Agenda
St Regis Aspen * Aspen, Colorado
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Sunday, August 17
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6:00 p.m. |
Welcome Reception
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6:45 p.m.
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Welcome Remarks
- Ken Ferree, President, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
- Meredith Attwell Baker, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Director of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
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7:00 p.m.
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Opening Keynote Address
- John Horrigan, Associate Director, Research, Pew Internet & American Life Project
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Monday, August 18
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8:30 a.m. |
Welcome Remarks
- George A. (Jay) Keyworth II, Senior Fellow and Chairman, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
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8:45 a.m. |
Keynote Address
- Jim Griffin, Managing Director, OneHouse LLC and Advisor, Warner Music Group
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9:30 a.m. |
Panel Discussion: Should We Deputize the Middleman? New Debates about Intermediary Liability
- Adam Thierer, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Digital Media Freedom, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
- Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
- Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Global Public Policy, Facebook, Inc.
- Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
- Kent Walker, Vice President and General Counsel, Google Inc.
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11:00 a.m. |
Panel Discussion: Copyright Enforcement Online – Can We Do Better?
- Tom Sydnor, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
- Jonathan Band, Owner, policybandwidth.com
- James Burger, Member, Dow Lohnes PLLC
- Michael O’Leary, Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel for Federal Affairs and Policy, Motion Picture Association of America
- Shira Perlmutter, Executive Vice President, Global Legal Policy, IFPI
- Jule Sigall, Senior Policy Counsel, Copyrights and Trademarks, Microsoft
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12:30 p.m. |
Luncheon Panel Discussion: Online Advertising, Behavioral Marketing & Privacy
- Berin Szoka, Visiting Fellow, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
- William Blumenthal, General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission
- Dan Jaffe, Executive Vice President, Government Relations, Association of National Advertisers
- Alan Raul, Partner, Sidley Austin
- Greg Sivinski, Senior Attorney, Antitrust, Microsoft
- Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google Inc.
- Mike Zaneis, Vice President, Public Policy, Interactive Advertising Bureau
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6:00 p.m. |
Reception
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7:00 p.m. |
Informal Working Dinners: Kids, Media & Marketing: Child Safety and Privacy in a Web 2.0 World
- Adam Thierer, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Digital Media Freedom, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
- Stephen Balkam, Founding Chief Executive Officer, Online Safety Institute
- Debra Berlyn, President, Consumer Policy Solutions
- Chuck Cosson, Senior Policy Counsel, Microsoft
- Valerie Henry, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Congressman Greg Walden
- Chris Herndon, Legislative Director and Counsel, Office of Congressman George Radanovich
- Brian Knapp, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Loopt
- Rick Lane, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, News Corp./MySpace.com
- Shannon Weinberg, Republican Counsel, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce
China: A Challenge of Olympic Proportions
- Bret Swanson, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Global Innovation, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
- Mike Bassett, Legislative Assistant, Office of Congressman Mel Martinez
- Pablo Chavez, Policy Counsel, Google Inc.
- Paul Fassbender, Chief Counsel, Office of Congressman Bob Corker
- Hugh Gamble, General Counsel, Office of Congressman Thad Cochran
- William Blumenthal, General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission
- Richard W. Fisher, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
- Ed Hearst, Vice President, Government Affairs, Sybase
- David Quinalty, Legislative Assistant, Office of Congressman John Ensign
- John Rutledge, Chairman, Rutledge Capital and Director, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
- Timothy Stratford, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China Affairs
Patent Reform: Where We Are, and Where We Might Go
- Tom Sydnor, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
- John Mautz, Counsel, House Committee on the Judiciary
- Jeff Miller, Chief Counsel and Staff Director, Antitrust and Business Competition Subcommittee, U.S. Senate Committee on Judiciary
- Stephen Pinkos, Senior Advisor, PCT Government Relations and former Deputy Director, USPTO
- Jason Scism, Counsel, Office of Congressman Darrell Issa
Spectrum Policy: White Spaces and Beyond
- Barbara Esbin, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Communications and Competition Policy, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
- Neil Fried, Senior Counsel, House Energy and Commerce Committee
- Kathleen Ham, Vice President, Federal Regulatory, T-Mobile USA
- Dale Hatfield, Adjunct Professor, Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Matthew Hussey, Legislative Assistant, Office of Congresswoman Olympia J. Snowe
- Michone Johnson, Chief Counsel, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, U.S. House Committee on Judiciary
- Peter K. Pitsch, Executive Director, Communications, Associate General Counsel, Intel Corporation
- Johanna Shelton, Policy Counsel and Legislative Strategist, Google Inc.
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Tuesday, August 19
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8:00 a.m. |
Plenary Address
- Richard W. Fisher, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
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8:45 a.m.
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Panel Discussion: The Innovation Imperative – Engage or Retreat?
- Bret Swanson, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Global Innovation, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
- Katherine McGuire, Vice President of Government Relations, BSA
- Peter Pitsch, Director, Communications Policy, Intel
- Steve Stewart, Director, Public Affairs, IBM Governmental Programs
- Timothy Stratford, Assistant US Trade Representative for China
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10:15 a.m. |
Keynote Address
- Patrick J. Esser, President, Cox Communications Inc.
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10:55 a.m. |
Keynote Address
- Richard Lynch, Chief Technology Officer, Verizon
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11:30 a.m. |
Panel Discussion: Next Generation Network Policy – Here and Abroad
- Barbara Esbin, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Communications and Competition Policy, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
- Kathleen Abernathy, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP and Director, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
- David Eveleigh, Vice President and General Counsel, BT Americas at BT
- Brett Glass, Owner and Founder, Lariat Networks, Laramie, WY
- The Honorable Robert McDowell, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
- Joe Waz, Senior Vice President, External Affairs and Public Policy Counsel, Comcast Corporation
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12:30 p.m. |
Luncheon Discussion
- Ambassador David A. Gross, United States Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, U.S. Department of State (moderator)
- Matthias Kurth, President, BNetzA, Germany
- Eiji Makiguchi, Director, International Economic Affairs Division, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan
- The Honorable Francisco Ros Perán, Secretary of State for Telecommunications and the Information Society of Spain
- Dr. Rafael del Villar Alrich, Under Secretary of Communications of the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation, Mexico
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6:00 p.m |
Chairman's Reception
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7:00 p.m. |
Chairman's Dinner & Address
- Maggie Wilderotter, Chairman and CEO, Frontier Communications Corporation
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