Rolando, President, National Association of Letter Carriers (http://www.nalc.org/),  Elmar Toime, Director, E Toime Consulting Ltd and Larry Weber, Chairman, W2 Group (http://www.w2groupinc.com/).

Updates on the conference, including hotel rates and registration information, are available on the PostalVision 2020-3.0 Event website (http://www.cvent.com/d/1cq4js). Attendees who register before March 10, 2013 will receive a $300 discount off the total admission price.

About PostalVision 2020

PostalVision 2020 is the creation of Ursa Major Associates (http://ursamajorassociates.com/), LLC, a leading strategy consultancy based in Essex, Conn.  Since 2001, Ursa Major provides thought leadership and strategic business development services to the global postal-parcel-logistics industry. The firm’s clients are 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. Follow us on Twitter at @PV2020 (https://twitter.com/pv2020).