FCC Workshop: Innovation, Investment, and the Open Internet
What: FCC Workshop - Innovation, Investment and the Open Internet
Who:
4:30pm - 4:35pm Introduction:
Sharon Gillet, Chief, FCC Wireline Competition Bureau
Paul de Sa, Chief, FCC Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis
4:35pm - 4:40pm Framing Remarks:
Lynn St. Amour, President/CEO, Internet Society
4:40pm - 5:40pm Panelist Presentations:
Barbara van Schewick, Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Shane Greenstein, Elinor and H. Wendell Hobbs Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Marcus Weldon, Corporate CTO, Alcatel-Lucent
Jeffrey Clueck, CEO, Skyfire
5:40pm - 6:30pm First Discussion Panel (introdution by Saron Gillet)
Tim Berners-Lee, Director, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Computer SCience & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Susie Kim Riley, Founder/CTO, Camiant
Paul Sagan, President/CEO, Akamai
6:30pm - 6:35pm Break
6:35pm - 7:25pm Second Discussion Panel (Introduction by Paul de Sa)
Ajay Agarwal, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures
Nabeel Hyatt, Founder/CEO, Conduit Labs
Amy Tykeson, CEO, BendBroadband
Christopher S. Yoo, Professor of Law and Communication, University of Pennsylvania Law School
7:25pm - 7:30pm Concluding Remarks (Sharon Gillet and Paul de Sa)
When: January 13, 2010, 4:30 PM EST
Where: MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater, Cambridge, MA
Summary: The Internet has become an unprecedented, global platform for commerce, unleashing the power of American innovators and driving economic growth and job creation. This workshop will examine how the Internet’s openness affects the ability of network operators, Internet content and application providers, and other Internet technology developers to innovate and to drive investment, job creation, and economic growth throughout the Internet ecosystem. These issues will be explored from the diverse perspectives of innovators and entrepreneurs, investors, network operators and equipment vendors, and experts in Internet innovation and investment.