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2022 agenda

Sunday, August 14

Welcome

6:45 PM

President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

7:00 PM

Keynote Address

The Honorable Alan Davidson

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, US Department of Commerce

Cristiano Lima (moderator)
Tech Newsletter Reporter, The Washington Post

Monday, August 15

Fireside Chat:

How Are the States Affecting Antitrust, Privacy, and Other Policies?

10:00 AM

Attorney General, State of Nebraska

Attorney General, State of Colorado

Leah Nylen (moderator)

Antitrust Reporter, Bloomberg News

WORKING GROUP:

What Will a Mature Streaming Market Look Like?

7:00 PM

Vice President, Worldwide Research & Information Analysis, Motion Picture Association

Chief Counsel, Streaming Services, The Walt Disney Company

Laura Martin (moderator)

Senior Media and Internet Analyst, Needham and Company, LLC

Are the Metaverse and Web 3.0 Real or Hype and What are the Policy Issues?

1:00 PM

Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University

Global Director, Public Policy, Meta Financial Technologies

The Honorable Caroline Pham

Commissioner, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

General Counsel, TRM Labs

Chairman & Professor, Legal Studies & Business Ethics and Liem Sioe Liong/First Pacific Company Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Sarah Oh Lam (moderator)

Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

Fireside Keynote:

Marc Ganzi

Chief Executive Officer, DigitalBridge

12:00 PM

Major Developments in Antitrust Policy

10.45 AM

David McDaniel Keller Professor of Economics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

William S. Neinecke Professor of Finance and Economics, Yale University

Senior Vice President, Group Public and Regulatory Affairs, Deutsche Telekom

VarianH

Chief Economist, Google

Executive Director, Global Antitrust Institute and Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia School of Law, George Mason University

Thomas Lenard (moderator)

Senior Fellow and President Emeritus, Technology Policy Institute

WORKING GROUP:

Is a Lack of Coordination Among Government Agencies Harming U.S. Spectrum Policy?

7:00 PM

Vice President, Intelsat

Chief of Staff and Legal Advisor, Wireline and National Security, Federal Communications Commission

Director, Satellite Policy, SpaceX

Executive Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship and Adjunct Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder

Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics, Clemson University and Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Vice President, Government Relations, Astra

Principle, Boulder Thinking, LLC

Senior Vice President & General Counsel, CTIA

Senior Consultant, The Brattle Group

Jennifer A. Warren

Vice President, Civil & Regulatory Affairs, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Thomas Lenard (co-moderator)

Senior Fellow and President Emeritus, Technology Policy Institute

Sarah Oh Lam (co-moderator)

Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

WORKING GROUP:

How Much Do People Value Privacy Around the World and What Does That Mean for Policy?

7:00 PM

Chief Privacy Officer, Apple

Principal, Policy Innovation Head of North America, Access Partnership

Partner, Privacy and Cybersecurity and Practice, Sidley Austin LLP

Vice President, Trust and Privacy, Amazon

President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

Shane Tews (moderator)

President, Logan Circle Strategies

Academic

Keynote Address:

Startup Ventures in an Age of Great Power Rivalry

Fiona Murray
William S. Porter Professor of Entrepreneurship and Associate Dean of
Innovation and Inclusion, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

8:10 AM

Is “Designed in America, Made in China” Sustainable? Whither the Future of Globalization and Supply Chains?

9:00 AM

Founder and President, SeedAI

J. Brad Jensen
McCrane/Shaker Chair in International Business, Center for Business and Public Policy, Georgetown University

Director, Geotechnology Practice, Eurasia Group

Cyber Policy Fellow, New America

Scott Wallsten (moderator)

President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

Tuesday, August 16

The Role, Structure and Long-Term Implications of Connectivity in Ukraine

8:00 AM

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Information and Communications Policy, Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, U.S. Department of State

Lecturer in Digital Cultures, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney

Cristin Goodwin

General Manager and Associate General Counsel, Microsoft

Founder and Executive Director, National Security Institute, and Assistant Professor of Law & Director, National Security Law & Policy Program, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Vice President, Trust & Safety Public Policy, Meta

David Gross (moderator)

Partner, Wiley Rein, LLP

Fireside Chat:

Investing in Entrepreneurs: What Are the Policy Aids and Obstacles?

SlivkaB_

Advisor, Angel Investor, Philanthropist, and Software Engineer

Sarah Oh Lam (m oderator)

Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

9:00 AM

Content Moderation: Can Government Set Objective Rules That Do Not Violate Free Speech and Unfairly Benefit Incumbent Politicians?

9:30 AM

Howard Distinguished Endowed Professor of Media Management and Law and Beaman Professor of Journalism and Electronic Media, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Member, Facebook Oversight Board, Executive Director, Internet Without Borders, Fellow, Digital Civil Society

Founder, Open Water Strategies and Director, Center on Technology Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia

General Counsel, Creative Commons

Scott Wallsten (moderator)

Senior Fellow and President, Technology Policy Institute

Fireside Chat:

North American Telecommunications Regulators

10:45 AM

Kathleen Abernathy

Member, Board of Directors, BAI Communications, Member, Board of Directors, DISH Network, Member, Board of Directors, Crittenton Services of Greater Washington, and Member, Board of Directors, Somos, Inc.

Ramiro Camacho Castillo

Commissioner, Federal Institute of Telecommunications, Mexico

Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission

Geoffrey Starks

Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

Mignon Clyburn (co-moderator)

Principal, MLC Strategies, LLC

Bryan Tramont (co-moderator)

Managing Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP

How Can the States Distribute Broadband Subsidies Effectively?

11:45 AM

Senior Vice President, Public Policy, Comcast NBCUniversal

Evan Feinman

Director of Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program, U.S. Department of Commerce, NTIA

Director and Gunter Professor, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida

Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP

Executive Director, Broadband Office, State of Colorado

Greg Rosston (moderator)

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

A New Era of Broadband Competition?

1:00 PM

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Jonathan S. Adelstein

Managing Director and Head of Global Policy and Public Investment, DigitalBridge Investment Management

Michelle Connolly

Professor of the Practice, Economics Department, Duke University

President and CEO, Wireless Infrastructure Association

Head of Country Development, Project Kuiper, Amazon

Christopher Yoo

John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Scott Wallsten (moderator)

Senior Fellow and President, Technology Policy Institute

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