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: IP DemocracyInternet Video Policy Symposium: T Minus 33 Days
By Cynthia Brumfield
There's nothing like pulling together an interesting conference, going from zero to sixty, with less than 90 days preparation time, but I'm smack in the middle of doing just that. The Internet Video Policy Symposium is slated for March 19 and we (my partner is Reed Business) started work on this unique event little more than five weeks ago.
In what seems to me a minor miracle, the Symposium is shaping up to be a great event. We've got two impressive sponsors so far (both from the cable side of the fence although not intentionally so -- we are agnostic and want all kinds of sponsors) and a whole lot of government employees (particularly from the FCC) registered. A lot of people from the private sector have been clamoring to come and we may open up the Symposium to individual registrations as a consequence.
The best part, though, are the great speakers we've lined up. All very impressive, knowledgeable and influential old -- and new -- policy hands. The kind of experts who actually build regulatory systems from the ground up, or dismantle them from the top down. These guys (and they are all men but believe me I'm trying) are the ones that government leaders turn to when it's time to roll up the sleeves and start writing rules, laws and decisions.
Take and look at the speaker roster below and if anyone wants to find out more, drop me a line at cynthia at ipdemocracy.com. Have a great long weekend.
| Dick Wiley (Keynote Moderator) |
| Former FCC Commissioner Partner, |
| Wiley Rein LLP |
| David A. Gross (Keynote Speaker) |
| Ambassador |
| U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy |
| U.S. Department of State |
| Peter Jaszi |
| Professor of Law, |
| Faculty Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic |
| American University |
| Randal C. Picker |
| Paul H. and Theo Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law |
| University of Chicago Law School |
| Aaron Cooper |
| Counsel for Intellectual Property |
| Senate Judiciary Committee |
| Peter Decherney |
| Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and English |
| University of Pennsylvania |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jonathan Taplin |
| Adjunct Professor |
| Annenberg School of Communications |
| University of Southern California |
| Arnie Berman |
| Chief Technology Strategist |
| Managing Director |
| Cowen & Co. |
| Patrick Degraba |
| Chief Economist |
| Bureau of Economics |
| Federal Trade Commission |
| Gerry Faulhaber |
| Former FCC Chief Economist |
| Professor Wharton School of Business |
| University of Pennsylvania |
| David Farber |
| Former FCC Chief Technologist |
| Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy School of Computer Science |
| Carnegie Mellon |
| Scott Wallsten |
| Vice President for Research and Senior Fellow |
| iGrowth Global |
| Senior Fellow |
| Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy |
| Greg Crawford |
| Chief Economist |
| Federal Communications Commission |
| 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 |
| Michael Nelson |
| Visiting Professor, |
| Communications, Culture and Technology |
| Georgetown University |
Full post as published by IP Democracy on February 15, 2008 (boomark / email).
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