Agenda
St Regis Aspen * Aspen, Colorado
|
Sunday, August 21
|
6:00 p.m. |
Welcome Reception
|
7:00 p.m. |
Opening Remarks
- Jonathan Schwartz, President, Sun Microsystems
|
Monday, August 22
|
8:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Opening Remarks
- George A. Keyworth, Chairman, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
|
8:45 a.m. |
Opening Address: The Place for Property and Commons in the Digital Sphere
- Raymond L. Gifford, President, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
|
9:15 a.m. |
Roundtable Discussion: Reforming Communications Law
- Randolph J. May, Director of Communications Policy Studies, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (Moderator)
- Honorable William Barr, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Verizon Communications
- Jeffrey Citron, Chairman & CEO, Vonage
- Kyle McSlarrow, President & CEO, National Cable & Telecommunications Association
- Forrest Miller, President, SBC Communications
|
10:45 a.m. |
Keynote
Address
- Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group
|
11:30 a.m. |
Roundtable Discussion:
Copyright: The Global Stage After Grokster
- James V. DeLong, Director, Center for the Study of Digital Property Rights, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (Moderator)
- Chris Israel, Coordinator of Intellectual Property Enforcement, U.S. Department of Commerce
- Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications & Information Policy, U.S. Department of State
- Shane Robison, Chief Strategy & Technology Officer, Hewlett Packard
- Pamela Samuelson, Professor, University of California at Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems SIMS & School of Law
|
12:30 p.m. |
Remarks
- Honorable Haley Barbour, Governor, State of Mississippi
Lunch
Luncheon Address
- Steve Bennett, President & Chief Executive Officer, Intuit
|
6:00 p.m. |
Informal Reception
|
7:00 p.m. |
Informal Working Dinners
- Reform of Telecommunications Law
- Jonathan Askin, Pulver.com
- Roger Cochetti, CompTIA
- Stacey Dansky, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
- Kyle Dixon, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
- Link Hoewing, Verizon Communications
- Susan Kennedy, California Public Utilities Commission
- Michael Platt, Office of Representative Marsha Blackburn
- Jim Speta, Northwestern University School of Law
- Michael Sullivan, Office of Senator John Ensign
- Steven Teplitz, Time Warner, Inc.
- Howard Waltzman, U.S. House Committee on Energy & Commerce
- Howard Woolley,
Verizon Wireless
- The DTV Transition: Is This the Year Congress Acts?
- Dale Hatfield, University of Colorado
- Jane Mago, National Association of Broadcasters
- Mike O’Rielly, Office of Senator John Sununu
- Peter Pitsch, Intel Corporation
- Adam Thierer, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
- Phil Weiser, University of Colorado School of Law
- The Patent Reform Choo Choo Keeps Chugging
- Rich Beutel, U.S. House Committee on Small Business
- Jim DeLong, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
- Charles Eldering, Technology, Patents & Licensing, Inc.
- Dan Horowitz, U.S. House Committee on Small Business
- Laurie May, National Academy of Public Administration
- Morgan Reed, Association for Competitive Technology
- The Meaning of Grokster: Legislation, Litigation, Markets or Mayhap?
- Jim Burger, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, PLLC
- Braden Cox, Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Sarah Deutsch, Verizon Communications
- Sampak Garg, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
- Mitch Glazier, Recording Industry Association of America
- Scott LaGanga, Americans for Tax Reform
- Solveig Singleton, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
- Tom Sydnor, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
- Ryan Triplette, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- Data Security in a Digital Society
- Lisa Anderson, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- Dan Caprio, U.S. Department of Commerce
- Shannon Kellogg, RSA Security Inc.
- Kent Lassman, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
- Paul Martino, Alston & Bird, LLP
- Ken Nahigian, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee
- Lee Peeler, Federal Trade Commission
- Paul Rubin, Emory University
- David Sohn, Center for Democracy & Technology
- Orson Swindle
|
Tuesday, August 23
|
8:30 a.m. |
Keynote Address:
Doing Good While Doing Well: The Telecommunications Catalyst in Economic Transformation
- William A. Owens, Vice Chairman & CEO, Nortel
|
9:15 a.m. |
Roundtable
Discussion: Property Rights in the Air: Approaches to Spectrum Reform
- Thomas M. Lenard, Vice President, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (Moderator)
- Michael Gallagher, Commerce Department Assistant Secretary and Director of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
- Thomas J. Sugrue, Vice President of Government Affairs,
T-Mobile
- Kevin Werbach, Professor, Wharton School of Business , University of Pennsylvania
- Lawrence J. White, Arthur E. Imperatore Professor of Economics Department of Economics, Leonard N. Stern School of Business New York University
|
10:30 a.m. |
Plenary Address
- Honorable Marsha Blackburn, Representative, U.S. House of Representatives (R-TN)
|
11:00 a.m. |
Roundtable Discussion: Is Media Convergence Leading to Regulatory Convergence? Old Threats and New Media
- Adam Thierer, Senior Fellow & Director of the Center for Media Freedom, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (Moderator)
- Robert Corn-Revere, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine
- John Landgraf, President & General Manager, FX Networks
- David Stapf, President, Paramount Network Television
- Jane Mago, Senior Vice President And General Counsel, National Association of Broadcastors
|
12:00 p.m. |
Roundtable
Discussion: The Capitalism of Ideas: Patents and the Structure of Innovation
- Solveig Singleton, Senior Fellow, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (Moderator)
- Q. Todd Dickinson,
Vice President & Chief Intellectual Property Counsel,
General Electric Company
- John Duffy, Professor, George Washington University
- Marshall Phelps, Vice President for IP & Licensing, Microsoft Corporation
- William C. Rooklidge, President, American Intellectual Property Law Association; Partner,
Howrey, LLP
|
1:00 p.m. |
Luncheon Address
- Nathan Myhrvold, CEO, Intellectual Ventures
|
6:00 p.m. |
Chairman's Reception
|
7:00 p.m. |
Chairman's Dinner & Address
- Tom Perkins, Co-founder and Partner Emeritus, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
|
* Invited |
|