We’re excited to announce that Eric Burns, Panopto co-founder and CEO, has been elected to the Internet2 Board of Trustees.  Panopto is an active Internet2 partner, and we firmly believe in Internet2’s mission to advance higher education.

Internet2 is a non-profit, member-driven advanced technology community founded by  the nation’s leading higher education institutions in 1996. Internet2 serves 323 U.S.  universities, 59 government agencies, 46 regional and state education networks and  through them supports more than 80,000 community anchor institutions, over 1,000  InCommon participants, and 54 leading corporations working with our community, and  70 national research and education network partners that represent more than 100  countries. 

Internet2 delivers a diverse portfolio of technology solutions that leverages, integrates,  and amplifies the strengths of its members and helps support their educational,  research and community service missions. Internet2’s core infrastructure components  include the nation’s largest and fastest research and education network that was built to  deliver advanced, customized services that are accessed and secured by the  community-developed trust and identity framework. 

Read the official announcement here and more about Internet2 here.