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| Day One – Tuesday, May 9th | |
| 7:30 – 8:30 | Registration & Continental Breakfast Breakfast sponsored by Covington & Burling |
| 8:30 – 8:45 | Welcome Remarks & Keynote Introduction Meg Hargreaves, President & Publisher, Pike & Fischer - A BNA Company Richard E. Wiley, Former FCC Chairman, Senior Partner, Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP |
| 8:45 – 9:15 | OPENING KEYNOTE Thomas J. Tauke, Executive Vice President, Public Affairs, Policy and Communications, Verizon Communications |
| 9:15 – 10:30 | THE EVOLVING REGULATORY ARENA – A Roadmap to Key Issues Fast-moving technological changes challenge regulators and the companies they regulate to keep pace, adjust paradigms, and arrive at rules that protect the public interest without impeding the industry’s creative dynamism. Leaders from across the industry discuss the issues that will define the dialogue in the year ahead. Moderator: Richard E. Wiley, Former FCC Chairman, Senior Partner, Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP Speakers Committed to Date: Thomas J. Navin, Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, FCC Gigi B. Sohn, President and Founder, Public Knowledge John M.R. Kneuer, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, Acting Administrator, National Telecommunications & Information Administration Daniel Brenner, Senior Vice President, Law and Regulatory Policy, National Cable & Telecommunications Association Bennett L. Ross, General Counsel, BellSouth DC |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee & Networking |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | EMERGING APPLICATIONS AND IP - ISSUES & ANSWERS The ubiquitous digitizing of intellectual property threatens traditional notions of ownership and compensation while it spurs innovation in creation, encryption, and delivery systems. Join our panelists in a free-ranging discussion of what’s fair, what’s foul, and what’s next. Moderator: Gerard J. Waldron, Partner, Covington & Burling Speakers Committed to Date: Jeffrey A. Campbell, Director, Technology and Communications Policy, Cisco Systems, Inc. Peter Pitsch, Director of Communications Policy, Intel Corporation Tudor Aw, Managing Director, Communications and Media Practice, KPMG Steve B. Sharkey, Senior Director, Spectrum and Standards Strategy, Motorola, Inc. |
| 12:30 – 1:45 | LUNCH WITH KEYNOTE Rep. Charles "Chip" Pickering, U.S. Congressman (R), Mississippi, Third District; Vice Chairman, House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Member, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet |
| 1:45 – 2:15 | Coffee & Networking |
| 2:15 – 3:30 | LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS: What’s Up on Capitol Hill? Perhaps more than any other policymaking body, Congress has the power to give and to take away. How will national lawmakers replace an outmoded telecommunications act with new legislation capable of leveling the competitive environment, absorbing and enabling technical innovation, and reconciling the universal service support system with the new realities of the communications marketplace? Moderator: Howard J. Symons, Partner, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo P.C. Speakers Invited to Date: Johanna Shelton, Office of Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), House Energy & Commerce Committee Howard Waltzman (invited), Chief Counsel, House Energy & Commerce Committee James M. Assey, Jr., Democratic Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee Lisa Sutherland, Staff Director, Senate Commerce Committee |
| 3:30 – 3:45 | Coffee & Networking |
| 3:45 – 4:15 | GAO BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT STUDY The Government Accountability Office, tasked by Congress to report on the state of broadband adoption, deployment, and policy in the United States, reports to the Hill at the end of April. Get a fresh insider perspective of the Report's findings and conclusions from the project leader. Speaker: JayEtta Hecker, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, GAO Related Q&A, led by Robert Metzger, Esq., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
| 4:15 – 5:30 | BROADBAND BEAT - HOME FRONT: State & Local Initiatives The task of managing the deployment of new telecommunications technology falls increasingly on state and local regulators and managers. How are state PUCs and municipal agencies coping with the often conflicting demands of industry and consumers, and what part will they seek to play in tomorrow’s telecommunications environment? Moderator: Carol Mattey, Director, Regulatory Consulting Practice, Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group, Deloitte & Touche LLP Speakers Committed to Date: John F. Raposa, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Verizon Telecom Lori D. Panzino-Tillery, President, National Association of Telecommunications Officers & Advisors Greg Richardson, Founder & Managing Partner, Civitium LLC. Christopher Guttman-McCabe, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, CTIA – The Wireless Association |
| 5:30 - 6:30 | Cocktail Reception |
| Day Two - Wednesday, May 10th | |
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Registration & Continental Breakfast Breakfast sponsored by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | OPENING KEYNOTE Joseph W. Waz, Jr., Vice President, External Affairs and Public Policy Counsel, Comcast Corporation Introduction by Chérie R. Kiser, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo P.C. |
| 9:00 – 10:30 | NET NEUTRALITY As momentum for drafting a new Telecommunications Act builds, the net neutrality debate--whether network operators will or will not be allowed to negotiate with content and service providers for fee-based higher speeds and quality of service--is emerging as a key ideological battlefield. The net neutrality question's high stakes and complex economic, political, philosophical, and technical issues make for high drama that involves and affects facilities providers, content providers, deployment strategists, regulators, and consumers alike. Moderator: Nancy J. Victory, Partner, Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP Speakers Committed to Date: Thomas M. Lenard, Senior Fellow and Vice President for Research, Progress & Freedom Foundation Dorothy Attwood, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Planning & Policy, AT&T, Inc. David P. McClure, President, U.S. Internet Industry Association Paul E. Misener, Director, Office of Global Public Policy, Amazon.com Alexandra M. Wilson, Vice President, Public Policy, Cox Enterprises, Inc. |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee & Networking |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | ANALYSTS' CONFAB: The Wall Street Take What’s the latest wisdom from a financial community driven to grow and to venture but schooled by the cataclysms of the technology bubble and the CLEC era? Top financial analysts evaluate the evolving, high-stakes market--and the likely effects that conflicting regulatory approaches might have on it--in this bottom-line session. Moderator: William B. Wilhelm, Jr., Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP Speakers Committed to Date: Scott Cleland, Chief Executive Officer, Precursor Rebecca Arbogast, Vice President, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated Susan Kalla, Managing Director, Equity Research, Caris & Company Paul Gallant, Senior, Analyst, Stanford Financial Group Jessica Zufolo, Senior Director, Medley Global Advisors |