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The future of Internet-driven innovation remains a difficult topic to assess. Some trends, including the increasing importance of wireless platforms, are not hard to spot, but many of the game-changing technologies and trends are likely to surprise us. We do know that the dynamics around competition and innovation in the Internet space will raise a series of policy, business, and technical issues that will challenge the ability of 20th century institutions to keep up.
In this conference, we will look ahead at innovation in the Internet environment, taking a hard look at three policy dimensions that are getting increasing attention. First, we will examine the forces and strategies around how to enable interoperability and interconnection in the Internet Protocol-based environment. This examination will ask how issues traditionally addressed by telecommunications regulation–the physical connection of networks and the oversight of voice communications will be handled in a world where some of the most important network connections (say, Internet backbone networks) and voice interoperability (say between Voice over IP providers) are outside the scope of today’s regulatory regime.
Second, we will discuss the emerging competitive forces, battles, and policy responses in the Internet space, evaluating the role not only of traditional competition policy on the part of antitrust authorities and telecommunications regulation, but also the role of intellectual property rights. Finally, we will evaluate how and whether wireless communications will facilitate innovation and competition in a wireless broadband environment where the opportunities for access to spectrum, both licensed and unlicensed, are far from determined.
Sessions
Welcome
- Phil Weiser
Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
Tech Tutorial Backdrop: Future Technological Trends and Their Impact
- Jonathan Sallet — Moderator
General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission - Jack Waters
Chief Technology Officer, Level 3 Communications - Douglas Sicker
Department Head, Engineering and Public Policy Professor, Engineering & Computer Science - Michael D. Gallagher
President and Chief Executive Officer, Entertainment Software Association - Balan Nair
President and Chief Executive Officer, Liberty Latin America
Opening Panel: The Digital Broadband Migration In The Next Decade
- Phil Weiser — Moderator
Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School - Brad Feld
Partner, Foundry Group - Carl Shapiro
Transamerica Chair in Business Strategy, Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley - Gigi B. Sohn
Counselor to the Chairman, Federal Communications Commission - Maureen Ohlhausen
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission - Jared Grusd
Head of Corporate Development and General Counsel, Spotify
Lunch
Interconnection Policy For The Internet Age
- Raymond Gifford — Moderator
Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP - Mark Cooper — Presenter
Research Director, Consumer Federation of America - James B. Speta — Presenter
Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law - Zac Katz — Presenter
Chief of Staff, Federal Communications Commission - Lynn Charytan — Commenter
Vice President, Legal Regulatory Affairs and Senior Deputy General Counsel, Comcast Corporation - Leonard Cali — Commenter
Senior Vice President - Global Public Policy, AT&T - Leslie Harris — Commenter
President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Democracy and Technology
A Conversation with Randall Stephenson, Chairman & CEO, AT&T
- Phil Weiser — Moderator
Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School - Randall L. Stephenson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AT&T
Break
The Wireless Future: Industry Structure and The Impact of Spectrum Policy
- Ari Q. Fitzgerald — Moderator
Partner and Leader, Communications , Hogan Lovells - Gregory Rosston — Presenter
Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, SIEPR - Hal Varian — Presenter
Chief Economist, Google - JP de Vries — Presenter
Director Emeritus and Distinguished Advisor, Silicon Flatirons - Chris Guttman-McCabe — Commenter
Executive Vice President, CTIA - The Wireless Association - Brad Burnham — Commenter
Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures - Tom Sugrue — Commenter
Vice President, T-Mobile
Reception
Welcome
- Phil Weiser
Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
Opening Address
- Cory Gardner
United States Congressman, 4th District of Colorado
Keynote Address
- Larry Strickling
Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
Competition Policy For the Internet Age
- Jonathan Sallet — Moderator
General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission - Howard Shelanski — Presenter
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, The White House - Mark A. Lemley — Presenter
William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford University; Director, Program in Law, Science and Technology, Stanford University - Susan Athey — Presenter
Professor of Economics, Harvard University - Dorothy Attwood — Commenter
Senior Vice President, Walt Disney Company - Stephen F. Williams — Commenter
Senior United States Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit - Jon Nuechterlein — Commenter
General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission
A Conversation with Glenn Britt, Chairman & CEO, Time Warner Cable, Inc.
- Phil Weiser — Moderator
Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School - Glenn A. Britt
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Time Warner Cable Inc.