Freedom To Connect 2012

May 21 & 22, 2012
AFI Silver Theatre
Washington, DC
http://freedom-to-connect.net/

Monday 5/21

9:00 AM to 10:30
Vint Cerf keynote (45 min)
Rebecca MacKinnon keynote (possible US State Dept discussant) (45 min)

11:00 to 12:30
Benoit Felten keynote (30 min)
Big Enough to Succeed: small carriers at the leading edge — entrepreneurial (non-Municipal) carriers show a fourth way (after Telco, Cable and Muni) to the future of connectivity. (60 min)
John Brown, CityLink Telecommunications
Gary Evans, Hiawatha Broadband Communications
Ken Johnson, Conneaut Telephone Company
Pat Kennedy, Lit San Leandro
Levi Maaia, Full Channel
Leslie Nulty, ValleyNet

1:30 to 3:00
BTOP, Gig-U,and other big pipe experiments (60 min)
Blair Levin (brief intro)
Lev Gonick, CIO, Case Western University, founder, Case Connection Zone
Bill Schrier, CTO, City of Seattle
Pankaj Shah, Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet)
Michael Smeltzer, UIUCNet, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mike Marcus keynote (30 min) Dewayne Hendricks (brief intro)

3:30 to 5:00
Michael Copps keynote (30 min)
– Jim Baller intros Commissioner Copps

Aaron Swartz, “How we stopped SOPA” keynote (30 min)

TBD (30 min)
RECEPTION, location tbd.

Tuesday, 5/22

9:00 AM to 10:30
Cory Doctorow remote (skype) keynote (30 min)
Freedom & Connectivity from Alexandria, Egypt to Zuccotti Park (60 min)
Sascha Meinrath, Open Technology Initiative (moderator)
Dan Meredith, Radio Free Asia
Babak Pasdar, BatBlue and The Quantico Circuit
Wendy Seltzer, ChillingEffects.org
Ashkan Soltani, security and privacy researcher
Isaac Wilder, Free Network Foundation

11:00AM to 12:30
Eben Moglen keynote,”Innovation under Austerity” (60 min)
Doc Searls and others, Discussion of Moglen’s talk (30 min)
1:30PM to 3:00
Internet Freedom is Local (30 min)
Susan Mernit, Oakland Local (moderator)
Kwan Booth, Oakland Local
C.B. Smith-Dahl, Oakland Local
others tbd
TBD (waiting for confirmation from invited speaker) 60 min

3:30 to 5:00
Larry Lessig keynote, “The War Against Community Broadband” (30 min)
Panel, the Fight for Community Broadband: (60 min)
Tim Karr (moderator), Free Press
Lisa Graves, Center for Media & Democracy
Larry Lessig, Harvard University
Chris Mitchell, MuniNetworks.Org
Catharine Rice, SEATOA