Privacy

How has the pandemic changed our views on privacy, and what does that mean for existing and future regulation and legislation?

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Jane Bambauer

Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona

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Maureen Ohlhausen

Section Chair, Antitrust & Competition Law Firm Partner, Baker Botts

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Hal Varian

Chief Economist, Google

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Andrew Smith

Director, FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection

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Catherine Tucker

Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management Science and Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan, Chair of the MIT Sloan PhD Program

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Tom Lenard (moderator)

TPI Senior Fellow and President Emeritus

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How is the world regulating privacy, and what does that mean for the US?

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Bruno Gencarelli

Head of European Commission International Data Flows and Protection Unit

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Andrea Jelinek

Chair, European Data Protection Board; Director, Austrian Data Protection Authority

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Catherine de Fontenay

Commissioner, Australia Productivity Commission

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Scott Wallsten (moderator)

President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

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More speakers TBA

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Book talk: "How Innovation Works"

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Lord Matt Ridley

Author

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Robert Hahn (moderator)

TPI Distinguished Senior Fellow

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Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust and the FTC in the Next Administration

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Edith Ramirez

Co-Head of Antitrust and Competition and Partner in Privacy in Cybersecurity, Hogan Lovells

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Rebecca Slaughter

Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

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Christine Wilson

Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

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Joshua Wright

Professor and Executive Director of the Global Antitrust Institute, George Mason University

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Debate: Should we have a Digital Regulator?

China

A digital cold war? China and the US Post-COVID

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Fiona Alexander

Distinguished Fellow in Residence at American University's Internet Governance Lab and the founder of Salt Point Strategies

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Aynne Kokas

Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia

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Samm Sacks

Cybersecurity Policy and China Digital Economy Fellow, New America

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Miriam Sapiro

Co-Head of Sard Verbinnen & Co’s Washington D.C. office and Vice Chair of SVC Public Affairs

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David Gross (moderator)

Partner and Co-Chair, Telecom, Media and Technology Practice, Wiley Rein LLP

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Book talk: "China: The Bubble that Never Pops"

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Tom Orlik, Chief Economist, Bloomberg Economics

Broadband

The Digital Divide: Pandemic Lessons and Solutions from Around the World

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Ceri Howes

Head of Regulatory, Opensignal

Larry Irving

Principal, The Irving Group

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Judith Mariscal

Executive Director, Centro Latam Digital and Professor, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas

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Greg Rosston

Director, Public Policy Program, Stanford University and Gordon Cain Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

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Scott Wallsten (moderator)

President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

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Fireside Chat

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Ajit Pai

Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

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Brian Sullivan (moderator)

“Worldwide Exchange” Anchor & Senior National Correspondent, CNBC

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Broadband and the FCC: Successes and Challenges

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Brendan Carr

Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

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Mignon Clyburn

Principal, MLC Strategies, Open Society Foundations Leadership in Government Fellow and Former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

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Rob McDowell

Partner, Cooley LLP and Former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

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Geoffrey Starks

Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

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Bryan Tramont (moderator)

Managing Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP

Media and Content

Fireside Chat

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Kevin Mayer

Former CEO, TikTok and Chief Operating Officer, ByteDance

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Laura Martin (moderator)

Senior Analyst, Entertainment, Cable and Media, Needham & Company LLC​

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Streaming and Bundling

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Andrew Wallenstein

President and Chief Media Analyst, Variety Intelligence Platform

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Ali Yurukoglu

Associate Professor, Economics, Stanford University Graduate School of Business

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Scott Wallsten (moderator)

President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

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Additional Speakers TBA

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Section 230 and the Election​

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Neil Fried

Principal, DigitalFrontiers Advocacy

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Eric Goldman

Professor of Law and Co-Director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law

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Jamie Susskind

Vice President of Policy and Regulatory Affairs for the Consumer Technology Association

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Sarah Oh (moderator)

Senior Fellow, TPI

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Additional speakers TBA