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2023 agenda

Sunday, August 20

Welcome

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Scott Wallsten

President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

6:00 PM

Monday, August 21

The Future of Media

10:15 AM

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Jean Barnard

Director of Research and Portfolio Manager, Kennedy Capital Management

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Conrad Grodd

Vice President, Investor Relations, Roku Inc.

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Laura Martin

Senior Analyst, Needham & Company

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Steven Brody

Assistant General Counsel, Regulatory and Government Affairs, FuboTV

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Brian Sullivan (moderator)

Anchor, Last Call, CNBC

Keynote Luncheon

12:30 PM

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Laurent Therivel

President & CEO, UScellular

What Does a Revitalized Transatlantic Partnership Mean for Tech Policy?

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Jennifer Bachus

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, U.S. Department of State

1:30 PM

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Meredith Broadbent

Senior Adviser, Scholl Chair in International Business, Center for Strategic and International Studies

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Peter Brown

Senior Adviser & First Counsellor on Technology Policy, European Parliament

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Wolfgang Kopf

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

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Fireside Chat:

State Attorneys Generals

11:45 AM

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The Honorable Bridget Hill

Wyoming Attorney General

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The Honorable Phil Weiser

Colorado Attorney General

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Andy Kenney (moderator)

Public Affairs Reporter, Colorado Public Radio

WORKING GROUP:

Getting a BEAD on Broadband Funding: Status, Successes, Controversies

7:00 PM

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Bryan Darr

Executive Vice President, Government Affairs and Smart Cities, Ookla

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Evan Feinman

Director of Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program, NTIA

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Brandy Reitter

Executive Director, Colorado Broadband Office, Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology

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Christopher Sarabalis

Founder, FluxPhotonics

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Katharine Saunders

Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Verizon

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Jay Schwarz

Vice President, Global Public Policy, Comcast

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Thomas Tyler

Deputy Director for ConnectLA, Louisiana Office of Broadband Development and Connectivity

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Scott Wallsten (moderator)

President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

WORKING GROUP:

The Spectrum Puzzle: Strategies for Efficient Allocation and Management

7:00 PM

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Pedro Bustamante

Assistant Teaching Professor, Information Networking Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

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Michael Calabrese

Director, Wireless Future, Open Technology Institute, New America

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Thomas Hazlett

H.H. Macaulay Endowed Chair in Economics, Clemson University

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Scott Imhoff

Senior Vice President, Cambium Networks

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Carolyn Kahn

Chief Spectrum Economist, The Mitre Corporation

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Evan Kwerel

Senior Spectrum Advisor, FCC 

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Tom Power

Senior Vice President and General Counsel, CTIA

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Becky Tangren

Vice President & Associate General Counsel, NCTA – The Internet & Television Association

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Gregory Rosston (moderator)

Gordon Cain Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

WORKING GROUP:

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Asha Balakrishnan

Assistant Director, Science and Technology Policy Institute

Space Cowboys: Key Outer Space Policy Questions

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Kalpak Gude

Head of Domestic Regulatory Affairs, Project Kuiper

7:00 PM

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Scott Blake Harris

Senior Spectrum Advisor/Director National Spectrum Strategy, NTIA

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Ed Hearst

CEO, Hearst Technology and Trade

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Jennifer Warren

Vice President, Regulatory Affairs & Public Policy, Lockheed Martin 

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Sarah Oh Lam (moderator)

Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

Evening Networking Reception

6:00 PM

Fireside Chat:
AI - Separating Hype from Reality

9:30 AM

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Oren Etzioni

CEO Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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Shane Greenstein

Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

What are the Major AI Policy Questions?

8:40 AM

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Halie Craig

Senior Advisor, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation

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Danielle Li

Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Katie Shay

Associate General Counsel and Director, Business & Human Rights, Cisco

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Hal Varian

Chief Economist, Google

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Scott Wallsten (moderator)

President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

Opening Remarks

Scott Wallsten

President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

8:00 AM

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A View from Capitol Hill

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Jeffrey Lopez

Jeffrey Lopez, Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Ben Ray Luján, U.S. Senate

11:00 AM

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Kate O’Connor

Chief Counsel, Communications and Technology Subcommittee, House Energy and Commerce Committee

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Duncan Rankin

Senior Advisor, Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee, U.S. Senate

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Edgar Rivas

Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Senator John Hickenlooper, U.S. Senate

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WORKING GROUP:

Decoding AI: Policy Challenges and Opportunities

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Graham Gilmer

Senior Vice President, Booz Allen

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David Hughes

Founder and Chief Strategist, AI:OK

7:00 PM

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Victoria Jeffries

Global Head of Competition Policy, Meta

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Nathaniel Lovin

Lead Programmer and Senior Research Analyst, Technology Policy Institute.

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Ben Sheffner

Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Law & Policy, Motion Picture Association

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Lee Tiedrich

Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Law & Responsible Technology and AI Health, Executive in Residence, Duke University

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Suzy Wilson

General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights, United States Copyright Office

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Shane Tews (moderator)

President, Logan Circle Strategies

Academic Keynote

Social Media and Scoial Good

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Matthew Gentzkow

Professor of Economics, Stanford University

8:10 AM

Tuesday, August 22

Fireside Chat:
Trust & Safety

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Monika Bickert

Vice President, Content Policy, Meta

8:30 AM

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David Graff

Vice President, Trust & Safety, Google

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Sarah Oh Lam (moderator)

Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

Content Moderation: Who Fact-Checks the Fact-Checkers?

9:00 AM

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Jayanta Bhattacharya

Professor of Health Policy, Stanford University

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Laura Bisesto

Global Head of Policy, Privacy, Compliance, and Deputy General Counsel, Nextdoor

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Ashkhen Kazaryan

Senior Fellow, Free Speech & Peace, Stand Together

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Julie Owono

Facebook Oversight Board, Executive Director of the Content Policy & Society Lab (CPSL) and a fellow of the Program on Democracy and the Internet (PDI) at Stanford University

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Jason Willick (moderator)

Opinion Columnist, The Washington Post

Chips, China, and the New Frontier of Industrial Policy

10:00 AM

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Theresa Fallon

Founder and Director, Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies (CREAS), Brussels

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Xiaomeng Lu

Director of Geo-Technology Practice, Eurasia Group

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Christine McDaniel

Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center

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Roger Noll

Professor of Economics Emeritus, Stanford University

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Scott Wallsten (moderator)

President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

Whose Data is it?

10:45 AM

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Tim Kurth

Chief Counsel Innovation, Data, and Commerce, Subcommittee House Energy & Commerce Committee

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Jeffrey Prince

Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

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Kristian Stout

Director of Innovation Policy, International Center for Law & Economics

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Jamie Susskind

Legislative Director, Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), U.S. Senate

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Shane Tews (moderator)

President, Logan Circle Strategies

Antitrust & Competition:
Is the Neo-brandeisian Approach Working?

11:30 AM

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Svetlana Gans

Partner, Gibson Dunn

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John Kwoka

Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University

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Carl Shapiro

Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley

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Howard Shelanski

Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

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Thomas Lenard (moderator)

Senior Fellow and President Emeritus, Technology Policy Institute

Courtyard Luncheon Discussion:

The Telecom Regulators

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Ramiro Camacho Castillo

Commissioner, Federal Telecommunications Institute of Mexico

12:15 PM

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Narda Jones

Chief of Staff, Office of Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel

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Ian Scott

Former Chairperson and CEO, Canadian Radio-Television and

Telecommunications Commission

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Bryan Tramont (moderator)

Managing Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP

How Will Current Policies Affect Future Broadband Investment?

1:00 PM

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Will Adams

Vice President of Strategic Policy and Planning, T-Mobile

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Jonathan Chaplin

Managing Partner, New Street Research

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Michelle Connolly

Professor of the Practice in the Economics Department at Duke University

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Janice Hauge

Professor of Economics, University of North Texas

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Scott Wallsten (moderator)

President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

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