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WICT Leadership Conference » Speakers » Leslie Ellis Leslie Ellis Independent Technology Analyst, Columnist and Author Leslie Ellis is an independent technology analyst, author, and owner of Ellis Edits, Inc., based in Denver, CO.  Since September of 2000, she has written and continues to write a bi-weekly column for Multichannel News called “Translation Please,” aimed at demystifying commonly-used cable and broadband technology terms. (Archived here: www.translation-please.com) For Communications Engineering & Design magazine, Ellis serves as a contributing writer/editor. Ellis wrote the A-to-Z dictionary “Definitive Broadband: Next Generation,” in November, 2005, as a follow-on to “Definitive Broadband,” published in May 2001. She co-authored “The Field Guide to Broadband,” published in October 2002. Additionally, Ellis was a contributing author for the September, 2003 release of “Planet Broadband,” which describes a vision of the future as foretold by cable modem inventor Rouzbeh Yassini. She is currently researching and writing a fourth book, related to the “digital transition.” Ms. Ellis is senior technology advisor to CTAM, and a contributing research analyst for Bear Stearns Inc. She received the NCTA’s Vanguard Award for Associates & Affiliates in 2005. Previously, Ellis was Paul Kagan Associates’ senior technology analyst. Ellis was senior technology editor for Multichannel News/Broadband Week from 1994-1998, and managing editor of Communications Engineering & Design magazine from 1990-1994. She began in the cable industry in 1987 with Telecommunication Products Corp.