My name is Sean Stannard-Stockton and I'm the Director of Tactical Philanthropy at Ensemble Capital Management in Burlingame, CA.  My attendance at the conference stems from my belief that the current and projected new wave of philanthropy that is so widely discussed will be much different from prior waves.  Specifically I think that technological advancements are significantly reducing the operating costs of philanthropic vehicles which is spawning a new type of donor.  Unlike the Rockefellers, Carnegies and other early foundation founders who created individual entities which mirrored existing institutions, the structured philanthropic vehicles of the 21st century will create a tradition similar to the emerging Web 2.0 technologies.  Rather than concentrated pools of money which imitate existing institutional structures, the new philanthropists will be smaller, widely distributed agents of change who co-create the social sector that they support.