IP Democracy: Initial Speaker Line-Up: Internet Video Policy Symposium

Like most people who blog on a more or less regular basis, my blogging has taken a back seat lately to other projects. One project that fits right in with IP Democracy is the Internet Video Policy Symposium, which my company is hosting in conjunction with Reed Business.

This is an experiment for both of us, but it's cool to work on something that's different. The Symposium is scheduled for March 19 in Washington, DC and it's aimed at government employees -- across the federal government, including the Congress, the FCC, the State Department, the White House, even the military.

Our goal is to provide a early-days look at the issues (net neutrality, copyright, network management) that we all believe will become the dominant issues in telecommunications law and regulation for years to come. Our goal is also to foster as balanced and rational a discussion that can be had in this town and so we've invited speakers that have something meaningful to say...no real agendas to push, no corporate spin, no issue advocacy.

At the same time, these speakers, almost all of whom are true experts in both how the government works as well as the issues surrounding the rise of Internet video, have some pretty interesting things to say and I'm proud to announce our initial line-up (check it out below and for detailed bios, check the website).

We're just getting started, though, so if anybody has any suggestions, drop me a line at cynthia at ipdemocracy.com.

Initial Speakers Confirmed for Internet Video Policy Symposium
Arnie Berman Managing Director, Chief Technology Officer Cowen & Co	Michael Katz Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division Former FCC Chief Economist Harvey Golub Professor in Business Leadership Professor of Finance and Economics Leonard N. Stern School of Business New York University
Gregory Crawford Chief Economist Federal Communications Commission	Michael Nelson Visiting Professor Communications, Culture and Technology Georgetown University
David Farber Former FCC Chief Economist Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon	Randal C. Picker Paul H. and Theo Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law University of Chicago Law School Senior Fellow, The Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
Gerry Faulhaber Former FCC Chief Economist Professor Wharton School of Business University of Pennsylvania	Jonathan Taplin Adjunct Professor Annenberg School of Communications University of Southern California
Tom Hazlett Former FCC Chief Economist Professor of Law and Economics Director of the Information Economy Project of the National Center for Technology and Law George Mason University	Dick Wiley (Keynote Moderator) Former FCC Commissioner Partner Wiley Rein LLP
Peter Jaszi Professor of Law Faculty Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic American University	Simon Wilkie Former FCC Chief Economist Executive Director Center for Communications Law and Policy Gould School of Law and Annenberg School of Communications University of Southern California

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on February 5, 2008 12:40 PM to IP Democracy