Monday, August 19
Evening Networking Reception & Tech Hub Experience
6:00 PM
Fireside Chat:
AI and Copyright Policy
10:10 AM
Register of Copyrights, US Copyright Office
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
How Should We Regulate the Digital World?
9:05 AM
Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Amazon
Senior Fellow, Digital & Cyberspace Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Resident Senior Fellow, R Street Institute
Partner, Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice, Sidley Austin LLP
The Telecom Regulators
11:45 AM
Commissioner, US Federal Communications Commission
President, Hellenic Telecom & Post Commission (EETT), Greece and Vice-Chair of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC)
Vice-Chair of Telecommunications, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Canada
Managing Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP
The Economic Impact of Artificial Intelligence
8:10 AM
President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute
The Economic Implications of New Broadband Competition
10:50 AM
Quello Chair in Media and Information Policy, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, Michigan State University
Professor of the Practice in the Economics Department at Duke University
Vice President, Global Public Policy, Comcast NBCUniversal
President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute
Trust, Safety, and Content Moderation
12:45 PM
Vice President, Trust & Safety Consumer, Google
Director of Technology Policy Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Associate Professor of Economics, Clemson University
Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute
Commissioner, US Federal Communications Commission
Vice President, Strategic Policy and Planning, T-Mobile US
WORKING GROUP:
Navigating the Frontier of Space Policy and Governance
7:00 PM
Vice President, Satellite Policy, SpaceX
Head of Domestic Regulatory Affairs, Project Kuiper
Partner, Co-Chair, Telecom, Media & Technology Practice and Chair, Space and Satellite Group, Wiley Rein LLP
Space Bureau Chief, US Federal Communications Commission
Senior Vice President for Group Public and Regulatory Affairs, Deutsche Telekom AG
Senior Advisor, Space & Satellite Policy, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), US Department of Commerce
Partner & Chair, Global Communications Practice Group, Cooley LLP
President, Satellite Industry Association
Berin Szoka
President, TechFreedom
Senior Fellow & President, Technology Policy Institute
WORKING GROUP:
Synthesizing Perspectives on AI for Effective Policy
7:00 PM
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Senior Fellow, Technology Policy, Cato Institute
Lead Programmer and Senior Research Analyst, Technology Policy Institute.
Director, Public Policy, Meta
Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Law & Policy, Motion Picture Association
Resident Senior Fellow, R Street Institute
President, Logan Circle Strategies
WORKING GROUP:
Closing the Digital Divide: An Assessment of BEAD's Early Progress
7:00 PM
Executive Director, Public Policy, Comcast Corporation
Professor of Economics, University of North Texas
Principal, Per Aspera Advisors
Executive Director, Colorado Broadband Office, Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Verizon
Wireless Advisor, Office of Commissioner Brendan Carr, Federal Communications Commission
Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Gordon Cain Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and Director, Public Policy Program, Stanford University
WORKING GROUP:
Unleashing Spectrum Potential: Aligning Allocation with Economic Imperatives
7:00 PM
Senior Director, Public Policy, Verizon
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Crest Hill Advisors
Executive Fellow, Silicon Flatirons, University of Colorado, Boulder
Chief Spectrum Economist, The Mitre Corporation
Senior Economic Advisor, Office of Economics and Analytics, Federal Communications Commission
Director, NERA
Director, Public Policy, DISH
Chief, Office of Economics and Analysis, US Federal Communications Commission
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, CTIA
Policy Advisor to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, US Federal Communications Commission
Mark Walker
Vice President, Technology Policy, CableLabs
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs & Public Policy, Lockheed Martin
Director, The FutureG Office, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering, US Department of Defense &, Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Ashkhen Kazarryan (co-moderator)
Senior Fellow, Free Speech & Peace, Stand Together
Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute
Tuesday, August 20
Antitrust: The Next Four Years
8:00 AM
Commissioner, US Federal Trade Commission
Commissioner, US Federal Trade Commission
Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy, Professor of Law and Director, Competition Law Center, George Washington University
Antitrust: The Next Four Years
8:45 AM
Adjunct Fellow, Technology Policy Institute
Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
Professor of Economics, University of California Berkeley
Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy, Professor of Law and Director, Competition Law Center
Senior Fellow and President Emeritus, Technology Policy Institute
View from the Hill
9:45 AM
Counsel, Communications and Technology Subcommittee, House Energy and Commerce Committee (majority)
Senior Counsel, Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee (majority)
Legislative Director, Office of US Senator Marsha Blackburn, US Senate (minority)
Counsel, Communications and Technology Subcommittee, House Energy and Commerce Committee (minority)
Tech and the Courts: What’s a Major Question?
10:35 AM
Director of Appellate Advocacy, TechFreedom
Senior Vice President, Public Knowledge
Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP
Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute
Future of Media:
A Deep Dive Into Wall Street's Point of View
Senior Entertainment & Internet Analyst, Needham & Company LLC
11:45 AM
Buffet Luncheon:
TikTok, Trade, and Transistors: Balancing Free Speech, Economic Growth, and National Security
12:00 PM
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, US Department of State
HH Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics, Clemson University
Director, Geo-Technology, Eurasia Group
Legislative Director, Office of US Senator Marsha Blackburn, US Senate
Partner, Wiley Rein LLP