Agenda
St Regis Aspen * Aspen, Colorado

5:30 p.m.

Mill Street Club

Welcome Reception

• Welcoming Remarks: Honorable Leroy Williams, Colorado Secretary of Technology

6:30 p.m.

Grand Ballroom

Opening Keynotes & Dialogue: The Future of Content & the Internet

• Darcy Antonellis, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations, Warner Bros. Entertainment; Executive Vice President, Distribution & Technology Operations, Warner Bros. Technical Operations
• Shane Robison, EVP and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer of HP

8:00 a.m.

Grand Ballroom

Welcome & Opening Remarks

• George A. Keyworth, Chairman, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
  

8:15 a.m.

Grand Ballroom

Keynote Address: The Transformation of Communications, Commerce and Society

• Stratton Sclavos, Chairman and CEO , VeriSign Inc.
  

9:00 a.m.

Grand Ballroom

Communications Roundtable: The Future of the Physical Layer: Access and Property in the Physical Layer

• Raymond L. Gifford, President, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
• Honorable Kathleen Q. Abernathy, Commissioner, Federal Commuications Commission
• Glenn A. Britt, Chairman & CEO, Time Warner Cable
• James Q. Crowe, CEO, Level 3 Communications
  

10:15 a.m.

Grand Ballroom

Plenary Address: Competition & the End of Geography

• Honorable R. Hewitt Pate, Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, U.S. Department of Justice
  

11:00 a.m.

Grand Ballroom

Discussion: Governing the Internet: Mandates, Markets & Consumer Protection

• Thomas M. Lenard, Vice President, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
• Zoë Baird, President, Markle Foundation
• Ambassador David Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications & Information Policy in the Bureau of Economic & Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State
• Robert E. Kahn, Chairman, CEO & President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
• Honorable Orson Swindle, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
• John Thompson, Chairman & CEO, Symantec Corporation
  

12:45 p.m.

Fountain Courtyard

Luncheon

• Honorable Michael K. Powell, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
  

6:00 p.m.

Fountain Courtyard

7:00 p.m.

Ballroom Level

Informal Working Dinners

8:30 a.m.

Grand Ballroom

Plenary Address: IT & the World Economy

• Dale Jorgenson, Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Kennedy School of Government’s Program on Technology and Economic Policy
  

9:15 a.m.

Grand Ballroom

Discussion: Regulating and Deregulating the Physical Layer

• Randolph J. May, Senior Fellow & Director of Communications Policy Studies, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
• Honorable Michael D. Gallagher, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information & Administrator, National Telecommunications & Information Administration
• Honorable Steve Largent, President & CEO, Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association
• Walter B. McCormick, Jr, President & CEO, United States Telecom Association
• Robert Sachs, President & CEO, National Cable & Telecommunications Association
• John D. Windhausen Jr., President, Association for Local Telecommunications Services
  

10:45 a.m.

Grand Ballroom

Presentation & Discussion: The Future of the Applications Layer: Software -- Open Standards & Open Source

• James V. DeLong, Director, Center for the Study of Digital Property, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
• Presenter: Craig Mundie, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Corporation
• Commentor: Emery Simon, Counselor, Business Software Alliance
• Commentor: Mark Stahlman, Managing Director, Caris & Company
  

12:30 p.m.

Grand Ballroom

Luncheon

• Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr., Vice Chairman & President, Verizon Communications
  

2:00 p.m.

Grand Ballroom

Roundtable Discussion: Future of the Internet: Pipes, Devices, Services & Applications

• Kyle Dixon, Senior Fellow, Director of the Federal Institute for Regulatory Law and Economics, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
• Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr., Vice Chairman & President, Verizon Communications
• Halsey Minor, CEO, Chairman & Founder, Grand Central Communications
• Craig Mundie, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Corporation
  

3:00 p.m.

Grand Ballroom

A Conversation: The Past, What the Founders Would Think About Cyberspace

• Walter Isaacson, President, The Aspen Institute and Author, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
• David G. Post, Professor of Law, Temple University and Author of the forthcoming, Mr. Jefferson's Cyberspace
  

3:45 p.m.

Grand Ballroom

Closing Address: The Future, How Politicians, Policy Wonks, and Ordinary People Use the Web

• James Taranto, Editor, OpinionJournal from the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page and Co-Author, Presidential Leadership
• Dan Gillmor, Columnist, San Jose Mercury News; blogger; author, We the Media : Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People

6:00 p.m.

Ballroom Prefunction Area

7:00 p.m.

Grand Ballroom

Chairman's Dinner & Address

• F. Duane Ackerman, Chairman and CEO, BellSouth Corporation