Tech policy 2015: The year ahead

Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy
American Enterprise Institute
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
http://www.techpolicydaily.com/?post_type=research_and_events&p=31416

A half-day conference to look ahead at the top tech policy issues of 2015.

Keynote address by Senator John Thune (R-SD)

Panel discussions in which AEI scholars and outside experts will address issues ranging from cybersecurity to Internet governance and from municipal broadband to incentive auctions.

Agenda

12:30 AM
Registration and lunch

12:45 PM
Opening remarks
Jeffrey Eisenach, AEI

1:00 PM Regulatory activism at the FCC: Looking ahead to a busy year
Moderator: Mark Jamison, PURC, University of Florida

Panelists:

• Richard Bennett, AEI
• Matthew Berry, FCC
• Babette Boliek, AEI
• Gus Hurwitz, AEI
• Daniel Lyons, AEI

2:00 PM
Keynote, discussion, and audience Q&A
John Thune, US Senate (R-SD)

3:00 PM Can Congress fix communications policy? Prospects for statutory reform
Moderator: Richard Bennett, AEI

Panelists:

• Peter Davidson, Verizon
• Mark Jamison, PURC, University of Florida
• Roslyn Layton, AEI
• David Redl, House Energy and Commerce Committee
• Bret Swanson, AEI

4:00 PM Cyberspace vs. nation states: Is the Internet (still) ungovernable?
Moderator: Jeffrey Eisenach, AEI

Panelists:

• David Gross, Wiley Rein LLP
• Ariel Rabkin, AEI
• Tom Sydnor, AEI
• Shane Tews, AEI

5:00 PM
Adjournment