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. Consider that, in 2000, when then-FCC Commissioner Michael Powell coined the term “the digital broadband migration,” the iPod had yet to be rolled out to consumers and Google was not yet a verb. Seven years later, the iPod has revolutionized the music industry, the iPhone is sending shock waves through the wireless world, and the Apple TV may similarly bring dramatic changes to video programming markets.
In 2009, the next President will take office with an array of information policy questions demanding attention. This conference aims to underscore the challenging policy issues that will be high on any new administration’s agenda. In particular, we will evaluate questions related to changing broadband and wireless markets; challenges related to protecting privacy and security; and the optimal direction for intellectual property reform. 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 next volume of the Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law.
Sessions
Welcome
@ CU School of Law Wittemyer Courtroom
Overview Tete a Tete
@ CU School of Law Wittemyer Courtroom
- Jonathan Adelstein
Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission - Jon Leibowitz (invited)
Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
Overview Panel: The Dynamics of Information Policy
@ CU School of Law Wittemyer Courtroom
- Michael F. Altschul — Commenter
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, CTIA - The Wireless Association - Kathryn C. Brown — Commenter
Senior Vice President, Public Policy & Corporate Responsibility, Verizon - Andrew Crain — Commenter
General Counsel, Frontier Communications - Jon Leibowitz (invited) — Commenter
Chairman, Federal Trade Commission - Pamela Samuelson — Commenter
Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California Berkeley; Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Overview Address
@ CU School of Law Wittemyer Courtroom
- Lawrence Lessig
Professor of Law, Stanford University
Lunch
@ CU School of Law Wittemyer Courtroom
Broadband Policy
@ CU School of Law Wittemyer Courtroom
- David Ellen — Moderator
Senior Vice President, Cablevision Systems Corporation - Robert D. Atkinson — Presenter
President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation - Jon Nuechterlein — Presenter
General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission - Howard Shelanski — Presenter
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, The White House - Kevin Werbach — Presenter
Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania - Joe Waz — Commenter
- Rick Whitt — Commenter
Corporate Vice President and Global Head of Public Policy and Government Relations, Motorola Mobility LLC/Google Inc.
Break
@ CU School of Law Wittemyer Courtroom
Spectrum and Wireless Policy
@ CU School of Law Wittemyer Courtroom
- Ari Q. Fitzgerald — Moderator
Partner and Leader, Communications , Hogan Lovells - Stuart M. Benjamin — Presenter
Professor of Law, Associate Dean of Research - Ellen P. Goodman — Presenter
Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School - Tim Wu — Presenter
Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School - Mark Cooper — Commenter
Research Director, Consumer Federation of America - Bryan Tramont — Commenter
Managing Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP - Stephen F. Williams — Commenter
Senior United States Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
Reception
@ CU School of Law Wittemyer Courtroom
Keynote Address
@ University Memorial Center
- Ron Binz
Chairman, Colorado Public Utilities Commission
Privacy, Security, and Government Surveillance
@ University Memorial Center
- Paul Ohm — Moderator
Associate Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs - Julie Cohen — Presenter
Professor of Law, Georgetown University - Edward Felten — Presenter
Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer, White House - Orin Kerr — Presenter
Professor of Law, Georgetown University - Peter Swire — Presenter
Co-Chair, W3C Tracking Protection Working Group - Scott Charney — Commenter
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft - Chris Painter — Commenter
Principal Deputy Chief, U.S. Department of Justice - Lior Strahilevitz — Commenter
Deputy Dean and Sidley Austin, Professor of Law
Break
@ University Memorial Center
Intellectual Property Reform
@ University Memorial Center
- Natalie Hanlon Leh — Moderator
Co-Partner-in-Charge, Denver Office, WilmerHale - Mark A. Lemley — Presenter
William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford University; Director, Program in Law, Science and Technology, Stanford University - Arti K. Rai — Presenter
Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law - Chris Sprigman — Presenter
Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia - Brad Feld — Commenter
Partner, Foundry Group - Preston Padden — Commenter
Senior Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Center - Gigi B. Sohn — Commenter
Counselor to the Chairman, Federal Communications Commission