What's on the agenda for policymakers.
Agenda
7:30 am - Registration Opens
8:00 am - Breakfast Briefing
Brad Grady, Senior Analyst, NSR
8:50 am - Welcome
David Hartshorn, CEO, Geeks Without Frontiers
9:00- 9:30 am - Fireside Chat “Strategies to Bridging the Global Digital Divide” with FCC Chairman
VIP Speaker: Ajit Pai, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Moderator: David Hartshorn, CEO, Geeks Without Frontiers
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is holding a series of public hearings in 2018 and 2019 examining whether broad-based changes in the economy, evolving business practices, new technologies, or international developments might require adjustments to competition and consumer protection law, enforcement priorities, and policy. The hearings include topics such as privacy, data security, big data, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, intellectual property, and antitrust law.
Presented by Practising Law Institute in cooperation with the Federal Communications Bar Association, this premier conference on telecommunications policy and regulation features a faculty of top practitioners, in-house counsel from telecommunications organizations, and senior officials from the FCC who will provide attendees with in-depth understanding of current issues facing the telecommunications industry today. The program will address recent trends and the critical developments in wireless, wireline telecommunications, broadband Internet, media, spectrum, and privacy.
The FOSO summit will explore challenging, wide-reaching topics including disinformation and news distribution, content moderation and the role of intermediaries, access to the internet itself, and the role of trust and power. What challenges and opportunities do speakers have online? How can we work together to shape a digital future where speech and democracy flourish?
More details about the event, including about speakers and agenda, are available here.
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Witnesses
Mr. Curtis LeGeyt
Executive Vice President, Government Relations, National Association of Broadcasters
Mr. Tim Donovan
Senior Vice President, Legislative Affairs, Competitive Carriers Association
Mr. Jeff Cohen
Chief Counsel, APCO International
Mr. Bohdan Zachary
General Manager, Milwaukee Public Broadcast Station
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Witnesses
| The Honorable Makan Delrahim | Assistant Attorney General | Department of Justice Antitrust Division | ||
| The Honorable Joseph J. Simms | Chairman | Federal Trade Commission |
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NTIA Asks Federal Agencies to Assess Future Spectrum Needs
As a critical step in delivering on President Donald Trump’s call for development of a national spectrum strategy, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has asked federal agencies to report their future spectrum needs over the next 15 years. The reports will help ensure the federal government is optimizing utilization of the nation’s spectrum resources and meeting the needs of spectrum users, including critical federal missions that serve the American public. Agencies must submit their initial reports by Feb 21, 2019 and provide final reports by April 23, 2019.
Frustration With FCC Broadband Mapping
Bipartisan interest is growing on Capitol Hill in using a year-end funding bill to force the Federal Communications Commission to take stock of the accuracy of its broadband data. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) is leading the effort. “I’ll be very frank: I’m going to try to stick something on the spending bill to make the FCC take another look at this,” said Sen. Wicker, the likely incoming chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. He called the FCC’s mapping “fatally flawed.” And count Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) in, too. Sen.
Rep Nadler Sounds Off On Google Hearing
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has called an upcoming House Judiciary Committee hearing with Google CEO Sundar Pichai an important “step to restoring public trust in Google & all the companies that shape the Internet.” But the prospect of Republican lawmakers using the appearance to air allegations of bias against tech companies is giving Democratic leaders pause.