The Digital Broadband Migration: The Future of Internet-Enabled Innovation

The future of Internet-driven innovation remains a difficult topic to assess. Some trends, including the increasing importance of wireless platforms, are not hard to spot, but many of the game-changing technologies and trends are likely to surprise us. We do know that the dynamics around competition and innovation in the Internet space will raise a series of policy, business, and technical issues that will challenge the ability of 20th century institutions to keep up.

In this conference, we will look ahead at innovation in the Internet environment, taking a hard look at three policy dimensions that are getting increasing attention. First, we will examine the forces and strategies around how to enable interoperability and interconnection in the Internet Protocol-based environment. This examination will ask how issues traditionally addressed by telecommunications regulation?the physical connection of networks and the oversight of voice communications will be handled in a world where some of the most important network connections (say, Internet backbone networks) and voice interoperability (say between Voice over IP providers) are outside the scope of today's regulatory regime.

Second, we will discuss the emerging competitive forces, battles, and policy responses in the Internet space, evaluating the role not only of traditional competition policy on the part of antitrust authorities and telecommunications regulation, but also the role of intellectual property rights. Finally, we will evaluate how and whether wireless communications will facilitate innovation and competition in a wireless broadband environment where the opportunities for access to spectrum, both licensed and unlicensed, are far from determined.

Welcome	9:00am - 9:15am
Phil Weiser Dean University of Colorado Law School Executive Director Silicon Flatirons Center
Tech Tutorial Backdrop: Future Technological Trends and Their Impact	9:15am - 10:25am
Michael Gallagher President and Chief Executive Officer Entertainment Software Association Balan Nair Executive Vice President Chief Technology Officer Liberty Global Douglas Sicker DBC Endowed Professor, Computer Science Director, Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program University of Colorado Jack Waters Chief Technology Officer Level 3 Communications Moderator Jonathan Sallet Silicon Flatirons Senior Adjunct Fellow University of Colorado Partner O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Opening Panel: The Digital Broadband Migration In The Next Decade	10:25am - 11:45am
Brad Feld Managing Director Foundry Group Jared Grusd Head of Corporate Development and General Counsel Spotify Maureen Ohlhausen Commissioner Federal Trade Commission Carl Shapiro Professor, Department of Economics University of California-Berkeley Haas School of Business Former Member of the Council of Economic Advisors Gigi B. Sohn President and Chief Executive Officer Public Knowledge Senior Adjunct Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Center Moderator Phil Weiser Dean University of Colorado Law School Executive Director Silicon Flatirons Center
Lunch	11:45am - 1:00pm
Interconnection Policy For The Internet Age	1:00pm - 3:00pm
Moderator Raymond Gifford Senior Adjunct Fellow Silicon Flatirons Center Partner Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP Former Chairman, Colorado Public Utilities Commission Presenters Mark Cooper Research Director Consumer Federation of America Senior Adjunct Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Center Zac Katz Chief of Staff Federal Communications Commission Jim Speta Professor of Law Northwestern University Discussants Len Cali Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy AT&T Lynn Charytan Vice President, Legal Regulatory Affairs and Senior Deputy General Counsel Comcast Corporation Leslie Harris President and Chief Executive Officer Center for Democracy and Technology Senior Adjunct Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Center
A Conversation with Randall Stephenson, Chairman & CEO, AT&T	3:00pm - 3:45pm
Randall L. Stephenson Chairman and Chief Executive Officer AT&T Moderator Phil Weiser Dean University of Colorado Law School Executive Director Silicon Flatirons Center
Break	3:45pm - 4:00pm
The Wireless Future: Industry Structure and The Impact of Spectrum Policy	4:00pm - 6:00pm
Moderator Ari Fitzgerald Partner Hogan Lovells US LLP Presenters Pierre de Vries Senior Adjunct Fellow Silicon Flatirons Center Gregory Rosston Senior Research Scholar and Deputy Director Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Hal Varian Chief Economist Google Discussants Brad Burnham Managing Partner Union Square Ventures Chris Guttman-McCabe Vice President, Regulatory Affairs CTIA - The Wireless Association
Reception	6:00pm - 7:00pm
Monday, February 11, 2013
Welcome	9:00am - 9:05am
Phil Weiser Dean University of Colorado Law School Executive Director Silicon Flatirons Center
Opening Address	9:05am - 9:15am
Cory Gardner United States Congressman 4th District of Colorado
Keynote Address	9:15am - 9:45am
Larry Strickling Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) U.S. Department of Commerce
Competition Policy For the Internet Age	9:45am - 11:45am
Moderator Jonathan Sallet Silicon Flatirons Senior Adjunct Fellow University of Colorado Partner O'Melveny & Myers LLP Presenters Susan Athey Professor of Economics Harvard University Mark Lemley William H. Neukom Professor of Law Stanford University Howard Shelanski Director, Bureau of Economics Federal Trade Commission Discussants Dorothy Attwood Senior Vice President Walt Disney Company Jon Nuechterlein Partner WilmerHale Stephen Williams Circuit Judge U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
A Conversation with Glenn Britt, Chairman & CEO, Time Warner Cable, Inc.	11:45am - 12:30pm
Glenn A. Britt Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Time Warner Cable Inc. Moderator Phil Weiser Dean University of Colorado Law School Executive Director Silicon Flatirons Center

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