In wake of the FCC Broadband NOI, broadband workshops on broadband, content and cybersecurity - as well as Genachowski's recent announcement on net neutrality - several well-respected experts will gather to talk about their viewpoints on network policy - problems, opportunities and common ground. These are the most important string of events centered around this topic in over a year, and we encourage you to take part in the discussion.
Join Arts+Labs & the GSPM's Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet for
New Media, New Networks: The Evolution of Content on the Internet
With Moderator Richard Wiley (Former Chairman of the FCC)
WHERE: George Washington University - 1957 E Street NW, 7th Floor - Washington D.C.
WHEN: Thursday, October 29th - 9am to 12pm ET
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. REGISTER HERE.
AGENDA:
- Breakfast and Welcome (9:00-9:30)
- Panel #1 - Networks for the Future (9:30-10:30) - The Importance of Wired and Wireless Next Generation Networks, deployment, capacity, interactivity, consumer choice and content. Panelists:
- Bret Swanson (Entropy Economics, WSJ Contributor)
- S. Derek Turner (Research Director, Free Press)
- Robert Curtis (FCC Director, Network Deployment)
- Christopher Yoo (Director, Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Law School)
- Q&A Session (10:30-10:45)
- Panel #2 - Network Management and Delivering for the Consumer (10:45-11:45) - The evolving role of the networks - better, smarter, faster. Panelists:
- Richard Bennett (Research Fellow, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation)
- Robb Topolski (Chief Technologist of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation)
- Dave Farber (Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy at the School of Computer Science, Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University)
- Harold Feld (Legal Director of Public Knowledge)
- Q&A Session (11:45 - 12:00)
