The transformation of telecommunications from an analog, narrowband network optimized for voice to a digital, broadband network optimized for data traffic has created a myriad of challenges for businesses, policymakers, and academics alike. The questions range from those involving what institutions–courts, agencies, standard setting bodies, or international treaty organizations–can address technology policy questions to those involving the emerging structure of the telecommunications industry and whether it is an effective response to or possible barrier to continued innovation. Similarly, the development of video content over the Internet is emerging as a challenge that will potentially transform the video programming industry, both respect to the re-thinking of regulatory strategies and the role of digital rights management systems.
This conference will examine the above set of pressing regulatory challenges that policymakers have yet to fully grapple with. With a thoughtful array of leaders from academic, industry, and governmental circles, we believe that this conference will continue the Silicon Flatirons’ tradition of encouraging “bolder thinking” in Boulder. Like its predecessors, the proceedings from this conference will be published in the fifth volume of the Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law.
Sessions
Welcome
@ Lindsley Memorial Courtroom
Overview Panel: The Institutional Challenges of Technology Policy
@ Lindsley Memorial Courtroom
- Raymond Gifford
Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP - Dale Hatfield
Spectrum Policy Initiative Co-director and Distinguished Advisor, Silicon Flatirons - Howard Shelanski
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, The White House - Stephen F. Williams
Senior United States Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit - Jon Nuechterlein
General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission
Lunch
@ Lindsley Memorial Courtroom
Video Over Internet Protocol
@ Lindsley Memorial Courtroom
- Peter Rohrbach — Moderator
Partner, Hogan & Hartson - Susan Crawford — Presenter
Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University - Robert Pepper — Presenter
Senior Director, Cisco Systems - Tim Wu — Presenter
Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School - Dorothy Attwood — Commenter
Senior Vice President, Walt Disney Company - Paul Glist — Commenter
Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Stephen Shelanski — Commenter
Senior Vice President, Starz Entertainment Group
Break
@ Lindsley Memorial Courtroom
Digital Rights Management
@ Lindsley Memorial Courtroom
- Paul Ohm — Moderator
Associate Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs - Tom Lookabaugh — Presenter
Executive Vice President, R&D, CableLabs - Randy Picker — Presenter
University of Chicago - Chris Sprigman — Presenter
Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia - Richard Green — Commenter
Senior Adjunct Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Center - Preston Padden — Commenter
Senior Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Center - Gigi B. Sohn — Commenter
Counselor to the Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
Keynote Address
@ Lindsley Memorial Courtroom
- Bob Kahn
Internet Pioneer
Reception
@ Lindsley Memorial Courtroom
Closing Speaker
@ University Memorial Center
- Michael Powell
President & CEO, National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA)
Industry Structure
@ University Memorial Center
- Sean Lindsay — Moderator
Associate General Counsel, Qwest - Antoinette Cook Bush — Presenter
Partner, Skadden Arps - Mark Cooper — Presenter
Research Director, Consumer Federation of America - Aaron Edlin — Presenter
University of California at Berkeley - Alfred Kahn — Presenter
Special Consultant, National Economic Research Associates, Inc. (NERA) - Douglas Melamed — Presenter
Partner, Wilmerhale - F.M. Scherer — Presenter
Professor Emeritus, John F. Kennedy School of Government