Agenda
St Regis Aspen * Aspen, Colorado

Sunday, August 17

6:00 p.m. Welcome Reception

6:45 p.m.



Welcome Remarks
  • Ken Ferree, President, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
  • Meredith Attwell Baker, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Director of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration

7:00 p.m.

Opening Keynote Address
  • John Horrigan, Associate Director, Research, Pew Internet & American Life Project
Monday, August 18  

8:30 a.m. Welcome Remarks
  • George A. (Jay) Keyworth II, Senior Fellow and Chairman, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
8:45 a.m. Keynote Address
  • Jim Griffin, Managing Director, OneHouse LLC and Advisor, Warner Music Group
9:30 a.m. Panel Discussion: Should We Deputize the Middleman? New Debates about Intermediary Liability
  • Adam Thierer, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Digital Media Freedom, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
  • Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
  • Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Global Public Policy, Facebook, Inc.
  • Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
  • Kent Walker, Vice President and General Counsel, Google Inc.
11:00 a.m. Panel Discussion: Copyright Enforcement Online – Can We Do Better?
  • Tom Sydnor, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
  • Jonathan Band, Owner, policybandwidth.com
  • James Burger, Member, Dow Lohnes PLLC
  • Michael O’Leary, Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel for Federal Affairs and Policy, Motion Picture Association of America
  • Shira Perlmutter, Executive Vice President, Global Legal Policy, IFPI
  • Jule Sigall, Senior Policy Counsel, Copyrights and Trademarks, Microsoft
12:30 p.m. Luncheon Panel Discussion: Online Advertising, Behavioral Marketing & Privacy
  • Berin Szoka, Visiting Fellow, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
  • William Blumenthal, General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission
  • Dan Jaffe, Executive Vice President, Government Relations, Association of National Advertisers
  • Alan Raul, Partner, Sidley Austin
  • Greg Sivinski, Senior Attorney, Antitrust, Microsoft
  • Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google Inc.
  • Mike Zaneis, Vice President, Public Policy, Interactive Advertising Bureau
6:00 p.m. Reception

7:00 p.m. Informal Working Dinners:

Kids, Media & Marketing: Child Safety and Privacy in a Web 2.0 World

  • Adam Thierer, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Digital Media Freedom, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
  • Stephen Balkam, Founding Chief Executive Officer, Online Safety Institute
  • Debra Berlyn, President, Consumer Policy Solutions
  • Chuck Cosson, Senior Policy Counsel, Microsoft
  • Valerie Henry, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Congressman Greg Walden
  • Chris Herndon, Legislative Director and Counsel, Office of Congressman George Radanovich
  • Brian Knapp, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Loopt
  • Rick Lane, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, News Corp./MySpace.com
  • Shannon Weinberg, Republican Counsel, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce

China: A Challenge of Olympic Proportions

  • Bret Swanson, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Global Innovation, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
  • Mike Bassett, Legislative Assistant, Office of Congressman Mel Martinez
  • Pablo Chavez, Policy Counsel, Google Inc.
  • Paul Fassbender, Chief Counsel, Office of Congressman Bob Corker
  • Hugh Gamble, General Counsel, Office of Congressman Thad Cochran
  • William Blumenthal, General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission
  • Richard W. Fisher, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
  • Ed Hearst, Vice President, Government Affairs, Sybase
  • David Quinalty, Legislative Assistant, Office of Congressman John Ensign
  • John Rutledge, Chairman, Rutledge Capital and Director, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
  • Timothy Stratford, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China Affairs

Patent Reform: Where We Are, and Where We Might Go

  • Tom Sydnor, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
  • John Mautz, Counsel, House Committee on the Judiciary
  • Jeff Miller, Chief Counsel and Staff Director, Antitrust and Business Competition Subcommittee, U.S. Senate Committee on Judiciary
  • Stephen Pinkos, Senior Advisor, PCT Government Relations and former Deputy Director, USPTO
  • Jason Scism, Counsel, Office of Congressman Darrell Issa

Spectrum Policy: White Spaces and Beyond

  • Barbara Esbin, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Communications and Competition Policy, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
  • Neil Fried, Senior Counsel, House Energy and Commerce Committee
  • Kathleen Ham, Vice President, Federal Regulatory, T-Mobile USA
  • Dale Hatfield, Adjunct Professor, Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Matthew Hussey, Legislative Assistant, Office of Congresswoman Olympia J. Snowe
  • Michone Johnson, Chief Counsel, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, U.S. House Committee on Judiciary
  • Peter K. Pitsch, Executive Director, Communications, Associate General Counsel, Intel Corporation
  • Johanna Shelton, Policy Counsel and Legislative Strategist, Google Inc.
Tuesday, August 19  

8:00 a.m. Plenary Address
  • Richard W. Fisher, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

8:45 a.m.



Panel Discussion: The Innovation Imperative – Engage or Retreat?
  • Bret Swanson, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Global Innovation, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
  • Katherine McGuire, Vice President of Government Relations, BSA
  • Peter Pitsch, Director, Communications Policy, Intel
  • Steve Stewart, Director, Public Affairs, IBM Governmental Programs
  • Timothy Stratford, Assistant US Trade Representative for China
10:15 a.m. Keynote Address
  • Patrick J. Esser, President, Cox Communications Inc.
10:55 a.m. Keynote Address
  • Richard Lynch, Chief Technology Officer, Verizon
11:30 a.m. Panel Discussion: Next Generation Network Policy – Here and Abroad
  • Barbara Esbin, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Communications and Competition Policy, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
  • Kathleen Abernathy, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP and Director, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
  • David Eveleigh, Vice President and General Counsel, BT Americas at BT
  • Brett Glass, Owner and Founder, Lariat Networks, Laramie, WY
  • The Honorable Robert McDowell, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
  • Joe Waz, Senior Vice President, External Affairs and Public Policy Counsel, Comcast Corporation
12:30 p.m. Luncheon Discussion
  • Ambassador David A. Gross, United States Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, U.S. Department of State (moderator)
  • Matthias Kurth, President, BNetzA, Germany
  • Eiji Makiguchi, Director, International Economic Affairs Division, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan
  • The Honorable Francisco Ros Perán, Secretary of State for Telecommunications and the Information Society of Spain
  • Dr. Rafael del Villar Alrich, Under Secretary of Communications of the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation, Mexico
6:00 p.m Chairman's Reception

7:00 p.m. Chairman's Dinner & Address
  • Maggie Wilderotter, Chairman and CEO, Frontier Communications Corporation