Kirstin Rogers will introduce the main speaker, Edwin van der Klaauw. She assumed responsibility for HyperVision marketing and public relations tasks in May 2001, including re-strategizing all marketing activities, materials and efforts. Kirstin also conducts some sales activities, trade show organization, customer service and partner relations. Previously she held a series of marketing and public relations positions both agency and corporate, handling industry sectors ranging from biotechnology to high technology to real estate, including three and a half years working and living in Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium as well as Lyon, France. She holds a BA from Denison University and an MA from the University of Missouri-Columbia.