Thursday, March 29, 2018

Catch C-SPAN's Video of FSF's Tenth Annual Telecom Policy Conference

The C-SPAN 2 video of the Free State Foundation’s Tenth Annual Conference is now available HERE! You may view particular conference segments in the C-SPAN video:
0:00 - Welcome and Introduction - Randolph May, President, The Free State Foundation
9:06 - 15:53 - Opening Keynote Address - Ajit Pai, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
16:30 - 36:08 - Keynote Address - David Redl, Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration
37:50 - 1:40:07 - "All-Star Panel I: Solutions for Connecting America and Closing Digital Divides"
Moderator: Seth Cooper, Senior Fellow, The Free State Foundation 
John Jones, Senior Vice President of Public Policy & Government Relations, CenturyLink 
James Assey, Executive Vice President, NCTA 
Tom Power, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, CTIA 
Nicol Turner-Lee, Fellow, Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings

1:44:14 - 2:44:20 - All-Star Panel II: Solutions for Getting Past Net Neutrality and Advancing the Gigabit and 5G Future"
Moderator: Randolph May, President, The Free State Foundation 
Jeffrey Campbell, Vice President, The Americas of Global Government Affairs, Cisco 
David Cohen, Senior Executive Vice President, Comcast 
Kathleen Grillo, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Public Policy and Government Affairs, Verizon 
Chris Lewis, Vice President, Public Knowledge

2:47:18 - 3:09:30 - Keynote Address - Neomi Rao, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget
3:49:00 - 4:53:00 - "Conversation with FCC Commissioners Michael O'Rielly and Brendan Carr and FSF President Randolph May"
4:56:10 - 5:36:12 - "Final Thoughts and Looking Ahead: Perspectives from Three of FSF's Academic All-Stars"
Moderator: Theodore Bolema, Senior Fellow, The Free State Foundation 
Michelle Connolly, Professor, Duke University, and a Member of FSF's Board of Academic Advisors 
Daniel Lyons, Associate Professor, Boston College Law School, and a Member of FSF's Board of Academic Advisors
Christopher Yoo, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School,  and a Member of FSF's Board of Academic Advisors
The theme of this year's conference was: "Connecting All of America: Advancing the Gigabit and 5G Future." Within the context of that theme, a truly outstanding lineup of senior officials and prominent experts from the FCC, NTIA, OMB, industry, academia, and think tanks discussed and debated the most important communications and Internet policy issues of the day, including Internet freedom and net neutrality, privacy, advanced broadband deployment, the 5G rollout, the changing video services landscape and regulatory environment, universal service and Lifeline, and much more. The conference agenda is here.
We thank all of the speakers for their participation in making #FSFCon10 so educational, informative, and interesting. The C-SPAN Video of the entire Conference is here.