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In Cooperation With the Federal Communications Bar Association
Internet policy is developing along its path. Internet-based services are not generally overseen by traditional institutions or established legal frameworks. As such, commentators continue to raise a series of concerns related to the future of competition, intellectual property rights, network security, and ongoing technological development. Policymakers continue to evaluate which institutional strategies can frame these discussions and govern behavior in a manner that respects, rather than stifles, dynamism and creativity in the Internet ecosystem.
This Digital Broadband Migration conference will evaluate these emerging discussions, picking up a conversation initiated by the OECD in 2011 on the principles that should guide policymaking in the Internet environment. The discussion will begin with the technology backdrop – IP-based networks are undermining their legacy predecessors, and IP-based broadband networks will soon be carrying all forms of communications, leaving behind an increasingly fragile regulatory regime built on legacy technology and market assumptions. For public policy goals ranging from competition to privacy and security to the protection of intellectual property, these technological and market changes require the development of new governance models and the assumption of new forms of responsibility by Internet actors such as Internet Service Providers, applications providers, and others. The conference will explore many of these questions, evaluate the state of competition policy and intellectual property policy in the Internet environment, and examine what kinds of institutions are best suited to ensuring interoperability, openness, and transparency, while providing appropriate balance and flexibility, in this constantly changing ecosystem.
Sessions
Welcome
- Phil Weiser
Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
Technology Overview
- Vinton G. Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Tech Tutorial Backdrop: An All IP Network and Its Policy Implications
- Phil Weiser — Moderator
Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School - Dan Reed
Corporate Vice President of Technology Policy and Strategy, Microsoft - Jack Waters
Chief Technology Officer, Level 3 Communications - Edward Felten
Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer, White House - Vinton G. Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Opening Addresses
- Larry Strickling
Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) - Michael F. Bennet
United States Senator for Colorado
Opening Panel: The Digital Broadband Migration in Perspective
- Phil Weiser — Moderator
Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School - Brad Feld
Partner, Foundry Group - Larissa Herda
Chairman, CEO, and President, tw telecom inc. - Larry Strickling
Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) - David L. Cohen
Senior Executive Vice President, Comcast Corporation - Dale Hatfield
Spectrum Policy Initiative Co-director and Distinguished Advisor, Silicon Flatirons
Lunch
Intellectual Property Rights and The Digital Migration
- Paul Ohm — Moderator
Associate Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs - Mark A. Lemley — Presenter
William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford University; Director, Program in Law, Science and Technology, Stanford University - Gigi B. Sohn — Presenter
Counselor to the Chairman, Federal Communications Commission - Jonathan Taplin — Presenter
Director, Annenberg Innovation Lab - Michael Fricklas — Commenter
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Viacom Inc. - Stephen F. Williams — Commenter
Senior United States Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit - Michael D. Gallagher — Commenter
President and Chief Executive Officer, Entertainment Software Association
Break
Multistakeholder Bodies and Internet Governance
- JP de Vries — Moderator
Director Emeritus and Distinguished Advisor, Silicon Flatirons - Mark Cooper — Presenter
Research Director, Consumer Federation of America - Deirdre Mulligan — Presenter
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Information - Joe Waz — Presenter
- Daniel Weitzner — Commenter
Principal Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT - Kathryn C. Brown — Commenter
Senior Vice President, Public Policy & Corporate Responsibility, Verizon - Douglas Sicker — Commenter
Department Head, Engineering and Public Policy Professor, Engineering & Computer Science
Closing Keynote
- Mark Udall
United States Senator for Colorado
Opening Keynote
- Barry Diller
Chairman and Senior Executive, IAC
Break
Competition Policy In the Internet Environment
- Jon Nuechterlein — Moderator
General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission - Jonathan Sallet — Presenter
General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission - Howard Shelanski — Presenter
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, The White House - Tim Wu — Presenter
Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School - Mark Chandler — Commenter
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, & Secretary, Cisco - Christine Varney — Commenter
Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Closing Address
- Julius Genachowski (invited)
Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
Lunch Reception
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